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The name of several saints. The old Syrian martyrology gives the feast of a St. Pelagia of Antioch (in Antiochia Pelagiæ) under the date of 8 October. Further information concerning this martyr, undoubtedly an historical person, is given in a homily of St. John Chrysostom [P. G., L, 479 sqq.; Ruinart, "Acta mart. sincera" (ed. Ratisbon ), 540 sqq.]. Pelagia was a Christian virgin fifteen years of age. Soldiers came in search of her, evidently during the Diocletian persecution, in order to force her to offer publicly a heathen sacrifice. She was alone in the house, no one being there to aid her. She came out to the soldiers sent after her and when she learned the order they had to execute, she requested permission to go again into the house in order to put on other clothing. This was granted to her. The virgin who probably knew what was before her was not willing to expose herself to the danger of being dishonoured. She therefore went up to the roof of the house and threw herself into the sea. Thus she died, as St. Chrysostom says, as virgin and martyr, and was honoured as such by the Antiochene Church. St. Ambrose also mentions this Pelagia of Antioch ("De virginibus", III, vii; Epist. XXVII, "Ad Simplicianum", xxxviii).
There is a later legend of a Pelagia who is said to have led the life of a prostitute at Antioch and to have been converted by a bishop named Nonnus. According to the story she went to Jerusalem where disguised as a man and under the name of Pelagius she led a life of self-mortification in a grotto on the Mount of Olives. The author of this legend who calls himself the Deacon Jacob has drawn the essential part of his narrative from the forty-eighth homily of St. Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. Matthew. In this homily the preacher relates the conversion of a celebrated actress of Antioch whose name he does not give. As no old authority makes any mention of a Pelagia in Jerusalem, no doubt the alleged converted woman is a purely legendary recasting of the historical Pelagia. In the East the feast of this second Pelagia is observed on the same day (8 October); in the present Roman martyrology the feast of the martyr is observed on 9 June, that of the penitent on 8 October.
On the latter date the Greek Church also celebrates as virgin and martyr still another Pelagia of Tarsus. The Roman martyrology places the feast of this Pelagia on 4 May. There is a legend of later date concerning her. As Tarsus was near Antioch St. Pelagia of Tarsus should probably be identified with the Antiochene martyr, whose feast was also observed in Tarsus and who was afterwards turned into a martyr of Tarsus. Usener's opinion that all these different saints are only a Christian reconstitution of Aphrodite has been completely disproved by Delehaye.
In addition to St. Pelagia of Antioch, taken from the Syrian martyrology, the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" also mentions on 11 July a martyr Pelagia, the companion in martyrdom of a Januarius, naming Nicopolis in Armenia as the place of martyrdom, and giving a brief account of this saint. She is plainly a different person from the martyr of Antioch. Her name was included by Bede in his martyrology and was adopted from this into the present Roman list of saints.
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KALAMAZOO, MI — Bell's Brewery Inc. is offering a first look at upcoming can designs for three of its beers to be canned later this year and early next year.
Bell's will offer Best Brown Ale, Winter White Ale and Smitten Golden Rye Ale in cans following the debut of Two Hearted Ale and Oberon Ale in 16-ounce four-packs this spring.
Best Brown Ale will be available in cans around Labor Day. Winte White cans will be released in November and Smitten cans will be released in February 2015.
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O'LEARY — The president of the Prince County Fishermen's Association was not about to issue a statement on behalf of his group Wednesday on National Revenue Minister Gail Shea's suggestion that the lobster industry should consider boat quotas as a means of controlling over supply.
"No comment," Lee Knox answered when pressed by members.
Knox estimated about half of the fishermen he's spoken to since Shea made the suggestion are for boat quotas and about half are opposed to the concept.
"It's something we've got to keep our eyes open on and listen to what's going on," he acknowledged, but as far as speaking on behalf of the association, said "I've got to get all of (LFA) 25 here to tell me what they think of quota before I go out and make a statement."
Only about 50 fishermen were attendance for the association's annual meeting Wednesday in O'Leary. They offered differing opinions on quota.
P.E.I. Fishermen's Association president Mike McGeoghegan, however, saw Shea's suggestion as an opening.
"It was a bold move for Gail to put that out there in the public because quota is a bad word in the fishing industry. Nobody wants to go there," he acknowledged.
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Predictions of heavy voter turnout appeared to be accurate as Western Massachusetts residents flocked to the polls.
The parking lot of Wilbraham Middle School was overflowing as townspeople cast ballots in regional, state and national races. Many voters carried voter guides supplied by the state or The Republican to make better sense of the three statewide ballot questions.
Candidates' supporters with their signs lined the driveway leading into the polling place. Greg Lockhart, alias "Greg the Barber", donned a giant can to signify his support for state Senator Gale Candaras, D-Wilbraham. Lockhart is famous for his giant peach custume he wore for years at the town's annual Peach Festival.
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The Post-Standard is looking for local trout anglers who have Twitter accounts and will be out fishing the following local streams this Friday morning:
Catharine Creek; Salmon Creek; Cayuga Lake Inlet; Owasco Lake Inlet; Grout Brook; Nine Mile Creek; Skaneateles Creek; Onondaga Creek; Spafford Creek; Butternut Creek; Fabius Brook; Limestone Creek; Factory Brook; East Branch Tioughnioga Creek; Otselic River; Chittenango Creek; Chenango River; West Branch Fish Creek; Oriskany Creek; West Canada Creek.
We'd like to get commitments from anglers to Twitter The Post-Standard reports from all of these streams opening day. We can temporarily connect your Twitter account to a post in the Outdoors blog, so your reports would be fed directly into our online opening-day coverage for all to see. You could also send photos and videos as well – all would appear on the Outdoors blog. If you're interested in doing this (or know someone who would be), get back to Outdoors Editor David Figura by 1 p.m. today (Thursday). Include the name of the stream you'll be on.
Questions? Call Figura at 470-6066.
We'd also encourage everyone else who doesn't have Twitter capabilities to email Figura their stream reports and photos to email@example.com
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Bellaire to add three to Hall
Three more members of the Bellaire High School athletic family will soon take their place on the wall of the high school cafeteria as the newest inductees to the BHS Wall of Fame.
This marks the 23rd class of WOF inductees since it was established back in 1984, a year after the BHS Hall of Fame was created.
These new inductees will be recognized at halftime of the Bellaire-John Marshall football game on Saturday where they will be formally inducted.
This year's inductees are Mike Dunfee ('93), Rich Materkoski ('98), and Norm Papola ('69).
Class of 1993
A three-sport standout at BHS, Dunfee earned nine letters in football, basketball, and baseball. A three-year letterwinner in football, Dunfee served as captain his senior year. He also earned two letters performing on the basketball team for Gene Ammirante.
But it was baseball where he excelled, playing and lettering all four years. His senior year he earned All-OVAC, All-Valley, and All-Eastern Ohio honors.
Upon graduation, Dunfee headed to Jefferson City, Tennessee, where he enrolled at Carson-Newman College. He made an instant impression on the diamond and played and lettered all four years, serving as captain his junior and senior year. His senior year, he earned All-Conference honors.
Dunfee currently teaches and coaches at Gordon Lee High School (Chickamauga City Schools) and lives in Ringgold, Georgia, with his wife, Stacy Lynn, and two children: Abbey Grace (9) and Nathan Oliver (7).
RICH MATERKOSKI, Class of 1998
During his four years at Bellaire, Materkoski earned ten letters in football, basketball, and track. A three-year letterwinner in football, he played on three consecutive OVAC championship teams, three Regional championship teams, and two State runner-up squads, for a record of 38-3. Earning All-OVAC, All-Eastern District, and All-Ohio honors, he became the first wide receiver to garner 1,000 yards receiving (1,334). He was also selected to play in the Ohio-West Virginia All-Star game.
During the winter, he earned three letters and two trips to Athens for the regional tournament.
Averaging 14 points and 8 rebounds, he earned post-season plaudits for All-Eastern Ohio and All-OVAC.
In track, Materkoski earned four letters from Coach Monte Miller as a standout sprinter and hurdler. During his junior and senior seasons, he competed in five events in the giant Ohio State Track Meet, earning a sixth-place finish in the 110M hurdles.
Upon graduating, he went to Wheeling Jesuit University and competed for the Cardinals in the 400M hurdles as well as being a member of the record-setting 4x400M relay team. He finished his college career at Ohio University, receiving a degree in education in 2003. He later earned his Masters from the University of Cincinnati in 2010.
Materkoski has been teaching/coaching at Martins Ferry High School for seven years where he works as the head track coach and co-offensive coordinator in football.
He and his wife, Jennifer, reside in Wheeling with their son, Mason.
NORM PAPOLA, Class of 1969
While he participated and lettered in football and track at BHS, Papola's claim to Wall of Fame status came after he graduated from Bellaire High School. After graduating from Jefferson County Technical Institute in 1971 and gaining employment, Papola did something few Big Reds can claim they did: he dedicated his life to serving his school.
Over 35 years of service to the Bellaire Big Reds Touchdown Club, Papola has performed as secretary, vice-president, and trustee, in addition to serving seven consecutive years as president.
For three decades he has worked on all major fundraising efforts for the boosters: from All-American Days festivals to street fairs to 300 Club (captain for over 25 years) and was the first NFL Club chairman. He also founded and has served as a five-time chairman for the Bellaire Touchdown Club Golf Scramble.
Also extremely active in track, Papola spearheaded the TD Club effort to replace the all-weather track (a track that was first installed when he was a senior), and has worked on the Bellaire Relays committee for decades, acting as chairman (3 times) and co-chairman (3 times) of the Relays, Girls' Invitational, and Junior High Meets.
After serving on the football chain gang for 27 years, he "retired" to help out by taking stats for the current Big Reds. He also initiated the Sportsmanship Award for the Bellaire-Martins Ferry football game.
In 2006, he was recognized by the BHS Alumni Association with an Achievement Award in civics. While he works for East Ohio Regional Waste Water and resides in St. Clairsville with his wife, Diane Coutz Papola, Norm continues to do what he has done for decades: see that our athletes get the best, and support the Big Reds in all sports.
A reception will be held at the Bellaire Sons of Italy following the game.
The public is invited and tickets are available at the door.


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Auburn, NY - The lawyer representing Kevin Ritchie entered a not guilty plea on his behalf in Cayuga County Court this morning at his arraignment on charges that he stabbed a Skaneateles man to death at an Auburn party in September.
Ritchie, 28, of 67 N. Division St., Auburn, was arraigned based on a grand jury indictment. He is charged with: second degree murder, three counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree assault, second-degree menacing, criminal obstruction of breathing, second-degree obstructing governmental administration and tampering with evidence.
Cayuga County Judge Mark Fandrich sent Ritchie back to the Cayuga County jail with no bail. The judge set Dec. 17 to hear pretrial arguments in the case.
Ritchie, dressed in an orange prison jump suit with his lips tightly pressed together showed little emotion during the proceedings as his lawyer, Rome Canzano entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
More than a dozen friends and family of victim Matthew Prego, 28, were in the courtroom to watch the proceedings.
On the courthouse steps following the arraignment, Prego's friends and family said they plan to attend all of Ritchie's court proceedings. "Kevin Ritchie took a beautiful person away from us and no one will ever replace him," said Molly Clancy.
Auburn police say Ritchie was choking a girl outside a house party at 33 Case Ave. in the early morning hours of Sept. 28 when Prego went to her aid. The two men fought, and they accuse Ritchie of stabbing Prego .


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Best Fishing Times: 3:40AM to 5:40AM, and 4:10PM to 6:10PM
Alternate Fishing Times: 11:21AM to 1:21PM
Fishing Hickory Head Branch, AL on 10/22/2016 will be best from 3:40AM through 5:40AM, and from 4:10PM to 6:10PM. If those times won't work for you, 11:21AM to 1:21PM looks promising. Remember to adjust these times based on barometric pressure, and weather changes.


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Village East is a sure bet when you want a good cocktail and good food south of the river Thames in London. We've been many many times and never has Village East disappointed.
Village East and The Garisson Public House have been a fixture of the dining scene in Bermondsey street long before it became a major culinary destination. Now that Bermondsey street houses some of the best restaurants in London, but both Village East and The Garisson Public House draw in large crowds, which is saying something about the level of cooking at both! While The Garisson Public House offers very good 'chic-pub food' Village East offers banging cocktails and modern English dishes in a 'Manhatten Meat-Packing' environment.
The last time we were at Village East, we chose:
- Quail and blood sausage on a skewer as a starter
- Soft shell crab as a starter
- Foie gras burger as a main
- The bavette as a main
- Chocolate fondant as dessert
- Souffle as dessert
All the dishes at Village East were to our liking and I particularly enjoyed the Foie gras burger. If you're at Village East and feel like having steak, try the Chateaubriand. It's one of the best Chateaubriands in London!
One other thing worth mentioning about Village East, are the cocktails: Village East offers some of the best cocktails in London and there are plenty of folks who just visit Village East for that reason. The service at Village East is always good and the interior is very 'Manhattan cool'.
The last time we were at Village East we had three starters, 2 mains, 2 desserts, 2 cocktails, 3 glasses and still water and paid about £125.
Overall rating of Village East: 8/10


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BURTON, MI – A Mexican eatery on Flint's northeast side is expanding into the Burton community with hopes of offering its unique flavors to residents across Genesee County.
With their current Anacelias Mexican Restaurant at Richfield and Western roads a little more than a year old, Frank and Cenobia Molina are slated to open the doors to a new site in December at the corner of Lapeer and Genesee roads by the first week of December.
"In the beginning, I didn't want the publicity for her, but after things have evolved, it's been good. She is very social, very outgoing, she loves new people," said Cenobia of Anacelia, the couple's 1-year-old daughter, for whom the restaurant is named.
"The regulars in the restaurant, they love to see her grow up, see pictures of her," she said. "I think it's stressed the idea it's a family owned restaurant. It's not a big company… it's Frank, me and our baby."
While the couple's restaurant operation is also in its infancy, Frank has been around the restaurant business for more than a decade around Genesee County.
Starting as a dishwasher at El Charrito's Restaurant where he worked for 13 years -- watching the cooks as they prepared items -- Frank Molina moved into prep work, cook to the main cook at the restaurant before moving over to Tia Helita's Mexican Cuisine for three years.
"Right after I left (El Charrito's), I pretty much ran the whole thing, took orders, cooking food (at Tia Helita's)," he said, while also learning along the way from his grandfather Francisco "Pancho" Molina, who started Los Panchos Mexican Home Cooking at Fenton and Atherton roads in 1995.
"It did make me better prepared. I learned stuff to do and not to do," he said, adding his grandfather also operated locations at Anacelias new site, as well as on Davison Road before falling ill with complications from diabetes.
"It's always been in my blood. I've always had a passion for it," said Molina. Like so many things in his life, the restaurant business also brought Frank and Cenobia together.
"My sister worked at El Charrito's first when she was in high school," said Cenobia Molina, who was a waitress at the restaurant for six years. "She introduced Frankie and I."
Describing herself as the more level-headed partner in the relationship, she was not completely sure about launching the new venture at first but she took Frank's track record into account.
"As I thought about it, the thing in my head was why not?" she said, with Frank Molina thanking her for offering her support in the venture. "He's never steered me wrong yet I have to believe in his ambition."
In searching for a new site, Frank Molina said it was important to find a cozy setting for those coming in for a meal, while counting on word of mouth and utilizing Facebook to expand their customer base.
"I like the small locations, especially what we're doing right now. Me and my wife we are both out in the dining room," he said, with Cenobia Molina stressing customers will get a smile from employees as they walk in the doors. "The customers are pretty much a part of our family. It has grown to us knowing what they're eating and drinking and what they like."
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A couple of weekends ago, we took a quick day trip to northern Nebraska, and I can highly recommend the scenery. For those of you unfamiliar with that part of the world, let me just say you are really missing a beautiful place. There are rolling hills with pastures just now greening up, as well as bright green alfalfa fields.
In many places beside the road there are wetlands filled with ducks, many with their feathered bottoms in the air as they search for food beneath the water's surface, and lots of red-winged blackbirds and meadowlarks. If you are lucky, you might also see an eagle or two drifting above.
Spring is the best time to travel here—summertime brings brown pastures, and winters can be harsh. But, the Sandhills, a feature unique to Nebraska, begin here, and deserve to be better known as a destination. My recommendation is to drive Highway 281 north from Grand Island all the way to the South Dakota border. You'll pass through some typical small Nebraska towns: Central City, St. Libory, Greeley, Bartlett and O'Neill (the Irish capital of Nebraska.) You'll also be close to Ashfall Fossil Beds—a great stop to see the fossils of mammals buried in the ash from volcanoes.
So, get off the interstate and travel somewhere new.
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The superintendent of Portland Public Schools expects high schoolers to continue receiving free TriMet passes next school year, with the district splitting costs between the city and the regional transit system.
"There's good joint interest in preserving this going forward," Smith told the Portland School Board on Monday during a work session.
Last year, district leaders agreed to commission a survey last year to analyze PPS ridership, including which lines were used most by PPS students.
The survey results showed that nearly 80 percent of students who answered in the late fall had recently ridden TriMet. About two-thirds reported they regularly used TriMet to get to school.
Ari Wubbold, an associate with DHM who analyzed the results, said the high ridership stood out. "This is something that high schoolers depend on," he said.
Wubbold said he was also struck by the percentage of students who said they wouldn't know how to get to school without the TriMet pass, which was about 22 percent. That number was high, he said.
In the survey, Benson, Madison and Franklin high schools reported the highest ridership for traveling to school. The results did not mention Roosevelt and Jefferson high schools specifically -- Roosevelt officials turned in the results late and Jefferson did not participate in the survey.
"As we're moving forward," she said, "I'm hoping jurisdictions are really seeing this is something with a huge public benefit."


text: The mysterious Mayan civilization flourished on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula between 300-900 AD. Abandoned in dense jungle and forgotten for centuries, their rediscovered stone cities reveal extraordinary architecture, artwork and technology … and attract visitors like us. Settled again in Cancun's resort zone, we reacquaint ourselves with the Maya, this time starting with two lesser-known sites.


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What this engine? What the maker? Is a Ford? Somebody know?
Thanks for any information.
What this engine? What the maker? Is a Ford? Somebody know?
Thanks for any information.
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cant see the pic, but and xflow or cross flow is a ford engine.
at the address, still get the angelfire logo, must have topped out on bandwidth.
Email it to me Matheus ( firstname.lastname@example.com ) or use the MIG picture uploader...
Brian Sidebotham.
copy and paste it
rocker cover is a bit unusual but that head is defo everyones favourite ford engine, not. as seen in a mk1 fiesta near you, still going strong in the KA if i'm not mistaken.
it is indeed a good old kent crossflow although that will probably not be a fiesta block as they were cast differently for the rwd cars - cortina etc iirc
2 stroke tarmac terrorist
yeah hence my rocker cover disclaimer, i seem to remember smooth gloss black domed cover with massive mushroo filler cap
theres loads of companys making rocker covers for crossflows - get them with westfield etc written in it
quality bulletproof engine
2 stroke tarmac terrorist
yeah must say the 1700 X is popular for sevens and westies.
hummm..nice. And Oddball, thanks for the pic.
But why the name "Xflow"? Are the same of cross flow? Not normal use cross flow heads in Ford engines there? I think, the most Vauxhall engines have Cross Flow heads, its basic..
Here in Brazil the VW 8V engine have sideflow head, but brazilian tunners here use the 8V head of Golf, that have crossflow. For turbo, sideflow is so bad..
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The FWD and RWD castings were the same but the FWD engine had a bracket bolted onto the front of the block. Just above the waterpump.
I've got a 140bhp 1700 sat here ready to go into my fiesta when I can be arsed.
This engine was designed when side valve engines were still used in cars.
I think al engines are now X-flows but back then it was a step in the right direction.
It's proper name is the Kent engine.
Oddball. Your right. Big black gloss round thing with a horse mushroom breather/filler cap. Everyone and his dog sells those covers for em now.
Just give Burton a call for all your old style ford needs..
I have become comfortably numb....
hum.. good know it Joe. I like so much study older engines, the history, is nice to know.
Here in Brazil have a Ford CHT(combustion in high turbulence) 1.6 engine, that have sideflow head, but the tunners here don't like this engine because have cam in block, and stock don't can put more than 6.000rpm without valve floating. But is a good engine for use daily driver, because have good torque in low and mids, and low consumption of fuel. Here in Brazil some years ago, the Racing company of Ford make a competition with monorank cars, and used CHT engines, that get 150bhp from this engine in N/A mode, but uses Metanol like fuel, and 17:1 of CR.
Turbo kits and performance parts:
Looks like MK2 Escort OVH crossflow engine.
THats the one mate.
Fitted to most fords from that era. MkI's MkII's. Festers,Capri's etc etc.
Over Head Valve engines. What a break through
I have become comfortably numb....


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By Eric Goldstein
The Millville football team's sheer dominance continued over crosstown rival Vineland.
Rob Ennis scored four touchdowns as the Thunderbolts routed the Fighting Clan, 48-8, at Gittone Stadium in Vineland and posted their fourth straight victory on Thanksgiving.
The Bolts, who now trail the series 59-63-14 but have won 18 of the last 20 meetings, showed no lingering effects from a 41-6 loss to Williamstown last weekend in the first round of the NJSIAA South Jersey Group V playoffs. They led 35-0 at halftime and have not allowed a point against the Clan since a 23-21 win in 2009.
"It feels good anytime you win in this rivalry whether you win by a lot or by a little," Millville coach Jason Durham said. "It's such a special day. We're glad we've won a few in a row."
As they have all season, the Bolts (6-4) were led by Ennis, who finished with 161 yards on 16 carries. The sophomore, who closed out his impressive first year as the starting running back with 1,492 yards and 18 touchdowns, scored on runs of 5, 7, 29 and 25 yards. His last carry of the game was with 7:12 left in the third quarter.
"It was a very emotional day," Ennis said. "The seniors leave and we part ways. Getting a victory for them is very good. My season was a good for a sophomore. I am a humble guy. I thank my line and my coaches for helping accomplish everything."
Senior quarterback Rashon Sorrell scored from nine yards out for the Bolts' second touchdown in the first quarter, and senior fullback Marshall McShan went in on a 7-yard run just before halftime and added a 7-yard TD in the fourth.
"This feels good to end my career with a win over Vineland," said McShan, who had 50 yard on seven carries. "It's just the perfect way."
Though the offense was nearly unstoppable, the Bolts' defense was just as sharp. The Fighting Clan ended the first half with negative one yard, one first down and failed to cross midfield. They fumbled the ball six times but only lost it twice.
"We came out hungry, viscous and played physical the whole game," said Sorrell, who completed 7-of-10 passes for 92 yards. "And the score showed that. We talked all week it's Vineland-Millville - the biggest rivalry - and beating them is everything, especially to us seniors who wanted to leave with a bang. And we did."
However, they didn't leave with a shutout.
The Bolts fell two minutes short of recording three straight shutouts for the first time in almost 100 years of the series, which dates to the 1800s as Vineland scored a late touchdown without any Millville starters in the game.
The Fighting Clan scored on their final drive of the game as Calvin Stiles caught a 4-yard pass from Angel Rodriguez with 2:01 to go. Then Toure Douglas caught a pass in the end zone from Rodriguez for the two-point conversion.
While the Bolts fell short of keeping the Clan out of the end zone, they still left the field completely satisfied.
"Our whole objective was to get that shutout again," Ennis said. "We wanted to keep that streak going. But winning 48-8 is not bad either."


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A nearly 24-hour gunbattle this week between militants and Indian security forces in the centre of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, is a powerful reminder of the tensions in the region at the heart of enmity between India and Pakistan. Two people were killed along with the two militants – one of whom was described by police as a Pakistani – in the biggest attack in Srinagar in two years. Hundreds of people, who had become accustomed to relative calm after years of separatist violence, had to be rescued from nearby buildings.
Pakistan: Now or Never?
Attack on the CIA in Afghanistan raises jitters in Pakistan
Last week's suicide bomb attack on a base in Afghanistan which killed seven CIA officers and a Jordanian spy is raising fears in Pakistan that it could encourage an intensified drone bombing campaign to target those who planned the assault.
Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2010: the year of living incrementally?
One of the labels being attached to President Barack Obama is that he is a committed incrementalist – an insult or a compliment depending on which side of the political fence you sit, or indeed whether you believe it to be true.
Failed airline attack raises fresh questions about battle against al Qaeda
In the absence of a coherent narrative about the failed Christmas Day attack on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, the debate about how best to tackle al Qaeda and its Islamist allies has once again been thrown wide open.
Pakistan and Afghanistan: holiday satire
Since we are going into a holiday season and not everybody is working, here is some lighter reading to be going on with:
Afghanistan and Pakistan: on the battle for Kandahar
In the vast swirl of debate about Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is worth taking the time to read this piece in the Small Wars Journal by Michael Yon about the looming battle for Kandahar and the central importance of the Arghandab River Valley (pdf document).
Can China help stabilise Pakistan?
When President Barack Obama suggested in Beijing last month that China and the United States could cooperate on bringing stability to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and indeed to "all of South Asia", much of the attention was diverted to India, where the media saw it as inviting unwarranted Chinese interference in the region.
Pakistan and Afghanistan:how do al Qaeda and the Taliban respond?
In openDemocracy, Paul Rogers writes that one of the great mistakes of the media is that it tends to assume the only actors in the campaign against Islamist militants are governments, with al Qaeda and the Taliban merely passive players.
India and Pakistan: the missing piece in the Afghan jigsaw
One year ago, I asked whether then President-elect Barack Obama's plans for Afghanistan still made sense after the Mumbai attacks torpedoed hopes of a regional settlement involving Pakistan and India. The argument, much touted during Obama's election campaign, was that a peace deal with India would convince Pakistan to turn decisively on Islamist militants, thereby bolstering the United States flagging campaign in Afghanistan.
from Afghan Journal:
Keeping India out of Afghanistan
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in the United States for the first official state visit by any foreign leader since President Barack Obama took office this year. While the atmospherics are right, and the two leaders probably won't be looking as stilted as Obama and China's President Hu Jintao appeared to be during Obama's trip last week (for the Indians are rarely short on conversation), there is a sense of unease.


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Soon after, she began noticing more and more of these impressive unoccupied structures throughout Lansing. Although seemingly forgotten by the city, she knew something cool could be done in these spaces.
That was the start of VACANT Lansing, a series of mysterious, ticketed events held in vacant buildings throughout the city. And on May 5, VACANT will host its third gathering somewhere in Old Town.
"I created VACANT because I want to go to a VACANT," Nur Cooley said. "I would be one of those people buying the tickets because I would just be curious enough."
VACANT's tagline is "expect nothing." The idea is that guests are going somewhere with no expectations and are pleasantly surprised by the fun they find, Nur Cooley said. Each VACANT event is announced without any information as to where it will be held or what it will entail. As the date of the event nears, those who have purchased tickets receive email clues to help them decipher the details. Clue-containing posters are also created by Redhead Design Studio and hung in various Lansing establishments.
Jennifer Estill, partner and creative director at Redhead Design Studio, has been working with the VACANT committee on the design of its posters and website since the group's inaugural event. When the 150 tickets available for VACANT's first event nearly sold out in just 48 hours, Estill was excited. She had always thought VACANT was a fantastic idea and was glad to see it succeed.
"It speaks a lot to people's sense of adventure in this town and how they are curious to support something new and something innovative," Estill said.
The primary goal of these events is economic and community development. Nur Cooley and her fellow VACANT committee members hope that by utilizing vacant buildings in Lansing and showing their potential, these spaces soon will be occupied once again.
The majority of VACANT's proceeds go to local, grassroots nonprofit organizations in the area of town in which the event was held — the first event, a speakeasy, was held in REO Town and raised money for nearby REACH Studio Art Center, and the second, a 1990s block party, was held in south Lansing and raised money for the South Lansing Community Development Association.
VACANT committee members simply keep enough money to ensure they can host their next event.
"The premise behind it was to spark a little intrigue while at the same time working for the betterment of the city," Nur Cooley said.
Each event is held in a part of town committee members hope attendees have never been, along with individuals they hope attendees never have met.
"The further away from the nucleus we get, and the more of Lansing we get involved, the happier we are," Nur Cooley said.
For the seven VACANT committee members, their project is a labor of love. They all have day jobs working in economic development, creative fields, nonprofits or as entrepreneurs. Nur Cooley is the managing editor of online publication Capital Gains and the communications director for Habitat for Humanity of Michigan, as well as a wife and mother.
Growing up in Australia, Nur Cooley always had a natural curiosity and a love for community. She first came to the Lansing area to take part in Michigan State University's The American Semester program, and later made Lansing her adopted home when she married her husband in 2006.
Shannon Nobles, a VACANT committee member, said Lansing has benefited from Nur Cooley's fresh perspective as a newcomer to town. Not only does she have great ideas, but she has the determination to see them through, Nobles said.
"Suban's motivation and her drive is really contagious," Nobles said. "The more people she shares ideas with and the more people she knows — that energy's contagious."
VACANT held its first event, the speakeasy, on Feb. 29, 2012. With a performance by the Lansing Unionized Vaudeville Spectacle, immersion theater, high-end mock cocktails, lounge singers, a DJ and more, Estill considers it the best event she attended all year.
The 1990s summer block party was just as impressive, featuring a competition between hip-hop artists and break dancers, spoken-word poetry, a graffiti ice cream truck and arcade games, among other activities.
And Nur Cooley promises even more for the third. As always, guests are putting faith in VACANT's organizers that the evening in Old Town will be worth a blind investment. This time around, there are just 49 tickets, and each one costs $50 — the highest a VACANT event has ever been priced.
"It will be worth every penny, and in earnest," Nur Cooley said. "I'm most excited about — I say that every VACANT — but I'm really excited about this one."
In the future, the VACANT team hopes to become a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Organizers hope to continue to hold two events each year, one in the spring and one in the fall.
The committee is always planning, but you would never know it.
"Expect nothing," Nur Cooley said. "We might do something with 10 people or we might do something with 1,000 people. But we hope it grows."
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Dave joined HMK in 1997 after 10 years as a commercial underwriter for several insurance carriers including INA, Home Insurance Co., and CIGNA. Dave managed an agency in Lehighton for 10 years before coming to HMK where he became a Shareholder in 1999. He has an extensive background with construction risks of all types including over 25 years of Surety Bond experience. Dave is also well versed in non-contracting risks, personal lines and Life Insurance.
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- Grader of Exams for the Insurance Institute of America
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K.C. Fung
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Santa Cruz, CA
Research Interests
International trade and finance, China, Japan, WTO, foreign direct investment, economic development, global environmental economics, exchange rates, Asia/Pacific economies and Silicon Valley
Biography, Education and Training
K.C. Fung is a Full Professor of Economics (with tenure) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is active in research in international trade, international finance, economic development, China, Japan and Asian economies. Since mid-2010, 26 of his peer-reviewed articles and 7 peer-reviewed chapters in books have been accepted for publication. His latest book is on Sino-Latin American Economic Relationships, paperback edition published in 2014.
He is currently actively engaged in research in several areas, including China, Japan, international trade and international finance, economic development, Asian and Latin American economies, global environmental economics and innovation activities in Silicon Valley, Europe and Asia. In 2015, he is the Guest Editor of a Special Issue of an academic journal with a theme related to the Economic Links between Europe and Asia.
U.S. Government Experience: K.C. was a senior economist in the President George H.W. Bush and President Bill Clinton White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). He received a letter of commendation from the U.S. President while he was working in the White House. He was a U.S. Government delegate to the OECD.
He was on various U.S. Government economics committees and negotiation teams and worked on issues related to China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India, Mexico, Brazil, South America and Europe. He was a regular member of TPSC, CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States), an occasional member of TPRG, an occasional member of the White House National Economic Council (NEC) Deputies Meetings and an occasional member of the White House NEC Trade and Economic Policy Working Group. He worked on all trade-related issues, including international telecommunication and international intellectual property rights cases. He was a member of the U.S. Uruguay Round and NAFTA Negotiation Teams, a member of the EU Airbus Agreement committee as well as a member of the Trade and Environment Working Group.
In 2015, he provided briefings on the economics and politics of China, Hong Kong and Asia to U.S. government officials and agents. In 2012 and in 2011, he was an outside academic expert for a project related to American national economic interests in the Asia/Pacific, supported by the U.S. Government. He provided two expert testimonies to U.S. Congressional Committees, the latest one in 2011. From 2006 to 2010, he was an adviser and an academic collaborator for the United States International Trade Commission (USITC, U.S. Government).
Experience with International Organizations: In 2015, K.C. was commissioned to provide work related to Asia by the Asian Development Bank (Manila). In 2014 and in 2013, he was an academic consultant for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, Paris). In 2014, he was invited to make a presentation to the Trade Committee of the OECD. In 2013, he made a presentation to the research staff of the World Trade Organization (WTO, Geneva).
In 2012-2013, he was an academic consultant for the World Bank. His World Bank project involved the study of value-added trade in East Asia, South Asia and Latin America. He conducted research related to infrastructure and connectivity for the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI, Tokyo) and his peer-reviewed chapter was published in 2012. Also in 2012, he was an academic consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and was invited to make a presentation in Washington, D.C.
In 2007, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Also in 2007, he was an academic research consultant for the WTO (Geneva). In addition, from 2004 to 2007, he partnered with the WTO and trained senior government officials from 31 countries. His research had been published by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) and cited by official publications of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Experience with European Institutions: In 2014, K.C. co-organized an academic conference at the University of Rouen, France. In 2012, he was an invited academic expert panelist providing advice and the opening presentation to the EU Trade Commissioner (Brussels). In 2012 and previously in 2008, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Bank of Finland (Helsinki). In 2010, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Le Havre (France). In 2007, he was an academic consultant for the University of Barcelona, Spain. In 2006 and in 2007, he was a Visiting Fellow at Bruegel (Brussels). In 2007, he provided advice to economists at the European Commission (Brussels). He was previously a Visiting Researcher at Tilburg University (Netherlands).
K.C. was the Ph.D. dissertation advisor and a co-author of Dr. Andrea Maechler, who in 2015 became the first woman to be on the governing board of the Swiss National Bank (Berne and Zurich).
In Winter and Spring 2015 and from 2012-2014, he was a member of the Economics Department Ph.D. Committee. From 1998-2001, he was the Economics Ph.D. Program Director and the Placement Director for the Ph.D. students. He is a Co-founder of Santa Cruz Center for International Economics. In 2009, he served as Chair of a system-wide University of California International Review Committee (UCIE) for Singapore. In 2015, he was the Chair of the system-wide University of California International Review Committee for Hong Kong.
K.C. got his B.A. (with Honors) from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. K.C. has also taught at Stanford University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, at the joint London Business School-HKU Business School-Columbia Business School EMBA-Global Asia program, Mount Holyoke College, the joint Fudan University-HKU international MBA program (in Shanghai and Beijing), Nankai University (Tianjin, China) and the University of Hong Kong.
In 2010, he co-organized an academic conference at Stanford University (Palo Alto, California). At Stanford, he taught a Ph.D. course on international trade theory, an upper division undergraduate course on international trade and international finance, an upper division undergraduate course on the Japanese economy and a writing-intensive undergraduate course on public policy in the United States. He also served as a Dissertation Committee Member for a Stanford Ph.D. student. At UC, Santa Cruz, he taught undergraduate, Master-level and Ph.D. classes related to international trade, international finance, economic development, Asian economies as well as a writing-intensive business case study-related class.
In addition, in 2011, he was invited to be a Visiting Professor at Osaka University (Japan). He was also a Visiting Scholar/Academic Consultant at the University of Tokyo, IDE-JETRO (Japanese Government), National University of Singapore, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (Taipei) and ECIPE (Brussels).


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"Did You Hear About the Morgans?" If so, you might wish you hadn't.
This bland fish-out-of-water comedy is unremarkable in every aspect, unless you're one of them thar city slickers who thinks the idea that Sarah Jessica Parker trading in her Jimmy Choos for a pair of cowboy boots amounts to an act of cultural treason.
Parker and Hugh Grant play a high-powered Manhattan couple forced to relocate to Wyoming after witnessing a murder. The Morgans are on the outs, but a dose of small-town living puts them on the mend. Too bad the jokes aren't as fresh as the air.
The movie is rated PG-13 and is 103 minutes long.


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Margaret Thatcher spawned a wave of protest songs. But then came 1984's Do They Know It's Christmas which gave miners' benefit records an air of axe-grinding and pettiness, writes Bob Stanley.
The Angelic Upstarts were a second wave punk group from the shipbuilding town of South Shields. In 1981 they put out a record called 2,000,000 Voices about the size of the fast-growing dole queue - so fast growing, in fact, that every time he played it John Peel would comment that the figure was now edging closer to 3,000,000.
Margaret Thatcher became unavoidable subject matter in pop almost as soon as she was elected. Yet, though she cast an unavoidable shadow, there was no unified approach to post-Thatcher pop, and no specific sound to it; protest could come in the form of global resistance (Working Week's Venceremos) or irony (Heaven 17's We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thang). It was reactive - to unemployment (2,000,000 Voices, and UB40's One In Ten), to the Falklands war (Crass's bilious How Does It Feel To Be The Mother Of 1,000 Dead and Elvis Costello's weary Shipbuilding) and to the miners' strike.
The Style Council released The Big Boss Groove as a single in 1984 just as the miners' strike began: "You may think you're weak but together we could be so strong." Initially the strike had widespread popular support – it's easily forgotten that Wham!, the biggest pop act of 1984, played a miners' benefit at the Festival Hall in September. It even felt as if anti-government sentiment was set to fuse with emerging musical forms when the Enemy Within's Strike! used samples and the tools of hip hop to make its point.
People striking to save their jobs couldn't compete with the media-swallowing story of Band Aid
Instead 1984 turned out to be a line in the sand. Anger had led to resignation on UB40's If It Happens Again, their reaction to the 1983 election: "If it happens again I'm leaving, I'll pack my things and go... I won't say I told you so." It reached the top 10 in the autumn of 1984 and, looking back, it feels like the last hit of a defined era. A record came out at Christmas that completely changed the nature of protest records.
Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas is possibly the most influential Thatcher-era single. Bob Geldof (pictured above) was keen to make both the single and the ensuing Live Aid show completely apolitical - Paul Weller may have been on board, but so were Status Quo and Queen who had both played Sun City (a South African resort which had come to symbolise the country's apartheid era).
Margaret Thatcher loved Band Aid. "What fascinated me was this" she told Smash Hits: "it was not 'why doesn't the government give more?' but 'what can I do as a person?'. That was (Bob Geldof's) approach."
Do They Know It's Christmas crushed all argument; it gave miners' benefit records like the Council Collective's Soul Deep an air of axe-grinding and pettiness. People striking to save their jobs couldn't compete with the media-swallowing story of Band Aid, and the images of starving children.
The Red Wedge movement would come later, but what memorable hit records came out of it? Band Aid was about community, not society. It led directly to the huge-selling charity singles that have dotted the charts ever since: Children In Need, Comic Relief, Military Wives, Dunblane, Haiti. These aren't protest records. They are about pseudo-collectivism, people asking themselves what they can do to help rather than what the government should be doing, just as Margaret Thatcher wanted.
This is her pop legacy. Shipbuilding may be the greater song, but Peter Kay has had more number ones than Elvis Costello.
Bob Stanley is a writer and musician who performs with Saint Etienne
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As has been the tale much of the season, a Tulane starter pitched his socks off only to see his offense unable to provide the runs to win.
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Police say they began to investigate Cribb because his mothers car was seen in the area the day of the burglaries.
He was served with warrants charging him with the five burglaries while he was in jail for the Jan. 18 Browns Ferry incident.
In that case, a tipster informed the Sheriffs Office Cribb tried to sell some of the stolen items.
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I'm not at the end of the road yet, but I can see it from here. In other words, I have another damn birthday coming up. When you get to be my age, they're not really to be celebrated, except maybe by Willard Scott of The Today Show. They can be forgotten for all I care. It just seems like I was born and then I blinked and became an old man. Time doesn't so much fly as appears 66 years later. It's the speed of thought, if you can still remember what you were thinking a second ago. It wasn't always that way and there were a lot of milestone ages to go thru, like when I turned five.
My carefree childhood came to a screeching crashing halt when I turned five because that's when the responsibilities of the world fell on my shoulders and I had to go to first grade. My life became structured and tied to the tick tock of the classroom clock on the wall that dictated where I'd be and how long I'd be there. My day became segmented into classes, recess and lunch. So that's why they taught me how to tell time. So I would be dictated by it till the time I died.
Soon I wanted to grow up and started splitting my age, as in I was 7 ½ , not 7 or 8, like I couldn't wait to be something I wasn't yet. Why do we want to be grown up so fast, then when we are, we want to be a kid again? It's like an inherent dissatisfaction with life, when you don't know how good you've got it at any given time till you face death, the ultimate dissatisfaction.
I wanted to be a teenager so bad until I turned 13, then I wanted to be 16 so I could drive. Then I wanted to be 21, so I could drink and get in bars. When I discovered all the angry mean drunks in there, I wanted to be a kid again, but with a beer on a hot summer's day once in a while.
When I turned 30, I thought I was ancient. At 40 I felt glad I wasn't 50 yet. At half a century I felt over the hill, then at 60 down in the valley too. Birthdays were celebrated yearly with cake and candles crowding the cake creating a fire hazard. And you started getting old geezer joke gifts like adult diapers, that could come in handy during long car trips with the kids whose bladders would not runeth over on bumpy roads or no rest stops for miles and miles.
As friends and family died off thru accidents, illnesses and old age, I started to be just grateful that I was still part of the process. But how would I stay relevant in my 60's? That was easy because I was never really relevant in my 20's, so why should I start all of a sudden. When you haven't reached your goals or fulfilled your dreams of fame and fortune, or just fortune with way too many losing lottery tickets, then you just settle for getting as old as you can.
Just staying alive seemed to be the goal itself. "Tired of living, but a-feared of dying." like the lyrics of "Old Man River". That kinda puts you in the middle of the equation and you keep score by reading the Obituaries like it was a macabre class reunion of the dead by seeing who's checking out of Hotel Life now.
In your 60's the milestones are mainly financial. At 62 you can start getting your social security, at 65 medicare, at 66 retire on full social security and you can earn as much as $37,680 before it affects your social security. If you want or need to work. Then at 70, if you have any IRAs, you have to take a percentage out because... Well hell who knows, the government just says so, that's why. It's not nearly as glamorous as turning drinking age at 21.
So when my birthday gets announced on the radio and everyone says "Who? Is he still alive? He's gotta be ancient." with all the heart warming respect that comes with old age in this country. I'll pretend it's just another day not to look in the mirror and be reminded that I'm not 16 like I feel when all my life lay ahead of me like an unfinished freeway, instead of behind me like the bombed out highway in the Iraq of old age. And be thankful I made it this long. Because it's all a gift. A gift that keeps on giving, until it doesn't.