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Patrick MacDonald and Cheryl Napolitano are tattoo artists at Lucky's Tattoo and Piercing, one of Northampton's premier body modification shops. They each hail from Connecticut […]
The Culture of Contra Dance
Here's what it's like to experience contra dance from a Non-New England native. Listen to my experience and learn a little bit about contra dance at the same time!
Amherst's Glazed Doughnut Shop raises funds for a new location
Owners discuss their love for the breakfast treats – and the store's future
Glazed Doughnut Shop, located in the Amherst Carriage Shops in the center of the college town, is currently crowdfunding $15,000 to help with a mandatory […]
The Rise of the Co-Op Continues in Amherst
So this project started off with several students who graduated from UMass Amherst, and we all worked in worker collectives at UMass. And we were coming from a number of places, but were inspired to start a grocery store. So it really started with Laura Mason and Nora Murphy, who are some of the fellow organizers.
A Look Into Amherst Ballet
If you've never heard of Amherst Ballet, you may not know that it sits quietly on Strong Street almost in the heart of Amherst. Amherst Ballet disguises itself in a residential building that fits in with every other home in Amherst.
Inside High Horse, Amherst's Top Bar
DAVID: So I'm here at High Horse, on Pleasant Street. It's only- how old is it? JASON: We opened up New Year's Day, 2012. DAVID: […]
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LuieGo, aka Luis Fernandez, is a 21-year-old rapper that also acts as frontman to Amherst band the eGOmaniAKs. Born in Miami, he's learned a lot from Amherst, where he says he "became a man," and he gives credit to fellow local rapper Nickali Vocals, his sister and…
Humans versus Zombies
The fictional final battle between Melchior the Unceasing's zombie horde and the remnants of the human resistance.
Each semester, the group MassGames of UMass Amherst throws together an event so large and thought out, that it flings the campus into a fictional zombie apocalypse. This semester, The Communion of the Unceasing has been discovered deep within the woods of Western Massachusetts…
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''Christy'' is a novel written by Catherine Marshall in 1967. It tells the story of nineteen year-old Christy Huddleston, who leaves her comfortable middle-class life to teach at a missionary school in the early 1900, in the remote and impoverished Appalachian village of Cutter Gap, Tennessee. Christy is initially daunted by the old-fashioned and superstitious customs of the community, but aided by her faith and determination, she soon learns how to connect with its inhabitants. Other important characters include Alice Henderson, a Quaker who runs the missionary school, David Grantland, a preacher, and Neil [=MacNeill=], a doctor.
A television adaptation was made in 1994, and ran for twenty episodes. Three made-for-TV movies were also produced in 2000-2001. The story was also expanded into a series of books written by C. Archer, starting in 1995.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: In a long-term damaging sense. The adults of Cutter Gap refuse any help from the missionaries that they deem as "charity", even if it means their children starve and walk around barefoot in the snow. [[spoiler: Fortunately, Christy and the others find a way around this problem by getting them to trade commonplace items for them, such as sauerkraut and molasses, for much needed items that the mission provides.]]
* FishOutOfWater: Christy when she first comes to Cutter Gap. She barely goes a page or two without something new shocking her sensibilities.
* FrontierDoctor: Neil [=MacNeill=].
* LoveTriangle: Both David and Neil develop feelings for Christy.
* PreacherMan: David Grantland.
* {{Schoolmarm}}: Christy.
* TheMissionary: A missionary school has been set up at Cutter Gap, and is run mostly by Alice and David.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Fairlight Spencer. She is gentle and kind, and very wise for someone who has lived in poverty in the wilderness all her life. She befriends Christy immediately upon the latter's arrival. She also seems to have some sort of clairvoyance, foreseeing her own death as a shadow coming to get her. She is one of the first victims to succumb to the typhoid plague in the latter part of the book.]]

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New Mexico Desert Bighorn Skulls, Horns Up for Auction this Week
Eight desert bighorn sheep skulls and horns that were recovered from ranges in southern New Mexico go up for sale this week in a silent auction at the Department of Game and Fish office in Santa Fe and at Bob Gerding's Hunting & Fishing Show in Albuquerque.
The skulls, six rams and two ewes, became available for sale in November 2011 when the State Game Commission removed desert bighorn sheep from the state threatened and endangered species list. Protected game animals and their skulls are the property of the state. Proceeds from the auctions will be used to augment the Department's bighorn sheep restoration program.
Those interested in bidding on the skulls and horns can see them and make a bid Wednesday and Thursday at the Department office at 1 Wildlife Way off Caja del Rio Road next to the Marty Sanchez Golf Course. Friday through Sunday, the skulls will be at the Gerding Show at the Manuel Lujan Building at Expo New Mexico, the state fairgrounds. Admission to the show is $8 for adults and free to children ages 11 and younger.
Bidding for the first four skulls will close at 4:30 p.m. Saturday and bidding for the remaining skulls will close at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Winning bidders will be able to pick up their skulls and pay for them Feb. 13-17 at Department offices in Santa Fe or Albuquerque.


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New research shows brain has distinct regions for identifying different sized objects
The human brain can recognize thousands of different objects, but neuroscientists have long grappled with how the brain organizes object representation; in other words, how the brain perceives and identifies different objects. Now researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences have discovered that the brain organizes objects based on their physical size, with a specific region of the brain reserved for recognizing large objects and another reserved for small objects. Their findings, to be published in the June 21 issue of Neuron, could have major implications for fields like robotics, and could lead to a greater understanding of how the brain organizes and maps information.
"Prior to this study, nobody had looked at whether the size of an object was an important factor in the brain's ability to recognize it," said Aude Oliva, an associate professor in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and senior author of the study.
"It's almost obvious that all objects in the world have a physical size, but the importance of this factor is surprisingly easy to miss when you study objects by looking at pictures of them on a computer screen," said Dr. Talia Konkle, lead author of the paper. "We pick up small things with our fingers, we use big objects to support our bodies. How we interact with objects in the world is deeply and intrinsically tied to their real-world size, and this matters for how our brain's visual system organizes object information."
As part of their study, Konkle and Oliva took 3D scans of brain activity during experiments in which participants were asked to look at images of big and small objects or visualize items of differing size. By evaluating the scans, the researchers found that there are distinct regions of the brain that respond to big objects (for example, a chair or a table), and small objects (for example, a paperclip or a strawberry).
By looking at the arrangement of the responses, they found a systematic organization of big to small object responses across the brain's cerebral cortex. Large objects, they learned, are processed in the parahippocampal region of the brain, an area located by the hippocampus, which is also responsible for navigating through spaces and for processing the location of different places, like the beach or a building. Small objects are handled in the inferior temporal region of the brain, near regions that are active when the brain has to manipulate tools like a hammer or a screwdriver.
The work could have major implications for the field of robotics, in particular in developing techniques for how robots deal with different objects, from grasping a pen to sitting in a chair.
"Our findings shed light on the geography of the human brain, and could provide insight into developing better machine interfaces for robots," said Oliva.
Many computer vision techniques currently focus on identifying what an object is without much guidance about the size of the object, which could be useful in recognition. "Paying attention to the physical size of objects may dramatically constrain the number of objects a robot has to consider when trying to identify what it is seeing," said Oliva.
The study's findings are also important for understanding how the organization of the brain may have evolved. The work of Konkle and Oliva suggests that the human visual system's method for organizing thousands of objects may also be tied to human interactions with the world. "If experience in the world has shaped our brain organization over time, and our behavior depends on how big objects are, it makes sense that the brain may have established different processing channels for different actions, and at the center of these may be size," said Konkle.
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Inference in Limited Dependent Variable Models Robust to Weak Identification
We propose tests for structural parameters in limited dependent variable models with endogenous explanatory variables using the classical minimum distance framework. These tests have the correct size whether the structural parameters are identified or not. Relating to the current tests, the application of ours is appropriate especially to models whose moment conditions are nonlinear in parameters. Moreover, the computation of ours tests is simple, allowing their implementation in a large number of statistical software packages. We compare our tests with Wald tests by performing simulation experiments. We use our tests to analyze the female labor supply and the demand for cigarette.
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LHA is now Philippine Christian School of Tomorrow – Home Education Program
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This homeschooling family were in Cambodia last March 30, 2012 when this great news arrived in my inbox!
Rev. Delbert Hooge announced during Living Heritage Academy's (LHA's ) Banquet/ Awards Night (March 30, 2012) that the home education program of the Philippine School of Tomorrow for elementary and high school levels have been accredited by the DepEd. LHA is now renamed as Philippine Christian School of Tomorrow – Home Education Program . Praise be to God!
My husband and I were thrilled to hear the news. We did miss the Banquet/Awards night because we were overseas. But we celebrated with our fellow homeschoolers using the School of Tomorrow curriculum, nonetheless. Living Heritage Academy's not being accredited back then yet did not stop us from using it anyway as we homeschool our son. Read this article »
Milestone: ABC's with Ace and Christi Graduation
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My son is done with ABC's with Ace and Christi last year. We are, to date, towards the homestretch of our Level 1 Curriculum. But since we are homeschoolers, we have to wait for this time to be able to call it official and be handed the certificate of graduation. It is fun time for us as well for we get to meet fellow homeschoolers during their rehearsals and graduation ceremony.
Time flies fast. Seems like it was only yesterday when we celebrated Jed's graduation from Preschool with Ace and Christi. While it is already a given that our family is sold out to School of Tomorrow's homeschooling curriculum, I just love how the Living Heritage Academy come up with such wonderful graduation program for us homeschoolers.
Done with the first half of ABCs with Ace and Christi Program
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My little homeschooler and I wrapped up the first half of our current curriculum – ABCs with Ace and Christi. We were told by the representative of Living Heritage Academy that this program will more or less be done by three months.
We have actually started with the second half and are guided by this second manual of the curriculum program. We started with the program last June. We will off to Level 1 proper in the next couple of months. Time flies! 🙂
Milestone: Our son graduates from Preschool with Ace and Christi w/ 2 awards!
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The hubby and I are still beaming from ear to ear. When we had our son attend those graduation rehearsals, we were not expecting that he will graduate with awards. For one, we are homeschooling. So he is not up competing with other students. But I figured this is the purpose for LHA's requiring us to submit grades and for that oral testing that the kids had to go through previously (which was not announced). It being not announced makes for a perfect assessment. Because it will be able to determine if the parents who homeschool their kids keep up with the standard of the curriculum.
We can have the best curriculum in homeschooling, but if the parent or guardian, who will stand as the child's teacher will not apply what is advised in the curriculum, the child will not be able to maximize the learnings he could get out of it. Here's a fact: it is so easy to be complacent when you are homeschooling. So unless a parent has the right reasons to homeschool a child, it is better to send them to a traditional school.
Best in Sound Recognition
When the host said that the first award was Best in Sound Recognition, I did have an inkling that it could be our son to get that award. The previous oral assessment was a give away when all the teachers were amazed by how our son's timing and tone for every song he was asked to sing. (The Preschool with Ace and Christi curriculum makes use of music for every letter sound of the alphabet). But then again, we cannot be so sure. It might always be that the other graduates did well as he did. So when he was called, we were not any less surprised, we were very pleased even. So proud of our son. 😀
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Last Day of Graduation Rehearsals
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Today is the last day of graduation rehearsals. The sky was overcast and the heat was not so extreme, which is really a blessing. Given that the previous times we had to travel from Antipolo to Paranaque, we were all on the verge of heat exhaustion. The hubby took a picture of my my son and his friend, Tiffany with me on the background (far right) and a fellow homeschooling mom and her kid.
The rehearsal prior to this, the Academic Manager of Living Heritage Academy did an oral examination of all the graduating students. The parents were allowed to be in the office with the head as she tests our child. It's nothing like an employment screening, I know. Nevertheless, we cannot be more proud as our son readily recited all the pledges (to the Bible and Christian flag), memory verses and animal songs with ease. The teachers were there too to witness and said that his voice sounds like the kid singing from the demo music.
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In approximately a month from now, I'm going to seriously figure out how to juggle in a set homeschool schedule with my little guy, Jed. Right from when he was an infant, we were already set on homeschooling him. My husband and I have peace with it despite the odds. Odds are usually spelled relatives who actually think that homeschooling a child is withholding him from a handful of things. While our primary purpose f is the exact opposite of withholding him anything – we want to actually give our son the best education there is available while his parents, still being his primary influencer, which we believe, is very important.
While homeschooling may be our preference, it is not an absolute. There are families that homeschooling will not be the best option. Unless the parents are wholeheartedly into it, the family will not be able to maximize the benefits of homeschooling. There really are a lot of dynamics when it comes to this matter.
Even as we are set on homeschooling our son, we were also open to the possibility of getting him enrolled in a regular school after preschool. We had peace with it, I guess it helps a lot that my husband and I have one heart regarding this matter.
This coming June my husband and I are going to have our son assessed. We are pretty sent on using the School of Tomorrow's (SOT) curriculum. It used to be known as Accelerated Christian Education or ACE. From the assessment that he will undergo, we will know if our son will be enrolled in Preschool with Ace and Christi or ABCs of Ace.
Preschool with Ace and Christi is a program for children who have been tested NOT ready to read, while ABCs of ACE is for children tested READY to read. And more than just the child's knowledge of the letter sounds, there are a whole lot of other things to consider to pass the assessment for reading readiness. A child's fine motor skills, for instance. My son has been reading simple three and four letter words from age 2. That gives me confidence that he is reading ready. He has to score 80% to pass the assessment. But the idea is not to be pressured to have the child pass, because if his other skills would mean he has to go through the first level, then that would give him a better grasp of the skills he has yet to learn to get to the next level.
Needless to say, I am both thrilled and nervous. This is going to be a major milestone for our family. I am thrilled to have this blog journal our journey towards homeschooling with the hope that this will encourage other homeschooling families as well in the future.


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I went fly fishing for my first time ever today and managed to catch some rainbows on dry flys and wet flys and I lost on off a lure!!!
Please can you tell me how to fish nymphs, shrimps and buzzers? Thanks, Andy (I caught on them but I just need to know how best to use them) |
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I've only been fly fishing for trout for just under 2 years, so I'm not an expert. Not sure what a buzzer is either. But as far as nymphs and shrimp (the shrimp patterns I get are called scuds), you basically let them drift with the current. It is important that you get them down to the depths that the trout are feeding. Use some small pinch on weights and experiment to see how quickly the nymph sinks. I place the weight at least 8 inches above the fly so that the fly still drifts naturally. Also, use a strike indicator placed far enough above the weights that the fly can sink to the proper depth. When I started, I liked to use 2 or 3 pinch on strike indicators placed several inches apart so that you can watch for sudden changes relative to each other. Sometimes trout strike so subtle that they won't pull the indicator under. They can spit out the fly quicker than they took it, so be ready.
The real trick with dead drifting (including dry flies, too) is getting a natural drift. If the current pulls your line faster than the fly should be moving, most trout will realize something is not right. Watch your strike indicator to get an idea. If it is moving differently than the bubbles and debris around it, than your fly is probably not drifting naturally (of course there are under currents as well which make it more difficult). The easiest method is to cast straight upstream. Eventually you'll learn how to "mend" your line when casting across stream. Mending allows some time for the current to drag your line before it drags the fly. Often I use 2 nymphs at a time. You can either leave an extra long tag end off your knott for the 2nd nymph, or you can tye on a separate piece of monofiliament to the bend of the 1st nymph. The only problem is that 2 nymphs tend to get tangled much easier if your cast is not made properly. I hope this helps. As I am still somewhat of a beginner, I hope others may feel free to correct me if needed. |
One alternative to using shot to get your nymphs down in the water is to use nymphs that already have weight incorporated into the pattern, be it wire wraps or bead heads. I find it easier to detect strikes when the weight is part of the fly, not separated from it with shot.
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Born | Erin DeWright October 16, 1979 East St. Louis, Illinois, United States |
Other names | Misty Mundae Sadie Lane |
Occupation | Film actress, musician, model |
Erin Brown (born Erin DeWright[1] on October 16, 1979) is an American film actress, filmmaker, model and musician. Brown has starred in over fifty low-budget films, under the names Sadie Lane and Misty Mundae.
Film career[edit]
From 1997 to 2002, Brown worked for pornographic film production company Factory 2000. She signed an exclusive contract with E.I. Independent Cinema, performing mainly in softcore pornography under the stage name Misty Mundae.
During this period she also appeared (as Misty Mundae) in the 1999 hardcore film Vampire Strangler alongside her then-boyfriend William Hellfire, who also directed the film.[2][3]
In 2000, she traveled to Paris to film the U.S./French co-production Vampire of Notre Dame which was later acquired and distributed by Seduction Cinema under the title An Erotic Vampire in Paris. Brown also wrote, directed, and starred in a 2002 remake of the 1969 film Lustful Addiction. Some other E.I. produced films starring Brown as Misty Mundae include Play-mate of the Apes (2002), Spiderbabe (2003) and Lord of The G-Strings (2004).
Horror films[edit]
She appeared in a Columbine massacre-inspired B movie, Duck! The Carbine High Massacre in 1999. In 2003, Brown began to perform in low-budget horror films produced by E.I. Independent Cinema's horror division Shock-O-Rama Cinema, such as The Screaming Dead, Bite Me!, Shock-O-Rama, and Chantal. At the 2006 New Jersey International Film and Screenplay Festival (later renamed the Hoboken International Film Festival), she was nominated for Best Actress, for her role in the psychological thriller Sinful.[4] That same year, she appeared in a CKY music video for the song "Shock and Terror" directed by Bam Margera.[5]
In 2004, Brown released her short film Voodoun Blues direct to DVD through Shock-O-Rama Cinema. This film had won an award for best short film at her college film festival. Shortly after this, she sold her interest in the Misty Mundae name to EI Independent Cinema, left that company, and retired from softcore films to pursue mainstream acting.
Working as Erin Brown, Brown then performed in several independent horror films such as Tony Todd's Shadow: Dead Riot, and the film adaptation of Jack Ketchum's The Lost. She starred opposite Angela Bettis in a January 2006 episode of Showtime's Masters of Horror series entitled "Sick Girl". She and her boyfriend's band "the Homeward Band" contributed music to "Sick Girl," but weren't credited due to time constraints.[6][7]
Brown's success in horror movies was such that an item in Sci Fi Weekly included Misty Mundae on "the list of living horror icons—the ones whose movies you might pay to see or rent, the ones you'd stand in line to shake hands with or to snag an autograph from", along with Robert Englund, Linda Blair, Malcolm McDowell, Elvira, and Jamie Lee Curtis, among others.[8]
Later years[edit]
In 2005 EI Independent Cinema—since renamed Pop Cinema—announced its intent to continue releasing previously-filmed softcore films starring Brown as Misty Mundae.[9]
In August 2006 Brown was cast in a major role in The Rage, directed by Robert Kurtzman, which was released on DVD in 2008.[10] In 2007 she had a supporting role in the independent film All Along, a romantic comedy written by and starring Bill Page.[11] She also starred in the Polonia brothers film Splatter Beach.[12] In March 2007 she was cast in Dying God, directed by Fabrice Lambot. Dying God was released in France in 2008.
In January 2008 Pop Cinema announced a limited convention tour to promote the release of An Erotic Werewolf in London. Brown appeared as Mundae to greet fans at such shows as Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors and Chiller Theatre. One month later a two-DVD collector's edition of Vampire Strangler was released. In July Screamkings.com licensed the Misty Mundae name from Pop Cinema and announced the feature film Sculpture, the first feature film to star Brown as Misty Mundae since the 2005 Shock-O-Rama.
In 2009 she began appearing in the Cinemax TV series Lingerie as Stephanie.[13] In 2012 Lukas Persson directed a post-apocalyptic western short starring Brown called This Girl's Gun, which won her the best actress award at the 2012 PollyGrind Film Festival.[14]
- ^ Erin Brown. Alternate Name: Misty Mundae. Movies.nytimes.com (2007-01-18). Retrieved on 2012-02-08.
- ^ B.L. "Review of Vampire Strangler".
- ^ Jane, Ian. "Review of Vampire Strangler". Retrieved 2013-03-22.
- ^ "Official Selections and films that were presented at the 2006 New Jersey International Film & Screenplay Festival". Hoboken International Film Festival. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ^ "CKY – Shock and Terror". Island Records. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
- ^ F. de Mattos, João Marcelo (2006-08-30). "Solidão, comédia romântica pop, terror: viva McKee, o jovem mestre". Almanaque Virtual – Cultura em Movimento (in Portuguese). Almanaque Virtual. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- Jay dá detalhes das canções e lembra que ela e o diretor tiveram uma banda juntos na faculdade, a "The Detonauts". (Brown tem uma também, a Homeward Band).
[permanent dead link] - ^ McKee, Lucky; Jaye Barnes Luckett; Angela Bettis; Jesse Hlubik (2006). "Audio commentary track for the film "Sick Girl" In the Masters of Horror series".
- ^ Spelling, Ian (2007-10-08). "Sid Haig shines a light on Night of the Living Dead 3D and looks back on 50 years of horror-ible work". Sci Fi Weekly. Archived from the original on 2007-12-21. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
- ^ Re:Mourning Misty. Dvdtalk.com (2005-12-18). Retrieved on 2012-02-08.
- ^ The Rage film site
- ^ Erin Brown bio on (re)Search my Trash. Search my Trash. Retrieved on 2012-02-08.
- ^ Splatter Beach (Video 2007). IMDb.com
- ^ Lingerie Cast and Crew. cinemax.com
- ^ "This Girl's Gun (2012) - IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
External links[edit]
- Erin Brown at the Internet Movie Database
- Erin Brown at AllMovie
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Seth Cropsey: Eastern Mediterranean gas finds
In recent years the Houston-based oil company, Noble Energy has discovered about 42 trillion cubic feet of natural gas off the coasts of Cyprus and Israel – a volume which could easily double with new exploration. Greece's waters could hold as much as 165 tcf. The European Union's total consumption last year was only 15.67 tcf! Under the deep waters of the Eastern Mediterranean lies an economic boon that could lower global energy prices, reduce our allies' dependence on Russia and provide funds for fiscally strained Greece and Cyprus.
But those seas roil with the de-secularization of Turkey and the fall of stable, although authoritarian, regimes in Egypt and Syria. In response, Israel, Greece and Cyprus are drawing together to protect their off-shore hydrocarbon reserves in a relationship of necessity nourished by shared political values. Aside from conducting naval exercises with Israel and Greece, U.S. policy hasn't reflected this new democratic triangle of Jerusalem, Nicosia and Athens.
Instead, American foreign policy carries on blithely. Since the end of Truman's first term, the U.S. has loaned or granted $12.5 billion to Turkey, plus $14 billion in military assistance. President Barack Obama welcomed Prime Minister Erdogan to the White House in March. They discussed commercial ties, mutual security and Syria. The administration offered a press release singling out the "strong partnership and friendship rooted in common values" between the U.S. and Turkey. American defense companies continue to sell equipment to Turkey such as tactical aircraft, surveillance planes and helicopters. Turkey is partnering with the U.S. on the Joint Strike Fighter program and plans to purchase 100 of the new planes.
This would make sense if Turkey were still a dependable NATO ally, valued for its location at an important chokepoint connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean. But cordial relations with Ankara are no longer appropriate. Erdogan, an Islamist, is transforming Turkey into a state characterized by repression, single-party rule and human rights abuse. The State Department's 2012 human rights report notes that the Turkey has imprisoned or charged scores of journalists, students, street demonstrators, writers and political figures under anti-terror laws. Surely these are not the "common values" Obama touted.
But if the Obama administration is unwilling to strengthen the hand of Turks who want to see their country return to westward-looking, moderate governance, they can at least assist the friendly outposts of democracy in the region. The U.S. maintains an anachronistic weapons embargo against Cyprus, a legacy of the conflict that divided Greek and Turkish Cypriots four decades ago. Other embargoed states include Iran, North Korea, Syria, China and the terrorist group, Hezbollah. Cyprus' place in this rogue's gallery is questionable as a member of the European Union, a flourishing democracy with a multi-party system, a fully functioning national legislature and an independent judiciary.
At a minimum the U.S. should allow sale of patrol boats to protect the Cypriot natural gas facility from attack by sea: the Syrian and Lebanese coasts are fewer than a hundred miles to the east. A dozen patrol craft could do nothing against a Turkish navy which boasts over 100 combat vessels.
Finally, the U.S. should strengthen its Sixth Fleet, the Mediterranean Fleet. It presently has few vessels: a command ship based in Italy, and a few ballistic missile destroyers based in Spain.
The Sixth Fleet is nowhere near the strength that is needed to support our friends in the region if the Syrian civil war starts to spill across borders, if Egypt faces similar domestic unrest or in the event of an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear weapons facilities. Reinvigorating the Sixth Fleet with a single carrier battle group and an amphibious task force would help deter conflict – as its presence would have encouraged terrorists to think twice about attacking America's ambassador in Libya last year.
A Sixth Fleet with muscle would also go a long way toward re-asserting U.S. commitment in a region where Russia, China and Iran have been increasing their naval presence. U.S. policy may wish to "re-balance" toward Asia, but as NATO's southern flank grows in strategic importance and the Eastern Mediterranean grows in economic importance, America's status will suffer immeasurably by showing the world that we can only protect our vital interests one at a time.
Seth Cropsey is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He served as a naval officer from 1985 to 2004 and as deputy Undersecretary of the Navy in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
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why is everyone acting like this is a big deal? Did you expect anything less.
why is everyone acting like this is a big deal? Did you expect anything less.
I agree with you 100%
And his statement is called leadership!!!
He is saying in effect "guys I'm giving my all and it has shown in my play I expect to win and so should you!!!!"
Or do we need you "fans" to post another hundred threads on how many children he has!!!
Good Grief!!!
Cro is probably my favorite player on this team right now. Man can ball.
Mathematically, yes, playoffs are a possibility.
But this is exactly what Namath is referring to; the Jets think they have so much talent they can just turn it on whenever they feel like it.
Meanwhile, teams like NE, Miami, Pittsburgh, Denver, even Indy are rapidly improving week by week.
Jets might not surprise anyone but themselves.
"...we believe in what coach Ryan and his staff is putting us to schemes and stuff..."
Very elucidating reasons, Cro. And so erudite. I see you have complete mastery and understanding of all that technical football "whatzit".
Folks, now you know why we suck.
People shouldn't get their panties in a bunch. Cro was ASKED, by a reporter, whether the Jets are going to make the playoffs. WTF is he supposed to say? No?
An if there's one guy who earns his paycheck on this team, it's Cro. Unfortunately, I'm sure he only gets to keep 10% of it, after the child support payments.
I think alot of the fans need to shut up already because it's embarrassing listening to some of you whine about everything, predict dooom and gloom, and then act practically giddy when the team loses just because now you can say I told you so, or because you can scream for everyone to be fired. You make all of us look bad.
I apologize....I didn't mean to combine SOJF symptoms. But my point is if Cro says, "Yeah, we suck....don't deserve to be in the playoffs", you guys would be here freaking out about how Rex needs to be fired because his players don't believe in him or the team. At this point in this terrible dark point in Jets history (sarcasm), everyone on the team seems to be damned if they do damned if they don't.
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Why do so many fans get sensitive and btchy about things that don't make a difference on way or the other in the end?
The Giants have been well known to talk trash (Jacobs, Rolle, Osi, etc), predict wins (Plax SB), and even had their Safeties (Rolle, Phillips) saying they have more talent than the Jets, and wish they could play for Rex cause he has been the difference, a obvious shot at Coughlin, intentional or not.
The Jets talked trash before big games, and have won some and lost some. It has not affected the outcome, and if you don't wanna take my word for it find an NFL player that thinks it does......good luck.
The only embarrassing part of this subject is the ignorant and whinny fans that cry about it.
Every team has winning and losing seasons......this is the NFL.......it's almost impossible to be and stay on top without a small handful of franchise HOF QBs, it's reality. If you can't handle it, I suggest you don't become a fan of any NFL team. Go root for the Yankees and GTFOutta here!
Gotta agree. I never saw this coming, Cro stepping up as he has. He's proved himself as a top tier CB and is trying to step up as a leader. No one else on this team is. All the big money to so many players and not a single leader in the bunch (including Revis). They really need to add leadership qualities to their list when looking at players.
Cro does realize that Mark Sanchez is his team's starting QB, right?
Playoffs? Never happen.


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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Diocese of Przemysl, Sambor, and Sanok
A Græco-Ruthenian Uniat diocese of Western Galicia, Austria. It is really the Diocese of Przemysl (Ruthenian, Peremyshl) of the Greek Rite, since the See of Sambor represents only a former contest between the Catholic and the Orthodox about the time of the union of the churches, and there never was at any time a Bishopric of Sanok. Przemysl is a fortified town situated on the River San, in the Crownland of Galicia, about fifty-four miles west of Lemberg. Its population in 1900 was 46,350, and it contains the Cathedral Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist and the diocesan seminary of the Ruthenian Greek Catholics. Sambor is a manufacturing town situated about ten miles away upon the River Dniester; it had in 1900 some 17,350 inhabitants. Sanok is a still smaller town, situated on the River San about twenty-five miles southwest of Przemysl, and has about 5000 inhabitants. The original cathedral church of Przemysl was a church connected with the great castle, but this was given to the Latins by King Wladislaw in 1412. The Ruthenians then took the present Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist for their cathedral. The cathedral church of Sambor, dedicated to the Transfiguration, is situated near the town of Old Sambor. All this part of the country was the Kingdom of Poland, and on its partition the Diocese of Przemysl fell to Austria. The present Greek Catholic diocese is divided into 40 deaneries, containing 688 organized parishes, 1334 churches and chapels, 6 monasteries of Basilian monks, and 2 convents of Greek nuns. The clergy consists of 803 secular priests, as follows: 662 married, 129 widowers, and 12 celibates, together with 36 monastic priests. The Greek Catholic population of this diocese is 1,198,398.
The Diocese of Przemysl stretched over a large part of Red Russia, covering some 900 square miles, west of the Archdiocese of Lemberg. It is perhaps the oldest of the Ruthenian dioceses, and Sts. Cyril and Methodius are said to have preached Christianity there. It is certain that this part of south-west Russia received Christianity nearly one hundred years before the conversion of King Vladimir at Kieff. The names of its early missionary bishops are lost, but from 1218 the succession is unbroken. Antonius (1218-25) is the first bishop whose name is recorded. He was a monk and Bishop of Novgorod, but was banished from there and then became Bishop of Przemysl, succeeding a former bishop who had just died. King Danilo at this time was in union with the Holy See, and for over one hundred years the Greek bishops of Przemysl were likewise united with Rome. Hilarion (1254), Abraham (1271), Jeremias (1282), Memnon (1288), Hilarion (1292), George (1315), Mark (1330), Cyril (1353), Hilarion (1366), Basil (1385), Athanasius (1392), and Gelasius (1412) ruled this see during its peace with Rome. In 1416 the Bishop of Przemysl embraced the schism. Elias (1422) was the first bishop who took the title Przemysl and Sambor. The See of Sambor was founded in the thirteenth century, and shortly afterwards the two dioceses were united, although the double name was not used until assumed by Elias. Athanasius (1440-49) opposed the union of the Council of Florence. The succeeding bishops of Przemysl adhered to the schism, and remained schismatic for over a century.
In 1594 Bishop Michael Kopystynski (1591-1610) took up the idea of reunion with Rome and added his name to the declaration of union at the Synod of Brest. Later he withdrew it and was excommunicated by the Greek Catholic Metropolitan of Kieff, Michael Ragosa. His successor, Athanasius Krupetzki (1610-52), was a zealous Catholic bishop. Meanwhile the schismatics elected another bishop and drove out Athanasius; and for nearly a century there was a double line of Greek bishops, the Orthodox holding the see at Przemysl, and the Catholics holding it at Sambor. In 1668 the Orthodox coadjutor bishop, George Hoshovski, took up his residence at Sanok, and from that date the title of Bishop of Przemysl, Sambor, and Sanok was assumed, although no see was established at Sanok. The succeeding Catholic bishops were Procopius Chmelovski (1652), Anthony Terletzki (1662), and John Malachovski (1669). The next Orthodox bishop was Innocent Vinnitzki (1680-1700), and during his administration the Catholic Bishop Malachovski left his see and went to Warsaw, where he died in 1691. From the time of his consecration Bishop Innocent had announced his intention of uniting with the Holy See. He prepared his clergy for the union, and on 23 June, 1691, he renounced the schism and signed the act of union. Since then the Greek Diocese of Przemysl has always been Catholic. In 1694 the first Catholic diocesan synod of the Greek Rite was held at Sambor, where the new situation of the Greek Catholic clergy was canonically established. The bishops succeeding him were George Vinnitzki (1700-13), Jerome Ustritzki (1715-46), Onuphrius Shumlanski (1746-62), Athanasius Szepticki (1762-79), Maximilian Ryllo (1780-94), and Anton Angelovich (1795-1808). The see remained vacant from 1808 until 1813, during the Napoleonic wars, but was administered by the Metropolitan of Lemberg, the well-known historian of the Greek Uniats, Michael Harasievich, The succeeding bishops were Michael Levitzki (1813-16), John Snigurski (1818-47), Gregor Jachimovich (1848-59), Thomas Polanski (1860-69), John Stupnitzki (1872-90), and Julian Pelesz (1891-96), the renowned author of the "History of the Union of the Ruthenian Church with Rome". The present bishop (1911) is Constantine Chekhovich.
DOBRANSKI, Istoria Peremyshkoi Eparkhii (Lemberg, 1893); PELESZ, Gesch. der Union, II (Vienna, 1880); Schematismus Eparkhii Peremyshkoi, Samborskoi i Sianotzkoi (Golkiew, 1910); BATTANDIER, Annuaire Pontificale Catholique (Paris, 1910).


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EZ out safety stirrups Has anyone heard of these or used these? JT International They are kind of breakaway stirrups for a western saddle. I am considering them, but they are a lot of money. I don't want to waste it if they are crappy. Anyone used them? |
I'm curious to see how much pressure it takes to make them "break away". I can see the breaking away to be a good thing but... You don't want them doing that during a speed event just because your foot slipped. |
This is my problem with breakaways too. And what I find it that some of them are so responsive they break off too easy and some are so hard to break off that all 100lbs of me could still be hanging limp and having my head bashed in by my spooking horse on a rock before the damend things let me go. I suppose it depends on the brand. I've never tried those before. |
JT intern. EZ out stirrup! 2 weeks ago I purchased a pair of these "safety" stirrups right before leaving for a week long vacation. I knew we were doing some rugged riding and with a somewhat new horse I felt the need...Used them for about 2 hours one day & 4 hours the next day I went to mount my horse the stirrup BROKE I fell back hitting the rocks and slid under my horse. If he had stepped on me, bolted or I had hit my head, fallen down the hill OMG. They did not break away they broke in half. Hurt like you know what and I was only 2 days into my riding, not to mention the 4 hour ride back to camp mostly down hill with no stirrup to use. Now back to the camp, no extra stirrups! After showing them to MANY other riders called JT international they said I would get a refund (duh) and would send me new stirrups to the camp in the middle of nowhere... walked around until I found a camper with extra stirrups to use unfortuantly they were only they a few more days. By the day 3 of the fall I was so sore couldnt ride and I am still feeling it! My husband looked at them and said Extruded piece of S#*T...he said if they dont get extruded just right they are weak. |
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@onebigdun - thanks for the info about these stirrups! You saved me from wasting my money on them. What you said happened was my exact fear. I was afraid they would just fall apart as soon as you stepped in them. For now, I bought a pair of tapaderos and they keep your foot from slipping through the stirrup if you fall off. We'll see how that goes.... |
As far as breakaway stirrups go, I much prefer the look of these. Horse Safety with Breakaway Stirrups by Saddle Technology Incorporated - 222 Draggings Prevented Though, in all honesty, the best defence a person can have is to know what to do in the event of a standard hang-up where you come off on the same side you are hung on. Your best bet for getting your foot out of the stirrup is to roll onto your belly toward the horse. |
@smrobs - I went to the website you posted - those do look like good breakaway stirrups. Have you ridden in them? Do they breakaway at the proper moment but not breakaway when they're not supposed to? I was also wondering - on the website - I wonder if they made that guy in the pictures fall off on purpose! :lol: |
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MaypopLaurel wrote: Wish we had a Joann's nearby. They are located around the periphery of the city with no stores in the city. There is a Hancock within two miles of my house. I like Joann's better. I discovered two quilt shops yesterday in the N. GA mountains. both had nice fabrics but they don't have either brands of needles I use (Piecemaker or R. Hemming) nor the thread. One woman asked if I was a hand quilter and was shocked and amazed to find one in the flesh. lol Here is a photo of the Atlanta quilt and new frame. It is balanced on the old saw horse stands. SO is going to make me new pedestal stands. I am beginning to slowly feel my way back to stitching. |
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Plaintiff, a Chinese manufacturer of Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectors, sued rival Chinese USB manufacturers under the Sherman Act. Plaintiff alleged that Defendants (i) made misrepresentations to a USB standards board; (ii) wrongfully refused to agree to licensing terms with Plaintiff; and (iii) brought patent infringement claims against Plaintiff in bad faith. Plaintiff further alleged that Defendants had engaged in this conduct in order to force Plaintiff out of business, so that Defendants could monopolize the USB market.
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