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text: Located just 0.2 mi (0.3 km) from the airport, Ramon's Village Resort offers a free shuttle during limited hours. Guests can splash around at the outdoor pool or grab a bite to eat at the restaurant. A terrace and a garden are other highlights at this upscale hotel, and rooms offer refrigerators and room service.


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Shrimp Sausage
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Author Notes: this is a recipe i created as an alternative to meat and pork sausage —El Bandido
Serves 3
- 1 teaspoon minced red bell pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon minced jalapneo
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 15 pieces U15 Shrimp
- 1 piece 1 foot long hog casing
- Start by cleaning the shrimp making sure to remove the tail, next add to a food processor and puree to a paste. Remove mixture and place into a mixing bowl and add the rest of the ingredients except the casing. Mix until all ingredients are evenly incorporated. Next place mixture into a piping bag and refrigerate for 2hrs. now clean the hog casing by running ice water threw to remove any impurities. Now cut the tip off the piping bag and slowly run the casing over the opening. Pipe the mixture out slowly making sure to fill in the crevasses, tie off the ends and place sausage in the cooler for 2 hrs. before use.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Charcuterie / The Charcutepalooza Grand Prize Challenge
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Source: Time Magazine / Via: time.com
The "Orange is the New Black" star, Laverne Cox made Emmy history yesterday as the first transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy.
Cox received a nomination for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series" for her role as Sophia Burset in the Netflix series, "Orange is the New Black."
"For me personally, I am an individual who consumes mainstream culture," she told Time Magazine. "I watch a lot of television. I go to mainstream films. And I want to see myself. I want to turn on the television and see people who look like me who have similar experiences that I have. And I think that trans people want and deserve that; everybody wants and deserves that. We should have representations that humanize our experiences and tell the diversity and the complexity of our experiences. I have mainstream sensibilities. Just because I'm black and trans does not mean I'm somehow not mainstream and not consuming the same culture everyone else is consuming. For so long we haven't had that kind of validation of our experiences in mainstream culture, particularly as black trans women — but as trans people in general…"
Source: twitter.com / Via: twitter.com
"It's so weird, part of me wonders why it's me because there's so many amazingly talented, smart, beautiful trans actors out there," Cox told Time Magazine. "It's weird that it's me having the big moment right now. There are people out there who deserve it as much and I'd like to send them a lot of love today."
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This is the version for Android 1.5 or 1.6 users. If you have Android 2.0 or above, please download "MineMessageVibrator" instead.
MineMessageVibrator is an open sourced app that provides a widget to Toggle SMS/MMS Vibrate easily and Reminders for various items, with a lot of features:
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Keeping With Tradition
A June wedding means a June anniversary…and time to buy a gift.
Traditionally the first anniversary is paper, which I know a few people find boring for some strange reason (not us of course, we think paper is the greatest thing on earth). These anniversary style papercuts by Julene Harrison however are far from boring.
Tagged with: anniversary gifts • custom wedding • paper art • papercuts


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Mystic Mug apologises
Martin O'Neill said Villa 'showed plenty of guts and character today' after the 2-1 victory over Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park.
The Villa, backed by outstanding away fans who were in fine voice from start to finish, put on a display to be proud of. The Villa boss reflected:
'I thought we were absolutely splendid today. We showed a bit of character right through the side. Even when we went a goal down and there might have been a feeling of 'here we go again', we stuck to the task. We played with great spirit, great determination and not a little ability. That was typified by Patrik Berger, but all the players contributed.'
'We could even afford the luxury of missing a penalty - not that it felt much like a luxury at the time! But then Gabby came up with a wonderful winning goal. Our equaliser came at a great time. It's a hard old league - as we've found to our cost at times. We've gone behind in a lot of games and it's not that easy to come from behind at this level. But today we came from behind, never gave up and went onto a deserved victory in the end.'
'Now we go into another big game at home to Wigan on Monday and another three points would move us a lot closer to safety.'
Vital Villa asked for your predictions, I get the feeling we had a few visits from Blackburn fans as 44% tipped us to lose, 28% said we'd draw and 28% were right with a win.
Mystic Mug has apologised for losing the faith after predicting a draw!
A fan who attended the game sent me a text saying Martin Laursen and Patrik Berger were 'awesome' today.


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Another place I'm honored to contribute monthly is Prodigal Magazine. I will be writing on their Social Justice channel. Here's some more information about the site:
Not everyone has the power to live a good story. I know that sounds unfair and the truth is, it is. Some good stories are blocked by injustice. There are people in this world who's story is being stolen from them because of racism, slavery, injustice or abuse. They could be living a good story, but they're not. They need hope. There are people out there who are rescuing these individuals. They're using the resources they have to go to war against injustice, so that the victims can be set free to live a good story.
Be sure to go check it out! It's a great collection of writers and stories. This month I shared a little bit about doing justice as a biblical calling. Here's a quick preview:
I don't get it. People who believe but don't do. People who study the Word but don't live it out. People who are comfortable asking for their salvation but are not willing to sacrifice for their neighbors, down the street or around the world.
I just don't get it.
Yeah. I know. I'm no biblical scholar. Truth be told, I should be spending a lot more time There, with Him. But how some folks insist on a complete separation of faith and justice, well, that confounds me. Click here to continue reading…
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text: Sorry about the delayed response. I'm actually thinking that if you can put the food in with Aesthetix and Karsten rides up with asm maybe we can skip hitting Seattle on the way up and save some time? If this doesn't work for either of you though, let me know I can definitely still route through Seattle. Chances are, in the interest of time we may skip stuff on the way up. But definitely, Mighty-O's are good stuff, and I'm hoping to give people a tour of the museum of communications on the way back down. :) -grey On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Sabrina <sabrina at autopornography.com>wrote: > If you can't find vegan marshmellows in the Bay Area, you can buy them at > the nonprofit vegan store in Seattle, Sidecar for Pig's Peace. They > generally only have, I'd guess, 5-10 boxes in stock, so if you're looking > for more than that, I could call and see if it's too late to order more that > would be available Wednesday/Thursday. > > If I were you RVers, I'd aim to get into Seattle before 4pm, and go to > Wayward for vegan biscuits and gravy and stuff. That is a few blocks from > the vegan store, which is open until 8pm. These are both closed Mondays, so > it's your only chance to visit them. Both os these will generally have in > stock a small selection of *our* vegan donuts, or you can visit Might-O if > you get here by 5pm, which isn't too far from the other vegan things, but > far enough you can't walk. > > About my food: will you be able to pick that up directly from me, or do I > need to try and get Aestetix to deliver it to you? The car I'm going in is > packed, but he might be able to get room in the car he's riding in. I'm > leaving by 9am on the 2nd. > > Sabrina > > > On Jun 26, 2009, at 1:52 PM, grey wrote: > > Add to it here: > https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Grocerylist > > For srs. > > Notes: we'll only have stove top and microwave in the RV. I'm sure fires > will be available too. Ideally we can load up on stuff at Rainbow in SF > before leaving. Perhaps picking stuff up from Sabrina in Seattle, and we > can of course add on things in PDX. (I hear thar be vegan donuts @ voodoo > donuts!). > > But yeah, more than just sugar and marshmallows. I clearly can't feed a > bunch of vegans if left to my own devices. > > -grey > _______________________________________________ > Toorcamp mailing list > Toorcamp at lists.noisebridge.net > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/toorcamp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Toorcamp mailing list > Toorcamp at lists.noisebridge.net > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/toorcamp > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/toorcamp/attachments/20090628/b1a1b24d/attachment.html>


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I eat lunch at bgood at least once a week, and their Citrus & Avocado Salad is one of my favorites. Realizing I had all the ingredients to make my own, I put together this at-home version for dinner the other night and loved how it turned out! It's not an exact replica (I have no clue how bgood makes their dressing) and I made a few ingredient swaps (add spinach & quinoa!), but other than that it's pretty spot-on.
- 2 big handfuls of baby spinach (or green of your choice)
- 1/2 grapefruit, peeled and split into pieces
- 1/2 orange, peeled and split into pieces
- 1/2 avocado
- Small handful of pistachios
- Goat cheese for topping
- Optional: Heap of cooked quinoa (1/4 c uncooked is all you'll need for one salad)
- 1/3 c extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 c lemon juice
- 1/4 c fresh mint, finely chopped
- 1 tsp honey
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- Salt & pepper to taste
- Optional: 1/4 tsp lemon zest
- Whisk together the dressing ingredients and set aside. If possible, prepare the dressing ahead of time and store in the refrigerator. The flavors are so much more pronounced if the ingredients soak together for a few hours/overnight.
- If you're going to add quinoa for a more filling salad, cook following package directions. In general though, you use a 3:2 water-to-uncooked quinoa ratio on the stove. Bring water to a boil, add quinoa, lower to a simmer until cooked and fluffy (12-15 mins).
- For the grapefruit and orange, peel, separate the pieces and then remove as much of the white pith and clear casing as possible. Don't lose sleep over getting it all off--sometimes it's a total pain.
- Assemble your salad ingredients, top with desired amount of dressing and enjoy!
The flavor combos in this salad just scream "summer!" If you want a light lunch or to eat this as a side dish, the quinoa isn't necessary. If you're eating this for dinner, I recommend adding it (or brown rice would be good, too).
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No. 16 Air Force beats Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, falls to Long Beach St.
CLAREMONT, Calif.-- No. 16 Air Force wrapped up its weekend Sunday by splitting a pair of games at the Inland Empire Classic, co-hosted by Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. The Falcons defeated host C-M-S 8-7, before dropping a 15-10 decision to ninth-ranked Long Beach State.
In its first game of the day, Air Force (3-1) outscored conference foe Claremont in the final period to edge the Sagehens. Senior Cruz Smithson and junior Andrew Hamilton were the leading goal scorers for the Falcons, tallying two goals each, while netminder Mike Fish was credited with 11 saves.
Air Force's game against C-M-S was tightly contested, with the Falcons holding a one-goal advantage at the end of two periods, while the Sagehens were able to tie the score at 6-6 going into the final stanza. The Falcons struggled with their 6-on-5 offense against Claremont, scoring on just one of 10 opportunities.
In its final game of the weekend, Air Force was unable to overcome an early deficit against the 49ers, trailing 4-1 after one period and 7-3 at the half. Junior Josh Stedman was the leading goal scorer for the Falcons, tallying three goals, while Arcidiacono added a pair of scores. In addition, Smithson tallied a team-best four assists, as he moved up on the Falcons' top 20 scoring list with 187 career points.


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Siebel Assignment Manager Administration Guide > Assignment Rule Administration > Process of Defining Criteria Values as Skills with Expertise Codes and Weighting Factors >
Adding Criteria Values as Skills to Assignment Rules Using Expertise Codes
To add a criteria value as a skill to an assignment rule using expertise codes, select the desired expertise from the Expertise Code field in the Value list applet as shown in Figure 16. The predefined expertise codes are: Novice, Intermediate, and Expert.
This task is a step in Process of Defining Criteria Values as Skills with Expertise Codes and Weighting Factors as well as a step in Process of Defining Assignment Rules.
To add a skill to an assignment rule using an expertise code
Figure 16 shows an example of creating a required Product Line Wildcard assignment criterion that is compared to candidates. This criterion requires a minimum score of 10 and the modem product line skill with an expertise level of intermediate or better.
In this example, only candidates with an Intermediate- or Expert-level expertise qualify for this skill and receive 20 points.
If the predefined expertise codes are not sufficient for your needs, you can create new ones. To create new expertise codes, see Creating Expertise Codes for Skills.
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NUEVO VALLARTA, Nayarit, Mexico - I have had a great run in the news-journalism-writing business, starting at the Napa Register newspaper in Napa, Calif. and now with the Finger Lakes Times in Geneva, New York.
In between these two bracketing media experiences, I worked at six newspapers in a variety of editing/writing capacities, almost always with fun people. Fun or not, they were always interesting. Thanks to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and few other social media outfits, I have reconnected with many of those fun/interesting people.
Just yesterday, after I posted a story about entrepreneur Richard Branson, a former colleague told me about the time her husband - also a journalist - had interviewed Branson. She was kind enough to send along this photo.
The fellow interviewing Branson is Dave Koenig, who, along with his wife Darlene Bryant, worked with me at the Chico Enterprise-Record back in 1981. Gawd that was a long time ago. I came in as news editor, Dave was a reporter and I was lucky enough to get Darlene to move from reporting to copy editing. She was an excellent copy editor.
My experience at that newspaper - because the publisher was, to put it kindly, a difficult man - wasn't all that good, except for interacting with people like Dave and Darlene.
How difficult was that publisher? Well, my first day on the job, before I had even met the staff of about 25 people, he gave me the names of five people he wanted me to fire - that day. I declined, saying I needed time to evaluate everybody before any action was taken. I am still surprised to this day I kept my job for the five months that I did before I joined the faculty at Chico State University.
But, all that nostalgia aside, my big question for Dave Koenig is this:
Can he get me a complimentary ride on Branson's Virgin Galactic SpaceShipOne? I don't get seasick anymore. Promise!
February 6, 2013
Hitching a ride on Richard Branson's SpaceShipOne
Posted by Michael J. Fitzgerald at 2:39 PM
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- Randy Crutcher, Ed.D. said...
You've identified one of the primary work passions listed by people when we give them a specialized Passion Test to help them clarify what they love about their work. For so many, perhaps most, it is the people they work with that give them so much joy.
And by the way, Janet and Chris Attwood, co-authors of the NY Times best-selling book The Passion Test (holding steady in the top 100 at Amazon!) presented Richard Branson with the first Global Passion Award. That probably needs no explanation.
And now our new home state of New Mexico, (not mentioned in your post is hoping to hold onto the revenue generated by the new space port.
- February 6, 2013 at 3:29 PM
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When you want having indoor sport activities, you can build the indoor sport area such as indoor swimming pool or home gym which depends on your sport types you like most. If you are interested in swimming, the indoor swimming pool will be the best choice. But, the heavy sport types will run successfully in the home gym. To build the home gym, there are a lot of factors to pay attention. The sport equipment might be the primary consideration since these will be the ones to serve you in doing sport. Then, how about the realization of home gym?
Do you like sport? Whether you like sport or not, it is better for you not to miss out doing exercise at least once in a week. Exercise is the simple way to maintain your health no matter which kind of exercise you do and where you have the exercise. Having the exercise outdoor like jogging or swimming might be healthier because there is the morning sunlight that is beneficial for the body. However, if you like doing sport indoor, it is okay too. Both indoor and outdoor sport activities can still keep your body fresh.
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Behind the intense gaze and concentration, the meticulous planning, the reputation he built as a clubhouse enforcer, Washington Nationals Manager Matt Williams has a goofy side. He just doesn't show it often. As a player, he may have stood up to teammates such as Barry Bonds and Kevin Mitchell, but he was also popular for his ability to make fun of them and laugh at himself.
Early in his career, Williams was known for his impersonations of teammates and baseball greats. A 1990 Chicago Tribune article referred to Williams, at the time the San Francisco Giants' third baseman, as being "renowned throughout the National League as a master of baseball impressions." His manager, Roger Craig, said then that Williams could do an impression of "just about anyone." Williams would perform on demand.
Williams imitated Reggie Jackson's swing and how Jackson watched his home runs from the batter's box. He copied teammate Will Clark's swing and high-pitched voice. He impersonated the unique pitching deliveries of teammates Rick Reuschel and Mike Krukow. Williams even imitated past managers' mannerisms — but out of their sight. He imitated Babe Ruth and, before a 1991 game, television cameras caught Williams with a pillow under his jersey, waddling around the bases and waving at imaginary fans in the stands.
"I don't know if it was skill," Williams said recently. "Billy Crystal and those people have skill. I'm just fun. I like to have fun."
Six months and six regular season games into his tenure as Nationals manager, Williams, 48, has exhibited some of the qualities he showed as a player. "He's an intelligent, aggressive personality that knows the game inside and out," General Manager Mike Rizzo said.
But Williams has also shown glimpses of his lighthearted side. Before his first spring training game, he tried snapping photos with his cellphone of a coach sleeping on the bus so that he could embarrass him later. During camp, he asked a reporter to send him a funny photo of bench coach Randy Knorr from last season so he could post it in the coaches' office. First baseman Adam LaRoche, who loves pranks, said Williams is helpful when brainstorming.
"He's a pretty good combination of very intense but knows when to let off and drop a joke every once in a while," LaRoche said.
"Matt has a great personality," Craig, 84, added in a telephone interview. "Very witty, very sharp. As well as being a great baseball person. He was tough in the way he played but he didn't do it with his imitations and stuff like that."
Williams's most memorable impression was that of Ruth. While the team was on the field for batting practice on June 23, 1991, for a game against the Chicago Cubs at Candlestick Park, local television cameramen asked Williams to do his Ruth impression to air during the game broadcast. It was also a turn-back-the-clock game, and the Giants were wearing the old New York Giants uniforms. It was only fitting that Williams re-enact Ruth. "I was young," he said recently with a smile.
Williams had a famous clip of Ruth ingrained in his memory. Ruth, a left-handed hitter, swats a home run, the crowd goes wild, the beer-bellied slugger waddles around the bases and waves his cap after he rounds second. Williams, a right-handed hitter, found a pillow and stuffed it under his white Giants jersey. A video clip unearthed and provided by Comcast SportsNet Bay Area shows Williams swinging left-handed, dropping his bat and hobbling around the bases with short steps like Ruth, his arms churning furiously. Williams also waved his cap.
"There's some footage of it where the story goes that Ruth was taking ribbing from the other dugout," Williams said. "And supposedly he called the shot, hit the ball over the fence and waved fans back saying, 'You can sit down now. I did what I told you I was going to do.' "
As a youngster, Williams would stand in the backyard imitating the swings of famous hitters. He watched enough television to perfect an impersonation of broadcaster Howard Cosell. Williams often copied Clark's high-pitched voice. When Williams took the field, he sometimes pushed out his ears, a reference to Craig's big ears.
"It would crack everybody up," Craig said. "Maybe in a crucial moment of the game when we needed it he'd do that. If it was a tight ballgame, he tried to get everyone relaxed."
In his rookie season with the Giants in 1987, Williams imitated Craig's mannerisms, walk and talk but only among teammates out of fear of getting in trouble. But celebrating in the clubhouse after the Giants won the National League West, teammates asked Williams to perform publicly.
"They asked me to get up on the table to imitate Roger Craig." Williams said. "I had to do that. I believe he was there. In front of my teammates. It was quick, but I wasn't sure if I was going to be back in the big leagues for imitating the manager."
"I don't remember too much about that because of the champagne," Craig said.
Few, if any, in the Nationals clubhouse knew of Williams's goofy past. Shown the clip of Williams's Ruth impression, hitting coach Rick Schu chuckled. "Pretty good," he said. Does he look like Ruth? "Absolutely!" said Mark Weidemaier, the team's defensive coordinator and advance coach. "Matt did it perfect," Craig added. LaRoche laughed so much when he saw it his face turned red. "That was awesome. I didn't know he had it in him."
Talking about his past impressions, Williams is self-deprecating. He refers to himself as "impressionable" and adds that he had "too much time on his my hands" back then. Later in his playing career, Williams stopped doing the impressions. He does admit, however, that he is working on his impression of the boisterous Weidemaier. Williams hasn't performed his best impression, the one of Ruth, in more than 20 years.
"The last time I did the Babe Ruth impression was in that footage," he said. "I had hair back then even."


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Can I get sole custody if my ex-girlfriend moved to Texas and I am in Pennsylvania? Posted on July 08, 2011So my girlfriend and I split up and she left with her 8yr old(the oldest) daughter back to her parents home in texas, and im here in pennsylvania with our son..so here is a little bit of her past. 1.) when she got with her second daughters father she abandoned and sent her oldest daughter to be with her parents to be taken care of. 2) then she left her second daughters father and now owe back child support which I found out..3.)she got with me and had her third child (which is my first child) which is our son. And now we had split up and im in pennsylvania with my son and she is in texas with her oldest. Question is. Is it possible for me to get sole custody? Or could she sign all her rights over to me without going to court?
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About Face: Revisiting Jamaica's First Exhibition in EuropeSaturday, November 17th, 2012 Categories: Diaspora, Exhibitions, Updates
The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries have debuted the online exhibition About Face: Revisiting Jamaica's First Exhibition in Europe. The exhibition, which is only available online, celebrates Jamaica's 50th Anniversary of Independence by revisiting the country's first post-independence exhibition to tour Europe.
Face of Jamaica toured Europe for nine months between 1963 and 1964 yet it was never viewed in Jamaica. Almost fifty years later, the online exhibition About Face: Revisiting Jamaica's First Exhibition in Europe reconsiders that exhibition by re-presenting its art and related materials online. Over forty of the original works of art by such noted artists as Edna Manley, Karl Parboosingh, and Barrington Watson, as well as original news articles about the exhibition and a study of Jamaican perception and pop culture in the early 1960s are included. Many items featured in the online exhibition are also freely available as zoomable images in the Digital Library of the Caribbean to allow more in depth and detailed viewing.
About Face was co-curated by Dr. Petrine Archer, Visiting Scholar in the Department of History of Art at Cornell University and Claudia Hucke, Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica. It was designed by Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler, Exhibits Coordinator for the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries.
Thanks to Claudia Hucke for sharing this information with ARC's community.


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By Mallory McDuff
During bear season in the mountains, try to run on the trails with a friend. Talk loudly. Speak with candor about your students, your children, and even your sex life at a high volume, so bears run from your voice. (Remember that if a friend tells you something confidential, even at a high volume, the info stays "on the trail.")
If you are alone, clap your hands several times before you come around a corner. Attempt to reconstruct the details of the email that ecologist Dr. Lou Weber used to send to the college community, with tips for random encounters with black bears.
Did she instruct you to stand your ground and yell—or to be quiet? Recall a video posted on Facebook of one of your running buddies, the education professor, screaming like a crazy lady at a bear in her backyard, while her spouse yelled, "He's hissing, honey, he's hissing!"
As you run, ponder why you can never remember the details of information that actually matters—like how to stand your ground with a bear—but you know when your favorite authors stopped dying their hair. Question if you will ever get highlights again, now that your stylist of a decade has moved to be closer to her aging parents.
Smell the bouquets of white and pink rhododendron. Inhale. Exhale. Breathe.
Say a small prayer for the beauty of this college campus where you live and work, where a run can give you a jolt of adrenaline or a hit of dopamine. Realize that you didn't notice the rhododendron yesterday, when you ran with the Spanish teacher, because you both were venting about your teenagers. (But that felt good, too).
Recognize that it doesn't matter if you get highlights or not since you haven't had sex or even seen an attractive man in six months. And you don't have the patience or the time to cast your net on Match.com. As a heterosexual female living in the most gay-friendly town in the South, you can go grey in peace. Hell, men go grey everyday: the look is distinguished.
Give up your dream of looking like Lauren Bacall when she was featured in her late sixties on the cover of the JCrew catalog, with her blond highlights and slight gap between her front teeth.
Plan to visit the JCrew distribution outlet in Asheville, since you haven't bought clothes in at least four years. Pride yourself on your new uniform of a tank top and cardigan, a look stolen from another friend who wears the same outfit as her established style. Remember that she is from Connecticut and you are from Alabama. No one wears cardigans in the Deep South because it's too damn hot.
Continue running on a trail called Suicide Ridge, a steep incline that you've run (or walked) almost everyday for fifteen years. This run is like your cardigan of trail runs. It's a routine. Observe that the signage for the trail features the new name Broyles Ridge, a substitution for the more ominous Suicide Ridge.
Think about the horrific suicides of a college student and two children of staff members at the college over the past decade. Resolve to tell your children, yet again, to call someone they trust if they ever want to kill themselves, even though such admonitions mean nothing in the face of mental health crises. Remember your teenager's last response to this plea: She rolled her eyes and said, "Why are you telling us this again?" Give a prayer of thanks for your own drugs that help to tether you to sanity every day.
Run past more rhododendron. Listen to the knocking sound of a red-cockaded woodpecker pounding on a tree trunk. Pause to pee on the side of the trail and remember when your friend Susan peed on a run, and a hiker walked past her.
"Well, this is awkward," she said with a gracious Southern smile from her squatted perch on the ground. Reflect that all your friends pee more on your runs than they did ten years ago. Feel grateful that you can run.
Jog past the river, as the trail meanders by two older men throwing rocks into the water. Sneer at a dog owner who refuses to put his dog on a leash, even when the wet dog shakes water all over your leg. "He just wants to be friends," the owner says.
"I'm allergic to dogs," you respond, because someone has to be the middle-aged runner, irritable because of a dearth of physical intimacy or because of a full life with a teenager and a nine-year-old in a nine-hundred-square foot home.
Continue past the college farm and wave to the milking cow and the sheep. Since no one is around, call out "BAHHH! BAHHH!" and marvel at how good that feels. Just for the hell of it, call out "MOO!" to the cow. Turn to see one of your students walking out to milk the cow. Smile and wave with the pleasure of being fifty years old and for once, not giving a shit what someone thinks. Wonder how long this elated feeling about aging will last.
Notice the shades of pink and red in the eastern sky, as the sun rises over the farm.
Inhale the smell of the new day. See the yellow pollen floating in the morning air. Resolve to show more empathy for the students who may not be prepared for today's assignments.
Turn left up a steep trail that leads to Christmas Tree Hill. Resist the urge to walk and continue running to the top of the hill and slow to a jaunt around a bend.
Stop to realize that there is a couple having sex—that's right—having sex with full penetration in the middle of the trail.
Lose all sense of empathy, as well as balance. Glance behind to ensure you are not in some documentary, a college assignment to film people's reactions when confronting outdoor sex. There are no cameras.
Realize that you could turn around, retrace your steps, and remove yourself from the situation, as your mother always advised. But fifty-year-old trail runners don't run away. They stand their ground.
Observe that the male is on the bottom, lying on a blue tarp. His face is toward you, while the women is on top, with her bare back and booty facing you. (Feel a pang of remembrance for the comfort of that position.) Resolve that you are going to continue on the trail, but there will be an encounter. You will not go quietly, as you now recall that Dr. Lou Weber's instructions about bear encounters indeed advised making NOISE.
Watch as the girl twists her torso to talk to you, just a few yards away. Recognize her face from the college library, as she helped you to check out two educational psychology books last week; now you are checking out her sexual acts, without invitation or desire to do so.
Realize that this young couple has no intention of changing their positions. You are like a phone call put on hold until you hang up. You are in their outdoor bedroom, and you have to walk past their bed to exit the door.
Explain in your most grown-up voice that you have to pass by them: This is a trail used by many runners and hikers, including children, you say.
"Oh that's fine, you can go right by," she says.
Feel awkward, much more awkward than encountering a hiker while peeing. And the most awkward part of the whole experience is that they don't feel awkward at all. It's like cognitive dissonance on steroids.
Continue running on beds of pine needles, a soft cushion to your pace. Wonder why you did not say something funny to them like, "Watch out I may 'come' again." Remember that's not your style. Imagine that they are still going at it, with much more endurance than many middle-age men. Feel your heart race and your face flush, and not from the running.
Start laughing as you run all the way home, to your simple duplex with an expansive view of fields and forest. Feel another wave of gratitude and reach for the best drug you know, a phone call to a female friend, who answers on the first ring.
Stand outside and drink long gulps of cold water while you tell the story to your friend. Listen to the peals of your own laughter, echoing across the valley. From your description, the friend actually recognizes the two students, who had disclosed their plans to camp in that exact spot.
Resolve to forget their names, as quickly as you forgot the tips for bear encounters. Before you hang up the phone, make plans to run the trails again tomorrow morning, at the break of a new day.
MALLORY MCDUFF teaches at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, where she lives on campus with her two daughters. She is the author of Natural Saints (OUP, 2010) and Sacred Acts (New Society Publishers, 2012). Her work has been featured in publications including The Rumpus, BuzzFeed, USA Today, Sojourners, and Huffington Post.


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With no Independence Party candidate in the 6th, Bachmann and Graves go head to head
There will be no Independence Party candidate running in the 6th District Congressional race in November, making it a face-off between incumbent GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and DFL-endorsed challenger Jim Graves.
Bachmann still faces an August primary challenge, but she could safely bet her house (which is actually now in the 4th District) on the outcome.
In 2010, when Bachmann beat DFL challenger Tarryl Clark by nearly 13 percentage points, Independence Party challenger Bob Anderson got 5.8 percent of the vote.
But Anderson had 10 percent of the vote when Bachmann beat DFLer El Tinklenberg in 2008 by 3 percentage points.
Tom Horner, the Independence Party candidate for governor in 2010, now supports Graves and told the St. Cloud Times that the one-on-one race this year "creates a different dynamic."
"I think that's going to make a huge difference," Horner said. "It's the opportunity to compare and contrast two candidates, head to head."
But Kay Wolsborn, a political-science professor at College of St. Benedict and St. John's University, isn't sure whom that will benefit.
Most district voters either support Bachmann or oppose her strongly, Wolsborn said, and the newly redistricted 6th appears to be even redder than before, she said.
"I think (Bachmann) will get the same folks voting for her that voted for her before," Wolsborn told the paper. "And that will probably be enough."
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An event sponsored by The Carnegie Middle East Center on Syria intended to assess Assad's rule since he illegally inherited the office
of the presidency 10 years ago, is inviting five different Syrian experts, ALL of whom are ardent regime supporters, and who will speak at the event held in Lebanon for one purpose only: Poke the Lebanese by administering, on their soil, a dose of the Assad reality of horrors. The July 15 event is being facilitated by the Assad regime when up to 100,000 Syrians have been forbidden to travel because they have something critical to say about Assad's rule. What very few people realize is that Syria has become the largest prison in the world.
"..I will accept Carnegie's premise of "Peace" and "Stability" through its promotion of ruthless and violent dictators if these Board of Trustees members Linda Mason, Jessica T. Mathews, Catherine James Paglia, Vanessa Ruiz, and Shirley M. Tilghman live for one year in Gaza incognito. If they wish for us life under extremism, should they not at least fully experience it first?"


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Remember when Renaissance men were everywhere? (You couldn't throw a rock without hitting one in 14th-century Florence.)
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Online gamblers in Washington will only face a $50 civil penalty if legislation proposed by Rep. Paul Harris, R-Vancouver, is approved. Currently, anyone caught gambling online faces up to $10,000 in fines and prison time.
The proposal would change the penalty for recreational Internet gambling from a class C felony to a class 3 civil infraction. However, the reduction in penalties would only apply if the person caught gambling were doing so in their primary residence, and only for "recreational purposes."
House Bill 1824 is scheduled for a public hearing in the House Committee on Government Accountability & Oversight Feb. 19 at 1:30 p.m.
A bit of history:
The state's crackdown on Internet gambling started the year after the 2004 poker boom. That was the year the aptly named accountant from Nashville, Chris Moneymaker, turned a $40 online poker tournament win into a $2.5 million payday at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
The online gambling boom that followed is often credited as "the Moneymaker effect." People who might have never played a hand of poker in a casino flocked to the Internet to gamble in an unprecedented way. Accordingly, online poker sites took off in popularity. In response, the federal government and many states started looking for a way to crackdown on Internet gambling before it gained too big of a foothold.
By 2006, Washington State had passed an Internet gambling ban aimed at shutting down gambling sites and keeping people from gambling online. Many poker enthusiasts in the state, national organizations like the Poker Player's Alliance, and some libertarian-minded activists, cried foul. The groups took the law to the Supreme Court, ultimately losing in 2010.


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The schools were heavily involved in campus eco-clubs also participated in beach cleanups and environment walks. Would they go that far to destroy the environment?
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oh yes they would, just to satisfy leftist conspiracy nutjobs.
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yup and they killed paul Wellstone and everybody else in that plane too.
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no that's where the dems have buried all the money they've stolen from the wealthy.
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shhh. don't tell anyone.
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This isn't even worthy of an answer!
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Are you Forrest Gump?
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Coachella tickets are now super cheap (relatively speaking)
What's that? You didn't get your Coachella tickets yet? Well you will be duly rewarded for your procrastination.
LA Weekly points out that while tickets for last year's Coachella were going for $800 two weeks beforehand and $550 the week of, tickets on StubHub and other online sellers are now going for an average of $421 for this weekend's show. If you wait til the second weekend, prices will almost definitely drop even further.
Throwing the same show two weekends in a row was bound to have some effect on the whole supply and demand thing. Plus it's supposed to rain a bit this weekend, which in Southern California is something like the end of the world.
Maybe it's just me, but $421 for two days of music still seems like a hell of a lot of cash. If you wait to find the right deal online that's like the same price as a three-day stay at a posh resort on the coast of Mexico—and there the drinks are included, instead of costing $8 for a water.
To be fair, the Coachella lineup does look pretty great. If you can't find the $421 for this weekend's show (or the substantially less for next weekend's) check out the long-awaited return of At the Drive-In here.


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Zero. Definition: nothing.
Have you ever thought about women's clothing sizes? Why are sizes labeled 0, 2, 4 etc? They certainly don't measure anything. I understand when clothes are tagged by waist sizes like 26, 27, 31 etc. That's helpful. But why 0, 2, 4? And 0, being the smallest, is supposed to be enviable. Size 0! How is that even a size? It's literally the measure of nothing.
The problem here is that I think the concept of size 0 is doing more harm to the psyche of women and girls than anyone realizes. Or maybe everyone realizes it and nobody talks about it. Or maybe everybody talks about it, but I can't hear everyone over the sound of my own chewing. Regardless, we're going to talk about it today.
In my opinion, the concept of size 0 sends a symbolic message to women and girls that the more invisible you are, the better.
Think about it. Men and boys don't have sizes called 0, 2 and 4. Men and boys aren't taught to strive to be the physical representation of nothingness. They're taught to stand up tall, to let their broad builds fill up space in a room, to be a presence.
Women, on the other hand, are taught that the less your physical presence is seen and felt, the better. Not to be dramatic, but no wonder we haven't had a female president yet.
But don't worry- I have a solution I think we should get rid of the numerical system completely. And we should rename the sizes something more arbitrary like colors, names of dead presidents, or ice cream flavors.
I'd like to one day be able to say that I'm a size Mint Chocolate Chip in most pants, but a size Cookie Dough at Banana Republic and Gap because their stuff runs big. And a size Coffee-Toffee in anything designer because that sh*t is cut for 12 year olds.
Perhaps this way, one's size won't matter. We won't strive to be as teeny of a physical presence as possible, and we can all just focus on being healthy, however big or small that may be. And then we can focus on other more interesting pursuits like school, work, ruling the world, etc. And just think of all the spare time we'll have for activities.
It's mind boggling, really.
What are your thoughts on size charts?
Do you agree that the concept that size 0 is sending a negative message to women and girls?
Or do you think I'm reading too much into it?


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The state of Colorado is scrambling to find permanent jobs for 19 employees who can't work for the Department of Public Safety as planned because they didn't pass its background check.
The employees were originally hired to work for other state agencies, but those agencies were recently folded into Public Safety. That department requires its workers pass a criminal check and a polygraph test, which wasn't the threshold at the other state agencies where the workers were first hired.
The employees were told beforehand what kind of questions would be asked on the polygraph test, said Public Safety spokesman Lance Clem on Wednesday. Some refused to take the test. Some who did take it provided answers that were deemed "deceptive."
"What they are looking for is anything that indicates illegal behavior," he said. "It's up to the hiring authority to decide whether that illegal behavior knocks somebody out of the process."
He said there is a time frame on the behavior, so the questions start, "In the past 10 years … ." Workers were asked about drug use, theft and such, he said.
Clem said some workers have yet to be checked, so the number could end up being higher than 19.
Jennifer Okes, deputy director of the Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration, said most of the workers now have temporary jobs in other areas of state government. But she said she doesn't know how long each worker sat at home collecting a state paycheck before the temporary job became available.
State House Speaker Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, said "nobody else in Colorado is sitting home collecting a paycheck."
"This is exactly why people are so frustrated with government," he said.
Okes said when the state first discovered that some workers were not eligible to join Public Safety, it alerted human resource directors in other agencies. Those directors were told that if they had job openings to first look at the backgrounds of the rejected Public Safety employees to see whether they could fill the slots.
The salaries for the employees who aren't eligible to join Public Safety range from a manager making $104,445 annually to five workers making $35,856 annually. Most of the salaries are in the range of $35,000 to $50,000, Okes said.
Effective July 1, the following agencies were merged into Public Safety: the firefighting component of the State Forest Service, which had been at Colorado State University; and the Division of Emergency Management, which had been under the state Department of Local Affairs.
This spring, two other agencies were merged: Port of Entry, which used to be under the state Department of Revenue; and Homeland Security, which used to be part of the governor's office.
Clem said Homeland Security involves only a handful of employees and none on the list of workers needing permanent jobs.
In the other three agencies, 194 state workers were affected by the merger into Public Safety, Clem said. Eleven resigned or retired before the background checks began.
He said he does not have an exact breakdown of what happened with the 19 employees who were not eligible to join Public Safety, such as how many failed the criminal check or whether they refused to take a polygraph or provided answers deemed deceptive.
Lynn Bartels: 303-954-5327, email@example.com or twitter.com/lynn_bartels


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Salem receives funding for healthy living initiative
The city of Salem has been awarded a four-year $240,000 grant from Partners HealthCare and North Shore Medical Center to fund the city's Mass in Motion initiative, which promotes healthy eating and active living.
An event celebrating the initiative will take place on Tuesday May 28 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. in the school garden at Witchcraft Heights Elementary School on 1 Frederick St. The event will highlight Mass in Motion Salem's planned efforts for the year ahead. Garden tours by students and refreshments from Life Alive Salem will be available.
Additional Partners HealthCare funding will be utilized for a multimedia awareness campaign through Mass in Motion that is intended to raise awareness of the coalition's work to help Salem residents eat better and move more.
"School gardens provide a space for students to reconnect to nature around them. Gardens teach students about agriculture and how we nourish ourselves, which leads to healthy eating habits. It also makes a perfect outdoor classroom for the teachers," said Deborah Jeffers, food services director for Salem Public Schools, in a recent statement. "I think it is great that MIM [Mass in Motion] is supporting this endeavor to have a garden at every school in the city of Salem."
Mass in Motion Salem is focusing on five areas to help increase opportunities for physical activity, as well as healthier foods. These areas are farmers market promotion and expansion, coordination and expansion of school gardens, promotion of the Salem Spins Bike Share program, increasing Safe Routes to School partner schools, and identifying infrastructure barriers to daily physical activity opportunities.
Mass in Motion Salem's work on school gardens will be the focus of this event with Mayor Kimberly Driscoll, Massachusetts Farm to School, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Partners HealthCare speaking on the topic.
"Mass in Motion Salem has already made so many positive contributions to our community," Driscoll said in a recent statement. "I welcome their continued partnership with the City and our schools and look forward to all that we can accomplish working together to improve the health and wellness of Salem's residents and children.
Launched in 2009 by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Mass in Motion is a state-wide obesity prevention initiative that stresses the importance of healthy eating and physical activity. The program is currently taking place in over 50 other communities throughout the Commonwealth.
Last year, Partners HealthCare support helped to extend the Mass in Motion program to the communities of Revere, Chelsea and Lynn, in addition to Salem.
In a recent statement, Robert Norton, President and CEO of North Shore Medical Center, said that keeping communities healthy requires an on-going dedication of local governments, healthcare providers and committed residents.
"North Shore Medical Center is proud to join Partners Health Care in supporting Salem's Mass In Motion health initiative and to be part of a community that works so well together," Norton said.
The multimedia campaign to support Mass in Motion in Salem and three other communities can be seen on MBTA buses, subway stations, and commuter rail trains, as well as local news sites and at the Showcase Theatre in Revere. Residents can also view the locations for the campaign bus shelter posters in Salem at http://goo.gl/maps/xyKBy.
For more information on Mass in Motion Salem, visit the https://www.facebook.com/MassInMotionSalem">Facebook page. For more information on Mass in Motion, visit its http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/consumer/wellness/healthy-living/mass-in-motion-english.html">website.


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The Mets will try and avoid a three-game sweep at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight at 7:10 PM at Citi Field. Jon Niese (2-3, 2.54) will take the mound for the Mets and will be opposed by Zack Greinke (7-1, 2.03) for the Dodgers.
Niese has gone 1-2 despite a 2.59 ERA in four home starts while receiving a combined five runs of support. He is 1-0 with a 4.09 ERA in four outings versus Los Angeles.
Greinke leads the NL in wins and has yielded two runs or fewer in 21 consecutive starts dating to last year, the longest such streak in the majors since 1914. He is 11-1 with a 1.86 ERA in his last 15 starts on the road.
Eric Campbell hit his first major league home run last night off Hyun-Jin Ryu and is batting .438 (7-16) with five RBI through his first seven major league games. Campbell's five RBI through his first seven career games are tied for the fourth-most in team history. He is in left field tonight.
Starting Lineup
- Juan Lagares – CF
- Daniel Murphy – 2B
- David Wright – 3B
- Curtis Granderson – RF
- Eric Campbell – LF
- Lucas Duda – 1B
- Wilmer Flores – SS
- Anthony Recker – C
- Jon Niese – LHP
The Mets look to avoid the sweep today after another day of being so close to victory. Last night the Mets lost 4-3. There are a couple of ways to look at this. Turning a double play correctly in the game would have put the Mets in a much better position, but ultimately, like the day before, it was hitting with the bases loaded. The Mets are now 6-41 when the bases are loaded which is the type of stat that bolsters pessimistic Mets fans and boo birds. Today Jon Niese looks to get the Mets on winning path while he faces Greinke.
Niese is 2-3 on the season over 8 starts and 49.2 innings of work with a 2.54 ERA. He was off slightly in his last start at Washington allowing 3 earned runs, 5 overall, over 4.0 innings. It was the second straight start he allowed three earned runs, the first time this season. He only pitched 2.1 innings against the Dodgers last year allowing 1 earned run over 2.1 innings. The Dodgers have the following numbers against Niese:
- Ramirez 4-17, 2B, HR
- Uribe 0-11
- Kemp 4-10
- Ethier 4-10
- Ellis 1-6
- Gonzalez 0-3
- Crawford 0-2
Greinke is 7-1 this season over 9 starts and 53.1 innings with a 2.03 ERA, the seven wins being a league leader. In three starts in May he has pitched 18.0 innings with a 2.00 ERA. He has faced the Mets twice in his career allowing 5 ER over 14.0 innings. The Mets have the following numbers against Greinke:
- Granderson 7-39, 2B, 2 3B, HR
- Abreu 7-31, HR
- C Young 1-10, HR
- Duda 1-3
- Murphy 1-2
- Wright 2-2, 2B
Lets Go Mets!


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I found this link I cant believe this is a real interview the things he is saying about the Gracies and Oyama
What HE says about Uruguay
"Then all of a sudden two guys from Uruguay come in; their names are Guzman and Daniel, both good guys who have dojos. Carlos, Fernando and Bustillo dont have dojos, they just train somewhere sometimes. Now I accepted those guys because Carlos asked me too, he was some kind of assistant, so I said, if you say these guys are good, I will accept them. And I did, then all of a sudden when they became 4th dans, then everyone started screaming, how is this possible, and finally I told Carlos, you were the one who told me to accept them. So I told Carlos if you cant accept it, if it is against your principles (ha, ha, ha) then quit and he did. So I said OK, thanks for everything you did for me, and this is the end then, and then Bustillo quit, and the other one Fernando stopped too. I didnt care, I slept very well that night, because I was sick of all that bullshit, and thats what you have in that whole Budo world. "
What about the story, that Oyama sent someone to New York to kill Nakamura, is that true?
Yes, thats true; they shot him in the knees."
Right, right, and Gracie, the first Gracie, he claimed no one could beat him, then Dolman, my student who was the first real unofficial world champion beat everybody, the Russians, Ukrainians, an American I dont know, he beat the piss out of them, really bad, and he said I want to fight with our friend Gracie, he wrote him a registered letter and never received an answer. That was in 93, and then came the bullshit story, well you can always come to my dojo and fight me, they wont fight you in the dojo, but in the arena, so they can make another $100K.
All the fight organizations in Japan are run by gangsters, the top Yakuza, everybody knows that.
Yeah, Mas Oyama surrounded himself with gangsters."
"Yes, thats right, but I think you give the Gracies too much leverage; they did NOT bring in something new. And if they change the rules so that you are allowed to hit or kick when one knee is on the mat that would change the whole story. I have seen that in February in Tokyo when one of the Gracies fought and lost miserably to a kick boxer.
All he did was constantly dive for the legs knowing that if his knees are on the mat his opponent was not aloud to hit him. Of course I trained them in those styles, I did those techniques in Kodokan 42 years ago when Gracie was in his diapers.
You can learn from every style in fighting, even what not to do. Dont get me wrong I am NOT knocking the Gracies, and they are right to make a good show that brings in the money. But if you claim that nobody can beat you than he should have fought Chris Dolman, but he always refused and did not even answer his letters or from Rings Tokyo."
Your thoughts? I mean he says a lot of things about the "Real" Karate and Oyama, I'm kinda shocked


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Courtney Thorne-Smith has been on some of TV's biggest shows (Melrose Place, Ally McBeal, According to Jim, Two and a Half Men, among others). She talks acting, Charlie Sheen, Botox and more.
Associated Press correspondent Jerry Bodlander joins us from Des Moines where the GOP line-up sees another shake-up at the top of the polls.
From Penn State to DeSmet High school, reports of sexual abuse of youngsters by those in authority continue to surface. Jennifer Bernstein of the Childhood Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP) talks about what adults and kids should do.


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A new guns-in-bars bill — this one aimed at overcoming the objections of a Nashville judge — cleared its first hurdle Wednesday in the state House over the objections of the Tennessee Hospitality Association, which claimed it would hurt business.
The legislation, adopted on a voice vote by the House Judiciary Criminal Practice and Procedure Committee, would allow the state's 270,000 handgun carry permit holders to go armed into any establishment selling alcohol in Tennessee unless the businesses post signs at every entrance banning weapons.
The legislature adopted a similar law last year and easily overrode a veto by Gov. Phil Bredesen. It allowed guns in places selling food and alcohol. But Davidson County Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman struck it down as unconstitutionally vague, saying it was too hard to tell whether an establishment served enough food to qualify under the law for gun holders to enter.
"The bill last year allowed carrying in places that serve food and alcohol. This bill allows carrying of weapons in every restaurant, every bar, every roadhouse in the state. It's a lot larger bill than what you passed last year," said Dan Haskell, the Hospitality Association's general counsel. "This bill would require posting at every door, and in the hospitality industry, the last thing we want to have to do is post notices about guns at the door. It doesn't seem hospitable to us."
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Curry Todd, R-Collierville, said: "This bill is very clear. They aren't going to be happy with any bill."


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Public Think Tank
Saturday, November 16, 2003
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Joshua G. Stein will be presenting a short talk on infrastructure's connection to city identity. The talk, which is part of the Exploring Collaborative City Making: Public Space, Local Policy and Social Innovation think tank, produced by the GFRY Studio of the School of the Art Institute Chicago, will look at the discrepancy between the scale of the contemporary city and its transit infrastructure as researched in the másTransit proposal. Following this interpolation, Think Tank participants will be challenged to extrapolate on the future of Chicago's identity as expressed through transit infrastructure. The all-day think tank, which will also feature talks by Iker Gil (Mas Studio), Victor Margolin (University of Chicago), Laura Forlano (Illinois Institute of Technology), Ken Dunn (Resource Center), and Walter D. Street III (Walter Street Architects), is a part of the GFRY Studio's larger task of actualizing designs and policy for the democratization of Chicago, and cities around the world.