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Students will be instructed to make an observation of a flower (tulip) given the one stipulation that they will only be allowed to detect the parts of the plant that are green. Through observation and discussion, students will be led to understand that only seeing parts of the flower leads to an incomplete and even inaccurate understanding of its structure. Students will construct their own knowledge of the Sun emitting light above and below the visible spectrum by using UV beads to detect ultr
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Color Deficiencies Caused by Rhodopsin
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Collaboration is a key requirement in several contemporary interventional radiology procedures (IRPs). This work proposes a multicast hybrid satellite system capable of supporting advanced IRP collaboration, and evaluates its feasibility and applicability. Following a detailed IRP requirements study, we have developed a system which supports IRP collaboration through the employment of a hybrid satellite-terrestrial network, a prototype multicast version of wavelet based interactive communication
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Kick-Off, Half-Time, and Over-Time: Flexible Scheduling Scores Points
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tells the story of the Salado people, who thrived in the Arizona valley where Tonto Creek joins the Salt River (1050-1450 AD). The Salado culture combined customs of several American Indian groups. They channeled the river to create farmland in the desert. They built Pueblo-style buildings. They left no written records. This monument, established in December 1907, was among the first sites protected under the Antiquities Act of 1906.
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The Thomas Jefferson Papers
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Conversations with History Presents Faculty Research at the University of California, Berkeley A Conversation with Nancy Scheper-Hughes Professor of Anthropology "Studying the Human Condition: Habits of an Anthropologist" This interview took place on December 14, 1999. Complete transcript is available. Nancy Scheper-Hughes is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also directs the Doctoral Program in Critical Studies of Medicine, Science, and the Bo
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Students fill a U-Haul with furniture to be delivered to local families in need as part of the college's annual drive. (Fr. Mathias Durette, OSB photo)
GOFFSTOWN - There were more than 50 couches, two dozen TVs and a hundred bags of food, but it wasn't move-in day at St. Anselm College, or even a giant party.
Volunteers from the college took these and hundreds of other items to the needy to finish out the school year and help the local community. The donations will benefit churches, thrift shops and individual families in need, said student Christina Cavanaro.
"We reach out to the community for families in need," she said. "Then we collect the items and go house to house to bring the items to them."
The annual furniture, clothing and food drive began as a food drive in 2008 and has grown into a student-led movement that involves much of the St. Anselm campus, with many students opting to donate household items in good condition and non-perishable food at the end of the school year instead of moving them back home.
The Sullivan Arena was jam-packed on a recent Thursday night, with everything from large furniture items to clothing, cleaning supplies, kitchenware, rugs, lamps and small appliances.
Items were loaded into rented U-Hauls and delivered to their recipients in an exercise that means much to many of the students involved.
"When you go to Manchester and see how much people need things, and that we can do something about it, it makes me want to help," said Sophie Fabrizio. Seeing how thankful families are for the program makes it worthwhile, she added. "Little moments like that are really awesome," she said.
Cavanaro said volunteers do everything from locating the families to securing the donations to making the deliveries. The project incorporates every aspect of serving a family in need.
"We're able to be involved in the whole process of giving," she said. "It's the most well-rounded type of service I've ever been involved in."
Much of the legwork for the project occurred during finals, but students found the time to get involved.
"Running the program during finals might seem like a challenge, but everyone involved in the program understands how important it is," said student Matthew Pendergast. "There really is no better way to end the school year. It embodies the Saint Anselm values of hospitality and service which have defined my life at school."
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ST. PETERSBURG, March 11 (RIA Novosti)
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St. Petersburg's Governor Georgy Poltavchenko on Sunday signed off a law penalizing "the propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors."
The law will take effect 10 days after its official publication, the governor's press service said.
The law, passed in the third and final reading by the city's Legislative Assembly in late February, imposes fines of up to $16,000 on individuals and up to $160,000 on legal entities for the promotion of homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender practices among minors.
It follows similar bans in the southern Astrakhan and central Ryazan and Kostroma regions in Russia.
The new legislation effectively outlaws any Gay Pride events.
The St. Petersburg LGBT group Coming Out said the bill was "homophobic" and aimed at diverting public attention from Russia's "real political and social problems."
Homosexuality was illegal in the Soviet Union and was only decriminalized by the late President Boris Yeltsin in 1993, but anti-gay sentiment is still widespread.
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Babycake Adult Womens Costume
Make things pop when you arrive at the party in this delicious looking Babycake adult womens costume. This sugary-sweet, pink dress comes complete with arm puffs and a matching headband. You'll look good enough to eat!
Pink Puffer Monster Adult Womens Costume
You'll look tickled pink in this Pink Puffer Monster Adult Womens Costume. Light cotton candy colored dress with fluffy chest comes with furry animal hood with hot pink horns and googly eyes.
Pink Petticoat Dress
His eyes will perk up when you prance into the party wearing this pretty Pink Petticoat Dress. Wear it as is or wear underneath a costume to add volume and smooth out your look. It's a must-have Halloween basic!
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Parisian Showgirl Adult Womens Costume
Have no boundaries on Halloween or whenever you decide to wear this sexy Parisian Showgirl adult womens costume. The black, white and pink dress features a lace-up bodice and an adjustable mini skirt, complete with white puff sleeves, fingerless gloves and a matching top hat with feather.
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Burst with sexy color when you wear this Rainbow Sequin Corset Top. Streaks of pink, yellow and blue sparkles with white bow cleavage will give a bright boost to any costume.
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Think Pink! This temporary, colored pink hairspray will give you color to coordinate with your punk costume or princess costume, flash up your outfit for the club, or shock your friends on April Fools Day! Washes out easily with shampoo and water.
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Tickle them pink in this Cotton Candy Monster Adult Womens Costume. Every man's eyes will be as googly as yours when they see you in this sexy pink leotard with fur chest and soft hood with horns.
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Prance around as the pinkest pony in Ponyville in the Officially Licensed My Little Pony Pinkie Pie Adult Women's Costume. This hot pink dress features a light pink bodice with matching tulle skirt underlay. The pink mane, ears and balloon detail all add to this cheerful Pinkie Pie costume.
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Have your cake and eat it too in this officially licensed Adventure Time Princess Bubblegum adult womens costume. Have a mathematical time in the full-length gown with a deep pink bodice, round neck and puffy sleeves, complete character wig and crown.
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Punk out this Halloween in the Pink Troll Women's Adult Costume. This fuchsia look has a nude-colored cap-sleeve bodysuit, which has a pink gemstone square belly button. Flaming pink hair and tulle fuchsia skirt completes this look.
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Straight off of founding his latest startup, local tech veteran Neal Creighton has been tapped to be CEO of a real-time cyber attack security software company that is relocating from Virginia to Waltham and renaming itself CounterTack.
Previously known as NeuralIQ, the company has taken in $9.5 million in Series A funding in a round led by Fairhaven Capital along with a group of private investors. It was Fairhaven that brought the opportunity to Creighton, he said, while he was — and continues — serving as chairman of AffirmTrust Inc., the SSL certificate firm he and the rest of the founding team of GeoTrust launched earlier this year.
"I was very attracted to it," Creighton said of the opportunity to run CounterTack. "What they really wanted to do was put in a great team to take advantage of what they had."
Creighton joins the existing staff of what used to be NeuralIQ, which a company spokesperson would only describe as between 30 and 50 employees. That includes the company founder and Chief Architect Alen Capalik. New to CounterTack in addition to Creighton is John Worrall, executive vice president of product management and marketing, and John Adams, chief technology officer.
The chairman stays the same, in the person of Admiral William J. Fallon, former head of both U.S. Central Command and U.S. Pacific Command. That is in keeping with the company's previous focus, which has been strongly aimed at government clients, Creighton said. Part of his mission — and a good chunk of the new Fairhaven-led money — will go toward expanding the company's presence in the commercial market. Creighton was reluctant to go into too many technical details of what the company would bring to that commercial space, but he did say it was a way to detect and report on cyber attacks that have made it through perimeter defense in real-time, that involves some form of virtualization.
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You sound…really bitter and like ya need to sort some shit out that has absolutely nothing to do with me or fat people.
1) People don't die from obesity. People aren't just dropping dead from teh fatz. I believe what you're looking for are actual illnesses and conditions which can be linked to fat. I think it's funny though because you people always act like fat folk just drop like flies and as though we all have a heart attack by the age of 25 and die at 30. Brah, let me just tell you that I know a TON (like 100s upon 100s) of fat people and I have known them for many years and they're still alive and kickin'. Stop aggressively trying to install fear in me when I am surrounded by the thing you're trying to act like you know about.
2) I'm not stuck in my body. I freakin' love my body and all of it's wobbly bits. It gets me around, it lets me experience whatever I want, it's a goddamn great body. So no, I never even remotely implied that I'm stuck in this glorious vessel or that it's 'too hard to change'. That would imply that I felt I needed to change. Also, I am actually comfortably in a chair right now as opposed to a couch, but thank you for the concern.
3) Considering I've been with the fox for about 3 years..I think I can get a better read on what he would love and wouldn't love. I'd say he's pretty happy with my weight on his hips. You know what he would REALLY love? As well as myself? If self loathing, overly aggressive, bitter individuals like yourself just ceased to exist from the internet as well as real life until you could actually learn to interact with other human beings.
I apologize that the mere presence of someone you think should hate themselves, actually loving themselves and sharing it with the world, gets you this riled up.
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This is all predicated on watching this documentary called Fed Up where they just explain nutrition in a way that suddenly clicked for me after 44 years. Since the early 70s, every processed food company in this country has been quietly adding more and more sugar—and with good reason, because we like the taste of it and they're in the business of making money. They're like, "People like it when it tastes sweet? We'll put fuckin' more sugar in it!"
I never learned how to eat properly. I'm a processed food eater. I'm the kind of guy who, if I'm offered real mashed potatoes, will ask, "Can you make instant?" I like shit that comes out of a box. In the documentary, they say that the government's been telling you for decades that if you eat less and exercise more, then you'll lose weight.
But it is physically impossible for average people to burn off what they're consuming. If you give a kid a juice box, he has to pedal around in circles on a tricycle for six hours to burn it off. We've been lied to. I've eaten less and exercised and lost some weight, but not a lot. It's the sugar, dude.
Everything I reach for has sugar in it. I realize now that the dopamine system is about reward. You eat some jellybeans that are bubble gum flavored and you're like "Oh my god, it's gum I can swallow?" and suddenly you're happy. They broke down the process.
Human beings aren't supposed to consume fruit juice. All the fiber in the actual fruit slows the absorption of sugar into your system. When you drink juice, it just hits you with all the sugar at once and your pancreas goes "Make insulin!" and that's all my body does. My pancreas has been like "Look at all this sugar, let's store it." I wear a fucking fat suit of sugar.
For 44 years I've been poisoning myself with sugar and I've had a great time. But it's eventually going to kill me. So I decided to try six months without sugar and see what happens. I talked to my friend Phil and he said, "I tried that six months ago." I said "Get out of here, man! When does it start to feel better?" and he said "Still waiting for it."
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Yesterday's walk was better than Monday's walk. although feet still hurt a bit, but not as much as on Monday's walk. So there's that. :)
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This has been hard, but we took another walk again. it kicked our ass. nothing comes easy in this world. Happy to be walking again with my brother.
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"I like clothes now. I have more energy. I sleep better. My sex drive is up. Blood's flowing. I'm less susceptible to impulse. I'm in a different mode. When I was way out of shape, the idea of using whitening strips on my teeth seemed terrible. I have to do that every day? I'll never do it. What you want is instant results when you're out of shape. You want your teeth whitened in 45 minutes with the use of lasers. But when you're in shape, you know it's the result of doing a little bit every day. Moments aren't just moments. A moment might be a week or a month. So instead of Boy, I'd love to eat this hamburger right now, I'm considering a little further into the future. I'm thinking, I eat that hamburger and that's 1,200 calories, and I'm gonna work out tomorrow and lose 800 calories. I may as well eat a salad here, still do that workout, and then I'm actually making progress." — Chris Pratt
This just motivated the fuck out of me.
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Intuitive Eating:
- Reject the Diet Mentality. Throw out the diet books and magazine articles that offer you false hope of losing weight quickly, easily, and permanently. Get angry at the lies that have led you to feel as if you were a failure every time a new diet stopped working and you gained back all of the weight. If you allow even one small hope to linger that a new and better diet might be lurking around the corner, it will prevent you from being free to rediscover Intuitive Eating.
- Honor Your Hunger. Keep your body biologically fed with adequate energy and carbohydrates. Otherwise you can trigger a primal drive to overeat. Once you reach the moment of excessive hunger, all intentions of moderate, conscious eating are fleeting and irrelevant. Learning to honor this first biological signal sets the stage for re-building trust with yourself and food.
- Make Peace with Food. Call a truce, stop the food fight! Give yourself unconditional permission to eat. If you tell yourself that you can't or shouldn't have a particular food, it can lead to intense feelings of deprivation that build into uncontrollable cravings and, often, bingeing When you finally "give-in" to your forbidden food, eating will be experienced with such intensity, it usually results in Last Supper overeating, and overwhelming guilt.
- Challenge the Food Police. Scream a loud "NO" to thoughts in your head that declare you're "good" for eating under 1000 calories or "bad" because you ate a piece of chocolate cake. The Food Police monitor the unreasonable rules that dieting has created . The police station is housed deep in your psyche, and its loud speaker shouts negative barbs, hopeless phrases, and guilt-provoking indictments. Chasing the Food Police away is a critical step in returning to Intuitive Eating.
- Respect Your Fullness. Listen for the body signals that tell you that you are no longer hungry. Observe the signs that show that you're comfortably full. Pause in the middle of a meal or food and ask yourself how the food tastes, and what is your current fullness level?
- Discover the Satisfaction Factor. The Japanese have the wisdom to promote pleasure as one of their goals of healthy living In our fury to be thin and healthy, we often overlook one of the most basic gifts of existence—the pleasure and satisfaction that can be found in the eating experience. When you eat what you really want, in an environment that is inviting and conducive, the pleasure you derive will be a powerful force in helping you feel satisfied and content. By providing this experience for yourself, you will find that it takes much less food to decide you've had "enough".
- Honor Your Feelings Without Using Food. Find ways to comfort , nurture, distract, and resolve your issues without using food. Anxiety, loneliness, boredom, anger are emotions we all experience throughout life. Each has its own trigger, and each has its own appeasement. Food won't fix any of these feelings. It may comfort for the short term, distract from the pain, or even numb you into a food hangover. But food won't solve the problem. If anything, eating for an emotional hunger will only make you feel worse in the long run. You'll ultimately have to deal with the source of the emotion, as well as the discomfort of overeating.
- Respect Your Body. Accept your genetic blueprint. Just as a person with a shoe size of eight would not expect to realistically squeeze into a size six, it is equally as futile (and uncomfortable) to have the same expectation with body size. But mostly, respect your body, so you can feel better about who you are. It's hard to reject the diet mentality if you are unrealistic and overly critical about your body shape.
- Exercise—Feel the Difference. Forget militant exercise. Just get active and feel the difference. Shift your focus to how it feels to move your body, rather than the calorie burning effect of exercise. If you focus on how you feel from working out, such as energized, it can make the difference between rolling out of bed for a brisk morning walk or hitting the snooze alarm. If when you wake up, your only goal is to lose weight, it's usually not a motivating factor in that moment of time.
- Honor Your Health—Gentle Nutrition. Make food choices that honor your health and tastebuds while making you feel well. Remember that you don't have to eat a perfect diet to be healthy. You will not suddenly get a nutrient deficiency or gain weight from one snack, one meal, or one day of eating. It's what you eat consistently over time that matters, progress not perfection is what counts.
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Physical altercation led to San Francisco PG Cody Doolin's departure
Nov 29, 2013, 10:17 AM EDT
If there's one thing that the West Coast Conference can boast about it's good guard play, with a number of teams being led by outstanding perimeter players. One of those programs was San Francisco, with senior point guard Cody Doolin being one of the league's most experienced players.
On the heels of a season in which he averaged 12.2 points and 5.6 assists per game as a junior, Doolin was expected to team up with senior power forward Cole Dickerson and help the Dons improve on last season's 15-16 record (7-9 WCC). But that won't be the case, as Doolin and the school announced on Tuesday that he is no longer a member of the basketball program.
The decision caught many by surprise, and on Wednesday San Francisco AD Scott Sidwell discussed the reason as to why Doolin made the decision to forego the remainder of his senior campaign.
Cody Doolin's departure from the Dons' program came after taking the brunt of an altercation with a teammate at practice Nov. 19, USF athletic director Scott Sidwell confirmed Wednesday.
"Tempers flared, it went too far and unfortunately, there was an altercation that ensued," Sidwell said in a phone interview. "And at the end of the day, we want to make sure that our student athletes know and our coaches know that that's not acceptable.
"We're going to take corrective measures to make sure that this never happens again."
Doolin (he'll remain in school to complete his degree in finance), who was averaging 13.0 points and 7.0 assists in the four games prior to his departure, has been replaced in the starting lineup by sophomore guard Tim Derksen. Derksen, who was one of the WCC's best freshmen last season, is averaging 8.1 points and 2.6 rebounds per game with Penn State transfer Matt Glover taking over the role of primary ball-handler. Glover's averaging a team-best 3.3 assists per game with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.3.
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When Lamar Odom struggled with his basketball career, the critics piled on. Now that Odom is signed with the New York Knicks, critics still cast their doubts that the former Sixth Man of the Year may not be able to play good basketball. Knicks' star player Amar'e Stoudemire thinks otherwise. He is reportedly even excited to play with Odom and hopeful that the new teammate would be the one that will help the team win the 2015 trophy.
Basketball player Lamar Odom departs the New York state Supreme Court after a child custody hearing with his ex-girlfriend, Liza Morales, in Manhattan, March 5, 2013.
According to Hollwoodlife.com, Stoudemire has no qualms about the Knicks' decision to sign Odom. Apparently, it wouldn't be the first time that Stoudemire and Odom will play together. They have been together on one team before. In 2004, both players were members of the U.S' basketball Olympic team, the Web site further reported.
"He seems like a pretty cool guy," said Stoudemire.
"I hope he is able to train and make a good year," he added.
The Knicks surprisingly signed Odom in the latter part of the recent National Basketball Association (NBA) season. It was a "non-guaranteed pact," as reported by the New York Post. Odom has to perform well in the training camp so that he will have a change to become a part of the 2014-2015 roster.
Former coach and Knicks president Phil Jackson is enthusiastic that Odom will be able to get his act together. "We know he's a really good player," said Jackson.
"He wants to put himself back together, and he has a chance to do that by having the whole summer to work at it and getting himself back in basketball condition to play."
"He told me that's what he wants to do."
Jackson is hopeful that the Knicks will gain recompenses for taking risk and signing Odom. "Having a relationship with him, it's a pretty good risk-reward situation for us."
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Many members and allies of Winnipeg's transgender community protested Germaine Greer's sold-out appearance at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Wednesday.
The Australian feminist, who wrote the landmark 1970 book The Female Eunuch and is regarded as one of the movement's major voices, has been criticized for her views on transgender women — that they are not, in fact, women at all.
In a 2009 Guardian piece about Caster Semenya, the South African runner forced to undergo gender testing after her win at the 2009 world championships, Greer wrote: "Nowadays we are all likely to meet people who think they are women, have women's names and feminine clothes and lots of eyeshadow, who seem to us to be some kind of ghastly parody, though it isn't polite to say so... Other delusions may be challenged, but not a man's delusion that he is female."
That's just one example Athena Thiessen, a Winnipeg transgender woman, pointed to in her May 3 op-ed for the Free Press protesting Greer's appearance at the CMHR. "When you're trans, you're supposed to be grateful for crumbs," she wrote. "You're expected to take it quietly when you're harassed, be understanding when your family stops returning calls, keep your chin up when you find yourself unemployed, and not speak up when lauded thinkers say cruel and vicious things about you and your community. Or when others who purport to be on your side, like the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, offer them a podium and thousands of dollars to speak."
Greer delivered a speech entitled Women and the Struggle for Human Rights as part of Fragile Freedoms: the Global Struggle for Human Rights, a lecture series organized by the University of Manitoba's Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics and broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas program. The CMHR has been the host venue for the series, which has also featured such noted thinkers as Steven Pinker and C.A. Grayling.
"The museum's role is to inspire human-rights conversations. This is why we agreed to become the venue for the Fragile Freedoms lecture series," said Maureen Fitzhenry, the museum's media-relations manager.
"Our participation as a venue should not be viewed as tacit endorsement of any speaker's opinion. Rather, our goal is to be a place where many different viewpoints can be exchanged in an atmosphere of respectful dialogue. That is our hope for (Wednesday's) lecture."
In a May 7 letter to the editor responding to Thiessen's article, Arthur Schafer, the director of the University of Manitoba's Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, suggested audience members use the question-and-answer portion of the evening to "challenge arguments they see as mistaken."
Thiessen said she is disappointed by those responses.
"They said you can bring it up at the Q&A, which is disingenuous because, by then, (the event) was sold out. And the excuse that the museum is 'just a venue' is not a legitimate excuse," she said. "This is a museum for human rights."
Organizers planned the event to include different perspectives of the debate, including university academics with expertise in LGBT and gender issues.
Thiessen said it's vital transgender people be included in such consultations. "So often, trans people are not included in the conversation."
She had hopes for Wednesday's protest. "My ultimate wish is that Germaine Greer would apologize and say, 'You're right — trans women are women,' " Thiessen said. "My realistic wish is that the museum and centre would say, 'You're right — this was a major oversight on our part and we apologize.' "
Thiessen said she's encouraged by the support she's received from Winnipeggers from all walks of life. "As a trans woman, that's not something I'm used to," she said.
"It speaks to the point that you don't need to be trans to realize this isn't OK."
Fitzhenry said the CMHR welcomes protesters.
"We welcome multiple perspectives and peaceful demonstrations that can promote human-rights education," she said.
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Arsenal keeper Szczesny insists co-hosts have players to pull off a shock victory
Published: 08 June 2012
Wojciech Szczesny believes Poland can spring a major surprise on the continent's football elite and win Euro 2012, which kicks-off this evening with the opening game of the tournament between the co-hosts and Greece in Warsaw.
"I'll be drinking champagne in Kiev. My ambition is to win the European Championship," declared the Arsenal goalkeeper when asked about what he will be doing at the end of the competition on July 1.
"Anything can happen. I don't see any reason why we can't follow the example of Greece in 2004. Or Denmark in 1992, when they didn't even initially qualify for the finals but went on to win it.
"If you were to look at it realistically, then we have got no chance whatsoever to become champions of Europe. But it's just that by no means do these things always turn out as predicted."
Any doubts Szczesny may have about Poland's chances in Euro 2012 have been kept remarkably well hidden during the build-up to this evening's match, as he has exuded the confidence Gunners fans have become used to.
Not even febrile local talk this week about the game at the new National Stadium on the banks of the River Vistula being the biggest in the history of Polish football has fazed the national side's most popular player.
Nor would he admit to any worries about the prospect of finally making his competitive debut for Poland on such a big occasion. Having qualified automatically for Euro 2012 as hosts, his first 10 games for the national team have all been friendlies.
Szczesny feels he benefited enormously as an 18-year-old from being part of the squad preparing for Euro 2008, although in the end he did not take part in the tournament four years ago, where Poland failed to win a match.
He believes the Polish team have made vast improvements over the last couple of years, to the point where he believes they should not be dismissed as contenders, despite a world ranking of 62, which is lower than any of the other nations at Euro 2012.
"At previous big tournaments, in fact all those we've participated in during the 21st century, we've lacked players performing at the highest level for Europe's biggest clubs. That's no longer the case. No one can tell me that Borussia Dortmund isn't one of Europe's top sides, and three Polish players have been key to their recent successes. With such gifted individuals we have the chance to achieve something more than our predecessors did.
"And it's not just the boys from Borussia. I haven't watched much of the Polish League in recent times and I didn't realise that we had so many talented players at the moment."
Szczesny dismisses his portrayal as the poster boy of the Poland team, even with his picture appearing on many of the front pages around Warsaw this week. For him, Robert Lewandowski is crucial.
The Dortmund striker was the player of the year in the Bundesliga this season as he helped his club to the title and then scored a hat-trick against Bayern Munich in the German Cup final to secure the double. Without him, Poland struggle to score.
In contrast, Szczesny downplays his own contribution. "I have to simply catch every ball flying in my direction," he said. "And that's all I'm concentrating on. Looking at it objectively, my work isn't very complicated."
If he does it well in his first high-profile major tournament, then Arsenal can expect to have the continent's biggest clubs seeking to tempt Szczesny away from north London. But Gunners supporters should have no fears.
"In a very short time, a great deal has changed for me very quickly. And it's Arsenal I have to thank for that. I owe the most enormous debt to the club for giving me the chance to build a notable career in the game. I can't imagine myself playing for another club.
"Arsenal, and especially the reserve-team goalkeeping coach, Tony Roberts, have formed me as a footballer. He might not be very well known but, when I finish my career, Tony will be among those people whom I will be most grateful to."
In addition to a real love of his club, the Polish goalkeeper also adores his adopted city, stating: "There is no better place to live than London. I've hit on a city whose life is just amazing.
"I'm 22 years old, I've already seen a good few interesting places, but nothing matches up to London. It's different. You can find a niche if you're seeking a peaceful life, or another if you're looking for excitement. There is something for everyone. I can't imagine living anywhere else."
However, if Szczesny and Poland do well at Euro 2012, his popularity among his fellow Poles may rise to the point where they won't want to let him leave Warsaw again.
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The club's top scorer is one of Europe's most promising strikers. Intelligent movement added to a physical presence means he can cause problems for any defender. Scored 22 goals in Bundesliga this season.
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Should you be worried about your child's imaginary friend?
The Parent 'Hood: Is an imaginary friend cause for concern of just part of learning and growing up?
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Your 6-year-old has an imaginary friend. Is this normal? Cause for concern?
Parent advice (from our panel of staff and reader contributors):
When she was little, my daughter had an imaginary friend named Michael. He was modeled after a character on the TV show "Barney." I probably humored the phase a little too much when I walked around our neighborhood with her ringing doorbells and looking for Michael! My second-born, a son, had a friend named Tigger. Both children grew to be very creative and outgoing young people. The key is to accept the reality (for them) of their imaginary friend — within reason. I wouldn't recommend canvassing the neighborhood. At one house, someone actually answered the door, and I was forced to ask if Michael lived there.
— Mary Rayis
Normal, as long as your 6-year-old lets you know about the friend and includes you in the fun. If the imaginary friend becomes an excuse for bad behavior ("My friend told me to do it") or your 6-year-old becomes withdrawn from non-imaginary people, then it might be time to send the friend packing.
— Dodie Hofstetter
Expert advice:
Absolutely normal and even cause for celebration, given what it may portend for your child, says Harvard professor of education Paul L. Harris, who wrote "The Work of the Imagination" (Wiley-Blackwell).
"If you test a child with an imaginary companion on various tests of so-called social cognition — understanding what's going on in the mind of someone else — they tend to be a bit more advanced than a child without an imaginary companion," Harris says. "Not very surprisingly, they are often more inventive and richer in their imagination."
And imagination, Harris says, is an important part of language development.
"What pretend and imagination tell us about human beings is that from around 2 years of age, children can conjure up hypothetical situations that don't exist in reality," he says. "Often when we use language, we're talking about things we're not actually witnessing at the time. If we confined our conversations to remarks about the current weather or the fact that we're standing in line at Whole Foods, our conversations would be highly restricted. But we talk about places and activities and events not taking place at the moment. We tell our partners what happened during the day. We speculate about what we're going to do on vacation. We speak in regretful fashion about what we could have done but didn't do. We entertain situations that are not current."
Children with imaginary pals are practicing and honing those conversation skills, along with a few others: empathy and compromise among them.
"If you talk to children with imaginary companions, it's not all sweet and rosy," Harris says. "Sometimes they squabble or have an argument, and you get the sense that the imaginary companion has a mind of its own. So the child is in this interesting position of having to defend their point of view even as they act out the other point of view."
If you're still having a hard time wrapping your head around your child's pretend relationship, bear in mind that kids have a variety of coping mechanisms for making sense of the world around them. A friendship with an imaginary pal, Harris points out, is not dissimilar to a child's affection for a favorite book.
"The child wants to be in the company of this story and will ask to hear the story over and over and sometimes take the storybook to bed with them," Harris says. "They use the storybook to kind of regulate their own emotions and might ask for the story to console themselves.
"It's an imaginative encounter that the child can regulate."
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Evil Dead marks its 300th performance
If George Reinblatt weren't so thirsty, he probably would never have written Evil Dead: The Musical, which is celebrating its 300th performance on Thursday night.
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If George Reinblatt weren't so thirsty, he probably would never have written Evil Dead: The Musical, which is celebrating its 300th performance on Thursday night.
Let Reinblatt, 31, the perpetual frat boy without a campus, tell the story himself.
"It was the summer of 2002," he began, "and I went to see my buddy Chris Bond, who was performing in The Rocky Horror Show at a bar somewhere in Toronto.
"I was fascinated by the idea of people being allowed to drink in a theatre. I mean, it combined two of my favourite activities."
So later that evening ("over more than a few brews," in Reinblatt's words) he and Bond decided to create a show of their own that – most importantly – would be presented in a venue that allowed the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
The next night, Reinblatt watched the 1981 movie The Evil Dead and called Bond, saying, "We have to do this!"
Next he contacted the film's creator, Sam Raimi, by now an A-list Hollywood director thanks to films such as Spider-Man.
"Surprisingly enough, Raimi gave me the rights from the start. It was all legal, but very limited. Later on, when we started to expand, the film company entered the picture and they kept us on a very short leash until they knew it was good."
Together with fellow Queen's University buds Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris, Reinblatt and Bond wrote the show over the next year and had it ready to open at the Tranzac Club, on Brunswick Ave. (which, happily, was fully licensed) on Aug. 14, 2003.
If that date rings a bell, it's because it was the night of the giant blackout, and only now, five years later, is Reinblatt willing to sheepishly admit that "I never even saw that performance. I was trapped all the way over on the other side of town." What happened in the Annex, however, was amazing.
The cast and the audience poured into the street, lit the show with headlights, played it all acoustic and kept the evening going.
"It was that night," Reinblatt chuckled, "that the Evil Dead buzz started."
The run at the Tranzac sold out quickly and another was planned for October, which also played to packed houses as well as critics who were largely favourable.
Then Just For Laughs brought it to Montreal in the summer of 2004 and the wheels started turning to take it to New York, where it opened on Nov. 1, 2006, got generally upbeat reviews and ran until Feb. 17, 2007.
Next it came back, to the Diesel Playhouse, where tomorrow night will mark the show's 300th performance – the longest run for a Canadian musical since Greg Robic's The Clouds in 1994.
What has Reinblatt been doing? Writing for Just For Laughs and going to his show around the world (including a week in Korea).
"I've maybe seen it 200 times and I still keep laughing harder than anybody. Some people find it really obnoxious."
When asked if he has plans for the future, he hints he has a few things up his sleeve, but then admits, "I've kind of grown to realize that no matter what I do next, people might say, `It's not as good as Evil Dead.'"
And they might not serve drinks at the theatre, either.
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Sound Transit's light-rail grand opening shows region is on the right track
As Sound Transit begins operation of its light-rail system Saturday, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray shares credit not only with community leaders but voters who approved the initial ballot measure in 1996. She notes that November's vote to extend Sound Transit bus and rail shows voters remain committed.
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WHEN Sound Transit train doors open for the first time on Saturday, riders will have many people to thank. And they can start with themselves.
The journey to light rail's grand opening began over a decade ago when voters in three counties approved a tax plan proposed by Sound Transit's board to fund a new, cooperative regional bus and rail transit system.
That vote was a leap of faith. It was also the beginning of a partnership among people who shared a vision for the future that we all want for our families, our economy and our region.
With that 1996 vote, Puget Sound residents said "yes" to a transit system that did not just consist of isolated pieces. We wanted buses and rail, and we wanted them to connect and to connect us.
We said "yes" to a sustainable transportation system that would reduce congestion with environmentally friendly technology that reflected our region's deep respect for the outdoors.
We said "yes" to living in a region where economic growth and prosperity are fueled by the hard work and ingenuity of our people and where our safety, mobility and efficiency are high priorities.
And, beginning with that vote, we committed to sharing the sacrifice to make it happen.
No one predicted the roller-coaster ride Sound Transit would face moving forward. But we refused to let our economic growth be held captive by either traffic or political gridlock.
As an original supporter and the chairman of the Senate committee that oversees America's federal transportation funding, I advocated for Sound Transit in Washington, D.C.
I secured $3 million in federal funding for the environmental and planning work that made Sound Transit eligible to apply for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal transit startup funds.
But it wasn't easy.
When the agency stumbled under financial troubles and lacked oversight and accountability, I demanded agency officials get their house in order. Sound Transit got the message and got it together. Because they stepped up, we were able to convince two presidential administrations, Bill Clinton's and George W. Bush's, to stay on board.
And I've been proud to secure more than $1.3 billion for related transit projects, ranging from light rail to buses to park-and-ride lots, because these are the smart, long-term investments our federal government should partner on with local communities.
Sound Transit is more than a transportation system, it's a job-generator.
The planning and construction of light rail from Seattle to Tukwila has created more than 4,000 jobs directly and 30,000 indirectly.
And when the doors open, our transit system will help attract new business, create more jobs and make our region more productive long-term.
If we're serious about ending our oil addiction and addressing climate change, transportation must be a major focus. In Washington, transportation accounts for nearly half of our total greenhouse-gas emissions. Sound Transit will get cars off the roads and improve the quality of our environment.
Thanks to the leadership of Sound Transit's Joni Earl, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, Congressman Norm Dicks, former King County Executive Ron Sims and many others, we worked through financial issues, answered tough questions and did the hard work to keep moving and extend light rail to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
In November, voters approved an expansion of bus and rail to the north, south and east, showing a renewed commitment to our economy and environment.
At times, Sound Transit has felt like the Little Engine that Could. It took the belief, commitment and sacrifice of an entire region to get us here today. And when doors open on Saturday, it will be clear that Puget Sound residents not only thought we could, but indeed we did, make a difference. Thanks to partnership and shared sacrifice, Sound Transit is set to get our economy and our environment back on track.U.S. Sen. Patty Murray is chairwoman of the Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee and a key proponent of light rail.
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