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North Carolina Historic Sites, a group of 27 unique state historic sites, invites you to open doors into the past and more fully understand the world we live in today. Whether you live in North Carolina or are just visiting, our sites will pique the imagination, stir the mind, and lift the spirit.
Here in 1771, an armed rebellion of backcountry farmers called Regulators battled with royal governor William Tryon's militia. Visit Alamance Battleground
Charles B. Aycock was elected governor in 1900. He dedicated himself to improving public education in North Carolina. Visit Aycock Birthplace
European settlement near the Pamlico River in the 1690s led to the founding of Bath, North Carolina's first town, in 1705. Visit Historic Bath
This simple farmhouse was the site of the largest troop surrender of the American Civil War. Visit Bennett Place
The largest Civil War battle fought in North Carolina was the only significant attempt to defeat Gen. William T. Sherman during his march through the Carolinas. Visit Bentonville Battlefield
A major pre-Revolutionary port, Brunswick was razed by British troops in 1776. Fort Anderson was constructed atop the old village site. Visit Brunswick Town/Ft. Anderson
Explore African American history, women's history, social history, education, and the contributions African Americans have made in North Carolina. Visit the Museum
Glimpses into two of our nation's most pivotal wars can be found in one historic site within the city of Kinston. Visit the CSS Neuse/Governor Caswell Memorial
See the early home, factories, and farm where Washington Duke first grew and processed tobacco. Visit Duke Homestead
The state's first colonial capital was incorporated in 1722. Edenton features an extensive historic district with architectural styles spanning 250 years. Visit Historic Edenton
Ft. Dobbs is the only North Carolina state historic site associated with the French and Indian War and the only one located along the official colonial frontier. Visit Ft. Dobbs
Until the last few months of the Civil War, Ft. Fisher kept North Carolina's port of Wilmington open to blockade-runners supplying necessary goods to Confederate armies. Visit Ft. Fisher
On April 12, 1776, North Carolina's Fourth Provincial Congress unanimously adopted the "Halifax Resolves," the first official action by an entire colony recommending independence from England. Visit Historic Halifax
Programs ranging from old fashioned ice cream socials to an annual corn shucking frolic provide unique opportunities to learn about our rural past. Visit Horne Creek Living Historical Farm
The house was owned by Philip Alston, whose band of colonists was attacked here in 1781 during the American Revolution by British loyalists. Visit House in the Horseshoe
Musuem visitors can see an authentic train depot, antique automobiles, and a roundhouse with 25 locomotives. Visit the Transportation Museum
The Battleship North Carolina beckons visitors to walk her decks and envision daily life as well as fierce combat that her crew faced during World War II. Visit the USS North Carolina
This site is located on land once owned by the parents of James K. Polk, the 11th U.S. president. The site commemorates significant events in the Polk administration. Visit President James K. Polk
Reed Gold Mine is the site of the first documented gold find in the United States. The estimated value of gold recovered reached over one million dollars a year. Visit Reed Gold Mine
Roanoke Island Festival Park is a 27-acre state historic site and cultural center celebrating history, education, and the arts. Visit Roanoke Island Festival Park
Somerset Place offers a comprehensive and realistic view of 19th-century life on a large North Carolina plantation. Visit Somerset Place
On this land stand the late 18th-century Bennehan House, four rare slave houses, a pre-Revolutionary War farmer's house, a huge timber framed barn, and the Bennehan Family cemetery. Visit Historic Stagville
The North Carolina State Capitol, completed in 1840, is one of the finest and best-preserved examples of a major civic building in the Greek Revival style of architecture. Visit the State Capitol
Town Creek, situated on Little River, has been the focus of a consistent program of archaeology for more than half a century. Visit Town Creek Indian Mound
Meticulously reconstructed in the 1950's, the original Tryon Palace was built between 1767 and 1770 for colonial Governor Tryon as the first permanent capitol of North Carolina. Visit Tryon Palace
This pioneer farmstead features the birthplace of Zebulon Baird Vance – Civil War officer, North Carolina governor, and U.S. senator. Visit Vance Birthplace
Thomas Wolfe left an indelible mark on American letters. His mother's boardinghouse in Asheville, North Carolina has become one of literature's most famous landmarks. Visit Wolfe Memorial
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Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) has launched a Web site for users of the smartphones dedicated to the latest news about Earth Hour. Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007 and is an annual WWF event that encourages individuals and businesses to switch off their lights for an hour.
The Web site, which is only accessible using select BlackBerry handsets, gives users the ability to get the latest news and videos about Earth Hour as well connect to the event's profiles on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
"I hope that BlackBerry users take the opportunity to experience the Earth Hour site and demonstrate their support for Earth in the fight against global warming", said RIM's Antoinette Trovato.
Only owners of the BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Curve, BlackBerry Curve 8900, BlackBerry 8800 and BlackBerry Pearl smartphones will be able to access the Web site. Attempting to access the website with an older BlackBerry or a computer-based Web browser leads to an apology screen with a link to http://www.earthour.org.
Almost 1900 cities in 81 countries are participating in this year's event, with Earth Hour organisers claiming that more than 50 million people participated in 2008.

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Residents who sustained substantial damage to their homes during the April 18 flooding may be eligible for some relief.
The process they'll have to go through to seek reductions in their property assessments, though, will vary on where they live.
Property owners in Lyons Township will have 30 days to file an appeal of their assessment with the Cook County assessor's office starting toward the end of the month, said Maura Kownacki, spokeswoman for Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios. But the deadline for filing for assessment reduction with the assessor's office expired Feb. 28 for people who live in Riverside Township, so they'll have to file an assessment appeal with the Cook County Board of Review, she said.
Berrios will hold outreach sessions in townships throughout Cook County to help property owners understand the process of filing for a reduction in their assessment, Kownacki said. These sessions are being timed to coincide with the period in each township for homeowners to file an appeal to their assessment, she said.
"A property owner who experiences severe damage to his or her home or building as a result of flooding is eligible for an assessment reduction if the damage is substantial enough to adversely affect the property value," according to information from Berrios' office. "The type of damage that would affect the overall value would include, for example, physical or structural damage to the foundation or walls, the flooring in the living area, or central heating and air conditioning units, electrical or plumbing systems, drywall and insulation, and mold-related problems."
Municipal officials said they have been working with residents who experienced substantial flooding during the heavy rains three weeks ago to complete the proper forms in seeking some kind of government assistance.
Brookfield Village Manager Riccardo Ginnex said there are several sections of town that sustained flooding in the recent rainstorm. These include the 3600 block of Forest Avenue, 31st Street and Prairie Avenue, the 3800 block of Grove Avenue, and Washington and Prairie avenues, he said.
"All those are pretty low areas," Ginnex said, noting that they are near Salt Creek. "So far, we've spent about $22,000 in services as a result of the flooding. But we've also been picking up garbage for two weeks, so the amount we spend on this will increase."
Ginnex said representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency were scheduled to visit Brookfield last week, but he is not aware if they came.
Peter Scalera, village manager for Riverside, said some of the worst flooding there occurred in homes on West, Groveland and Pine avenues near the Forest Avenue bridge as well as in homes along Maplewood Road that back up to Des Plaines River.
"We did have a number of homes that experienced flooding, but not to the degree of towns like Forest View or Des Plaines," Scalera said. "The Cook County Homeland Security office worked with municipalities. They did a callout the night before the storm came into the area to notify people that a storm was on the way."
Cook County Commissioner Jeff Tobolski, D-16th District, of McCook said he has been working with the Cook County Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to develop a multi-hazard disaster mitigation plan for two years. He said it's crucial that local community leaders understand the process involved for people to receive government help. This has improved over a previous major flood when some people missed a deadline for completing forms.
Tobolski, who also serves as the mayor of McCook, said that effective communication is crucial to ensure that people impacted by natural disasters receive the assistance they need. For this to happen, county officials should continue working with community leaders and the mitigation plan must be completed, he said. Masters told Cook County officials that he intends to finalize his plan by the end of the year, Tobolski said.


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Google's Street View Is All Up In Your Driveway Looking At Your Basketball Hoop
A Pittsburgh couple has sued Google seeking the removal of photographs that were a little to up close and personal for their tastes.
The couple, Aaron and Catherine Boring, have succeeded in getting the photos yanked from the site, but the industrious minds over at the Smoking Gun found another even more intrusive set of photos taken by the search giant.
The home of Janet and George McKee is the only property on Goldenbrook Lane, a narrow, gravel path off Oakleaf Lane, a two-way street. The McKee residence is at the end of Goldenbrook Lane, which the family was able to name at the time their home was built in 1993. As the "Street View" images show, a Google vehicle–outfitted with a roof-mounted camera taking 360-degree images–drove down the gravel path and onto the paved driveway leading to the McKee home. The Google car continued past the steps leading to the McKees's front door and came to a stop outside the house's three-car garage (and next to the family's trampoline and portable basketball rim). Taking photos all the time, the Google vehicle was squarely on private property, a fact that presumably should have been apparent when the gravel path became paved.
Janet McKee, who was unaware of the "Street View" images until contacted by TSG, said that it was "a little bit creepy to think of someone filming our home without me knowing about it."
And it was probably even creepier when the Smoking Gun called to compliment her on the family basketball hoop.
Oh, who the hell are we kidding. We're just looking for an excuse to post this picture again.
Google Street View, you are the source of endless amusement.
Warning: Google Is In Your Driveway! [The Smoking Gun]
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A thief snatched a family's pram while they were enjoying an activity at Matlock Bath's Heights of Abraham.
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard how thief David Haines, 41, swapped his broken pram for the expensive Quinny Buzz Stroller.
Prosecuting solicitor Angela Hadfield said: "Haines and his partner attended the Heights of Abraham and they had a pushchair. Heights of Abraham has activities and one requires you to leave any pushchairs outside.
"The Quinny Buzz pushchair had been left outside by a family and the defendant was observing the area and he swapped the cheap pushchair with the expensive one and walked out of the grounds with it."
Haines, of Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to theft after the incident on August 3. Defence solicitor Dean Bower said Haines only intended to borrow the pushchair and travelled back to Matlock Bath from Nottingham in an attempt to return it but the park was closed.
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Do you know whether the search engines, whose crawlers and spiders scour the Web for text to index, can read your site?
Recently I was consulting on the creation of a Web site for a visual artist. The Web designer wanted the text to be rendered in a beautiful font, but the only way to control that was by setting the text in a graphic--essentially turning it into a picture. That means all the text throughout the site would be images, even if users see words.
What my client didn't know was that text rendered as a graphic is unsearchable by users who may want to search a page for a particular word or topic, and unindexable by search engines that control where you come up in the rankings. And although the designer knew these things, his goal was to create a good-looking site. He was ready to sacrifice function for form.
After much debate, we decided to err on the side of function and chose a Web-friendly font (Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana and Helvetica are a few).
So here's the tip: For optimum usability, make sure the majority of your text is rendered as html text, not as graphics. Graphics are fine for headlines, but don't use them for entire blocks of text.
Ilise Benun is the author of Designing Web Sites for Every Audience and director of New Jersey-based consultancy Creative Marketing and Management.
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When everything flows together oh so perfectly, my wedding loving heart skips a beat - and that's exactly what happened as I soaked up all the seamless beauty of this stunning spring soiree. From the dress to the flowers (courtesy of The Little Branch) to the La Tavola linens, it's all on point - thanks to Callista & Company's perfect planning. Brooke Borough captured every beautiful bit - head to our gallery for more!
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Luxury homeowners are challenging architects and builders to create homes that are both attractive and accessible to the disabled.
When constructing Robert Weidenaar's custom-built home in Frankfort, Ill., builders made a mold of the homeowner's back to craft a concrete shower bench tailored to his dimensions. The bench is molded on the sides to perfectly fit his hands, eliminating the need for traditional grab bars. With the flip of a switch, he can fill the room with steam and warm the bench a few minutes before he goes in.
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Electronic Arts has plenty of Spore planned for 2009, as it revealed in January. Two Spore Hero games, one for the Nintendo DS, the other for the Wii have been under wraps until now.
EA shared details on the Wii version of Spore Hero with MTV Multiplayer, pointing out that it's not just a down-rezzed down port of the original Spore for Windows and Mac. It's actually more limited in scope, focusing mostly on the game's Creature stage, seemingly bypassing much of the late-game events.
"It takes advantage of the controls explicitly. And even stylistically, when you see the game, you'll go, 'Oh yeah, that's definitely a Nintendo Wii game,'" EA's Lucy Bradshaw tells MTV. We're not sure if that's a good or bad thing just yet, but EA had us prepared early, saying in the original Spore Hero press release that it "takes players on an exciting adventure through a beautiful, colorful world."
Expect some serious motion control evolutionary fun, as MTV stresses that Spore Hero features "heavy" amounts of motion control. That plus Spore penis monsters is sure to make headlines somewhere.
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Institutional Investor Releases Its 2013 All Europe Fixed- Income Research Team Survey Results
Institutional Investor releases results of its 2013 All Europe Fixed - Income Research Team survey. J.P. Morgan captures the top spot in the ranking for a third year running, while Barclays repeats at No. 2.
Feb 12, 2013, 01:00 ET
TRENTON, N.J., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Institutional Investor has released the results of its 2013 All Europe Fixed - Income Research Team survey. J.P. Morgan captures the top spot in the ranking for a third year running, while Barclays repeats at No. 2. Complete survey results can be found by visiting, http://bit.ly/12o7eMB.
Europe's ongoing sovereign-debt crisis has driven demand for sell-side Investment research — and helped fuel voter participation in this year's survey. Nearly 800 investment professionals from some 380 buy-side institutions cast votes; those figures are up approximately 45 percent and 27 percent, respectively, from 2012.
Each of this year's top five firms — J.P. Morgan, Barclays, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley, respectively — captures more total team positions this year than they did in 2012. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the real standout; its team-position total more than doubled, from six to 13. This year's results also include two firms making their first appearance on the All-Europe Fixed-Income Research Team: Credit Agricole Corporate Investment Bank (tied for No. 10) and UniCredit (No. 13).
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"People might think that we set out to reinvent the circus, and then just did it. But things did not happened that way. We were a bunch of crazy people who wanted to do things, and little by little we came to a vision of what the modern circus could be."
René Dupéré, music composer for 10 Cirque du Soleil shows
Embryonic beginnings
In the early 1980s, a troupe of performers founded by Gilles Ste-Croix took to the streets of Baie-Saint-Paul, a charming village on the shores of the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City. Les Échassiers de Baie-Saint-Paul (The Stiltwalkers of Baie-Saint-Paul) – including one Guy Laliberté – juggled, danced, breathed fire and played music, to the delight of locals and visitors.
Born in a celebration
Guy Laliberté saw Quebec's celebration of the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's discovery of Canada as an opportunity to take the troupe on an official province-wide tour in 1984. The show was a striking, dramatic mix of circus arts (without animals) and street performance that featured wild, outrageous costumes, magical lighting, and original music. He dubbed it Cirque du Soleil because, in his own words, "The sun symbolizes youth, energy, and strength."
The turning point
Cirque du Soleil visited the US for the first time in 1987. We Reinvent the Circus wowed Los Angeles Festival audiences and media alike with its unique combination of set design, theater-in-the-round, and audience involvement – both physically and imaginatively – and marked the refinement of the creative process that still drives the creation of every new Cirque du Soleil show. It not only played to astonished sell-out crowds in San Diego and Santa Monica, but also spearheaded Cirque du Soleil's initial 1990 foray into Europe with performances in London and Paris.
A milestone in the desert
1993's Mystère became the first permanent Cirque du Soleil show, performed in a Las Vegas theater built to its specifications. Over two decades later, Mystère is still going strong, and led the way for a huge variety of other permanent Las Vegas shows. Cirque du Soleil was here to stay, and in the following years conquered Asia, Europe, and South America with a series of new creations that tour the world in large arenas or under the big top.
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[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 112th Congress] [112nd Congress] [House Document 111-157] [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice] [Pages 154-157] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov] sec. xi--committees
|Sec. 317. Appointment of standing committees; and designation and duties of chairs thereof.
|Standing committees, as of Privileges and Elections, &c., are usually appointed at the first meeting, to continue through the session. The person first named is generally permitted to act as chairman. But this is a matter of courtesy; every committee having a right to elect their own chairman, who presides over them, puts questions, and reports their proceedings to the House. 4 inst., 11, 12; Scob., 9; 1 Grey, 122.
|Sec. 318. Parliamentary law as to debate in standing and select committees.
|At these committees the members are to speak standing, and not sitting; though there is reason to conjecture it was formerly otherwise. D'Ewes, 630, col. 1; 4 Parl. Hist., 440; 2 Hats., 77.
|Sec. 319. Secrecy of committee procedure.
|Their proceedings are not to be published, as they are of no force till confirmed by the House. Rushw., part 3, vol. 2, 74; 3 Grey, 401; Scob., 39.* * *
|Sec. 320. Reception of petitions by committees.
|Under clause 2 of rule XI, all hearings and business meetings conducted by standing committees shall be open to the public, except when a committee, in open session, by record vote, with a majority present, determines to close the meeting or hearing for that day for the reasons stated in that clause. In addition, clause 2(k) of rule XI establishes a procedure for closing a hearing because of defamatory, degrading, or incriminating testimony. Clause 11(d) of rule X establishes special rules governing the closing of hearings of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. * * * Nor can they receive a petition but through the House. 9 Grey, 412.
|Sec. 321. Parliamentary law of procedure when a committee inquiry involves a Member.
|When a committee is charged with an inquiry, if a Member prove to be involved, they can not proceed against him but must make a special report to the House; whereupon the Member is heard in his place, or at the bar, or a special authority is given to the committee to inquire concerning him. 9 Grey, 523.
|Sec. 322. Practice of House when a committee inquiry involves a Member.
|Although the authority of this principle has not been questioned by the House, there have in special instances been deviations from it. Thus, in 1832, when a Member had been slain in a duel, and the fact was notorious that all the principals and seconds were Members of the House, the committee, charged only with investigating the causes and whether or not there had been a breach of privilege, reported with their findings recommendations for expulsion and censure of the Members found to be implicated. There was criticism of this method of procedure as deviating from the rule of Jefferson's Manual, but the House did not recommit the report (II, 1644). In 1857, when a committee charged with inquiring into accusations against Members not named found certain Members implicated, they gave them copies of the testimony and opportunities to explain to the committee, under oath or otherwise, as they individually might prefer (III, 1845), but reported recommendations for expulsion without first seeking the order of the House (II, 1275; III, 1844). In 1859 and 1892 a similar procedure occurred (III, 1831, 2637). But the House, in a case wherein an inquiry had incidentally involved a Member, evidently considered the parliamentary law as applicable, because it admitted as of privilege and agreed to a resolution directing the committee to report the charges (III, 1843). And in cases wherein testimony taken before a joint committee incidentally impeached the official characters of a Member and a Senator, the facts in each case were reported to the House interested (III, 1854). A select committee, appointed to report upon the right of a Member-elect to be sworn (H. Res. 1, 90th Cong., pp. 14-27, Jan. 10, 1967), invited him to appear, to testify, and permitted him to be accompanied by counsel (see H. Rept. 90-27).
|Sec. 323. Inquiries involving Members of other House.
|And where one House, by a committee, has found a Member of the other implicated, the testimony has been transmitted (II, 1276; III, 1850, 1852, 1853). Where such testimony was taken in open session of the committee, it was not thought necessary that it be under seal when sent to the other House (III, 1851).
|Sec. 324. Duty of chair of a committee when the House sits.
|So soon as the House sits, and a committee is notified of it, the chairman is in duty bound to rise instantly, and the members to attend the service of the House. 2 Nals., 319.
|Sec. 325. Action of joint committees.
|It appears that on joint committees of the Lords and Commons each committee acted integrally in the following instances: 7 Grey, 261, 278, 285, 338; 1 Chandler, 357, 462. In the following instances it does not appear whether they did or not: 6 Grey, 129; 7 Grey, 213, 229, 321.


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The Art Institute of Chicago with its contemporary, sleek design proved the perfect venue for a celebration inspired by a modern English garden. Planned by Estera Events, this day is awash with topiary greens and romantic garden blooms all crafted by Exquisite Designs. Take a peek at the stunning imagery by Kyle John Photography that's putting a fresh twist on your typical garden wedding.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) The San Diego Chargers have released outside linebacker Larry English, a former first-round pick.
San Diego parted ways with English on Tuesday. He was limited to nine games last year, including five starts in place of Dwight Freeney, because of a pectoral injury he had after sacking Peyton Manning in a loss to Denver.
The Chargers drafted him 16th overall in 2009 and he played in all 16 games as a rookie. He played in just 13 games over the next two years because of foot injuries. English has 11 career sacks in 52 games, nine starts, over his five-year career.
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The Pocono Record salutes the state Supreme Court for a recent ruling that coroners cannot withhold information about the cause and manner of deaths until after the end of each year.
The high court ruled 5-1 in favor of a south-central Pennsylvania television station whose request for information relating to the death of a Shippensburg University football player that the Cumberland County coroner had denied.
Earlier rulings by a county judge, the Office of Open Records and Commonwealth Court had supported the coroner, citing a provision of the Coroner's Act that calls for coroner records to be made public for each year by the end of the following January. Before that deadline, coroners at their discretion could limit what information they provided to the deceased's name, cause and manner of death.
The high court concluded that public access requirements under the state's Right-to-Know Law do not conflict with coroner law, meaning that the records should be more immediately available. The TV station had sought information about 19-year-old Thomas Rainey's April 2009 death inside his apartment. Authorities had said Rainey's death was not suspicious.
Pennsylvania's coroners have used the Coroner's Law in a paternalistic way to limit or outright deny citizens access to public records. This is the "father knows best" approach: The coroner knows what is appropriate for the public to know. Other times, coroners wish to avert scrutiny or protect a family member or another entity's privacy. But denying the public access to information and documents for any of those reasons does not represent the spirit of a free and open democracy.
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As someone who has now bounced back from torn ACLs in both knees, River North's Ashley Neiman is something of a layman's expert in what it takes to lead a normal life after a seemingly catastrophic injury.
When it comes to the recovery and rehabilitation process, the 24-year-old broke it up into three different parts.
"In the beginning stages (one to two weeks post surgery) I would do a lot to increase my range of motion," she said. "One thing we did often was for me to lie on my back with my feet against the wall. I would have to move my leg and foot up and down the wall. The goal in the beginning would be to get it to 90 degrees."
After that, she said her therapists focused on building up her strength.
"(They had me doing) exercises like standing on my injured leg on a moon shaped yoga ball to keep your balance and then as you progressed the physical therapist would throw a ball at you to increase the difficulty and balance," she said. "There were a lot of lunges, calf exercises, they had these mats that were slippery and we would have to slide back and forth. Think like ice skating or roller blading in place. That motion is one that builds all those muscles you cannot use when you have a torn ACL."
By the end, she said she was replicating a lot of the motions that made her a standout prep soccer player.
"When I was close to 100 percent, we would actually go outside and kick the ball around," she said. "I would run 10 minutes on an elliptical machine and have them watch my motions. (There was) a lot of lateral movement; think like when football players, especially offensive linemen, do drills to move laterally quickly, stuff like that."
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Twenty thousand new Arizona voters
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PHOENIX – The latest voter registration figures have been released and according to Secretary of State Ken Bennett, Arizona has 3,244,793 registered voters, an increase of 20,066 since the last report in October.
Of the state's 3.2 million voters, 1,131,263 are Republicans and 962,828 are Democrats. The number of voters registered without a party preference or with independent parties is 1,123,998, an increase of 24,952. This number includes voters previously registered with the Green Party, which did not attain the required number of electors to preserve continued recognition on the ballot in 2013.
Libertarians make up a little less than one percent of the state's total registration with 26,387, and the Americans Elect Party has enrolled 317 voters since joining the state's other recognized political parties in 2011.
"Important choices lie ahead," said Secretary Bennett. "Whether citizens are registering for the first time or have just re-registered, they have taken the first step toward exercising one of our most fundamental rights. The right to vote."
The latest voter registration figures compiled by county, congressional district and legislative district are available on the Secretary of State's website, www.azsos.gov/Election/VoterReg or by calling 1-877-THE-VOTE.


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I traded Texas for Australia this fall to get an exclusive look at Perth Fashion Festival backstage. I exclusively cover the runway from the front row and get a peek at all of the looks before they hit the runway for Perth Fashion Festival's Designer Capsule 2 featuring looks from up and coming Australian designers Kim Barton, Steph Audino, and Garth Cook.
The designers are all located in Perth but the fashion is sure to go global with the extraordinary work they present for the showcase at the Fashion Paramount Western Australian Museum.
As I walk into the backstage lounge to get a peek at each of the designer's lines. It is chaotic. Models get their make up done, each designer arranges shoes to each outfit, assistants and volunteers steam the looks, and the arrangement of Kim Barton's accessories - headbands, earrings, bracelets, and necklaces - lie in a bright assortment right in the middle of the room.
Steph Audino's line is subtle, reflecting the colors of the ocean and the scenes of the beach - the sole inspiration to her spring 2013 line.
Audino is calm and holds herself together before her big show and is completely put together - not always how you receive a designer before their creations are brought to life on the runway. The creations are beautiful combining purples, blacks, and creams for the earthy feel of the beach but the colors of the water at twilight. The line is completely wearable by women for cocktail and evening apparel.
If I had to select a favorite, I would pick an elegant black sequin piece followed in a gorgeous train of sheer fabric.
Kim Barton is another designer. Barton's designs are amazing, focused and already presented as a brand. Think Kate Spade. Barton is on this level.
With a line focused on the inspiration of a nostalgic 1970s feel and kaleidoscope themes, Barton is ready to be presented in department stores as a ready-to-wear line. The line of bright, fun and whimsical accessories add a lovely feel to structured pieces on the runway.
Absolutely loving the trend of socks worn under heels as Barton presented it on the runway with shoes from Betts.
Garth Cook is making a name for himself in Australia. His line is futuristic and glitter adds a little something to each piece as well as touches of cobalt blue and green to gray and black.
The line looks great pieced with staple pieces like black tights and high black wedges or heels. The pieces can be fun or structured, depending on the look you're going for. This line is completely versatile.
For images on each designer, check out the main website for Perth Fashion Festival. For other behind the scenes images, check out All Ze Details or pin the looks here.


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Baden-Mayer and Ronnie Cummins report: "While many Americans were firing up barbecues and breaking out the sparklers to celebrate Independence Day, biotech industry executives were more likely chilling champagne to celebrate another kind of independence: immunity from federal law."
Lobbyists have succeeded in making the government protect bio-tech companies. (photo: Millions Against Monsanto/Flickr)
Is Monsanto About to Gain Immunity From Federal Law?
07 July 12
hile many Americans were firing up barbecues and breaking out the sparklers to celebrate Independence Day, biotech industry executives were more likely chilling champagne to celebrate another kind of independence: immunity from federal law.
A so-called "Monsanto rider," quietly slipped into the multi-billion dollar FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill, would require – not just allow, but require - the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a temporary permit for the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop, even if a federal court has ordered the planting be halted until an Environmental Impact Statement is completed. All the farmer or the biotech producer has to do is ask, and the questionable crops could be released into the environment where they could potentially contaminate conventional or organic crops and, ultimately, the nation's food supply.
Unless the Senate or a citizen's army of farmers and consumers can stop them, the House of Representatives is likely to ram this dangerous rider through any day now.
In a statement issued last month, the Center For Food Safety had this to say about the biotech industry's latest attempt to circumvent legal and regulatory safeguards:
Ceding broad and unprecedented powers to industry, the rider poses a direct threat to the authority of U.S. courts, jettisons the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) established oversight powers on key agriculture issues and puts the nation's farmers and food supply at risk.
In other words, if this single line in the 90-page Agricultural Appropriations bill slips through, it's Independence Day for the biotech industry.
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) has sponsored an amendment to kill the rider, whose official name is "the farmers assurance" provision. But even if DeFazio's amendment makes it through the House vote, it still has to survive the Senate. Meanwhile, organizations like the Organic Consumers Association, Center for Food Safety, FoodDemocracyNow!, the Alliance for Natural Health USA and many others are gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures in protest of the rider, and in support of DeFazio's amendment.
Will Congress do the right thing and keep what are arguably already-weak safeguards in place, to protect farmers and the environment? Or will industry win yet another fight in the battle to exert total control over our farms and food supply?
Biotech's 'Legislator of the Year' behind the latest sneak attack
Whom do we have to thank for this sneak attack on USDA safeguards? The agricultural sub-committee chair Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) – who not coincidentally was voted "legislator of the year for 2011-2012" by none other than the Biotechnology Industry Organization, whose members include Monsanto and DuPont. As reported by Mother Jones, the Biotechnology Industry Organization declared Kingston a "champion of America's biotechnology industry" who has "helped to protect funding for programs essential to the survival of biotechnology companies across the United States."
Kingston clearly isn't interested in the survival of America's farmers.
Aiding and abetting Kingston is John C. Greenwood, former US Congressman from Pennsylvania and now president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization. No stranger to the inner workings of Congress, Greenwood lobbied for the "farmers assurance provision" in a June 13 letter to Congress, according to Mother Jones and Bloomberg, claiming that "a stream of lawsuits" have slowed approvals and "created uncertainties" for companies developing GE crops.
Greenwood was no doubt referring to several past lawsuits, including one brought in 2007 by the Center for Food safety challenging the legality of the USDA's approval of Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa. In that case, a federal court ruled that the USDA's approval of GMO alfalfa violated environmental laws by failing to analyze risks such as the contamination of conventional and organic alfalfa, the evolution of glyphosate-resistant weeds, and increased use of Roundup. The USDA was forced to undertake a four-year study of GMO alfalfa's impacts under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). During the four-year study, farmers were banned from planting or selling the crop – creating that 'uncertainty" that Greenwood is so worried about.
The USDA study slowed down the release of GMO alfalfa, but ultimately couldn't stop it. As Mother Jones reports, in 2011, the USDA deregulated the crop, even though according to its own study, the USDA said that "gene flow" between GM and non-GM alfalfa is "probable," and threatens organic dairy producers and other users of non-GMO alfalfa, and that there is strong potential for the creation of Roundup-resistant "superweeds" that require ever-higher doses of Roundup and application of ever-more toxic herbicides. The report noted that two million acres of US farmland already harbor Roundup-resistant weeds caused by other Roundup Ready crops.
In another case – which perhaps paved the way for this latest provision now before the House - the USDA in 2011 outright defied a federal judge's order to halt the planting of Monsanto's controversial Roundup-Ready GMO sugar beets until it completed an Environmental Impact Statement. The USDA allowed farmers to continue planting the crop even while it was being assessed for safety on the grounds that there were no longer enough non-GMO seeds available to plant.
Who loses if Monsanto wins this one?
Among the biggest losers if Congress ignores the DeFazio amendment and passes the "farmers assurance provision" are thousands of farmers of conventional and organic crops, including those who rely on the export market for their livelihoods. An increasing number of global markets are requiring GMO-free agricultural products or, at the very least, enforcing strict GMO labeling laws. If this provision passes, it will allow unrestricted planting of potentially dangerous crops, exposing other safe and non-GMO crops to risk of contamination.
As we've seen in the past, farmers who grow crops that have been inadequately tested and later found dangerous, or whose safe crops become contaminated by nearby unsafe crops, risk huge losses and potentially, lawsuits from their customers. Ultimately, the entire US agriculture market and US economy suffers.
We have only to look back to the StarLink corn and LibertyLink rice contamination episodes for evidence of how misguided this provision is. In October 2000, traces of an Aventis GM corn called StarLink showed up in taco shells in the U.S. even though the corn had not been approved for human consumption because leading allergists were concerned it would cause food allergies. The contamination led to a massive billion dollar recall of over 300 food brands. The 'StarLink' gene also turned up unexpectedly in a second company's corn and in US corn exports, causing a costly disruption to the nation's grain-handling system, and spurring lawsuits by farmers whose crops were damaged.
A similar disaster occurred for US rice farmers in 2006. In august of that year the USDA announced that mutant DNA of Liberty Link, a genetically modified variety of rice developed by Bayer CropScience, a then-German agri-business giant, were found in commercially-grown long-grain rice in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Missouri. LibertyLink rice, named for Bayer's broad-spectrum herbicide glufosinate-ammonium, was never intended for human consumption. Following the announcement of contamination, Japan banned all long-grain rice imports from the U.S., and U.S. trade with the EU and other countries ground to a halt. Rice farmers and cooperatives were forced to engage in five long years of litigation against Bayer
CropScience in an attempt to recoup some of their losses.
All the other ways this provision is just plain bad
There's a reason we have laws like the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Plant Protection Act of 2000, which was specifically designed "to strengthen the safety net for agricultural producers by providing greater access to more affordable risk management tools and improved protection from production and income loss . . .". The 'farmers assurance provision" is a thinly disguised attempt by the biotech industry to undermine these protections. Worse yet, it's an affront to everyone who believes the US judicial system exists to protect US citizens and public health.
Why should you be outraged about this provision? For all these reasons:
· The Monsanto Rider is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers. Judicial review is an essential element of U.S. law, providing a critical and impartial check on government decisions that may negatively impact human health, the environment or livelihoods. Maintaining the clear-cut boundary of a Constitutionally-guaranteed separation of powers is essential to our government. This provision will blur that line.
· Judicial review is a gateway, not a roadblock. Congress should be fully supportive of our nation's independent judiciary. The ability of courts to review, evaluate and judge an issue that impacts public and environmental health is a strength, not a weakness, of our system. The loss of this fundamental safeguard could leave public health, the environment and livelihoods at risk.
· It removes the "legal brakes" that prevent fraud and abuse. In recent years, federal courts have ruled that several USDA GE crop approvals violated the law and required further study of their health and environmental impact. These judgments indicated that continued planting would cause harm to the environment and/or farmers and ordered interim planting restrictions pending further USDA analysis and consideration. The Monsanto rider would prevent a federal court from putting in place court-ordered restrictions, even if the approval were fraudulent or involved bribery.
· It's unnecessary and duplicative. Every court dealing with these issues is supposed to carefully weigh the interests of all affected farmers and consumers, as is already required by law. No farmer has ever had his or her crops destroyed as a result. USDA already has working mechanisms in place to allow partial approvals, and the Department has used them, making this provision completely unnecessary.
· It shuts out the USDA. The rider would not merely allow, it would compel the Secretary of Agriculture to immediately grant any requests for permits to allow continued planting and commercialization of an unlawfully approved GE crop. With this provision in place, USDA may not be able to prevent costly contamination episodes like Starlink or Liberty Link rice, which have already cost farmers hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. The rider would also make a mockery of USDA's legally mandated review, transforming it into a 'rubber stamp' approval process.
· It's a back-door amendment of a statute. This rider, quietly tacked onto an appropriations bill, is in effect a substantial amendment to USDA's governing statute for GE crops, the Plant Protection Act. If Congress feels the law needs to be changed, it should be done in a transparent manner by holding hearings, soliciting expert testimony and including full opportunity for public debate.
If we allow this "Monsanto Rider" to be slipped into the FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill, consumers and farmers will lose what little control we have now over what we plant and what we eat.
If you would like to join the hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens who have already written to Congress in support of the DeFazio amendment, please sign our petition here.
Alexis Baden-Mayer is Political Director of the Organic Consumers Association.
Ronnie Cummins is founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association. Cummins is author of numerous articles and books, including "Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers" (Second Revised Edition Marlowe & Company 2004).
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WHERE IS THIS PETITION? i WANNA SIGN!!Signed the petition already.
We should ALL do that
Hierarchies of BOTH parties are dedicated to electing NO independent-min ded, thinking candidates who cannot be "remotely controlled."
How else, friends, can we in South Carolina be offered ONLY GOP dunces who follow orders -- or weird nuts, such as last term's Senate candidate,who refused to meet with public or press or share his "platform" with anyone? OR -- this year -- a congressional candidate who is a convicted felon -- endorsed by the state Democratic chair -- an insufferable jerk -- who declares this candidate fine because, he says, Congress is a bunch of felons anyway, and this one will fit right in!
How did we let ourselves get up against this brick wall? More important, how NOW do we get around it?
Thank you Citizens United.
Republicans support the Monsanto rider. Democrats oppose it. 'Nuff said?
The chief Democrat, the POTUS supports Monsanto. Don't believe me? Look at his appointments.
But knowing them they will squeak through by the skin of their genetically modified teeth and slime their way to another coup on the legislation front......unle ss.......everyo ne gets their fingers out and signs, telephones and generally raises hell on earth with the reps and senators.
As stated further down I can't sign this as I am English and our postcodes don't work. But I did forward to friends over your side of the pond. I wish you the very best of luck. Seems to me that the entire legal system is corrupt and biased already so your mission is already up against it.
Thank you Peter De Fazio, for your amendment. You make me proud to be an Oregonian.
The rest of all y'all, get on the horn to your representatives and senators. This is a very big deal.
No one, and certainly no corporation can be allowed to be above the law or to be able to manipulate lawmakers in such a way that allows them to kiss off laws intended to protect our food supply and the health of all U.S. citizens.
Lets hear a resounding "hell no" to Monsanto, DuPont and any elected representative in favor of this travesty.
It is interesting but no shocking that DeFazio's opponent received lots of out-of-state campaign contributions in th last election and although he won, he won by a significantly lower margin than he did in the previous election....
Also SIGN the petitions and have ALL the farmers you know kick up one hell of a ruckus. This is a matter...maybe of survival.
Organic farmers who's crops get contaminated from drift not only get sued for patent infringement from Monsanto but have no other recourse but to sue the farmer who planted the GMO's.
The GM alfalfa seeds can live dormant in the soil for Years possibly contaminating generations of future plantings.
When the farmer sells his land, he must disclose the GM planting which just gives Monsanto a new "customer" for life. http://farmwars.info/?p=5396
Farmers Beware You are being Used, family and land poisoned Bon Apetit
I do think if we all mobilize as many as possible to sign, that it WILL make a difference. But we MUST make it a BIG WAVE of consumer anger. We don't have the money. But we do have each other. Also we should write our senators.
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Author, "Diary From the Dome, Reflections on Fear and Privilege During Katrina"
Hmmm, a republican, why am I not surprised?
I did pass it on to a few contacts in the US and Canada (just in case they can sign it over the border) and I hope that the results of all the efforts on your parts is successful.
Here's hoping you win.
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Sally, who just had a baby, likes whitewashing her husband Bill.
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Envy is sadness or discontent at another's good fortune or excellence. Dante defined it as a perversion of one's own good; a "wish to deprive" others of their own good. Augustine deemed it "the diabolical sin."
Conservative columnist George Will quips that envy is the most miserable of the deadly sins because it brings not even fleeting pleasure.
No, envy simply makes you downright miserable and angry, at best providing perverse pleasure only when your prosperous neighbor suddenly suffers misfortune–or, in current application, when the federal government forcibly takes an even larger chunk of that neighbor's money.
But what happens when a political party crafts its appeal around envy? Of course, the Democratic Party has been doing just that for a long time. When I was in my early 20s and apolitical, class-warfare rhetoric was one of the first things that struck me about the Democratic Party, and it was one of the first things that drove me away from the Democrats.
Now, class envy is back with renewed vigor under the presidency of Barack Obama. The rich are suddenly scapegoats for the nation's fiscal/economic woes. Yes, that's right–the rich. It is an amazing spectacle. Consider:
Did you know that from 1965-2009 the federal government never, not one time, cut annual spending? Yep, not once–not even by one penny one single year over 44 consecutive years. If you don't believe me, consult the historical tables of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Look at Table 1.1, "Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits: 1789-2016." You'll notice that once upon a time our nation's political officials were capable of cutting spending. It happened often under both Democrats and Republicans. That changed, however, in 1965, the start of LBJ's Great Society. In that watershed year, our federal government began an outright spending addiction, like a junkie who can't push away a needle.
To see the figures on a chart is an awakening. The annual rise in spending by your government is a steady, unbroken, upward climb for over 40 years.
Apply this to any other walk of life. Do you know of an individual or family or business or anything that has spent more money than it takes in for 44 consecutive years? If you've done that, then you're reading this article from a prison cell.
And yet, that is precisely the behavior of your federal government, which passes along this generational debt to your children and grandchildren.
But who's at fault? The Democrats and President Obama have an easy answer; it's the envy-based answer: the rich.
Of course, it wasn't the rich who, from 1965-2009, could not manage to cut federal spending by literally even one penny one year. It wasn't the rich who then, on top of that, printed and borrowed another $800 billion for a 2009 "stimulus" package that didn't stimulate. And guess what? The president is pleading for hundreds of billions more for the same failed purpose.
And it isn't like the rich haven't chipped in, even as President Obama demands they finally "pay their fair share." In fact, the top 1 percent of income earners in America pay nearly 40 percent of all federal tax revenue (click here). The top 5 percent pay almost 60 percent. The top 10 percent pay 70 percent. The top 25 percent pay 86 percent.
But President Obama excoriates the rich for allegedly not paying enough. He also blasts Republicans for opposing tax increases that would merely further subsidize our government's spending addiction. Obama bitterly derided "tax cuts for the wealthy" as the Republicans' "Holy Grail."
Unfortunately, this rhetoric has astonishing success among the Democratic faithful. Every time I write an article like this I get bombarded with emails from Democrats enraged at "rich" people, who they blame for their problems. It is sad to see, especially when you understand that this self-destructive mentality is being fostered by a political party.
One person who emails me is just desperate–and I mean desperate–to increase taxes. He will not be satisfied until taxes are raised on the rich. He will not even consider spending cuts. He wants revenge. He is very angry.
When I asked him if there is such a thing as government greed, he didn't answer. He didn't want to answer. His worldview allows for no greed in a government that spends pathologically, and then coerces wealthy people taxed at rates of 36-70 percent (from 2011 back to 1965) to send to Washington more and more money. In his mind, there is greed only in the wealthy for not wanting to surrender more and more.
This kind of rhetoric is poisonous, destined to yield the bitterest fruit. Nonetheless, the Democrats' class-based rhetoric continues undaunted.
Envy is a vice, not a virtue, and certainly should not be political strategy.
– Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College and executive director of The Center for Vision Values. His books include "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism," and his latest release, "Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century."
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Jeremy Smith's value and influence on Nicholls State University's men's basketball team can be summed up in two words — team captain.
eremy Smith's value and influence on Nicholls State University's men's basketball team can be summed up in two words — team captain.
Smith, a former walk-on, was bestowed that honor before the season, and it is honor the redshirt junior doesn't take lightly.
Whether it is coming off the bench or starting, Smith is always prepared to give his best, which earned the respect of his teammates.
Smith, who earned a scholarship before the season, said it is no secret at how he reached this point in his career.
"It sounds clich�', but hard work pays off. Staying in the gym, working on my game even when we just finished a two-hour practice, you don't want to do it, but you have to look at the big picture. If I get better, then my team will get better," Smith said. "I put in the extra work because my team expects me to put in the work. All I'm trying to do is help my team get better."
Smith has been putting in the extra work since the first day he arrived at Nicholls. It is that work ethic that not only earned Smith a spot on the team as freshman but a place in the Colonels' rotation as a redshirt sophomore.
Nicholls coach J.P. Piper said the only thing he promised Smith was chance to make the team, but little did he know that Smith would blossom into a team leader and key part of his program.
"He's really been a critical piece of the team. He was voted team captain and that came from his teammates. The coaches don't vote on any of that, so that is a huge honor. His teammates felt he was leader for us, and he does whatever we asked him to do," Piper said. "When he came here, he wasn't playing for a scholarship. He was playing because he loves basketball and wanted to be at Nicholls. I feel like Jeremy is the heart and soul of our team, and you need players like him, who are selfless, if you want to win games."
Since getting into Southland Conference play, the Colonels (4-12 overall, 3-3 in SLC) have won games, and it is in the conference games that Smith's value to the team skyrocketed.
Last season, Smith was the sixth man coming off the bench to provide a spark. Piper said he planned to keep Smith as the sixth man, but those plans changed. Injuries to forwards Sam McBeath and Lachlan Prest pushed Smith, a 6-foot-4-inch guard/forward, into the starting lineup in the previous six conference games. Smith has responded by scoring in double figures in five of those games.
Smith said whether it's coming off the bench or starting, he has to make sure he plays at a high level so his teammates can feed off his energy.
"Coming off the bench, you can see what is happening and you can get a feel before you step on the court. When you start, you have to be ready and be on edge. You don't know what to expect and teams will throw anything at you," Smith said. "I think I have done well adjusting (to starting), but I just have to start out playing at a high level. If I start at a high level, then whoever comes in for me, they feel like they have to pick up where I left off. It makes them want to play at a high level then we have no drop off during the game."
Piper said the reason for Smith's ease into a starting role is due to his mental preparation.
"He always asked questions about matchups and what does this team like to do, so he is thinking the game. We built the team with him being the sixth man and a spark off the bench. It hasn't worked out because of injuries, but there's been no hiccups in his transition (to starter)," Piper said. "He has a great attitude and he is willing to start or be the sixth man. I know if we were to get healthy and put him back on the bench, he wouldn't balk. Whatever he has to do he will do and we tell our younger guys, it is that attitude that makes you a winner. Since they made him team captain, they see that his attitude hasn't changed and they respect that."
Nicholls begins a two-game home stand tonight against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Sam Houston State on Saturday.
Smith said the main focus of the team is to find a consistent level of play. So far, the Colonels have yet to string any wins together.
If the Colonels can take care of business this week, Smith said he is hopeful they can jump start a winning streak.
"As a team we are too up and down. Some nights we come with it, and sometimes we come out flat. We just have to work on being consistent on the defensive end. Once we do that, we will be alright because defense takes care of everything," Smith said. "Our main focus is just to get a win. We want to play Colonels basketball, but we want to get a win. We want to be more consistent and we want to get a winning streak going. Hopefully, we can get these two games and that gives us a spark and starts a winning streak."


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Quotable Quotes on Writing
One of my nerdy little hobbies is collecting quotes about writing by famous authors. But I just don't collect them -- I read them, regularly. I find that reading a good quote is a bit like a shot of Vitamin B, or, even, a splash of cold water in the face. It energizes you -- by helping you resolve to do better. At other times, a pithy quote is more like a tour guide pointing out an important bit of scenery in a strange country. "Oh, that's what I should be noticing," you say to yourself. Finally, the telling quote can also be a laugh line -- a chance to guffaw at your own writing foibles (much more effective than crying over them). Here are eight of my favorite quotes, collected over the last year:
Winston Churchill knew a thing or three about the high-stakes game of persuasive writing. Here is his well honed advice:
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack.
English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging people to write more clearly and directly. If you don't have time to read their intimidating (but wonderful) book Modern English Usage, here's a maxim to keep posted beside your computer:
Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavor, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous and lucid.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913 to 1980) was an American poet and political activist. And I suppose it would take a poet to express such a profound thought in so few words:
The world is not made up of atoms; it's made up of stories.
Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (1891 to 1953) was an English philosopher and broadcasting personality famous for his appearance on the BBC program The Brains Trust in which experts debated questions such as "what is the meaning of life?" He had a deep egalitarian streak, which you can see in this quote about writing. (I agree with his sentiment so profoundly that I'm almost prepared to forgive him for a 77-word sentence):
All the talk about style and form and quality of expression in writing which agitates literary circles is simply highfalutin' bunkum, designed to hoodwink people into the belief that writing is much more mysterious than it really is, by those whose living depends on the maintenance of the mystery, and that if the plain man would only take the trouble to say quite plainly what he thinks, good and even easy writing would be the inevitable result.
Whenever I am tempted to overwrite, get too flowery or obfuscate, I schedule a fast remedial reading of the masterpiece Politics and the English Language by writer and journalist George Orwell (1903-1950). Still, for brevity, it's hard to beat his seven-word piece of advice:
Good prose is like a window pane.
I'm not typically an Andy Rooney fan. I've always found his little homilies on the TV show 60 Minutes a bit too precious and his delivery bordering on self-parody. But every once in awhile, he hits the mark, as he does here:
Keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else.
Contemporary American writer Annie Dillard can be counted on to both comfort and uplift writers who are in trouble. Here is what she has to say about getting in the writing "zone."
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of an unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then -- and only then -- is it handed to you.
Many years ago I gave a dinner party at which a friend performed an impromptu reading from the book Metropolitan Life by humorist Fran Lebowitz. I remember laughing so hard, I started to worry about whether I could continue breathing. Whenever I hit the writing wall, and when all else fails, I can cheer myself immeasurably by remembering her sage advice:
I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less is if I was dead.


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5 (they dropped the five) once it was completed. However, as of late, it has become increasingly clear that there may never be anything like a final version - or another test release for that matter. Update: In the comments, Robert Szeleney explained the current SkyOS situation in more detail. For future readers who find this article via a search engine, I've attached Robert's comment to the actual story for completeness' sake. The reply can also be found on the SkyOS website.
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I'm thinking of asking my Missional 'Gator friends (they know who they are) to join me in a Missional Avengers team. Our mission will be to seek out and destroy the Loci of church leadership ideas like this one from that great church ecclesiologist, Teddy Roosevelt:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
I've seen this pointed to by a number of people as relevant to church leadership. The last straw was when a good friend — a person I love dearly — who is planting a church in Toronto, ReTweeted a link to it.
I deal with this ridiculous and, in fact, dangerous belief in the mythic super hero as church leader/planter at length in my post, Jesus and the Marlboro Man.
This is the myth of the rugged individual and it is one, I'd suggest, that has done more damage to the church in the west than we care to realize.
And that damage includes both those who have attempted to "build" a church this way, as well as those who have attempted to work with said solo builder.
In light of my response here, please read this post from Lance Ford, based on his upcoming book, UnLeader: Rethinking Leadership… and Why We Must — a book you just might want to pre-order. (Part One of his "Refutable Laws" posts is here.)
And if or as you disagree with me, help me understand how Teddy's thoughts line up with Luke 10 or Matthew 20:25. I'm just saying.


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There is a tradition, especially among the Great Russians, where the Royal Doors are left closed throughout the Liturgy. When there is need -- for example, for the Little and Great Entrances, reading of the Gospel, distribution of the Holy Gifts, etc. -- the doors are opened. At all other times -- specifically when there is no liturgical action which would require opened doors -- they are closed. At certain points, such as during the Litany which follows the Cherubic Hymn or during the Communion of the clergy, the curtain is also drawn shut.Rubrics for the opening and closing of the Royal Doors is no where more complex, I believe, than in the celebration of the Vigil -- Vespers and Matins -- where it is quite clear that the doors are opened when there is a need for someone to exit the altar while they remain closed when no obvious reason exists.Further, within the Russian tradition, the possibility of celebrating the Liturgy with the Royal Doors opened, either for greater portions of the Divine Liturgy or for the majority of the Liturgy, is often granted to clergy as a mark of distinction for outstanding service or in recognition of an individual priest's ministry.What I have described is not necessarily common among Orthodox Christians of other traditions, such as among the Greeks or Antiochians. In some cases, in place of the Royal Doors as we know them, a large panel, often with an icon of Christ portrayed as the "Hierarch of Hierarchs," stands in their place. In such cases the icon, which generally completely covers the entire opening of the doorway, is placed on a track by which it might be slid to the side during services. I have even visited churches in the Middle East, some of which are hundreds of years old, in which one finds an iconostasis but no doors whatsoever, even though there are openings.What is unusual, at least in my uneducated opinion on Byzantine Catholicism, is that a practice which is common among Russians, but surely not common among Byzantine Catholics -- many of whose ancestors come from the Carpathian mountains which span what is presently southeastern Poland, far western Ukraine, eastern Slovakia, and portions of Hungary -- would be introduced among people who traditionally had not known the custom. In fact, in many Byzantine Catholic churches in these regions, the iconostasis as we know it does not exist. Many Byzantine churches in the US did not even have iconostases until recent times, and especially after Vatican II urged the Eastern Rites to rediscover and preserve their heritage in its fullness rather than to continue on a course of latinization.Perhaps in earlier times, before the Unions of Brest-Litovsk and Uzhorod, every church in the Carpathian region did in fact have an iconostasis and did in fact follow the Russian practice of closed doors, but this would be very difficult to confirm for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that since this period is at least 400 years in the past, no one personally remembers it.So, with regard to the specific scenario you describe, it is correct, on the one hand, to say that celebrating the Liturgy with the doors closed for a greater portion of the service is indeed "a tradition," but it is not necessarily accurate to imply that it is a tradition which is indigenous to the regions in which Byzantine Rite Catholicism was introduced. The real question, then, revolves around why this is being introduced: as a return to full Byzantine Rite tradition [as opposed to the Byzantine Rite tradition of the Russian Typikon]? as a restoration of the full Byzantine Rite as observed in Ruthenia [where many churches did not have iconostases and did not have to contempate whether or not doors would remain opened or closed]? or as a matter of taste and preference on the part of the pastor?With regard to seeing what the priest does, I do not mean to be glib, but as a priest I would have to say that there is very little to see. Most of the time the priest stands at the altar in simple prayer. Of course, there are certain actions, such as the waving of the aer over the Gifts during the Creed, the making of the Sign of the Cross over the Gifts during the Epiklesis, the elevation and fractioning of the Lamb, etc., which one may not be able to see when the doors are closed, but in general even when the doors are opened there is little to see. We might be reminded of the words of Saint John Chrysostom who said "Christ will not appear until the priest disappears." The goal of our liturgical worship is to look beyond the priest, beyond his individual physical or psychological characteristics, and beyond his unique personality, and to come face to face with the Living God. If we do not encounter Him in our worship, even the celebration of the Liturgy facing the people, as in the contemporary Roman Rite, would only serve to enlighten us as to the priest's actions, and nothing more. Watching the priest's every action can, in fact, become an end in itself and an obstacle to "keeping watch" to the Lord's every action.Hope this helps!
And then there are times in my OCA parish where the Doors will remain closed, but priest will open the 'curtains'. First, what are the 'curtains' called and second, do the Greeks and Antiochians have them?
Quote from: GabrieltheCelt on June 21, 2012, 05:30:48 PMAnd then there are times in my OCA parish where the Doors will remain closed, but priest will open the 'curtains'. First, what are the 'curtains' called and second, do the Greeks and Antiochians have them? It's called a curtain, and, yes, Greeks and Antiochians have them. There's been a trend away from them in recent construction, but they've been standard for a long time. Curtains on the ciborium is the older practice, but we haven't built ciboria in our churches for probably 1,000 years.
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The Explore Kentucky History app connects historical markers, related items in the Historical Society's collections and user-submitted images and stories to points of interest on a map. The information is then grouped together into tours, with a Civil War-themed tour the first available.
As of today, it's available on iTunes. I just installed it on my iPhone, and it's awesome. (And free!) If you're interested in the history of the Bluegrass State or the Civil War, you're going to love it.


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News Release: September 20, 2012
Docket No. EL12-103-000
Item No. E-24
FERC Initiates Proceeding into Actions by JP Morgan
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today initiated a proceeding into whether J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corp. submitted misleading information and omitted material facts in communications with the Commission, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) and the ISOs Department of Market Monitoring (DMM).
Todays order directs JP Morgan to show why it should not be found to have violated Commission regulations, and why its authorization to sell electric energy, capacity and ancillary services at market-based rates should not be suspended.
The integrity of FERCs ability to ensure that market-based transactions produce just and reasonable rates relies on the honesty of market participants communications with the Commission and other jurisdictional entities, the order says. In granting market-based rate authority, FERC expects that a companys behavior will not involve fraud, deception or misrepresentation.
Todays order preliminarily finds JP Morgan may have omitted material information or submitted misleading information in communications with the Commission, CAISO and the DMM. It says four statements by the company, including statements made in a non-public appeal (Docket No. IN11-08-000) of a CAISO penalty for JP Morgans failing to comply with a data request in a timely manner, and a related complaint (Docket No. EL12-70-000), subsequently withdrawn by JP Morgan, may have violated FERC regulations under the Federal Power Act.
JP Morgan must respond within 21 days of the show-cause order being published in the Federal Register.