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architect: Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, San Francisco
project: Sea Ranch Residence, The Sea Ranch, Calif.
detail: Breakfast nook
"In much of our work, we spend a lot of time detailing to make things look really minimal," says Eric Haesloop, AIA, LEED AP, a principal at the San Francisco firm Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects. He, co-principals Mary Griffin, FAIA, and Stefan Hastrup, AIA, LEED AP, and their staff design many projects in scenic areas of Northern California. They want their details to emphasize these sites' natural beauty, rather than distract from it.
The breakfast nook at a house in The Sea Ranch, Calif., provides a perfect example of this approach. The 21-square-foot space sits just off the kitchen, up a 6-inch-tall step. "The step makes all the difference," Haesloop says. "It lifts the nook apart from the main space completely." Cedar benches appear to float without support, as does a cedar tabletop. Both are held up by flat, L-shaped pieces of steel embedded in the walls. Builder Don Matheny carved out slots on the undersides of the tabletop and benches, then screwed the steel into them. "He did a beautiful job," Haesloop adds. "That's really key for most details."
A downlit wall niche forms a cedar-lined display shelf. Cedar boards placed in a pinwheel pattern frame the niche—a move that gently highlights the wood's warm hues and fine grain. And big, aluminum-framed windows turn the nook's north and northeast walls into lenses for the windswept landscape.
general contractor: Matheny Construction, Nevada City, Calif.
woodworkers: Martin Maul Construction, Gualala, Calif., and David Hanson Woodworking, Santa Rosa, Calif.
materials: Cedar, steel, gypsum board
photography: David Wakely
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Walter T. Kelley's Beekeeping 101 Class
The first Saturday in January, Kelley's offers a class to educate new beekeepers and enhance the learning of those who are more experienced. The class which begins at 9:00 am CST and ends at approximately 4:00 pm is held at the Clarkson, KY facility. There will be a morning and afternoon break and a 1 hour lunch break (restaurants are within reasonable driving distance). The fee for this class is $30.00 per person and the class size is limited to 50 people. If weather permits, we will do a live inspection of an active hive. These classes will be taught in December, January, February and March. Presentation developed by Phil Craft, former Kentucky State Apiarist. The classes will be lead by Chris Renfrow.
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Depending on the day of the week, you could find me doing a number of community roles. Weekdays, I work as a paramedic with Owensboro, Daviess, & Breckenridge County Ambulance Services. Any day or hour in between, I will be decked in a white mesh jacket and veil tending to my hives.
Eleven years ago, my family and I decided to start keeping bees. We started out with three hives which turned into 200 at one time. Now, because of my busy schedule, we are back down to 30. I have a passion for queen rearing and have raised New World Carniolans, VSH, and Italian queens. I also have contracted bees to facilitate pollination of over 4 million melons in Kentucky. I wanted my daughters, Marissa Lynn, 20 and Crystal June, 17, to have knowledge about giving back to nature and be able to know what it's like to provide for themselves. Now, it's just our way of life.


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The Central Whidbey Sportsman's Association is offering free safety training classes this summer.
The Women's Firearm Safety class begins at 9 a.m. July 27 at the club at 397 Safari Lane, Coupeville.
The class, which is taught by retired law enforcement officers, covers handling a loaded firearm and how to make it safe. The session lasts about four hours and includes range time to practice new skills.
Bring your own firearms or guns will be provided by the club. It's also recommended that you bring a lunch or snacks.
No registration in needed for this class. Call Bob Clark at 360-929-2167 for more information.
The association also offers four sessions for hunter education: July 31 to Aug. 3, Aug. 28 to 31, Sept. 4 to 7, and Sept. 18 to 21.
The sessions are held at the Central Whidbey Sportsman's Association clubhouse and at the range.
To register call Sam Weatherford at 360-914-0354 or John Boling at 360-969-2440.
The state also requires online registration at wdfw.wa.gov/hunting.
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Hi. By reading topics, I've found lots of funny, useful and attentive comments. So, I was thinking about fears. I have some of my own.
Zombies and
Zombie dogs… (<-not funny at all… )
It's kinda funny, but also scares sh* of me. Why dogs? When I was 4, huge one attacked me. Fortunately, my father saved me. Why Zombies? Well, for me it's kinda only thing that's possible. Biohazard, TV-brainwash, experiments, bio-weapons, etc. Yes, it is funny. I watched a lot of movies, but this came up when I kept repeating one dream; a giant pit in middle of nowhere, full of zombies… I am in there, trying to save my family…
So, if you want to share it with others, or you know how to help someone with their fears, come by!
Werewolves! Hate them so much!!!
That something happens with my kid and can't do anything to help him.
Butterflies! and I'm serious. Also almost all of the winged insects!
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That something happens with my kid and can't do anything to help him.
+1 or let's say +2 'cause I have two kids… I understand completely.
Being alone
I am not really afraid of cockroaches (and other insects), but actually disgusted by them. They're so… creepy
The real fear…? I don't know… There's no real phobia, although I get some bad thoughts from time to time which make me scared… The closest thing to real fear is my "fear" from idiots in traffic That's the main reason why I don't drive, although I have my driver's license I think that after watching too many James Bond movies, a lot of people mixed up driver's license with a "license to kill"


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On this very special episode of Talkin' Shit. The Mongs get Jason high and ask him some loaded questions. Eddie talks about about his new house and the short bus, all this and more on this episode of Talkin' Shit. Guests on this Episode: Jason Auer – @JasonAuer
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Limbaugh has a credibility deficit: mischaracterized U.S. fiscal shortfall
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In response to a caller on the July 8 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show who said she was "losing faith" in conservatives because of the state of the national debt, radio host Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that the United States is "growing out of" the deficit and mischaracterized the relationship between the national debt, the federal deficit, and the gross domestic product (GDP) in an attempt to prove that America's fiscal shortfall is "not a big deal."
From the July 8 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show:
CALLER: Rush. How can it not be -- you know when I didn't -- when I really started losing faith? I loved Bob Dole, and I respected him so much. But we --when we were still paying $220 billion a year in interest on our national debt.
LIMBAUGH: Hold it a second. You know, [caller's name], you don't even understand that. The deficit this year as a percentage of our gross domestic product is like somebody being -- somebody that earns [$]500 grand being in debt [$]50,000, or something close to that. It's not a big deal, and it's coming down. We're growing out of it. We grow out of every deficit we have. It's not a monster. It's not going to kill us. You are falling prey to talking points enunciated by ultra-liberals who do not have the best interest of this economy at heart anyway.
In fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the current federal deficit as of July 7 for fiscal year 2004 is $328 billion, "about $58 billion more than the shortfall recorded in the same period last year." Contrary to Limbaugh's assertion that "We're growing out of it [the deficit]," the CBO's most recent set of budget projections for fiscal years 2004 through 2014 -- published March 8, 2004 -- projected that this year's deficit will be $477 billion. This is more than $100 billion higher than the fiscal year 2003 figure of $375 billion, which was in turn higher than the fiscal year 2002 figure of $158 billion. While the CBO noted in its May 2004 Monthly Budget Review that "recent trends suggest that the deficit in 2004 will be less than the $477 billion that CBO projected in March," it also noted that "the deficit will widen as the year goes on."
In comparing "this year's deficit as a percentage of our gross domestic product" to "somebody that earns [$]500 grand being in debt [$]50,000, or something close to that," Limbaugh conflated the federal deficit (the difference between what the government takes in and what it spends annually) with the national debt (the total amount owed by the government). In an attempt to downplay the significance of the nation's fiscal shortfall, Limbaugh contrasted the federal deficit with the GDP (the primary measure of U.S. production), a correlation that fails to take the national debt into account. The appropriate comparison would have been between the national debt -- not the federal deficit -- and the GDP.
While this year's deficit represents about 2.9 percent of the GDP, it is only a small fraction of the total owed by the government, the national debt, which is approximately $7.26 trillion as of July 9. Since the national debt is currently 63 percent of the GDP, a more accurate analogy would involve someone who earns $500,000 being $315,000 in debt -- and only managing to pay down a fraction of the annual interest.
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Holiday gift wishes from local children in need will hang from the branches of the Teddy Bear Tree in the main court of Lakewood Center Saturday and Sunday.
Inspiration for the tree came from a feeling that there weren't any charitable organizations reaching out to the needs of children in Lakewood, said Mayor Diane DuBois.
"In 1996, the Teddy Bear Tree program, with its specific gifts requested by specific children, was created as a way to give residents a direct connection to the children they would be helping and a better gift match for them," she said.
The annual tradition, which is part of the Project Shepherd charity, is organized by the Rotary Club of Lakewood and the city "as a way for Lakewood residents to help their neighbors who might be in tough economic circumstances during the holidays," DuBois said.
Each year, mall shoppers can choose a wish from the tree and return with an affordable gift to fulfill the wish.
"Through all these years, Project Shepherd and the Teddy Bear Tree Program remain wonderful, caring ways for local residents to help their neighbors in need, especially during the holiday season," DuBois said.
This year, anyone who fulfills a Teddy Bear wish by purchasing their gift in Lakewood will be entered into a raffle for a $100 Lakewood Center gift card, courtesy of Lakewood Center, officials said.
Lakewood Center is at 500 Lakewood Center Mall. For more information, go to lakewoodcity.org/ProjectShepherd or call 562-925-7512.
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First a little background. Summum Bonum Amen Ra (aka. Claude Rex Nowell; Corky Ra) gave the talk below on May 24, 1997 in a pyramid in Salt Lake City, UT. Corky had extra-dimensional beings visit him several times who convinced him to start Summum. Before that he was high ranking Mormon priesthood. Before and after starting Summum he was special forces black-ops running drugs into the USA and assassinating people. He was part of the spec ops team on the Cobra Ball that was involved with passenger flight KAL007 that got shot down in Russian airspace circa 1983. Summum was started in 1975. Corky passed on in 2008.
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Let me show you how this new heaven and earth are going to come. It said there is going to be a fire upon the earth and that fire is going to cleanse it. There was a great sign that just passed [Hale-Bopp] and 4500 years ago they said when that sign passed again, then that was the time. The comet passed. Up on the west wall in the pyramid we have the pizza pie comet in the sky as revelations says. It will come from the northeast and if you wanted to compare it in size, it would be as big as this room compared to a basket ball and when everyone sees the pizza pie in the sky coming, they are going to get down on their knees and say "Oh my God, it is coming," and it will scare the living shit right out of them. And they are going to try to find themselves on their knees and repent for all they have done wrong in the last second.
Keep your attention in heaven when the pizza pie hits, because it is coming. It may come tomorrow or in a thousand years for some of you. No man knows the date or time, only God. Now I would guess that a smart disciple would say, "Let me get my pie together before the pizza hits. Let me look upon every man, woman, animal, and everything within creation as having a living spirit created by God. I get on my knees and I forsake all those things that I have had my attention on. All of those meaningless things I will forsake, that have taken me out of harmony with creation itself." But it seems it only comes when the pressure comes close. When you take the top off the pressure cooker and all the steam goes away and it just simmers away, you are right back where you were cooking and you get up off your knees and go right back to what you were doing when the pizza was not coming. All the religions say the pizza is coming.
The Mormons say the millennium is coming. God did come to those who were ready because they lived it. They were disciples of it. It was not just three hours on Sunday for them. They walked it for 3000 miles and more than a third of them died on the way. The Jews did the same thing when they left Egypt. It is not a new story. It is an old story. You are not going anywhere. You are where you are at and you are going to wake up where you are at. But you better get there now. Do not put it off. Does anyone know the exact hour or the exact seconds of the right time?
We have been getting visitors, though you had better hope the visitors don't come, because if they do come, you are going to be required to have it together. Donna said they were trying to land in the parking lot of Summum. Have you seen any UFO movies lately? Watch the Learning Channel. All the documents are being released because of the Freedom of Information Act. All the government documents have come out with the stories that for years we have been "being observed." And they are here. It is here and it is on the Learning Channel, watch it. It is happening. A lot of airplane pilots are telling the stories of what they have seen and what is happening because of what is going on. What form could they come in? A low flying plane about 100 ft. or less off the ground flew over the pyramid. Do not be asleep, get in touch.
Do not miss it. Watch the Discovery and the Learning Channels. They have landed, but mankind cannot hear the frequency because their attention is in mammon with the gold, within the world, within the mansions. They cannot listen, they refuse to hear, and they would not waste their time with it. They only come for those who are ready to listen. No one ever dies, they just transform. Everyone continues where they left off. The Messiah's usually go out by getting killed, and quick. There is no problem with that because when "It" comes, "It" is a big fireball and the earth is just a little basketball. The earth passes through this fireball, as a new Big Bang, and as it passes through it turns into a crystal. A celestial heaven, clear as glass, vaporized and there is no water left. Not a star in the sky because all there is, is pure light. Just pure energy. Now if you are ready, you are ready. And if you are not, you are not.
There have been some bizarre things happening in the pyramid. It comes from nowhere and lands on you. Just like that and feels just like that. It is called the unexplainable. It is here; it is talking to you. Make sure you have got your attention on heaven. Every day of your life, it is here right now! It rings, it vibrates inside of you. It wells up in your heart; it feels like a lump in your chest. Do not miss it. Catch the first wave on the way out. It is easiest that way. You will not be able to see it when it comes because it comes so fast. It is faster than light, as a thief in the dark I shall come. Just feel it. Do not miss the opportunity to become a disciple of it because you have never felt so good, as you feel right now.
You will hear it in your heart, and feel it in your soul before you see it coming. It will sound just like what you have just heard in your meditation. You will hear it before you see it, but you will not hear it within your ears. You will hear it ringing in your soul, for it will come as a calming rain. It will come as fire. There are no accidents!!
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FFRF objects to Washington State Senate prayer
Note: Below the following call to action is a copy of the letter FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor sent to Washington State Lt. Governor Owen over inappropriate prayer at the Jan. 14 State Senate session. Click here to view the letter as PDF. We encourage you to read the letter and then speak out against the prayer.
Take Action!
Please contact the following members of the Washington State government and urge them to take steps to "prevent future constitutional violations by dropping legislative prayer."
The Honorable Brad Owen
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Washington State Senate
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PO Box 40400
Olympia, WA 98504-0400
Senator Mark Schoesler
Republican Leader
PO Box 40409
Olympia, WA 98504-0409
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Senator Ed Murray
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Olympia, WA 98504-0443
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The Honorable Brad Owen
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Re: Unconstitutional Legislative Prayer
Dear Lt. Governor Owen:
On behalf of Washington members of our national organization, which works to protect the constitutional principle of the separation between state and church, I am writing to strenuously object to the overtly political and offensive prayer delivered by Pastor Jon Sanne at the Washington Senate's first session on January 14, 2013. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is an educational association with 19,000 nonreligious members nationwide, including more than 800 members in Washington. We also represent the 25% of the Washington population, 1.3 million Washingtonians, who are explicitly nonreligious. (Thirty percent of Washingtonians are not Christians).
It is our understanding that Sanne, Pastor of the Calvary Chapel in Olympia, gave an invocation addressed to his "Heavenly Father," asking the "Lord, [to] bring us back into line with the timeless truths and wisdom of Your Word [the Bible]." Sanne asked his god to "lead us to a blessing, being one nation, under You." Sanne also took the opportunity to lobby the Senate to overturn the gay marriage bill and referendum, by inviting his deity to "strengthen marriage as You've ordained it for our good and Your Glory." Sanne concluded: "We openly and humbly ask these things in the name of Your Son the Living Savior, Jesus Christ."
This incident is a perfect example of all that is wrong with mixing government and religion, including legislative prayer. Legislative prayer is unconstitutional, exclusionary, divisive and serves no legitimate secular purpose.
The Prayer is Unconstitutional
As the Supreme Court explained: "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." W. Va. State Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 642 (1943). The Court has rigidly enforced the rule that "The government may not . . . lend its power to one or the other side in controversies over religious authority or dogma." Employment Div. v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872, 877 (1990).
In sponsoring sectarian legislative prayers, in this case to Jesus, the Washington government, which invited Sanne, is weighing in on three controversies. First, the government is inappropriately taking a side in what is arguably the most enduring religious controversy: god's existence or non-existence. Second, the legislature is endorsing Christianity by scheduling and approving an overtly Christian prayer. Legislative prayer may not be sectarian. On January 13, 2012, the Supreme Court declined to review a Fourth Circuit decision that overturned a legislative prayer policy because the prayers "continued to reference specific tenets of Christianity." Joyner v. Forsyth County, 653 F.3d 341, 344 (4th Cir. 2011). That decision held that continual, Christian prayers at a legislative sessions leads "to exactly the kind of 'divisiveness the Establishment Clause seeks rightly to avoid.' " Id. 355. Thirdly, the Washington Senate has appeared to lend its power and imprimatur to a homophobic diatribe. This body owes an apology to Washington citizens, particularly the LGBTQ community, for this outrageous and inappropriate incident.
According to news reports, Senator Mark Schoesler invited Sanne to give the prayer. Schoesler was quoted saying: "He prayed. I asked him to speak, and I don't censor prayer." That is precisely why legislative prayers should not be offered. There is no means of assuring that officiants will abide by the narrow exceptions carved out by the Supreme Court.
The prayer here flagrantly exceeded the constraints of the 1983 Supreme Court decision, Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783 (1983), which carved out the narrow exception. The Marsh exception allowed for nonsectarian, nondenominational prayer under certain circumstances. The prayer may not be "exploited to proselytize or advance any one, or to disparage any other, faith or belief." The Supreme Court has reiterated, "not even the 'unique history' of legislative prayer, can justify contemporary legislative prayers that have the effect of affiliating the government with any one specific faith or belief." County of Allegheny v. ACLU Greater Pittsburgh Chapter, 492 U.S. 573, 603 (1989). The Court explained, "The legislative prayers involved in Marsh did not violate this principle because the particular chaplain had 'removed all references to Christ.' " Id.
The Marsh decision is often misunderstood or misrepresented. Therefore, it is important to see how courts interpret the decision. Time and again, federal courts overturn government-sponsored prayers that are sectarian, denominational, or invoke a particular faith or deity.
When the legislature invites officiants to pray and schedules official prayer, it has a responsibility to ensure that they are nonsectarian. We understand the reluctance to ensure religious speech meets constitutional requirements, but the solution is not to ignore those constitutional requirements, it is to stop conducting government prayer.
Sanne used his status as a "man of God" to lobby the legislature on an issue that has been decided in Washington courts and by the voters. He attempted to use religion to leverage legislation. It is no distortion to say that the purpose of his prayer was to exhort the gathered officials to prohibit gay marriage in the name of Sanne's god.
The Prayer is Exclusionary
Government officials represent more that just Christians; they represent all their constituents including atheists, agnostics, Jews, Muslims, Wiccans, Hindus and other minority religious views. The Senate's active participation in a Christian prayer in your official capacity unabashedly promotes that religion over other religions and over nonreligion. Officials may, as private citizens, attend any religious functions they like, the church of your choice, pray, etc. But the federal and state Constitutions — and good etiquette — dictate that government officials avoid prayer in their official capacity and refrain from allowing religious rituals at official ceremonies.
By scheduling prayer, the Washington government sends the message "to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community." County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union, 492 U.S. 573, 595 (1989) (quoting Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668, 688 (1984)).
The Prayer is Divisive
The framers of our Constitution recognized that religion is not unifying, but divisive. James Madison thought, "to employ Religion as an engine of Civil policy" was "an unhallowed perversion of the means of salvation." He also thought "Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
The Supreme Court has also recognized the divisiveness of religion. In McCreary County, the Supreme Court wrote, "…the divisiveness of religion in current public life is inescapable." 545 U.S. 844, 881 (2005). In Van Orden v. Perry, Justice Breyer wrote in his dissent that the purpose of the First Amendment is to "avoid that divisiveness based upon religion that promotes social conflict, sapping the strength of government and religion alike." 545 U.S. 677, 698 (2005). An early Wisconsin Supreme Court justice put it most eloquently:
"There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter our civil affairs, our government would soon be destroyed." Weiss v. District Board, 44 N.W. 967, 981 (1890)(Orton, J. concurring).
James Madison, the primary architect of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, and our fourth president, opposed government prayers and congressional chaplaincies. In his Detached Memoranda, Madison wrote, "Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion . . . The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles." Madison was equally critical of presidential and governmental prayer.
"Religious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings & fasts are shoots from the same root… Although recommendations only, they imply a religious agency, making no part of the trust delegated to political rulers." Id.
The U.S. Constitution is a godless and secular document, whose only references to religion in government are exclusionary, such as prohibiting a religious test for public office. It is a fundamental principle of Establishment Clause jurisprudence that the government cannot promote one religion over another, or religion over nonreligion. The framers did not pray when adopting our Constitution. Surely if the founders did not need prayer to write the document that founded our nation, the Washington Senate can successfully conduct its secular business without prayer as well.
We ask that you take immediate action to prevent future constitutional violations by dropping legislative prayer. We would appreciate hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
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Annie Laurie Gaylor
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FFRF has awarded Mayan and Balen Essak each $1,000 student activist awards. Freethought activism runs in the family (see sidebar).
For several years, our Wisconsin public high school's football team has partnered with a private, Catholic high school to create a competitive team. For years, the team's logo was a simple MS, combining our schools' first initials.
Last year, our graphic arts program assigned students a project to create a new logo, combining our high school's logo, a greyhound, with the private school's logo, a Catholic bishop's hat with a cross on it. The winning design would replace the old logo. After passing through the football coach, principal and many other school authorities, a design that cleverly combined the logos was chosen and printed on decals for helmets.
For most of the season, the cross-bearing helmets went unbeknownst to us until the school newspaper printed an article about them with a few weeks left in the season. Publication of the situation prompted an immediate response.
The day the paper came out, one of us, along with some other upset peers, brought it to the assistant principal's attention that we were unhappy with a religious symbol representing our football team and public school. We felt that it was unfair to force people to wear a cross on their heads if they wanted to play football. It was a clear issue of separating church and state.
We brought it to the attention of our parents as well, who, that night, emailed the school board and principal explaining that without swift action, we would be contacting the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
At the school board meeting that one of us attended, the board acknowledged our request. They all had been unaware of the new logo and voted unanimously and with minimal discussion to remove the decals as quickly as possible.
Taking responsibility for the mistake, the principal apologized and had the decals removed before the next game. Unfortunately, many people were unhappy with the decision. One school board member received many emails and phone calls from disapproving citizens across the nation, but there were many local protesters, too.
We had to explain countless times to oblivious peers why having a cross on a public school's football helmet isn't acceptable. Many felt that since a private school was involved, they should be allowed to have their symbol represented on the team's logo.
They couldn't understand that when a private school partners with a public school, they need to follow the public school's rules. Students at the private school may have signed up to be represented by a cross, but anyone attending a public school can expect complete freedom from religion in all representations of their school and all school-sponsored activities.
Another common complaint was that since we weren't football players, and because we weren't actually wearing the cross, we weren't directly affected by the logo and shouldn't care or make such a big deal about it.
On the contrary, it did directly affect us. At every single football game our team had played so far this season, people saw our football team associated with Christianity. People seeing our school as a Christianity-endorsing institution doesn't just affect the football players. It affects anyone associated with our school district.
Just because we're not football players doesn't change the morality of the situation. In the theoretical but entirely possible situation that we wanted to play football, we should not be forced to wear a cross on our heads. The helmet logo was morally and legally wrong; whether or not we play football doesn't change that.
Some other arguments were even more outlandish. This was one of the emails a school board member received: "Everyone wonders why America is in decline. The answer is simple, our country was founded with Christian values . . . and every time we disavow his image or the cross we are a little less blessed each day. . . . I don't know what your religious affiliation is, but if you are a Christian . . . think about putting God ahead of your job and political motivations. . . If they don't like it, tell them to go to another school . . . If you are a liberal, you won't understand me."
Obviously, America was not founded on Christian values but on moral principles, which contradict this point of view. Another email received in response to the decision stated, "This has nothing whatsoever to do with separation of church and state and you know it. What it shows is that today's society is determined to shield this generation from Christianity and remove all mention of God from our lives. Our great country was founded on the belief of personal and religious freedoms and you have now done your part to squash that freedom."
Actually, it did have to do with separation of church and state. Also, not forcing Christianity upon others seems more like freedom from religion than the freedom suggested in this email.
To us, this issue seems absolutely self-evident. By separation of church and state, it is unacceptable to place any religious symbols on a public school's uniforms. How so many people are naïve about this idea is bewildering to us. Working to remove the cross from our school's helmets was a rewarding experience, but also an eye-opening one.
Sadly, far more people than we had ever imagined are completely oblivious to religious symbols in public settings and are too ignorant to other points of view to understand why the cross had to be removed. Hopefully, this has been a learning experience for all.
We just hope that if a situation like this arises, and we aren't there to fight for our freedom from religion, someone else will.
Jennifer and Sam Essak (at right), parents of Mayan and Balen, as state employees were among the victorious plaintiffs in FFRF's lawsuit declaring unconstitutional Wisconsin's Good Friday holiday in 1996. "We're thrilled to see two generations of commitment to the First Amendment in the Essak family," said FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. Also pictured by the Robert La Follette bust in the Wisconsin Capitol in 1996 were Good Friday plaintiffs (left) Dan Barker, Michael Hakeem, Richard Uttke and Annie Laurie and Anne Gaylor.


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LONG BEACH — A challenger supported by Long Beach's teacher union failed to unseat an incumbent school board member in Tuesday's elections.
Incumbents in all of the races for the Long Beach Unified Board of Education and the Long Beach City College Board of Trustees handily defeated their opponents, according to final election results released from the City Clerk's Office shortly after midnight.
The even-numbered seats on both the LBUSD and LBCC boards were up for grabs this year.
In the race for school board District 2, which encompasses neighborhoods including the Westside, Wrigley and portions of Central Long Beach, incumbent and board President Felton Williams won with 61.7 percent of the vote compared with 38.3 percent for his rival Ricardo Linarez, who was supported by the Teachers Association of Long Beach.
Reached by phone on Tuesday night, Williams said he appreciates the support from his district and the community.
"I think our students are being served well by our teachers and our staff and I believe the public understands that in spite of the tough budget situation, we're still working to make sure our kids are successful," he said.
Williams, who joined the board in 2004, is a former dean of business and social science at Long Beach City College with more than 36 years of experience in higher education. The 65-year-old father of two had a number of powerful endorsements, including Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, former Gov. George Deukmejian and former Long Beach Mayor Beverly O'Neill.
Linarez, a 36-year-old father of two, is a former Marine who works as a field deputy for Long Beach Councilman Steven Neal.
In the race for school board District 4, which includes Belmont Shore, Naples and portions of East Long Beach, retired educator and incumbent Jon Meyer was the only candidate running, though Naomi Rainey's name appeared on the ballot.
Meyer won with 74.7 percent of the vote, although Rainey's name garnered 25.3 percent of the vote.
Rainey, who stepped down as head of Long Beach branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to run for school board, dropped out of the race but failed to withdraw her paperwork from the Los Angeles County Registrar's Office by the Jan. 13 deadline. As a result, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that her name must remain on the ballot -- a move that cost the school district about $170,000 in election fees.
Meyer, a 76-year-old a former teacher, coach and administrator in the LBUSD for 41 years, said one of his biggest goals this year is to inform voters about the November tax initiative and the huge need for funding in schools.
In the race for LBCC District 4, incumbent Trustee Doug Otto won with 67.5 percent of the vote, compared with 32.5 percent for his rival, Wilson High School math teacher Davina Keiser.
District 4 includes Belmont Shore, Naples and portions of Signal Hill and East Long Beach.
Otto, the current trustee president, is a well-known local attorney who has served on the board since 2004.
Reached by phone on Tuesday, Otto expressed appreciation for his supporters.
"These are challenging times for higher education and I'm looking froward to meeting those challenges," he said.
Trustee Roberto Uranga ran unchallenged for LBCC District 2, which includes West Long Beach and portions of Central Long Beach.
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Institute of Archaeology
Meghan Banton
Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and the Clap: Connecting the Soldiering Lifestyle to Literary and Skeletal Evidence of Reactive Arthritides Induced by Gastrointestinal and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
There are many organisms associated with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and gastrointestinal (GI) infections which are known stimulators of arthritic reactions. For instance, Reactive Arthropathy (ReA) is now attributed to Chlamydia trachomatis, Salmonella, Shigella, Yersinia, and Campylobacter and Septic Arthritis can be initiated by N. gonorrhoeae. It is commonly known that soldiers throughout history were exposed to numerous forms of disease, including STDs and GI infections which are known to cause reactive arthritis. My research examines the history of reactive arthritides among active duty soldiers and will try to determine their frequency among various soldiering populations, both past and present.
In order to understand the history and determine the frequency of reactive arthritides in relation to soldiers, current clinical data, primary and secondary literary resources, and skeletal evidence are utilized. Clinical data is used to define the nature of reactive arthritides and to determine how they can be diagnosed in the skeleton. Primary and secondary resources are used to create a sound argument for why bioarchaeologists could expect to find evidence of reactive arthritides in skeletal collections consisting of soldiers. Finally, bioarchaeological methods will be employed to examine relevant skeletal collections to determine the prevalence of reactive arthritides among soldiers from past conflicts.
Some important subsidiary questions include:
- How do reactive arthritides come to affect the joints?
- What operational definitions can be used to confidently diagnose these conditions within skeletal remains?
- The medical understanding of disease is constantly changing, making it important to remember that diseases may have been understood, described, and interpreted differently in the past; therefore, how does this affect our ability to identify these conditions in historical literature?
What can this information tell us about the palaeopathology and palaeoepidemiology of reactive arthritides?
- Tony Waldron
- Simon Hillson
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- BA, Anthropology , Longwood University, 2011
- BA, History, Longwood University, 2011
- Minor, Biology, Longwood University, 2011
- MSc, Skeletal and Dental Bioarchaeology, University College London, 2012
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Noga Gold is part of the silver lining that an American fundraising group provides to a national Israeli emergency response organization.
Mitzvah Hero: Noga Gold of Pine Valley has been actively supportive of the American Friends of Magen David Adom — an organization that "provides a rapid and skilled emergency medical response to Israel's 7.8 million people" — since moving here from Israel in 1971.
What It's All About: Before immigrating to Philadelphia, Gold was well-versed in the wonders of the Israeli emergency response organization, which provides ambulances and blood services as well as help at disaster sites.
"I knew how important Magen David is because it helps in time of need and in time of war. When I was living in Ashdod, I had neighbors who had to call for Magen David. And when I had a car accident in Israel, they came in a minute," Gold recalls. "I donated to the organization even when I lived there. We knew Magen David was there for us."
Not a One-Time Thing: Volunteering for the Philadelphia chapter of AFMDA "became a family affair for us," Gold says. "Even the kids were involved."
Her father-in-law, Paul Gold, started the first American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA) fundraising chapter in Philadelphia and brought her into the fold in 1971. Her husband, Maurice, a Philadelphian she met in Israel, once served as president of their local chapter.
Good for Her: Gold, a controller for the law firm Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy P.C., "is the first to volunteer, the first to arrive and the last to leave," says Sharon Schmidt, a Philadelphia area director for AFMDA. "She asks nothing for herself."
Gold says volunteering is payback enough because it "means being a part of tikkun olam and helping to save precious Israeli lives. It makes me feel very close to my beloved homeland."


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Long before George Costanza announced his invention of the iToilet app on the Seinfeld reunion episode, I had thought of this very concept. Having driven from Los Angeles to San Diego on many occasions, I've learned exactly where to stop for a clean bathroom and where not to stop. I have even taken to keeping a Starbucks paper cup on the floor of the passenger seat of my car—for roadside emergencies.
As a woman, peeing is a very big part of my life. It's something I do often, and something I do well. While drinking three liters of water a day may have something to do with it, I've heard that women also have smaller bladders than men—or at least intolerance for a full bladder. Like Peter MacNicol's character John Cage, the quirky Senior Partner at Cage & Fish on the acclaimed TV series of the 90s, Ally McBeal, I like a fresh bowl. I also like a clean bathroom, one that smells of flowers and candles not bleach and stale urine.


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Plus: The most bizarre things we've heard in bed, how to hack your life, and more!
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We've seen the best and worst SAG Awards red carpet style… now how about checking out the best and worst SAG Awards red carpet beauty? From gorgeous waves to horrifying orange lipstick, we've got the lowdown here! (TheGloss)
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Serena Williams Wins U.S Open
(Flushing, NY) -- Serena Williams is the winner of the 2013 U.S. Open. The top-seeded American dismissed second-seeded Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 6-7, 6-1 in the women's final on Sunday night. This was the fourth meeting between the two this year and the second win for Williams. All four matches were in event finals. Serena also defeated Azarenka in the 2012 final of this event. This is her fifth U.S. Open title.


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BURIEN — All of the homes at the Residences at Burien Town Square are complete and ready for move-in. They are available in seven designs and accessible price points that start in the $150,000s.
In the past two months, 18 of the downtown Burien community's homes have sold.
"The community is celebrating a sales milestone — half of the homes in the community are spoken for," says Jeff Smallwood, vice president of marketing and sales at Intracorp, the community's development company. "A wonderful group of owners have already moved in and are enjoying the community, including longtime residents of the Burien area and first-time buyers who appreciate the active lifestyle that Burien offers.
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He says one of the key reasons homebuyers have been drawn to Burien Town Square is the neighborhood. Downtown Burien earned a score of 92 from the website Walkscore.com, and homeowners can easily walk to nearby pubs, restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries and grocery stores.
Within a block of the homes are Grand Central Baking Company, Australian Pie Company, Elliott Bay Brewing Company, Vino Bello, Filiberto's Italian Restaurant and Mick Kelly's Irish Pub.
In addition, the city's farmers' market is located outside the front door of the community, which makes shopping for fresh ingredients an elevator ride away.
"We are attracting homebuyers from all over the Seattle area who are looking for unbelievable value and lifestyle, as well as those from the South Sound area who are already familiar with and in love with the neighborhood and all it has to offer," Smallwood says.
"The Residences at Burien Town Square is all about community," says John Tippins, senior vice president and regional director of ST Residential, which is marketing the homes. "As important as it is for us to sell residences, it's equally important to let everyone coming in know about the great businesses in the community. Because of them, it makes selling a lot easier."
Homeowner amenities include a fitness center; a P-Patch; a patio with gas firepit; and a party room with fireplace, kitchenette and flat-screen TV. The community includes keycard entry, and a controlled-access parking garage adds peace of mind.
Burien Town Square offers a variety of floor plans — including live/work lofts and two-story townhomes — that range in size from 538 to 1,440 square feet. The homes include oversize windows, which allow natural light to fill the rooms.
"If you are interested in the live/work lofts or the two-story townhomes, you have to act quickly, as we have limited inventory of both styles," Smallwood says. "The live/work plans are modern-style lofts with two stories of glass located at street level, and the two-story townhomes are located off the courtyard on the third floor of the building."
All of the homes include hardwood-style plank flooring, wood cabinetry, slab granite countertops and vanities, stainless steel appliances, tile flooring, and tile tub and shower surrounds in the master baths. Plush carpeting covers the homes' main living areas.
Most of the homes have balconies or decks, and some have vaulted ceilings. Homes with views of Mount Rainier are still available.
Burien is located less than 12 miles from downtown Seattle and less than 5 miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. In June, the city hosts a garden tour, as well as Spring Carnival Days, Father's Day Car Show and Wild Strawberry Festival. August features the quirky Pie Joust World Championships, which pits bicyclist against bicyclist, each armed with a plated whipped dessert.


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Britney Spears Reacts to Last Night's "X Factor" Elimination
She's never been one to hold back her opinions, and last night (December 13) Britney Spears shared her thoughts on the way things ended up with "The X Factor."
The "Toxic" mommy donned a super sexy black semi-see-through dress as she watched the various acts get eliminated, including Simon Cowell's Emblem3.
Spears noted, "I was a little disappointed. I thought it was going to be the other way around with the groups," in reference to Fifth Harmony's advancement to the finals.
Later on Facebook, Britney expressed her joy over Carly Rose Sonenclar's survival. "Congratulations, Carly Rose! I wasn't worried for a second -- to the finals we go! So happy to be a part of this journey with you sweetie. Wow!"
"To my Britney Army and everyone that voted for Carly last night -- this is a big moment for us all to be proud of. Thank y'all so so much!"
Enjoy the pictures of Britney Spears on 'The X Factor' (December 13).
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Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease a loaf pan 5x9 inch in size.
Slice fruit and mix together with 2 tablespoon any flavored jam set aside.
Grandma loved to make heavy poundcakes pretty much all scratch cakes or poundcakes are heavy that she made, but the taste unlike any other type of cake. She usually left it plain when she served it. I decided to experiment with her recipe, this was a nice change. I will only suggest one other thing, leave it in the refrigerator so it doesn't get soggy. This cake lasted all week and still taste great. It didn't look any different on the fifth day!
That looks and sounds amazing. This goes into the must try recipe file.
Oh my this looks like HEAVEN!
Pound cake is SO rich and perfect - love how you added berries - your grandma would love it!
My grandmother remarried after my grandfather died and her new husband was Swedish. She used to bake a poundcake that weighed a ton, but was so delicious. I actually loved it that way, so I'm sure I'd love this one, too. I've never baked strawberries since I didn't know if they'd disintegrate. Glad to see they don't.
Yay for what I'm making for our 4th of July cookout!
So wishing I could eat that for breakfast this morning :-)
What a great idea, looks delicious Claudia.
such a lovely loaded berry pounder, surely gonna do this one... just imagine the fresh berry taste with the butter cake
your grandma recipe is gorgeous,you made a great poundcake!
Absolutely mouthwatering!Congratulations for your grandma's recipe!Hugs from Greece!
What a gorgeous cake... it looks heaven for the taste :D I wish I could have a bite right now.
All I need is a scoop of vanilla ice cream! Looks great Claudia!
Oh Claudia, Your grandma makes the most perfect pound cake. Look sooo delicious with the berries in it!
Berry heaven! This lasted 5 days? My family would make it disappear!
Berry and poundcake in the same sentence?! YES, Please! :)
OMG! This cake is absolutly amazing dear, I'm mouthwatering. Good good and good again ^__^ Bye bye, have a great we
beautiful pound cake and colourful presentation
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This is another cake for hubby and for me but mainly for hubby. He has this mantra - pound cake - nut cake, pound cake - nut cake. This is a super pound cake.
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That rich butter cake stuffed with berries has it all. A sublinme celebration of berries and cooking fresh and local. Your grandmother was very wise.
Wow, thanks for sharing your grandma's recipe. Do you mind making one for my birthday? :o) Hope you're having a terrific day.
Its so refreshing and beautiful....
I'm trying to figure out what to make for father's day dessert and this sounds like one delicious option! I love that you stuffed it with fruit!
Wow! Those berries look incredible!! Such a light and fresh dessert. Perfect for a summer BBQ, the Fourth of July is coming up!
mmm...che meraviglia!!! adoro le ricette con la frutta!!! complimenti e buon week end :)
Hi Claudia, The fact that your grandma made this says, "delicious". I know that grandma's made the best baked goods. Have a good rest of the weekend. Blessings, Catherine xo
Looks delish! Lovely, light and who doesn't love pound cake...or berries?!
Just gorgeous, Claudia! I love that you made a berry layer..so pretty~
Not only does it look pretty and tempting but amazingly delicious!!! Awesome recipe..
Beautiful! I love that you experimented with an heirloom recipe! Grandmother would be proud I am sure.
lovely! this looks yummy too! :)
I really like the tight crumb on this cake and it looks moist too. The pockets of berries are a nice touch. Great pics-delicious!
How fun to bake the fruit in instead of just serving it on top. Give the cake some lovely color as well.
My mouth is watering just reading the post...I love pound cake, looks amazing!
I love all the berries in this. What a beautiful cake! Thank you for sharing it with Let's Do Brunch.
Woo-hoo, love, love, love poundcakes! This is a beautiful luscious cake.
Pound cake is so wonderful, but yours, with the addition of the berries, is unbelievable! What a superb, sweet creation, Claudia!
P.S. Thank you for kindly sharing this great pound cake on Fresh Food Friday! As you know, I chose to feature it this week to show off more of your great recipes! Thanks for being such a loyal participant, Claudia! I wish that I could meet you in person someday!
What a wonderful and fresh re-do of your grandmas recipe. Looks so summery and deliciously fresh :)


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Right. What I'll do is edit the map to include the Cornucopia (etc) and then get on writing an OP. FlubberNugget, add me on steam?
Invite me as well. Could be fun.
If you need another player I'll be up for it.
Also, There is now a thread in GiP! Show your support!
Found this:
I'm up for the "Hungercraft Games." add me on Steam and I'll join!
Admittedly I'm interested too, post any updates on how the creation is coming along and I'd love to join depending on timings.
This is twice I've done something stupid and fallen into this ravine, only to be saved coincidentally. First, I placed a torch and the gravel I was on fell into a spider web (talk about lucky) before placing enough dirt to get back up.
The second time, I accidentally double-tapped D and fell off into a waterfall. Can't be pushing my luck like that.
And then at the bottom, while hiding from a skeleton, it shot a creeper and it exploded right next to my face, causing a whopping zero damage.
Reminds me of that time having to jump off a cliff like in those action movies to escape some monsters, only to hit the ground halfway, lose all but half a heart, and land into 1m deep water safely.
Here's my giant underground base thing I was talking about earlier. This part of it is done, but I'm still working on making the entrance to it (It will be hidden in another fortress on the overworld). If you want to keep it a secret and explore it for yourself when you're done don't click on the link.
Also, what if there's a great flood? Are there airlocks in the event of such a thing? You've got to account for every possible yet unlikely apocalypse there is, or it could potentially but most likely not be the end of human life as we know it!
I finally got some more time to work on my mod.
Successfully created a new packet that networks changes in a player's max health! Woo! The first piece of actual progress for my mod!
Now to begin filling in that mysterious UI of mine!
Sadly, Minecraft isn't Dwarf Fortress, so elaborate fortresses aren't exactly necessary. Still, kudos for making one.
Anyone have a list of survival mods? I'm hosting a server with friends and I want some survival mods since I think minecraft is missing something. Haven't found any good ones so far though.
Check this page as they have some decently good mods
*Really good
Kas has updated Painterly Pack to 1.2 specifications, saying that the patch is due "this week sometime".
Also, should I be worried that I'm getting a lot of Password Reset Requested emails?
When was the last time Notch was on an official project for mojang?
so Notch is basically the equivalent of a substitute teacher for now
Which biome colors look better for the swamp?
I'd go for the second one.
Do I really need Bukkit to install RedPower on a server?
Christ, I can't seem to get RedPower working, followed the installation guide and nothing.
Devpunch time again.
Most of the time I spent working on this went into the internals - the objects in the menu are created easily code-wise by adding a single line, and the name/desc is stored in the language file (which allows for localizations).
I need to add stuff on the left-hand side still (obviously), as well as fill out the right-hand side. I also need to add scrolling capabilities to the right-hand side, because it's going to have more contents in it than it can show on screen at any one time. If you can't tell, the bottom box on the right-hand pane is a description box - when you hover over an object in either pane, that box will fill in with helpful text. Nothing hovered over? No text is drawn. Simple mechanic.
Enjoy this little update.
The painterly 1.2 update is so brilliant, but it does mean, that once again...I have to spend quite a while picking everything I want.
A bit of explanation:
I'm trying to practice with redstone, so before you say "just put the lever next to the door", I want you to know this isn't for opening the door, but to practice with redstone.
Anyway, how do I work this? I want to keep the redstone hidden, but I'm not sure how to keep it hidden AND have this setup open the door. Putting a block over some redstone going up just severs the link, so I'm not sure what to do.


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You kinda destroyed your own thread.The only difference that we know of of MS and EMS ais that if you have EMS, you dont go blind. THATS IT. It was never stated that to get PS u need EMS NEVER. We havnt seen anything diff from Sasukes Susanoo from MS to EMS other than its hood around it turned into a beak representing Sasukes Hawk persona and Amaterasu covering his arrows so hes just using Kagutsscuchi.
We dont know if PS chakra stabilized is Rinnegan or not but i think its not. Why? because it looks like thats not the first time Madara used that Susanoo and he looks adept with it. HE unlocked Rinnegan shortly before death and didnt have any time to train with it so how cud he pull out PS chakra stabilized with no much knowledge of Rinnegan? Same as how He never used Hashiramas wood jutsu before getting esurrected. He says "let me try something" and uses Hashiramas wood jutsu,hes never used it before but knows how it works because hes seen Hashirama use it. He knows the seals but he didnt have the dna.
The only Rinnegan jutsu he used was Preta path and that was in dire situation which we all know is when people unlock hidden potential. Why doesnt he use all other Rinnegan tchs? because hes not adept with it,he never had time to train with it. Unlike Ngato who had it since he was like 8-9.


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Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 08/14/2010
Saturday Vids: Feminist Attack on Snack Factory's Pretzels
In case you haven't already seen Snack Factory's disgusting new ad for their "thin" pretzel crisps, have a gander:
Disgusting, right? Well, thankfully, one guy decided to fight back with creativity and the facts (you CAN be too thin):
I love many things about this video. Primarily, that somebody responded intelligently to these ads and is attempting to raise awareness in the face of the media clearly doing their best to dispel the truth about eating disorders. I also love that a guy did this – unreasonably high body image standards in our culture AFFECT MEN and I'm so happy this guy is raising awareness on that front – both in the facts he presented and just the basic fact that HE took action.


text: I believe we've arrived at the nexus of the season, this five-game gauntlet lying directly in our path. And I think this season will take a dramatic uptick or downturn in the process. I just don't feel a 2-3 or 3-2 stretch coming. I think it'll be 1-4 or 4-1 coming out of the Philly game in five weeks. This team feels like it wants to implode or explode, one way or the other. That makes it ultra critical for the Cowboys to find a way to beat the one NFL team it's never beaten in Baltimore on Sunday. The Ravens aren't the Ravens anymore. Yes, they're good, but in an entirely different way. Ray Lewis and Ed Reed are showing their age, the run defense is shaky, and the best pass rusher is out for the season most likely. The mighty Baltimore defense is there to be had. On the contrary, the offensive is much more explosive, not relying on the run game nearly as much. Frankly, it can't with the defensive struggles. The Cowboys MUST figure out a way to get this game, or I see a steep slide to 3-6, which would basically end the season in early November. Another game like the last three, and the finger-pointing and mailing-in will begin. But back-to-back wins headed into the New York game could be the launching pad for the resurrection of this franchise we're waiting for (which I don't honestly think happens until 2013).


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The St. Johns River as a water supply source
In many areas of the St. Johns River Water Management District, groundwater supplies have reached their sustainable limit, or will reach these limits in the near future and the traditional water source — fresh groundwater from the Floridan aquifer — will not be able to meet all future needs.
Water conservation will continue to play a vitally important role in sustaining Florida's water supply. Increasing water conservation may defer the need for more expensive and challenging alternative water supply solutions. While water conservation alone won't solve all of our future water supply problems, it will have a direct bearing on the size, scope and timing of alternative water supply projects that will ultimately need to be developed.
Sunrise near Lake Jesup in Seminole County
Alternative sources may include seawater, brackish (slightly salty) groundwater, reclaimed water, and surface water from our rivers.
As mandated by the Florida Legislature and as part of its water supply planning program, the district must identify potential water sources and investigate if and to what extent alternative water supply sources can be developed and used without harming the environment. Legislation passed in 1997 required the state's water management districts to complete specific water supply planning activities and initiate water resource development projects.
Proposals to permit the use of a limited quantity of water from the St. Johns River and/or the Ocklawaha River have generated significant public interest and discussion. The proposals call for diverting limited quantities of water from these rivers while maintaining minimum flows and levels (MFLs) that have been established by the district, or will be established in the near future. The purpose of the MFLs is to protect the water resources and ecology of the area. That is, natural systems needs as defined by minimum flows and levels are satisfied first before any water supply withdrawal is allowed. MFLs address the entire flow regime of the river (high flow, moderate flow and low flow) and any proposed water supply withdrawal must demonstrate compliance with all established MFLs before a consumptive use permit is issued. If required to ensure compliance with MFLs, specific projects can be designed to withdraw water during times of moderate to high flow so that no water is withdrawn during periods of low flow.
Scenes from the Middle St. Johns River Basin


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