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Homecoming Day
- The 17th Meikei Tsukuba Grand Festival (2013.01.26)
- The 15th Homecoming Day (2012.10.06)
- Website of University of Tsukuba Alumni Association Opens (2012.07.02)
- Usage of the University of Tsukuba Training Facility (for students and faculty members) (2012.05.29)
- Important Information
- Issuance of Certificates
- Information on Graduate Admission
- Graduate Schools for Working People
- University of Tsukuba Law School
- Professional Degree Program
- Graduate Schools (Evening courses)
- Credited Auditors
- Lifelong Learning
- Event Information
- Information on the University of Tsukuba
- Video Introduction of the University of Tsukuba
- Tsukuba University Standard
- University Publications
- Tsukuba Daigaku Shinbun
- Tsukuba Forum
- Students
- University of Tsukuba Alumni Association
- It has been established aiming to offer exchange opportunities to graduates, current students, former teachers, and organizations for extracurricular group activities to strengthen their cooperative relationship, promote exchanges, build mutually supportive relationships, and enhance information sharing among them.
- The University of Tsukuba Homecoming Day
- The University of Tsukuba Homecoming Day has been held since 1998 with the aim of promoting exchanges between graduates, faculty, and staff of the University of Tsukuba and contributing to further development of our university.
- University of Tsukuba International Exchange Student Alumni Association
- This site aims to promote exchanges with former exchange students of the university by providing information on the university.


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Atlantis Inn - Tybee Island
Atlantis Inn - Tybee Island
Hotel Guest Rating: 7.7/10
20 Silver Avenue
Tybee Island, GA 31328
Atlantis Inn - Tybee Island
Just 5 minutes' walk from the beach, this Georgia hotel is 2 miles away from the Tybee Island Lighthouse and Museum. Guests will have access to free Wi-Fi and a daily continental breakfast.A cable TV, microwave, and small refrigerator are included in all individually decorated rooms at Atlantis Inn Tybee Island. A fully equipped kitchen is provided in select rooms.Guests can relax on the terrace under the Georgia sun or consult the concierge service for a restaurant recommendation. This Tybee Island Atlantis Inn provides free on-site parking as well.The hotel is 10 minutes' drive from the Fort Pulaski National Monument. Central Savannah is located 30 minutes' drive away. ...read more
- Internet services
- Pets allowed
- Free parking
Atlantis Inn - Tybee Island Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Designated smoking area
- Free parking
- Free WiFi
- Internet services
- Non-smoking rooms
- On-site parking
- Parking
- Pets allowed
- Terrace
- WiFi
- WiFi available in all areas
Hotel Information
Guests under the age of 21 can only check in with a parent or official guardian.Please note that parking is subject to availability.Please note a maximum of 1 pet is permitted. Only dogs 20 pounds or less can be accommodated. Charges are applicable. Contact hotel for details. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply. Please inform Atlantis Inn - Tybee Island in advance of your expected arrival time. You can use the Special Requests box when booking, or contact the property directly with the contact details provided in your confirmation.
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Camping Reservations
Advanced reservations are available for 29 state forests and park campgrounds.
Reservations may be made as early as six months prior to the date of arrival, and as late as one day prior to arrival. Customers may make camping reservations for up to 4 stays at one time; however, reservations are limited to 14 cumulative days in any one park between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
There is a 2 day minimum on most reservations.
Please note:
- Customers must be 18 years or older to make a reservation.
- Photo ID is required upon registration at the campground.
- Reservation confirmations are provided by email only.
- Customers are responsible for reviewing the reservation, cancellation, and Internet use policies.
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News and events for the current camping season.
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Campground fees depend on the type of campground and the services provided. See Campground Fees for more information.
Fees are subject to change.
Also, review the policies for additional information regarding reservations, transferring reservations, and cancellations.
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- Arriving customers must get their firewood at the campground.
- Pest-free and disease-free firewood is available at the contact station for $5 per bundle. Pricing may vary at parks with camp stores.
MassParks are at risk of severe damage from invasive species such as the Asian Longhorned Beetle and the Emerald Ash Borer. Invasive species have devastated forests in the US Midwest, and have recently been found in the Worcester, Boston, and Dalton Massachusetts areas. Once a forest is infested, eradication of an invasive pest involves devastating measures such as the removal of entire stands of trees or forested areas.


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A Gretna woman was killed this morning when the vehicle she was driving crashed on Interstate 10 east at the Causeway Boulevard exit, State Police said.
Laura S. Espinoza-Paz, 21, was thrown from her 2001 Toyota Sequoia when the vehicle, traveling east on the interstate, exited at Causeway and left the road as it rounded a curve, police said. The Toyota rolled over several times, ejecting Espinoza-Paz, who was not wearing a seat belt.
A passenger, Jose R. Turcius, 27, suffered minor injuries. Turcius was wearing a seat belt and was able to crawl out of the vehicle, police said.
The accident was reported at 2:55 a.m. Speed is believed to be a factor and alcohol tests are pending.


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This is like cheating, it's so easy. In fact, it kind of IS cheating, since I didn't make the tortillas from scratch.
No matter.
This is a fast and simple way to make delicious, spicy tortilla chips.
Just take fresh corn tortillas, brush them with oil, whack them into wedges, and bake until crunchy.
That's it. Really.
I dusted mine with a little homemade chipotle salt. (Spicy. Hot. Smokey. Yum!)
They're baked, not fried, so they're a little better for you, as far as snacks go.
One of these days, I'll make my own dough from masa harina (corn flour treated with calcium hydroxide, a.k.a. lime) and bust out some authentic, totally homemade tortilla chips.
Until then, this is a perfectly acceptable, easy, and fast substitute for the real deal.
Baking is for the birds. How do I make fried chips?
Oh, sure!
If you'd rather fry your chips, cut up the tortillas as instructed below. Fry them in batches in 360-degree vegetable oil for 2-3 minutes. Remove from the oil with a slotted spoon and drain on a rack.
Sprinkle with salt when they're hot out of the oil.
How about some dip with those chips?
Coming right up! Serve them with salsa or homemade guacamole, which you can throw together while the chips are in the oven.
Easy Baked Tortilla Chips Dusted with Spicy Chipotle Salt
12 fresh corn tortillas
vegetable oil
Chipotle Salt
1 tsp. ground chipotle
2 tsp. kosher salt
Serves 2-3
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
Spray the tortillas with oil
Start with good corn tortillas. You'll usually find them in the refrigerated section of the grocery store. If you can get them at a local Spanish market, even better. Check the date to be sure they're fresh.
Traditional corn tortillas are smaller than the flour tortillas usually used for burritos.
Lightly spray each whole tortilla on one side with cooking oil. (Or brush it on.) Stack the tortillas up.
Cut the tortillas into wedges
Whack the stack into four pieces.
And then in four again.
You want to wind up with 8 wedges.
Bake the tortilla chips
Spread the chips out on two ungreased, unlined baking pans. Arrange them so they don't overlap (if they overlap, they won't get as crunchy).
Pop the pans into your preheated 400-degree oven. Bake for 20-25 minutes, until light brown and crisp.
Make the chipotle salt
Put the kosher salt and ground chipotle in a small bowl. Mix together with a fork until uniform. Set it aside until your chips are done.
Season the tortilla chips
When your chips are done, they should be light brown and slightly curled on the edges. They should also be nice and crunchy.
How can you tell? Test a few. If they're still a little on the chewy side, toss them back in the oven for a few more minutes, then check them again.
When they're done to your liking, sprinkle the hot chips with chipotle salt. Toss gently to coat. Serve warm!
They'll keep well for a day or two. Just seal 'em up in a zip-top bag. Warm them up for a few minutes before serving in a 200-degree oven.


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Air in my Pro
March 30, 2012 - Dave Hecei
The rumor of new MacBook Air models has been active for a while now. The more rabid one is that Apple is working on a 15-inch version of the Air. There have also been quite a few rumors that Apple might even be thinking of combining the Air and the Pro together creating a new line.
This is actually kind of believable. Apple has been selling Airs faster than anything but the iOS line. If Apple could take the best of both worlds, the Pro's speed and ports, along with the Air's super fast SSD and ultra light design the combination would be formidable. The idea of an optical drive is already passé as far as Apple is concerned, so might as well drop it from all laptops.
It may not happen in the next round of MacBook updates. But if Apple is about to release a 15-inch Air, it will be the beginning of the end for the traditional MacBook Pro line. Maybe they'll call it something different, or maybe they will keep the 'Pro' label even on the models without optical drives.
No matter which way they go, Apple will still have the mid and high-end laptop market. Since they won't make a laptop that sells for less than $999.99 (or let's just say a grand), Apple really doesn't even want to venture into the low-end laptop market. You really can't blame them after all, with several of the top PC makers creating MacBook Air clones. And yes, many of these clones are right around $999.99.
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Miles ready, utility INF battle
Aaron Miles still has an ugly, nasty looking black fingernail on his middle finger — the proof that remains from his small fracture at the tip. Fortunately it just looks worse than it is. Miles is expected to get his first game action on Friday.
"It's slight pain but the doctor said I'm not going to hurt it at all," said Miles, who fractured his finger on March 2. "The fracture was in a real good spot and to go be as aggressive as I want. As long as I go out there and make the plays, I'm good to go. I can't hurt it more."
The other member of the utility infield, broken finger club is Chris Burke, who suffered a more serious injury with a fractured knuckle on his right ring finger. Burke started swinging at bat on Wednesday and was headed to the cage again Thursday morning.
Manager Dusty Baker already has some tough decisions to make with his backup infielders. It's a crowded group with Miles, Burke, Paul Janish, Miguel Cairo, Todd Frazier and Drew Sutton.Baker didn't know how many extra infielders the club would carry.
"I haven't even played that shell game yet," he said. "We could play it all day and night. Right now, we have other things. We'll play them and we'll see come cut time. Now cut time comes weekly."
*The first wave of cuts went down after Wednesday's game.
Reassigned to Minor League camp were LHP Alexander Smit, RHP Jose Arredondo, 1B/OF Danny Dorn and catchers Ryan Yarbrough and Chris Denove. The next cuts will likely come after the day-night split-squad games on March 17.
Dorn caught the manager's eye during his time in big league camp.
"Dorn, he impressed me," Baker said. "It's a matter of numbers and how much playing time he was going to get. I think he recognized pitches quicker than anybody among the young players we have here. Plus, he big-time got better at first base too."
*Some tornadoes touched down near Benton, Ark., which is very close to where LHP Travis Wood's family resides. Wood said his parents were OK and the twisters were a couple of miles away.
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First roster cuts, lineups vs. NYY
The first roster trim came down and there were no surprises. Most of the top prospects were sent to the Minor League camp. Here's the list:
Optioned to Class AA Carolina was 1B Yonder Alonso; reassigned to minor league camp were C Humberto Cota, C Chris Denove, INF Todd Frazier, C Devin Mesoraco, OF Drew Stubbs and INF Chris Valaika…the Reds have 56 players remaining in camp.
Reds lineup:
Dickerson CF, Gonzalez SS, Bruce RF, Phillips 2B, Barker 1B, Encarnacion 3B, Nix LF, Hanigan C, Bankston DH
Masset – P
Yankees lineup:
Gardner CF, Damon LF, Nady RF, Matsui DH, Ransom 3B, Molina C, Miranda 1B, Berroa SS, Pena 2B
Chamberlain – P
Obviously, this will be a good test for Gonzalez's knee to finally play the field. Look for a story postgame on that. More later once the Reds' bus arrives at Steinbrenner Field.
6pm Update:
- Dusty Baker said that Gonzalez would play four or five innings at shortstop tonight.
- 3B Edwin Encarnacion said his left wrist felt better after he took BP on Monday. Encarnacion has been sore since a check swing the other day.
"But I tried to stay with a pitch inside, that's what hurt me more," Encarnacion said.
- 1B Joey Votto is on a flight that should land in Sarasota tonight but Baker said he's giving him Wednesday off. The team has a scheduled off day on Thursday, which gives Votto two days to regroup after the World Baseball Classic.
"With traveling and his family and Toronto, I'm sure he's probably exhausted," Baker said.
- RHP Johnny Cueto is OK after twisting an ankle on Sunday. He did his running on Monday.
Here's what Baker said about the roster moves. Three of the players (Alonso, Mesoraco and Stubbs) were the organization's last three first round picks.
"They're all good players. They're good young men at the same time," Baker said. "They worked hard, did what was asked of them. It was a matter of ABs getting tight. We're going to get some guys back [from the World Baseball Classic]. They all got pretty good look-sees, especially for the first big league camp for most of them. Most guys don't get that many ABs and innings."
- The decisions were all made before Monday's game. Chris Valaika hit a grand slam vs. the Phillies and Yonder Alonso hit a homer to center field, his first of spring. A fan retrieved the ball and returned it to Alonso.
"You hate to send them out when they did something so spectacular. I was hoping Stubbs would hit one out," Baker said. "I'd rather have them go out on a high note."
Another catcher for camp
The Reds added catcher Chris Denove as a non-roster player for big league camp on Tuesday. Denove, 26, played 53 games at Double-A Chattanooga last season and batted .245. His addition will give the Reds eight catchers in camp.
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NEWCASTLE, England (AP) – Napoli allowed the chasing pack to gain ground in the race for a Champions League place when they slumped to a 2-0 defeat at Bologna on Sunday.
Alessandro Diamanti opened the scoring in a first half otherwise dominated by the visitors, and Matteo Rubin made the game safe in the second half.
The match ended with red cards for Bologna's Archimede Morleo and Blerim Dzemaili for fifth-placed Napoli, who are now level three points behind Udinese and also have Inter Milan breathing down their necks.
No such setback appeared likely when Marek Hamsik and Juan Zuniga tested home keeper Federico Agliardi in the opening 10 minutes.
Paolo Cannavaro then fired over from distance before Bologna took an 18th-minute lead against the run of play, Robert Acquafresca teeing up Diamanti to finish left-footed from near the penalty spot.
Edinson Cavani and Zuniga both shot wide before Bologna's Diego Perez drew a good save from Napoli keeper Morgan De Sanctis.
Agliardi and De Sanctis saved from Cavani and Marco Di Vaio respectively before Napoli's Walter Gargano ended the half by shooting wildly over the bar.
Gokhan Inler began the second period in identical fashion and as Napoli's frustration grew, Bologna took control from the hour mark.
Diamanti shot just wide but Di Vaio set up Rubin to hammer home the second from a narrow angle in the 64th minute.
Zuniga failed to threaten Agliardi's goal and Di Vaio could have extended Bologna's advantage, but his right-foot shot came back off the left-hand upright.
The same player shot wide before De Sanctis saved from Rubin in the last bit of goalmouth action.
There was still time for a late flashpoint, however, with Dzemaili and Morleo coming to blows a minute from time to win the race to their respective teams' showers.


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Friday, March 02, 2012
Saving Minister Bildt?
This is Part II of "Anatomy of an untruthful scoop. The Swedish campaign against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange". A more detailed analysis on characteristics of the unprofessional part of Swedish journalism – the duck pond phenomenon -, or on the Swedish Media Trial VS. Assange referred in particular to the journalist's ad-hominem attacks and personal characterizations of the WikiLeaks founder, is found in "Does Sweden inflict Trial by the Media Against Assange?"
"The overall function of PSYOP [Psychological Operations, also referred as Psychological-warfare] is to cause selected foreign audiences to take actions favorable to the objectives of the United States and its allies or coalition partners." ("Doctrine for Joint Psychological Operations", Publication prepared under the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2003)
Image: In atessa del verdetto/ Waiting the verdict. Dettaglio/Detail – Ferrada de Noli, Rome 1974
Foreign Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt wakes up from his post-WikiLeaks Twittering nightmare and discovers instead a sunny and pleasant Stockholm.
Spring in Sweden has always been a peculiar and contradicting phenomenon. It is sudden then indecisive, it is cold and it is warm. It is beautiful but brief – "as human love", [1] Hamlet would say. Expectations cultivated in long winters run way more dramatic than in southern latitudes.
Now that the careful spring makes its uncertain debut in the Swedish latitude, we are reminded of the fragility of human understanding, of the easiness in which rulers and trolls can make prevail the ideological alienation, the misinformation-based assumptions, the prejudices, etc. Such is the case of the recent State and mainstream media campaign directed to the Swedish public and designed to confound us about what WikiLeaks and its founder and editor Julian Assange, have really said and stand for.
Would this anti-Wikileaks media campaign – a campaign that have presented Carl Bildt as the victim he is not – have a collateral aim of trying to save Minister Bildt from the increasing critic on the Sudan/Lundin Affair? Or which would be the reasons behind this compact chauvinistic media endeavour?
- Wikileaks founder and editor Julian Assange is accused of exercising plain blackmail towards Sweden;
- WikiLeaks is accused of having from the beginning an agenda consisting targeting principally the U.S. and allies, while neglecting disclosures of Russia and China archives;
- Further about the Swedish media campaign "WikiLeaks anti-Bildt conspiracy" — that the rest of Swedish media have been reproducing as "According to Expressen": The State owned Svt escalates now forward and gives the false report simply, "According to WikiLeaks"!
- This, in spite of the clearest declaration -strongest in terms and highly publicized – made by the WikiLeaks Editor-in-chief himself, directly to Expressen's journalists at the internationally visited Press Conference on Stratfor (Global Intelligence Files):
Assange: "The entire Expressen's story – the front-page and all the five articles – is a complete fabrication!" [2]
Setting the record straight:
What is the background of the Swedish on-going political offensive against WikiLeaks? What does the media campaign have to do with Swedish Foreign Policy and its head, Carl Bildt? What is the NATO connection in the case? And further, what does the content of such media articles have to do with the domestic decline of Bildt's popularity, and peoples questioning as to the extent to which the Swedish rulers themselves are primarily responsible for the drastic deterioration of the international prestige of Sweden?
I continue here my analysis on the recently initiated new media campaign against WikiLeaks, an action particularly focused on the WikiLeaks founder, editor and journalist Julian Assange. Discussed in this section: a) Concepts around Nationalist-chauvinistic media campaigns; b) Similitude of Pinochet's "Plan Z" (attributed to CIA), [3] and what I describe as Sweden's "Plan Z" on WikiLeaks; c) "Plan Z, phase 7: SvT"; d) The media campaign and The NATO factor in the Swedish mainstream media; e) The war on Internet between Freedom Fighters and the positions of the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt. The position of the Swedish Pirate Party, as stated in a valuable analysis by PP's Chairman Anna Troberg, will be also commented in this context. This publication together with the previously announced comments on the article by the President of the Swedish Publicist's Association in Journalist.se, and on-line publications on the issue by The Local and Nyheter24, will follow tomorrow at the earliest — in Part III.
Finally in this Introduction, I wish to state briefly that, at the same time of highly doubting that such actions of spying on the private life of Swedish journalists as reported lately by Expressen has ever occurred: Professors blogg will always, and in the strongest terms, condemn any deplorable initiatives of invading the personal integrity of individuals, as well condemn attacks ad-hominem, without exception. Professors blogg – as the presentation reads – advocates Human Rights For All. This is the crux of mine defense of the cause for justice for the person Julian Assange, regardless the strong sympathies which I also have for the WikiLeaks message against abuse of power and for transparency in governance.
More pictures of the Prisoners camp in "Ferrada-Noli VS Pinochet"
I was obliged to search for Lars Moberg picture in Google because SvT took away the video less than a day after the airing of the program here commented. This action, in spite they have stated (as shown in this screen-shot, at left) the video would be available until the 7 of March.
- "According to WikiLeaks, the information [to be released by the new disclosures] are aggravating for Sweden, information that it could cause the fall of Foreign Minister Carl Bildt" [a]
- "If WikiLeaks would be an independent organization, says Mike Winnerstig, then we would have seen disclosures (leaks) on the Russian or Chinese archives" [b]
- "What one sees, I believe, it is a pattern – which in fact has been there from the beginning – namely, the organization (WikiLeaks) had an agenda. It was never the case of a general site, open for all "whisteblowings", as they say, a system for enabling other actors to publish secrets in the Internet." [c]
- "Instead, (WikiLeaks) had an agenda, which became clearer and clearer with the disclosures on Iraq: WikiLeaks wanted to nail principally U.S and U.S. allies, in a variety of secenarios". [d]
- "What is problematic with this agenda, also something which Assange himself has threatened with, it is that he will use the material he has on Sweden, and especially on Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, to the extent that if he will be extradited to Sweden and then taken here to trial; and perhaps, as he believed, then (which I do not) be extradited to the U.S. And this means he devotes himself to extortion, pure and simple." [e]


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In the home in which I was raised there were at least two things you didn't want to get caught doing (a) being a hibble and (b) cussing.
Our mother did not like hibbles. Hibble (my spelling) is a Low German word and I have been unable to find an official definition. We Huisman kids understood a hibble to be someone who is whiney and finicky. Mom did not like whiney, finicky kids.
If we complained about something on the dinner table, for instance, Mom would say, "Don't be a hibble. If you don't like something on the table eat something else or go to bed hungry." My physique bears witness to the fact that I never went to bed hungry. I was not a hibble.
Cussing was a more serious infraction. Our parents did not use strong language and they expected their children to refrain from the practice as well.
While no cursing was acceptable, the use of the Lord's name and the f-word were strictly off limits. They were considered close to the Unpardonable Sin.
I am the oldest of six children four boys and two girls, in that order. I left home when my sisters were quite small so I was never a witness to their use of profanity but we boys the oldest three in particular knew quite a few cuss words and we knew how to use them. (I'm not stupid; I'll bet my sisters cussed, too.)
Shakespeare said that discretion is the better part of valor and we brothers practiced discretion. Most of the time we only swore when our parents weren't around. When Mom and Dad left us alone for an evening the cuss words came out and were well exercised.
In instances when a bad word slipped out in our parents' presence there was usually a price to pay. I remember a slap across the face for cussing. Brother Dave got his mouth washed out with soap. On his second offense Mom washed his mouth out with bar soap and then rubbed the bar across his teeth a few times for a longer lasting lesson. Dave still remembers.
We all grew up and thanks to our parents' loving discipline we don't offend our mother with strong language nowadays. Unfortunately, I never forgot any of those words and when I'm angry they have a way of slipping out.
Dad always told me to use a substitute word, like "baloney," when I am angry. And I always reminded him that when I hit my thumb with a hammer "baloney" is not the word that spontaneously comes to my lips.
I really believe I could abolish cuss words from my vocabulary all together if I didn't have to drive on public highways. There are so many idiots on the highway and it seems they are all out to irritate me.
I have been working this year to control my temper and, accordingly, my tongue.
What complicates matters for me is having grown up in rural Iowa where speech patterns can be earthier. That stuff in the barnyard was never called feces and the word many farmers used was acceptable... on the farm. Though I haven't worked on a farm for nearly 50 years some of those words remain in that part of my brain closest to my speech center.
I slipped royally at work one day. When I was a kid in the country I learned to "never get into a (urinating) match with a skunk." I use a parenthetical euphemism here to protect innocent eyes.
A couple of years ago when my boss and I were discussing a difficult individual and he asked me what I would do, I responded with a sincere, "I sure wouldn't get into a (urinating) match with him." I failed to use the more delicate euphemism in that statement.
My boss looked surprised at my country candor. I quickly apologized. He kindly said, "Don't worry; I know what it means."
I am not now nor have I ever been a hibble and I'm making progress on improving my vocabulary.
As I have grown older, I have come to understand the Proverb that says, "Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble." (Proverbs 21:23 ESV) Unfortunately, it's taken a long time for me to understand that.
At least I'm not a hibble.


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In a significant step toward making a campus for federal agencies and the military a reality in Algiers, the Navy and planners have agreed on basic terms for a 75-year lease of the Naval Support Activity's West Bank site, setting the stage for congressional approval.
The action culminated months of negotiations and an approaching federally mandated Sept. 30 deadline to set financing and break ground on the "federal city" or else the Algiers base would close.
Senior Navy officials signed the lease Wednesday about 3:30 p.m., one day after state Rep. Jeff Arnold, D-Algiers, chairman of the Algiers Development District board, signed off on the terms on behalf of the city of New Orleans and the state.
"We've got some hard work left, but at least we can see the finish line from here, " said retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. David Mize, who has spearheaded the project.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy Howard Snow notified people involved in the project that "the final signatures are on the federal city term sheet and the package is on the way to" Congress.
Mize said the Navy can lease property only if Congress reviews the terms and agrees. By law, Congress has 45 days to act, meaning project officials have been rushing to complete negotiations and send them to Capitol Hill this week before the Sept. 30 deadline.
U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said Tuesday he and other members of the Louisiana delegation are prepared to work with the oversight committees to ensure approval.
Financing for the project already has been set. Last month, the State Bond Commission approved the sale of $150 million in bonds, which officials say satisfies Louisiana's financial commitment.
The next step, Mize said, is to "turn the terms into a full-blown lease and signing that lease" before Sept. 30.
The developments are expected to be announced this morning at a news conference.
Negotiations "nearly completely unraveled in recent months" because the Navy said it did not want to sign lease terms with a nonprofit corporation, the New Orleans Federal Alliance, that was created four years ago specifically to oversee the federal city, Vitter said.
Officials involved in the negotiations selected the Algiers Development District board, which Vitter said is "a more clearly defined entity under state law that (made) the Navy more comfortable."
The district board in a special meeting Aug. 6 agreed to be the signatory for the state and city. The board, in turn, will sign a "management contract" with the alliance, which Mize oversees, and will continue to oversee its development.
Assistant Attorney General Mike Vallen, who recently represented the district board in talks with Navy officials in Philadelphia, told the board last week the Navy wanted it "to be actively involved in the negotiations of the lease."
In an emergency meeting Tuesday night, the district board also agreed to hire Fred Chevalier of the Jones Walker law firm to represent it in writing the final lease as early as next week. The attorney general's office recommended Chevalier, Vallen told the board.
In May 2005, the Defense Department announced that it wanted to close the Naval Support Activity. But months later, a federal commission agreed to retain the base's Algiers campus and close the east bank facilities, allowing the city and state to move forward with federal city. The panel authorized Marine Forces Reserve to be a federal city tenant.
Vitter said the estimated cost to build facilities for Marine Forces Reserve is about $115 million.
Vitter and Arnold also said a simple ground-breaking ceremony will suffice to meet the commission's second requirement of commencing construction.
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Renewable energy policy and initiatives in Malaysia
Lim, Chin Haw and Salleh, Elias and Jones, Philip (2006) Renewable energy policy and initiatives in Malaysia. ALAM CIPTA, International Journal on Sustainable Tropical Design Research & Practice, 1 (1). pp. 33-40. ISSN 1823-7231; ESSN: 2289-3687
Official URL: http://frsb.upm.edu.my/alamcipta/index.php/alamcip...
Energy has always been an essential element for the generation of social and economic growth in a country. It is no longer viewed as a luxury as it used to be but it has become a necessity in our everyday life. Malaysia, a country located between 1° and 7° North of the Equator, has an abundance of renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, hydro and biomass but most of these renewable energy resources are not fully exploited. Presently, Malaysia is still very much dependent on fossil fuels as its primary source of energy. Due to the current upward trend of fuel prices, especially crude oil prices in the world market, the Malaysian Government is forced to look into other alternative energy sources with the emphasis on renewable energy. There are numerous efforts taken by the Malaysian Government in pursuit of the exploitation of renewable energy. This paper will discuss the five main initiatives taken by the Malaysian government on renewable energy, namely Renewable Energy as the 5th Fuel under the 8th and 9th Malaysian Plan, MS1525 or Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings, the Kyoto Protocol, the Malaysian Building Integrated Photovoltaic Programme, also known as MBIPV, and Biomass.
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In the years since, his coworkers in the Wyoming city offices credit Kohmescher with helping break down barriers that were preventing women and minorities from holding leadership positions in the city.
Kohmescher, 62, retired on Thursday, Jan. 26 after 22 years of service. By the time of his retirement, his management responsibilities had expanded to include running the city treasurer's office along with the finance, information technology, and risk management departments.
Rebecca Rynbrandt, Wyoming's director of community services, was the first woman hired to lead a city department, back in the late 1990s. Although former City Clerk Nancy Giar had been the first female department head, the clerk is appointed by the City Council, Rynbrandt said, and doesn't go through the typical hiring process.
Rynbrandt said Kohmescher was never afraid to throw out the antiquated conversations, and was never afraid to reject all applicants for key positions and do a nationwide search if they weren't getting the candidates they wanted.
Kohmescher brought a focus on education, on who had the best skills, and on who would work for the betterment of the community. He was always challenging everyone to keep those things foremost in mind, she said.
Kohmescher said one of the ways he was able to bring about those changes was by involving other city employees in the selection process.
"When our employees got involved in that, reviewing applications and those kinds of things, it took the hiring process to a more team-centered approach instead of one person deciding," he said. "When we looked at a team approach, we started to look at people in a different way."
The changes came about not because they were setting out to hire women or people of different ethnic backgrounds; rather, they were looking for the best employees, he said. They put together teams of people from several different departments to help search for key employees.
"Police officers helped us in other departments, people in public works helped us in city hall, and that's how it started. But really, hiring better people – that's what we wanted to do. It wasn't a mission to go out there and say we're going to hire 'x' number of people for this or that."
Today, more than half of the city's department heads are women, including the deputy city manager, treasurer, housing director, city clerk, information technologies director and community services director.
Kohmescher's successor, Kim Oostindie, started in the city offices as a clerk. But she took advantage of tuition reimbursement programs Kohmescher put in place for city employees, furthered her education and worked her way up. She will now take over most of his duties.
"She's really a wonderful poster child for how a person who wants to work hard and grow themselves can do that in the city of Wyoming," Rynbrandt said.
Kohmescher negotiated with six unions on more than 40 employee contracts during his tenure, and helped the city through changes to employee retirement systems, contributions to health care premiums and increases in deductibles. As the city's staff grew smaller in recent years, he took on added roles.
"Jim stepped in, took on these additional responsibilities and performed flawlessly for the residents of Wyoming," said City Manager Curtis Holt.
Kohmescher said he doesn't have big plans for his retirement, aside from an upcoming trip to Florida this spring and a trip to Home Depot this week.
"I don't have anything mapped out," he said.
He also plans to spend more time with family, including his wife, Kathy, three sons and daughters-in-law and seven grandchildren.


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Vote for the Name of the New Wildcat Wheels Fleet
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 11, 2014) ― Voting is now underway for the name of the new Wildcat Wheels Bicycle Library (WWBL) fleet. Vote now through Friday, March 14, at www.sustainability.uky.edu/NameTheFleet. Each person may only vote once. Only current UK students and employees will be permitted to vote.
The new WWBL program will feature a fleet of 100 bicycles earmarked for students living in campus housing who sign a commitment not to bring a car to Lexington. The bicycles for this program will be 8-speed commuter bicycles equipped with fenders, a rear rack, a bell, and a lock. Participating students will be guaranteed the bicycle for the entire academic year.
The addition of the new bicycles was made possible by a funding partnership between the Student Sustainability Council and Parking and Transportation Services. All participants will also receive a bicycle helmet, thanks to the UK HealthCare Level I Trauma Program.
To learn more about Wildcat Wheels, please visit www.wildcatwheels.org. To learn more about bicycling on campus, visit www.uky.edu/pts/alternative-transportation_bicycle-information.


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JACKSON, Miss. - There's a guy named Favre who's having an MVP season, owns all the records you can name and has his team poised to win a title.
Sounds like Brett Favre, right? Think again.
We're talking about Dylan Favre, the 17-year-old high school senior who lives in the long shadow of his famous relative but has had such an amazing career he deserves to stand alone. He's faced the "what's it like?" question about Uncle Brett so many times, it has gotten wearisome.
"It's not a big deal," Dylan Favre said. "People make it out to be way bigger than it really is. He's just an ordinary uncle who goes to work every day. His job just happens to be playing football."
When it comes to football, the Favre family has something special. Brett Favre came from tiny Kiln, Miss., had a fabulous college career and has gone on to have one of the greatest NFL tenures of any quarterback - one that continues as the 40-year-old guides his Minnesota Vikings toward the playoffs.
The younger Favre, son of Brett's brother, Jeff, also comes from Kiln. But the five-foot-11, 195-pound quarterback is far ahead of his uncle when it comes to early success.
While the elder Favre was a wishbone quarterback in high school, his nephew is the accomplished conductor of Mississippi's most powerful offence. His numbers are "mind-boggling," St. Stanislaus coach Forrest Williams says.
Dylan Favre holds 10 state records, shattering most by silly margins, is in the top five nationally for a handful of career marks and was named the Gatorade player of the year for Mississippi on Thursday.
He has a chance to add the ultimate entry to his resume Saturday when he leads the 13-1 Rockachaws into the Class 4A state championship game against Lafayette County.
When it comes to high school quarterbacks in Mississippi, no one - not even Uncle Brett - can compare.
"I think he has done a great job of making a name for himself," Brett Favre said after Thursday's practice. "I never did close to what he has done in high school. He's going to go down as one of the very best quarterbacks in Mississippi history, which is something to really be proud of."
The elder Favre has never seen the younger Favre play in person and has been limited to a few glances at highlight tapes. Football talks between uncle and nephew are usually limited to topics like leadership and work ethic, and they communicate mostly by text before and after games.
Brett Favre says he'd love to be in Jackson for Saturday's game, but as usual his job will keep him in the far north as Dylan scorches opponents in the Deep South.
Dylan state marks include career total offence (13,755 yards), touchdowns responsible for (164) and touchdown passes (141). This season alone he has passed for 5,170 yards with three 500-yard games (and a fourth for 498), rushed for another 1,177 yards, and is responsible for 76 touchdowns, including 60 through the air.
And he's been putting up those kinds of numbers long enough to show up in the National Federation of State High School Associations record book as well.
He's second in average total yards per game in a single season (453.4), third in total yards in a single season (6,347 yards) and an average passing game away from second place. And he's fifth in total yards for a career (13,755).
"The numbers come with winning," said Dylan, who speaks in the familiar accent and cadence of his uncle. "I feel in order for us to win I have to play well. Winning ball games is way more important than throwing touchdowns or anything like that. Having an opportunity to play in the state championship is far more exciting than any record I've broken."
Yet despite all those gaudy numbers and that team-first attitude, Dylan does not yet have a scholarship offer to a Football Bowl Subdivision school. His height, he's told, isn't what the big schools are looking for, though interest is starting to grow as national signing day approaches. He knows he's got a home in Division II if no one comes forward, but he believes he can play at the highest level and wants the chance.
"It's disappointing," Dylan said. "I'm not going to say it's not, because I have all the confidence in the world that I can play and make throws at the Division I level. In my opinion height is the most overrated thing when it comes to playing quarterback. I don't see how a couple inches is going to help you win ball games. That's just the way it is nowadays."
Williams thinks schools overlooking Favre are making a mistake. The coach says the quarterback - who also starts at outside linebacker, punter and several special teams positions - is a true 5-11, and at 17 he's likely to continue to grow. But more importantly, they're missing out on all the intangibles that helped make Brett Favre the most successful quarterback in NFL history.
It all starts with the family's trademark toughness.
"Brett set the ironman streak in professional football and Dylan's the same way," Williams said. "It don't matter what kind of lickin' he takes, he keeps on coming back. He threw a block the other night for one of his running backs to spring him for a 50-yard touchdown that I tell you would've knocked out a mortal man. But he was on the field a second, jumped up and was ready to go back in on defence the next series."
Younger Favre shows hes got a spring-loaded arm, just like Uncle Brett
JACKSON, Miss. - There's a guy named Favre who's having an MVP season, owns all the records you can name and has his team poised to win a title.
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SPRINGFIELD — The trial of Maureen Healy, charged with manslaughter by motor vehicle in a 2011 Holyoke incident, begins today in Hampden Superior Court.
Healy, 32, of Holyoke, also is charged with motor vehicle homicide while under the influence of alcohol and reckless driving in the death of Thomas P. Monahan, of Holyoke. Monahan was fatally injured June 4, 2011, as he came to the aid of Healy, who had crashed her car into a parked vehicle in front of his 144 Lincoln St. house shortly before midnight. Her car came to rest lying on its passenger side in the road.
As Monahan tended to Healy, a second car, driven by Tiffany Renardson, came up Lincoln Avenue and crashed into Healy's overturned vehicle. The impact sent Healy's car into Monahan. He died two days later. Hampden District Attorney Mark G. Mastroianni's office in early June dropped a negligent motor vehicle homicide charge against Renardson.
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Howard C. Hope, 71, of West Amwell Township died Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in the Hunterdon Medical Center.
Born in Phillipsburg May 4, 1941, son of Howard W. and Marion Cline Hope, he had resided in West Amwell Township 35 years and had formerly resided in Lambertville.
He was a self-employed landscaper and was formerly a member of the Wesleyan Church, Lambertville.
He was predeceased by a grandson, Nicholas Hope.
Surviving are his wife of 49 years, Lynda Pyatt Hope; a son, Howard D. Hope of Quakertown; two daughters, Cynthia Lynn Niemiec of Kingwood Township and Angela Joy Williams of West Amwell Township; and six grandchildren, Skyler Panella, Clayton Hope, Matthew Williams, Andrew Williams, Joshua Niemiec and Daniel Niemiec.
Memorial services will be held on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 10 a.m. in Old Rocks Church, Mt.Airy-Harbourton Road, West Amwell Township.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main Street, Flemington. Interment will be private. There will be no calling hours.
For further information or to send an online condolence, visit holcombefisher.com.


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PHILADELPHIA – Exploding for 11 first-half goals, the No. 3 Penn lacrosse team defeated Temple 15-3 in the Owls' home opener on a chilly and windy Wednesday afternoon.
Penn improves to 2-0 while Temple drops to 1-2. The Quakers' Ali DeLuca scored four goals to lead Penn, including three of the first four for the team. Before 10 minutes had elapsed in the contest, Penn was ahead 7-0.
Temple did not score in the first half and trailed 11-0 at halftime, but the Owls fared far better in the second half. After one more Penn goal at 22:09 of the second, Temple's Karly Cohen and Missy Schweitzer scored back-to-back.
The Owls got one more second-half score from Stephanie Markunas to put the score at 13-3, but Penn scored the final two goals of the game in the last five minutes. TU goalkeeper Jessica Colucci made five saves, including four in the first half.
The Owls were out-shot 24-10 in the game. Temple will return to action at home on Saturday, March 6 against UC Davis at 1:00 p.m.


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Rick Darge produced this excellent video of the Blood In protest & press conference:
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Judge Elden Fox to Mahdavi: Don't Drive Without A License, 90 days community service for maiming
"She shouldn't drive unless she has a valid driver's license." That was Judge Elden Fox's message today to Celine Mahdavi, the women who clobbered Louis Deliz into 49 days of hospitalization. Lindsay Lohan will likely serve 14 days of the 90 day sentence in County jail she began today. She violated the terms of her […]
Louis "Birdman" Deliz's Hit and Run Trial Delayed Again
Celine Mahdavi stands before the court for Felony Hit & Run and Felony DUI. I'm outside the Beverly Hills Municipal Courthouse awaiting the arrival of Louis "Birdman" Deliz. The air is crisp and full of the murmur of morning gridlock along Burton Way. Louis shows up, I give him a handshake and we wait for […]
Bikeside SPEAKS! Inspires Change
When I met with my fellow Bikesiders and we talked about crawling out of our blogger caves and facing the public voices in person, I was amazed to find the hard questions of the internet discussed directly and intelligently in the open forum: Bikeside SPEAKS!
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She's sobbing, and a blood pressure cuff hangs from her arm, tracking her pulse. Ten men and myself stand around and none are talking to her and she's sobbing. I feel sad for her, I feel sad with her. I want to take her hand to connect to her and soothe her, to calm her […]
Roadblock Hit & Run Perpetrator Guilty of Misdemeanor Property Damage
(update: it was a no contest plea – an earlier version of this article wrote it was a guilty plea – confusion arose over how a no contest plea is handled in sentencing. My apologies.) Earlier today Glenn Gritzner plead no contest to misdemeanor hit and run, specifically to violating California Vehicle Code 20002(a): leaving […]
Ed Magos Hit and Run driver charged by City Attorney
I just learned that the Porsche driver who hit cyclist Ed Magos has had charges filed against them by the City Attorney. No word on the specific charges, but since it's going through the City Attorney instead of the District Attorney, that probably means that it's misdemeanor hit and run, not felony hit and run. […]
Another Hit And Run, Louis "Birdman's" Story
On a beautiful Monday afternoon, I found myself in Santa Monica sitting in a garage lifting wights while talking to Louis Deliz, also known as Louis Bianco, aka Birdman. A fellow Midnight Rida and Westsida, Louis is a professional bike racer and in late 2009, became the victim of a drunk driving hit and run.
2008 Bike Involved Collisions in Los Angeles
LAPD released a final version of a report on 2008 collisions involving bikes. 23% of bike involved collisions are hit and run, but 38% of all collisions are hit and run! Hit and run is a city wide epidemic affecting all the citizens of LA – let's include everyone in the solution.
Confronting Hit And Run in Beverly Hills
"The car behind me was trying to make the light and accelerated, hitting me and running over my bike as I flew through the air." – Brandon Chau. To stop LA's epidemic of hit and runs, Bikeside visited Beverly Hills City Council to confront "the safest city in America."


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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The city of Birmingham expects to spend $5.6 million on tornado recovery and reconstruction that will not be reimbursed by the state or federal government, according to a report from Mayor William Bell.
More than a third of that amount -- $2.2 million -- is money relating to debris removal and recycling.
The report, delivered to federal officials last week, includes the estimate along with a plea for additional federal support.
The city must pay a higher percentage of the costs of any cleanup work performed after July 12 -- 12.5 percent of the total cost, vs. 5 percent before that date. The state picked up the city's share of the costs for the first 30 days of work by contractors.
The subsidy from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for debris removal has now dropped from 90 percent to 75 percent of the cost, with the remaining 25 percent split equally between the state and local governments.
Birmingham missed out on weeks of the larger reimbursement period and was late in beginning major cleanup because of a fight between Bell and the City Council over who to hire for the job. The council approved a contract to clean up Pratt City and other areas four weeks after April 27 tornadoes leveled much of the neighborhood.
Bell said the council deserves part of the blame for the delay because it took so long to vote on his recommended contracts. Council members said Bell initially failed to provide information they needed to make a decision on the proposal.
In the days following the storm, "what we told everybody was to go ahead and get it done now," said state EMA spokeswoman Yasamie August. "We wanted people to have as much done under that 90/10 umbrella as possible."
In Birmingham, "they were a little slow, but every government is different," she said. "This is so unprecedented, so it was a learning curve that we understood would be a little high."
Chuck Faush, Bell's chief of staff, stressed that the numbers in the report show a worst-case scenario and are not final.
"We are responding to a crisis and a catastrophic event," he said. "These are estimates."
Those estimates anticipate that more than $2 million the city spends on debris removal will not be returned.
"From the very beginning, every department that was involved -- fire, police, public works -- all knew to keep a strict accounting of expenditures with the intent that everything that could be reimbursed would be reimbursed," Faush said. "We also knew there were staggered times when we would have to apply for reimbursements, which was why timing was and still is the issue."
In addition to some debris cleanup costs, non-reimbursable expenses include $2 million for a fire station in Pratt City. City officials estimate the cost of replacing Fire Station 18 would rise above reimbursable amounts because of the addition of community safe rooms -- items not covered by FEMA, the state or the city's insurance.
An estimated $1 million for sidewalks and lighting will not be reimbursed, along with $350,000 for police and other emergency services.
The millions in extra costs come in the same year when the city budget projects no revenue growth, takes $11.5 million from reserve accounts, cuts 1 percent from most city departments and is propped up by a $1 million bank loan.
Once final recovery numbers are available, Faush said the city will look at the operating budget and make adjustments.
"Just as the way we had to respond to the storm itself, we will have to address the effects of the storm," he said. "It's not a clear cut-and-dried answer at this minute."
Bell has said he will brief council members on details of the recovery next week.
Several council members said they were shocked to learn of the estimate this week, including Councilman Steven Hoyt.
"I'm disappointed in the administration for not being more hands-on with this process," said Hoyt, chairman of the budget and finance committee. "That cost tag continues to grow every day because we're not through. .¤.¤. I've said from the beginning we need somebody to monitor the monitor."
Hoyt said it's unfair to blame the council for its delay in hiring a cleanup crew and any cost increases that resulted, saying that delay was the result of Bell's unwillingness to communicate with the group.
"As long as the mayor is not sharing information and not being up front with council, it prolongs the process when we are expected to apply due diligence regarding taxpayer funds," Hoyt said. "That's why I didn't vote for it in the first place."
Councilwoman Valerie Abbott said the council had been "left in the dark" about costs.
"It is baffling to me to see these figures," she said. "I don't understand what it takes to get the administration to communicate with the City Council."
Abbott said she feared the looming consequences on the budget. "We already know that our budget is as tight as a tick, so where is this money going to come from?" she said.
Councilman Johnathan Austin said the information should have been shared with the council, but he called the spending unavoidable. "The moral to this story is if we work together as a team then we can avoid all surprises," he said.Join the conversation by clicking to comment or email Bryant at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Northern Nova senior women fall in provincial bronze medal game
STELLARTON – There was a lot learned this season and this weekend by the Northern Nova United senior women's soccer team.
Northern Nova United's Lauren Hale, right, tries to regain possession during Sunday's Soccer Nova Scotia women's senior B provincial championship being held in Stellarton at the Sobey Soccer Complex. NNU lost the bronze medal game 3-1 to the Scotia Toros.
Most importantly it's their ability to compete with any team from around the province.
As hosts of the Soccer Nova Scotia women's senior B provincials over the weekend they were up against some of the toughest competition they had seen all season – they handled it well.
"I think we played really well and are very happy," said head coach Melanie Hill. "We left it all on the field. We played hard all four games."
The women opened the weekend with a 1-0 loss to Bedford on Saturday morning before a lopsided 7-0 victory over West Nova on Saturday afternoon.
Sunday morning against Dunbrack they tied 0-0, which was enough to advance them to the bronze medal game yesterday afternoon against the Scotia Toros. They lost 3-1 with one of the Toro's goals being scored on a penalty kick. Amanda Hill had the lone Northern Nova goal in the bronze medal game.
"I think we learned that we can play soccer here in Pictou County," said Hill. "We have a lot of quality soccer players and we're going to continue to grow and keep women playing soccer."
Hill also referenced the changes to the NNU senior women's program and their infusion of youth on the field. She also said this year their team played the Gunn Baldursson tournament in the Annapolis Valley for the first time in a number of years, which was another positive in improving their team overall.
"(It was) stepping up and playing four games over the weekend (two days)," said Hill about what the toughest part of the weekend was. "I know everyone else has to do that too, but we played the Gunn Baldursson, which helped us with the number of games in the weekend. We stepped up and played hard.
"(We went to the Gunn because) we wanted to see other teams play because we only had four teams in our division. We knew we were hosting, so we wanted to see other teams before provincials."
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Dr. Helen R. Stiff-Williams, a professor in the School of Education at Regent University, teaches in and provides coordination for the Character Education cognate area in the Ed.D. Program. Her areas of expertise include: Character Education, standards-based education, school improvement for low-achieving students and low-performing schools, and K-12 educational policy. Stiff-Williams is engaged in research and writing projects on effective urban schools, closing achievement gaps, and examining the impact character education on student performance. She is the co-editor of Closing the African-American Achievement Gap in Higher Education.
Israel Ortega serves as strategic initiatives manager for the Heritage Foundation and editor of libertad.org. He regularly contributes commentary to prominent Spanish-language newspapers and online publications and is a frequent guest commentator on major Spanish radio and television outlets. He has appeared on Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel discussing policy issues, particularly as they relate to Hispanics in the United States. Ortega also writes a monthly column for El Diario La Prensa, the largest and oldest Spanish-language publication in New York City.
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'The Impossible' offers portrait of humanity amid tragedy
There are so many tragedies, man-made and natural, that sometimes we rely on shorthand to remember them.
For instance, the Dec. 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami, which claimed more than 200,000 lives, is regarded as among the deadliest disasters in recorded history. And although Westerners represented about 1% of its victims, it is remembered by many because of one of its survivors was supermodel Petra Nemcova. »Read Full Article
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Indians played the New York Yankees in the opener of a three-game series Friday. Here is a capsule look from Plain Dealer reporter Dennis Manoloff:
Game: 116.
Opponent: Yankees.
Location: Yankee Stadium.
Time of day: Night.
Time elapsed: 3 hours, 53 minutes.
Attendance: 43,972.
Result: Yankees 10, Indians 6.
Records: Yankees 61-54, Indians 57-59.
Nothing to see here: The Indians dropped their fourth straight (outscored, 31-11). They are 10-12 since the All-Star break. Playoff contention is a rumor.
House of horrors: Indians lost their seventh in a row, and 13th of 15, at Yankee Stadium. The Indians have been outscored, 106-55, in those 15.
Looks deceive: The Indians out-hit the Yankees, 12-10, and lost by single digits. Don't be fooled, though: This was a blowout.
The Yankees led, 5-1, after one and 10-2 after six. Nondescript Yankees reliever Shawn Kelley gave up four runs in the seventh.
Too easy: Tribe pitchers walked seven. Six scored.
Bottom lines, up front: The Indians embarrassed themselves on two fronts Friday:
1. Their mind-bogglingly slapstick defense offended yet again, this time on the big stage that is the Boogie Down. Tribe plays not made factored in New York's five-run first.
2. Their hitters had next-to-nothing for Yankees right-hander Esmil Rogers. Remember Rogers, whom the Indians sent to Toronto in November 2012 for Yan Gomes and Mike Aviles? Rogers allowed one run on four hits in five innings.
It is one thing to get shut down by Reds righty Johnny Cueto, as happened to the Indians on Tuesday. Or to be handled by Reds righties Mat Latos and Homer Bailey, as happened Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. It is an entirely different deal to be largely powerless against Esmil Rogers.
Rogers began the season with the Blue Jays. He posted a 6.97 ERA in 16 relief appearances before being designated. The Yankees claimed him off waivers July 31. Rogers had worked twice in relief for the Yankees (4 IP, H) before manager Joe Girardi asked him to substitute start against the Tribe.
So, to review: The Indians faced a pitcher in the midst of an awful year, a pitcher who already had been cut and was making his first start of the season....and they managed one run on four hits in five innings. Girardi was ecstatic to get five innings from Rogers, let alone five innings of one-run baseball. Rogers exited with a 5-1 lead.
And it was not as if Rogers lived dangerously. He allowed a double to Jason Kipnis and singles to Kipnis, Carlos Santana (RBI) and Roberto Perez. He walked one. He did not give up many hard-hit fouls or loud outs among his 88 pitches.
(The Yankees would submit that Santana's hit, which occurred with two outs in the first inning, was tainted because Rogers appeared to have him struck out with a 1-2 fastball on the outside corner. Two pitches later, Santana sent a full-count fastball up the middle to drive in Kipnis.)
Bad News Bearsian: The Yankees sent 10 to the plate in the first and effectively sealed the outcome. Tribe "fielders'' and righty Trevor Bauer helped their cause.
The inning began with a whimper, Brett Gardner striking out in three pitches.
Derek Jeter grounded a first-pitch fastball up the middle, where Tribe shortstop Jose Ramirez fielded, spun and threw fairly accurately to first. Carlos Santana stretched -- and dropped the ball. Jeter was credited with a single, but the eyes don't lie: Though Ramirez made an above-average play to get to the ball, Santana dropped a throw that would have retired Jeter by plenty.
Jacoby Ellsbury walked in four pitches. Carlos Beltran fell behind, 1-2, but hit a full-count single to right to drive in Jeter. Brian McCann drew a full-count walk.
Chase Headley walked in four pitches to make it 2-1.
Bauer got ahead of light-hitting Stephen Drew, 0-2, but allowed a 1-2 RBI single up the middle. Martin Prado grounded up the middle, where second baseman Jason Kipnis mishandled the backhanded grab and the subsequent backhanded flip. Two runs scored on the infield single/E-4.
Ichiro Suzuki grounded into a fielder's choice. Gardner ignominiously made his second out, a fly to center.
Bauer needed 44 pitches to get his first three outs. The Tribe bullpen stirred in the inning.
Rough night: Bauer allowed five runs on six hits in 3 1/3 innings. He walked four and struck out three.
Bauer (4-7, 4.52 ERA) has struggled in two of his past three starts. Overall this season, he has been much better at home than on the road.
Bauer does not deserve all of the blame Friday; the Indians' 2014 defense would unnerve even the greatest pitchers of all time. Still, a pitcher of Bauer's caliber can't walk three in the first and can't give up an RBI hit to Drew in a 1-2 count.
Most importantly, Bauer can't be outclassed by Esmil Rogers. Ever.


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Jerry Manuel and the New York Mets were closing in on a new contract Friday.
Manuel took over on an interim basis June 17, when New York was 34-35. While the Mets built a 3½-game NL East lead in September, they were eliminated from postseason contention on the final day of the season for the second straight year. They finished at 89-73.
Manuel, who had been Randolph's bench coach, was AL Manager of the Year in 2000 when he led the Chicago White Sox to a league-best 95-67. He was fired by Chicago in 2003 following his sixth season as manager.
Progress in his contract talks was first reported by foxsports.com.


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17 Gays And "Satanists" Blindfolded And Arrested In Iran, Being Held In Undisclosed Location
Iran's revolutionary guards announced the arrest of "a network of homosexuals and satanists" in the western city of Kermanshah, close to the country's border with Iraq, according to The Guardian.
The arrests took place on Tuesday in a ceremony hall, where 80 people were said to be celebrating a birthday. 17 people reportedly had their cellphones confiscated before being blindfolded and taken into custody at an undisclosed location.
A number of foreign nationals, including Iraqis, were among those detained, the report said, adding that eight of 17 were married to each other.
In Iran, anyone suspected or confirmed of being gay, or being associated with homosexuality in any way, can be punished.
For gay men charged with sodomy, the one playing the "passive role" (aka bottom) is put to death and the person playing the "active role" (aka top) is flogged 100 times.
For lesbian women, the punishment is 100 lashes for all individuals involved, but it can lead to the death penalty if the act is repeated more than three times.
The arrests have prompted more alarm over the treatment of LGBT people in the Islamic republic. Authorities there have previously likened homosexuals to satanists in an effort to further smear them in the eyes of the country's religious conservatives.
In September 2007, Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad famously denied homosexuals existed in the Islamic republic, telling an audience in New York: "In Iran we don't have homosexuals."
In more recent years, the government has maintained a policy of ignoring LGBT people, but revolutionary guards and the informal religious militia, who are independent of the government but close to the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have actively tracked down LGBT people and punished them.
It is not yet clear where the 17 individuals arrested Tuesday are currently being held or what they will be charged with.
Photo credit: The Guardian.
I Hate Muslims
@Ogre Magi: Way to stoop to the radical's level.
@2eo: It is the radical fundamentalist sects of all religions – including catholicism – that are the true problem. There are many forward thinking denominations and one comes to mind the Universal Unitarian Church (UUC, or "Unitarians"), from what I have learned and experienced ind dealings with them (and I am NOT a member of the church, nor do I go to their worship services.)
I hope the Pink Mafia busts them out of jail but im sure its just another sad story of ignroant people blinded by uneducated thinking… Its not really these peoples fault for being the way they are.. the radicals who hurt homosexuals, its very similar to gangs in america, where kids learn from the older kids and its just what they are exposed to… it doesnt make it right and its horrible and I DONT SUPPORT IT, im just saying i can understand how people get to be the way they are and hope they change over time
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"A number of foreign nationals, including Iraqis, were among those detained".
Once again more to this then meets the eye or their official story.
Islam really is a horrible religion.
I know many gay Muslim men and for the most part you canNOT have a relationship with them because of their religion. They will fuck you, but you better not expect or hope for anything more because they are terrified of angering their families and being vilified by their co-religionists. And this article helps me to understand why they all seem to be tops too.
Fortunately my fiance, who is Muslim, has a more progressive attitude about life. I adore him. <3 <3 <3
A good, intelligent, common sense comment —
" It is the radical fundamentalist sects of all religions – including catholicism – that are the true problem. "
This story is very troubling. Seeing the picture of the two men they hung for being gay has to have been one of the worst things I have ever seen or had to live with.
" Seeing the picture of the two men they hung for being gay…"
Aren't you referring to the "two young boys" instead of two men ?
Didn't this occur a couple of years ago ?
In a sense, it doesn't matter whether two boys or two men.
The almost greater tragedy were the families that must have reported
their own children to the authorities.
That's "extremely" troubling.


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The end of April is designated March of Dimes WalkAmerica time. The original fund-raiser shaped in the form of a walking event, WalkAmerica was launched in 1970 and has raised more than $1.5 billion for programs and research related to premature birth, birth defects and other health risks to babies.
WalkAmerica arrived in Kitsap County more than 20 years ago, organizers say. Last year, the local walk raised $82,100 thanks to 260 participants.
The walk Saturday, April 29, will be hosted for the second year in a row at Ridgetop Junior High School.
The 6-mile walk from the school down Ridgetop Boulevard and Myhre Road loops around Kitsap Mall. Local businesses and organizations sponsor the walkers and each participant is encouraged to raise at least $25, a team goal is set at $500. But there are no firm requirements to take part in the WalkAmerica Saturday.
Anything that anybody can do is just great, said Linda Jadwin of the South Sound Division of March of Dimes.
The funds collected are pooled together and re-distributed to communities for outreach or educational programs and research projects aimed at preventing premature births.
One example of a local program funded by March of Dimes is The Family Center in Bremerton, on the corner of Warren Avenue and 5th Street. The center opened in August 2001 thanks to a $20,000 grant the Kitsap County Health District received.
They were so able to use their money wisely that they stretched the project to two years, said Susan McAbee, director of the South Sound Division of March of Dimes.
In fact, the Health District stretched the project further still and with supplemental funding from the county and partnerships with various community organizations, it has increased its hours of operation to two days from the original three-hour per week. The center also has added to its repertoire of services, offering information and referral for medical, educational, social and career opportunities to Latino families.
Without the original grant from March of Dimes, however, The Family Center would not exist.
Thanks to them we were able to start the program and at that time we were providing prenatal vitamins for the mothers, said health educator Johanna Hanssen-Keller. The big focus was the pregnant women and the healthy kids.
The Health District continues to provide prenatal care and vitamins for Latina mothers-to-be at the center. Public health nurses visit pregnant women there and educate them on ways to ensure a healthy pregnancy.
Jadwin said local community grants like the one that helped launch The Family Center are among the March of Dimes priorities.
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Ambreen Esmail almost moved to New York City last year, putting her midtown Harrisburg coffee shop, Cafe Di Luna, in jeopardy.
"Harrisburg did not allow it. Something about Harrisburg pulled me back," Esmail said.
Now, the energetic owner is preparing to open Cafe Di Luna II at 315 Bridge St. in New Cumberland. It's scheduled to open in April at the former address of Oxford Hall Celtic Shop, which relocated last year.
Esmail will continue to operate the North Third Street, Harrisburg shop, a popular gathering place known for its homey, comfortable atmosphere.
The New Cumberland cafe will follow in its footsteps serving more than 100 international hand-crafted drinks made from natural and organic ingredients. The menu covers Malaysian latte, chai, herbal teas, cappuccinos and orange smoothies along with seven types of hot chocolate.
"It has just turned into a kitchen for beverages," Esmail said.
In an effort to create a farm to cup experience, Esmail said she is committed to carrying 100 percent direct sourced coffee beans and teas by 2015. About 80 percent of the product she sells now is direct sourced.
Customers also will find a larger selection of pastries at the new cafe and more loose-leaf teas as well as coffee and spices for sale.
Esmail said opening a second cafe across the Susquehanna River was prompted by many of her customers who travel from the West Shore.
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Girls basketball: Cedarcrest topples Wolves
The offensive struggles of the Coupeville girls basketball team continued as it fell to host Cedarcrest 51-24 Tuesday, Dec. 14.
With Katie Smith still out with injury, the Wolves need other players to pick up the offensive slack, said coach Jackie Bykonen.
She said, "A lot of the girls need to step up, and this comes with developing more confidence. They can't all rely on one person, in last night's case, Cassidi (Rosenkrance) to score."
Bykonen liked the effort of Amanda Manker who "had strong post moves...that resulted in easy buckets."
Cedarcrest (2-0, 3-2) took the first quarter lead 9-5 and steadily padded its lead throughout the contest. The Red Wolves led 21-9 at half and 34-18 at the end of the third quarter.
Bykonen said, "There is potential to beat every team, we just have to minimize the little mental mistakes. Cedarcrest is very beatable. Nothing they did stood out. They got a lot of their points off second shots, which means we need to block out. We will continue to hammer these things in practice every day."
Rosenkrance paced the Wolves with eight points, Manker finished with seven, Taya Boonstra three, Lauren Escalle two, Bessie Walstad two, Kendra O'Keefe one and Megan Metlow one.
The Wolves (0-2, 1-4) travel to King's (2-0, 3-2) Friday, Dec. 17, at 5:15 p.m. and then hit the road again Saturday for a nonleague game at University Prep (1-4) at 12:30 p.m.
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