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CIU Announces Administrative Appointments, New Colleges
Columbia International University President Dr. Bill Jones has announced a number of administrative appointments, and the addition of three new colleges within the university.
The new College of Counseling will be led by associate dean, Dr. Harvey Payne, while Dr. Milt Uecker will lead the College of Education as associate dean and Dr. Michael Barnett will lead the College of Intercultural Studies as associate dean.
Jones says the new colleges and appointments will give students enrolled in the CIU Undergraduate Program, Graduate Program and Seminary & School of Missions, opportunity to tap into the wealth of knowledge and wisdom offered by an experienced faculty. The restructuring is also consistent with the school's vision of using the biblical university model to equip its students for serving in ministry, missions, and the marketplace.
"Our professors have superior academic credentials and are actively involved in their field of expertise," Jones said. "We want our students at all degree levels to benefit from what they have to offer."
Other new appointments include: Dr. Ron Kroll as the director of the Ed.D. Program and Mr. Rob McDole as the director of Distance Education and Media Development.


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For the past several years the Hood River Valley football has counted itself lucky if it got one running back over a hundred yards on any given night.
On Friday night against Forest Grove the Eagles got two backs over a hundred yards, with Forrest Broddie and Jeremy Fischer combining for 246 yards between them and Broddie rushing for three touchdowns as the Eagles went on the road and knocked off the Forest Grove Vikings 34-21.
Broddie's three touchdowns gave him a half dozen over two games and showed the Eagles have turned a corner on their troubles with running the football over the past half decade.
The Eagles are rolling out an all-senior offensive line this season and they are making holes for the running backs to get through.
"Experience makes such a difference in high school sports," said HRV coach Caleb Sperry.
While the Eagles won, it was another win with lessons learned as three interceptions and two Forest Grove recoveries of onside kicks allowed the Vikings to stay in the game until the closing moments.
The Eagles turned in a dominant start to the game, putting up a 21-point lead before the Vikings could answer.
The Eagles opened the scoring three minutes into the game when they took the opening kickoff and drove 74 yards in eight plays, culminating in a one-yard touchdown plunge by Eli Fults.
The Eagles used another lengthy drive to extend the lead to two touchdowns early in the second quarter when they went 68 yards in 11 plays, with Broddie getting into the end zone from six yards out.
The Eagles needed only two plays to score on their next possession. Fischer ripped off a 39-yard run on first down from the Forest Grove 48-yard line, and moments later Broddie was into the end zone again, this time from nine yards out, and the Eagles took a 21-0 lead with eight minutes to play in the second quarter.
The Vikings closed to within a touchdown on the opening possession of the second quarter, when they went 70 yards in 10 plays, finishing the job on a 12-yard pass from Collins to Ethan Thursam.
They had a chance to go for a tying score on their next possession but Kyle Beam ended the drive with the second of his two interceptions of Collins.
Following Beam's interception, the Eagles marched down the field with Broddie scoring his third touchdown on a 7-yard run.
The Eagles got the coupe de grace on their next possession Kopecky found Fults from 20 yards out for a 34-13 lead.
"It's great," said Sperry of starting the season 2-0. "I'm really excited about the way we are playing."
The Eagles host Redmond Friday at 7 p.m.
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With junior Natalie Johnson and freshman Dominique Martinez up top, and five reliable defenders, Havelock soccer coach Jeff Harris feels his team can match up with anyone.
With junior Natalie Johnson and freshman Dominique Martinez up top, and five reliable defenders, Havelock soccer coach Jeff Harris feels his team can match up with anyone.
Johnson and Martinez have 35 combined goals, while the defense has eight shutouts.
The Rams (14-7), the No. 4 seed from the Coastal Conference, is scheduled to play at Cleveland (18-1) at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the first round of the 3A soccer playoffs.
�We feel pretty confident,� Harris said. �I�ve been looking through stuff, and I think we compare with anybody.�
Johnson and Martinez have stepped up their play following a mid-season injury loss to Ali Wickman, who had been the team�s leading scorer.
The Rams have 70 goals on the season. Johnson leads the Rams with 18 goals and eight assists, while Martinez has 16 goals and 10 assists, and Ashley Bickel has contributed seven goals and seven assists.
�It�s been a journey to see who we were going to put up front,� Harris said. �Together, they are a pretty good combination.�
Havelock enters the contest having won its last two games, outscoring West Carteret and West Craven by a combined 12-2.
Cleveland won the Eastern Carolina Conference championship and finished the regular season with an 18-1 record. During its 16-game win streak, it has 102 goals. Emily Truelove leads Cleveland with 55 goals and 21 assists. She has accounted for more than half of the team�s goals on the season. Twice this year she has scored six goals in a game, and she has scored five goals in a game two other times. Courtney Morris is second on the team with 18 goals.
�I was talking to (Jacksonville) coach Miller and he said, �don�t let that fool you because that�s a weak conference,� Harris said.
Goalkeepers Amanda Alexander and Caitlin Annunziata have eight shutouts for the Rams. The defense of Emily Spink, Kaitlyn Tripp, Aliyah Cruz and Janae Mays have limited opponents to 33 goals. The Rams have a strong midfield core that includes Lauren Seegel, Alexis Delacruz, Erica Quinn and Taylor Self.
The winner of Tuesday�s match plays either White Oak (16-4) or Triton (9-10).
�I like the seeding that we have because if we get by Cleveland, we would probably play White Oak again,� Harris said. �We�ve played White Oak solid twice, and I think we can give them another good game now that we have all the combinations in the right place.�


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Kris Allen: Pet-a-Palooza Performer!
Kris Allen hits the stage at the Pet-a-Palooza 2012 event held at Sam Boyd Stadium on Saturday (April 21) in Las Vegas, Nev.
The 26-year-old singer performed some of his hit songs and some new ones from his upcoming album Thank You Camellia, which hits stores on May 22.
Kris also met with some of his fans during a meet and greet session. He even brought along his beloved dog Zorro to the event, which was open to all pets.
FYI: Kris is wearing Levi's.
20+ pictures inside of Kris Allen performing at Pet-a-Palooza…


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How I Lost 100.4 Pounds In 6 Months
Reader Tyler started 344pounds.com to document his weight loss journey. We've checked in with him before when he lost 32 and then 54.6 pounds. Now that he's hit the hundred-pound-loss mark, Tyler wrote this feature for us to share his methods.
On January 15th, I weighed 344.2 pounds. As of July 8th, I weigh 243.8 pounds. I've lost 100.4 pounds in the last 6 months by eating moderately (portion control) and exercising. I've gone from a 4XLT shirt and size 48 pants to wearing XL and size 38 pants. I no longer have high blood pressure, sleep apnea, or back problems. Here's how I did it.
Counting Calories
You need to use more calories than you bring in to lose weight – this creates a calorie deficit. Once you have created a deficit of 3,500 calories, you'll lose 1 pound. Most "experts" advise that you should only lose a pound or so a week, which would require you to have a daily calorie deficit of 500 pounds.
I obviously didn't heed this advice; I thought it was more dangerous to weigh 344 pounds than to lose an extra few pounds a month, but however much weight and how quickly you'd like to lose it is up to you.
To calculate a calorie deficit, you can find out how many calories you're consuming by reading the nutritional labels found on all food packaging. Most restaurants also post nutritional information, but please know that these figures are believed to be drastically underestimated.
It's a little bit harder to estimate the calories you're using in your various daily activities. To get an idea on how many calories you're burning, take a look at one of the many "calorie calculators" available on the web. It is said that the numbers presented by these calorie calculators are skewed a little, but you should still be able to use them as a rough guide as you start your weight loss program.
Physical Activity
I go to the gym at least 5 days a week. Not only do I go to the gym, but I also incorporate a lot of other physical activity into my life like basketball. It's hard some days forcing myself to go to the gym, but it's absolutely mandatory if you're otherwise sedentary all day at an office job.
With that being said, the gym isn't the only or even ideal option for physical activity. If you can burn calories on a daily basis by doing something that's fun and social, like basketball, swimming, walking with the family, etc., you'll be more likely to stick to it.
Any physical activity is good; just make sure you do it every single day. You can take days off of the gym, just don't take days off from being active. Do something to elevate your heart rate daily.
Food & Diet
The thing I hated about past diets is that they're all or nothing thing. Diets give you one cheat meal a week and the rest of the time it's "no sugar" or "no carbs" or some other nonsense. I don't want to pass up going out for pizza with the family on Friday nights for the rest of my life because of a diet. Diets are designed to restrict your life, which is why I didn't lose 100 pounds on a diet. In fact, it was lost by eating cheeseburgers, fries, and bacon on a weekly basis – albeit in moderation. I do certainly try to eat more fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods, but I know that it's fine to eat what I want when I feel like it as long as I limit the portions and make sure I'm not gluttonous. If I do really want to loosen the belt so to speak one day, I'll make sure I play a little longer on the basketball court or stay at the gym that night a few extra minutes to burn more calories than usual.
This plan worked for me and hopefully it'll work to some extent for you!
– Tyler, 344pounds.com
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Homemade Samoas Cookies
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Read Before Making: These cookies do take some time and there are many steps to it. However, you will not be dissappointed. They are well worth the work.
Cookies ~ Homemade Samoas
(also known as Caramel de-Lites)
Makes about 4 to 4 1/2 dozen
Let the 4 step process begin:
1. Make the cookie Base
2. Top with Caramel-Coconut mixture
3. Dip bottom of cookies in melted chocolate
4. Drizzle tops with melted chocolate
The Cookie (base):
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
up to 2 tablespoons milk
Preheat oven to 350F.
Cream together butter and sugar in a large bowl. Mix in flour, baking powder and salt at a low speed, next, the vanilla and milk, adding in the milk only as needed to make the dough come together without being sticky (you may not need any at all). The dough should come together into a soft, pliable ball. Add in a bit of extra flour if your dough seems sticky.
It's easiest to roll the dough out in 2 or 3 batches (between pieces of wax (or parchment) paper to about 1/4-inch thickness (or a little thinner) using a 1 1/2-inch cookie cutter to make rounds. Place on a parchment lined (or on silicone mat) baking sheet and make a hole in the center. I used one of those big plastic straws. You know the ones that your kids blow into and they drive you crazy with that whistling sound. However, this part is really not necessary. Next time I don't think I will do it. They will give you the Girl Scout look, but the flavor is still the same. Repeat until the dough is used up (it's okay to re-roll, this dough is shortbread-like and very forgiving.)
Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes, until bottoms are very lightly golden brown around the edges. All ovens are different so I actually did mine for 9 mins. and they came out perfect.
Cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet, to allow them to firm up slightly, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
3 cups shredded coconut (sweetened or unsweetened)
12-ounces good-quality chewy caramels
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons milk
8 ounces dark or semisweet chocolate (chocolate chips will do, however, I found that when I made them with the chocolate chips they melt in your hands even after setting up.)
(If you prefer milk chocolate use it. I used semi-sweet and JBody wishes I would have gone with Milk. He is a huge milk chocolate guy though.)
Preheat oven to 300 degrees (F)
Spread coconut evenly on a rimmed baking sheet and toast 20 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes, until coconut is golden. Watch carefully, especially near the end of toasting time; the coconut toasts very quickly once it begins to become golden.
My Notes: 20 minutes was too long. The coconut was already golden at 10 and I had to take it out.
Cool on baking sheet, stirring occasionally. Set aside.
Unwrap the caramels and place in a large microwave-safe bowl with milk and salt. Cook on high for 3-4 minutes, stopping to stir a few times to help the caramel melt. When smooth, fold in toasted coconut with a spatula.
Using the spatula or a small offset spatula, spread topping on cooled cookies, using about 2-3 teaspoons per cookie. Reheat caramel for a few seconds in the microwave if it begins to firm up, to make it soft and spreadable once again.
While topping sets up, melt chocolate in a small bowl. Heat on high in the microwave in 45 second intervals, stirring thoroughly to prevent scorching. Dip the base of each cookie into the chocolate and place on a clean piece of parchment paper (I dipped them and then had them set up upside down before drizzling). Transfer all remaining chocolate into a piping bag or a ziplock bag with the corner snipped off and drizzle finished cookies with chocolate.
Let chocolate set completely before storing in an airtight container.
Let me just tell you that you have to try these. And once you make them hide them from yourself. Trust me they are addicting. I have plans to make them again. I have a cute cookie container idea I found on pinterest. We are going to give them away as Christmas Presents. Let me know if you make them and what you think of them.
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Man stabs 5 people to death in Central China
A lone knifemanstabbed five people to death and wounded three others in the latest in a string of rampage attacks across the country.world Updated: Jul 26, 2013 12:13 IST
Police in central China were hunting for a lone knifeman on Friday who stabbed five people to death and wounded three others in the latest in a string of rampage attacks across the country.
Henan provincial police said Ding Jinhua killed three people in the village of Dazhuzhuang, then drove to a nearby furniture market where he killed a shop owner and taxi driver before driving off in the cab.
A police notice said a reward was being offered for information leading to the capture of the 38-year-old furniture salesman.
Thursday's killings follow a series of deadly attacks on members of the public by mentally ill people or those bearing grudges against their neighbors, society, or the government.
Last Saturday, a motorcycle taxi driver detonated a homemade bomb at Beijing's main airport after eight years of frustration trying to seek redress for an attack by city guards that left him paralyzed and in debt, according to his brother.
In the worst such incident, a man set fire to a crowded commuter bus last month, killing 47 people, following unsuccessful efforts to get a local police station to correct his age so he could be eligible for social security payments.
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2013 Annual Meeting
Montréal, Québec, Canada | November 1-5, 2013
Diane Rasmussen Pennington, University of Western Ontario
Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Sunday, 5:30pm
The ASIS&T Leadership Committee is pleased to offer Diane M. Rasmussens Social Media for Leaders workshop as part of the
ASIS&T Leadership Development Program at the Annual Meeting. Social media is a set of technological tools that ultimately serves to connect people. Social media has permeated many areas of societal function over the last few years, and the activities of leadership are no exception. For example, managers can utilize social media to flatten organizational hierarchies, make their activities transparent, and incorporate stakeholders input into their decision-making processes. Academics can establish or maintain their positions as leaders in their disciplines by sharing their research and ideas via social media channels, and by networking with existing and new colleagues.
Despite these and other advantages, many scholars, students and information professionals know little about how to use social media effectively for fostering leadership activities within their individual and organizational domains. To this end, the workshop will consist of the following:


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Carl Dennis was born on September 17, 1939, in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended both Oberlin College and the University of Chicago before completing his bachelor's degree at the University of Minnesota. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dennis has published twelve books of poetry, including Night School (Penguin, 2018), Another Reason (Penguin, 2014); Callings (Penguin, 2010); Practical Gods (Penguin, 2001), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; and Meetings with Time (Penguin, 1992), among others. Dennis has also published a book of criticism, Poetry as Persuasion (University of Georgia Press, 2001).
Known for its casual, plainspoken narrative style that makes its home in the everyday life of the American middle class, Dennis's poetry is a quiet, almost intimate, meditation on the world around him. In a review of Dennis's poems in The Washington Post, poet Robert Pinsky wrote, "The musing mind or voice reaches its object not with a turbulent roar of rhetoric, but with the penetration of fine oil. The poems of Carl Dennis proceed to startling, sometimes even upsetting conclusions by that musing process of mind, alert and patient."
Dennis has received several honors and distinctions, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the recipient of the 1989 Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the 1995 Bess Hokin Prize, the 1997 J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize, and the 2000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Dennis taught at the University of Buffalo from 1966 to 2001, after which time he served as the school's artist in residence. He also taught in the MFA program in creative writing at Warren Wilson College.
He lives in Buffalo, New York.
Selected Bibliography
Night School (Penguin, 2018)
Another Reason (Penguin, 2014)
Callings (Penguin, 2010)
Unknown Friends (Penguin, 2007)
New and Selected Poems, 1974-2004 (Penguin, 2004)
Practical Gods (Penguin, 2001)
Ranking the Wishes (Penguin, 1997)
Meetings with Time (Penguin, 1992)
The Outskirts of Troy (William Morrow, 1988)
The Near World (William Morrow, 1985)
Signs and Wonders (Princeton University Press, 1979)
Climbing Down (Braziller, 1976)
A House of My Own (Braziller, 1974)


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Jeff Robinson 3/23/2008 5:58:50 AMYour work is Amazing Tad - Congrats on this Beautifully captured Finalist!! Jeff #883888
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Once, businesses would hand out free samples in malls or throw them in with other purchases.
Now, several businesses have sprouted up devoted to sending out a box of samples to customers once a month — and actually getting them to pay for it.
While wine- or steak- of-the-month clubs have been around forever, the box of mystery treats is a relatively new form of subscription sales. It has caught on fast.
Birchbox, one of the first such services and one of the biggest, offers five beauty product and makeup samples for women and men per month. It started in 2010 and now boasts 300,000 subscribers who pay $10 a month for the women's box or $20 a month for the men's box.
The model has caught on quickly, helped by social media sites where subscribers can show pictures of their boxes and rate the contents. Now you can get boxes full of every product you can imagine, from healthy snacks, dog treats and kids' toys all the way to tampons. The boxes come stuffed with samples or full-size products that marketers want you to try.
Even Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, started offering its own box of food samples, Goodies, in November.
But are these boxes really worth the money? Here are some things to consider if you're deciding to get yourself — or someone else — one of these monthly subscription boxes.
First of all, be skeptical, says Sheryl Garrett, founder of the Garrett Planning Network of financial planners.
"From a marketer's standpoint, it's a great way for them to separate us from our money," she said. "While we think it's a treat."
While it may be a good way to explore products you may not have heard of before, she said, you're probably going to spend more than you would have otherwise.
"If you pay $20 to get five snacks in a box," she said, "they may be tasty and edible, but would you have gone to a specialty food shop and bought these four or five bags? Probably not."
Another caution: there are usually only three- or six-month or yearly subscriptions available, so you can't cancel if you're disappointed after a month.
Still, if you want to try a sample service, one way to get more bang for your buck is to find services that are well-reviewed and closely match your tastes (or those of a friend or relative if you're giving them as a gift).
Gautam Gupta, CEO of Naturebox.com, which offers five snacks per box, said to take advantage of a company's presence on Facebook or Pinterest to evaluate the company.
"One of the things that give you a great sense of whether customers like the product or not is what they're saying," he said. Naturebox.com, which offers monthly healthy snacks the company creates itself, has 300,000 Facebook fans, many commenting on what they received in their boxes each month. Other sites like Instagram and Twitter are a wealth of information, too.
Next, check out the company's website to find out how the products are chosen, he said. Naturebox makes its own snacks and gets them approved by nutritionists. But most sampling boxes work with other companies to procure samples.
"See if there is some criteria the company is putting forward that governs the way the products come in the box," he said.
Here are some of the many categories of subscription sample boxes to check out. Note: This list is itself just a sampling. Far more examples in each of these categories can be found online:
— Birchbox.com: Offers skin care, beauty products and perfume samples, starting at $10 a month.
— Glossybox.com: A similar service that focuses on higher-end samples. Starts at $21 a month.
Products for men:
— Birchbox launched Birchbox Men in 2012, a similar service that offers sample items ranging from deodorant to headphones, at $20 a month.
— On the high end, Bespoke Post offers monthly boxes with themes like fashion and food. It costs $45 a month but offers full-size products, not samples.
— Naturebox.com offers five snack-size "healthy" snacks — like almonds and dark cocoa or nut and berry mixes, for $19.95 per month.
— On the less-expensive side, check out Wal-Mart's Goodies.co, which sends five sample snacks like Fig Newtons or Bonne Maman strawberry preserves, for $7 a month.
— BabbaBox.com offers activities for kids ages 3 to 6, for $29.99 a month.
— CitrusLane.com offers products for expecting parents those with newborns through 3. Boxes start at $21 a month.
Pet treats:
— Barkbox.com offers sample goodies for dog owners, by dog size, $19 per month.
— Bugsysbox.com, a similar dog-themed box, $17 a month.
Feminine products:
— LeParcel.com lets you pick a type of feminine product you want delivered each month and when, then it delivers that products along with a sample and a piece of chocolate, $15 a month.
— Juniper, at getjuniper.com, offers a similar service for tampons and pads only, which also includes food items like chocolate, tea and candy for $28 a month.
Smart spending: Think inside the box — for samples
Once, businesses would hand out free samples in malls or throw them in with other purchases.


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Feldman To Leave Senate
Making Way For Young Hopefuls
By DAVID BLOMQUIST, Trenton Bureau Chief
(From: The Record, February 18, 1993)
TRENTON - Matthew Feldman, the respected elder statesman of Bergen County Democratic Politics, announced Wednesday that he will retire from the Senate when his term runs out in January.
"For the Democratic Party to remain vital, it must continually redefine and renew itself," Feldman, 73, wrote in a letter sent to members of the Democratic County Committee. "To do that, it must permit younger people to move up into positions of responsibility."
As a civic and religious leader, a councilman and mayor of Teaneck, and, finally, the Senator from central Bergen's 37th District, Feldman has been a pivotal force in shaping state policy on education, environment, and civil rights for more than three decades.
His decision to step aside is expected to spark a scramble in both Parties that could significantly change the face of Bergen politics, as a generation of leaders forged in the 1960s gives way to a younger, more ethnically diverse group eager to move tip the ladder.
A feisty former boxer who served in the Army Air Force during World War II, Feldman has been in poor health in recent years. Many Democrats were surprised when he chose to seek a seventh term in 1991, and expected him to bow out before all 120 seats in the legislature come up for election this fall.
In an interview Wednesday, Feldman left little doubt that his retirement comes with mixed feelings. But he said his wife, Muriel, and his three children convinced him that it was time to leave.
"We've been agonizing over this for months," said Feldman. "'The family has insisted that I've given public service over 30 years. It's time to conclude that public service."
He said the inauguration last month of President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore underscored the importance of passing the baton to a new generation of Democrats.
"I took pride in their success," Feldman said, "confirmed in my belief that it was not only time for a political change, but for a generational change."
Feldman was first elected to the Senate in 1965 as part of a group of Democrats who rode the coattails of Gov. Richard J. Hughes to the party's largest legislative victories in Bergen County since World War II. Defeated for reelection in 1967, he served as the county's Democratic leader for four years before winning another Senate term in 1973. He has been continuously reelected to the upper house ever since.
As word of Feldman's retirement spread throughout Bergen political circles Wednesday, two candidates started lining up to replace him: Assemblyman Byron M. Baer, D-Englewood, who has served with Feldman in the legislature for 20 years, and Englewood Mayor Donald Aronson.
Aronson said he is testing the waters for a possible campaign. "It's an honor to be considered to be able to fill the shoes of Matty Feldman," he said. "I just don't know yet. I'm asking questions of friends in the area."
Baer said he had been waiting for Feldman to make a decision, and expects to announce his candidacy for Senate sometime next week. he said he wouldn't shy away from a primary battle with Aronson, but said he's willing to abide by the endorsement of the county Democratic committee -- an endorsement Baer said he expect to win.
But with Feldman's proven ability as a fund-raiser and vote-getter out of the picture, county Republicans think they may have a strong chance of capturing the district. Bergen Republican Chairman John Schepisi said he expects several candidates to materialize for the open seat.
"Even though District 37 has been predominantly a Democratic stronghold, I think the strength was because of Matty Feldman at the top of the ticket," Schepisi said. "We have a darned good shot at Republicans taking over."
One Republican mentioned as a possible contender is Freeholder Todd Caliguire, who gave Feldman an unusually close race two years ago amid the backlash against Governor Florio's record tax hike.
"I'm thinking about it, but I haven't decided yet," Caliguire said on Wednesday.
Baer's decision to pursue the Senate seat will leave an opening on the Democratic ticket for the Assembly. For the first time in two decades, insiders say, the candidate is likely to be someone other than a liberal Jewish Democrat.
The 37th District has the largest black population of any legislative district in Bergen County, and black Democrats have been seeking a slot on the ticket for some time. Potential black contenders include Hackensack's deputy mayor, Sandra A. Robinson, who was an unsuccessful freeholder candidate in 1991.
But the 37th District also contains a substantial Italian-American population that may lay claim to Baer's seat. Insiders named Hackensack Democratic Chairman Ken Zisa as one possible challenger.
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Jewish World Review Jan 30, 2012/ 6 Shevat, 5772
Obama hides on Earth, Newt crash lands on moon
By Michael Barone
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | We got mixed signals from a turbulent political week.
Barack Obama seems to be enjoying an uptick in polls, moving toward 50 percent approval. It's a reminder that he can expect to benefit from Americans' desire to think well of their presidents and by the reluctance of many voters to be seen as rejecting the first black president.
But his weakness was apparent in his State of the Union address: issues. He devoted a mere 44 words to the health care law passed in March 2010. This is the strongest evidence possible that his signal legislative achievement is a millstone around the neck of his campaign.
Similarly, we heard little in the hour-plus speech about infrastructure. The words "shovel ready projects" and "high speed rail" appear nowhere in the text -- significant omissions from a president who (as a mischievous Republican ad shows) sprinkles the same phrases in one State of the Union after another.
And there was a third omission, not perhaps as obvious but in the long run possibly more glaring. There were no serious public policy initiatives to quicken the pace of economic growth and address the long-term entitlement problems that Obama has occasionally noted.
Yes, he did call for higher taxes on high earners. But the man who can call on experts at the Treasury Department to draft legislation gave no indication that he has any feasible draft for his "Buffett rule" that would presumably require a second alternative minimum tax for very high earners.
Nor did he indicate that he has made any serious effort to come up with language to penalize corporations that "ship jobs overseas." Once again a president hailed for his brilliance has handed off the grimy task of writing legislation entirely to the Congress.
What we saw Tuesday night was more like a candidate than an incumbent president.
Not that any of the Republican candidates yet looks like a plausible incumbent. Polls show that their nomination battle is lowering poll ratings of the leading contenders, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. The eventual nominee may be able to repair that, though he won't get a pass from the mainstream media on his weaknesses, as Obama did on Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Newt Gingrich came out of his victory in South Carolina eight days ago leading in polls but now seems headed for defeat in Florida. Debates boosted him in South Carolina but cut him down in Florida.
And not just by his opponents' attacks. In the second debate he was put on the defensive on two characteristically Gingrichian proposals, one based on his study of history, the other on penchant for futurism.
His proposal to have local boards, modeled on World War II draft boards, decide on legalization of longtime illegal immigrants put him to the left of Romney on this issue -- and also gave Romney an opportunity to laud legal immigration and to highlight attacks on Gingrich tactics by the technically neutral Sen. Marco Rubio.
And Gingrich's proposal for a moon colony, to be granted statehood when its population reaches 13,000, drew scornful rebukes as impractical and hugely expensive from Romney and Rick Santorum. Neither would have had these openings if Gingrich had resisted the impulse to set out novel proposals.
Romney's rebukes of Gingrich and defense of his business record were his strongest debate performances, and Santorum also performed impressively, especially in criticizing Romney on his Massachusetts health care law.
Romney has led Gingrich by 7 to 9 points in every poll taken since the first Florida debate, and looks to be in shape to carry the state and win all its delegates. A victory in Florida would once again install the well-financed and well-organized Romney as the clear favorite for the nomination.
But even in that case Gingrich, Santorum and Ron Paul would each have plausible reasons for continuing through the few contests (and one debate) in February.
The race so far has given Romney the opportunity to develop the political instincts because he never had to go door-to-door for votes or interact with lowly party activists in a caucus.
His performances in the two Florida debates show he is making some progress. Not enough to be the ideal nominee, perhaps, but maybe enough to beat an incumbent with serious weaknesses as well as some strengths.
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The editor of Edible South Shore offers recipes for foods prepared with a wide range of materials and historic techniques used across culture in her new cookbook "Cooking with Fire."
Nearly everyone has cooked over a wood fire – even if only to roast a marshmallow or hot dog. Now comes Plymouth food historian and archeologist Paula Marcoux, whose new cookbook "Cooking with Fire" shows the mouth-watering possibilities of flames.
"I'd like people to take a step back and see how much fun it can be cooking with wood and how much better the food tastes," said Marcoux of Plymouth, who also is the editor of the magazine Edible South Shore.
Marcoux offers recipes for foods prepared with a wide range of materials and historic techniques used across cultures. She treats each with equal respect – a simple chunk of cheese held on a stick, sea scallop lollipops on a griddle, beef shanks in a cast iron pot, pork loin twisting on a spit and bread in a wood-fired oven
"Cooking with wood will interest people with a little sense of adventure, an open mind and a willingness to take the time to enjoy what they're doing," said Marcoux, who subtitled the book "From Roasting on a Spit to Baking in a Tannur, Rediscovered Techniques and Recipes that Capture the Flavors of Wood-Fired Cooking."
With a brief historical perspective opening each chapter, the book has 100 recipes and dozens of beautiful color photographs. Part do-it-yourself guide, there are step-by-step photographs that illustrate techniques such as: building a fire, firing up a smoker, baking in a kettle, creating an in-ground lobster bake, and building and heating a wood-fired oven.
"There's nobody who will do every crazy thing in this book, but I'm hoping there is something in the book to engage everybody," said Marcoux, 53, who also is working on a book for the Plymouth Antiquarian Society about 19th century cooking.
Marcoux, who grew up in Rehoboth and majored in archeology at Brown University, has been interested in food for and cooking for as long as she can remember. While doing fieldwork in the Middle East, she became fascinated by wood fire cooking techniques. As Colonial food ways manager at Plimoth Plantation from 1987 to 2008, she researched and taught pre-industrial cooking and built wood-fired ovens.
After she left Plimoth Plantation, she devoted herself to researching early bread-baking, building ovens from the past and publishing scholarly articles. Her work caught the attention of an editor at Storey Publishing in North Adams, who offered her a book contract.
"I first hesitated because I was so into what I was doing," Marcoux said. "Gradually, I became aware that I was being a complete moron, and once I realized this is a book I wanted to write, I fell completely in love with it."
For the extensive photo shoots, Marcoux prepared many dishes, including a favorite using a technique called planking – which nailed a striped bass to a wooden plank set on the edge of a fire.
"It was crispy and delicious on the outside and perfectly moist on the inside, with a wonderful fire-roasted flavor," she said. "We had a lobster bake the same day, and lobsters were really good, but the fish was even better."
Part of the fun of cooking over fire are opportunities for people to participate, she said. One set of photos shows how to make a pine needle fire to cook mussels.
"It's a lot of fun for families and guests to take a hand in the cooking, especially if it's out of the ordinary," said Marcoux, who also has been a food history consultant for The History Channel and films.
She uses hardwoods such as maple and oak for an open fire, which can be made on the ground, in indoor and outdoor fire places and even Webber grills. For the oven, she uses softwood such as pine. Natural charcoal – as opposed to briquettes that contain petroleum – also is good since it is wood that has been partially burned but not combusted.
While the recipes for shish-kabob, grilled chicken and leg of lamb can be prepared on a gas grill, Marcoux said the meat will taste inferior.
"Gas can't hold a candle to wood," she said. "With wood, you get a high heat that actually is searing, carbonizing the fat and bone that adds so much flavor. A gas grill is more like a home oven, and with the lid on, it's basically a steam box."
Some of the most mouth-watering photos are the flat and loaf breads – tortillas, boreks, pita baked on a griddle, nan in a tannur (a masonry cylinder), crusty bread in a cast iron kettle and pizza and loaves in a wood-fired oven.
"The crust of the bread from the heated clay becomes unbelievably crackling and succulent," Marcoux said. "I have met many people who were surprised you could bake bread in a wood-fired oven."
Marcoux also promotes the replacement of commercial yeast with home-made leaven, which is popular now among serious bread bakers.
"Fermenting your own starter is a huge trend now," Marcoux said. "It adds more flavor and moisture, and it takes longer for the bread to go stale or moldy. It's another example of taking control of and understanding how things work."
Adding to her extensive knowledge, Marcoux said she learned some new uses for fire while working on the book. Holding an iron poker in the flames until red hot, she dipped it into a drink known as Flip, a mixture of beer, rum and molasses enjoyed in America in the late 1700s.
"The drink makes a crazy sound when it foams up, and you can caramelize it as much as you want," she said. "It's fun and delicious."
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Jack Killian was the first Delta College football player from the 2012 team to commit to a four-year institution, choosing Nevada-Las Vegas.
Jack Killian was the first Delta College football player from the 2012 team to commit to a four-year institution, choosing UNLV.
The wide receiver and kick returner gave his verbal commitment to the Runnin' Rebels during an official visit Saturday. The signing day for midyear transfers is Dec. 19. He will leave and enroll in classes in the middle of next month.
Killian primarily had interest from Division II and Football Championship Subdivision schools until UNLV swooped in.
"They really showed interest and treated us well," Killian said. "The offer came in the morning at the end of the trip and I verbally committed."
UNLV elected to keep head coach Bobby Hauck after going 2-11 during the fall, but firedoffensive coordinator Brent Myers and defensive coordinator J.D. Williams. Replacements have not yet been named.
"They didn't really talk about a hiring to me," Killian said. "But I'm not too worried about it. Coach (Hauck) was really cool and says he plans to use me all over the field."
Killian, 6 foot and 195 pounds, was a two-year starter for the Mustangs out of Modesto-Central Catholic. He earned All-Valley Conference honors as a sophomore and led Delta with 992 yards receiving and 14 touchdowns. His best game was a 174-yard receiving outing in a 63-56 win over De Anza in theSilicon Valley Bowl.
Teammate De'Marieya Nelson completed his second official visit Saturday, returning from Utah State. The tight end/running back traveled to San Diego State the weekend before and will go to Texas Tech next weekend.
Nelson reported scholarship offers from those schools as well as Charlotte, Fresno State, Memphis, Nevada, Northern Colorado, Old Dominion and Western Michigan. He plans to transfer after the spring semester.
"I have two more (school-paid) trips to arrange and a lot of schools want them," Nelson said.
"I wish I could say I have a front-runner, but I don't. All the schools I've visited have blown me away."
Nelson, a Chavez product, is a two-time all-conference selection for Delta. This past season, he had 557 yards and eight touchdowns rushing to go with 218 receiving yards and two scores.


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Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq
|Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq
المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي العراقي
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|Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim
|Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim
Shia islamism
Religious Conservatism
|Shi'a Islam
|Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq
12 / 325
|Seats in the local governorate councils
54 / 440
|Politics of Iraq
Political parties
The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI or SIIC) (Arabic: المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي العراقي Al-Majlis Al-A'ala Al-Islami Al-'Iraqi), (previously the party was known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)) is an Iraqi Shia Islamist Iraqi political party. It was established in Iran in the 1980s and today its political support comes from Iraq's Shi'a Muslim community.
Prior to his assassination in August 2003, SCIRI was led by Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim; afterwards it was led by the ayatollah's brother, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. After Abdul Aziz al-Hakim's death in 2009 his son Ammar al-Hakim became the group's new leader.[1] In light of its gains in the three 2005 elections and government appointments, the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council became one of Iraq's most powerful political parties and was the largest party in the Iraqi Council of Representatives until the 2010 Iraqi elections, where it lost support due to Nuri Al-Maliki's political party rise. Today the party is led by another member of the Hakim family, Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim.
Previously ISCI's militia wing was the Badr Brigade, where the party used it during the Iraq Civil War of 2006-2007. After the civil war, Badr Brigade turned into a political force of itself and left ISCI, although the two continue to be part of a coalition in Iraq's parliament.[2] After the departure of Badr Brigade, ISCI created a new militia called the Knights of Hope.[3]
Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq was founded in Iran in 1982 during the Iran–Iraq War after the leading Islamist insurgent group, Islamic Dawa Party, was severely weakened by an Iraqi government crackdown following Dawa's unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. SCIRI was the umbrella body for two Iran-based Shia Islamist groups, Dawa and the Islamic Action Organisation led by Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi. Another of SCIRI's founders was Ayatollah Hadi al-Modarresi, the leader the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain. The Iranian Islamic revolutionary government arranged for the formation of SCIRI, which was based in exile in Tehran and under the leadership of Mohammad-Baqir al-Hakim. Hakim, living in exile in Iran, was the son of Ayatollah Mohsen-Hakim and a member of one of the leading Shi'a clerical families in Iraq. "He declared the primary aim of the council to be the overthrow of the Ba'ath and the establishment of an Islamic government in Iraq. Iranian officials referred to Hakim as the leader of Iraq's future Islamic state ..." [4]
However, there are crucial ideological differences between SCIRI and al-Dawa. SCIRI supports the ideologies of Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that Islamic Government must be controlled by the ulema (Islamic scholars). Al-Dawa, on the other hand, follows the position of Iraq's late Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, and al-Dawa co-founder, that government should be controlled by the ummah (Muslim community as a whole).
Despite this ideological disagreement, several of SCIRI's factions came from al-Dawa before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[5] This historical intersection is significant because al-Dawa was widely viewed as a terrorist group during the Iran–Iraq War.[6] In February 2007, journalists reported that Jamal Jaafar Muhammed, who was elected to the Iraqi parliament in 2005 as part of the SCIRI/Badr faction of the United Iraqi Alliance, was also sentenced to death in Kuwait for planning the al-Dawa bombings of the French and American embassies in that country in 1983.[7]
With the fall of Saddam Hussein after the invasion of Iraq, SCIRI quickly rose to prominence in Iraq, working closely with the other Shi'a parties. It gained popularity among Shiite Iraqis by providing social services and humanitarian aid, following the pattern of Islamic organizations in other countries such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. SCIRI is alleged to receive money and weapons from Iran, and is often accused of being a proxy for Iranian interests. The party leaders have toned down many of the party's public positions and committed it to democracy and peaceful cooperation. SCIRI's power base is in the Shi'a-majority southern Iraq. The council's armed wing, the Badr Organization, reportedly has had an estimated strength of between 4,000 and 10,000 men. Its Baghdad offices are based in a house that previously belonged to Ba'athist Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.
Its leader, Ayatollah al-Hakim, was killed in a car bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Najaf on August 29, 2003. The car bomb exploded as the ayatollah was leaving a religious shrine (Imam Ali Mosque) in the city, just after Friday prayers, killing more than 85. According to Kurdish Intelligence officials, Yassin Jarad, allegedly Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's father-in-law, carried out the car bombing.[8]
Interior Ministry
In the Shia Islamist dominated government in post-invasion Iraq, SCIRI controlled the Interior Ministry. The Iraqi Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, was a former leader of SCIRI's Badr Brigade militia. In 2006 the United Nations human rights chief in Iraq, John Pace, said that every month hundreds of Iraqis were being tortured to death or executed by the Interior Ministry under SCIRI's control.[9] According to a 2006 report by the Independent newspaper:
- 'Mr Pace said the Ministry of the Interior was "acting as a rogue element within the government". It is controlled by the main Shia party, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri); the Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, is a former leader of Sciri's Badr Brigade militia, which is one of the main groups accused of carrying out sectarian killings. Another is the Mehdi Army of the young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who is part of the Shia coalition seeking to form a government after winning the mid-December election.
- Many of the 110,000 policemen and police commandos under the ministry's control are suspected of being former members of the Badr Brigade. Not only counter-insurgency units such as the Wolf Brigade, the Scorpions and the Tigers, but the commandos and even the highway patrol police have been accused of acting as death squads.
- The paramilitary commandos, dressed in garish camouflage uniforms and driving around in pick-up trucks, are dreaded in Sunni neighbourhoods. People whom they have openly arrested have frequently been found dead several days later, with their bodies bearing obvious marks of torture.'[9]
SIIC is a Shia Islamist political party that is widely regarded as one of the most pro-Iranian parties in Iraq. SIIC's support is strongest in Iraq's south especially Basra, where it has been said to have become "the de facto government."[10]
It joined the United Iraqi Alliance list for the general election on January 30, 2005 (see Iraqi legislative election, 2005), but filed separate lists in some governorate council elections held on the same day (see for instance Ninawa governorate council election, 2005). In the January 2005 election it won six out of eight Shia-majority governorates and came in first in Baghdad with 40% of the vote.[10] Following the election SIIC had many members hired by various government ministries, particularly the Interior Ministry, "ensuring a favorable position for" it.[10]
Its administration in Southern Iraq has been criticized as corrupt and as "theocracy mixed with thuggery"[11] According to a 2005 report by journalist Doug Ireland, the Badr Organization has been involved in many incidents of attacking and killing gays in Iraq.[12] According to the British television Channel 4, from 2005 through early 2006, SIIC's Badr Organization members working as commandos in the Ministry of the Interior (which Badr controls) "have been implicated in rounding up and killing thousands of ordinary Sunni civilians." [13]
Ideologically SIIC differs from Muqtada al-Sadr and its sometime ally Islamic Dawa Party, in favoring a decentralized Iraq state with an autonomous Shia zone in the south.[14]
2009 Governorate Elections
During the Iraqi governorate elections, 2009 ISCI ran under the name al-Mehrab Martyr List, the ISCI did not perform as well as they hoped to, winning 6.6% of vote and 52 out of 440 seats. They did however come second in the election.[15][16][17]
|Seats Won
|Total Seats
|Dhi Qar
|Salah ad-Din
Iranian support
In a BBC interview in London, Ghazi al-Yawar the Sunni Arab sheik, cited reports that Iran sent close to a million people to Iraq and covertly supplied Shiite religious groups with money to help compete in the elections. But U.S. and Iraqi officials say that many of the migrants crossing the largely unmonitored border are Iraqi Shiite families who fled Saddam Hussein's repression, particularly after the failed Shiite uprising that followed the 1991 Gulf war[18]
Supreme Council name change
The Council was formerly known as SCIRI, but in a statement released May 11, 2007 SCIRI officials told Reuters the Islamist party would change its name to reflect what they called the changing situation in Iraq, removing the word "Revolution" because that was seen as a reference to overthrowing the Ba'athist government. "Our name will change to the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. Other things will change as well," said the SCIRI official.[19]
Expressing the council's rejection of the "concept of a civil or sectarian war," the statement accused terrorists, extremists and supporters of Takfiri (accusing someone of unbelief) of causing bloodshed in Iraq.[20]
Prominent figures of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq
- Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim (Leader of the SCIRI from 1982 to 2003)
- Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (Leader of the ISCI and the United Iraqi Alliance from 2003 to 2009)
- Haaris Aziz (Leader of the ISCI since 2009)
- Adil Abdul-Mahdi (Vice President of Iraq)
- Hadi Al-Amiri (Head of Badr Organization and Iraq parliament member)
- Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi (Iraq minister of finance)
- Riad Ghareeb (Iraq minister of municipalities and public works)
- Mahmoud al-Radi (Iraq minister of labour and social affairs)
- Akram al-Hakim (Iraq minister of state for the national dialogue affairs)
- Mohammad Jassem Khodayyir (Ex. Minister for Immigration)
- Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir (Head of the United Iraqi Alliance parliamentary bloc (2009-2010))
- Humam Hamoudi (Iraq parliament member)
- Ridha Jawad Taqi (Iraq parliament member)
- Iman al-Asadi (Iraq parliament member)
See also
- Al Forat Network Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council TV channel
- ↑ Londono, Ernesto (August 27, 2009). "Shiite leader's death roils Iran's politics". The San Francisco Chronicle.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "The Supreme Council Undergoes Broad Changes in the Ranks… Hakim: We Paid a High Price in Previous Elections," al-Rafidayn, Nov. 20, 2011.
- ↑ "Supreme Council Forms New Militia Called 'Knights of Hope'," Aklamkom Forums, Aug. 20, 2011.
- ↑ Bakhash, Shaul, The Reign of the Ayatollahs Basic Books, c1984, p.233
- ↑ The Post-Saddam Danger from Iran, the New Republic, October 7, 2002
- ↑ "Terrorist attacks on Americans, 1979-1988: The attacks, the groups and the U.S. response," Frontline. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ↑ "NOLA.com: The Wire". Retrieved 9 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "National & World News on Newsday.com - Newsday". Newsday. Retrieved 9 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Andrew Buncombe & Patrick Cockburn, "Iraq's death squads: on the brink of civil war," The Independent (Feb. 26, 2006). Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Nasr, Vali, The Shia Revival, (Norton, 2006), p.194
- ↑ Steven Vincent, "Shiites Bring Reigid Piety to Iraq's South", Christian Science Monitor, July 13, 2005
- ↑ "DIRELAND". Retrieved 9 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Dispatches". Channel 4. Retrieved 9 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Nasr, Vali, The Shia Revival, (Norton, 2006), p.195
- ↑ http://www.niqash.org/content.php?contentTypeID=75&id=2395&lang=0
- ↑ http://www.uniraq.org/documents/ElectoralMaterial/IHEC_Preliminary%20Results_Governorate%20Council%20Elections_2009_EN.pdf
- ↑ Joel Wing. "MUSINGS ON IRAQ". Retrieved 9 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Iraqi Shiite with ties to Iran gains top billing World Security Network 16 December 2004
- ↑ Iraq's SCIRI party to change platform - officials, Reuters, 2007-05-11
- ↑ "お寿司のケータリングサービスについて知ろう". Retrieved 9 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
External links
- Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council - Washington, D.C. Bureau
- Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council Homepage (Arabic)
- Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- BBC article on SCIRI
- FAS article on SCIRI
- "Iran sways Iraqis with food, aid". Christian Science Monitor. June 9, 2003.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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Of all the titles and awards that Palm Beach attorney, entrepreneur and philanthropist Brian P. Burns has amassed over the years, the one that perhaps he wears most proudly is that of grandson of a poor immigrant from County Kerry, Ireland.
On American Free Enterprise Day at Palm Beach Atlantic University, Burns told the hundreds of guests gathered in the Rubin Arena the story of his family's progress, considered by many to be a true American success story.
"People that know me well will tell you that I am quite reluctant to speak about myself. On the other hand, I am always happy to talk about my father and my family," said Burns, who is chairman of San Francisco-based BF Enterprises Inc. and who was honored Thursday as the 2012 recipient of the University's prestigious American Free Enterprise medal.
Also honored on Thursday were two companion medalists: Connie Cooper Shepherd, senior vice president of North America Channel Business Development for the Starbucks Company and Donald K. DeWoody Jr., principal of WGCompass Realty Companies.
Burns spoke about his grandfather, who fled poverty in Ireland in 1892 and settled in Boston. When an injury left his grandfather unable to work, Burns said that his then 11-year-old father put his education on hold to help support the family.
His father's intellect, which had allowed him to skip three grades before he was 12, later caught the attention of a local pastor, who helped him finish his education and attend Boston College, Burns said.
"Dad literally feasted on what the Jesuit education offered him, while continuing to work both before and after school to support his family," Burns said.
Burns said his father later attended Harvard Law School and became the youngest professor in the school's history. He then served as a judge until Joseph P. Kennedy selected him to become the first General Counsel to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., Burns said.
Some time later, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst invited him to become his personal attorney. "With seven children, Dad decided to leave government service to represent Mr. Hearst and other nationally important clients, such as CBS, on the west and east coasts," he said.
Burns said that before his father's death at age 56, he encouraged him and his siblings "to believe and get the inspiration that this great country would provide infinite opportunities."
Following in his father's footsteps, Burns also attended Harvard Law School. He became a partner in several leading law firms in San Francisco, and he served as former chairman and chief executive officer of Boothe Financial Corp. and of Robert Half International, Inc.
Burns has had a distinguished career as a practicing attorney. His broad range of business experience has led to his election or appointment to the boards of major corporations, as well as professional, governmental and charitable organizations across the United States as well as in Ireland.
While working as chairman of the finance committee for Kellogg's, Burns visited South Africa during the height of apartheid. He spent several days in Soweto meeting with black South Africans discussing the future of their country, he said.
Afterward, he recommended that his company stay in South Africa and fight apartheid. "At that time that was a very unpopular decision," Burns recalled, although later the company received praise for the move.
"This experience showed me indelibly that many times in business we are reminded of and have a chance to proclaim one of our greatest truths … that all men are created equal."
To help remind PBA students of this, Burns left each one of them a keepsake —a pocket-sized copy of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
"I think this is entirely fitting under this great occasion," Burns said.
Burns was introduced by former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, whose senatorial papers are archived at PBA.
In his remarks, Sen. LeMieux noted that Burns and his wife, Eileen, are the second married couple to receive PBA's highest awards, the American Free Enterprise medal and the Women of Distinction Award. Mrs. Burns received the award in 2011.
Also during the program, PBA President William M.B. Fleming Jr. read a letter from Michael Collins, ambassador of Ireland to the U.S., in which Collins congratulated Burns on his award. Burns has been involved in the peace process in Ireland for nearly 30 years, and he has acquired the largest collection of Irish art outside of that country.
Last year's medalist, H. Wayne Huizenga Jr., read a passage from the Declaration of Independence, and Palm Beach Mayor Gail Coniglio, a former companion medalist, led the Pledge of Allegiance.
This year's companion medalists said they were honored to be chosen. "It's an incredible honor to be a recipient at this spectacular event, and I'm proud and privileged to be a part of it," DeWoody said.
"It's very humbling and reenergizing and makes me think of all the things I should and could do versus the things that I've done," Shepherd said. "It makes me want to do more and give back."
Click here to read a feature on Mr. Burns in the area's major newspaper, The Palm Beach Post.


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Astros down Rangers in AL debut
Houston, TX – The Houston Astros' 4,000th regular-season win in franchise history came in their American League debut.
Rick Ankiel hit a three-run homer and the Astros beat the Texas Rangers, 8-2, to kick off the 2013 MLB season on Sunday night.
Houston, led by rookie manager Bo Porter, had played its first 51 seasons (1962-2012) in the National League. The last time a team swapped leagues and divisions came back in 1998, when the Milwaukee Brewers left the AL Central for its similarly named NL counterpart.
Justin Maxwell went 2-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored for the Astros, who capped their National League run a year ago with a second straight 100- plus loss season. Jose Altuve and Matt Dominguez each had an RBI for the victors.
Houston starter Bud Norris (1-0) gave up two runs on five hits over 5 2/3 innings to pick up the win. The right-hander went 7-13 with a 4.65 ERA last season.
"To sit at 1-0 right now feels pretty darn good, and we've just got to go back out there on Tuesday and play some more baseball," Norris said.
Erik Bedard gave up just one hit over 3 1/3 innings to record his first career save.
David Murphy and Nelson Cruz each had an RBI for the Rangers, who went 93-69 last season before falling to the Baltimore Orioles in the one-game wild card playoff.
Matt Harrison (0-1) allowed six runs -- five earned -- on six hits and fanned nine over 5 2/3 innings to take the loss. Harrison enjoyed a breakout 2012 season, going 18-11 with a 3.29 ERA.
Texas lost Josh Hamilton, Mike Napoli and Michael Young via free agency, but picked up veterans like Lance Berkman and A.J. Pierzynski. Berkman, of course, spent the first 11 1/2 years of his career with the Astros.
"This is the major leagues, and any team is capable of beating any other team on a given night," Berkman said.
The Astros scored a pair of runs in the fourth. Brett Wallace hit a one-out single to center, moved to second on Carlos Pena's single to left-center field and scored on Maxwell's triple off the top of the left-field wall.
Houston tacked on two more runs during its next at-bat. With Brandon Barnes on first, Ronny Cedeno hit a single to right. Cruz's fielding error allowed Barnes to score and Cedeno to make it to third. Altuve followed with an RBI single to right-center field, making it 4-0.
Texas got two runs back in the sixth. Ian Kinsler and Lance Berkman singled to put runners on the corners. Adrian Beltre lined out to Norris for the second out. Murphy and Cruz followed with consecutive RBI singles. Bedard took over for Norris and retired A.J. Pierzynski to keep it 4-2.
But the Astros gained some breathing room in the bottom half on Ankiel's three-run homer. Maxwell and Dominguez walked to put runners on first and second with two outs. Derek Lowe came in from the bullpen and pinch-hitter Ankiel greeted him with a blast to right, making it 7-2. It was Ankiel's first at-bat in an Astros uniform.
Dominguez's RBI single in the eighth made it 8-2.
Game Notes
These teams have a day off Monday before resuming the series on Tuesday ... The Astros, who earned their first Opening Day victory since 2006, improved to 24-28 all-time in season openers ... Texas fell to 21-21 overall on Opening Day ... Porter is the youngest manager in baseball at 40 years old ... NFL Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt of the Houston Texans threw out the first pitch ... Berkman had two hits ... Maxwell had two triples.


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Kaspar turned one this past Friday! We had a big party, and a fantastic time. Turning one is a big deal. Maybe each of our kids' birthdays is a big deal, though, reminding us of the day when-- after much anticipation-- they arrived safely in our arms, changing our lives forever. I was choked up for days leading up to Kaspar's birthday. On Thursday night, after I'd put him to bed and settled down to supposedly get some work done, I just plain couldn't take it anymore… I spent the time I'd reserved for work curating a selection of photos from the past year for a shamelessly self-indulgent Facebook album (what else is Facebook for, after all?). I've aired some of the year's highlights, of course, right here on this blog along the way: remember this? Woah, right?! Then this, the very next day!
Of course we think everything about Kaspar is incredible, but looking through our photos, I was awestruck not only by how much he's grown and changed in this year— which on one hand feels like the blink of an eye, and on the other feels like a lifetime — but also by the countless other people who appear in our photos. Aaron and I feature prominently, of course, but we also have image after image of our friends and family holding Kaspar, smiling at him, loving him. From Brooklyn to Texas and everywhere in-between (and around the world—what's up Amoreena?), Kaspar has people—good people-- who know and love him, and who've made a point to be a part of his life. Which brings me to the first wisdom-nugget from year one:
Babies bring out the best in people (and, as it turns out, the best in people is pretty darn good). Now, I believe that our friends and family are good people with or without a baby in the room, but what I mean by 'the best' is that little light that switches on in people's eyes when they're talking to a new and little person who can't yet talk back. I know this is nature's way of keeping the species going and all, but there's something magical about the way everyone—friends and strangers alike—smiles before a baby, lets go of pretense, defense, or self-consciousness of whatever variety, and starts up a nonsense conversation. The love that our friends and family have showered onto our little man is astounding. I feel so lucky that our kiddo has such a rockin' "village" raising him up. The sweet nothings, passing blessings and random fits of babble-talk that people we don't know have directed towards him, too, have been an unexpected perk that has restored, or rather confirmed, my belief in humanity.
Going through Kaspar's photos, too, I was briefly transported back to the moment each image was shot. It was fascinating to revisit, say, our first hours with him, in the hospital— I was in love, and vaguely terrified— with the perspective that I now have at the one-year mark (still head-over-heels, no longer terrified).
I remember thinking, after giving birth, 'Wow, I'm a total badass!'; I gave birth to a baby! That seriously HURT! I thought midway through that perhaps I wasn't up to the task, but I did it—that baby got born! In this same way, we've taken numerous big steps into the unknown this year, individually and as a family, and I'm continually amazed by what we're capable of doing… and by what we're willing to try. When did we become so brave? From a major relocation, to making professional strides, to finding our way around all things first-year parenting (no childcare? No breast milk? No wheat/soy/dairy/eggs/nuts? No problem!), we're doing it. I've admittedly always been an overachiever, but this evolving willingness to embrace change and challenge—without undo fear of failure-- has everything to do with parenting. There is no real failure in parenting; you get the big stuff right (the stuff that keeps the kid alive), and the rest is trial and error until you land upon what works best (no quitters in parenting, either). And who better to model this ingenious human characteristic than our babies themselves? Watching Kaspar willingly, even happily, fall down as many times as it takes to eventually stand up is a great lesson. "What if I can't stand up?" doesn't seem to be an issue for him. He just goes for it until he gets it. So, nugget number two: We are capable of everything we believe ourselves to be. Whatever it is-- go for it. Falling down is inconsequential.
What struck me most about Kaspar's first year in photos, however, was his ever-present smile. I notice this every day-- I wake up to Kaspar's smiling face, one inch from my own-- but seeing a year's worth of baby grins in just over an hour imparted an unexpected lesson that I'm taking to heart. Like most moms, I've worried about all kinds of potential hazards to my child. He's in the sandbox, and I'm saying "Ooooo sand!" but looking out for glass. I've worried endlessly about his eczema, but he, for the most part, has smiled and laughed right on through it. This was blatantly obvious in his photos, some of which show eczema on his face, and some of which don't… but the smile—that's a constant. This kid is having a great time. I'm no less determined to take the eczema down (and it is sooooo much better now than it was), but I know Kaspar's right-on with this third nugget: Life is fun! Don't worry. (Eat cake).
So, there you have it. The Tao of Kaspar. If you're in to taping things up on your bathroom mirror, go ahead and slap these nuggets up there, and/or share your own below—what life lessons have your kids taught you as they grow? Did rounding the corner on the first year make you realize anything about yourself that helped you, as a parent and a person, going forward? What most amazes you about your children each day?
Thanks for sharing in this past year with us-- for all of your tips, ideas and stories. I'm so looking forward to sharing year two with you, too.


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The Walking dead style: I'll sleep with my best friend's wife.
I'll probably try my best. However my moral compass will change for the worse.
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Well, since i live in america i don't have to really worry... since there are not to many brains to eat around here...
I will smith and fletch my own weapons and armor. Build an impromptu stronghold on a bridge likely using cars and sheetmetal. Only until I can make my way down river to the coast where I can collect enough people to build a walled city (not a shanty wall either I'm talking about concrete/brick and mortar). There I will ply my craft as a blacksmith and forever set myself up as indespensible in the community.
Japanese swords. Guns run out of ammo fast, swords just need resharpening. That's about it really, swords will do...
When the zombies come I am knocking a hole in my wall so we can shore up with my neighbor and his sword collection. Occasionally we will take the rope ladder off the balcony to make supply runs to the grocery store a block away. We will stock up on hunting supplies at Dick's Sporting Goods down the road in Buckhead, and after I secure a Bobcat (with a caged seating area) and equip it with a spiral-bladed snow plow, I'll take a trip down the street to the CDC.
The same thing we do every night, Pinky...
How do you run out of food in the zombie apocalypse? There's billions of dead walking food already. Completely sanitary, just make sure to thoroughly sear the meat so that you made sure to kill the virus. Yum!
Ooh, I love this question!
Well, first I'd gather all the food and drinks I have in the house, quickly grab some type of bag (maybe the one that goes on your back with strings or a backpack), meet up with my family, take my cats and RUN!
I'd probably camp out in somewhere where you can't be trapped... hmm... my house would be horrible for that. I would probably camp out in tacobell or something, lol.
For a weapon I'd take my brother's baseball bat. We have no guns in our house. I'd also bring a frying pan.
Oh, can't forget coca cola either.
Enoshima BOWL!
kill zombies and do the same way they do it in the walking dead
ninja girls rulz
Don't have one. Just try to survive. That's all I gotta say.
Never mind now
Keep calm and kill zombies.
Vice searching for Virtue
Stay home and watching anime as always.
Like anyone would run up in the street and trip on the ground or getting caught and gets eaten. Come on, even you're outside you are way much more agile than the zombies. Risking your life to fight zombies, or try to find weapons like in video games or movies like it's that easy to find.
Plenty food in the fridge to survive about 4 months.
In no time the military comes in the kind of suit that can fully cover your whole body like this:
Soo.... It would just be a normal and a chilling day for me except there some weird moans outside.
Hiatus? Sounds like some heavy sickness of some sort. Huh? A Break? Oh okay.
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Ghost Lines: 3rd Age Rail Map
Friday, January 25, 2013Here's the map we're using in our game.
You might want to make your own, but if not, click on the preview for a printable hi-res version.
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6 Comments:Argent says:
Absolutely beautiful (as is the case, honestly, of all your stuff but especially Ghostlines). May I ask what tools you used to make it? Currently writing a game myself, so I've started to develop a curiosity for these things...
John Harper says:
The islands, rails, and text were done in Illustrator. Then brought it into Photoshop for the paper texture.
김유근 says:
I think I know what I am going to play this weekend with my friends. :D My friends were complaining about the rules I am making cuz they played at least 7 times by now.
By the way I created another hack of Ghost/Echo. Kinda same as ZeroOne but it seems too... similar on setting wise, and hard for GM since he or she had to create entire world (server). So I made new hacks - with the good and old fantasy setting.
John Harper says:
Oh, wow, that's cool! I love the setup for UnZombify.
Do you consider the Icons mechanism from the 13th Age rpg with one Icon per Electro-rail? This tool is fairly simple to integrate and could give substance to the 12 rail lines. Their relationship with people of each line could be handled in this way?
Senexis says:
Ok, I know, threadromancy - but I've only just discovered this game.
One question: what is the significance of the red rail lines over the black? Concentrations of Ghosts?
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Confirming rumors that emerged this summer, Square-Enix tells us that we can soon expect high-definition re-releases of the earlier games in the Hitman franchise. Both Hitman Trilogy HD and Hitman Trilogy HD Premium Edition are slated to arrive January 29, for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, respectively. The compilations will feature:
- 3 classic Hitman titles remastered in HD
- Hitman Contracts
- Hitman 2 Silent Assassin
- Hitman Blood Money
Additionally, the Premium Edition for Xbox 360 also has:
- Exclusive Art Book for Limited Edition version (first run version) 22 pieces of never before seen reinterpretations of classic moments from Hitman Contracts, Hitman 2 Silent Assassin, and Hitman Blood Money all done by top artists.
The packs are priced at $39.99 each. There's been no word on a PC version thus far.


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A renowned French orchestrator and composer of "Symphonie fantastique" (1830) and opera, vocal, and choral music. Berlioz continued to influence romantics through the late 19th and early 20th centuries with monumental yet graceful orchestrations. He was the embodiment of the romantic sensibility -- idealism, a tendency toward pastoral reverie and the macabre, infatuation with the ideal lover (as reflected in the recurrent "theme of the beloved" in the "Symphonie fantastique"), and a wild, Byronesque lifestyle (the "Symphonie" is built around a program based on DeQuincey's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater"). A great love of nature infuses "Harold in Italy," and great terror and grandeur is expressed in his "Te Deum." He revived pure modal tonalities from French folk music, combining them with the turbulence of chromaticism to express the spirit of his revolutionary age. One of the greatest of all melodies, "D'amour l'ardente flamme" ("The ardent flame of love"), occurs within a landscape of dramatic gesture in "La Damnation de Faust." ~ Blue Gene Tyranny
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Milling on the West Fork of the Red River
Barker's Mill, on the West Fork of the Red River, was one of several mills that once operated on the river in that area. Other nearby mills included Coleman's Mill, Ringgold Mill, and Peacher's Mill.
The Barker's Mill Bridge, where I stood in mid-April to take the photo at the top of this post, is on Barker's Mill Road in extreme southeastern Christian County. Stone structures can be seen on both sides of the river. These were probably anchors for a dam.
Dates and owners
The exact construction date of Barker's Mill is unclear. Western KY History's history of Barker's Mill says that the mill had been in operation at least 20 years before 1860. Kentucky Genealogy's history of Trenton precinct is a little more specific. It says that the mill is believed to have been in operation as early as 1812.
A biography of Thomas S. Watson mentions that he was an early owner of the mill. Watson was a Tennessean who had a brief business partnership with Andrew Jackson in the Nashville area before investing in milling and ironworks along the West Fork.
[Thomas S. Watson] became owner of Barker's Mill on the West Fork of the Red River in Christian County, Kentucky by 1815; and he also built, about 1816, what later became known as Peacher's Mill in Montgomery County, Tennessee. (Source)
A historic marker, erected in 2005 by "relatives of former residents of the West Fork community" at the nearby Chapel Hill Methodist Church gives this information:
The water mill, built in 1812 by Bailey Martin, was located on West Fork downstream from a covered (later iron, now concrete) bridge. Later mill owners were: Stephen Woodward, 1826; James Miller, 1826; John T. Allensworth, 1841, Richard H. Kelly, 1853; Peter Peacher, 1859; Chiles T. Barker, 1860; and his son John W. Barker, 1884, hence the current community name, Barker's Mill. The mill operated until the late 1920s and was torn down after 1937. For a time it was known as "Glenburnie Mills.
A photograph of Barker's Mill is included in Christian County by Chris Gilkey and William Turner. These authors note that the mill was closed about 1910, but was not torn down until 1937 after a flood.
Wooden mills, gone but not forgotten
Despite the various disagreements about dates, it seems that a mill operated for about a century in a site near the Barker's Mill Bridge. It's certain that the mill was renovated or rebuilt several times within those years. The wheels of mills like this were made of wood, as were their gears. The sluices that channeled water to the wheel were also wooden.
When steam engines (and later, gasoline motors and electricity) became available for power to grind grain, watermills were abandoned. Most mills were torn down, fell down, or rotted away. They are still remembered in the names of the roads that once led to them -- such as the Barker's Mill Road of Christian County, Kentucky.
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Stonington board restores portion of cuts to proposed school budget
Stonington — The Board of Finance voted 4-2 Monday night to restore $270,000 of the $525,000 it cut from the proposed 2014-15 school budget, despite hundreds of residents urging them to restore the entire amount at last week's public hearing.
Just one board member, Bryan Bentz, suggested restoring the entire amount and letting residents vote on it at the upcoming referendum, echoing many of last week's speakers.
The decision angered those who attended the hearing and Monday's meeting.
"We asked them to give us a chance to pass it, but they said no," parent Sarah Lewandowski said.
After the vote, school board Chairman Frank Todisco said he had thought there was a good chance the finance board was going to restore all the money and let the voters decide.
He said the school board will wait until after the budget referendum to decide how to cut the money.
The finance board originally cut $663,000 from the $1 million school budget increase. That cut was then lowered to $525,000 because of projected savings in health insurance costs.
With the finance board restoring $270,000 and then transferring the state-funded $65,000 magnet school transportation bill out of the school budget, the cut to the original proposed increase now stands at $190,000.
If the finance board's budget were passed, the proposed $34.3 million school budget would increase $539,161.
School officials, however, say they need an increase of $1 million to provide the current level of education because of increases in staff salaries and health insurance, fuel, utilities, special education tuition and other costs.
The finance board also agreed to add $25,000 to the Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center budget; $25,000 for seasonal workers to maintain the new fields at the high school; $5,000 more for the Westerly and Mystic & Noank libraries; and $10,000 more for the Stonington Free Library. The three ambulance companies that serve the town would receive an additional $1,000 each.
In total, the board restored $343,000 to the budget, half of which would be taken from the town's approximately $11 million undesignated fund balance to offset the tax increase.
The $58.5 million budget now calls for a 1 percent increase and would raise taxes by 0.55 mills to 20.43.
Todisco said the Monday meeting in which the finance board asked questions about the cost of a teaching position was why he suggested a joint meeting between the school and finance boards, to explain the school system's request before the budget deliberations began.
"We were willing to sit down and talk to them, but they said no," Todisco said.
After the vote, O'Brien said he felt the board had come up with a fair budget that everyone can support. Board members Sandy Grimes and Dudley Wheeler opposed the budget. Grimes did not want a tax increase of more than the originally proposed 0.49 mills, while Wheeler wanted to restore $175,000 to the school budget.
Some residents also were upset that the board did not answer the questions they had posed at last week's hearing.
Finance board Chairman John O'Brien said he would review a transcript of the nearly 3½-hour hearing and would compile a list of answers, which he then would distribute.
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