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Busy schedule as local teams make runs
13 locals alive in state tournaments
|Litchfield's Isabelle Binstadt (13) plays the ball off a corner kick during their Class S tournament game against Coventry Monday at Litchfield High School. (Jim Shannon/RA)
Entering tournament play Tuesday there are 13 local teams still alive in the various brackets, and that's not counting the swim teams who will have their state championship meets this week. In volleyball three local teams are already at the semifinal stage, while the Cheshire field hockey team will also play its next game in the semis.
Six girls soccer teams will battle in the quarterfinals on Wednesday, including NVL champion Watertown and Class M No. 2 seed Woodland.
And how about the Litchfield girls, who last year made a magical run all the way to the Class S state final (which they lost, 3-0, to Immaculate) as the No. 7 seed. The Cowgirls are back deep in the Class S mix, and host the No. 23 seed on Wednesday for a shot at the state semis.
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Six girls soccer teams will battle in the quarterfinals on Wednesday, including NVL champion Watertown and Class M No. 2 seed Woodland.
And how about the Litchfield girls, who last year made a magical run all the way to the Class S state final (which they lost, 3-0, to Immaculate) as the No. 7 seed. The Cowgirls are back deep in the Class S mix, and host the No. 23 seed on Wednesday for a shot at the state semis.
The schedule
Boys soccer
- Class M: No. 5 Lewis Mills (15-2-0) at No. 4 Abbott Tech (15-1-0)
- Class LL: No. 10 Staples (15-4) at No. 2 Cheshire (18-1)
- Class S championships at SCSU
- Class M championships at Wesleyan
Boys soccer
- Class S: No. 5 St. Paul (12-5-0) at No. 4 Bloomfield (12-4-1)
Field hockey
- Class L: No. 2 Cheshire (16-2-0-0) vs. No. 3 Simsbury (15-2-0-1) at Wethersfield
Girls soccer
- Class L: No. 5 Watertown (14-4-0) at No. 4 Masuk (13-2-2)
- Class L: No. 11 Pomperaug (9-2-7) at No. 3 RHAM (15-3-0) (game at ECSU)
- Class M: No. 12 Ellington (12-3-3) at No. 4 Lewis Mills (15-1-1)
- Class M: No. 8 Nonnewaug (14-3-1) at No. 1 Northwest Catholic (16-0-1)
- Class M: No. 10 Rocky Hill (13-3-2) at No. 2 Woodland (16-1-0)
- Class S: No. 23 Morgan (7-8-3) at No. 2 Litchfield (14-2-1)
- Class M: No. 1 Woodland (18-2) vs. No. 5 Tolland (16-4) at Berlin
- Class S: No. 5 Terryville (19-1) vs. No. 1 Coventry (20-0) at SMSA
- Class S: No. 3 Holy Cross (19-1) vs. No. 2 Morgan (20-0) at SMSA
- Class L championships at SCSU
- Class LL championships at Wesleyan
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President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney race to collect newspaper endorsements in swing states
2008 endorsement: None
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The Virginian Pilot announced in October 2007 that it would no longer endorse political candidates, according to information from The American Presidency Project.
>> President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney meet family members after the third presidential debate at Lynn University, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Boca Raton, Fla.
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I think it's important to note that no newspapers switched from McCain to Obama only from Obama to Romney. Jus' sayin'
- 10:49 a.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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"The Deseret News, as a matter of policy, does not endorse political candidates." Seriously? How close can you get without actually having to call it an endorsement?
- 12:00 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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Yes the Deseret coverage is a little Romney heavy, but you have to think about their audience. Obviously lots of people in Utah are interested in Romney and therefore the DNews is going to cover that because it is of local intrest. As far as I know, Obama has no ties with Utah nor has he visited the state. Newspapers are in the business of selling newspapers. In Utah, Romney sells. It isn't a matter of endorsement, just a matter of business. Perhaps you forget when Jon Huntsman was in the race. DNews ran quite a few articles about him until he dropped out.
- 12:10 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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To FairchildIV 12:10 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
The problem is that the DesNews is very biased in its coverage. It is not just "a little Romney heavy". It is EXTREMELY Romney heavy. It publicizes the good about him, but totally ignore the many negatives that have been discovered before and during the campaign. The editors are quite selective in the letters they use and the ones they bounce. The "push" in favor of Romney is decided and noticable. It goes far beyond what a news source is supposed to do. It would be appropriate for pretty much all of the Romney coverage to be found on the Editorial/Opinion page and not in the news section.
The DesNews, on a regular bsis, hypes for Romney. It gives, and has given, a defacto endorsement even though it clothes it as something else. As Hutterite correctly said, how close can you get without actually having to call it an endorsement?
- 12:29 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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I don't care who endorses who. I'm voting for Romney because I want to still be employed in another four years. If we have another four years of Obama the company I work for may not make it.
- 12:33 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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I don't care who endorses who. I'm voting for Romney because I want to still be employed in another four years. If we have another four years of Obama the company I work for may not make it.
How can Romney save it? If it goes broke under Obama, it probably will under Romney. After all, it was Romney that has said over and over that it is the private sector that creates jobs, not government. He will have no control whatsoever, right?
- 12:45 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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"The Deseret News, as a matter of policy, does not endorse political
candidates. "
It looks like they're just going to keep us guessing about who they really favor in the Presidential election. They have not tipped their had at all in their "News Analysis" pieces or in their coverage of the campaigns. I guess it will remain one of the great mysteries of our time.
- 12:56 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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@Lane Myer
Government policies effect private businesses greatly. Our next president needs to create a climate where private companies have the ability to grow. And Romney was right. It is the private sector that creates jobs. And create jobs they will if they are given a chance. If the government is sucking up all their profits how can they pay new employees? There is no way I would vote for Obama given his track record on the economy. I can not fathom why the younger generation is so enthralled by Obama. These kids are getting out of college and can't get a job. Can't repay their student debt. Many are moving back in with parents but yet Obama is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Don't get it. He promised he would turn the economy around. The opposite has happened, it is much worse. Sorry, but Obama failed. Romney policies will be much better for small business. Anyone who says any different is blind or doesn't want to see the truth.
- 1:27 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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Here are the negatives about Romney. He is conservative
Here are the negatives about Obama. He can do no wrong, he sends tingles up peoples legs, women swoon over him, and he has never worked in the private sector (don't try to tell me teaching at a public institution is a private sector job).
Ok. Having said that, I will vote for Romney because I believe it is totally inappropriate to send tingles up people's legs. I also believe the government spends too much, intrudes in our lives to much, and is out of control.
Please wake up people. Please understand that more government means more money from us. More control to the government. Stop pretending that Obama et al. will save us from ourselves. Only we can do that. Vote Romney (I am Haggy and I approve this message).
- 2:11 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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The Denver Post comment was laughable...
"Obama, on the other hand, has shown throughout his term that he is a steady leader who keeps the interests of a broad array of Americans in mind."
Steady leader? Keeps the interests of a broad array of Americans in mind? Oh please - this is bordering on silly. Barack Obama is as steady as a broken chair and he has demonstrated over and over that he is ONLY interested in HIS far left crowd and none else. Holy cow - even the mans personal likeability has plunged over the past 6 months as his campaign became more ugly and cheap. It will be so nice to NOT have to say the name of Barack Obama again !!! What a nightmarish 4 years!
- 3:35 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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I don't care who endorses who. I'm voting for Barack Obama because I
still want to be employed in 4 years. Under the Bush administration, my
employer was nearly driven into bankruptcy. Had John McCain won in 2008, I have
little doubt my employer would have gone belly up and I'd have been out
looking for work. I give a great deal of credit to the Obama administration for
getting the floundering economic ship righted and sailing again in the right
Under a Romney administration, I have little doubt that the economy will again be turned in the wrong direction and the job security gains I've seen over the last four years will be lost.
- 5:17 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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I see that no papers that went Republican in 2008 have gone Democrat in 2012. However, many have changed from endorsing the President to endorsing the Republican. That might be a bad sign. But then again, who takes the press seriously anymore?
- 5:26 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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Google this and watch the video: youtube y draw Mitt Romney vs Obama 2012
Romney = America the Beautiful (the way the country was founded to be)
Obama = America, the "I can take whatever I want from people cause I have a right to steal"
There are plenty of things I don't agree with Romney on, but the wiser choice for investing in a better country tomorrow is clearly Romney. Obama, intentions aside, will only bring devastation.
- 5:53 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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"The Deseret News, as a matter of policy, does not endorse political
Nobody believes that.
Deseret News has had one-sided coverage of the issues and the election. They have no liberal op-eds or columnists.
It is shameful that DN says one thing and does another which reflects poorly on its LDS ownership.
- 7:29 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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The Obama campaign and its supporters sound like Soviet-era spokesmen who deny
what is right in front of everyone's face. "We've seen economic
growth." NO, We have not. "It's all Bush's fault." NO,
It is not. "It could have been much worse." No, it could have been
much better. I challenge any Obama supporter to tell me what Obama's
agenda is for the second term. How it is different from what he has done in the
first term?
To say that Romney is going to ruin all this 'progress' is like saying the cops are going to come and mess up the accident scene.
- 7:35 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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Furry1993: you aren't complaining are you? I see your point made substituting the Salt Lake Tribune and the president for DesNews and Romney in your post
- 7:42 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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After reading the 40 endorsements or lack of from the various papers, it is
interesting to note a couple of the large newspaper's comments.
When you see the comments below from 3 of the newspapers that support Obama, it makes you wonder why they would support him with the comments they made. Do they think people are stupid?
"President Obama showed firm commitment to using government to foster growth, formed sensible budget policies and worked to save the social safety net," The New York Times.
My question is used government was correct and what budget policies if there hasn't been a budget.
The Washington Post said: "We come to that judgment with eyes open to the disappointments of Mr. Obama's time in office. He did not end, as he promised he would, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions on fiscal matters. But he is committed to the only approach that can succeed: a balance of entitlement reform and revenue increases."
His tough decisions are spend more and more without a budget.
Two large east coast newspapers would appear to be drowning in their philosophy and supporting a person who isn't ready.
- 8:59 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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The LA Times said: "(Obama's) record is by no means perfect. His
expansive use of executive power is troubling, as is his continuation of some of
the indefensible national security policies of the George W. Bush
administration," the paper said. "Obama swept into office as a
transformative figure, but the expectations built up by the long campaign
thudded back to earth amid an unexpectedly steep recession and hyperbolic
opposition from the right. That the GOP has sought to block his agenda wherever
possible is undeniable, but truly great leaders find ways to bring opposing
factions together when the times demand it; Obama has not yet been able to do
Why would reputable newspapers write this information supporting Obama with words that indicate he is not a strong person, even after holding the office for 4-years with a layer of Czar staff to assist him in every move?
He has had his 4-years and these newspapers that support him now with these types of comments don't seem to be realistic. Is it that he has a failed agenda and priorities? Will these newspapers risk supporting a person who failed in his first term with promises of Hope to Change?
- 9:07 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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@merich39 ...well at least Obama will get one vote. I think you need to used to hearing 'President Romney'. It's gonna happen.
- 9:22 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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Sounds like you need a new accountant!
- 12:52 a.m. Oct. 31, 2012
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@Furry1993 If you think the Desnews is biased towards Romney and don't like it, go to the sltrib where they are clearly biased towards Obama. They actually endorsed obama, despite the fact that most of their readers don't want him as President. When I found out they endorsed BO, I quit visiting their site for good. Maybe, if you are upset about the desnews, you should go where you will be happy?
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To md 6:09 am. Oct 31 2012
What you do not understand is this -- I do not restrict myself to reading one particular aspect of the political spectrum. I read and listen to news media from the far left to the far right (and everything in between too).
I know that the Trib specifically endorsed Obama, and I don't agree with their position. I recognize that the DesNews endorses Romney sub rosa, and I don't agree with their position either. Quite frankly, I think the country will not be well-served by having either Obama or Romney as President.
I was commenting only on the integrity of the newspapers. The difference between the two papers is this -- the Trib is honest about what it does, despite the fact that their decision is not well-taken. The DesNews, on the other hand, is not honest about what it does -- it claims that it does not make any endorsements, and then turns around and (by its actions) endorses Romney. I wish the DesNews was either more equitable in how it treats the two candidates if it doesn't want to give an endorsement, or just endorse its favorite.
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Celebrating Easter - Open Thread
How did you celebrate Easter this year?Our parish's vigil Mass began in the entryway of the church, with the doors open. Since the church is on a main avenue, we start with the sounds of the city all around us, a reminder that the first Easter also took part amid the bustle and distractions of city life. I always enjoy the quick, almost furtive, yet joyful, whispered greetings of "Happy Easter!" as people welcome each other in the darkened sanctuary. (It's here! Finally! And so are we! Can you believe it!)As often happens, there was a momentary pause due to "technical difficulties" with the fire used to light the Easter candle. Watching everyone process in, faces lit only by their candles, is a special joy, and cause for its own moment of meditation---how beautiful and varied are the faces of God's people! Once in our pews, we settled in (more or less, there was a constant low level of activity in the back pews from the under-10 crowd) for the next three-plus hours of praying and singing (lots of singing in our parish---everything from Gregorian chant to contemporary gospel) in English, Igbo and Latin.We had the joy of a man in his 60s (named, wonderfully, Pasqual) receiving the Easter sacraments during the Mass. Afterwards, we trooped downstairs to the church hall for a dessert potluck---a lovely, little parish tradition that is, among other things, a humble reminder of how sweet the Resurrection is.
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Luke,We had the grace of three baptisms and a number of confirmations; and the view from the sanctuary of flames flickering on the faces of young and old, hail and halting was, indeed, awe-inspiring. Even the somewhat over-the-top "alleluias" (just beyond our choir's competence) only made the joy more human and more complete.
Vigil was at 5 p.m. Everyone was given a candle and told to be seated. Lots of room; church half full. Priest and helpers lit the Paschal Fire outdoors, with the proceedings mic'd in to the rest of us. Sun streaming in the windows blunted the effect of the candles of the faithful lit from the Easter candle. Church half full. Since we have been merged with another parish, the two candidates were "processed" at our sister church's Vigil at 7 p.m. Home in time to make spaghetti and watch "The Ten Commandments," which our son proclaimed to be the most boring movie ever. When I told him his grandfather and Charlton Heston used to ski together in northern Michigan, he remained unimpressed, and went into his boy cave with his Peeps and iPod. My mother insisted we come for Easter, though we never celebrated this holiday when we were kids. So we're taking her out for brunch. Being around all the people coming out of church will doubtless remind her to tell us she does not believe in "all that claptrap about the Resurrection."I'm sure ya'll wanted something more inspiring. Fortunately, Jesus is still with us despite the travesties of Life As It Is, the saints still rejoice in heaven and pray for us, and whatever irritations today brings, I've got two nice cats to come home to who'll be happy to cuddle up when it's time for evening devotions.
The smell of lilacs when you enter the church...the different perspective, literally, of the mass because some interloper (sorry, future revert) in sitting in your regular pew...having time after you come back from receiving communion to pray for your B and even C list intentions because the lines are so long...a hearty home-cooked breakfast.
A number of Notre Dame graduates come back for the liturgy of the Triduum. My wife and I had some of my former students back for brunch on Holy Saturday. While running about I looked out the winow and saw the first blooom of crocus in the back yard. Services on campus were standing room only in the basilica. We will end things with Easter Vespers this evening. Christ is risen!
My daughter is sacristan today and, since she is still too young to wander around the neighborhood at 6:30 am, we went with her to church so she could set up for the 8:00 Mass. It was a little like getting to a baseball game really early where you see the groundscrew about their business and the diehard fans getting settled. I was moved by the very devout people who got there extra early because they had a private ritual; like the elderly woman who crossed the front of the church on her knees until she reached the tabernacle, where she prayed. You could tell it was hard for her to kneel at all, let alone move on her knees; I wonder what she was praying for.
The litany of the saints last night included Ignatius of Antioch, Basil, Augustine, It had never occurred to me before that they were saints, people we could pray to. That's a joy. So many people are with us in the Eucharist. The great cloud of witnesses just got bigger!As often on big feasts, I've gone to communion with some guilt for leaving behind the overly scrupulous divorced+remarried or otherwise banned, while I myself take my place in the line to receive communion. The thought keeps coming that I ought to refrain sometimes, out of solidarity with them (but I can never bring myself to it). It seems to me that if the church were serious about "spiritual communion", the Good Friday liturgy would not include communion: thus one day per year every one, even those who are not on the black list, would be asked to fast from receiving communion.
Attended Easter Vigil. The cantor did an amazing job with the Exsultet. Blessing of the fire, candles, bells and singing before the Gospel. I love the Easter vigil. A friend of my daughter's singing in the choir and that was so nice to see. Congratulated her mother after.Then came home and, as a family, watched Les Miserables, a spiritual and hopeful musical in its own right with themes of suffering, redemption and love. Now, this morning, preparation of Easter dinner for just the three of us. Turkey, home made cabbage rolls, home made peroghies, pie, and all the trimmings.Always a time for new beginnings.....
We had more than two dozen initiated, including TEN baptisms. The church felt full, but some sections weren't totally packed together. It took exactly three hours without feeling inordinately long. Great homily. Modesty forbids a description of the music, except to say that participation was enthusiastic!
This year I went to the Triduum (mentioned earlier) mostly on my own, but Easter Sunday was our family Mass. Unfortunately today there was a bishop as well as some baptisms. The church was packed, communion was chaotic and we spent a long time stuck in a stop-and-go line, with the oldest family member visibly in severe pain from all that standing and stopping. The youngest kids could see nothing and were ready to cry from boredom. We were not all together and I was as distracted as a hen when her chicks are out of sight. One relative has an allergy to bishops and went to sulk in the most remote corner of the church. The Mass went on and on, seemingly forever. We ended up leaving "early", that is, after an hour and forty five minutes. The whole thing was kind of a fiasco. The morale, I think: when with family, avoid long crowded Masses like the plague.
A non-church-going Easter. Watched a video on the fourth week of the Spiritual Exercises (the Resurrection) last night .... http://youtu.be/pBq9CloBiKc ... And watched the last bits of the movie The Gospel of John. Posted the end of the movie "Jesus" on my blog. Watched an amazing lightening/thunder storm. Prayer. Today - exchange of chocolate with my sister :)
Our small Southern parish always has managed a beautiful Triduum, most especially the Vigil. A tryptych painted by a parishioner hangs over the altar, and its opening is one of my favorite moments in each year: the doors swing open and Christ in splendor is revealed amidst our wonderful choir's singing of the Gloria. Last year was the first year we celebrated the vigil without our Spanish-speaking community and, again, this year they celebrated separately. That has been a loss. Their music and spirit brought a lot to the bi-lingual service. This year our pastor has been concerned about people leaving the parish after two very political homilies we heard from a deacon in October, and last night's attendance suggested he may be right. The sanctuary was not half full and we had only one baptism. What might have been a sad, dreary experience in an empty church actually was quite intimate and moving, thanks to our pastor and the spirit of the parish. We were to have a parish couple who've been generous to our children for Easter dinner. But near the hour when the women found the empty tomb I awoke with a kidney stone. Dinner cancelled, our family had a quiet day together only moderately interrupted by my discomfort. I can report the stone has now been rolled away, having been rejected by the builder.
"I can report the stone has now been rolled away, having been rejected by the builder.That is so good. Thanks.
My wife came up with the idea this year of requiring our children to attend the Triduum celebrations. I sat with them for part of Thursday and all of Vigil to help them understand what was going on, as there is so much that happens that is outside their liturgical experience: the Eucharistic procession and adoration, the baptism of an adult, and so on. Two of my kids elected to have their feet washed on Thursday. On Friday, we were able to approach the cross for veneration as a family - I whispered to them to say a prayer of thanks for Jesus dying for us. Whether they'll want to come back next year, I don't know, but we're keeping our fingers crossed.
Burnet Park Zoo , overlooking the city...6:45 AMm.. the sun peers out...The mass begins..For the 30th year, nearly 800 gather in parkas, some with folding chairs with thermoses and from many diverse parishes ...The same priest and pastor of the parish I attend grets all and fine guitarists and a good sound system lead us all...The same married (widowed) deacon, now nearly 80, with one leg amputated sitting in his wheelchair reads the gospel with true passion...Women abound in all other radings and roles...The pastor, in touk and a simlpe stole over his parka, exhorts ll to believe in the Resurrection for one's own life in Christ and cites some great examples of the new pope in service..Communion is all over the place, but all receive and greetings wrmly exchanged after mass...Another dawn of resurrection... Alleluia!
Jim, if they won't go, tell them they can watch "The Ten Commandments" instead.
We attended Good Friday via Cruces (Spanish service), and the high school kids re-enacted the trail & crucifixion. The 'play' started in the parking on one side of the church, went half-way round the block, and came back to that lot via the alleyway. It was nice. Then all went back inside, for the readings, the Passion, and the veneration of the cross. Our Saturday was slow because our seven year-old had some sort of 24-hour stomach flu; chicken broth, jello, chamomile tea, ginger ale and crackers, all day long (poor little guy). Sunday he came bouncing back, and we watched Pope Francis offer mass and the Urbi et Orbi on TV, went to Easter mass around noon (Spanish mass; packed to the rafters) and later, to a good (Greek) restaurant for lunch (Chicken Marsala, Mmm!) with some friends; Easter baskets (candy and hard boiled eggs) for the boys; a very nice day.
Cranked up the Gloria from the Bach B Minor Mass, and then toddled off to church with the family.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu19NNXBVQg
Jim Pauwels, your post is the one that gets to me most so far. If your kids don't get into it next year, it's not your fault.


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The Grayville Police Department is investigating an alleged attack on a Grayville Junior-Senior High School janitor.
Grayville Police Chief Mark Worlds said 19-year-old Jordan Caudell works a shift from 3 p.m. until 11 p.m. at the school performing cleaning duties and was making a walk around on the outside of the building toward the end of his shift Wednesday night when he was allegedly attacked.
Worlds said Caudell told officers a man in a black hooded sweatshirt and black ball cap jumped from a hiding place and confronted him. Caudell alleged the man told him to hand over his cell phone and when he reached for the phone the man punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground.
The man allegedly jumped on top of Caudell and punched him several more times before fleeing the area on foot. Caudell was taken to Wabash General Hospital in Mt. Carmel for treatment of facial injuries.
Worlds said the description of the suspect matches one of a window peeper on which the department has received a number of complaints.
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Let us consider any pure state $|\psi\rangle\in\mathbb{C^n\otimes C^n\otimes C^n}$. Its reduced bipartite density matrix represent a pure state or mixed state depending on whether $|\psi\rangle$ is entangled or not (exactly how it is entangled, on which system we take the partial trace, etc).
My question is given any arbitrary (mixed) state $\rho\in\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{C^n\otimes C^n})$, can we find out a pure state $|\psi\rangle\in\mathbb{C^n\otimes C^n\otimes C^n}$ (or in some suitable higher dimension which needs to be determined) such that $\rho$ is the reduced density matrix of $|\psi\rangle$. In particular, I do not want only an existential result, I also want to an algorithmic method to determine such $|\psi\rangle$. Obviously such state will not be unique. Advanced thanks for any help.


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PERRONE, Elvira M. 87, of Steubenville, loving wife, mother and grandmother died Wednesday, May 15, 2013, at Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh.
She was born Sept. 13, 1925, in Steubenville, the daughter of the late Pietro and Maddalena Gianetti Giannamore, Elviria is also preceded in death by her brothers, Vincent and Michael "Skip" Giannamore and three infant brothers, two sisters, Norma Mascio and Anna DiAngelo.
Surviving are her husband, Ramo D. Perrone whom she married Oct. 7, 1961, two daughters, Annette (George) Smith and Maria (Frank) Collier both of Steubenville; one brother, Msgr. Anthony Giannamore of Sun City, FL.; one sister, Mary (Charlie) Manfresca of Steubenville; loving sister and brother- in-laws; three grandchildren, whom she adored, Amber and Ryan Smith and Kayla Collier and nieces and nephews.
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I'm trying to track down the first printed use of the word technique in English. Can anyone tell me the name, author, and date of the publication in question? It would be especially valuable, on top of that, to have an excerpted passage containing the word, in order to infer its intended meaning from its context.
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Etymology Online suggests 1817, and it is not difficult to find Samuel Taylor Coleridge using it in his Biographia Literaria
The OED may have something earlier.
A moche profitable treatise against the pestilence translated into Eglyshe by Thomas Paynel Chanon of Martin Abbey. [Londini : In aedibus Thomae Bertheleti regii impressoris], 1534.
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We are planning to backpack through Eastern Europe for a month on an interrail pass, and I am trying to put together an estimate budget. And I would love to hear some experiences from other travelers on the following items:
- What is the average price for staying in a hostel mixed dorm (5-10 persons)?
- How widespread is couchsurfing, can we expect to be hosted for most of the trip? (We have previous couchsurfing experiences.)
- What budget should I estimate for food daily when cooking ourselves and buying at super markets?
- In most of Western Europe seat reservation on fast trains is compulsory, and can become quite expensive when interrailing. Is this also so in Eastern Europe, and if so what is the price generally for reservations? Is there some trains that we should prefer to avoid compulsory seat reservations?
- What is the average price of a double bed in a private room (at a hostel)?
- Are there anything else budget wise I should take into account?
- In your experience what total budget should be set aside for such a trip, when backpacking and travelling cheaply?
Our travel path is not planned yet, but will be something like Greece->Marcedonia->Serbia->Hungary->Slovakia->Czech Republic->Poland. I understand that prices will probably vary between these countries, so if you can only answer for some of them, that is perfectly fine.
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Online trolling - 08-10-2013, 10:12 AM
Schoolgirl Hannah Smith 'trolled to death' by bullies on Ask.fm website | Mail Online
Over here, a lot of people are talking about this. I can see both sides clearly. Basically, trolling is bad and the people who use Ask.fm to troll are sad, pathetic individuals who need to get a life. However, the fact that a fourteen year old girl was allowed to go on the site in the first place unsupervised is not good, either. Also, sites like Ask and Yahoo answers are always going to be full of trolls so anyone with a little common sense avoids them like the plague.
For a schoolgirl to commit suicide over being insulted, there surely must have been something more to make her do it. Tragic tho it is, the only person responsible for a suicide is the one who commits it and banning the website is not going to bring her back. It won't even stop the trolls as they will just go someplace else. If you're being trolled, there are two things you can do which will stop the bullies in their tracks.
1. Log off.
2. Never go there again.
Also, to protect yourself online, the following would help to stop you from being a target.
1. Stay anonymous. If you don't use your full name online, or use a username, then no-one's going to be able to look for you in real life.
2. Avoid anon sites. Any website that allows people to post unreg is best avoided, unless it's strictly moderated and has good administration.
3. Don't post photos or personal info. If you want to post a photo, then make sure it's on a safe site. If you go on an anon site or message board, then don't have your photo as your avatar and please don't post anything of a personal nature. Don't give these people weapons to attack you with.
4. Make your page private. Facebook will allow you to keep your page set to friends only, and so that no-one can search for you. If you do that, then the only people who can see your page and info are your friends.
5. Only friend people you know. Don't accept every single request that you get on Facebook; only accept people you know. That way, you are less likely to get nasty people spamming your page. And if you accept someone as a friend and they start trolling you, then report them at once and remove them from your list.
If you're being cy'ber bullied on a website, then always report the bullies to the site administrator. If you're still living at home, then tell your parents. Don't keep on visiting the site; trolls thrive on their victims continuing to reply to them. Above all, remember that your life is precious and there are people that care about you. Suicide is never the answer; it's a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
I was walking home from work one day; can't remember the specifics, but there was a girl walking behind me crying on her phone that a group of people at a local university were stalking her and her boyfriend's facebooks, Instagrams, Youtube accounts - it sounds like a nightmare. Whatever privacy people had online before is almost entirely gone because of Google demanding people link their Youtube and Google+ accounts, plus Facebook harasses you nonstop for certain sites to link to in order to use them (Twitch.tv is one of them, but thankfully it's still only optional).
For example, my ex knew my different usernames. I had to stop using GaiaOnline - even the Mule account I'd just opened - because he wouldn't leave me the hell alone. I'm amazed he never found me on here, to be frank.
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
But the way that you see me, you get underneath me, and all my defenses just fall away, fall away.
I am beautiful with you, even in the darkest part of me. I am beautiful with you;
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be!
I don't use my real name on either my gmail or my youtube accounts so linking them wouldn't make a difference. The problem nowadays is that so many teenagers are dangerously naive about the internet, tho they think otherwise. You wouldn't walk thru town wearing a sandwich board with your name, address, phone number and personal info written on it... yet they think it's fine to put that info on public sites.
It isn't even simply that though; even if you weren't to link, say, your Instagram with your Facebook, if someone wanted to hurt you enough, they will find you and do it because they're likely looking either for pictures you use or bits of info that are the same.
Another point to look at: People, until very recently, ignored this kind of crap. They said to ignore the online stuff because those people don't know you. In this day and age, people can find people they don't like and harass them 'til kingdom come. Reddit is particularly good - and bad - at this: They have found people who hurt kids, animals, and the like, but also put the wrong people in jail before. /4/chan helped find a woman who threw cats in bins in the UK and the man who threw a dog into the ocean - but they're also responsible for some of the worst online and telephone pranks in existence.
While we can't ignore the disaster that is the "You Dun Goofed, I've Reported You to the Authorities" family, there are those who make their own tragedies. Another personal example; a bully from my high school claims to be pregnant with her second kid, but posts very regularly about going out, getting drunk or stoned. Her response to people's questions? Kick them off her facebook, stop posting about drinking. Okay. Fine. Then, she claimed to be engaged to a guy none of us have heard of. My hometown is a place where you know everybody's business - and the guy isn't even real. Maybe it's karma that she's the town laughing stock; she's still the same b*tch I knew before.
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
But the way that you see me, you get underneath me, and all my defenses just fall away, fall away.
I am beautiful with you, even in the darkest part of me. I am beautiful with you;
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be!
It's still a fact tho that if these teens quit posting on public sites every single thing about them, there'd be less trolling going on. Most of these people can't be bothered to seek out info about the people they bully, and the rest of them don't know how cuz they're kids just like their victims. They don't need to find it cuz it's all there, right on the victim's Facebook. That is what I'm talking about, NOT stalkers which is what you're talking about. And it's common sense that if you're being attacked on a site to not go back there. I had that once, back when the internet was new, and I just logged off and never went back.
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HAYES, Betty Jean (Baker), of Colliers, WV, went to be with the Lord on Monday, November 26, 2012, at her residence.
Betty was born on March 28, 1927, in Salem, WV. She was the daughter of the late Ward and Lena (Davis) Baker.
Betty worked at Weirton Steel Corp. during the war as a tin plate sorter, but she was most known as being a prayerful and devoted pastor's wife. She was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church in Follansbee, where she taught Sunday school for over 40 years. Betty was a member of the Women Missionary Union.
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Scientology's 5 Newest Celebrity Recruits
#2. "Celebrity" "Musicians": Scientologists
Best Known For:
Rapping; Singing while pale; Teen heart-throbbing; Nothing.
(Apparently someone at the Scientology Celebrity Center grievously misinterpreted the meaning of the word "celebrity.")
Why We Think They'll Be Next:
You'd probably guess the only thing Doug E. Fresh (rapper), Edgar Winter (albino), Leif Garret (has-been) and Frank Stallone (Frank Stallone) have in common is "they'd suck the foreskin off a hobo for a week-old taco." And you wouldn't be far off.
"There's urine in this glass! My brother's a movie star! The government is chasing my dreams!"
But along with "real-life, actually famous Scientologist" John Travolta, they were all featured on the albums The Road to Freedom and The Joy of Creating, performing music and lyrics by L. Ron Hubbard. Album sales were naturally underwhelming, but it just goes to show you: For every closeted superstar who mines the vast network of connections and influence that Scientology offers, there's a washed up rapper waiting for someone to give a shit that they signed on for the crazy too.
However, Travolta has allegedly been tasked with converting "Bolt" co-star and tween obsession Miley Cyrus to the church, so they're at least trying to trade up.
Bad news Scientology: This is trading up.
They've got pretty good odds, too, considering 16-year-olds will believe all sorts of stupid stuff you tell them, including "I'm only gonna put the tip in," "Of course I love you" and "trust me, this is the only way to clear your Thetans. Now flip over."
What They'll Be Sacrificing to Scientology:
Their careers; dignity; virginity, if Travolta did his job right.
#1. Sarah and Todd Palin: Scientologists
Best Known For:
Snow "Machining"; skinning moose; incredibly modest political aspirations.
Why We Think They'll Be Next:
The Palins are obviously familiar with crazy ass conspiracy theory-type organizations. For 7 years Todd was a card-carrying member of a political group that wanted Alaska to secede from the United States (to be fair, we'd let them go, but they've got all our oil and crystal meth). Sarah Palin's pretty good at denying things--climate change, dinosaurs--so refuting she's a Scientologist should come pretty naturally. And finally, they name their children like they're already Scientologists. "Piper Indy and Trigger, meet Pilot Inspektor and Cosimo Henry. We imagine you guys have a lot to talk about."
One of Sarah Palin's top advisors, and allegedly the secret driving force behind her "SarahPAC" (the organization dedicated to Palin's future presidential ambitions), is none other than John "Top Operating Thetan Level" Coale, Scientologist attack-lawyer and husband of Fox news anchor Greta Van Susteren. Recently Van Susteren was seen squiring Todd Palin to some of Washington D.C.'s most exclusive brunches and munches, though notably preventing anyone from actually, you know, talking to him.
However, she bristled at accusations she was acting as his "handler." On her blog, she wrote "I did not bring a guest to be interviewed or grilled by the press...I brought the guest so the guest could meet people and have a good social time." This was after she blew her reptilian neck-flaps out like a rabid Gila monster at anyone trying to say "hi" to the dude.
We're even more convinced the Palins have known the loving touch of an e-meter after reading the memo John Coale wrote laying out an intricate gameplan for the Church of Scientology to cultivate politicians SPECIFICALLY through the kind of Political Action Committee he's set up for Sarah Palin.
It further outlines how to get around the legal aspects of a tax-exempt "church" trying to influence political policy-makers, as well as specifying support should only go to candidates for federal office, such as President, Vice-President and members of Congress. Which gets more interesting when you find out John Coale was a vehement Hillary Clinton supporter right up until the very second she lost the Democratic Presidential nomination, whereupon he immediately switched his loyalties to Sarah Palin.
Maybe--unlike most/some/please stop suing us, Scientologists--he just likes chicks. Or perhaps, as the incredibly attractive Van Susteren (we're begging you, we've only got the one dog left), insists, the families are "simply good friends," what with all the softball, foot-rubbing interviews she gave the Palin family on Fox News over the past couple months.
But Todd and Sarah strike us as the type of weak-minded public figures that have L. Ron Hubbard jerking off in his grave. Or maybe they're just weak-minded like a fox, and realize if anyone's gonna get Sarah elected president, it's a bunch of rich, influential, functionally retarded celebrities who think we all used to exist in past lives as aliens living in societies called space operas. (Note: The only reason we provided a link is because we can no longer tell the difference between the pigshit-insane things Scientologists actually believe in and the exaggerated fake beliefs we make up when we're mocking them.)
What They'll Be Sacrificing to Scientology:
Nothing! Palin & Palin in 2012!!!
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If you are undecided about what major to choose, don't worry! The first year curriculum provides the perfect opportunity to explore and there will be many opportunities for you to discuss your options for a major. So, for now, choose what most excites you.
We are assuming that you will be a full-time student taking 15 hours of credit, 5 or 10 of those in the Discovery Core I and one or two 5 credit elective courses. As you consider what to register for, think about what most interests you, and - if you already know what you'd like to focus on - think about what courses will best prepare you for your chosen major. Our CUSP Advisors are ready to help you through this process when you attend an Orientation session and register for your first quarter courses.
This course introduces students to performance, video, and site-based art. Through an interdisciplinary studio setting students will learn to use digital video equipment, video editing software, and performance concepts as means for investigation and experimentation. Students will be introduced to a variety of readings, screenings, experiential activities, and discussions on art and performance in which they will engage with a range of art practices. They will further reflect and experiment with these practices through writing, dialogue, and the creation of individual and group projects.
This course explores four main topics: human rights, social class & race, cultural productions, and physical & social environments. Our analysis will span across South, Central, and North America and use a combination of film, fiction & poetry, social science, journalism, and testimony. Some of our questions will include: What are human rights, social justice and environmental justice? How does the violation of human rights lead to the relocation of peoples and recreation of their communities? How does the meaning of place vary among social, ethnic and economic groups, and how do problems like homelessness, pollution, displacement, and discrimination affect the way places are imagined and experienced? Case studies include: Urban homelessness, Native American reservation life, Central American refugees, and Mexican/Chicano communities, among others.
A Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2006 study found that 24% of Americans between 18 and 50 are tattooed. What do body modifications whether voluntary or involuntary tell us about the corporal and the cultural and social meanings we attach to them? This class will use tattooing and scaring as a vehicle to get at the cultural and social power of the physical body in order to explore and challenge conceptions of "normal". We will also investigate how body modifications intersect with ideas of impairments to delve deeply into how race, class, gender, and sexuality get constructed and reproduced by notions of "damaged bodies." Using ideas of physical impairments we will examine social, cultural and political projects like eugenics that with an agenda of better breeding influenced racialization in the United States and abroad in profound and long lasting ways. Drawing on analytical performance practice shaped by performance theory, critical race theory and ethnography, we will examine the facts and fictions in the work of performance artists, scholars and documentary filmmakers who take up questions of the body and its politics. The course constitutes an introduction to critical race theory and performance theory and practice. At the end of this course, students will begin to understand racialization and how it is articulated in the physical body. They will also become knowledgeable and conformable with performance art and practice.
Taught jointly by an economist and an anthropologist, this course will explore the economies of cars, houses, and work (with a focus on the United States in its global context). This class will help you understand the economy you are entering and give you a greater understanding of how work connects us together, how the objects we create circulate among us, and us among them. By examining the history of economic institutions and thought across the last century how today's economy is organized, how it came into existence, and where it might be heading will all be explored. The class readings and other materials will introduce you to the basics of economics, organizational theory, and anthropology, giving you a chance to explore the intersections of economy and culture. Methods used in class will include lecture, discussion, field trips, guest speakers, basic quantitative analysis, ethnography, and presentations.
This course will look at coffee, and its expanding global culture, as a commodity connected to cultural histories, systems of media representations (e.g., news stories, advertising, and documentaries), and socioeconomic activism. Seattle is known internationally as a center of coffee culture. We will explore some of our city's most interesting coffee-centric issues, people, and places through guest lecturers, a field trip, and student research culminating in a final paper.
The "Interactive Media & Entrepreneurship" Discovery Core explores the key elements necessary to create a compelling business proposal around interactive media technologies. We'll begin with exposure to social networking applications, iPhone and smart phone utilities, videoconferencing add-ons, and games. Students will then learn, at an appropriate level of complexity, about all the facets of creating a business, including product/service design and development, marketing, sales, finance, accounting, operations, and human resources. The end result will be a written business case and presentation.
This course explores philosophical and ethical questions of humanity through science fiction film and text. We are interested in the thresholds between humans and machines, emotions and logic, bodies and minds, and disrupting the binary divisions that govern social relations among Earthlings. We will also consider how the narratives and technologies of science fiction (or should we say "science fact"?) already pervade our lives and shape our identity and everyday interactions—from iPhones to Facebook, we are already blurring the boundaries of our humanity.
Over the past two decades, hip hop culture, and particularly rap music, has become one of the most popular modes of youth expression on the planet. As we acknowledge both the globalization and commodification of the culture, this class also looks at hip hop as the always localized, even neighborhood-based response to the multiple and damaging effects of globalization, including but not limited to, forced migration, economic exploitation, systemic poverty, racial profiling, mass incarceration, etc. So what exactly do we mean when we talk about the cultural aesthetic of hip hop culture, and what, if anything, can we generalize about hip hop's political imagination? How have these forces shaped the musical and lyrical content of the art form?
This DC-I class has two tightly linked objectives: 1. To introduce students to college-level academic work, and the nuts and bolts of doing that work. 2. To orient students to the interdisciplinary curriculum and learning environment here at UWB, which includes getting started on the CUSP Portfolio.
To accomplish both of these goals, this course takes the physical human body as its specific object of study. U.S. culture is saturated with media that subjects physical bodies to heavy scrutiny: images in advertisements and fashion/health magazines, the news, TV shows, movies, etc. We see this same scrutiny in other areas such as science and medicine, literature, and the law. At every turn, we are urged to be fitter, healthier, prettier, safer, and on guard for those who do not conform to these narrowly defined norms. This course will challenge students to think critically about how these norms have been shaped by history, social narratives, and politics. As the quarter progresses, we'll cover two separate but overlapping units, each focused on a main topic or theme. The first unit is called "Smart Bodies," where we'll read a "case study" in interdisciplinary scholarship: Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man. This book critically examines 18th, 19th, and early 20th-Century scientific attempts to link human intelligence with social "identity" categories. One of Gould's main achievements in this book is to show how scientific investigation and knowledge are deeply shaped by unexamined cultural assumptions. He also explores the social consequences that result from leaving such assumptions unexamined. Alongside this book, we'll also look at some legal, political, and cultural texts from the same time period. Reading and discussing these texts will help us to assemble a set of key concepts and questions concerning how our physical bodies are shaped by interwoven constructions of race, gender, sexuality, and class. In the second unit, "Beautiful Bodies," we'll turn our attention to our own time, and the so-called "obesity epidemic." We'll begin to adapt the concepts and questions developed in the first unit toward understanding how we think about personal and public "health" and "beauty." This work will be supported with readings in cultural criticism, literature, and film.
What is the relationship between the Black Death, Sir Isaac Newton, and a British war over Chinese opium? This course invites students to consider how calculus has contributed to shape the destiny of the globe. Born in international contention, from its first applications in more accurate weaponry, calculus has played a role in war and imperial conquest. Today it offers nations a competitive edge in the global economy and a profound way of both understanding and predicting the challenges to sustaining the world's 7 billion human beings. This 10-credit Discovery Core course offers first-quarter, first-year UWB students the opportunity to simultaneously study calculus (B CUSP 124) and earn writing (W) credits. Students will also gain valuable practice in the forms of college writing; all writing assignments will be focused on calculus, its history, and its applications.
Climate change has the potential to increase environmental problems and social inequalities on a global scale, yet few of us understand how our daily choices play a role. This course will survey the science of climate change and the contribution of consumer culture. We will address the causes and consequences of climate change drawing on knowledge from both the physical and social sciences. Understanding our patterns of energy consumption and their underlying motivations are imperative to explaining why political solutions for climate change have been so difficult to achieve. We will examine possibilities for changing patterns of consumption to reduce the impacts of climate change. In addition, we will explore the impacts of recent climate change and consider how best to plan for future climates. Students will practice making decisions through the synthesis of complex and sometimes conflicting information from multiple sources.
In this course, we will examine and analyze comic books and graphic novels as cultural artifacts and genres within a long tradition of graphic storytelling. These sophisticated artifacts will be viewed from multiple theoretical perspectives, including critical theory, cultural theory, rhetorical theory and image studies. We will cover the history and relationships between these graphic artifacts and popular culture, art, politics, and social issues. Moreover, we will focus on the ways in which language, difference, resistance, knowledge and power are graphically depicted and represent important contributions to contemporary thinking and inquiry. Finally, we will compose a written analysis of graphic novels or comic books and will create our own graphic novels and comic books as forms of cultural critiques for distribution and response. Primary graphic texts will include Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, Judge Dredd, Maus, Fun Home, DMZ, Marvels, Sandman, The Walking Dead, and Y: The Last Man, and Love and Rockets. We will also be viewing movies and clips based on some of these works.
Through the creation of popular digital artifacts such as Web pages, animations, and video games like programs, this class introduces the fundamental concepts behind computing and computational thinking including logical reasoning, problem solving, data representation, abstraction, complexity management, computers and network operations, effective Web searches, ethics, legal and social aspects of information technology.
This course uses the human body as its specific object of study. U.S. culture is saturated with media that subjects physical bodies to heavy scrutiny: images in advertisements and fashion/health magazines, the news, TV shows, movies, etc. We see this same scrutiny in other areas such as science and medicine, literature, and the law. At every turn, we are urged to be fitter, healthier, prettier, safer, and on guard for those who do not conform to these narrowly defined norms. This course will challenge students to think critically about how these norms have been shaped by history, social narratives, and politics.
This course will focus on the major challenges, opportunities and trends faced by businesses, governments, societies and individuals that need to co-exist in an increasingly globalized and interdependent environment. It will emphasize topics such as the history and future of globalization, the drivers, trends and implications of globalization for all sectors of modern societies, and the geo-political, trading and cross- cultural dimensions of globalization. Special emphasis will be placed on the awareness, empathy and communication skills necessary for effective cross-cultural communication and interaction in the increasingly diverse environments of UWB, Seattle, the USA, and beyond its borders.
This course is built around the theme of chemistry and its application to cooking. We will cover how chemistry is observed in the kitchen as well as how you can use chemistry to improve your cooking. We will cover the chemistry of different cooking techniques and tools. In addition, we will discuss the chemistry of different ingredients and how they interact with each other to form a complete dish. Although the main topic will be chemistry and cooking, we will also examine broader food issues including nutrition and health, social uses of food, and food safety.
This course is the first in a 3-course sequence that introduces students to the university environment. You will be introduced to university standards of quality, grading, and the time commitment involved in education. You will also have an opportunity to use the resources available on campus (the writing center, the QSC, the library, etc). The course is designed to provide you with a set of tools that you will use in all of your courses here- critical thinking, reading comprehension, research, evaluating information, logic, and evidence-based writing.
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Just tried to get the ipad version. Paid and then it said Transaction limit exceeded Seller has exceeded his transaction limit so we can not provide you download at this time. Please contact seller for further queries.
Same thing happened to me Douglas.
I just tried to buy the pdf version and got that message. Then it said seller account closed.
Someone please help!
HEy Everybody This is Ali...I talked to PayloadZ (I had to upgrade my account) because we were getting SOOOOO many hits purchases BUT IT IS READY...SO PLEASE TRY AGAIN!!! Thanks for your Support!!
Is there a way to buy more than one? I'd like to buy several copies...Mothers Day gifts, Christmas gifts, etc!!! I can be reached at akmchenry at gmail. Thank you!
Thank you for this! I Pinned it, Facebook'ed it and I bought mine! I am so happy to be helping such sweet little girls!
I was wondering if a tablet android version is available? I would love to get the ebook on my tablet.
I purchased the iPad version but cannOt open or view it. Do you have to view it with a certain app? Thanks!
THank you everybody for all your SUPPORT!!! If you are still having trouble viewing your files on your ipad or kindle here is a couple good links to look at.
If you are still having trouble viewing the files please email me (email@example.com) and I will send you the PDF file for free! Thanks for your patience. Ali
I just tried to purchase the hard book and am getting an error message on the paypal acct. Can you help?
THANK YOU so much for doing this. I was so touched by this sweet family. May the Lord bless you for your efforts.
This is a beautiful book! We ordered the iPad version of it and it is awesome. I'm now debating about purchasing the hard cover copy, because it is just beautiful.
Thank you! Thank you even more for creating such awareness and a fostering of love in the online community for this beautiful Fish family.
Hi Everybody! If you are still having trouble getting your e-book check your SPAM folder in your mail.....The email will be coming from PAYLOADZ.
We have had HUNDREDS of people order this book with NO problems, but once in awhile there seems to be a mix up.
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Tried to purchase the download for iPad. Received error message through PayPal. Please advise.
I, too, want to buy more than one (hard copy) for gifts etc but when I go to paypal from your site it only allows me to buy one. Any suggestions? you can reach me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Hi Brooke will you email me and I will send you the download links? firstname.lastname@example.com THANKS!
Mountain Mama- if you want to purchase more than one book please go back to www.lemonpoppycake.com and click on the yellow "Buy" button along the right side of the screen. You should be able to add more than one book to your cart. If you are still having trouble please email me email@example.com and we can work it out. Thanks so much!
What a gorgeous, wonderful, cookbook! I downloaded mine for iPad and can't wait to try some of these recipes! Such a generous idea for a fundraiser for such a lovely family! Best of luck!
Hi Ali,
What company did you use to make this cookbook? I love the format/final product.
I am trying to buy multiple copies of this book for family and friends for Christmas. I am not able to find the link to buy multiple copies. Please help.
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Washington, Va.: The 'Inn' Place to Go
A member of Relais & Chateaux, an exclusive collection of 481 of the finest hotels and restaurants in 58 countries, the Inn at Little Washington offers rooms, in addition to its award-winning restaurant.
The 18 bedrooms and suites are exquisite.
You can reserve the Mayor's House, one of the oldest buildings in town, parts of which date to 1740. The mayor of Washington, Va., once lived there. This room includes a formal sitting area with a gas fireplace. The bedroom boasts a king-sized, four-poster bed with a fieldstone wood-burning fireplace. The bathroom has hand-painted Portuguese tile and a Jacuzzi tub. If that's not enough, there is a private walled garden, "perfect for afternoon tea," suggests the website.
This room starts at $995 a night.
The Claiborne House is a 3,200-square-foot cottage, overlooking the herb and cutting garden.
It features two bedrooms, two and a half baths, a living room, dining room, media room and library. Not to mention a two-story veranda that overlooks a private garden.
This one is starts at $2,450.
A standard room starts around $425.
I don't recall the prices 10 years ago when we stayed at the inn, but I do remember it was worth the experience – afternoon tea in the garden when we arrived, cozy bathrobes to snuggle up in, cocktails before dinner and a sumptuous breakfast the next morning.
For this visit, we chose to stay at another nearby inn. The Middleton Inn, just a short walk away, was lovely with a log-burning fireplace and a bottle of anniversary champagne upon our arrival.
Everyone staying in our inn was dining that night at the Inn at Little Washington – a 49th wedding anniversary and a couple of birthdays were the occasions.
We met over wine and cheese at 5 p.m., and discussed our dinner over breakfast the next morning.
Breakfast at the Middleton was pleasant in a bright and cheery first-floor dining room.
A parfait of fruit, yogurt and granola, along with freshly baked cherry scones started our breakfast.
I could smell the scones baking earlier that morning, just after the aroma of freshly brewed coffee wafted up the stairs to our room.
The Middleton Inn, built in 1840, is owned by Mary Ann Kuhn, who purchased it in 1994, and a spent a year renovating it before it opened in October of 1995.
She had been a producer for CBS News in Washington, D.C., before she relocated to Washington, Va.She had visited the town back in the 1970s, she said, and at the time thought, "One day I'm going to come back and live."
"I was just feeding the horses and looking at the mountains," she said on a clear, October day, as we were checking out of the inn.
"And I thought, 'this is paradise.'"
I would have to agree.
And I've already got my eye on an inn for sale, just down the street from the Inn at Little Washington.


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A recent study out of Texas A&M University concluded that sending hands-free, voice-activated text messages impairs driver reaction times just as badly as actually typing them out.
"In each case, drivers took about twice as long to react as they did when they weren't texting," Christine Yager, who headed the study, told Reuters. "Eye contact to the roadway also decreased, no matter which texting method was used."
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Sherlock Holmes - Widescreen - DVD for $3.99 + free shipping
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, gets an update with this adaptation of Lionel Wigram's comic book series by writer/director Guy Ritchie (RocknRolla) starring Robert Downey Jr. as the titular detective, with Jude Law stepping into the shoes of his sidekick, Dr. Watson. Heading up the rest of the cast are RocknRolla's Mark Strong as the film's villain, Blackwood, and Rachel McAdams portraying the love interest, Irene Adler. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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This was a good movie and I would recommend it, but if you haven't seen the BBC's new Sherlock series, then you're really missing out. Between the Robert Downey Jr. movies, the BBC series, and Elementary on TV, it's a very good time to be a Sherlock fan.
This was a horrible movie! I watched it with two friends and we all agreed it was just awful! I wouldn't sit through this movie again if I was given the free Blu-ray disc.
Amazon, with over 600 reviews for this movie, has it rated as 4-stars.
@digitalfoobar: You're right. Sorry. I was thinking of another movie - my wife refreshed my memory.


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I am trying to learn more about GCM mode and how it differs between CBC. I already know that GCM provides a MAC which is used for message authentication. From what I have read, and seen code snippets of is that GCM does an exlusive or much like CBC, but I'm not sure what the exclusive-or is against. In CBC mode, the exlusive-or is plaintext against the previous ciphertext block, except for the first block which uses a random IV. Does GCM do the same, or does it do the exclusive-or against something else? If so, can someone please briefly explain how GCM uses the IV and how the exclusive-or is done.
GCM and CBC modes internally work quite differently; they both involve a block cipher and an exclusive-or, but they use them in different ways.
In CBC mode, you encrypt a block of data by taking the current plaintext block and exclusive-oring that wth the previous ciphertext block (or IV), and then sending the result of that through the block cipher; the output of the block cipher is the ciphertext block.
GCM mode provides both privacy (encryption) and integrity. To provide encryption, GCM maintains a counter; for each block of data, it sends the current value of the counter through the block cipher. Then, it takes the output of the block cipher, and exclusive or's that with the plaintext to form the ciphertext.
Note two key differences:
As for how GCM uses an IV (I personally consider 'nonce' a better term for what GCM uses, because that emphesizes the idea that with GCM, you cannot use the same nonce for the same key twice), well, it is used to initialize the counter.


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Some of the new very compact, large sensor cameras like the Panasonic GF1/2/3 -- Sony NEX-X Don't have remote shutter release capability -- or have an infra-red sensor that faces front. Remote shutter release is a necessary capability.
I suggest a small mechanical shutter release adapter that would fit onto the NN3/4/M. You already have a flash adapter that is already half of what you need. A couple of pieces of dense plastic shaped so to hang over the shutter release button that an ordinary manual cable release can screw into would be sufficient.
See this picture for a similar adapter that I use on my LX3. My LX3 has a flash shoe but the newer compact large sensor cameras don't. What I envision is something like your flash adapter with a built in arm that can rotate and be positioned over the shutter release button.


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20 Dec 2011 8:33 PM #1
Unanswered: How to get access to selected item's series in Ext.chart.Panel?
I was going through the bar chart example http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/touch-c.../examples/Bar/ , may i know how to get hold of the selected item's series. I mean, if i select a bar in the chart i need to get what month, value and also year (2008/2009/2010) the item falls.
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I have tried using interactions, but i couldn't find the solution to get selected items series value e.g. Mar 2009 in the bar chart example. Can you please provide a code snippet to get this value.
16 May 2012 11:06 AM #4
Yes, I know this is an old post. But I figured it would be better served to post a reply here. I too would like a code snippet as I have run into a similar snag. I've already RTFM and can't find it "in the interactions".
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this should be helpful
interactions: [{ type: 'iteminfo', gesture:'singletap', panel:{ modal: false, centered: false, width:'80px', maxWidth: 150, cls:'chart-tooltip', bodyPadding:'4px 10px', renderTo: Ext.getBody(), }, listeners: { show: function(me, item, panel, e) { panel.setPosition(e.pageX, e.pageY); panel.update(item.value[0] +' :' + item.value[1]); //item.value gives x-axis n y-axis values of the selected or tapped item }, }],


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In my ubuntu 12.04 x64 I installed PostgreSQL 8.4. It got automatically upgraded to 9.1.1. Due to some inconsistencies, I want to downgrade it to 8.4. How can I do this using the terminal?
Ubuntu does not automatically upgrade PostgreSQL 8.4 to 9.1. What probably happened is that 9.1 is now installed alongside the old 8.4, and the client tools you are using prefer to connect to the 9.1 instance. Try
I am not sure downgrading is the best thing to do here. After all there are reasons why upgrades are made. I do understand that there are cases in which upgrading is not obvious.
If you do want to downgrade there are two options and I strongly advice the second option.
Manually install an earlier version of PostgreSQL
Run the following commands (taken from http://colekcolek.com/2012/02/23/downgrade-postgresql-8-2-ubuntu-11-10/):
You will be responsible yourself for maintaining the postgres install.
Use an APT Repository
There is a repository that could help you here. In terms of maintenance that is definitely the better option. Here is an extensive quote from http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/:
There is also a PPA, but I think it is deprecated in favour of the repository:
Also read: How do I set which PostgreSQL version is to be used by default?


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BENNINGTON —An international policy expert who worked in the Obama administration has been chosen to succeed Elizabeth Coleman as president of Bennington College.
Mariko Silver is coming to Bennington College after working at the Department of Homeland Security, Columbia University, as an adviser to the president of Arizona State University, and as a policy adviser to former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, who is now secretary of Homeland Security.
Silver has also worked in London, Bangkok and at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
She said Thursday that Bennington College appeals to her because it prepares students to engage the problems and navigate the diverse cultures of the world.
"I think the intense focus on creativity in all its forms, whether its arts or sciences, math or literature, is something that Bennington has always had in its DNA and to me, in many ways, that is what the core of a 21st-century liberal arts education should be," she said.
"It should teach you how to think, it should teach you how to articulate your ideas, it should teach you how to understand the ideas of others — analyze them and think critically about them — and it should teach you how to communicate in multiple forms."
Silver said she hadn't been to Bennington College before she was part of the presidential search process, but knew a lot about the school. She said she looked forward to getting to know the faculty and staff, and being part of part of what makes the college special.
"It (already has) in place such interesting, innovative elements to the nature of the education that it provides to students," she said. "There's so much opportunity to build on what's already there."
Silver was a senior advisor to President Michael Crow at Arizona State University during a period when Crow was transforming the school. In 2009, Time Magazine named Crow one of the top 10 college presidents for his work in making Arizona State what he called the "New American University."
At Arizona State, Silver developed international initiatives. At Homeland Security, she was acting assistant secretary for international affairs and deputy assistant secretary for international policy.
At Bennington, she hopes to use her international experience as well as her experience working at a school that underwent "tremendous change that built very carefully on what was already there."
She added, "... There are things that can be learned from the ASU experience that can be brought to Bennington."
Silver pointed to the field-work term, during which students spend seven weeks in the spring semester working at a job or internship that complements the student's major. She said it was an example of innovation for higher education and addresses the questions being raised in the national conversation about the value of a liberal arts education.
The field-work term is one of the aspects of a Bennington education that connects the world of work to the world of ideas through the experiences of the students, she said.
"I think in many ways, at its best, that's what a liberal arts education can be and should be," she said.
In a statement announcing Silver's appointment, Alan Kornberg, chairman of the Bennington College Board of Trustees, said Silver sees the world "not as a set of givens but as a collection of resources to be harnessed."
"She has an extraordinary intellectual and imaginative vitality, an outstanding track record, and a deep commitment to the college's pedagogic traditions and values," Kornberg said.