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Salted Peanut Chews
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Bake: 15 min.
Makes2 dozen
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 3/4 cup butter, softened, divided
- 3 cups miniature marshmallows
- 2 cups peanut butter chips
- 2/3 cup corn syrup
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups crisp rice cereal
- 2 cups salted peanuts
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar and 1/2 cup butter. Press into an ungreased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Sprinkle with marshmallows and return to the oven for 3-5 minutes or until marshmallows begin to melt; set aside.
- In a large saucepan, cook and stir the peanut butter chips, corn syrup, vanilla and remaining butter until smooth. Remove from the heat; stir in cereal and peanuts. Pour over prepared crust, spreading to cover. Cool on a wire rack before cutting into bars.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 290 calories, 16g fat (6g saturated fat), 15mg cholesterol, 182mg sodium, 33g carbohydrate (17g sugars, 3g fiber), 7g protein.
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Apr 5, 2014
My crust turned out just about perfect. Per the other reviews, I used all of the butter in the crust. Something I figured out when making a crust where you cut in softened butter......cut it in with a fork until the butter is somewhat flattened and spread out, then dig in with your bare hands. My crusts turn out perfect! To kiani girl, don't melt the marshmallows hardly at all. Just until they look a little softer. My PB mixture spread out really nice! Family and friends couldn't get enough of these!!
Apr 1, 2014
Awesome....Easy and Tasty!I decided I can butterscotch or chocolate chips too.I've made 5 batches already. Family and friends love them.
Mar 30, 2014
I made these and added the 1/4 c extra butter as recommended by [email protected]; but the crust is a big disappointment. I was ready to toss the recipe but decided to check the website for advice before doing that. I appreciate the review by GeeRea and will try that before giving up on it. Also, how do you get the peanut, krispies, chips etc. to smoothly spread on the marshmallows? Mine was so difficult that I have marshmallow sticking out all over and clumps of the mixture. Did I cook it too long and it is too thick? Advice would be appreciated. Taste is good but I'll have to take it to the office where people eat whatever is there regardless of how it looks!
Mar 18, 2014
I wanted to try these as they looked so good. I had a can of mixed whole salted nuts left from Christmas but I didn't have any peanut butter chips. Instead I substituted chocolate chips. I took other reviewers suggestions and increased the butter in the bottom crust to 3/4 cup. They turned out fabulous and certainly didn't last long. Will definitely keep this recipe for future reference!
Mar 17, 2014
Anyone try this with replacing honey for the corn syrup?
Mar 16, 2014
This Pillsbury Classics II, Book #8, page 100, recipe for Salted Peanut Chews is one I always carry a copy of when I take it somewhere. However, comments about this simple bottom layer not holding up well made me check out the original recipe. Here it is: 1 1/2 c. flour, 1/2 t. baking powder, 1/4 t. soda, 1 t. vanilla, 2/3 c. brown sugar, 1/2 t. salt, 1/2 c. butter, 2 egg yolks. Combine til blended and press into ungreased 9x13. The rest of the recipe is the same, except you need to add 1/4 c. butter with the corn syrup and other ingreds for the topping.
Mar 16, 2014
netar, you are absolutely correct! I still have the Pillsbury recipe book it came out of, I made them in the 80's for my kids and also for school parties as a room mother.
Mar 15, 2014
Have made this recipe for friends and relatives many times and, shared the recipe to the delight of a lot of families. Try it - you'll like it!
Mar 15, 2014
These are delicious, BUT are an old Pillsbury recipe, not something new.
Mar 15, 2014
I made these & they are verrrry good!


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A Public Thumb on the Election Scales
When taxpayers underwrite the campaign expenses of candidates for public office, serious questions arise: Not least, why should taxpayers subsidize candidates or ideas they oppose? But when taxpayers subsidize only one side in a campaign, there should be outrage. Perhaps there was at the Supreme Court this morning, when the Court blocked an appalling opinion out of, not surprisingly, the oft‐overturned Ninth Circuit.
In McComish v. Bennett the Goldwater Institute is challenging Arizona's Clean Elections Act, under which "candidates who run with public campaign subsidies receive an almost dollar‐for‐dollar match each time a privately funded opponent raises money above a certain amount," the Goldwater press release states, "and additional matches when independent expenditures are made against the subsidized candidate."
The problem for proponents of this Act is that the Supreme Court has said more than once that "leveling the playing field" is a forbidden rationale for campaign finance regulations. Moreover, and more precisely, in 2008, in Davis v. FEC, the Court held that the so‐called Millionaires Amendment to the McCain‐Feingold campaign finance act of 2002 was unconstitutional. Under that amendment the contribution caps that would otherwise apply to congressional candidates were lifted if a candidate was running against a self‐financed opponent — a "millionaire" who, under the First Amendment, could not be restricted in funding his own campaign. Again, leveling the playing field won't do. (Note also that that amendment put a lie to the main rationale for campaign finance restrictions – to prohibit corruption or its appearance. The caps are needed to prevent the candidate from being corrupted, so the argument runs – unless he's running against a millionaire, in which case he won't be corrupted by the added contributions. Such are the lengths to which campaign finance regulators are prepared to go to justify their schemes.)
Writing for the majority in Davis, Justice Alito went to the heart of the matter: "It is a dangerous business for Congress to use the election laws to influence the voters' choices." That it is, and it's not through election laws alone that Congress – or states, as here – tries to influence voters choices through the use of taxpayer dollars. Do we need any better example, on this primary election day around the country, than publicly‐funded National Public Radio?
In January, U.S. District Court Judge Roslyn Silver found Arizona's Act unconstitutional under the First Amendment. But the state appealed, and last month a three‐judge panel of the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion stating that the damage to free speech was minimal. This morning the Supreme Court issued an order to enforce the District Court's injunction against the use of matching funds. As reported by the Goldwater Institute, the order says the injunction will remain in effect until the Court rules on the underlying appeal of the Ninth Circuit decision. The injunction also would be lifted if the Supreme Court decides not to consider the formal appeal. This is one to watch.

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Butt, somebody's got to do it.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Posted 7:36 PM
16 comments:
The other anonymous would hit it or them or any combo.
- 9:17 PM, January 15, 2008
Hmmm...the strange part about this picture- is that the chicks are joyous about sticking a whole hand up an asshole.......
I'd like to see her do that to a REAL asshole!
(How bout' that anonyous who keeps sayin' "hit it?!!!")
So do we got any takers??? Let's get this chick to stick her fist up his ass with that great big ol' smile! :-D
Alright "Anonymous I'd Hit That"...Bend over!! :-D
- 10:38 PM, January 15, 2008
I would totally hit it.
- 2:00 AM, January 16, 2008
Thats not a..mooo..zing
- 3:21 AM, January 16, 2008
gold diggers
- 6:51 AM, January 16, 2008
Looks they those two fine chicks are "hitting it".
P.S. WRT those chicks...I'd hit it!
- 7:59 AM, January 16, 2008
- 12:14 PM, January 16, 2008
- Grog said...
Gee, I've never lived or worked on a farm, but what exactly is it that they are looking for up that cow's butt, and at some point does someone hit her over the head with a beer bottle?
- 12:49 PM, January 16, 2008
She's just happy because she found the Rolex she lost up there the last time
- 12:59 PM, January 16, 2008
Those fine young ladies (I'm guessing vet students or vet techs) are pregnancy testing the cows...it's a little hard standing around waiting for the cow to pee on a stick in order to find out if the artifical insemination worked! If she's pregnant, great. If the technician can't feel a enlarged uterus, the cow will be impregnated again since that's the way we get that jug of white stuff that goes so well with Oreos sitting in your fridge. Heh-heh.
- 1:48 PM, January 16, 2008
^^ Actually, I looked a little closer at the picture and I think they are doing the insemination, if that rod in her right hand is any indication. At least she's got the right attitude because a day of facing cow butts is no picnic!
- 2:19 PM, January 16, 2008
They look happier doing this than Mike Rowe did.
- 4:20 PM, January 16, 2008
Yup artificial insemination .. little tube of bull goo goes along way when stragecially placed.
- 5:19 PM, January 16, 2008
Who in the hell was the first guy to figure out that you can tell a cow is pregnant by sticking your whole arm up their asshole and feeling around? Sounds like a secondary discovery to me. :-)
- 10:17 AM, January 17, 2008
Yes they are breeding the cow "Holstein Cow" by means of artificial insemination (A.I.). That is what the little rod you see in her other hand is for, to place the semen through the cervix. There are various methods to determine that the cow is in "heat" or ready to be bred. One would be to palpate the ovaries in much the same way they are doing in this picture (rectal palpation). There are other methods to determine that the cow is showing visible signs of heat. This is also the same method of determing pregnancy (rectal palpation). You can determine how far along a cow is with pregnancy and determine when the calf would be born. These are standard animal science practices and pose little discomfort or stress on the cows if done properly.
- 10:45 AM, January 17, 2008
You mean by using KY and removing your watch, diamond ring, any bracelets don't you?
- 2:26 PM, January 17, 2008


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STURBRIDGE � The Tantasqua Regional School Committee put the kibosh on its subcommittee's motion seeking the state Department of Secondary and Elementary Education to "review and revise" its guidance document on transgender and gender nonconforming students.
Wednesday night, Tantasqua Regional School Committee member and legislative subcommittee Chairman William J. Gillmeister made a motion stating the DESE's guidance document appears not to be in line with the legislative intent of "An Act Relative to Gender Identity" (Chapter 199 of the Acts of 2011).
In his motion (which the legislative subcommittee favored in a 4-0 vote two weeks earlier), Mr. Gillmeister was looking for the school committee to ask the district's state representatives and senator to have the DESE review and revise the guidance document so it is accordance with the legislative intent.
Addressing the school committee, Mr. Gillmeister said the legislative subcommittee does not believe the DESE's guidance document is consistent with what the law says.
"Gender-identifying students may use whatever sex-segregated facilities he or she chooses depending on the gender with which he or she identifies. And, that is, anatomical males may use the girls' room or the girls' locker room. Anatomical females may use the boys room or the boys locker room," Mr. Gillmeister explained. "The "Act Relative for Gender Identity" contains no provisions for this because those provisions were purposely removed by the legislature before it was passed."
Tantasqua Regional School Committee member and bylaw and policy subcommittee Chairman William J. Haggerty said that he could favor a motion that is "truly intended to be an inquiry" but not "a disguised effort" to get the school district into a "contentious public debate" on transgender rights.
"The motion as presented to us this evening for our support at the school committee seems to have predetermined that the guidelines, in general, are inconsistent with the law," Mr. Haggerty said. "I have difficulty supporting that motion tonight, based on my review of the documents and my own personal conviction."
School Committee member Daniel Valcour argued that the DESE guidance document is merely a guideline and not the law.
"What we are compeled to do is to be in compliance with the law. The superintendent has ensured us that Tantasqua is currently in compliance with the law," Mr. Valcour said. "Therefore, a document that compels us to do nothing about a law that we are in compliance with is irrelevant in the schools. So there is no value added in taking any action on it."
In addition, Mr. Valcour said you have to consider transgender students and their families.
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Mr. Valcour made a motion to postponed Mr. Gillmeister's motion indefinitely and end discussion. His motion won 10-5. The four legislative subcommittee members (Mr. Gillmeister, James P. Ehrhard, James A. Cooke and Laurence Mandell) and school committee Gary Galonek voting against.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2003 News Releases > August 2003 > Mission in Iraq far from over
Mission in Iraq far from over
CAMP BABYLON, IRAQ - Lieutenant Colonel Michael Keller sets foot outside his temporary home in a former presidential palace in Iraq. What meets his eye isn't pretty. All the windows and doors in the building were broken out or destroyed during the looting and riots that followed in the wake of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
There is destruction from the war and years of neglect by those in charge.
But that's not the worst of it. As Keller looks out across the desert, he knows he is within walking distance of two mass graves - the handiwork of Saddam Hussein's 30-years of tyranny.
"Realizing that where I stood lay thousands of bodies of men, women and children was a horrible sense," Keller said. "As I stood there, I could see their bones, some with bullet holes in the skull. Men, women, children, entire families lay in this common mass grave. Within these two mass graves lay the remains of approximately 20,000 Iraqis that Saddam executed after the Gulf War. They were executed because they wanted to be free of Saddam's regime.
"It convinced me that Saddam was Iraq's most potent weapon of mass destruction. If that alone does not justify the war and the loss of American and coalition soldiers, I do not know what would."
Hussein's reign has been earmarked by stories of unbelievable cruelty and brutality to his own people. But when a statue of his likeness was toppled by American soldiers in the center of Baghdad, what remained was a country staggering from years of neglect. And it is just now that the world is starting to see what Hussein was capable of doing to his own people.
"Saddam was a criminal tyrant of a magnitude not seen in the world since Adolph Hitler," Keller said, taking time to answer questions via email.
Keller is among the many coalition forces that have begun the long, tedious process of rebuilding a destroyed nation. A nation whose infrastructure is virtually non-existent, whose people's life expectancy at birth is 58 years, according to a July 28 press release from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), far less than the 65-year average for the least developed countries around the world.
It's a rebuilding process that will take time.
Keller has been in the U.S. Army Reserve for 16 years, working as full-time military for the past year. He lives in Plainview with his wife Candace, an art professor at Wayland Baptist University, where he received his Master of Business Administration degree specializing in Health Administration in 1987. They have a 16-year-old daughter, Meredith, who is a junior at Plainview High School.
Keller has no timeline for his return home, but he knows what he is doing is important and necessary. He is serving in Iraq as the Public Health Chief for the 358 th Civil Affairs Brigade in Camp Babylon on the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon, adjacent to Al Hillah, on the banks of the Euphrates River. His job is to advise the Civil Affairs Brigade and the commanding general of the First Marine Expeditionary Force on "issues, trends and interventions in public health pertinent to the Area of Responsibility (AOR).
"The Health Chief must remain current and well-versed on all national and local health issues, as well as potential resources and solutions to these issues," Keller said. "I provide the Civil Affairs Brigade Commander with a daily briefing on the health situation in our AOR and offer suggested courses of action for solving current and forecasted problems."
Keller has been in Iraq since April 2 and has seen first hand what kind of leader Saddam was.
"Saddam is directly responsible for the murder of millions of Iraqis," he said. "I have read estimates of over 3 million people that were murdered during his almost 30-year reign."
While the war is officially over, Keller knows there is a long road ahead for the coalition forces and the people of Iraq. Every day soldiers face the danger of retaliation from Iraqi troops and Saddam supporters. As of July 27, Keller had been through more than 24 scud missile attacks and has had several shots fired in his "immediate vicinity by unseen and assumed Iraqis."
On several occasions, Keller has had his weapon locked, loaded and aimed, ready to fire if necessary.
"The times, thus far, that I have aimed my weapon were times that I felt that a threat existed for my team and myself," Keller said.
Most people will never know the feeling that comes over a soldier as he prepares to squeeze the trigger.
"During these times I find that I often have tunnel vision due to extreme focus and concentration on the situation, yet I'm very calm," Keller explained. "It is really all about training and implementing what you have been trained on."
To date, Keller has not fired a shot, a statistic for which he thanks God.
"I credit the power of prayer for that," he said.
Even though the conditions have been less than ideal, Keller maintains a positive attitude and said his stay in Iraq hasn't been too bad. While the weather is extremely hot and dry (more than 100 degrees at sunset), and the troops must drink approximately two gallons of water a day to stay hydrated, Keller has yet to spend a night sleeping on the ground thanks to a cot he carries with him.
"Living conditions for me have been good. It is a lot like an extended camping trip where you move sites from time to time," he said. "I live in Saddam's Babylon Palace, which was looted after coalition forces moved north in the war effort. I guess you could say that I live in the finest house in the Babyl Governate (county)."
The palace is built on a man-made knoll standing 300 feet high. It doesn't quite have all the comforts of home, however. There is no running water in the facility. Drinking water is purified by reverse osmosis and served to the troops by tank trailers known as "water buffalos." The soldiers bathe with the aid of a solar shower that makes 2 ½ gallons of hot water in just two hours. A generator supplies electricity for the troops, but there is no air conditioning.
"During the looting of the palace, every window was broken out and all the doors were stolen," Keller said. The result is a mosquito net blanket for protection as he sleeps and a mouthful of sand when it is time to rise.
Still, Keller said the troops' morale is generally good. The soldiers were even treated to T-bone steak and Maine lobster on the 4 th of July. Keller has also seen the power of the human spirit as people pull together, working toward a common goal.
"The medical community of Iraq worked tirelessly during the initial combat phase of OIF, providing care to the many patients that came through their doors each day, along with the added burden of those who were injured by the war activities," Keller said. "During this time virtually all of the doctors and nurses worked 24/7 with diminishing supplies and no relief of manpower or supplies in sight.
"Yet those I have talked to worked tirelessly and looked forward to being free of Saddam Hussein's regime and the rampant corruption associated with the Ba'ath Party."
USAID has been able to accomplish a lot since the fall of Hussein's regime, including providing millions of doses of vaccines for measles, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and polio; establishing regular immunizations for children; establishing a system to monitor cholera outbreaks; educating people on hygiene and health; working to bring medical training and facilities up to date; restoring medical clinics and providing essential drugs and medical supplies.
But the list of things to do far outweighs the list of accomplishments and no one knows for sure how long the rebuilding process will take.
"A lot depends on the Iraqi people and their ability to adapt to systems and organizational structures of self governance," Keller said. "Iraq, as a nation, has recently made some great strides in this area, but I believe that it will take 4-to-6 years for Iraqis to be up and running the country on their own."


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I've come to the realization that I am rarely in my life more focused and aware of my current reality than when I'm on a race bike in Baja. In those moments, nothing else exists; it can't exist. There is too much at stake to allow my mind to wander. Around any corner, blind rise, or cloud of dust awaits an obstacle be it a vehicle, horse, cow, dog, person, rock, or ditch that I need to be prepared for. Failure to be prepared, present in the moment with unabated focus, can lead to unforgiving consequences. Consequences anyone who has ever raced in Baja is very familiar with.
Perhaps that's part of the draw of the experience.
In the current form of reality we all experience on a daily basis, complete with endless distractions, experiencing a complete focus, an unyielding awareness of the current moment, is quite a novelty. But in Baja it's a requirement; It demands this of each rider, each team member, chase driver, even spectator. In its own way, it produces an altered state of consciousness, a heightened state rarely experienced these days, and I believe that's part of what keeps racers and team members flocking south of the border: the novelty of that experience.
And then, of course, there is a race that unfolds within that experience, and here is an account of mine:
I was incredibly confident in my team; with Steve Hengeveld, David Pearson and the addition of Taylor Robert, I felt we had a team full of experience, speed and heart that was going to be unmatched; even with the way it all played out I still feel the same, actually, I feel stronger in those convictions.
We were doing a slightly different strategy from the two- and three-man KTM and Honda teams: they were opting for longer sections that each rider would complete in one stint, but with our four rider team, we had the ability to shorten our sections, switch off a few times, and in doing so, allow our riders to sprint harder, then get a little recovery. I believe it was a good plan, it's unfortunate we didn't quite get the chance to see how it would have unfolded.
With the luck of drawing the first start pick, I had a clear course right from the off, free of dust, allowing me to ride at whatever pace I decided. As six o'clock am was drawing near I had the usual pre-race nerves coursing through my body, but I felt prepared and strong. As the thirty-second countdown began, the nerves began to fade, and as the green flag waved, the acceleration of my machine left all of those nerves behind me at the starting line. All that remained was focus.
Most racers can attest the idea that within the first few minutes of a race, you know whether you're feeling the "flow" with your machine; whether you're in control of your bike, or it's the other way round. This was one of those times when I felt in control, and as I rode through the dirt roads leaving Ensenada I was hitting my lines and flowing through the corners just how I had visualized and practiced, dodging almost a dozen vehicles on what was a busy morning as far as traffic was concerned.
Colton Udall started on the Honda (thirty seconds behind me) and in what has become typical fashion he was riding really well. As we reached the Ojos highway crossing, he had lost just a handful of seconds to me, arguably due to the dust, and Kurt Caselli, who started the KTM (a minute-thirty behind me off the line), was pretty even on time as well. For anyone who followed my race last year, they know I had a slight issue with tunnel vision as I raced past our first pit stop and had to get gas from some locals. I'm happy to announce that I was able to not only see the pit, but stop at it as well, and the Vanscourt crew did an awesome job getting me in and out in a hurry.
From the pit one location the section that awaited me was terrain that I'm incredibly familiar with, and some of the most enjoyable in Baja. I was sweeping through the corners, maintaining my momentum and felt that I was riding really smooth and fast. I wasn't making too many mistakes, I actually can't remember any, and with each corner I just felt better and better. I entered a sweeping right-hander in fourth gear, sitting back on the bike, maintaining as much momentum as I could, and then upon exiting the corner my front end clipped a tiny rock. It wouldn't have upset my trajectory too much but for the speed I was carrying and the lean angle at which I hit it. The rock sent my front end up into the air and I knew instantly I wasn't going to be able to bring it back. I hit the ground on my right side as I slid, baseball style with my bike for quite a distance before we finally came to a halt. I picked the bike up quickly, noticing the only damage was that I had bent the brake pedal up slightly and after starting the bike and then quickly stalling it, I was able to re-fire it, downshift thrice and then take off, happy to have maintained the lead over a charging Colton. As I accelerated, I realized my ankle was quite sore and that's when I knew it had gotten trapped under the bike in the crash, twisting my ankle backwards and spraining it. No time to worry about that however, as I raced on to mile one hundred, our second pit.
I gave the bike to David, our mechanic Phil was able to bend the brake pedal back into a position somewhat resembling normal and David took off about fifteen seconds ahead of the Honda. Kurt was still pretty close to even on time with us, maybe losing a few seconds and then Kendall came through a couple minutes back as he prepared for quite a day (he did about 370 miles of the race).
The race plan was for me to take over for David at RM200, do thirty miles, then have him jump back on and ride thirty miles before handing the bike to Taylor, but as we got to our pit four location we started to hear reports from pit three that he went down pretty hard, lost time to the Honda and may not be able to continue. David later said he hit a rock with the rear wheel that sent him sideways and then he got thrown to the ground hard, hurting his back. Dave's a warrior and he pushed himself all the way to pit four, keeping us within seven minutes of the Honda team and I mounted our bike and took off.
I pushed up to our pit-five location where I got conformation that David wouldn't be able to continue and after some maintenance on the bike, I headed up towards Mikes Sky Ranch to our pit-six location at Rancho El Coyote. I hadn't pre-run this section, but I knew everything up to Mikes pretty well and pushed hard, determined to put some time on the Honda team, now piloted by David Kamo, and try to get us back in the race. I hadn't ridden the section after Mikes since 2007 and I was taking some sketchy chances over some terrain I didn't know too well. I'd come over a rise into a minefield of rocks, probably thirty miles-per-hour faster than the section demanded and would have to slam on the brakes in the middle of all the rocks, getting really squirrelly, but pulling it off. Then, just before the pit, the course was on a fifth-gear wide-open straightaway and there was about a four-foot ditch perfectly concealed by the horizon ahead of me. I didn't see it until late, slammed on the brakes, but realized I wasn't going to be able to slow down enough to roll through it. I downshifted to fourth, twisted the throttle, lifted the front wheel and splattered the backside of the ditch at probably about seventy mph. The rebound from the impact sent me maybe fifty feet through the air, sideways and panic-revving, but I was able to land just straight enough to pull it off and I came into the pit and handed the bike to Taylor, adrenaline still pumping from hitting the ditch.
Taylor had a fantastic ride in his Baja debut, pulling time on the Honda team and just before he handed the bike to Steve, we had heard reports that we were back to within four minutes. It could be a race again.
Steve took over and was absolutely determined to make up time. From what he described, he had a line through some bushes that he could hit at 90mph, then jump a ditch and never lift. Unfortunately he clipped a rock just before he got to the ditch, which sent him swapping toward it at scary speed. He said he high-sided into the ditch and got utterly ejected, cartwheeling and landing some forty feet away from the bike. We later learned he crushed his tib/fib into his ankle, but surgery went well and he'll make a full recovery.
The fact that Steve went down in this way shows just how committed he was, and here's a further example: he was laying in the bushes, realizing his ankle is crushed, and when a sportsman comes up to him, he has the guy help him onto his bike so he can ride it up the course to an area that we can chase Taylor into, in an effort to keep us in the race. Steve is a beast.
Unfortunately for our race, between realizing Steve had crashed, getting a hold of Taylor and then getting him down to the bike, we had lost well over an hour and were now just looking to finish and get some points. Taylor got the bike up to me at RM420/Uruapan area and I had an uneventful ride to the finish, coming across the line in fifth position.
The Baja 500 is a unique style of racing: the team plans for months, the riders practice for weeks and it all comes down to less than half a day's worth of racing. It's definitely disappointing not to be able to repeat our victory from last year for ourselves, for the team: Monster Energy, THR Motorsports, Precision Concepts, Kawasaki, and for all of the sponsors, volunteers and people that put in the time and capital required to make this effort a possibility. Even though we didn't finish as well as we wanted, I'm incredibly proud of the team: David rode for around seventy miles with a back injury that would end his day, Taylor (the Baja rookie, who was the only one on our team not to crash) did a great job coming to grips with the event and what it takes to excel, Steve showed how committed he is to winning and the size of his heart when things can go wrong. The team did an amazing job leading up to the event and all week, Scott, Bob, Ty, Phil, Rob, everyone who makes this effort happen, the pit volunteers, the chase drivers; it really is quite humbling to see the amount of effort that goes into a nine-hour event. Thanks to my personal sponsors: Fox Racing, Alamo Alarms, PODmx knee braces, USWE hydration systems, THR, Northland Motorsports and Ryan Abbatoye Designs for continuing to support me.
We'll definitely be back in November, determined to put the bad luck behind us and committed to pushing for that ultimate goal of winning the SCORE Baja 1000. Congratulations to Honda for again proving how good they are in Baja and to the KTM teams for dealing with their own adversities and ending up on the podium. I'd definitely like to thank my family and friends, my fiancé for dealing with the emotional burden that accompanies me being in Baja for a week and a half and especially all of the fans and enthusiasts that were cheering us on the entire race, even when we were so far back. It's an amazing experience seeing how devoted and excited everyone is about racing in Baja California, MX. Can't wait for the 1000!
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The production and use of wood (components) is easier on the environment than any other building material. It takes less fossil fuels and less energy to produce wood products than alternative materials. New innovations in engineered wood products provide enhanced properties and durability for many millwork applications. Wood, of course, comes from trees.
"The forest products industry has an incredibly positive story to tell. It produces our most renewable material resource, maintains habitat for thousands of species, removes carbon from the atmosphere, and provides a wide range of consumer goods without which life as we know it would be impossible." Dr. Patrick Moore, Greenpeace Co-founder
Even with an environmentally-friendly product like wood, environmental stewardship entails the use of best forestry management practices and sustainable forestry activity. WDMA supports those programs that promote the use of best forestry management practices and sustainable forestry activities. Listed below are some of the leading programs for conservation, education and certification for responsible forest management.
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Osteosarcoma is cancer of the bone. The cancer (malignant) cells make immature bone cells (osteoid). Osteosarcoma is rare, but it is the most common type of bone cancer in children and teens. It is most common when teens have growth spurts. That is between the ages of 13 and 16.
The cancer most often grows in the ends of long bones, especially the bottom of the thigh bone (femur) and the top of the larger shin bone (tibia). The top of the upper arm bone (humerus) is another common place it grows.
The types of osteosarcoma include:
The exact cause is not known. The cancer may be caused by changes in the DNA of the cells. In most cases, these changes are not passed on from parents to children. They happen by chance.
A child with one of certain rare genetic cancer syndromes may be at higher risk of osteosarcoma. Having radiation or chemotherapy treatment for other cancers also increases the risk.
Other risk factors for osteosarcoma include:
Symptoms can occur a bit differently in each child. They can include:
The symptoms of osteosarcoma can be like other health conditions. Make sure your child sees a healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Your child's healthcare provider will ask about your child's health history and symptoms. He or she will examine your child. Your child may be referred to a specialist. This may be a bone specialist (orthopedic surgeon) or a bone cancer specialist (orthopedic oncologist). Your child may have tests such as:
Part of diagnosing cancer is called staging. Staging checks the size and location of the main tumor, if it has spread, and where it has spread. Osteosarcoma may be stage 1, 2, or 3 with sub-stages. Or it may be stage 1, 2, 3, or 4. Talk with your child's oncologist about your child's stage and what it means. Staging also helps to decide the treatment.
Treatment will depend on the stage and other factors. The cancer can be treated with any of the below:
With any cancer, how well a child is expected to recover (prognosis) varies. Keep in mind:
A child may have complications from the osteosarcoma or from treatment, such as:
A child with osteosarcoma needs ongoing care. Your child will be seen by oncologists and other healthcare providers to treat any late effects of treatment and to watch for signs or symptoms of the tumor returning. Your child will be checked with imaging tests and other tests. And your child may see other healthcare providers for problems from the tumor or from treatment. Your child may need therapy to help with movement and muscle strength. This may be done by physical and occupational therapists.
You can help your child manage his or her treatment in many ways. For example:
Call the healthcare provider if your child has:
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your child's healthcare provider:
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After the Dynamo's 2-0 victory over D.C. United Saturday night, Houston has now gone nine straight matches without recording the same result. Luis Landín assisted on both goals over the weekend and was highlighted in Mexicans Abroad on Goal.com.
Eddie Robinson, Luis Landín, and Dominic Oduro were honored with spots on Steve Davis' Team of the Week. Davis also ranked Houston fourth in his MLS Power Rankings: Goalkeeper edition. We would rank Pat and Tally a lot higher.
Monday afternoon, Canada and Argentina squared off in front of 60,000 fans at Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires. Dynamo goalkeeper Pat Onstad and defender Andrew Hainault, both members of the Canadian national team, were on the losing side of Argentina's 5-0 victory. For Argentine fans, the victory was a continued celebration of the nation's 200th anniversary. With his appearance in the match, Pat Onstad set the Canadian goalkeeper cap record.
The U.S. national team will face the Czech Republic in Hartford, Conn., tonight. After the match, on Wednesday, Bob Bradley will whittle his roster down to the final 23 that he will take to South Africa. Grant Wahl believes Dynamo forward Brian Ching will make the final roster. Wahl also wrote a feature for the latest edition of Sports Illustrated about Ivory Coast forward Didier Drogba and his fight to end civil unrest in his homeland.
The previous three U.S. World Cup squads were laden with veteran players; however according to the USA Today, this squad is shaping up to be the youngest since 1994.
Brian Ching and Dynamo COO Chris Canetti are both quoted in this New Haven Register piece about the effect of the U.S. national team on the growth of soccer in the United States.
In the latest edition of Uno a uno con el Dynamo, hear from Dynamo midfielder Francisco Navas Cobo about his experience playing with the Dynamo first team.
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An amateur film made by Victor Sidney Carman of various events of relevance to him taking place during 1951. The film records a family trip to the beach at Whitley Bay and views of terraced streets both in Wallsend and Batley in West Yorkshire where children are filmed playing in empty plots possibly the result of World War Two bomb damage. Nurses pose with children at a hospital near Morpeth and a boy takes a bike ride near Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. The film ends with crowds looking over two Royal Navy ships moored along the Newcastle Quayside.


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The Ballet Club at Hope College will present its rendition of the holiday favorite "The Nutcracker" on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The public is invited. Admission is free, although advance tickets, available in the ticket office in the DeVos Fieldhouse, are required.
Set to music by Tchaikovsky, the production is directed by sophomores Hillary Brunt of Santee, Calif., and Kelsey Carpenter of Whitehouse, Ohio.
The directors note that the "Nutcracker" performance is a collaboration of the work of several choreographers, each bringing with them their own varied histories with the beloved holiday ballet.
"All of our dancers have different experience levels, but we are so proud of how everyone is coming together to make this full-length ballet production possible," they said. "We are excited to share this holiday classic with the Hope College and Holland community."
The Hope College Ballet Club is a student organization dedicated to exploring the spirit of ballet, increasing its members' technical efficiency through classical ballet, and considering the role that ballet plays in today's dance world through experiencing contemporary and original works rooted in ballet.
Located in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, the ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and may be called at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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Muralist Mona Caron (Ali Budner, The World, Aug. 31, 2016, PRI.org); Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
Alternatives germinate at the margins, sending cracks into the hardest things to change. Paved-over utopias, rise up like WEEDS (pernicious invasive species). There are things that are out of place and therefore unable to fulfill their function so go on to interrupt others' function, but there are no such things as "weeds." This analog animation and mural series is inspired by the resilience of urban weeds.
The monk and the weeds
|Young novice, Burma (Anek Suwannaphoom)
There is an old apocryphal story of a Buddhist monk who wondered what the purpose of a "weed" was.
Perplexed, he went to the old meditation master and asked. The master tasked him to find a single plant that was a "weed," that is to say, one that had no beneficial medicinal use.
The young monk took the challenge and traveled the region and eventually the world in a caravan in search of one, compiling an impressive botanical catalog in the process.
He was unable to find one, not a single plant. For everywhere he went, for the people there, each plant had a benefit.
|Every "weed" is a lotus waiting to be found.
What was regarded as a "weed" in one place was certainly not considered so elsewhere. When the pharmacopeia, or archives of Chinese medicine, could reflect that, every plant came into use. Even a "poisonous" plant could be medicinal when utilized correctly.
What was seen one way and regarded as so in ignorance turned out another way, the monk found again and again. With wisdom the plant realm was seen for what it was, a benefit to beings in other realms, such as the human, animal, and the unseen beings.
- What's happening in gardening? The Thursday classes at the Los Angeles Arboretum (arboretum.org)
Muralist painting weeds to represent margins of society
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Mural artist Mona Caron (sparebeauty.com) uses city walls all over the world as canvases for her magnified portraits of wild plants. She says they represent what survives at the margins of society. And she wants us to pay closer attention.
|Mona Caron (Andrea Laue/sparebeauty.com)
But then something happened a few years ago. She began doing the opposite -- painting tiny things large. Specifically, it was the weeds, the little wild plants that grow in sidewalk cracks everywhere, the plants that people step on.
"The less attention we pay it," Caron explains, "the larger I'm going to paint it." "I don't paint dainty little grandmotherly botanical illustrations," Caron says. To her, weeds are plants that have power. More
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GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends 2017™- Preview
Preview: Season 45 Episode 2 | 30s
In collaboration with the Recording Academy™, Great Performances presents Grammy Salute To Music Legends 2017™, the second annual all-star concert offering a spotlight for the Academy's 2017 Special Merit Awards recipients. The celebration, led by Paul Shaffer as musical director, was recorded at New York's Beacon Theatre. The concert airs Friday, October 13 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings).
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AMES, Iowa — Senior point guard DeAndre Kane was supposed to be a one-year stopgap for Iowa State.
Kane has evolved into one of the most versatile players in the country — and the surging Cyclones look like one of the best teams in the nation because of it.
Kane had a season-high 30 points with nine assists, eight rebounds and five steals as No. 9 Iowa State rolled past No. 7 Baylor 87-72 on Tuesday night, setting a school record with its 14th straight win.
"He's a mismatch nightmare out there, when you have a guy who is 6-foot-5, 210 pounds, strong as an ox and he's experienced," Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg said of Kane, who transferred from Marshall in the offseason. "He's a smart player."
Melvin Ejim added 18 points for the Cyclones (14-0, 2-0 Big 12), who outscored Baylor 47-34 in the second half and rolled to a surprisingly decisive win over a fellow Big 12 title contender.
Kane had 17 points in the first half, helping his struggling teammates take a two-point lead. The rest of the Cyclones got untracked early in the second half, blowing past the Bears with a 28-12 run to secure their most impressive win of the season.
"I came here to win," Kane said. "I just wanted to be a part of something special."
Gary Franklin and Brady Heslip both had 15 points for Baylor (12-2, 0-1), which saw its win streak snapped at six games.
The Bears, like many teams before them, had no answer for Kane's unique skill set.
He is averaging 16.1 points on 52 percent shooting to go along with 7.1 rebounds and 6.3 assists a game.
"When you see him in person, the size, the strength and the speed. He affects the game in a variety of ways," Baylor coach Scott Drew said. "Coming in I heard he was good. But I think he has far surpassed what people might have thought."
Baylor couldn't have asked for a tougher draw to open Big 12 play. The Cyclones had already beaten ranked teams Michigan and Iowa at home this season and entered play 39-3 in Ames since 2011-12.
The Bears hung around until early in the second half, when Iowa State slowly but surely overwhelmed yet another visitor.
Baylor, which figured to have a serious size advantage with Isaiah Austin and Cory Jefferson, was outscored 47-26 in the paint.
Austin had 10 points and 12 rebounds and Jefferson finished with seven points for Baylor, which had 19 turnovers
"They did a great job of doubling. I thought they were very aggressive. On film, we thought we could exploit it more, and I was wrong. We'll have to work on that and be a lot more efficient playing out of a double team," Drew said.
This was the first matchup of top 10 teams in Ames in 13 years.
It could end up having a huge say in the Big 12 title race.
Though Baylor and Iowa State were picked to finish behind Kansas and Oklahoma State, the prospect of the Bears and Cyclones competing for the league title suddenly looks a lot more realistic than it did in November.
The Jayhawks have already lost four times. The Cowboys dropped their Big 12 opener at Kansas State in their first game without center Michael Cobbins, who's out for the season with an Achilles injury.
Meanwhile, the Bears rolled into league play with just one loss — No. 2 Syracuse in Hawaii — and Iowa State's start remains the best in school history.
Baylor looked the part early, opening with three straight 3s to put the Cyclones in an early hole. But Kane kept Iowa State afloat with 15 of its first 19 points — and he didn't stop there.
The Cyclones pushed their lead to 63-51 on layups from Kane and Monte Morris, and Naz Long's 3 put Iowa State ahead 68-54.
"The guys went out there and executed the game plan perfectly," Hoiberg said. "Once DeAndre loosened it up for us, then the shots started falling."
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There was a recent post on the Graham Nash Facebook page announcing a show called Songs And Conversation that he and his daughter Nile will be doing at the BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups venue in St. Louis on October 26th. In addition to giving me hope that Nash might be getting closer to making a Chicago area appearance, this news reminded me of a publication I purchased in 1994. Song Talk was based in Hollywood, California and was put out by the National Academy of Songwriters on a quarterly basis.
At the time of this issue (Volume 4, Issue 2), Dan Kirkpatrick was the Publisher; Paul Zollo was the Editor, Brett Perkins was the Managing Editor, and the remarkable Henry Diltz was the Chief Photographer. As a professional proofreader myself, I'm happy to see that Song Talk also listed its proofreader Abigail Bram on the masthead. Diltz took the front cover shot of Nash, and the variety of shots used throughout Zollo's six-page article/interview reflects the long-term professional relationship Diltz had with Nash dating back to the singer-songwiter's days with The Hollies. The feature would be continued in the next issue of Song Talk.
Among several other topics, Zollo spoke with Nash about writing "King Midas In Reverse" and his eventual fallout with The Hollies; how Cass Elliott introduced him to David Crosby without mentioning who Nash was; and how his anger about social injustice sparked the inspiration for "Chicago." I'm not sure about Song Talk in general, but Zollo was a busy guy in this issue; penning articles on Art Garfunkel, Richard Thompson, Laura Nyro, and Bruce Cockburn. Kevin McCarley conducted interviews with Rick Nielsen and Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick about songwriting and the band's latest album Woke Up With A Monster.
Most of the ads in this issue of Song Talk were related to the art and technology of songwriting, along with some for local clubs and the sorely missed Tower Records. A two-page spread titled Acoustic Underground showcased the Songwriters In The Round series at the Troubadour club in West Hollywood. Among the artists pictured were Wendy Waldman, The Nields, and Dar Williams. Another feature, called New Faces, profiled up-and-coming singer-songwriters, including Lisa Loeb.


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Two studies released this week highlight the ongoing debate over copyright protections and "fair use" of such materials.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's study claims that certain "intellectual-property" sensitive industries such as aerospace engineering and computer manufacturing thrive more in states that aggressively enforce copyright and other intellectual property (IP) laws. Shortly thereafter, the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) released a report claiming that fair use is essential to innovation, and adds $4.7 trillion in revenue to the US economy every year.
While it is beyond the scope of this blog to explain and document all aspects of this issue, a brief summary is in order. As the Marriott Library's website summarizes it:
Copyright law balances the intellectual property interests of authors, publishers and copyright owners with society's need for the free exchange of ideas. The fair use provision of the Copyright Act allows reproduction and other uses of copyrighted works under certain conditions for purposes such as criticism, teaching, scholarship or research.
In Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976 it outlines the limitations of copyright holders' exclusive rights, and establishes general guidelines for evaluating fair use. In determining whether use made of a copyright-protected work can be considered "fair use," the courts must consider:
- the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
- the nature of the copyrighted work;
- the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
- the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
Both the Medical Library Association (MLA) and the American Library Association (ALA) support and advocate fair use practices by their members.
Returning to the issue of the conflicting reports issued this week, the blog Hillicon Valley noted that:
The Government Accountability Office recently reported that some studies and statistics used by content industry advocates exaggerate and overstate piracy levels. CCIA took out a full-page ad in Politico today to point out the problems with the data.
"The content industry's claimed numbers are completely baseless…" read the ad. "Unfortunately, damage has been done. These false numbers have been used to justify the DMCA, ACTA and other efforts to restrict new technologies."
Mark Twain once said that copyright protections should last for the lifetime of the author plus 50 years. The Copyright Extension Act of 1998 extended existing protections to the life of the author plus 70 years for individual works, and 120 years for works of corporate authorship.
What do you think? How long should copyright protections last? And what is "fair use" of copyrighted materials? Tell us!


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In terms of the new agreement, IBM will provide comprehensive end user services to Airtel employees across Africa, in French and English. The consolidation of Airtel's helpdesks, is expected to bring greater cost savings and efficiencies by streamlining the processes of addressing IT operational issues. It will also include an enhanced information enterprise security solution that further strengthens Airtel's commitment to customer data privacy.
IBM will also be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of a standard operating environment, using state of the art platforms, tools and management processes.
Manoj Kohli, Chief Executive Officer (International) & Joint Managing Director, Bharti Airtel said, "This agreement enables us to provide the best IT capabilities to our employees with a focus of making innovative mobile solutions available across Africa. IBM will introduce best practices based on their global experience in various sectors. This will help us to focus on delivering innovative products & services and providing a better customer experience.
Airtel and IBM's relationship began in 2004 when South Asia's leading mobile communications provider selected IBM to run IT and applications for its entire network in India. Since then, Airtel has seen explosive growth from six million customers to more than 225 million today. Airtel currently has over 44 million customers across 16 African operations and is targeting 100 million by 2015.
"This latest agreement will bring enhanced efficiencies to benefit customers, employees and business partners of Bharti Airtel," said Bruno Di Leo, IBM General Manager, Growth Markets. "IBM becomes the single partner to Airtel, providing end user services as well as consolidating and transforming the different IT environments across Airtel's African operations into an integrated system, overseeing the management of all applications, data center operations, servers, storage and desktop services. The seamless end-to-end service will enable Airtel to offer a superior customer experience across Africa."
The agreement with Airtel highlights IBM's continued geographic expansion initiative to strategically increase its presence in key growth markets and support its global growth strategy. IBM is ramping up its investment in Africa and has a direct presence in over 20 African countries including South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia. In recent weeks, the company has announced its expansion into both Senegal and Tanzania.
The new agreement was signed in the first quarter of 2011.
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Gopher Women's Basketball Downs Illinois
The Gopher men's basketball team downed Illinois 60-53 Thursday night. Rachel Banham led the Gophers with 19 points and Kiara Buford had 12 points. The Gophers shot 43 percent while Illinois shot 32 percent. Minnesota is 14-14 overall and 6-8 in the Big Ten. Last night was the final home game and Senior Night for the Gophers.
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Incoming Missal
Get ready for changes to your Sunday Mass.
Learn your Lines: How parish are preparing for the new Mass
It's dress rehearsal time as parishes prepare for the new Mass.
Mass changes coming to a parish near you
What will be different about the Mass come Advent 2011?
Sing a new song: New music for the new mass
Anyone who's seen The King's Speech, about King George VI and his speech therapist, knows people don't stutter when they sing. So will singing similarly help Mass-goers with the words of the new missal translation?
To change or not to change: How will you respond to the new Mass?
American Catholics who still strongly dislike the new liturgical texts once they are implemented this Advent season will have three options:
Mixed Messages: The new Mass and ecumenical relations
The new Catholic translations of the Mass pose a stumbling block to ecumenical relations, says a Lutheran liturgy scholar.
Lost in Translation
Why the new Mass prayers may be confusing.
Mass disruption
The new translation of the liturgy will speak volumes about the church that prays it.
Poorly worded
The translators of the new Mass prayers have neglected one cardinal rule: Consider your audience.
Where did the new Mass translations come from?
How did we arrive at this translation of the Mass?
Mass instruction
Opponents of the modern liturgy could use a history lesson, says this scholar of the church's prayer. Overall, the liturgical reform has been a great success.
Mass in the balance
Bishop Donald Trautman explains in this 2005 interview some of the changes in the liturgy that we're seeing now, along with the reasons behind them.
What a difference Mass makes
A good liturgy draws people in, challenges them, allows them to pariticpate, and gives a sense of awe, Father Keith Pecklers, S.J. says in this interview from May 2007.
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You might be surprised to know that one of the world's dominant shoe, sports equipment and clothing brands was aptly named after the Greek goddess of victory -- and that the inspiration for the name struck during a dream.
It began in 1964 with a casual agreement and a handshake between University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, a middle-distance runner. The pair formed Blue Ribbon Sports and began importing Japanese brand Onitsuka Tiger running shoes, known today as ASICs, for sale in the U.S.
In 1967, Knight and Bowerman made the handshake deal formal and incorporated as BRS Inc. Jeff Johnson signed on in 1965 as the company's first full-time salesperson and opened Blue Ribbon Sports' first retail outlet the following year. In 1971, Johnson made an incalculable contribution to the company: One night, he dreamed of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, and suggested the name to his bosses. The company used the moniker for its first footwear product to feature the "Swoosh" mark -- a soccer cleat called the Nike, whose name beat out Knight's suggestion that they call it the Dimension 6.
The Swoosh trademark was created by a graphic-design student from Portland State University named Carolyn Davidson. She got $35 for her creation.
Expanding the Nike BrandLooking to expand the line, Bowerman began experimenting with the concept of athletic shoes with rubber spikes. By pouring a liquid rubber compound into his wife's waffle iron, Bowerman created an innovative running-shoe sole. The company unveiled Nike "Moon Shoes" featuring the Waffle sole for athletes competing at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., in 1972. A succession of shoes, many based on the waffle outsole, followed. Some of the most famous are the Waffle Racer, Air Force One and Air Max 97.
When tees featuring a lower-case "nike" script logo designed by Davidson hit stores that year, folks unfamiliar with the name asked, "Who's Mike?" when they spotted the shirts.
Elite Sponsors: Athletes in Nike ShoesA growing number of elite athletes competed in Nike footwear. Runner Mark Covert was the first athlete to wear Nike shoes across a finish line. Nike shoes got their first endorsement by a professional athlete when Romanian tennis personality Ilie Nastase signed on to wear Nikes on the court.
In 1977, former aerospace engineer Frank Rudy teamed with Nike to create the first Air-Sole units -- durable bags filled with pressurized gas that compressed under impact, then sprang back. The result was Nike Air cushioning, which hit stores in 1979.
In 1980, Nike went public.
The year 1984 saw the signing of basketball megastar Michael Jordan to an endorsement contract, followed by the 1985 release of his signature shoe, the Air Jordan. Originally, the NBA banned this new shoe because it didn't match the league's dress code, but the ban simply served to give the design a higher profile and extensive publicity.
Nike revenues topped $1 billion for the first time in 1986. The rest, as they say, is history.
Superstar Follow-UpNike followed up on its footwear fame by dressing athletes from head to toe, introducing apparel collections for tennis and basketball, which were popularized respectively by superstars John McEnroe and Michael Jordan. In 1988, Nike's "Just Do It" slogan was introduced, and it remains one of the most recognizable and successful commercial taglines. In 1990, the first NikeTown store opened in Portland, Ore. The company signed golfing phenom Tiger Woods in 1996.
In 1999, Bill Bowerman, Nike's co-founder, died at age 88. The company bought bankrupt rival Converse for $305 million in 2003. In 2004, Phil Knight stepped down as CEO and president of Nike, but he continues as chairman. Headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., Nike remains one of the largest and most successful companies operating today.
To learn more about Nike visit the Nike Corporate Site.
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Teen Boy Drowns at East Texas Lake
Officials at Holly Lake Ranch near Hawkins and Big Sandy recovered the body of a teenaged boy who drowned Sunday after he attempted to swim across the lake.
According to KLTV, officials said the boy and a friend attempted to swim from the north shore of the lake to the south, about 200 yards. When his friend finished the swim and looked for the boy, she could not find him.
His body was found about three hours later. His name has not yet been released.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Freshman Anthony Davis and No. 1 Kentucky might just be in perfect position as the regular season winds down.
Davis is a leading candidate for national player of the year, while the Wildcats (27-1, 13-0) are closing in on the first undefeated run through the Southeastern Conference since accomplishing the feat in 2003.
"We're in a good position right now, but we still have to come out and work hard, play hard. Nothing can change at all," Davis said. "We're getting better every day in practice, going hard. We're going to be good when it comes tournament time."
Make that a favorite.
It's made it easy for Davis to stay locked in on the Wildcats instead of other things — like where he might be drafted if he declares for the NBA — or looking back at a blown opportunity for an undefeated season: the buzzer beating loss to Indiana on Dec. 10.
Instead, he's focused on Vanderbilt (20-8, 9-4) on Saturday.
"We're playing excellent right now," Davis said. "We've just got to keep coming out and playing the way we know how to play."
The Wildcats will put their 50-game home winning streak on the line on Saturday against the Commodores, who have won at every SEC venue in the last four years except Rupp Arena.
For Kentucky to become just the third team in the SEC with an undefeated record since 1956, the Wildcats would need to beat Georgia on Thursday night and win at Florida on Sunday before the SEC tournament and the NCAA tournament that follows.
Davis believes the feelings they had after the loss to the Hoosiers continues to help them 2½ months later
"I think everyone needs a loss," he said. "I think it was kind of good for us, just to see how losing feels, so guys won't get big headed. The loss helped us get back in the groove."
And helped them forge a defensive identity. The Wildcats rank first in the nation in field goal percentage defense at 36.3 percent and lead the nation in blocked shots with 254, including a nation's best 133 from Davis.
Kentucky needed poise in a rally from a 13-point halftime deficit against Mississippi State on Tuesday. The Wildcats finished the game on a 15-2 run in a 73-64 victory.
"You have to defend, play smart on offense, take good shots and be aggressive on defense. We defended and that helped us get back in the game," Kentucky freshman point guard Marquis Teague said. "We are a defensive team. We play well together, we talk and we've played well on defense all year so it's not a problem for us."
Vanderbilt has 16 road wins in league play over the last four years, including at least one in every venue in the SEC except Rupp Arena.
"I didn't know that," Vanderbilt center Festus Ezeli said. "I actually didn't think about it. Yeah, I haven't won there yet. Last year, we got close, lost by a point."
Actually, it was two.
The Wildcats held off Vanderbilt's late surge for a 68-66 victory to finish 15-0 at home last season. It was the closest game in the home winning streak until a 73-72 victory over North Carolina on Dec. 3.
John Jenkins leads Vanderbilt with 20.1 points per game, but the Commodores realize they have a tough test. Vanderbilt has never beat a No. 1 team on the road in eight tries. Six of those games happened in Lexington.
"Everything is difficult about it. What is so difficult? Everything," Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings said. "Offense, defense, rebounding, everything; everything is difficult about playing there, but it begins with the quality of their team and how well their team plays."
Kentucky has its share of budding stars.
Besides Davis, Teague and freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, the group has gotten big offensive contributions from sophomores Doron Lamb and Terrence Jones and senior Darius Miller. All six could go in the first round of June's NBA draft.
"Darius has been a big part of those finishes when we're down — making shots, making plays, defensive plays. I think he's probably more calm than anybody else out there," Kentucky coach John Calipari said. "He did the thing offensively we need to have done, which is they were going to play zone and sagging and he made those shots.
"The other thing I liked in that is if we have to go with Doron extended minutes at point guard, we're fine."
Kentucky has been dominant at home, but Calipari isn't interested in talking about the nation's best home winning streak when the school and NCAA mark is 129 set in 1943-55.
"We're not matching any record," Calipari said. "I can tell you that."


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Paragraphs 138-139 of the World Summit Outcome Document
138. Each individual State has the responsibility to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. This responsibility entails the prevention of such crimes, including their incitement, through appropriate and necessary means. We accept that responsibility and will act in accordance with it. The international community should, as appropriate, encourage and help States to exercise this responsibility and support the United Nations in establishing an early warning capability.


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Just how devastating will earthquakes be in Washington?
If you like to scare yourself or need to know what devastation on a large scale in Seattle and Washington could look like following various kinds of earthquakes, then you're in luck.
New interactive maps called the Washington State Earthquake Hazards Scenario Catalog provide a shakedown of how various earthquakes in the region will cause injuries and affect hospitals, as well as buildings and infrastructure.
"These scenarios were selected to represent reasonable estimates of the most serious earthquake hazards everywhere in Washington as a basis for planning," the website hosting the maps explains.
Check out some of those scenarios in the gallery above.
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Results are most accurate when aggregated on a county or regional scale. Modeled results depend on accurate inventories. The more complete the inventories, the more accurate the results. Because of their complexity, it is more difficult to estimate losses to lifelines (utility and transportation) than buildings. These data are not a substitute for site-specific investigations assessing the level of risk for an area. They cannot be used to determine the earthquake hazard at a specific locality. Such a determination requires a site-specific geotechnical investigation performed by a qualified practitioner.
No warranty, expressed or implied, is made for the data and information displayed.
This information is solely intended for use in emergency planning and the individuals and agencies associated with developing this theme assume no liability for use of the information.
The data were calculated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Hazards United States (HAZUS) loss estimation software using scenario earthquakes developed by the United States Geological Survey.
The effects from these and other earthquakes may vary significantly from what is depicted.
The Washington State Earthquake Hazards Scenario Catalog is the result of a collaborative effort by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (WADNR), the Washington Military Department Emergency Management Division (EMD), Western Washington University (WWU), Huxley College of the Environment, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), US Geological Survey (USGS) and URS Corporation.
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There are various ways that the Internet can be used to raise funds for libraries and library foundations.
Charity Search Engines
15 Charity Search Engines that help you give money to charity for free - Entry from the Dosh Dosh Blog (March 2007)
Charity Online Auctions
An array of possibilities is available from eBay Giving Works, in which sellers can elect to donate a percentage of an item's final sale price to a designated group, or that group can sell items directly, or get donations directly.
Charity Shopping
iGive.com -- Register with iGive and a percentage of the purchases made through the iGive Mall is donated to a designated group.
Online Giving Programs
Facebook Causes is a program out of Network for Good.
DonorsChoose.org - An online charity connecting you to classrooms in need (including libraries).
PayPal for nonprofits -- Make sure you click on the link https://www.paypal.com/nonprofits
Social Networking
Create a network of supporters and donors within the social networking web site Facebook with Facebook Causes. Learn more about how to utilize Causes at Causes Exchange.
Wish Lists
Amazon.com offers libraries and nonprofits -- as well as individuals -- the opportunity to create a Wish List. For best results, promote it often and keep it updated!
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Islamic Position With Regards To The Shiite: Shaykh Rabee Ibn HadeePublished by Ummu Abderahman al Andalussia en 13:24
Islamic Position With Regards
To The Shiite: Shaykh Rabee Ibn Hadee
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Q: What is the Islamic position with regards to the Shiite coming out of Iran, especially as it relates to the abundance of them present at the Sanctuary (in Mecca) and the elders from them? How do we interact with them?
A: Interaction with them falls between two (varying) circumstances. You either have the ability to affect them and to (properly) call them to Allah (worship of Him based on revelation) just as you would call the Jews and Christians to the truth making it clear to them. If this is the case, call them to Allah and if you do not possess the ability to do so (which is the second circumstance) then distance yourself from them. Allah only burdens an individual with that which he can bear.
And this is a calamity that has befallen to which there is no escape. It has befallen and is a trial for us, as we are unable to prevent them from entering the Two Sanctuaries. As a result we are tested by way of them just as the companions were tested by way of the hypocrites. So this is the reality. Consequently the strong students of knowledge and the scholars must take on the responsibility of inviting them to Allah, presenting (to them) the proofs, and referring them to the truth. Either they will accept and if not then the proof is established against them.
As for the small student of knowledge he distances himself and abandons them. He should not be like some who say "the Shiite are our brothers, the difference between us and them is like the difference between Malik and Shaafi'ee." Those who say this are deceivers who misled the Muslims. A multitude of adherents to the Sunnah have plunged into the arms of the Shiite due to this watering down (and distortion) of the affair. Multitudes in Africa, (specifically) in Sudan and Egypt. Have you not heard about what transpired in Egypt during the medieval era? The batini Shiite ruled Egypt and circulated throughout the land shiism along with the batini ideology, then Allah granted Sallahuddin Al Ayyubi victory in conquering them. Subsequently their government fell and the Sunnah's influence returned to Egypt. There remained some who upheld the batini ideology under the cloak of Sufism and this is the reason why they can't outwardly display neither shiism nor the batini ideology.
Unfortunately in this era the craving of the Shiite has intensified with respect to returning shiism and batinism to that country and they have begun to spread their poison. Did you all hear the answer (to the initial question)? The Questioner asked about the Shiite and ones conduct with them. We replied with it being binding upon the strong students of knowledge and the scholars to invite them to Allah, and to make clear the truth. Perhaps Allah will guide whomever He wills from those among them. As for small students of knowledge they are to avoid, shun, and show no regard towards them. And we say the opposite of what some deceivers say from those involved in politics "the Shiite are our brothers, the difference between us and them is like the difference between Malik and Shaafi'ee."
This is inventing a lie on Allah and misleading the Muslims, subsequently causing many from those who attribute themselves to the Sunnah to be flung into the arms of the Shiite.
Translated by Najeeb Al Anjelesi
Source: فتاوى فضيلة الشيخ العلامة ربيع بن هادي عمير المدخلي
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There are tons of genetic reasons why people are obese - after all, it's important that we eat, and we didn't evolve to live in a world of plentiful food. But why would anyone be genetically predisposed to extreme thinness?
After all, while it isn't that big deal to be very thin in today's world - hell, it's positively prized - it seems like a strange thing to have in our evolutionary makeup if you look at our past as hunter-gatherers. After all, a genetically small appetite could be downright dangerous in a world where life was largely defined by the constant search for more food.
Now researchers may have found one possible genetic cause for extreme thinness, and it's actually an "overdose" of genes. Normally, we inherit a copy of each of our 23 chromosomes from both our parents, giving us a complete set. But sometimes specific parts of chromosomes are duplicated or deleted, creating an imbalance. In this case, part of chromosome 16 is duplicated in about 1 in 2,000 people. Those affected are 23 times more likely to be very thin if male and 5 times more likely if female.
Head researcher Phillippe Frouguel of Imperial College London explains:
"The dogma is that we have two copies of each gene, but this isn't really true. The genome is full of holes where genes are lost, and in other places we have extra copies of genes. In many cases, duplications and deletions have no effect, but occasionally they can lead to disease. So far, we have discovered a large number of genetic changes that lead to obesity. It seems that we have plenty of systems that increase appetite since eating is so important – you can suppress one and nothing happens. This is the first genetic cause of extreme thinness that has been identified.
"One reason this is important is that it shows that failure to thrive in childhood can be genetically driven. If a child is not eating, it's not necessarily the parents' fault. It's also the first example of a deletion and a duplication of one part of the genome having opposite effects. At the moment we don't know anything about the genes in this region. If we can work out why gene duplication in this region causes thinness, it might throw up new potential treatments for obesity and appetite disorders. We now plan to sequence these genes and find out what they do, so we can get an idea of which ones are involved in regulating appetite."


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Kathie Lee Gifford has confirmed reports that Taylor Swift crashed a Kennedy wedding in Boston over the weekend.
Gifford explained on Thursday's episode of Today that Swift's beau Connor Kennedy was invited to the wedding, though he failed to RSVP, and that the singer was not.
Taylor Swift and Patrick Schwarzenegger spend July Fourth together"[Mother of the bride Victoria Gifford Kennedy] didn't know if he was coming or not," Gifford said. "She heard that he might be, but he got in touch with her an hour earlier, and said, basically, 'Can I bring my girlfriend?' She said very nicely, 'Please do not come.' Guess what? They came."Gifford, who is Victoria Gifford Kennedy's stepmother, said Kennedy was unhappy the couple crashed the wedding.Gifford said the couple was asked to leave twice before Swift's boyfriend eventually led them out.While both Gifford and her stepdaughter stand by their accounts of the event, Swift's rep has insisted the singer was, indeed, invited.Watch Gifford's account below:
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Hailed by his contemporaries as a true genius, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach, was held in far higher esteem during his own lifetime than his now more famous father. Nicknamed the 'Hamburg Bach', he is considered the most important composer of the Empfindsamer Stil (sensitive style), which marked the transition from the baroque to the classical era.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was one of four children from Johann Sebastian Bach's first marriage and received his musical education at his parents' home. After spending his childhood in Weimar, Köthen and Leipzig, he went on to study law at Leipzig and Frankfurt an der Oder. Music remained his true calling, however, and in 1740 he became a harpsichordist at the court of Frederick the Great in Potsdam. After more than twenty years' service and having secured his reputation as a composer throughout Europe, C.P.E. Bach took up the post of Director of Church Music in Hamburg in 1768, which he held until his death.
The gregarious composer was closely associated with the intellectual life of the day, and his circle of friends included not only musicians but also many poets. This is reflected in his extensive body of work, which features numerous lieder and cantatas along with the symphonic and chamber music and the religious choral works that he composed in his official capacity. Also renowned as a virtuoso on the harpsichord, the composer's most personal work was his collection for the piano Für Kenner und Liebhaber. His individual style of composition inspired the young Haydn and thus contributed to the emergence of the Viennese classical period (Mozart and Beethoven).
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Story highlights
- Dean Obeidallah: Christianity in America is being hijacked by the far right
- Some Christian groups, leaders have said hateful things about gays, Muslims, he says
- Obeidallah says silence is not the right response to extremist voices and intolerant views
- Obeidallah: If the hateful rhetoric isn't stopped, radical Christians will define Christianity
Christianity in America is being hijacked. The faith known for Jesus Christ's teaching of "love thy neighbor as yourself" is in danger of being redefined by the far right as: "Hate the gays, Mormons and Muslims."
Just this past weekend, Christian missionaries -- including members of the organization Bible Believers -- traveled to one of the biggest Arab-American festivals in the country to taunt Muslims. These so-called Christians held up a pig's head while spewing hateful words about Islam. In the past, they have also attacked Catholicism as a "false doctrine."
If they were the only Christians spewing hate, they could simply be ignored. But they are not. Alarmingly, some well-known Christian leaders and pastors have articulated thoughts that range from intolerant to truly hateful.
One of the worst offenders is Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, a Christian organization whose astounding level of anti-gay rhetoric resulted in it being designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Fischer recently said on his radio show, "It is altogether right to discriminate against homosexual behavior" because it should not be acceptable to "any rational society." He has called for gays to be disqualified from public office and went so far as to claim that Hitler used gay storm troopers because straight solders would never engage in the brutality of the Nazis.
Toward Muslims, Fischer has called for them to be banned from the U.S. military and proposed that they be required to convert to Christianity before they can become U.S. citizens.
Toward Mormons, Fischer said they are not Christians -- a sentiment echoed by other evangelical leaders such as the Rev. Rick Jeffers, who has called Mormonism "a cult" and "a false religion." Fischer went on to say that Mormons are not entitled to freedom of religion under the First Amendment because that is only for Christians.
Fischer's comments are even more disturbing when you consider that the American Family Association is not some insignificant Christian organization. It boasts more than 2 million supporters. Frequently, well-known Republicans appear on Fischer's show, including Newt Gingrich, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whom Mitt Romney is considering as a running mate.
Fischer can be matched by Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, who have said that homosexuality is "related to demonic possession" and that non-Christians are "a virus." When asked by a viewer of his TV show if it was OK for a friend to display a Buddhist statue, Robertson's response was: "No, it's not. ... Break it ... destroy it!"
Then there are Christian leaders such as Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, who has labeled gay activists as "intolerant, hateful, vile, spiteful" pawns of the devil who have an agenda that will destroy our society.
Yet Perkins' spite seems civil when compared to those of a pastor in Kansas who said a few weeks ago that the U.S. government should put gays to death because "it tends to limit people coming out of the closet." Shockingly (not), another Christian pastor in North Carolina has voiced the same view.
The longer that mainstream Christian leaders don't even bother to counter the rhetoric from the far right, the more likely that radical Christians will come to define Christianity.
As an American Muslim, I can tell you from firsthand experience that silence is not the right response to extremist voices. Letting radicals air their views can have a serious effect on how people view your faith. And just so it's clear, I'm in no way saying that we don't have our share of extremists; some of ours are far worse, and our community must continue publicly to reject their false representation of Islam.
Many Christian leaders will undoubtedly ask themselves the same thing we, Muslims, did: Why should we have to denounce these people who are so radical that we don't even think of them as sharing our faith? Why can't our good work just speak for itself? Not all Christians are like this.
Here is the reason: A recent poll of American college-aged voters found that 65% of them view Christianity as "anti-gay." This is startling. If the loud voices of intolerance from far right Christian leaders go unchecked, will most young Americans begin to think that Christianity is "anti-Muslim," "anti-Mormon," "anti-Catholic" and so on?
The stakes are clear for mainstream Christian leaders -- as well as other faiths where radicalism is going overboard. Isn't it time to stand up to those who give your religion a bad name?
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