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Luau marks end of summer at Olympic Place
ARLINGTON Seniors enjoyed a luau with their friends and families at the Olympic Place Retirement and Assisted Living Community Sept. 20.
Olympic Place Assistant Administrator Todd Margeson explained that the community offers festive get-togethers on the third Thursday of every month, while Olympic Place Administrator Ginnie Reed elaborated that this year marked their first end-of-summer-themed event.
We just thought it would be a really great way to kick off the change of seasons on a positive note, said Reed, while volunteers in grass skirts and coconut tops handed out leis to those who walked through their doors.
While hula dancers swayed to the beat of tropical music, in between inflatable palm trees, members of Boy Scouts of America Troop 92 were on hand to dish out plates of salmon, chicken and rice, with pineapples and mangos.
We love serving the community and the retirement community gives us a great opportunity to do so, said Rene White, scoutmaster of Troop 92. The elderly folks love to see our guys here.
Goldie Graham was joined by her daughter, Alyce Matson, and her adult granddaughter, Joyce Burt. Matson described the luau and the communitys other festive monthly events as nice family nights. Its good to be able to get together.
Normally, we serve our meals like a restaurant, but these events are buffets, Reed said, before pointing to a few Hawaiian shirts in the crowd. As you can see, several of our seniors dress for the occasion. Even though we dont publicize these events, visitors are always welcome.
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Straight People's Attitudes Toward Gays Have Changed And Most Want You To Keep Your Job
There's a new survey out about how Americans feel about gays, and the news is pretty good.
One of the most startling findings: most people think it's illegal to fire someone for being gay. And in some states, it is — but in most, it is not. You could be out of a job at a moment's notice just for being suspected of liking Judy Garland a little too much.
Fully 69 percent of respondents said that federal law protects LGBT employees. (It does not.) Crazily, just 13 percent knew that firing gays is legal.
The survey comes from YouGov and Huffington Post, and covers 1,000 adults. (Not likely voters — just grownups.)
Support for marriage equality is at 48 percent in the poll, which sounds wrong to us. Most reputable surveys put the number in the fifties. Opposition is at 42 percent.
So, how accurate is this survey? Eh, maybe it's kind of accurate. Hard to say, but most of those figures seem a little suspect. But another survey on the site shows that Robin Thicke has a rating of 44 for "really like," so clearly these are very serious scholars.
This is good news. Maybe they'll push for their federal representatives in Congress to pass ENDA and other laws ensuring full civil rights for LGBT people!
ENDA needs to happen immediately!
Anything from Huffington Post is garbage. Oh, and my right to a happy life free of harassment is not contingent on what the public thinks.
Thank God. There is something truly evil in someone who would want to deprive another person, in this case a gay person, of their ability to support themselves because of who they love. Truly, rank evil!
@Mezaien: And I'm sure they'll be happy not to offer you a job.
@James Hart: IDIOT! in AZ I (as in ME) refuse job for republican, Christian, white.

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|Blame the Dominicans
|Written by Sherry
|Thursday, 22 October 2009 10:49
Somehow you just knew that the Dominicans were behind it.
Jack Chick had it all wrong. What is a mere Jesuit conspiracy to take over the world compared to the awesome power of Dominicans at prayer?
This post from the Eastern Province's blog:
"On February 21, 2009, many Dominican priests, brothers, sisters and laity received an e-mail with an urgent prayer request requested by (then) Fr. Augustine DiNoia, O.P., Undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, asking all Dominicans to pray the Litany of Dominican Saints from February 22 (the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter) through March 25 (the Solemnity of the Annunciation) for an at-the-time undisclosed intention. Today, we received an e-mail from Archbishop Augustine DiNoia, O.P., the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, with the following announcement:
"Today there was announced -- at press conferences in Rome and London -- the forthcoming publication of an apostolic constitution in which the Holy Father allows for the creation of personal ordinariates for groups of Anglicans in different parts of the world who are seeking full communion with the Catholic Church. The canonical structure of the personal ordinariate will permit this corporate reunion while at the same time providing for retention of elements of Anglican liturgy and spirituality.
When I asked the Friars (and other OPs - Ed.) to pray the Dominican litany from 22 February to 25 March earlier this year, the intention was that this proposal would receive the approval of the cardinal members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which was necessary if the proposal of some structure allowing for corporate reunion was to go forward. Our prayers at that time were answered, and now that the proposal has become a reality we can tell everyone what we were praying for then.
+Abp. J Augustine DiNoia, O.P.
Of course, Fr. Mike didn't tell me.
Not that I feel left out at all.


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"I have bought property on Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, State of Delaware." These words, written by E.I. du Pont in 1802, signaled the beginning of a mutually beneficial, centuries-old relationship between the DuPont Company and the city of Wilmington.
Established by Quaker merchants in the 1730s, Wilmington was a milling and grain-shipping center for farmers in Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania. In 1802 E.I. established his powder mills upstream from Wilmington, intending to harness the Brandywine River's power and to use the city's port for shipping. DuPont provided business to local artisans and shopkeepers and employed area residents, but Wilmington residents remained uneasy about the danger of explosives manufacture so close to the city. Their fears were realized in 1854 when three wagon loads of black powder exploded while traveling through the city, killing two residents and causing extensive property damage. DuPont responded quickly to the tragedy, compensating the bereaved families and paying for rebuilding and repairs.
As the company diversified into new explosives in the late 19th century, DuPont operations spread throughout the Wilmington area. In 1880 Lammot du Pont built the Repauno Chemical Company, a dynamite plant located across the Delaware River from Wilmington at Gibbstown, N.J. Ten years later, DuPont opened a smokeless powder plant at Carney's Point, also on the New Jersey side of the river. Following the 1902 change in management, the company established the Experimental Station, a general research laboratory, across the Brandywine River from DuPont's first mills.
DuPont's consolidation of the powder-making industry after 1902 increased the need for management personnel and larger office space. President T. Coleman du Pont advocated moving the company to New York City, but cousins Pierre and Alfred insisted that DuPont should remain near the Brandywine. Coleman agreed to keep the company local as long as the headquarters were close to banks, railroad connections and hotel facilities, a compromise that brought DuPont to downtown Wilmington. In 1905 the DuPont Building was completed at the northwest corner of Tenth and Market streets. Seven years later, the company added the 200-room Hotel du Pont, the most elegant and costly hotel ever built in Wilmington.
Wilmington was a small industrial city with modest buildings and limited infrastructure, and DuPont executives recognized that the city would have to grow along with the company. Pierre du Pont's assistant, John J. Raskob, worked with city officials to build a new courthouse and public park across from the DuPont Building. Coleman personally financed construction of a highway from Delaware's southern border to Wilmington and pushed for a number of other roads leading to the city. Demands for DuPont powder during World War I created jobs and with them came new housing, including Wawaset, a planned community built by DuPont for white-collar employees. Changes such as these signaled a shift in the city's economic base from industrial production to corporate management.
During the Great Depression, Pierre helped form a city relief committee to assist the jobless in Wilmington. The city's fortunes improved during World War II, when DuPont's sales nearly tripled. Since World War II, DuPont's further diversification and success in the chemical industry has strengthened Wilmington's economy and extended benefits to the surrounding suburbs.
Beyond a purely business relationship, DuPont has been committed to community outreach in the Wilmington area. In the early 1920s, the company financed construction of the Wilmington Institute Free Library and supported the Delaware Art Museum. In 1951 DuPont created the Hagley Museum and Library on the site of the company's original mills, providing scholars and the general public unique insight into the area's industrial past. The company and family have also helped meet the needs of Wilmington's children. In the 1920s and 1930s, Pierre worked tirelessly to reform public schooling in Wilmington and throughout Delaware. Pierre's cousin Alfred sponsored picnics and outings for the city's underprivileged children. In his will, Alfred provided funds to establish a hospital for handicapped children, which has become a first-rate pediatric hospital. Although DuPont is now a global science company, it maintains a special relationship with the city that first welcomed E.I. du Pont in 1802.


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Had a busy week? Looking to unwind? Stop by one of these Brecksville or Broadview Heights establishments and enjoy these musical acts and a cocktail or two.
Brecksville Theater On The Square, in the final showing of its final production of its 38th season, will present Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The play is scheduled to run Oct. 12-13 at 7 p.m. with a matinee showing held at 2 p.m. Oct. 14. Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for students and seniors. All performances are held at the historic Old Town Hall theater in Brecksville's Public Square.
The Brecksville-Broadview Heights Bees varsity football team will return home to face Avon Lake this weekend. Kickoff is scheduled at 7 p.m. Oct. 12.
Boneyard Beer Farm and Mesquite Grill in Broadview Heights will feature the music of "Wayne's World" Oct. 12 and then "Phil N The Blanks" the following evening, Oct. 13.
Come unwind with a fine glass of wine at the Brecksville Bootlegger at 5 p.m. today for the wine shop's weekly wine tasting. For $10, patrons will be able to sample four wines. The shop is located at 7005 Mill Road in the Peppermill Pub & Grill Plaza. Call (440) 792-4785 for more information.The Peppermill Pub will welcome "Phil N The Blanks" Oct. 13 for live music and good times.
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It's a beautiful April 1st. Time for baseball you say? Hardly. Basketball is still alive and well in form of the Northwest Shootout, an all-star game that pits the best prep seniors in Oregon against their Washingtonian neighbors to the north.
As is polite, the girls will play first starting at 5 p.m., with the boys following at 7 p.m. We're still over an hour away from the tip of the girls game, so we'll get in some information on the guys and gals who'll be fighting for Pacific Northwest supremacy.
First, the girls. The Oregonians have a three game winning-streak coming into tonights game. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say that the streak might be over. Why you ask? The Washington girls have two future Bruins (Regina Rogers and Christina Nzekwe), a Duck (Nia Jackson), a Yellow Jacket (Alex Montgomery), a Husky (Katelan Redmon) and a Bulldog (Courtney Vandersloot). Not too shabby.
The Oregon girls are not slouches either, with Sam Child (University of San Diego), Kendra Little (Oregon), Becky Goll (Santa Clara), Kalie Scanlon (UNLV) and Sallye Alexander (Humboldt State) all suiting up. I'll try not to play the part of the homer, but I'm pulling for the Oregon girls, and especially fellow Newbergian Sara Zahler.
Here are the line ups for both squads
Nia Jackson (Chief Sealth High), 5'7", Unviversity of Oregon
Rachele Kloke (Stanwood High), 5'11", University of Idaho
Alex Montgomery (Lincoln High), 6', Georgia Tech
Lyndi Seidensticker, (Lewis and Clark High), 6', Montana St.
Stephanie Wilber (Auburn Riverside High), 6'1", Arizona St.
Kelli Valentine (Mead High), 6', Portland St.
Courtney Vandersloot (Kentwood High), 5'9", Gonzaga
Christina Nzekwe (Chief Sealth High), 6'3", UCLA
Katelan Redmon (Lewis and Clark High), 6'1", University of Washington
Regina Rogers (Chief Sealth High), 6'3", UCLA
Sallye Alexander (Forest Grove High), 6'5", Humboldt St.
Cheryl Burris (Portland Lutheran High), 5'7", PLU
Samantha Child (Tualatin High), 6', University of San Diego
Josi McDermott (Ashland High), 6', Undecided
Kendra Little (Sheldon High), 6', University of Oregon
Kalie Scanlon (West Salem High), 5'9", UNLV
Sara Zahler (Newberg High), 5'9", Undecided
Emily Doran (Crescent Valley High), 5'11", Undecided
Becky Goll (Central Catholic), 6', Santa Clara
Kelly Marchant (Oregon City), 5'10", Portland St.
So there you have it. I'll be live blogging all the action, so keep refreshing those browsers to follow the action from the Northwest Shootout at the Chiles Center.


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After reading on Syracuse.com Friday that the city of Syracuse has joined the Twitter nation, Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci pointed out he was there first.
"Just letting you know my office beat the City to the Twitter world this week," Antonacci wrote in an email.
On Monday, Antonacci began releasing his audits using twitter. His office's handle is @countyspending.
He released two audits on Monday and another on Friday using twitter.
The city of Syracuse began tweeting Friday afternoon: @syracuse1848.
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LEE -- A pair of Great Barrington residents want to find more year-round uses for the clubhouse at Greenock Country Club.
David Pullaro and Cindy Joyner of C & D Catering have taken over the operation of Greenock's bar, lounge and banquet facility at the 9-hole public golf course on West Park Street.
Under the name Fiddleheads Grille, formerly known as Pauline's, the two veterans of the food service industry have a lease agreement through Dec. 31, 2015 with Greenock to operate a full service restaurant for lunch and dinner, as well as for special functions.
For years, the clubhouse has been a popular location for wedding receptions, anniversary and class reunion dinners and other large gatherings. The duo hopes to better promote it as an everyday eatery.
"I'd like the restaurant part to take hold in the community as it's been under-utilized," said Pullaro.
A former manager of the Lenox Club and most recently the chef at Perigee in South Lee, Pullaro and Joyner have a combined 50 years of restaurant experience.
However, Fiddleheads -- named for an edible fern -- is the first business they can call their own.
"We've worked many years for others, now we can do it for ourselves," Joyner said.
Fiddleheads as already hosted a couple of special events, with several planned St. Patrick's Day weekend in March. Pullaro and Joyner expect to be fully operation around April first, as they await the final OK for a liquor license.
On Feb.18, the Lee Board of Selectmen awarded the new restaurateurs an all-alcohol restaurant license, subject to approval by the Massachusetts Alcohol Beverage Control Commission.
Pullaro noted Fiddleheads will continue to seek one-day liquor licenses for special events, until the permanent license takes effect.
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— With the assistance of a DNA match discovered at the scene, detectives on Oct. 7 charged Charles Franklin, 27, of Logan, with the burglary of a Pedricktown Road residence. His arrest followed a six-month investigation. He was served with the complaint at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, where he is an inmate. According to state Department of Corrections records, Franklin went to prison in September on a three-year sentence for drug possession.
— A 36-year-old New Castle, Del. man was charged with contempt of a court order following a dispute on Stone Henge Drive on Oct. 2. He has yet to be served with the complaint.
— Officers responding to a disorderly and unwanted person call at the Hampton Inn on Oct. 2 escorted a Mullica Hill man from the hotel. He departed without further incident.
— On Oct. 3, police arrested a 22-year-old Paulsboro woman on several outstanding warrants following a dispute investigation at a business on Arlington Boulevard. She was committed to the Gloucester County Jail in default of $2,500 bail.
— A box trailer valued at $15,000 was reported stolen Oct. 4 from a warehouse on Veterans Drive.
— Three men were arrested Oct. 4 after allegedly attempting to obtain prescription pain medication by fraud at the RiteAid Pharmacy Store. The 44-year-old Pennsauken resident, A 30-year-old from Laurel Springs and a 30-year-old Deptford man were charged with criminal attempt to obtain a controlled dangerous substance by fraud, and conspiracy. All three were processed and released.
— A 28-year-old Pennsville woman was arrested on an outstanding warrant during a pedestrian stop on Oct. 5 on Center Square Road. She was turned over to Penns Grove police.
— Police were called Oct. 5 after a Rite Aid pharmacist filled a prescription for pain medication, then determined that it was bogus and written on a stolen prescription blank. Police have identified a female suspect and complaints are pending.
— Two Carneys Point residents, a 34-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man, were arrested during a vehicle stop on Route 322 on Oct. 5 on outstanding warrants totaling more than $6,500. They were processed and turned over to Penns Grove police.


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The Military Lawsuit That Could Topple DOMA
Even though Congress repealed the gay military ban known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", LGBT military families still get screwed out of the health care, housing and bereavement benefits offered to straight military couples.
That's partially because the so-called Defense of Marriage Act prohibits the U.S. military from extending any federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. So the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network has filed a federal lawsuit that could rid us of the anti-gay law once and for all.
The SLDN filed the suit (McLaughlin v. Panetta) in the District Court of Massachusetts on behalf of eight plaintiff couples, including Stephen Hill the openly gay Iraq soldier booed at the September 22nd Republican debate. It not only challenges DOMA, but also Titles 10, 32 and 38 of the U.S. Code, all of which prevents the military from extending benefits to the spouses of gay military members.
Since the Massachusetts court has already ruled against DOMA in at least two cases—and since Obama's Department of Justice is no longer defending DOMA in court—the plaintiffs have filed a motion for summary judgment. That is, they contend that the facts of the case aren't in dispute by any party and that the judge should just issue a ruling without a trial.
The only thing to ultimately rule on is whether DOMA advances any legitimate government interest (it doesn't) and whether it's constitutional (it's not).
John Boehner and Paul Clement of the Republican-led Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group could shell out another million dollars of taxpayer money to defend DOMA with a bunch of shoddy reasons explaining how gay families hurt America. But if BLAG decides to let the case proceed unchallenged, the SLDN expects a ruling in a few months.
Just to be clear, when you can get legally married in six states but still can't care for your partner, that's not just and it certainly does more harm to American communities in the long run. In fact, even SLDN "'calls the continued denial of benefits to gay spouses 'a threat to national security.' It argues that, given the extreme mental and physical demands of modern warfare, the military has already recognized that 'service members who are distracted by thoughts that their loved ones are not being cared for may render the service members less effective combatants.'"
So, if you're against gay marriage, then you're letting the terrorists win. You don't want the terrorists to win, do you?
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rock ON.Oct 31, 2011 at 5:46 pm · @Reply ·
Sorry, no, DOMA does NOT "prohibit the U.S. military from extending any federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples." Nor does any other federal law. But your confusion is understandable as SLDN has done very poor, misleading messaging about this which is all the more strange given that their August letter to SecDef Panetta outlines the
difference between those benefits that are banned by DOMA, et al., and those, such as access to "military family housing" [commonly referred to as "on base"] which
the Pentagon themselves have admitted they,emphasis theirs:
"COULD legally direct the Services to revise their regulations to extend coverage to Service members' same-sex partners. This could be accomplished in two ways: leave to the Service member the freedom to designate his or her 'dependents', 'family members', or similar term; or, revise these definitions to specifically mention a committed, same-sex relationship, and require some type of proof of that committed relationship. The latter is similar to the approach now being taken in Federal agencies for civilian employees."
Why is SLDN not investing as much energy in pressuring the Commander-in-Chief to use his legal authority to order the immediate change of this arbitrary policy as they are this lawsuit which is both unnecessary in relation to certain benefits and will take YEARS in court?
@Michael Bedwell:
Not speaking for SLDN, but…
Perhaps, in the longer term, any path that does not involve actual legislative or judicial intervention is very susceptible to reversal by future administrations hellbent on placing the shackles of inequality as permanently back in place as is within their ability. Reversing Executive Orders and reversing policy decisions can be done within minutes of a socially conservative administration taking office.
Pursuing judicial relief is something that SLDN can do while simultaneously joining with the rest of us to pursue the (unlikely) repeal through legislation.
However, short-term, we should be continuing to apply EXTREME pressure on this White House to do just as you suggest, as well as to sign Executive Orders extending workplace protections to all employees of federal contractors (and other other extensions of equality within the scope of executive authority).
We have made tremendous strides under the Obama Administration, but I have been and continue to be almost disillusioned by the dribs and drabs approach that the administration has used. Everything (perhaps excepting only the repeal of DADT) could have been accomplished within a few months (plus allowances for the required times for regulatory changes to become fully baked).
It's sometimes enough to question whether Obama is a believer in full equality.
That we continue to doubt, I believe, also directly stems from the fact that Obama has yet to have an earnest, candid and open-table interview with any member of the LGBT press. I'd say that we are quite well justified to continue to be distrustful and to continue full-court pressure is a politically necessity.
To both @Michael Bedwell and @GoodboyPA,the best and fastest way to get rid of the hateful DOMA is judicially. I am one hundred percent in support of President Obama's actions so far on the gay rights front–it is far too easy to criticize him while forgetting the astonishing list of actions he and his administration have taken so far. Just getting rid of DADT still remains a breathtaking accomplishment. I think the only way to get rid of DOMA and all the state constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage and any such other legal union or contract is through the courts. This process has already begun. To wait ten or fifteen years for legislative action is not acceptable.
IN THE MATTER OF KAREN GOLINSKI et ux.
KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:…When a statute admits two constructions, one of which requires a decision on a hard question of constitutional law, it has long been our practice to prefer the alternative. Ashwander v. Tenn. Valley Auth., 297 U.S. 288, 345-46 (1936) (Brandeis, J., concurring). The discussion above illustrates the constitutional thicket into which the discriminatory construction drags us. I therefore construe the Federal Employee Health Benefits Act to permit the coverage of same-sex spouses.
The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts is therefore ordered to submit Karen Golinski's Health Benefits Election form 2809, which she signed and submitted on September 2, 2008, to the appropriate health insurance carrier. Any future health benefit forms are also to be processed without regard to the sex of a listed spouse.
The Obama Administration's OPM ignored this court order, forcing Ms Golinski back to square one, where she was compelled to initiate a new lawsuit against the OPM.
At least Obama's DOJ isn't fighting her anymore.
With respect, you're missing both of my points which, once again, are:
1. DOMA does NOT ban "all benefits" for gay and lesbian service members. Some are currently being banned SOLELY because the Pentagon is CHOOSING to.
2. Commander-in-Chief Obama has the legal authority to ORDER them to extend these non-DOMA-banned benefits.
(a) Why hasn't he done this? [And, in reference to GoodboyPA's point—why hasn't he used his legal authority to protect civilian employees of firms with government contracts?]
(b) Why isn't SLDN pressuring him to extend those non-DOMA-banned benefits?
Bottom line is that equality still eludes gay service members. Thanks to DOMA legally married same-sex military spouses are denied health insurance, commissary, housing allowance and other base privileges as compared to their opposite-sex married counterparts. For those interested – http://OUTmilitary.com has been providing a supportive environment for friending, sharing and networking between Gay active military, vets and supporters since December, 2010.
@Michael Bedwell: Possible reasons:
1) As already mentioned, executive orders are reversible the moment a new president is sworn in. There is a significant possibility that will happen just over a year from now, and having people move into on-base housing only to be pushed out again so quickly would be a needless mess. I'm *not* arguing that this is a good enough reason, only that it's a rational and possible one.
2) (Which also covers SLDN) The more disadvantaged people are by a law, the easier it should be to get it overturned. Squeezing every benefit currently determined by marriage around that barrier that can be not only risks opening it up too far, but also makes it harder to convince a judge that what remains is significant.
With respect, what you and everyone else doesn't get in all the hyperbole that flies around DOMA is that just eliminating it does NOT equate with federal benefits being extended to ANY gay couples—military or civilian. For DOMA is merely the codified exercise of the attitude of the government towards us. Were gay couples given federal benefits BEFORE DOMA? No.
It's far more realistic to imagine that a Presidential Executive Order might survive [both for DOMA-banned and NON-DOMA-banned benefits] than that Congress will not only repeal DOMA in the short term but THEN also MANDATE such benefits. In any case, we lose NOTHING by such an order whatever its life term. Your argument that courts would say, "Well, you've got some benefits, why should we give you any more?" is ridiculous.
@Michael Bedwell: That depends on how DOMA is removed. If it is struck down in court on the grounds that it is discriminatory, and done at a high enough level, why would that NOT mean the federal government had to recognize gay marriages (at least where states do)? And if it does recognize them, then why would that NOT mean equivalent benefits for gay and straight couples alike?


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Ubuntu 13.04 has been released today with many enhancements and fixes to Unity as well as some important performance improvements. Read on to find out more!Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) videoCheck out the video below to see what's new in Ubuntu 13.04:(direct video link; for more videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel)Unity changes in Ubuntu 13.04Unity has been improved a lot in Ubuntu 13.04 and it's now a LOT faster than in Ubuntu 12.10. A lot of the work on Unity has happened under the hood but there are some user interesting interface changes and new features, such as:new window switching feature that allows you to switch between open windows of the same application by using the Unity Launcher quicklists;switch between an application's open windows by scrolling on the application icon in the Unity Launcher;new Unity-style shutdown dialogs;the Launcher minimum icon size limit has been decreased to 8px from 32px;Dash is a lot faster (both to open and search), comes with improved preview animations, overlay scrollbars and the search has been improved with the addition of a new library which provides error tolerant matching so for instance, typing "gdit" will find Gedit, which wouldn't happen in Ubuntu 12.10;Unity Online Accounts has
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Former schoolteacher Gregg Martin Jensen, sentenced to prison for sexually abusing one of his students, has been ordered to pay restitution and compensatory fines totaling more than $35,000.
Following his sentencing last week in Washington County Circuit Court, the former Liberty High School teacher appeared for a restitution hearing before Judge Andrew Erwin on Tuesday.
Deputy District Attorney Kevin Barton said Jensen was ordered to pay about $32,000 in compensatory fines and roughly $3,600 in restitution.
Authorities say Jensen, 54, became close with the student in February. He spent time outside of class with her, complimented her writing and gave her books to read and poetry he'd written. In the spring, he began sexually abusing her on and off campus.
Jensen pleaded guilty Aug. 7 to one count each of using a child in a display of sexual conduct, second-degree sex abuse and luring a minor. Under his plea deal, he was sentenced to six years, four months in prison. He also must register as a sex offender and complete sex offender treatment. He was banned from contact with schools, minors and his victim.
The case came to light after a student shared a picture of the girl sitting on Jensen's lap in class. He was then placed on leave in late April, and Hillsboro police began investigating.
Hours after that, according to court records, Jensen drove while intoxicated in an apparent attempt to kill himself.
After crashing into a ditch along Northwest Pumpkin Ridge Road, he was taken to a hospital. He was cited on charges of driving under the influence of intoxicants and reckless driving.
Court records show Jensen pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of DUII and one count of reckless driving. His sentence in this and the sex-abuse cases will be served simultaneously.
During Tuesday's hearing, the judge also decided the matter of restitution and fines.
Records show the victim's attorney, Allison Rhodes, argued for a total judgment against the defendant of more than $45,000.
Barton said the judge ended up imposing the following fines and restitution, which total more than $35,000:
In compensatory fines, Jensen was ordered to pay $14,000 for the victim's lawyer. He also must pay another $18,000 for her anticipated counseling costs.
In restitution, Jensen owes roughly $2,200, which will cover medical expenses at the hospital where the victim was evaluated. He also owes $1,400 to cover the victim's parents' lost wages, which court records say occurred when they accompanied their daughter to appointments associated with the case.
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Despite multiple Rajon Rondo trade rumors earlier this offseason, the Boston Celtics never seriously entertained moving the All-Star point guard, the Sporting News reported Friday. But the team still might not be done dealing this summer.
From the Sporting News' Sean Deveney:
The wave of phone calls the Celtics received in early July about Rondo has passed, and according to league sources, Boston never seriously entertained dealing their flighty point guard. Rumored talks with Detroit were "overblown," a source said, and Rondo does not want out of Boston. Rondo is coming off ACL surgery, which bumps down his value, and the Celtics were not planning on selling low regardless.
The plan still is to hand the keys to Rondo and see how he works with new coach Brad Stevens. Teams will continue to call and rumors will continue to emerge, but the Celtics want to give Rondo a shot to be the marquee name on this team. That's not to say Boston isn't looking into deals—the Celtics would love to move Gerald Wallace or Kris Humphries, who were acquired in the Kevin Garnett-Paul Pierce trade, or Brandon Bass.
My take: I've already discussed what type of scenario might encourage the Celtics to move Rondo here, so I won't discuss that further.
But given that the Celtics are rebuilding, it's no surprise president of basketball operations Danny Ainge "would love to move" Wallace, Humphries or Bass. Wallace has one of the ugliest contracts in basketball, Humphries can rebound but probably doesn't figure into the team's long-term plans, and the $13.35 million owed to Bass over the next two seasons was easier to stomach when Ainge envisioned him as a role player on championship contenders. If Ainge can move any of them to add draft picks and/or subtract long-term salary, he should.
I also wouldn't be surprised if Ainge looks to trade one of Boston's 1,934 shooting guards (approximate number). He's said he'll try to thin logjams in the frontcourt and at shooting guard.
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For the next 30 days, I'm attempting to go purely primal. In the past, I'd use any excuse to get out of the challenge. Hopefully, this time, it'll be different. Also, hopefully, my understanding of "primal eating" is accurate with everyone else.
Over the next 30 days, I'll attempt to do the following:
1. No drinking milk (no more GOMAD supplementing my diet)
2. No refined carbs (i'll get all of my carbs from natural sources. I'll also try to limit my intake of high GI fruits)
3. No soft drinks or any drinks containing sugar...even coffee with sweetener.
4. No artificial sweeteners (i.e., diet sodas, coffee creamers, etc...)
5. More to follow over the course of the 30 days.
nice! good luck
You can do it!
All the best to you jag! If I can do it, anyone can.
Thanks for the encouragement. Two days have gone by and i've been pretty good. I've been tracking my food with fitday. 28 days to go.
Your list is the easy stuff.
I'll be very impressed if in a month you can say, "I didn't eat any tubers and kept my carbs under 20 a day."
Of course, having said that, if you are on "maintenance" and not weight loss, that's a whole 'nudder story.
My hardest is "Play more" and "Get a full night's sleep".
If I sleep enough, I don't have time to workout and vice versa :-(
OnTheBayou, what is your obession with tubers?
I guess I should have said fruit, people have a harder time minimizing fruit than spuds or sweet spuds. Some of the Primally Approved foods are really hard to keep minimal, that's what I was trying to say.


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BEAVER CREEK, Colo. – A tricky section of the course tripped up most of the best U.S. skiers.
Not so for the Austrians, who are quickly regaining their skiing prominence.
Georg Streitberger of Austria captured a World Cup super-G race Saturday when Bode Miller and three other top Americans skied off the course.
Streitberger finished the demanding Birds of Prey run in 1 minute, 17.18 seconds, edging Adrien Theaux of France by 0.11 seconds. Didier Cuche of Switzerland was third.
"It was a perfect day for me," Streitberger said.
Hardly a perfect day for the Americans.
Miller, who won silver in the super-G at the Vancouver Games, had trouble finding the right line near a technical turn midway through the run and veered straight off the course.
It was a common theme as Americans Andrew Weibrecht, Marco Sullivan and Ted Ligety also failed to make it through the difficult section of the hill.
"It's not that sweet, obviously on our home hill," Ligety said. "I think a lot of us think this is the coolest super-G hill in the World Cup and we're all really excited to have a good day, so it's definitely a bummer."
A bummer for the Americans was a banner day for the Austrians.
Last season, everyone was wondering what was wrong with Austria after the men were shut out of the medals on the slopes in Vancouver. The skiers also reached the top step of the podium just once in the speed events – a super-G competition – during the World Cup season.
Quite a crash for a country that cherishes skiing.
But Austria has recaptured its form, with Michael Walchhofer winning a downhill race in Lake Louise, Alberta, last weekend and Streitberger coming through in the super-G at Beaver Creek.
"We are all together faster than last year," Streitberger said. "This was good."
On the challenging course Saturday, the Austrians put together a dominating game plan as seven skiers finished in the top 15.
The secret?
"Sometimes you have to ski with the brain and put on the brakes," Streitberger said.
Or risk going down.
The U.S. team had a strategy of its own for the grinding section of the course that took out so many members of the squad, but it didn't go quite as expected.
"I think it was a case of too much intensity today," Sullivan said. "We just didn't give the course enough respect."
Miller was turning in a classic run, hunched over his skis and charging down the course. But when Miller reached the section known as Screech Owl, he hit a bump and couldn't recover, skidding across the course.
After his run, Miller sent a report back to the start gate.
Apparently, it didn't help his teammates as most made the same mistake in almost the same spot.
"Bode's report said to really move well over the terrain before it – there's kind of a roll-in – and I felt like I did that," Weibrecht said. "Somewhere in between I maybe didn't get enough depth into the turn where I could bring it back at the right angle."
Weibrecht was far from alone. Sullivan and Ligety, who also were starting in the top 30, failed to negotiate the same section. American Chris Frank, the 55th skier in the 69-racer field, also did not finish after going out near that spot.
"If you want to be fast in super-G, you have to be in the fine line of making it or not," Ligety said. "We were on the wrong side of that line."
Steven Nyman was the top U.S. finisher in 25th place, earning his first World Cup points in the super-G in two years. With his finish, the Americans also picked up another starting spot in the super-G for the rest of the season.
One of the few boons on a bad day.
"I'm really stoked about Steven," U.S. men's coach Sasha Rearick said.
The day ended the reign of Swiss skier Carlo Janka at Beaver Creek. He swept all three events last season, but finished 23rd Saturday.
"A lot of mistakes today. Not a good run for me," Janka said. "I can't expect that every year will work like last year."
The World Cup stop at Beaver Creek will conclude Sunday with a giant slalom. A downhill race scheduled for Friday was canceled because of high wind. There's no makeup date or venue yet for that race.
The next men's World Cup race is a Giant Slalom on Sunday in Beaver Creek.
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BEDMINSTER — One groundskeeper shot another groundskeeper at the Fiddler's Elbow Country Club early this morning.
The shooter later killed himself in front of a public park in Essex County a short time afterward, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office.
The victim was transported to a local hospital where he is listed in critical condition, according to Capt. Jack Bennett, a prosecutor's spokesman. No other details were available about the circumstances of the Bedminster shooting.
The shooter, who has not yet been identified, committed suicide at a bus stop bench in front of Monte Irvin Park in Orange some time afterward, according to the prosecutor's office. Neighbors there reported a heavy police presence including helicopters, though most declined comment.
Errol Dacosta, an East Orange man, was walking by on the opposite side of Central Avenue as police investigated the suicide. He said he saw the body in the gutter, in front of the bus stop bench.
"He shot himself in the head, and he was laying where the water runs," DaCosta explained, indicating the gutter.
Some deep crimson blotches that appeared to be blood were drying on top of the storm drain. A big bundle of crime scene tape was thrown away in a nearby garbage can.
The Bedminster golf course seemed normal later in the morning. Golfers were practicing their swings, and the groundskeepers there were still tending to the landscape.
Fiddler's Elbow was founded in 1965 as a private country club. Its website states that the 54-hole course is the largest in New Jersey, after undergoing a large expansion in the 1990s.
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LSU's baseball team could set a school record for wins this season, considering the team is already 43-6 with seven regular-season games remaining prior to the Texas A&M series. The SEC Tournament and NCAA playoff games also figure to add to the win total.
The school record for victories in a season is 57, set by Skip Bertman's national championship team in 1997 that finished 57-13.
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I agreed, that is a very exciting sign of success. Down with swelling. Yay.
So this is day 4 for me. I'm already noticing I don't have all the swelling in my legs and ankles. I would always have a deep line around my ankles from my ankle socks. I noticed today they aren't there. My legs when pressed with a finger don't get little potholes. I'm so excited about that. Maybe I'm weird for such a small thing, but it's a new AWESOME thing for me. I had to share somewhere .
I agreed, that is a very exciting sign of success. Down with swelling. Yay.
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I would guess that you have cut out wheat and grains? Those cause systemic inflammation. Congratulations you are also lowering your cancer risk.
Yes, cut all grains, wheat, corn, and sugar (i cut sugar out 3weeks ago today) I'm sticking to primal and have had just a little dairy. Not much fruit (one day half an apple, one day half a grapefruit). I did have a headache yesterday and felt a bit weird in my head. Slightly floaty dizzy feeling, but the headache may have been due to little sleep being up a lot with my 2 year old. All in all though, so far I'm not feeling too bad.
Noticing the little changes is a wonderful motivation for me to continue PB. 4 months in now and the changes contiinue to happen, usually 2-3 a week. Sometimes, though, I don't understand what my body is saying to me, what it wants.


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how about the cost of UDN?This cost includes decay, fees, ...etc.I really do not believe their documents.I lost lots of money in some ETFS, many ETF will lose more than 10% a year with up and down. Anybody follow the UDN and UUP carefully?
According to some bearish advisors, UDN will take off ... pretty soon. When ? They won't say or as a matter of fact, they don't know either !There's a trick of the daytraders called "play both ends",i.e have both UUP and UDN positions in their portfolio. About 1 hour after WSt opens, sell the one which's up, hold the other; then 1/2 hr before the closing, buy back the stock they sold in the morning (at market price). Repeat that game the next day. Good thing: You reap some profit every day (bec's it's impossible for both stocks to be bearish on the same day; if both are bullish the same time, well, Wall Street is insane !). Bad thing: the daily gain/loss is quite insignificant unless one is crazy enough to invest beaucoup money on each position.Caution: The people who play that game 1)must have plenty of PC time everyday 2) don't mind collecting some daily pocket money.BUT, quit playing that ding-dong game if the market shows sign of getting into comatose.
Hello Number10 _9,have you ever analyzed the trading you wrote about whereby a day trader sells whichever is up (UUP vs UDN) I tracked this for the month of Feb and thought it could actually keep your head above water and allow you to clear a profit after a month. However, what throws a wrench into the works is when your holding the loser ETF for the duration while the other goes up. The morning the trend reverses is when its time to pay the man.Are you sure the traders using this method holds both overnight,,,everynight?Thanks, dd


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Celski's track record of service | Federal Way letters
Over the last several months, I have been observing the race for the Federal Way City Council position 5.
The differences between the candidates are much greater than are being reported in the paper. Jack Dovey has been a member of the city council for several years and as such, he is a true insider to the workings and biases of the council. He has been involved in many of the decisions that have and are impacting on the citizens of Federal Way. I say involved because from what I have been able to find in the public record, and again pointed out by the councilman himself at an October debate, he only goes along with everyone else. The attitude of, "if they're for it, then so am I," seems to be his motto.
One exception to this may be the Cascadia MedTech Association. He was an avid supporter of the city council's supporting and funding this program, and he is very proud of the program. This is a great opportunity for the city and citizens of Federal Way. However, at the time this vote was cast, it is my understanding that Dovey was an active member on the board of this for-profit organization. I didn't see anything about him refraining from voting, or refraining from legislating to get funding. This is unlike the other members of the council that recuse themselves on a regular basis when their business interests conflict with council business.
Bob Celski has a track record of selfless service to country, community and family. He took his obligation to service his country to heart, serving for over 13 years in the Army. Over the course of his career, Celski has had to make hard choices both as an officer in charge of the lives of his soldiers as well as in business, making major financial decisions. His decisions are always made with integrity and honor, a code he lives by.
Celski has always taken the path that may not have always provided professional gain or financial reward, but has always done the right thing for business or family. Celski's track record is not as easy to follow as a city councilman's, but his successes are hard to miss. His support of his son in his quest for the Olympics is perhaps the most visible to the public. He has the support of his community and his family; he is recognized in the business community for his solid business skills and decision making ability. He can and does make hard choices. His ability to analyze a business decision from a solidly grounded ethical point of view will be a breath of fresh air in city government.
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Editor's note: In 2009, the city council authorized the city manager to enter into a contract with the nonprofit organization called EnterpriseSeattle for a feasibility study for medical device innovation in Federal Way. The for-profit Cascadia MedTech was formed in 2010. The city council has not taken action or voted in regards to Cascadia MedTech, according to the city attorney.
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This deal has been featured before this time they are offering a deal on coins along with the pass: An optional $20 in game tokens (up to $100 value) from Tree Top Family Adventure This is great because the pass is good for 6 months. Which would include spring break and part of summer.
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After a blistering performance on Saturday's main stage at Lollapalooza where fans came in droves to see Gogol Bordello's high octane set and universally appealing gypsy punk rock sound, additional tour dates for the fall were announced today.
Gogol Bordello's fall tour will kick off on Oct. 6 in Asheville, NC and will visit major cities including Los Angeles, New Orleans and Portland to name a few.
Low fee pre-sale tickets for the fall tour go on sale today at the band's website. General on-sale tickets will be available this Saturday, August 14 through the individual venues and Ticketmaster.
After a decade-plus of earning the reputation as one of the best live bands around and being hailed by The Village Voice as "the world's most visionary band," it's Gogol Bordello's songwriting that is taking center stage on their fifth studio album, "Trans-Continental Hustle." Produced by Rick Rubin, album highlights include "Raise the Knowledge," "Sun is on My Side," "When Universes Collide," "My Companjera" and "We Comin Rougher (Immigraniada)."
- 10/6 Asheville, NC - Civic Center (w. Primus)
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Imagine a contemporary update of "Gulliver's Travels" in which the titular hero - an unambitious pop-culture addict played by Jack Black - finds himself in a Lilliput whose pinkie-size denizens are only too willing to place themselves at his beck and call. What if this slacker were thrown into a miniature pre-industrial society filled with industrious and highly trainable workers - literally the size of worker bees - who were able to replicate, through ingenuity and effort, an elaborate if slightly low-tech simulacrum of the world that Gulliver left behind? A world of Guitar Hero and "Star Wars" DVDs? Of La-Z-Boy recliners and grande lattes, built not to their scale but to his?
That might be kind of neat, and sort of funny.
The new "Gulliver's Travels" is not that movie. For a brief, shining moment or two, there's a suggestion that it might just be headed in that direction. But then the movie takes a sharp turn, heads due south and never comes back.
In this unnecessary and unfunny re-imagining of the classic satire by Jonathan Swift, Lemuel Gulliver (Black) finds himself on the aforementioned island of tiny people while researching a travel article on the Bermuda Triangle. He's not actually a writer, but a worker in a newspaper mail room who has finagled the assignment by lying to a cute editor he likes named Darcy (Amanda Peet).
Initially, Gulliver is captured and imprisoned. But after extinguishing a raging fire by urinating on it - and, collaterally, on several Lilliputians - he's quickly declared a hero. (Just imagine that scene. On second thought, don't. If it sounds funny to you, you'll probably love the one where Gulliver accidentally sits on a Lilliputian after losing his pants. I can't do it justice in a family newspaper. But I will tell you there's a cast credit for a character described only as "Butt-crack man." Consider yourself warned.)
In short order, Gulliver is living in a beach-front contemporary, drinking fresh coffee out of a Rube Goldberg contraption maintained by a small army of Lilliputians, and watching live performances of his favorite shows and movies ("Star Wars," "Titanic," "24") that he has trained the Lilliputians to put on. This is all cute, but it isn't a movie.
For that, "Gulliver's Travels" turns to the tried-and-true storyline of loser-guy-gets-hot-girl. Gulliver's courtship of Darcy, who eventually shows up in Lilliput, parallels a plot involving a Lilliputian commoner (Jason Segel) in love with a Lilliputian princess (Emily Blunt).
At one point, both of these failures-to-launch must prove themselves by doing battle with a "Transformers"-style robot that has been built by the Lilliputians' enemies, the Blefuscians. (In the book, they're called the Blefuscudians. And, no, there wasn't a robot there either.)
The movie, by the way, is in 3-D. Other than enhancing the bathroom humor, it doesn't help.
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Forgive me for the rant, but the New York Times wellness blog posted a story about one of those "running vs. walking" studies that, in itself, seems informative, but that contains a key caveat that makes the conclusions highly artificial, if not altogether useless.
And in perhaps the most comforting of the new studies, published last month in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology and again using numbers from the versatile Runners and Walkers Health Study, runners had far less risk of high blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol profiles, diabetes and heart disease than their sedentary peers. But the walkers were doing even better. Runners, for instance, reduced their risk of heart disease by about 4.5 percent if they ran an hour a day. Walkers who expended the same amount of energy per day reduced their risk of heart disease by more than 9 percent.
Of course, few walkers match the energy expenditure of runners. "It's fair to say that, if you plan to expend the same energy walking as running, you have to walk about one and a half times as far and that it takes about twice as long," said Paul T. Williams, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories and the lead author of all of the studies involving the surveys of runners and walkers.
The debate between these two approaches can be summarized as generalizability versus validity. The fact is that many people in society smoke or have smoked in the past, and many people have serious conditions like cancer or heart disease -- so if you want data that you can accurately generalize to the population at large, you need to keep these people in the analysis. If you want data that's valid and not skewed by factors like smoking, the other side argues, you do have to exclude them.
There's merit on both sides. But from a purely selfish point of view, I'm interested in what the data says about my personal outlook -- and I've never smoked, and (touch wood) I don't currently have any signs of serious illness like cancer or heart disease. So in that case, my reading of the data is that the lowest-risk grouping for me is (as we've been told all along) a BMI between 20 and 25.


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India is a country of 1.2 billion people. One estimate, provided by the World Health Organization, suggests that, on average, one physician is required to serve 1,000 people, across all levels of care. This implies that we need a total of 1.2 million physicians to serve our population. However, the total number of formally-qualified allopathic doctors in the country is estimated to be only about half that number, with fewer than 30,000 being added every year, despite the fact that we have one of the largest number of medical colleges in the world.
It is clear from these numbers that there is a large gap in the availability of allopathic doctors that is likely to persist. It is also known that physicians who have formal degrees in Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani disciplines are legally permitted to offer allopathic services to their patients. And, there are over 7,50,000 registered Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy(AYUSH) practitioners in the country, about 70% of whom fall under the legally-permitted categories.
These numbers, when combined with the total number of physicians who are trained in the allopathic tradition, start to come close to the total requirement of medical practitioners that we need as a country. While examining this idea, it is also important to note that India is not alone in exploring this direction.
A number of other countries have successfully relied on personnel drawn from allied disciplines to make up for shortage of formally-trained medical practitioners addressing their unwillingness to serve in remote locations or in primary-care settings. In the US, for example, nurses have been asked to step up to the plate and fill in the enormous gaps in the availability of medical personnel both in urban as well as rural settings.
Having established that such personnel are indeed available and taking comfort from the fact that we are not alone in exploring the use of alternate and allied human resources, the next, and perhaps the most important question, concerns the competence of these alternate providers to offer allopathic medical care.
In the US, it is possible to get a registered nursing degree, with a focus on bedside and emergency-room nursing, after just a year-long training programme for a person who has taken biology and other life sciences in college. To qualify to be a nurse practitioner and practice allopathic medicine independently, an additional 11 months of training is required.
In India, the Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha practitioners receive a longer, 5.5 years of intensive medical training.
A careful comparison of the academic training undergone by them with that offered to MBBS doctors reveals that their curriculum is designed in a very similar manner. The first three years of training in all the four disciplines is primarily structured around principles of biochemistry, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, pathology and microbiology, along with subjects that focus on traditional medicinal learning such as medicinal botany and metal, minerals and animal kingdom.


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By Sarah H. Dolan | March 5, 2010
The Christian mission in a world of many faiths may appear reserved for front-line missionaries whose frequent flier miles often reach Gold Medallion status. But according to Fuller Theological Seminary Professor Dr. Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, the Christian encounter with world religions occurs in America more than any other country.
"We live in a melting pot," Kärkkäinen explained. "Religion is very much part of our everyday experience. Different forms of faith and religion are not just in our backyards [other countries]. They are also in our front yards, which should not be ignored."
Kärkkäinen was one of several featured presenters at Regent University School of Divinity's The Great Commission and the Non-Christian Religions symposium on February 27. The panel of Renewal Christianity scholars explored the Christian encounter with faiths such as Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.
"Christians in America tend to think of other religions not only as wrong, but as distant and weird," said Kärkkäinen. "It's easier to dislike something because it's not personal, and you become distant and close-minded."
His advice for Christians, who want to make a lasting impact on people of other faiths, is to first find common ground and build relationships. And from there, literally put a person's face to the religion.
"I lived for many years in Thailand and built relationships with the Thai people who were mostly Buddhists," Kärkkäinen said. "What I found extremely important for me is that I not only learn about Buddhism, but that I also came to know people who are Buddhists. I talked with real people who sincerely believed that I was wrong. Yet to learn how people in other faiths think, believe and behave helped me be more sympathetic to their needs, especially when I try to get them to know the light of Christ."
Other presenters at the symposium included Dr. Kirsteen Kim, associate senior lecturer in theology at Leeds Trinity University College; Dr. Cephas Omenyo, associate professor of religion and vice dean of the faculty of arts at the University of Ghana; Dr. Tony Richie, adjunct professor at the Church of God Theological Seminary in Tennessee; and Dr. Steven M. Studebaker, assistant professor of theology and the Howard and Shirley Bentall chair in evangelical thought at McMaster University.
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The National Milk Producers Federation and the U.S. Dairy Export Council applauded this week's introduction of a Senate bill that would open travel by all Americans to Cuba and further facilitate U.S. agricultural exports to that nation.
The Promoting American Agriculture and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2009, S. 1089, was offered by Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and 15 colleagues. Notably, the bill would clarify the "cash-in-advance" provision of the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act (TSREEA) to ensure its interpretation according to the original intent of Congress to allow for payment in a manner that did not impede trade while also not offering the extension of credit to Cuba. The legislation would also address other issues related to facilitating agricultural trade and travel to Cuba.
This bill would help to address administrative barriers that have arisen and negatively impact U.S. dairy exports to Cuba in a way unintended by Congress, says Tom Suber, president of the U.S. Dairy Export Council. "The Cuban market holds significant promise for U.S. dairy exporters but has become increasingly difficult to supply within the past few years."
"We believe that actions such as this legislation that serve to foster greater export opportunities for U.S. dairy products are the types of market building activities that our government should be working on in order to help expand the market for our dairy producers' quality products," says Jerry Kozak, president and chief executive officer of the National Milk Producers Federation.
The Senate legislation complements efforts in the House of Representatives through H.R. 1531, which was also introduced this spring. The House bill would also address issues important to U.S. dairy exports such as restoring the original intent of the TSREEA payment provisions
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I bought this back in July and have used it for a few months. It is a great basic fridge with plenty of storage. I have yet to figure out how to adjust the shelves, but I know they are adjustable. I opted to not have an ice maker put in but I do know it is compatible with an ice maker add on. One day I might do that. I am fine with just making my own ice for now. Whenever you buy it, make sure whatever way the door swings, it opens a little past 90 degrees otherwise the drawer closest to the door may not open all the way. Minor detail that isn't mentioned in the specs when buying. I love the fact that I have the side storage that can fit a full gallon of milk and some standing bottles of wine. The inside is also easy to clean and wipe down if anything spills thanks to the shelving (versus the typical wire racks). I read on some other sites that people were complaining about noise...I haven't had the luxury of experiencing a ton of fridges and this one doesn't annoy me with sound. I have an extremely sensitive ear with noise and I have never noticed it enough to complain or go as far as return it. Overall this product is really great for the price. GE is a trusted brand in home appliances which makes decisions easier for me when buying. My old dishwasher is about 15 years old and still running like new, it is GE as well. Hoping to get many many years out of this fridge.
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FINISH: The finish on this appliance is beautiful. It will look great with a lot of different color schemes & doesn't show fingerprints. The handle *does* show fingerprints but it's small and easy to wipe! STORAGE: I was worried about this appliance not having enough room since our last refrigerator had larger square footage. No problem there. The interior design is great, leaving room for plenty of food. One nice thing: if you forget and leave the butter door open (which I always do), you can still close the refrigerator door. We didn't get the ice maker. The ice cube holder is quite small, only holding 1 1/2 ice cube trays of ice. LIGHTING: The refrigerator is very well lit. The freezer has no interior light. I like this because I don't wake up at night when I grab something! THE MAJOR PROBLEM: There is only one temperature dial for both the refrigerator and the freezer. The unit we purchased had a faulty mechanism in the dial (the compressor, I think?). When it arrived, our choice was: own a freezer/freezer or a refrigerator/refrigerator. REPAIR MEN: GE's repairmen were speedy, nice, and helpful - fixing the problem - but only so far. We are now able to make ice in the freezer without freezing the vegetables, milk, etc. in the refrigerator. But even on the highest setting ice cream never freezes solid & the blue ice pads I rely on for sports injuries won't freeze at all. They remain in the gel form. The nice GE repairmen told me that if you want more control over temperature, you need to buy a more expensive unit that has separate dials for the refrigerator and freezer. Even when these one-dial units are functioning perfectly, there will be an area in the top-back of the refrigerator where things will freeze. One small area like that would be no problem for us, *if* the freezer truly froze. But it doesn't. OVERALL RECOMMENDATION: We've chosen to stick with this unit because of the price and the hassle of replacing it. If we had it to do all over again, we would get the larger version with two dials..
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We bought this less than a month ago and it already stopped blowing cold. It froze the milk, so we adjusted the temperature. It was still too cold. So we adjusted it again. Still too cold. One more time, and now it blows room temperature air. It looks good, but right now it mas as well be a store display.
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There are some great comments on my blog entry from Friday about whether the TED spread really matters right now. With TED up to a whopping 348bp today, it's worth addressing them.
One thing which comes up repeatedly in the comments is the fact that trillions of dollars of debt instruments are tied to Libor -- which means that even if the interbank market is very illiquid and not used in practice, it can have enormous effects on real-world interest payments.
This is true, but it's entirely a function of Libor, rather than the TED spread. Libor was fixed higher today, at 3.88%, and yes, that's vastly more than investors are willing to receive from Treasury over the same timeframe. But the fact is that 3.88% is not a particularly high nominal interest rate, not when the year-on-year rate of increase in consumer prices has hit 5.4%.
So by all means get exercised about Libor; just don't use the TED spread as a proxy for Libor.
Ben makes a similar, but separate point: 28-day funding at the Fed can be even more expensive than Libor. But once again, we're looking at an unnatractive funding source for banks, in the light of all the overnight liquidity which has recently been injected into the banking system, and then worrying probably a little too much that it's quite high.
It's quite obvious that interest rates are rising right now: for banks, for companies, for consumers, for pretty much everybody, really, except the government. That's what happens in a credit crunch, and it's not pretty. I do think though that the best indicator of how high interest rates have risen is, well, how high interest rates have risen. Libor now is about a percentage point higher than it was through most of the summer, and that's worrying. But let's concentrate on that, rather than looking at the TED spread.
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On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 14:07 -0700, Jim WA9YSD wrote: > For what its worth. Johnson match box was very popular in its day. So > people could not get it to work on 10M because of what ever. To long > antenna, feed line issue what ever. Inductance was the problem. Maybe not > tight enough coupling? I cannot remember any more. > > Too much capacitance causing this? Yes. The match box always has the two differential capacitors across the tuned winding and they can't be small enough to work good at ten meters and be big enough for 80 meters. My ten meter tuners are about 3 x 4 x 5", way smaller than the Viking Matchbox and capable of as much power. Coil is only an inch in diameter and maybe an inch and a half long. Main capacitor isn't much bigger. Dual 50 pf is plenty big. > Just sounds like inductance issue. You have the test equipment so my guess > must not be a good one. > > Tight coupling, I do not think I could achieve that with this 253 auto tuner. > I may have to play with my old MFJ. > > Keep The Faith, Jim K9TF/WA9YSD > 73, Jerry, K0CQ _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
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"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." Albert Einstein (1879-1955), during a lecture, Oxford, June 1933
When is the last time you walked into your local running emporium to purchase a pair of shoes? In a perfect world (if you're like me) the duration from arrival-to-purchase is brief. I know (down to three makers/styles) the shoe I need. I don't need to try them on or do a brief jog in them. Just set the box on the counter and swipe my American Express card.
Thanks, and I'll see you in about ten weeks.
I like running stores. I like most running store proprietors. However, the more time I spend in running stores means less time available for me to spend running. My $500-per-year running shoe habit most likely covers less than 1/1000th of a store proprietor's yearly expenses. My few gizmos, gadgets, and apparel - thank heavens - have longer life spans. The entry-level runner is more likely to be welcomed with open arms into "SHOES 'R' US" than frugal/cheap runners like me. "GAIT-O-RAMA" associates love to see the person who just got finished reading the "five weeks to a faster 5K" or "master your first marathon" article in the glossy running magazine or on the interlink. Even runners who have a few thousand miles under their training shoes enjoy standing in front of the supermarket magazine display...even we can be giddy and drool like our friends, the newbie runner, as we finger our way through the jogger-porn. We look with lust and longing at advertisements for the newest electronic training gadget, or hydration system, or symphony-quality earbuds, too. What differs between the tyro and the "old running hand" is usually an ability to discriminate between the needful and the needless. Or perhaps that our disposable income is going toward therapeutic measures.
Compression stockings are sweet; music/timing/motivational interfaces are nifty...they're all "nice-to-haves," but Murphy's Law posits a direct correlation between higher cost and greater, more irrational dependence. The more dependent the runner becomes on the widget of the week, the more likely the widget will malfunction during a training run (not so much a show-stopper), or worse, either go missing the day before the race - requiring a very expensive replacement during the race expo - or die/malfunction on the day of said race.
(If you have considered participating in a triathlon, I advise you to NOT buy any expensive technological gadget which plays music or speaks to you on the run. Trust me. You'll thank me or the referee who does not have to assess a penalty later. But I digress.)
I've killed music players. I've had pace/distance/heart rate/training tracking gadgets malfunction beyond all recognition (I think the technical term is "FUBAR"), and I've slunk away like a hound caught piddling on the living room carpet when my wife discovered a portable hydration bladder turned into a petri dish. The hard way.
Einstein's goal of achieving simplicity without loss of the necessary holds true, especially for runners. Do you need a fancy wrench set to tighten or loosen a bolt when a pair of Vise-Grip pliers might work as well? It all depends on how many times you plan to do the job. If it's a one-shot deal - or (like triathletes) we learn what we really need early on - the odds are good we learn that the more-simple tools are the most effective.
Once you figure out what you can live with/without, then you can gradually acquire the stuff which works best for you. The simplest needs for every runner regardless of the distance or the coach are a training plan, a way to measure distance, a way to figure out how long they have run. There needs to be a place to store all this information, as well as the effort expended and how soon another pair of shoes will be needed. I'll talk more about the simplest measures of distance, time and effort in the next installment.
Michael Bowen is a training specialist/running coach who lives and trains in the Pensacola, FL area. He works (remotely and in-person) with runners of all ability levels. His wife Suzanne enjoys taking him on business trips which are conjoined with running events; they also travel to New Orleans on occasion to support and participate in road races and triathlons. Michael also writes a blog, "If I Were Your Coach."


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Tom launched the following into the ether: Well, I've never modeled an antenna that I have built and they all seem to work. I guess maybe if I bought a modeling program and ran it, I'd get a db or better gain, or maybe a little better FB. Or it may tell me that it won't work. I usually just put up an antenna and if it works, leave it up. If it doesn't work, I build something else. And now I'm responding: This, to me, seems to be the oft-forgotten part about amateur radio. I don't begrudge anyone their EZNEC or NEC2 modelling: hey, if it floats your boat, go with it. But it seems so many questions on TT, between the lines, reflect an unwillingness or uneasiness to experiment. OK, sure, if that 5-el 20m monobander is slated as part of a 5/5/5/5 stack from 50-225 feet, then I certainly see the value in running modelling. I'm sure even the most ambitious climber wants to minimize time at 225 to every extent possible. And like I said, if you like modelling, all the power to you. But if you're just playing with verticals, or wires in trees, and know even just whatever the minimum is to pass whatever licence class you have, feel free to play. That's part of what this is all about. For a lot of folk, the actual radiocommunication is secondary to the playing. I'm not going to enter any debate on the merits of modelling. Like I said, if it's what you like to do, do it. But for those on the reflector who may have forgotten that learning about radio is part of what ham radio is about, go have fun with your antennas. Learn from what works and what doesn't. For someone who is still learning, it's the most effective way to learn, even if it's not the most effective way to get a killer antenna. 73, kelly ve4xt _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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JOHANNESBURG — Italy joined France on the sidelines of the World Cup on Thursday, the first time that both finalists from the previous tournament have been eliminated in the first round.
The four-time champion Italians lost to Slovakia 3-2 at Ellis Park, allowing the Slovaks to advance to the round of 16 from Group F along with Paraguay, which drew 0-0 with New Zealand.
"I take full responsibility," Italy coach Marcello Lippi said. "If the squad went out with fear in their legs and hearts it means the coach didn't prepare the match well tactically or psychologically."
Later Thursday, Denmark and Japan were to play in Rustenburg for the second qualifying spot from Group E. The Netherlands, which has already reached the next round, was to play already-eliminated Cameroon in Cape Town.
Italy came into the World Cup with mostly the same team of veterans that won the title four years ago in Germany. But this year, defender Fabio Cannavaro was far from his best and the attack failed to produce goals until the team was facing elimination.
For Slovakia, Robert Vittek scored goals in the 25th and 73rd minutes.
The second goal seemed to finally wake Italy's struggling front line and Antonio Di Natale pulled one back for the Italians in the 81st.
Substitute Kamil Kopunek restored the two-goal lead for Slovakia with a smart lob in the 89th, and Fabio Quagliarella added the final goal for Italy in injury time.
"We've shown that we're not here for a holiday," Slovakia forward Erik Jendrisek said.
Letting in early goals in South Africa was nothing new for Italy, which was held to 1-1 draws by Paraguay and New Zealand in its first two group matches.
Italy hasn't won a match since beating Sweden 1-0 in a friendly in November, drawing five times and losing twice since then.
Italy won the 2006 World Cup final with a penalty shootout win over France, which only qualified this year after Thierry Henry used his hand to set up the deciding goal in a playoff win over Ireland.
Things didn't get any prettier after France arrived in South Africa. The 1998 World Cup winners drew 0-0 with Uruguay on the opening day. Then, in between losses to Mexico and host South Africa, striker Nicolas Anelka was thrown off the squad after refusing to apologize for insulting coach Raymond Domenech.
The rest of the team declined to train the next day because of the treatment given their teammate.
On Thursday in Paris, the French players arrived home to a cold welcome as police guarded the tarmac to let the players disembark away from journalists and fans.
Paraguay moved into the round of 16 for the fourth time in its history as neither team threatened to score in Polokwane.
The Paraguayans also reached the second round at the World Cup in 1986, 1998 and 2002.
"Obviously, the first goal was to advance," Paraguay striker Roque Santa Cruz said. "We had some good moments in the first three games and obviously there are some things that we need to improve."
New Zealand exits the tournament without losing a match, just as Switzerland did four years ago. But in Germany, the Swiss reached the round of 16 and then lost to Ukraine on penalties.
"We are proud and disappointed at the same time now," New Zealand coach Ricki Herbert said. "We remained unbeaten but are still eliminated. I am proud, and no one takes away from me what we have done here."
Outside the stadium, police clashed with celebrating New Zealand fans, but police spokesman Motlafela Mojapelo denied there were any major incidents.
"Inside and around the stadium, no violence was reported with any of the police posts in operation," Mojapelo said. "Police escorted the fans to the city center without problems."
South African Police Service have already said extra security measures will be in place for the World Cup match between England and Germany, which will be played Sunday in Bloemfontein.


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Red-hot shooting from an opponent and continued, season-long cold shooting from Syracuse led the Orange women to an 82-63 defeat at the hands of the Oklahoma Sooners in the second round of the Duel in the Desert in Las Vegas on Monday night.
The Sooners made 51.6 percent of their shots in the first half, including 6-of-10 from 3-point range, to grab a 46-34 lead and never looked back. Oklahoma's lead swelled to as many as 27 points (80-53) with three minutes remaining in the game, before Syracuse staged a 10-2 run to close out the contest.
For the game, Oklahoma made 44.1 percent of its overall shots and 55.6 percent (10-of-18) of its 3-pointers, while the Orange could muster only 27.5 percent from the field and 17.4 percent (4-of-23) of its 3-pointers. Each team took virtually the same number of shots, but the Sooners converted 30-of-68 to only 19-of-69 for Syracuse.
Oklahoma, a perennial national power out of the Big 12, saw three players score in double figures. Morgan Hook led the way with 21, including make 5-of-7 from long range, followed by Joanna McFarland with 19 and Aaryn Ellenberg with 16.
Syracuse saw only one player, Elashier "Lacie" Hall, hit double figures. The junior wing scored 19, including making 11-of-13 free-throw attempts. Iasia Hemingway and Shakeya Leary contributed seven points apiece.
The loss dropped the Orange women's record to 8-4 (0-1 Big East) as they prepare for their final game of the Duel in the Desert today at 3 p.m. against Ohio. SU opened the three-day tournament with a 70-67 victory over Xavier on Sunday.
After today's contest, SU will return home for the holiday break before closing out its non-conference schedule with home games against Niagara on Dec. 29 (7 p.m.) and Colgate on New Year's Eve (noon).
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