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Years In The Making--And Worth The Effort
A wise man once said, If you want a happy life, first decide what two pastimes you enjoy the most. Make a career out of the second, and keep your favorite pastime as a hobby. Maybe those werent his exact words, but you get the idea. Its easy to get burned out on your hobby when you rely on it to pay the bills. Take Duane Wissmann, the owner of this gorgeous 67 Fairlane, as an example. He rescued the car in 1987 and immediately tore it down for a restoration. But you cant expect a guy who spends all day straightening and painting cars at the body shop to want to work overtime on his own car. And so the Fairlane sat under a tarp for nearly nine years. In the fall of 1996, Duane got tired of his car-guy friends asking, Wheres your car? So off came the tarp and the rebirth was begun.
Of course, the car was no longer the solid, clean Fairlane hed had in 1987the quarter-panels and floorpans had since dissolved in the humid Missouri air. Undaunted, Duane built a rotisserie, bolted up the forlorn Ford, stripped the metal clean, and installed full quarter-panels and floorpans. Duane monopolized two of the bays in his shop for two years, and worked nights and weekends to turn his dream into a candy-apple red reality.
The original 289/four-speed powertrain was mothballed in favor of a roller-cammed, 428-cranked, 67 390 FE Ford backed by an indestructible Top loader. Duane outfitted the Fairlanes gutted interior with a reproduction kit in red vinyl, and he augmented the factory instrumentserr, fuel gaugewith Auto Meter Ultra-Lites to keep tabs on the stroked FE motor. Rolling stock consists of 15-inch Magnum 500s, which complement the period-correct musclecar stance. In fact, its pretty scary how stock this car looks to a non-Blue-Oval guy. Duane drives the Fairlane to cruise-ins and shows as far away as Illinois and admits that a few late-model SS Camaros and GT Mustangs have fallen prey to the showroom-stock resto aura of the car.
He has yet to run the 67 on the strip, but he mentioned that such late-model musclecars have given him little competition on the street. Nothing, at least, that 430-plus cubic inches of Ford didnt settle.


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And why should they? They are getting so far with their stealth jihad, infiltrating at the senior level of the DoS, DoD, DoJ, and their complete control of the media narrative.
But the thing is, the jihadists can't help themsleves. They have to kill. The bloodlust is a religious mandate, which is why law enforcement is thwarting bloody jihadist attacks on a weekly basis here in the West.
American Muslim Jurists: Offensive Jihad -- not yet Ryan Mauro, February 18, 2013The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) opposes offensive jihad in the West, but for reasons that may surprise you. In an Arabic fatwa (religious decree) that doesn't appear on its English website, it states that "the Islamic community does not possess the strength to engage in offensive jihad at this time [emphasis added]."
This doesn't mean that all jihad is to be abandoned. "With our current capabilities, we are aspiring towards defensive jihad, and to improve our position with regards to jurisprudence at this stage. But there is a different discussion for each situation," it said.
It is important to notice that it was issued in Arabic on the website of its Secretary-General, Salah Al-Sawy. Even though AMJA is based in Sacramento and its mission is to serve their American Muslim audience, it decided against issuing this fatwa in English. If it wasn't translated by the Translating Jihad blog and reported by Andrew Bostom in 2011, we probably wouldn't know about it.
Deception is something that AMJA approves of. In an English-language fatwa on its website, issued by Al-Sawy inAMJA Secretary-General Salah Al-Sawy 2005, Muslims are authorized to lie for the sake of "repulsing evil" if there are "compelling strokes of necessity." In that case, "he can indirectly say something that his listener can understand something else."
In a 2007 Arabic paper presented at one of its conferences, AMJA even recommends that Muslims become judges and use deception to implement sharia law to the best of their ability. According to a non-verbatim translation, it says a Muslim judge in a non-Muslim country "must in his heart hate the man-made law" and "judge by the rulings of the Shari'ah as much as possible, even if by a ruse. [emphasis added]"
The AMJA commands Muslims in the West to remain committed to establishing "Shari'ah rule." Another fatwa from Al-Sawy states that Muslims can only become American citizens if is no other viable option and "on the condition that they do not accept indefinitely the law and legislation of that country and being indefinite belonging to the nation of the non-Muslim country."
Al-Sawy blames the Muslim world's ills on its failure to apply "Shari'ah Rule," attributing it to the "Devil's" influence. In another fatwa, he says the "Devil" has misled Muslims into believing that Sharia's hudud, or its criminal punishments, are "harsh and barbarous."
AMJA has issued fatwas in support of marital rape, stoning married men that commit adultery, executing critics of Islam's founder and apostates and female circumcision. It even warns Muslims of the dangers of becoming police officers because they might be forced to engage in sins like "gender mixing" or having to "arrest a Muslim man whose wife said he 'raped' her." Unsurprisingly, from 1992 to 1995 Al-Sawy was a visiting professor for a satellite campus of Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud Islamic University located in Fairfax.
Other AMJA fatwas are based in anti-Americanism and hostility to non-Muslims. One tells Muslims to "not take as a friend anyone apart from the believers." Another declares that Muslims are forbidden from providing food and other supplies to U.S. and foreign soldiers in Muslim countries. They can only serve in the U.S. military in capacities where they are not "involved in fighting, harming or even bothering Muslims at all." Joining the FBI or other security agencies is impermissible because of their supposed persecution of Muslims.
In 2009, AMJA endorsed supporting armed jihad against Israel in response to military operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Al-Sawy issued a rage-filled fatwa that was nothing less than a call-to-arms. It said that when a Muslim land is invaded, obviously referring to Gaza, every Muslim is required to help their co-religionists "fight in their own defense" and "with every possible means of support: military, financial, political and journalistic."
Al-Sawy also declared that Muslims should use the conflict to "revive the obligation of jihad," "revive the call to Sharia rule," "reinvigorate and continue the option of the resistance and rejection of the Zionist project;" "revive the policy of using all available and possible means of da'wah [proselytizing] and jihad" and "revive the bonds between Muslim communities living beyond the lands of Islam."
That's pretty extreme for a group that says its jurisprudence is based on a "moderate approach and a rejection of extremism."
This type of preaching isn't limited to the AMJA website audience. AMJA's Fatwa Committee scholars, experts and members hold positions in mosques and Islamic schools across the U.S. and outside the country. Al-Sawy is also the president of the Mishkah Islamic University of North America, an online school that was originally called the Sharia Academy of America. He also co-founded the American Open University and was its Vice President from 1995 to 2004.
AMJA's extremism is so pronounced that it's hard to believe that anyone affiliated with it is ignorant. This is an organization that believes offensive jihad in the West is wrong only because it is impractical. It endorses "defensive jihad" against Israel and in the Muslim world. It explicitly endorses instituting "Shari'ah Rule" without any room for believable equivocation. And, if necessary, it's willing to lie and deceive.
Any group or individual that embraces AMJA should be disqualified from being considered a "moderate."


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In certain circles, having children is not the most fashionable thing to do. It's often regarded as a curious, amusing, but why would anyone want to do that to their life? sort of thing. Strangely enough, I happen to be part of one of these circles, and I've got two kids.
What was I supposed to do – tell my friends that they'd better get on the procreation ball pronto, because I needed some company? Believe me, I tried. No one listened. They all just sat around making flimsy excuses like, "I enjoy my freedom too much," or "I don't have a partner," or "The world is overpopulated enough as it is," or "I'm too broke," or "I'm gay." So they left us to be the sole childbearing trailblazers of our friend-family.
To be fair, a few friends did manage to work up the nerve to have children, but they responded to the blessed event by immediately packing up and leaving L.A., muttering something as they left about no longer wanting to spend 95% of their income on housing or 95% of their time on freeways or some such nonsense.
So I was left to try to connect with other parents through various places like Gymboree or HipMama.com, but I just couldn't make it work. Gymboree was a consumerist nightmare, and it turns out every mama believes she's a hip mama – even the ones who think they're edgy because they tried sushi once and get all of Cathy Guisewite's jokes. Sure, there must be parents out there who share my sensibilities, but I just wasn't finding them, and screening a potential friend through a parenthood filter seemed kind of ass-backwards to me anyway. My friendships had always come about more organically, and seeking out potential friend candidates in such an organized way often left me feeling as if I'd just been through a bad internet date. Worse, actually, because on a date there's at least the potential that you might get laid. On a toddler playdate, not so much.
I learned that parenthood alone isn't enough commonality to base a friendship on, and afterwards many of these meetings, I'd run screaming back to my friends, who, though childless, know how to crack wise and smart off in a way I've never heard anyone do at Mommy & Me.
I envied those people whom I overheard saying, "It seems like everyone we know is having kids these days!" and faux-complaining about all of the baby shower invitations they were getting. Most of the invitations I get are to parties I can't attend because (a) they start too late at night, (b) I don't have babysitting, or (c) the presence of children might inhibit the planned degree of drunken debauchery. Hey, I don't want be the one whose crying baby is the buzzkill at your pirates vs. ninjas vs. klowns-on-stripper-poles bacchanal, so I guess I'll stay home. Yeah, my friends still do that kind of stuff for entertainment. They have to, because they don't have kids.
Not only was I turning down more party invitations now that I was a parent, but I also began keeping radically different hours from most of my friends. I'd call a confidante during the afternoon, but they'd usually have trouble squeezing time for my hour-long sob story about my son's incurable diaper rash into their work day. By 5:00 p.m., when friends were finally ready to unwind and socialize, the busiest part of my day would be beginning, with dinner, homework, baths, toy put-aways, and story time. Right around the time my friends were meeting for drinks, I'd be collapsing into bed. I crammed what socializing I could into the weekends, but it didn't keep me from feeling extremely isolated much of the time, especially in the early days of my struggle to make the adjustment to the stay-at-home lifestyle.
The transition was a rough one. I often felt lonely, angry, and jealous of my untethered friends who had jobs to go to and really compelling reasons to wear things that weren't sweatpants. I remember feeling as if the world had left me behind, like I was stuck in a 1950s housewife time warp. One day, at my nadir of self-pity, as I wondered what women in the '50s did to cope with the crushing sense of isolation that staying at home full-time can provoke, I realized that they probably didn't have a crushing sense of isolation, because damn near everyone they knew was doing the same thing they were. Society wasn't as fragmented by the pesky freedom of choice we have so much more of today. If a '50s housewife phoned a friend, that friend would probably answer, because she didn't have the Pill and didn't have her calls rolled over to voice mail because she had a huge deadline to meet. How great those women had it, I thought. Sure, they were shackled to their stoves, married to men who'd never dream of changing a diaper, they had no real career options and no reliable birth control, but at least they had friends who were home in the afternoon!
Okay, get a grip on yourself, I finally told myself. Feeling jealous of your friends is unhealthy, and feeling jealous of women in the '50s is ridiculous. Besides, I love my friends and I hate poodle skirts.
Slowly, I began to accept my fate as my group's designated breeder, and began to more fully appreciate what a blessing it was to have the privilege of staying home with my children. Besides, my friends were who they were, and they weren't going to change, and I wouldn't want them to anyway. And I realized that even if I did have a bunch of parent friends, you can only have the same conversations about fevers, potty training and playdate traumas so many times. And I really love the fact that, I began to accept my fate as my group's designated breeder.because they're usually the only children around, my kids get showered with attention and gifts from their numerous aunts and unkies. Who else would my friends give all of those unwanted Drinky Crow comics, Episode I action figures, Invader Zim lunchboxes and videos of The Brak Show to?
I'm also very grateful for those occasions when I can accept an invitation to an all-adults party, because those outings do me a world of good. I like still feeling connected to the world I inhabited B.C. (before children). Usually, it'll be somewhere around 2:30 or 3:00 a.m., when I'm fighting to keep my eyes open, that one or more of my friends is drunk enough to have reached the I-love-you-man stage, they're also kind enough to add, "and I love your kids!" Then they slur adorable things like, "Too damn many hardcore neo-con fundamentalist types are having babies all of the time, so I'm glad people like you guys who aren't total idiots are doing it too." Aww shucks, that's sweet.
That's what I get for signing on with an alliance of carousing, freedom-loving, commitment-ambivalent friends. Parents or not, I wouldn't trade them for the world.


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RightNow Buys CRM Rival Salesnet for $9M
RightNow Technologies spends $9 million to buy Salesnet, a producer of on-demand salesforce automation applications.RightNow Technologies has decided to follow a buy rather than build strategy to expand its product line with the $9 million acquisition May 22 of on-demand sales automation competitor Salesnet of Boston. "This acquisition means that well be quicker to market with more sophisticated sales products that will interact with out service and marketing products," said Greg Gianforte, CEO of RightNow Technologies of Bozeman, Mont. He estimated that the Salesnet buyout would speed up the company product Customer Relational Management product development roadmap by more than a year.
"From a finance perspective, it is a classic build versus buy decision. We could have gone out and hired dozens of engineers to advance the product road map," said RightNow CFA Susan Carstensen.
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Yeah that sucks, I have been on the end of that many more times than you can think. When you have been betting as long as me you see everything. Detroits offense is underperforming and sometimes they can just explode like that. Thorton is a ship wreck.
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X-ray timing studies of AGN are providing new insights into the deep similarities between AGN and galactic black hole candidates (GBHCs), which we discuss here. We have monitored a selection of Seyfert galaxies with RXTE since 1996, sampling on a range of time-scales to measure their broadband power spectra for the very first time. Results from the first four years of our campaign showed that the power spectra flatten towards low frequencies, like those of GBHCs, have the same RMS amplitude as GBHCs and that the characteristic power-spectral break frequency scales inversely with black hole mass, implying that the inner regions of AGN and GBHCs are essentially identical, with variability time-scales scaling linearly with black hole mass.
This year we continued our RXTE monitoring program with 2 months of intensive (6-hourly) monitoring on each of our targets. Combining these data with our long-term program, we confirm another parallel with GBHCs - the existence of different accretion states. In one of our targets (NGC~5506), we measure a power-spectrum analogous to those of GBHCs in the high state, while in NGC~4051 - which we have previously seen in two unusual low states lasting several months - we confirm significant changes in power-spectral shape during the course of our monitoring campaign, which suggest an analogy with the exotic galactic micro-quasars. The existence of a variety of accretion states in AGN, analogous to those seen in GBHCs, has important implications for AGN unification.
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I'd much prefer to play a game like Brawl or Galaxy compared to Bioshock or Call of Duty 4. If it were my decision I would keep the Wii as I prefer Nintendo first party games to any other software on the market. As if Brawl would not be released here, MoH:H2 was all EA's fault not Nintendo's.
The optimum solution would be to keep your Wii and buy a 360 as well so you can continue to buy the best Nintendo games as well as the Xbox games.
Ultimately it's your decision, no one can make it for you.


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This briefing is part of the EEA's report The European Environment - State and Outlook 2015. The EEA is an official agency of the EU, tasked with providing information on Europe's environment.
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HUNTSVILLE, AL. -- The typewritten letter is safely encased in a plastic sleeve. It was sent by Frank Thomas, Alabama's football coach, to each of his incoming players before the 1942 season.
Near the end, Thomas wrote this:
"Due to war conditions we've been restricted to buying a limited number of towels. When these are gone I do not know that we can get more. In the past we've allowed you boys to use these towels here in the gym to take to your rooms. But with conditions as they are now this will be impossible. I'm asking your full cooperation in not asking for towels to be taken out of the dressing room this coming year."
"I'm not sure," Wildon Bennett said, laughing, "how much good that did."
Bennett, now 88, was among the Alabama football players ultimately called away by the war.
This Saturday, he's one of 13 being called back to Tuscaloosa. In Veterans Day tribute, former players who are World War II veterans are being honored at the Alabama-Mississippi State game. (Buck Hughes and Vaughn Stewart, two other Huntsville-area ex-Alabama players were also World War II veterans, have died.)
"Since I'm still alive and going through this thing, I'm doing it for the ones that can't be there," said Bennett, who served in the Army Air Corps as a mechanic on fighter planes at Page Field in Fort Myers, Fla., where pilots were trained.
The towel supply wasn't the only thing that impacted the Alabama football program when World War II broke out, when lives were changed and sacrifice was demanded in nearly ever corner of the country.
More than 300 former Alabama football players served in the U.S. military during the war, according to Delbert Reed's new book, "When Winning Was Everything." Among those were luminous names like Paul "Bear" Bryant, Herb Hannah and Dixie Howell.
"Football helped make them not just good soldiers but the best soldiers in the best fighting forces in the world," Reed wrote.
Fifty-five of the 61 players from the 1941 team served. Fifty-eight of 59 from the '42 team served. Six of them even went through enlistment ceremonies at halftime of the final game of '42.
Thirteen former Tide players died in service
Football was suspended for the 1943 season; the '44 team would consist of 17-year-olds ineligible for the draft - "war babies," Thomas called them - and those declared 4-F by the military.
Bennett went to Tuscaloosa after his high school career at Madison County. He played freshman ball in 1941 as the Alabama varsity went 9-2 and was awarded a national title by the Houlgate Poll. After spring drills in '42, he was listed as a "promising" newcomer.
However, the war was raging. He decided to enlist in the Air Corps on Sept. 18, a week before his sophomore season would begin. Following his discharge, some former teammates and coaches convinced him to come back out for football in the spring of '46.
But he was in his mid-20s by then. It didn't hold the same lure. Besides, "I already met this pretty girl and wanted to get married and start a family," Bennett said.
The pretty girl, Margaret, died in 2007. She and Wildon were married 60 years. They had three children.
These days, he keeps busy gardening in the Huntsville home he and Margaret bought 55 years ago. He often spends time in a garage office full of old photos and memorabilia.
Looking over Bennett's shoulder as he sits at his desk is an olive jersey in a frame. It's his old Alabama practice jersey.
It stands as a reminder of the era when Bennett and so many others traded in one uniform for another, for a cause more noble than football, where winning truly was the only option.
Contact Mark McCarter at mark.mccarter@ htimes.com


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It continues to be amazing how many believe they can post threats online without reprisal or notice.
The teenager was arrested without incident at his home in Maricopa Country after posting the threats in the comments section of a YouTube music video for the hit song "Pumped Up Kicks." "Pumped Up Kicks," by the group Foster the People, depicts a school shooting.
The boy, whose name was not released due to his age, was arrested early Tuesday morning after someone from out of state saw the comments online and called the authorities. The boy was arrested at his grandparents' home in north Phoenix, where he apparently lived.
Sergeant Jessie Spurgin, a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesman said, "He gave out a specific place and time for when it would happen. That made it a little more credible in our eyes."
Spurgin added that a sawed-off shotgun was later found during a search of the boy's home. Investigators are still trying to determine if there was a connection between the threats and the weapon. The boy admitted posting the threats on YouTube.
The tenor of his comments would make one think the boy was expelled from Wigwam Creek Middle School, but he was not. Adding to the mystery, Ann Donahue, community liaison for the Litchfield Elementary School District, said the boy was not a "disciplinary problem" while he attended the school as a sixth-grader from October 2010 to March 2011. "He just moved away. There was no trouble."


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SBA Simplifies
A separate SBA loan approval and repurchase program would be established for credit unions under a new bill.
Introduced in early March, the Credit Union Small Business Lending Act (H.R. 4191), would simplify the SBA application process for credit unions and boost coordination between the agency and the NCUA.
As proposed, the legislation would also guarantee 85% of loans that credit unions provide to members that reside in designated underserved areas. The loans would not exceed $250,000. The guaranteed portion of SBA loans does not count toward the credit union member business lending cap.
Representatives from CUNA recently met with the SBA to discuss the agency's loan programs credit unions are eligible to participate in, and how both entities can best ensure that credit unions are aware of those options.
According to the SBA, it backed $30.5 billion in loans to start-ups and small businesses in fiscal year 2011.
The Credit Union Small Business Lending Act was introduced by Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) and Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio).


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* Note there is a glitch in the VC system when it comes to Draws , I will locate and post the info when i can locate it in another forum.
Apparently, it seems to be more of a new site design thing than a "Glitch",
But it can be bad if not aware of it. here is what I found-
"reported this in the New Site Design Feedback thread in the main forums. Apparently, one team in the Speed Vote Chess League had been offered a draw in one of their games. One player voted to accept the draw, and 5 players just played a move ignoring the offer. When the turn finished, the game was declared a draw to the surprise of the 5 players. If you want to play on, it seems that you now have to click VOTE TO REJECT DRAW in case someone on your team has voted to accept"
here is link to forum topic
Here is a set of guidelines that we should all try to play by. I think that if we all follow these, our group will be greatly improved.
1. Participate:
Be involved. Look at the conversation your team mates are having about the move before voting. Help discuss the move. Please don't just look at the board, vote, and leave. Vote chess is a team game. So let's play it as a team, and we'll all learn from each other in the process!
2. Make suggestions:
Don't feel shy to give your opinion. Everyone has good ideas. So if you see a move you think would be good, or think a move someone else suggested wouldn't be good, please tell us. We love having good friendly debates about moves. Also when you suggest or refute a move, please give your reasons or post a line that supports your move. Doing this will make others more likely to consider your move and will help us all think through the move more thoroughly.
3. Make the voting situation known:
When you vote and find that others have also voted, please let us know the vote tally. I don't mean you should post the tally every time someone votes, but if there's a significant amount of votes already made we need to know. Recently, we have had times where we come to an agreement on which move is best and then find that there are already several votes for another move. Although surprises are fun sometimes, this is not the kind of surprise we like. So please let us know if something like that is going on.
4. Be aware of the time:
Since we play timed games in this group it is important to be aware of the time we have for a move. If we have 1 day per move, you don't need to vote in the first few hours. Let the move be discussed before you vote so that we can make sure we find the best move. If it is a 72 hour or longer game, make your suggestion and, if possible, give it untill the last 24hrs for a rebuttal before you vote. In a faster 1 day game, you may need to vote and leave, but if you do, please tell us why you voted for the move you did so that we can also consider it.
5. Join the games:
Join the vote chess games! That's what we're here for! We understand that you won't be able to vote on every move, but it is intimidating for the other team to see we have 20-30-40 players signed up. You only need to play when you have the time, and when you do, join the discussion and have fun!
6. Openings:
Please don't suggest wild opening moves because it can cost us the game. We play book openings fairly deep. We are serious about the openings and follow lines in the book that favor us. We use the Game Explorer extensively as well as databases from other websites. We frequently post multiple lines so that players can choose which path we take, but we avoid the lines that are historically bad for our side. We have played many different openings and variations, so if you have an opening you want to try, feel free suggest it.
And finally…
Have fun, be passionate, and improve both your own chess skills and your team's games. The debate is one of the best parts of vote chess, but it needs input from everyone. Don't be afraid to stand up for your opinion in a game. All our active members know I will fight for a move I think is right until it is proved wrong or I run out of time. I will also argue against a move I think is not best. I'm not attacking anyone, I'm just being passionate about the game. I credit playing a lot of vote chess with 2000+ players as being the biggest reason I improved from 1500 to 1700 in rating. And remember, if there are two parties with opposing views, only one will get its way. So if the move you think is best is not the one that wins, be a good sport and let it pass by. None of us get our way all the time.
To our top players: Keep doing what you do. We have great leaders here. You explain your moves well and understand that it is a democracy. The move the highest rated player suggests does not always win the vote.
To our middle players: You are the backbone of this group. Most players fall into this range. Think for yourselves and don't follow the pack blindly, you might see something a higher rated player doesn't. Treat each move as if it were your own game and suggest your ideas.
To our lower rated players: Don't be afraid to participate. Suggest your ideas because you will learn whatever the outcome is. Many times a player makes the right move for the wrong reason. Suggest your move with your reasoning, and you will learn a lot from the discussion.
To everyone: Let's all unite together and improve this team and move up in the Vote Chess Leaderboard. Keep up the good work, and fill up the discussion every turn!! See you at the games!
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Thank you! I did this becuase we had so many new to VC in our many groups that I just found this much easier to to point them to this link and added what i thought was relevant
lol That's fine. I spent an entire day fixing them up, so I'm glad you thought they were good enough to use.
yep i plagerized i admit it was too good to pass up- i just combined the VC guide from C.C and the second half from another group and did some minorrewording and editing for asthetics.
Hmmm...those guidelines at the end look awfully familiar.
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Hey guys, my name is Jenn and this is the first time I have ever blogged so bear with me! I am 25 years old and I am a "twihard!!" I just thought i needed to write my experience down and share with other fans like myself because I know you are the ones who truly appreciate it, when other people ask me about it they look at me like im nuts... so thanks for taking ur time to read this..
July 2010, my hubby and I bordered a plane from Detriot Airport to Denver Colorado then off to Seattle Washington... drove through Port Angeles past the resturant Bella Italia, the place where Edward and Bella had there first date.... I enjoyed a coke and a mushroom ravioli just like Bella did. We turned left on highway 101 to Forks Washington... we arrive in Forks and the first thing I see is the famous sign
Arrived at our Hotel called "Dew Drop Inn" which is located right across the street from the Thriftway that Bella works at...
we went for a walk in town and at the main intersection of forks there is a store called "Dazzled by Twilight" and it was just amazing...
We then drove around the town to look at where Bella and The cullens live, also we visted the Forks Police station where Charlie works...
On the way back we went to the hospital where Dr Cullen works..
The next day it was off to LaPush... my favorite place since im Team Jacob!!
The town of Forks really embrases Twilight and they just really love it and feel so lucky to be apart of something so amazing... at the Forks Chamber of Commerce they have Bellas truck and it was so great!!
the last night we were there we got the "Bella Suite" and it was pretty dam amazing!!
Let me know what you think... if u like I will post pics of my Twilight movie locations tour in Portland Oregon next amd also some of the amazing scenery in Forks and Port Angeles...
Thanks again for reading!!
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The real Swan House is in St. Helens, Oregon and the restaurant where Edward and Bella had their first date was also in St. Helens, Oregon. Along with the bookstore, the ally way and the parking lot scene.
yepp i know i did that tour as well i plan on posting it soon... its just neat they had a family use there house to be bellas its like they are really there:)
honestly it was his idea:) he had a great time because the scenery there is breathtaking and we did alot of stuff that didnt invove twilight, he wasa good sport thats for sure especially when we drove for 15 hours straight from Forks to Portland oregon and went to 23 movie locations from the first movie...
Awesome, ya I live in St. Helens, Oregon and was able to watch the movie be made. It was an great experience!
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you are so lucky my hubby just thinks i am crazy.
you have some amazing shots. That was for sure the trip of a lifetime. Congrats. Look forward to more postings from you. Thank you for sharing.


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There are still 17 MPs yet to make a statement about this. See my list here!
I'll have to send this PN story to my MP Steve Webb (lib Dems) pensions minister.
Gordon MacDonald, a politician in the West of Scotland who repeatedly stands for the LibDems for both the Westminster and Holyrood parliaments, works for CARE. Quite how the LibDems manage to continue to put him forward, heaven knows, especially since last year the LibDems had a manifesto commitment to marriage equality which he seemed to expect not to have to support.
Tim Farron, who is President of the Lib Dems has declared receipt of material support from the charity, in the form of an intern paid by CARE, over a considerable period.
I made this schedule to show the dates upon which an entry was made in the Register of Members' Financial Interests :
You can use it to cross reference back to the relevant update to the register, which are all online here :
The more recent entries show the financial sums paid, the older entries dont. If you are a constituent of an MP who has accepted an intern from CARE I hope you will contact them to ask why.
Here is a link to the conference flier from 2009 which shows the CARE logo and the fact they co-sponsored the event. The agenda includes
Therapeutic approaches to and understandings of Same-Sex Attraction
Mentoring the sexually broken
WOW! , a british mp with integrity and dignity. Indeed a rare quality. Shame David Lammy is not Labours mayoral candidate rather than the controversial livingstone.
CARE and Burrowes denied it is a lobby group and said it has no influence on policy. Burrows is a barefaced liar and CARE and him are homophobic to the bone. CARE has no place in the British Parliament and their so called interns should be booted out.
Lammy's not broken all links with evaneglical Christian groups opposed to equality. He still supports the Haringey Peace Alliance, which is far more intolerable of us than groups like CARE. As always, Lammy does what's best for, er, Lammy!
Really – in that case he is a liar and a hypocritical scumbag.
Is he breaking all ties with these extremist groups.
if not then David Lammy needs to be regarded as an ally of extremist homophobes.
Why can't people like Burrows put their money where their mouthes are and stand on a religious/theocratic platform? It seems they prefer to piggy back into the Westminster on the back of a mainstream political party from where they can abuse their position to impose their religious views and of course benefit from the troughing. Some of these religious people are amazingly materialistic you know. You won't find many vows of poverty amongst these devotees.
"My record on gay rights stands for itself "
But Mr Lammy's record now states that he has employed homophobic religious extremists.
That's part of your record Mr Lammy.
What is David Lammy doing to ensure that official Labour Party policy is marriage equality.
What is Lammy doing to ensure that marriage equality is law within the year 2012 (he does accept doesn't he that the 'consultation' on equality is unnecessary and just a delaying tactic, and the that date 2015 for equality is completely unacceptable as equaliy is required immediately.
By the way what were these religious extremists doing in his employ?
Specifics I mean.
I support what Lammy has done and has a good record.
David Lammy has no influence over the government's timing of delaying a bill, which Labour has already criticised. I don't see any justification for delay – once you've made the decision in principle you should proceed fairly quickly. Stonewall's draft bill shows it need not be complicated. There are a couple of ends that do need tying up (like what do you do about Civil Partnership and what is the mechanism to convert one to another and so on). This can be dealt with fairly quickly though.
Neither can he do anything to make marriage equality the position of the Labour party – it already is and there is no controversy on the issue, so far as I can see.
The only thing Lammy needs to do is support the Bill which (I am glad to see) he has said he will do as soon as the Government pulls its finger out and prints the Bill.
He can condemn the fact that marriage equality is not officical Labour Party policy.
He can condemn as unncessary this obscene 'consultation' on marriage equality (as IF our civil rights are negotiable).
He could be doing a LOT more than he is.
I suspect he won't – he has only sacked these religious extremist bigots because he got caught.
He has seriously damaged his reputation among LGBT voters through his own negligence.
He better do something to repair the damage. No LGBT person can trust a candidate who employs homophobic extremists.
Well done David Lammy MP. Keep it up, change the rest of your policies and you could be a LibDem MP
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The Wolfpack Midgets downed Puyallup 32-12. Standouts Keenen Jackson and Robert Combs each scored two touchdowns for the Wolfpack. The Wolfpack improved to 4-5 and is looking to even its win-loss record and repeat as champions, but first they need to knock off top seed Maple Valley, which beat them earlier this season 22-20.
The Wolfpack 89ers topped Maple Valley 13-0 in the first round of the Cascade Junior Football League playoffs. Carson Bohl and McKenna Ooley were able to pound the ball up the middle all day behind some great blocking by the offensive line. Defensively the 89ers played aggressive; solid tackling by key players on defense were Conner Filleau and Jon Geiger.
The Wolfpack Sweet Peas were victorious over Maple Valley 39-0. Tre Weed, Cody Miller and Cayman John put the ball in the end zone.
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Who: The championship game pits tournament unbeatens Byron Township and Midland. Both teams come in 5-0. Midland has outscored its five opponents 48-23 and Byron Township has a 53-22 edge.
What's next: The state championship advances to the Central Regional at Indianapolis from July 31-Aug. 9. The regional champion goes on to the 75th Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa.
Final score: Midland 6, Byron Township 5
Sixth inning: Fedewa led off the top of the sixth with a double on the first pitch. Zach Grabowski grounded out to second and Fedewa moved up to third. Schuelke singled to center to tie the game at 5-5. Knochel got the last two outs on strikeouts. Ethan Volmering singled and Maxx Fisher drew a walk on the final batter for Schuelke. Dykstra came in to pitch for Byron Township. Two on and one out, Ryan Freed singled to left to load the bases. Byron Township makes a pitching change and brings in Fedewa to face Griffin, Midland's leadoff hitter. Fedewa gets a strikeout for the second out to bring up Knochel. He lines a single to center field to score the winning run. Midland 6, Byron Township 5.
Fifth inning: Byron Township and Midland had to take out Schummer, who replaced his pitch limit with one out and two on. Knochel came in to pitch and gave up RBI singles to Matt Myers and Tyler Ryder to cut the deficit to 5-4. Knochel got strikeouts to end the top of the fifth. Midland went down 1-2-3. Schuelke at 80 pitches. Midland 5, Byron Township 4.
Fourth inning: Byron Township got a two-out hit by Fedewa, but a forceout ended the top of the inning. Schuelke had his best inning on the mound with a pair of strikeouts. Midland 5, Byron Township 2.
Third inning: Byron Township got on the board on RBI doubles by Schuelke and Ryan Dykstra. Schuelke's was a hard grounded down the left-field line and Dykstra hit a drive off the center-field fence. Matt Myers singled to center and Dykstra scored, but was ruled he left early from second and had to return to the base. Schummer got a strikeout to end the inning with runners on second and third. Midland got a single from Schummer, but he was erased on a double play. Midland 5, Byron Township 2.
Second inning: Schummer struck out two in a 1-2-3 in the top of the second. Midland kept the bats going off Byron Township starter Cam Schuelke. Ethan Volmering single and the ball was misplayed in the outfield for a triple. A groundout scored Volmering. Midland got singles from Clark, Knochel and Christopher Swanson followed with an RBI double. Another run scored on a third-strike wild pitch. Midland 5, Byron Township 0.
First inning: Byron Township had a two-out single by Ryan Dykstra off Midland starter Midland Matthew Schummer, but a ground out ended the at bat. Midland got a leadoff walk by Griffin Clark and Carter Knochel followed with a double off the fence in left field. With one out, Jacob Stone hit a chopper up the middle into center field that scored two runs. Midland 2, Byron Township 0.


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Mayor Rahm Emanuel will be hosting the late-night post-inagural party on Jan. 21 in one of Washington's newest venues, the Hamilton, just down the block from the White House. How late? Runs from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. in an event billed as a "Chicago-Style after hours."
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President Obama Hosts President Karzai
By Matt Compton January 11, 2013 The White House Blog
President Obama hosted Afghan President Hamid Karzai today at the White House for talks on the partnership between our two nations and the role of U.S. troops in that country.
And coming out of those talks, President Obama was able to discuss a milestone we'll reach this year when Afghan forces take full responsibility for their nation's security and the war draws to a close.
President Barack Obama and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan participate in a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 11, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
"This progress is only possible because of the incredible sacrifices of our troops and our diplomats, the forces of our many coalition partners, and the Afghan people who've endured extraordinary hardship," he said. "In this war, more than 2,000 of America's sons and daughters have given their lives. These are patriots that we honor today, tomorrow, and forever."
In his statement, President Karzai echoed that message.
"During our conversations…I thanked the President for the help that the United States has given to the Afghan people," he said, "for all that we have gained in the past 10 years, and that those gains will be kept by any standard while we are working for peace and stability in Afghanistan, including the respect for Afghan constitution."
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The E&EI team collaborates on such projects as Encana EcoAction School and the Nature School in partnership with a variety of organizations.
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"We have an amazing team and incredible partnerships and we would not be able to provide this kind of programming without them." said Marlis Eaton, education coordinator of Environmental and Education Initiatives.
"Our programs truly are delivered through collaboration and team work. It is nice to be acknowledged by the EECOM and we are very proud of the work that we do"
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Mobile isn't just another stop on the road for Gov't Mule, where the band has literally drawn record-setting crowds to the Mobile Saenger Theatre – and Grammy-winning guitarist Warren Haynes knows it.
Gov't Mule returns to the Saenger on Saturday, Feb. 15. (Tickets for the 7 p.m. show range from $27.50 to $37.50 plus fees; they're available at the Mobile Civic Center box office and via Ticketmaster.) Haynes, described in Rolling Stone as "possibly the hardest-working guitarist on the planet," recently took time to talk about what the band will be bringing to the party.
Note: Haynes also spoke to Alabama Media Group reporter Matt
Wake, talking at length about Gov't Mule's most recent album, "Shout," and his
decision to end his long run with the Allman Brothers Band. To read that
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Gov't Mule is renowned in Mobile for twice setting the bar sales record at the Saenger – first in 2006, with the venue at roughly two-thirds capacity, and then again in 2010, with the house about three-quarters full. We know they're thirsty, but what else can you tell us about the Mule's fans?
We have a very unique fan base in the way that we're not a mainstream band, we're not a band that gets discovered through the normal commercial routes of mainstream media. So, consequently we wind up appealing to a lot of music lovers that don't mind working a little harder to discover great music. That usually means they have very eclectic tastes, if you were to look through their collection you would see a lot of different types of music. One thing I think all that music would have in common is that it's integrity-oriented and geared toward people who really take music seriously and are very passionate about music being a big part of their lives. So I think one of the prerequisites for being a Gov't Mule fan is being a serious music fan.
That means you've created some high expectations to meet when you step out on stage.
Well, I prefer it that way. I mean, I would much rather people be prepared to absorb what it is that we love than to just be part of the scene.
You'll play Mobile the day after Valentine's Day. Is that a good day for the blues or a bad day for the blues?
I think it's a good day for the blues in the sense that Valentine's Day is probably not. Nobody wants to drag their spouse to a blues show on Valentine's Day. Well, I say nobody, I probably would. But the average person, unless you're a big fan of the blues, which I am, and we are – but we're definitely not a blues band, blues is just a big part of what we do.
Does hitting the Gulf Coast or Mobile in particular create any particular expectations for you?
You know, from the first time we came, we just had such a blast. The audience was great. As you mentioned earlier, with us breaking the bar records, I think it was just a celebratory atmosphere. We waited too long to kind of start touring in Mobile, and when we finally came, the excitement level was off the hook. I still remember the crowd at that first Saenger show. It was just phenomenal. There's a lot of hard-core music fans in that area, which is indicative not only of the audience that comes to see us, but of the cool radio that you guys have that's very eclectic. I just love playing any town where there's little pockets of serious music fans that are very passionate and don't pay attention to the trends. That excites us.
You play a substantial amount of what we might call legacy music: You play with the Allman Brothers, you're booked to play a Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration with the Boston Pops, and Gov't Mule has joined forces with Robby Krieger to play Doors music. But you also generate a tremendous amount of original music, in a variety of projects. In your mind is it an either-or thing, legacy music versus original, or more of a continuum?
I really enjoy being able to express myself in a lot of different ways, and it's something that has been with me all my life. I love so many different types of music and I've studied and explored so many different genres of music. I would hate to be trapped into just doing one thing all the time, and I've been very lucky that the trajectory my career has taken reflects that. I've been able to build an audience that understands and appreciates that part of what I do. I feel like it keeps me from getting stagnated. I write a lot songs that may or may not fit into the Allman Brothers, may or may not fit into Gov't Mule, may or may not fit into my solo projects, but it's nice to have an outlet for all of those things. I feel like when I divert for a while and come back to whatever I was doing, I'm bringing fresh energy with me when it happens. As a listener, I listen to tons of different music, so I think it's cool that there's an audience out there that feels the same way.
What are your specific goals for this Gov't Mule tour?
Well, this is our 20th anniversary, so we're going to pull out all the stops. We're looking forward to pulling out many of the old songs we haven't played in years, to reinventing a lot the old material, to playing a bunch of new material, to writing a bunch of new material, to unveiling and discovering odd cover songs that we've never done in the past. We try to make every show special and unique anyway because we don't repeat the same set list from night to night, we do a completely different show night after night, but the 20th anniversary gives us even more reason to focus on making every show different and as over the top as possible. I feel like there's going to be a lot of eventful stuff happening throughout this tour.
You come to entertain, the audience comes to be entertained. Is there anything more that you hope they take away from the experience?
I think that music can do more than just entertain. It can uplift us, it can enlighten us. I've been fortunate as a student of music and as a fan of music and as someone who's been lucky enough to be able to do this for a living, to have felt that experience countless times myself. I feel like all the positive things that I get from music, if I can give some of that back to other people, then it goes beyond just the normal entertainment value. It is such a special thing to me, and I think to most people that wind up at our shows. It can make your life vastly improved. I know it has, speaking for myself.
What else are we in for?
We're doing all the material from our new record "Shout," which came out in September, and we're going to be focusing on that record. But we're obviously also focusing on our entire career for this whole tour as well. But we will be continuing to tour in promotion of "Shout" for quite some time, and going places we haven't been in a long time, as we're just very excited about spreading the word about the 20th anniversary and about the new music.


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A 45-year-old Bethlehem barber said he feared for his life when one of the two men who robbed his shop fired a gun at the storefront, all after stopping in for a haircut Friday night.
Two men walked into Jovaugh's Barber Shop about 8:15 p.m. at 413 Wyandotte St. and one asked for a haircut, according to city police. Barber Robert Jones cut the man's hair, but afterward the men started to leave without paying, according to police. Jones spoke up to stop them, and the man who got a trim pulled a gun and told him to "give it up," according to police.
Police said Jones yelled at the men to get out, but the armed man kept the gun trained on him and said, "The necklace, too." When Jones emptied his pockets of $150 and took off his gold crucifix necklace, placing them on the ground, the gunman ordered his friend to pick them up, police said. The two men ran away, but not before the gunman fired a shot into the store, police said.
As police went down the stairs to recover the evidence, Sills allegedly took off running down New Street. Police eventually caught him again off East Graham Place, records show.
Blakely told police he and Sills went into the barbershop so Sills could get a haircut, but he did not know his friend would rob the store, court documents say. He said he was surprised when Sills pulled out the gun but said he picked up the stolen goods when ordered, records show.
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Jones, the owner of the barber shop, described a harrowing experience at his store, which he's occupied for the past decade.
He said Sills and Blakely came in late, just as he was closing up.
"I told him it was pretty late. I really didn't want to do it," Jones said of the last-minute haircut.
But, Jones said, he had no reason to turn down Sills. When he finished the work, he said, the men began walking as if to leave the shop without paying.
"I said to them, 'Are you going to pay for that haircut?' And then he pulled out the gun," Jones said.
The barber had just emptied the cash drawers and so he threw the money onto the floor from his pockets, he said.
Sills ordered Blakely to pick up the cash and then the men left the store, Jones said. Alarmed but determined to find out where the robbers went, Jones said, he came to the door to find out what direction the men were headed.
That's when, police say, Sills fired a gun at the storefront. Jones said the bullet came through his shop and hit the back wall, which he said connects to apartments.
"To be honest with you, I think he wanted to kill me. You've got the merchandise, why shoot at me?" Jones said. "Why could you kill someone over a couple hundred dollars that you've already got?"
'Very leery now'
Jones was not hurt but said his wife ordered him to move his shop.
"My wife doesn't want me to work here anymore," Jones said. "I guess I'm going to try to go someplace else that's safer."
Jones, who used to live in New York City and was used to violence there, said he'd never been a part of anything like this before in Bethlehem. Even so, he said, he's been looking over his shoulder ever since the incident.
"I'm very leery now," Jones said. "I'm just looking at everybody. I've never felt like this before."Sills provided police with an Allentown address. Authorities believe he, too, hails from New York City; Blakely also lives in New York City, court records say.
Sills is charged with robbery, conspiracy, theft, receiving stolen property, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, escape and four firearm violations, including person not to carry a firearm.
Blakely is charged with conspiracy, theft and receiving stolen property.
Both men are being held at Northampton County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail each.


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Undaunted by two failed efforts to create a single higher education governing board, the Louisiana Legislature is now looking to a blue-ribbon commission for ideas on how to revamp the management structure for public colleges and universities.
The 18-member governance commission was created during the spring regular session by Reps. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, and John Schroder, R-Covington, whose House Concurrent Resolution 184 gives the panel until 60 days before the start of the 2012 regular session to recommend ways of delegating authority and money between the various campuses and the Board of Regents.
Unlike previous education panels, which have relied on outside experts for advice, the latest iteration consists solely of Louisiana residents. The list of appointees includes Board of Regents Chairman Robert Levy of Ruston, Dillard University interim President James Lyons, N.J. "Woody" Oge Jr. of Avondale, and Ann Duplessis, the deputy chief administrative officer for the city of New Orleans and a former state senator.


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PAC to hold meeting
STEUBENVILLE – The Polish Athletic Club will hold its regular monthly meeting at 8 p.m. Thursday in the clubhouse. Nomination of officers for 2014 will take place.
Big Red Boosters
STEUBENVILLE – The Big Red Boosters will meet on Tuesday at the Harding Stadium Fieldhouse at 6 p.m. All are welcome. Memberships are available.
Minerva tames Beaver Local
STEUBENVILLE – Tyler Stewart scored a pair of goals and Phillip Blackburn added one as the Minerva boys soccer team defeated Beaver Local, 3-2, Saturday at Harding Stadium in an Ohio Division II district final.
Minerva will play Coshocton at 7 p.m. Wednesday at River View.
DeShawn Parker scored both Beaver Local goals. Devon Oliver totaled 12 saves.
FUS volleyball wins
STEUBENVILLE – The Franciscan University of Steubenville volleyball team defeated D'Youville College 25-17, 25-23, 25-15 Saturday.
"I was kind of leery going into this match," Franciscan head coach Kelly Herrmann said. "They don't have a super strong record but they are not a team that you can beat by just going through the motions. They have a lot of good players and we don't want to take anything for granted."
FUS will host La Roche College at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the final regular season home match.
FUS rugby wins
STEUBENVILLE – The Franciscan University of Steubenville rugby team smacked Grove City College, 77-0, Saturday in the Three Rivers Rugby Conference semifinals.
Sophomore Ian Miller put in the games first try within the first two minutes and the Barons never looked back en route to a 53-0 lead at the half.
The Barons will host the conference championship at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
FUS men's soccer wins
STEUBENVILLE – The Franciscan University of Steubenville men's soccer team received goals from Peter Mooney, Luke Merry, John Imbimbo and Joe Duran in a 4-2 victory over visiting Pitt-Bradford Saturday.
The Barons visit Mt. Alyosius College at 2 p.m. Monday with a playoff berth on the line.
FUS women's soccer loses
STEUBENVILLE – The Franciscan University of Steubenville women's soccer team dropped a 3-1 decision to Pitt-Bradford Saturday.
Jordan Byrley, an Edison grad, gave FUS a 1-0 lead two minutes into the game.
The Barons visit Mt. Alyosius College at 4 p.m. Monday with a possible playoff berth on the line.
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Dons top Monarchs
MOUNDSVILLE – The Madonna girls soccer team defeated host John Marshall, 4-1, Saturday morning.
Alayna Macaluso got the scoring started with a goal from Mia Antinone in the first five minutes. Rachel Grubbs then scored three straight, two unassisted and one off a Gabby Hotten helper, for a 4-0 lead.
John Marshall's Hailee McClelland scored in the 78th minute.
Tessie Tokash had four saves for the Blue Dons, while Aysa Carney had 12 saves for the Monarchs.
Madonna (9-7-1) visits Robert C. Byrd on Monday.
Oak Glen's Chambers places first
CAMERON – With a time of 22:38, Oak Glen cross country runner Kelsey Chambers placed first at the Wild and Wet Invitational on Saturday. The Bear placed fifth as a team. Alyson Snow placed 15th overall with a time of 25:09 and Casey Baird was 20th with a time of 25:09.
The Oak Glen boys cross country team place second at the Wild and Wet Invitational. Cody Tropeck paced the Bears with a sixth place finish with a time of 19:25. Brock Smith was 10th with a 19:59. Zach Mynes and Tanner Gorby each finished in the top 15.
The teams next meet will be at Regionals in Mineral Wells, W. Va. on Thursday.
Big Red to sell tickets
STEUBENVILLE – Steubenville Big Red will be sell advance football tickets for next week's game at Youngstown Ursuline beginning Tuesday at the high school ticket office. The cost is $8 for reserved seats and $5 for students.
The ticket office will be open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to noon on Oct. 18.
Big Red boosters to meet
STEUBENVILLE – The Steubenville Big Red Boosters Club will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Harding Stadium Fieldhouse. All are welcome and memberships are available.
The boosters are sponsoring buses to Ursuline. Seats cost $25, and a game ticket is included. Departure is from Harding School is at 4:45 p.m. and will return there after the game.
The buses are smoke free and alcohol free. Payment for seats can be made at today's Salesianum or at Tuesday's booster meeting. All seats are on a first-come basis.
For information, contact Vic Corsi at (740) 264-5526, Bob McGinnis at (740) 282-3529, or Nino Suriano at (740) 264-7548.
Sports Briefs
Weir downs Ravenswood
RAVENSWOOD, W.Va. – Chayton Luevano registered a hat trick as the Weir boys soccer team beat Ravenswood, 6-1, Saturday on the road. Alex Hannah added two goals and assisted on three goals.
Ryan Kirk also scored for the Red Riders (7-7-2) and had an assist. Matthew Tenaglio also registered an assist and had seven saves in goal.
Nate Schiefer scored on a Dalton Grandy assist for Ravenswood and Nick Bohm made eight saves.
Record numbers for event
STEUBENVILLE – Runners clad in brightly colored skirts, pig-tails, chicken hats, and tuxedo shirts flocked to Assisi Heights early Saturday morning to compete in the sixth-annual Kelly Roggensack Memorial Run.
Every year, the Franciscan cross country teams host the event to honor the memory of Kelly Roggensack and as a fundraiser for their season. The brightly colored clothes and crazy hairstyles are a tribute to Kelly's personality and philosophy: be loud, be crazy, because life's too short to take yourself too seriously.
For the second year in a row, the race featured a 5K run, 3K walk, and 1K kid's fun run. This year, however, the Kelly run featured a new start and finish as well as a new course that stayed on campus roads instead of going off-road.
"The new course was a success," event coordinator Don Bennette said. "People seemed to like it and for the first time we had a water cooler at the mile marker."
This year, there were over 150 pre-registries and over 50 walk-up registrations, the largest in the history of the race. Participants included students, alumni, parents and local runners.
This years winner was 22 year-old Adam Estavillo who won with a time of 18:42.0. FUS student, Jane Crosby was the top female finish with a time of 21:37.0.
"Kelly was all about living her life to go out and change the world." Bennette said. "She had such a positive influence on the team."
Big Red boosters to meet
STEUBENVILLE – The Steubenville Big Red Boosters Club will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Harding Stadium Fieldhouse. All are welcome, and memberships are available.
The boosters are sponsoring busses to Youngstown for the Ursuline Game. The price is $25 per seat and a game ticket is provided. The busses are alcohol and smoke free.
For information, contact Vic Corsi at (740) 264-5526, Bob McGinnis at (740) 282-3529, or Nino Suriano at (740) 264-7548. Seats are on a first come basis and will leave from and return to the Harding Stadium parking lot.


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An odor of gas prompted Tender Years Day Care Center at 50 E. Chocolate Ave. to evacuate just before 10 a.m., said a spokesman.
A Dauphin County communications spokesman said he wasn't aware of any other properties evacuating.
UPDATE: Tender Years Day Care children are being housed in the Granada Avenue gym a block away.
Also, Hershey Middle School students were evacuated to the high school just after 8 a.m. today for an apparently unrelated gas leak, said Dan Tredinnick, Derry Twp. School District spokesman. UGI repaired a gas leak near the external meter, and students returned to the school about 45 minutes later.


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Kathleen Felicelli's 11 points led the Corsairs. Cassidy Kloss and Emma Rappe contributed 10 apiece.
North Chicago 49, Lakes 30: The visiting Warhawks improved to 2-5 and 1-1 in the North Suburban Prairie Division.
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RUSSELLVILLE, Alabama – A salmonella outbreak traced to a restaurant in Franklin County has now sickened more than a dozen people.
The Alabama Department of Public Health said in a Friday news release that 14 people who ate at El Patron restaurant on June 4 and 5 have tested positive for the gastrointestinal illness. The Tex-Mex eatery on U.S. Highway 43 remains closed.
The state has not said what caused the outbreak.
Salmonella symptoms usually begin within 12 to 72 hours after infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms include diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and fever.
The bacterial illness typically lasts four to seven days; most people recover without treatment.
Assistant State Health Officer Dr. Karen Landers said people can reduce their risk of salmonella exposure by avoiding raw or undercooked eggs, poultry or other meats; thoroughly washing hands and produce before cooking; keeping raw food away from cooked food; and using clean plates and utensils.
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Re: "Louisiana Incarcerated: How we built the world's prison capital,'' Page A1, May 13-20.
I once had the privilege of attending a speech to a group of educators by then U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. What she said then has been corroborated by your recent series regarding Louisiana's incarceration rate.
She said that what we as citizens and those in government must realize is that a society will be required to invest money in its citizenry. The question is, do we want to spend the money up front on education and other programs to help people build lives, or do we want to spend it on prisons to house them after the fact, when their lack of productive skills makes them a threat to society?
If what Ms. Reno said is true, as your recent series suggests, then the actions of our governor and Legislature over the last few years can only be viewed as recklessly short-sighted. The repeal of the Stelly plan put a few more dollars in each family's hands but crippled the government's ability to provide necessary services, as the drastic cuts now proposed for higher education, our medical schools and health care show.
In spite of what our current leaders seem to think, society needs government. Their attempts to dismantle government rather than make it work for the people are not improving the quality of life in Louisiana. Their choices of what to spend our money on do not reflect well on us.
Sadly, we seem doomed to remain at the top of negative measures, such as incarceration, and at the bottom of positive measures, such as education and health care, until we can eliminate short-sighted politicians and elect some statesmen with a vision for the future. I hope I live to see that day.
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(A belated Hump Day Hmmm…)
It's hard to be a writer when you're eighteen years old. You're old enough to have outgrown the universal desire to write children's books (the one that possesses anyone who has read Little Women and yearned to be Jo March). You want to write something grown-uppish, or if that sounds too intimidating, at least a Harlequin. (Is it time for me to switch to the first person and past tense yet?) There's only one problem: at eighteen, you have virtually no experience of the grown-up world. By default, your heroine has to be a high-school teacher, and that still leaves the problem of setting. Harlequin romances, like blogs, have much to gain from being set in an intriguing locale.
Good settings, in light realist fiction, are as follows:
- London, England (as in Bridget Jones' Diary)
- Chicago (as in the movie version of High Fidelity)
- New York (as in everything – but just for fun let's say Sex in the City)
Serious fiction can take place in small-town or rural settings – anything in the South will do, and even small-town Ontario can work if you can shake off the influence of Alice Munro. But if you're going to write a TV-show/book/blog about nothing, it's essential that all that nothingness take place in an upscale and/or gritty urban environment. Crappy settings, in light realist fiction, are as follows:
- suburban Ohio
- the MidWest, post-1880
- London, Ontario
I've always felt handicapped as a writer by the blandness of my hometown. From the point of view of outsiders, I've been told, London is a great place to live. It has a vibrant strip of shops and restaurants downtown, fun annual summer festivals, and several residential areas with lovely Victorian architecture. There are markets full of fresh-picked fruit and corn in the summer, and there's skating in Victoria Park in the winter. The university is as renowned for its beautiful landscaping as it is for its ivy and limestone.
Still, though. Living in London is the definition of boring. At one time, London boasted the most mall-space per capita of any city in North America. That has changed now only because of the advent of big-box stores. When I moved to Kingston as a university student I was enchanted by the atmosphere of its narrow tree-lined streets. Beautifully renovated homes rubbed shoulders with student ghetto dumps, all within walking distance of the best cheesecake I've ever tasted at the Chinese Laundry café. Each September, the town was flooded with frosh wearing the traditional uniform of purple-paint-spattered coveralls, along with cadets from the military college in their mandatory dress blues and pillbox hats.
I could write a novel, were I so inclined, set in Kingston – London is another matter.
I'm so accustomed to thinking of London as bland and white-bread that this perception has become astonishingly resistant to the influence of experience. London is a culturally diverse city, and my neighbourhood even more so. Yesterday as I drove to the grocery store, I saw a family waiting for the bus: a small boy in a stroller held in place by his father, and a mother sitting cross-legged on the ground, her spine ramrod straight. They were the best argument against miscegenation I've ever seen, their skin arresting in its glossy blackness. I completed my errand quickly, and when I drove past five minutes later they were still there, the mother standing up now, resplendent in her long red African dress cut along straight, simple lines. She stood tall, in the late stages of pregnancy, and looked so gorgeous that for a moment the bus stop and grocery store faded and I felt something that was oddly akin to homesickness.
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Rock womens rugby team coach Dick Barter isnt about to predict an upset win for his team against powerhouse Ontario Sunday in National Womens League (NWL) action at Swilers field.
Newfoundland is the huge underdog heading into the 3 p.m. match against undefeated Ontario.
I dont think anybody has any delusions of winning the game, said Barter, but I believe our girls want to play as hard as they possibly can so that Ontario knows theyve played a well-trained and skillful rugby team.
The match finishes the inaugural NWL season for the Rock women, who are 1-3 on the season. Barters team lost 39-0 to Quebec and 25-0 to Nova Scotia while beating New Brunswick 19-13 to avoid the wooden spoon award for the last-place team.
Ontario, meanwhile, is 3-0 and has outscored the opposition 261-5. Unlike the Rugby Canada Super League, which includes three different clubs from Ontario, there is only one all-star team from Ontario in the NWL.
While Barter doesnt anticipate winning Sunday, he is expecting his players to leave it all on the field.
Theyd (Ontario) better be ready for a game because our girls will tackle the heck out of them, he said. This game is a matter of respect for us. We want to gain enough respect from them (Ontario) so they know theyve been in a match.
Our intention is to spend the day tackling, tackling and more tackling.
Barter said the team has done a fair bit of fitness training and has been working on all defensive drills the past two weeks.
We need to stop them from getting the ball out wide. We havent even had ball in hand for most of the drills weve done, explained Barter. Well attempt to force them into making errors. We want to be as defensive a unit as we can and make sure we can cover as much of the field as we can.
What Im looking at is turning scraps of possession from their mistakes into loose balls and into a counter attack.
Barter said his team will try to keep Ontario close to the scrum so they wont spin the ball out wide to their speedier players.
We dont want them getting the ball, the Rock coach said.
Barter is already looking forward to next season, when the team will pick up several graduating under-19 team players which will give the Rock some much needed depth.
Barter promises this underdog will have some bite
Rock womens rugby team coach Dick Barter isnt about to predict an upset win for his team against powerhouse Ontario Sunday in National Womens League (NWL) action at Swilers field.
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Abstract: The field of assessment in interpreter training is under-researched, though trainers and researchers have pointed out urgent issues to be addressed in this field. Among them, issues surrounding test validity and reliability are most in need of clarification. This study tackles this subject by exploring what examiners really pay attention to when assessing student interpreters, and verifies the concerns about judgement consistency in interpreting examinations. Based on the study findings, a conceptual model is proposed as a framework for further explorations into the relationships and interactions between the elements of interpreting assessment.
Keywords: simultaneous interpreting, assessment criteria, examiner behaviour, test reliability
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