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An Arizona school district's decision to oust the director of a dismantled Mexican-American studies program and a recent segment on a TV comedy show have reignited anger among protesters who took over a school board meeting and accused members of being racist.
More than 100 protesters packed the Tucson Unified School District's meeting Tuesday night and used an extended public-comment period to defend the job of Sean Arce, director of the now disbanded Mexican-American studies program.
In the end, the board voted 3-2 against renewing Arce's contract with the district; it will expire at the end of June.
The vote caused uproar among protesters who set off a smoke bomb while wearing surgical masks and screamed at board members, "You should be ashamed!" "Race traitor!" and "You're gonna regret it, bro!"
They then tied themselves together with plastic zip ties and chanted, "No justice, no peace, no racist TUSD!" as they waved signs that said, "Stop ethnic cleansing."
The chants turned into a scuffle with security guards outside the meeting, but no one was injured and no arrests were made, Tucson police Sgt. Linda Galindo said.
She said there was minor damage to the board room.
The protesters were calling on the board to renew Arce's contract and reinstate the district's controversial Mexican-American studies program, which some said demonized white people as oppressors of Hispanics while others said it simply taught Hispanic students more about their culture and was a more accurate depiction of historical facts.
The board voted to dismantle the program in January after Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal ordered that 10 percent of the district's monthly state aid, about $1 million a month, be withheld until the district complied with a newly enacted state law that targeted the program.
The district appealed Huppenthal's findings, and an administrative law judge in December upheld the decision by the schools chief.
Gov. Jan Brewer signed the law in May 2010, making it illegal to conduct classes that advocate ethnic solidarity that are designed primarily for students of a particular race or that promote resentment toward a certain ethnic group.
Protesters at Tuesday's meeting also acted out in response to an April 2 segment about the Mexican-American studies program on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."
On the show, board member Michael Hicks says that part of the reason students enjoyed the Mexican-American studies program was because their teachers gave them burritos every week and told the interviewer: "If there's no more white people in the world, then OK, you can do what you want."
Also during the interview, Hicks said he had never observed one of the Mexican-American studies classes, adding: "I base my thoughts on hearsay."
Protesters hand-delivered a burrito to Hicks before Tuesday's board meeting and doled them out to people outside. They also carried signs with a caricature of Hicks on them that read: "When there's no more white people left, then yeah, they can do whatever they want."
Hicks declined to comment Wednesday.
Board President Mark Stegeman told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Hicks has said the comedy show edited his comments and made them sound worse than they were.
"He feels badly about it," Stegeman said. "It's hurt the district and I think I can basically say he regrets that."
He said controversy over the program's dismantling had died down until the segment aired and critics learned that Arce's contract with the district likely wouldn't be renewed.
"It sort of threw a grenade on the whole issue," Stegeman said of Tuesday's meeting.
He said the board could have had the protesters thrown out of the meeting at any time because they were being so disruptive but that members decided against it so people could voice their frustration.
He said he didn't learn of the smoke bomb until much later because it was set off after board members left the room, and that board security is reviewing the matter in hopes of preventing it in the future.
Tucson Unified School District: http://www.tusd.k12.az.us/
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8731.0 - Building Approvals, Australia, April 2013 Quality Declaration
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Dwelling approvals rise slightly in April
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Building Approvals show that the total number of dwellings approved have risen in April, in trend terms, for the first time in 2013. This followed decreases in January to February 2013 and nil growth in March 2013.
Dwelling approvals decreased in April in the Australian Capital Territory (-2.2 per cent), Victoria (-1.1 per cent) and South Australia (-0.8 per cent) but increased in Northern Territory (8.7 per cent), Tasmania (2.9 per cent), Western Australia (2.5 per cent), New South Wales (0.7 per cent) and Queensland (0.5 per cent) in trend terms.
Dwelling approval trends have been rising for more than one year in both Western Australia and Queensland (15 months each) while falling for the last nine months in Victoria.
In trend terms, approvals for private sector houses rose 1.0 per cent in April, the fourth consecutive monthly increase. Of the states and territories, Western Australia (1.9 per cent), New South Wales (1.3 per cent) and Victoria (1.1 per cent) experienced the largest rises in private sector house approvals. In New South Wales the trend has been rising since April last year (13 months). Private sector house approvals rose in Queensland (0.2 per cent) for the first time since February 2012.
The trend value of total building approved rose 1.2 per cent in April and has now risen for 15 months. The values of residential building rose 0.1 per cent and non-residential building rose 2.7 per cent.
This media release focuses on movements in the trend as seasonally adjusted month to month movements can be highly volatile and are not necessarily indicative of the underlying strength in approvals data.
Further information is available in Building Approvals, Australia (cat no. 8731.0) on the ABS website at www.abs.gov.au
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Old Republic International Corporation
Old Republic traces its beginnings to 1923, although several acquired subsidiaries began operations much earlier. The Company is one of America's 50 largest shareholder-owned insurance businesses. Its subsidiaries market, underwrite, and provide risk management services for a wide variety of coverages, predominantly in the general (property and liability), mortgage guaranty, and title insurance fields. The Company is primarily a commercial lines underwriter serving the insurance needs of a large number of organizations, including many of America's leading industrial and financial services institutions.
For the beneficiaries of their insurance products and services, Old Republic's insurance subsidiaries provide quality assurance of the promises they make. For employees, the Company offers an environment of success in which they can pursue personal goals of professional and economic achievement in the context of Old Republic's business objectives.
Old Republic's record as a long-term investment compares very favorably within American industry. The Company's performance reflects an entrepreneurial spirit, a necessary long-term orientation in the management of its business, and a corporate structure that promotes accountability and encourages the taking of prudent business risks. The Company's common stock has a demonstrated history of long-term capital appreciation and a cash dividend payment record that now extends to 68 consecutive years. According to the most recent edition of Mergent's Dividend Achievers, Old Republic is one of just 119 companies, out of 10,000-plus publicly held corporations, that have posted at least 25 consecutive years of annual dividend growth.
Old Republic manages its business through more than 125 corporate entities, of which 23 are insurance subsidiaries covering all 50 states and Canada. Old Republic's companies market, underwrite, and provide risk management services for a multitude of coverages, predominantly in the general (property and liability), mortgage guaranty, and title insurance arenas. A small life and health insurance business is also conducted in the U.S. and Canada, principally as an adjunct to the Company's general insurance operations. The breadth of coverages ensures wide diversification and dispersion of risks. Additionally, Old Republic's companies focus only on carefully selected major sectors of the American economy that are not uniformly exposed to the same business cycles. The Company operates in a decentralized manner that emphasizes specialization by type of insurance coverage, as well as industries and economic sectors served.
Old Republic publishes an Annual Review that is widely distributed to agents, brokers, customers, employees, and others interested in the Company's business objectives and product offerings. The most current Annual Review is downloadable in the Investors section of this Website.


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Aiko Handmade Linen Keepsake Doll
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Aiko is a handmade keepsake doll. She measures approximately 16-18" with hair.
Our dolls are made from linen and like linen materials.
Clothes are handmade specifically for each individual doll from new and vintage fabrics. Distressing on denim may vary.
Hair is not meant for styling. The doll comes with hair already in set hairstyle.
Filled with non-allergenic polyester fiberfill.
*Not suitable for children under 3 years old.
*Also available in XL. XL Keepsake dolls measure approximately 20-22" with hair.


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Dual Career Resources
Grand Valley State University's commitment to recruiting, hiring and promoting well qualified and diverse faculty and staff members includes supporting talented couples in their search for meaningful employment at the university and/or in the surrounding Grand Rapids area. The Dual Career Resources are available to spouses/partners of prospective and newly hired faculty and staff. Resources include the following:
Michigan HERC (Michigan Higher Education Recruitment Consortium)
The most comprehensive higher education job website in Michigan.
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Does the FRITZ!Box support the WDS procedure?
The FRITZ!Box does not support the WDS (Wireless Distribution System) procedure. The trade association Wi-Fi Alliance discontinued further development of WDS more than 10 years ago. The WDS specification was therefore never modified in order to take the latest wireless standards for security and speed such as WPA2 and WLAN 802.11n into account.
The obsolete and unsafe WEP encryption method was used to establish WDS connections; it no longer supported by new wireless devices.
The FRITZ!Box's method for extending the wireless range offers a modern and safe alternative.
Note:Most FRITZ!Box models support the method for extending the wireless range if the latest FRITZ!OS is installed. You do not need to use this method if you use a FRITZ!WLAN Repeater to increase the wireless range.


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Your Friend Who Guilt-Tripped You Into Inviting Them
It's not your fault nobody loves them, nor should you be stuck talking to them. That said, keep an eye on him/her; since they have no real family of their own, they may try to coopt yours. If this happens, snag some of your grandmother's jewelry, which she's likely owned for 80+ years, and plant them on your friend. The accusations of stealing and ruining Thanksgiving will teach them to not have anyone who cares about their well-being.
The Politically-Charged Uncle
Uncle: Remember that Thanksgiving where we all played touch football and Jimmy kept running backwards. That was great. I love you guys…Could you pass gravy?
You: Looks like we're out.
Uncle: Obamacare strikes again.
Your Grandma
Sure the conversation will be fine at the start, with your adorable grandma doling out praise, smiles, and second helpings of sweet potato casserole. But it will quickly turn to how she's led a good life and is "ready." She won't specify what she's ready for, but she will make prolonged eye-contact with you when she utters it and will slowly nod and OH MY GOD GRANDMA WHAT YOU ARE IMPLYING? I'M NOT SOME SORT OF MONSTER.
Your Drunk Stepmother
After drink five, everything she does or says is her forced attempt to merge the families. Hate to break it to you, ma'am, but this will never happen. Every drunken attempt to get us to play Jenga: Family Edition is another reason why we will never emotionally let you in.
Your Drunk Stepmother's Over-Eager Son
He's probably a really good guy and will do everything he can to make up for his embarrassing mother. And that's precisely why you should stay away. As a decent human being, he's going to exert all his energy in impressing everyone with his good manners: doing dishes, offering to get others drinks, removing the overflowing wine glass from him mother's kung-fu grip… you know, bullshit things you do when trying to get in people's good graces. The more he does, the worse you look. But if you're never in the same room as the guy, you can remain lazy and mooch off his desire to be accepted.
Whoever Hosted It Last Year
A real downer, this one. Unless you're into hearing people talk about how their mashed potato recipe is far superior because that's what OBVIOUSLY everyone wants to talk about. Got that, Linda? Jesus Christ, why can't you just accept that everyone in this crazy little world is different and goes about thing in their own manner. And yes, we know, it wouldn't hurt anyone to offer a vegetarian option, but that's not how this house does it, okay?
Sorry about that. Where was I?
The Native American Guy Who Uses the Word "Retribution" A Few Too Many Times
Shit's about to get real. Calm him down by trading your cousin's Fruit Loop necklace for his possessions/land.


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Students are never too young for digital tools—watch first graders use VoiceThread. [...] »
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By Pam Hoenig
It seems like months ago but I spent last week on vacation on Point Judith in Rhode Island. This is our fourth year renting the same lovely house with our good friends Dolores and Steve, who are always up for my culinary explorations. Last year it was grilling cheeses, this year it was Eisenhower steak.
Setting perfectly good meat right on blazing hot coals was apparently Ike's favorite way to grill steak.
I've always had serious qualms about this technique. How could it possibly not end up a burnt mess? Vacation seemed like the perfect time to try. I found three gorgeous strip loin steaks, each just over a pound and a little more than one inch thick. I blotted them dry, then seasoned with salt and pepper.
For us, cooking dinner on vacation ends up being a late night affair, after lingering at the beach and enjoying cocktails in the backyard while we chat about the day and watch the sun set over the water. By the time I went out to build the fire, it was pitch black. But soon I had a blazing fire going and into the flames went the steaks. Six minutes on each side, out they came. Five-minute rest and they were perfectly medium rare, with a delicious char crust, the flavor unlike anything I had ever gotten cooking above the fire.
If you want to try this, a couple of things to keep in mind:
- Use hardwood charcoal (or hardwood burned down to coals, if you have the patience): Your food will be sitting right on the fuel.
- You want your steaks to lay flat on the coals, so make sure your fire is big enough to accommodate the number of steaks you are cooking.
- You want a hot fire. Even though you blot the steaks dry, they still contain moisture, which can tamp down the fire. If you let the fire get a little past prime or haven't made it big enough, your steaks might take a bit longer to cook.
So why don't the steaks just don't catch fire? My theory is that because they're right up against the coals, there is less airflow, which keeps the melting fat from lighting up like a firecracker.
One final warning: When you turn the steaks, pieces of charcoal tend to stick to them. Just pull them off with tongs and be sure you don't take one into the house with you by mistake or drop one into dry grass.
And if you don't have a chance to sit by a campfire this summer, you can always enjoy this Virtual Campfire GIF of my strip steaks sizzling away.


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Jeffrey R. Guest
Jeffrey Guest explores electronic, magnetic, optical properties of matter on nanometer length scales using ultrahigh vacuum scanning probe microscopy and 'single particle' laser spectroscopy techniques. He also studies and develops new ways of measuring and controlling mechanical motion of nanofabricated and self-assembled nanoscale systems.
|January 27, 2014
John Arrington
John Arrington joined the Medium Energy Physics group in 1998 and is interested in understanding the quark/gluon structure of matter. His experiments utilize scattering of relatively high energy particles from protons, neutrons and nuclei to study their internal structure.
|December 11, 2013
Rikutaro (Rik) Yoshida
Rik Yoshida is an experimental physicist in the High Energy Physics Division. Currently he works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.
|June 29, 2012
Katherine Harkay
Katherine Harkay is a physicist at the Advanced Photon Source specializing in science and technology for particle accelerators and synchrotron light sources.
|February 22, 2012
Robert Janssens
From 1978 to 1980, Robert Janssens was a research associate at the Kernphysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI) at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He was a physics professor at the E.R.C. (Military Academy) in Belgium from 1980 to 1981, in fulfillment of his military obligations.
|February 15, 2012
Donald Geesaman
Donald Geesaman is a Distinguished Argonne Fellow and a former director of the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory. After his Ph.D. in 1976, he joined Argonne and was promoted to senior physicist in 1991 and Distinguished Argonne Fellow in 2008.
|February 14, 2012
Maury Goodman
Maury Goodman is a researcher on nucleon decay and neutrino physics. Currently he is the leader of the Argonne High Energy Physics Neutrino Group.
|February 13, 2012
James Proudfoot
James Proudfoot has conducted experimental particle physics research in three areas: deep-inelastic muon proton scattering to study the parton content on the proton; e+e- annihilation to study hadron production from quark and gluon jets; and standard model physics using proton-antiproton collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron, where he spent two years as associate department head in the CDF Operations Department.
|February 13, 2012
Brian Toby
Brian H. Toby's professional experience has been in targeted research in a number of employment environments including chemical industry, academia and in the government sector both in a synchrotron and a research reactor facility.
|February 13, 2012
Marion White
Marion M. White received a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from MIT, studying electroweak interactions at electron-positron colliders at DESY and CERN. She remained with the MIT group until 1991 when she returned to the USA and joined the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne.
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Photos: Kevin White's far-reaching influence
Photos: Kevin White's far-reaching influence
Kevin White attracted young thinkers to City Hall, many of whom went on to influential careers.
Senator Barney Frank said he learned from White: "When you're putting people in jobs, different jobs require different personal skills."
Peter S. Grogan, president of The Boston Foundation, learned from White: "Politics is important. You cannot move society forward without political skill."
Micho Spring, president of Weber Shandwick, learned: "To take a gamble on people. To give them a big vision, the room to prove they have talent, and let them go."
Frederick P. Salvucci, former state transportation secretary, learned: "If there is a conflict between your gut instinct of what the right thing to do is and your intellectual analysis, go with your gut."
Peter Meade, Boston Redevelopment Authority director, learned: "Hire the most talented people you can find. Kevin's goal was to hire people smarter than he."
Bruce Bolling, former president of City Council, learned: "You can be a visionary, you can be a change agent, you can do what's right for the city."
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Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran is angling for a key leadership role in the Republican Party, a move that could catapult the 58-year-old politician from Plainville into the national spotlight.
The first-term senator is campaigning for the chairmanship of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm that's tasked with electing Republicans to the upper chamber of Congress.
The high-profile, high-pressure gig would be a big step up for Moran, and it would put him at the forefront of Republican efforts to rebound from disappointing losses in last week's elections. Given the trouncing Republicans suffered, a heavy burden would be placed on the new chairman to produce winners in the next go-round.
Moran told reporters with several Capitol Hill newspapers that he's been lobbying hard for the job in face-to-face meetings with his colleagues. He believes he has the votes to win.
"I have talked to all of my colleagues present and future and have had a sufficient number of commitments that I would be elected to chair the NRSC," Moran said in a telephone interview with The Hill. He declined comment for this article.
As of Tuesday, the scuttlebutt was that Republican leadership favored Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, for the post. Portman, once considered a possible running mate for Mitt Romney, has closer ties to the Republican establishment than Moran and a bigger reputation on the national stage. But a Republican aide close to Portman said he has decided not to run, clearing the way for Moran.
A secret-ballot vote by the Senate Republican Conference is expected on Wednesday. So far, Moran is the only senator openly running for the post.
"He's been an extraordinary cautious and state-oriented legislator, and this is a real stepping onto the national stage," said Burdett Loomis, professor of political science at University of Kansas. "It's a real change of pace for him, and even announcing that you're interested gets a little more visibility. … I think he looked around at 45 other senators and said, 'Why not me?' And that's the right first question to ask, I think."
Whoever wins the chairmanship will have his or her work cut out as Republicans look to wrest control of the Senate from Democrats in 2014. They need a net gain of six seats to do so after suffering a net loss of two seats in 2012.
This year's poor performance especially rankled because both parties had agreed that Republicans had a better opportunity to win the majority.
"We have a period of reflection and recalibration ahead for the Republican Party," said the outgoing NRSC chairman, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, in a sober election night statement. "... Clearly we have work to do in the weeks and months ahead."
Twenty Democratic seats and 13 Republican seats will be in play in 2014. Historically, the president's party is considered vulnerable in such off-year elections, so the advantage should go to Republicans. But after 2012, some see 2014 as another opportunity for the GOP to blow it, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
"You have to have sympathy for the NRSC chairman because the state electorates just won't listen to him," Sabato said. "They seem to resent any type of professional political advice and that leads them to nominate unelectable candidates."
Moran can afford to take the chance because he doesn't have to worry about his own reelection, said Joe Aistrup, professor of political science at Kansas State University.
"The big advantage that Sen. Moran has is that he's in one of the safest seats in the nation, so he's not going to be putting his position in any way shape or form in jeopardy by taking on this role," Aistrup said. "This type of position is a good way to make a lot of friends and, you know, that expands your circle of influence… He's got everything to gain, nothing to lose by this."
If Moran does snag the chairmanship, Kansas stands to benefit, said Jeff Roe, chief executive officer of Axiom Strategies, a national political consulting firm with offices in Missouri and Washington, D.C.
"Having somebody in leadership in Washington is always better for the state, and it would put it on the map where it really hasn't been since Bob Dole was in the leadership," Roe said.
A major part of the NRSC chairman's job is fundraising. The position demands a huge investment in time, travel and – of course – money. Moran would be expected to build up a war chest to support Republican Senate candidates
In 2012, Moran's leadership PAC raised $560,455 and contributed $80,000 to federal candidates, according to the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics.
Although Portman looks unlikely to challenge Moran for the chairmanship, his fundraising prowess might explain why many Republicans reportedly urged him to run. This year, Portman's leadership PAC raised $1.2 million, and contributed $208,500 to Republican Congressional and gubernatorial candidates, more than twice Moran's contribution.
"One of my questions about Moran is the money: Has he ever had to raise or does he have the ability to raise the kind of money he needs to raise to do this?" said Jennifer Duffy, senate analyst and senior editor with Cook Political Report, which provides non-partisan analysis of U.S. elections.
"Why was somebody like Cornyn a good choice? Because Texas is a donor state," Duffy said. "Kansas really isn't, so I think that that's one of his challenges."


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April 24, 1999 - 4:00PM to 6:00PM
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Do you want to learn to navigate the many literary services of the World Wide Web? This guided tour showcases electronic poetry books and magazines and offers information about a wide range of resources, including online poetry workshops and publishing.
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Easy Christmas Crafts and Activities for Kids
Get in the holiday spirit with these easy Christmas crafts for kids and other fun cold-weather activity ideas
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Darling Deer
- Cover a cardboard tube with patterned paper.
- Cut a triangle head and two large and two small oval ears out of paper.
- Glue the smaller ears inside the larger ones and fold in half. Glue to top of triangle.
- Cut felt circles for eyes. Glue googly eyes to felt. Add pom-pom nose.
- Glue the triangle to the top center of the tube.
- Use straws and pipe cleaners to make antlers.
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Stunning Christmas Stocking
- Cut a sock shape out of two pieces of felt.
- Staple the edges together a half inch from the sides, leaving the top open.
- Glue rickrack over the staples to cover them.
- Add a felt loop to the top corner of the stocking for hanging. Decorate with felt and buttons.
- Kim Kuhn
A Wee Christmas Tree
- Cut five 18 x 24-inch triangles from cardboard.
- Score the center of each triangle to make it easier to bend.
- Fold each triangle in half and glue together.
- Use clothespins to keep the pieces together.
- Paint the tree white.
- Roll corrugated paper around a cardboard tube to make the tree base.
- Cut a star from felt.
- Add a wire to the bottom of the star to attach to the tree.
String O'Dots
- Cut two yards of string.
- Every few inches, place a sticker on the string and then press another sticker back to back.
- String around the tree.
Fa-la-la-felt Skirt
- Trim the edges of a two by two-foot piece of felt to make a circle.
- Glue rickrack to outer edge of the circle.
- Decorate with felt circles.
- Place under mini-tree.
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Twin Trees
- Paint two cone water cups green.
- Wrap rickrack or ribbon around one.
- Decorate with pom-poms.
- When the paint dries, apply a thin layer of glue to the second cup and cover with glitter.
See the tutorial for our Twin Trees Christmas craft idea
Jolly Ol' Santa
- Paint a cone-shaped water cup red.
- Cut out a circle face shape from felt and snip top of face to make it flat.
- Cut a felt beard and mustache and glue to face. Add black dots for eyes.
- Wrap pipe cleaner around the point of the cup and the middle of the cup to make the hat and jacket trim.
- Glue the face to the front of the cone. Add a small pom-pom for a nose.
- Glue paper feet to the inside of the cone.
Kim Kuhn
Melt-free Snowmen
- Cut snowman shapes out of felt.
- Decorate each snowman with a felt top hat.
- Punch a hole on each side of the snowman.
- String with baker's twine.
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3-D Christmas Card
- Cut two circles out of paper.
- Bend one in half and glue one side to the second circle.
- Cut and glue a paper ornament topper to the top of the circle.
- Glue a piece of string to the back of the topper.
- Glue to cardstock.
- Pull the string tightly and glue to the back of the card.
Kim Kuhn
Give Peace a Wreath
- Paint clothespins and an embroidery hoop.
- Glue clothespins onto the hoop.
- Cut two felt leaves and glue near the top of the hoop.
- Glue small felt circles and buttons to the leaves.
- Thread a string through the top of the hoop.
- Cut a dove shape out of felt. Glue a teardrop wing to each side. Decorate with feathers.
- Add a black-marker dot eye to dove.
- Pierce the beak of the bird with a scissor tip and slide a one-inch piece of white floral wire through the slit to make an olive branch.
- Attach two felt leaves to each end of the wire.
- Glue dove to the wreath.
Kim Kuhn
Wrap Star
- Cut circle shapes from a new kitchen sponge. Make "stamps" by hot-gluing a non-sharpened pencil to one side of each circle.
- Dip circles in paint and decorate wrapping paper, newsprint, or scrap paper with cheery dots.
Kim Kuhn
Tag, You're It
- Trace a cookie cutter on a piece of felt and colored paper.
- Cut out shapes and glue together.
- Punch a hole at the top center of the tag.
- Add a string to attach to a gift.
Cut It Up
It's not officially winter until you make a paper snowflake. Learn the folding tricks online at snowflakes.barkleyus.com (we challenge you not to spend at least 15 minutes with this tool). Once you've got a bunch, string them up to hang on the tree, the mantel or over a doorway. Have a toddler? Let him "decorate" the paper with crayons, markers or stamps before you make the cuts.
Be A Smart Cookie
Roll out a tube of premade sugar-cookie dough, have the kids cut out shapes, then bake. When cooled, let the crew decorate. Don't have frosting on hand? Peanut butter or cream cheese will do the trick.
Spin the Hanukkah Dreidel
Learn how to play dreidel at Myjewishlearning.com, and use M&M's for the pot. For younger kids, pass a dreidel around a circle while you play music. Whoever's holding it when you stop the music is out.
Make a Kwanzaa Unity Cup
Pick out a large, stemmed glass. Get some red, green and black paint and let your kids decorate it. Everyone takes a ceremonial drink from the Unity Cup on the first day of Kwanzaa, December 26.
Forget Lemonade
Set up a hot-chocolate stand. On a mild afternoon when families will likely be outside, offer cups of hot cocoa, along with candy canes for stirring. Donate the proceeds to a charity of your child's choosing.
Bag It
Turn a shopping bag into a Christmas gift tote by cutting out a large square on each side to remove the store logos. Tape cellophane over the window (from the inside). Stuff the bag with tissue paper; tie on a ribbon.
Take a Family Bedtime Drive
Get everyone in their pj's, fill up thermoses with hot cocoa (cooled to room temp for little guys) and pile into the car. Put on Christmas music and cruise around the neighborhood, admiring the lights.
Cheat the New Year
Half an hour before your kids' bedtime, switch the clocks to 11:30 P.M. Count down to "midnight" together then bang pots and pans. Put your kiddos to bed and ring in the new year again with your partner.
Not-so-white Christmas
Fill up a few spray bottles with water and various shades of food coloring, then send the kids out to create their masterpieces in the snow.
Make a snow globe
You'll need: a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid; a plastic figurine; waterproof glue; distilled water (you can also use boiled and cooled tap water); liquid glycerin (available at crafts stores); glitter. Let your child pick out the figure, then glue it inside the lid and let the glue dry. Fill the jar with water, a squirt of glycerin (it helps the glitter swirl) and the glitter. Screw on the lid tightly, then flip!
Celebrate the Hanukkah Festival of Lights
Have your little one make a hand print menorah: Dip each hand in paint; ask your child to overlap his thumbs (this will create the center candle) and then press his hands, with fingers spread, onto paper. Wash hands, then have him dip a finger in yellow paint and dab the top of each candle to create flames.
Easy Homemade Snowman Craft
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Why Apple's new cell phone isn't really revolutionary.
When the word iPhone appears in Apple press releases, the word revolutionary is rarely far behind. But what counts as revolutionary? In Apple's case, the bar is high. Since the 1970s, the firm has changed both the personal computer and music industries. Will the iPhone fundamentally alter the structure of the wireless world as well?
Not yet. The iPhone's style and user interface are pathbreaking, and (as the iPod proved) aesthetics do matter. But the iPhone is—so far—not a product that will turn any industry inside out. Seen as a phone, the iPhone is striking. Seen as a small computer, it's limited, and compromised by the existing business models of the wireless industry. Saying the iPhone is a pointless gadget is a bit too strong. But it isn't yet a revolutionary device.
It is in some ways astonishing that AT&T and Apple are partners at all. AT&T is the oldest of the old school—the most ancient major high-tech firm in the United States, founded in 1878. Unfazed by spending the last 23 years in suspended animation (after the great breakup of 1984), AT&T is back to its classic business model: own the largest networks and everything on them. Apple, meanwhile, is the original hippie computer company, a child of the 1970s, not the 1870s. At least in its origins, Apple is an ideological foe of IBM and AT&T. (Remember that 1984 ad?) Considering that these firms were born on the opposite sides of the tech Kulturkampf, the iPhone cannot help but be a little strange.
Most obviously, the iPhone is locked, as is de rigueur in the wireless world. It will work only with one carrier, AT&T. Judged by the standards of a personal computer or electronics, that's odd: Imagine buying a Dell that worked only with Comcast Internet access or a VCR that worked only with NBC. Despite the fact that the iPhone costs $500 or so, it cannot yet be brought over to T-Mobile or Verizon or Sprint. AT&T sees this as a feature, not a bug, as every new iPhone customer must commit to a two-year, $1,400 to $2,400 contract.
If Apple wanted to be "revolutionary," it would sell an unlocked version of the iPhone that, like a computer, you could bring to the carrier of your choice. An even more radical device would be the "X Phone"—a phone on permanent roam that chose whatever network was providing the best service. Imagine, for example, using your iPhone to talk on Sprint because it had the best voice coverage in Alaska, while at the same time using Verizon's 3G network for Internet access. Of course, getting that phone to market would be difficult, and Apple hasn't tried.
The iPhone does have Wi-Fi access, which is a giant step forward. Wi-Fi has been kept off American cell phones for years, for reasons that have never passed the smell test ("for security reasons" or "to protect battery life"). The real reason the cell providers have kept Wi-Fi out? To keep consumers eating up minutes on the carriers' networks and to prevent people from grabbing ringtones and other media from their computers, which the industry calls "revenue leakage."
But while the iPhone has Wi-Fi, it doesn't let you do one very obvious thing with its Wi-Fi connection: make phone calls. In an ideal world, you might want to use AT&T when on the road and have your phone switch automatically to Skype or Vonage when at home, since they're much cheaper and can have better voice quality. But Apple hasn't yet hinted at this possibility. AT&T, meanwhile, probably prefers to cheer on Verizon's ongoing efforts to sue Vonage out of existence.
The iPhone's Achilles' heel is its Internet access when it's not near a Wi-Fi hot spot. The fact that the iPhone can use only AT&T's rather slow EDGE network is a weakness that affects the phone's most exciting capabilities (such as application development, below). As the New York Times' David Pogue writes, "You almost ache for a dial-up modem." Oddly enough, you can't even download music directly from iTunes. In a different world, you'd be able to use your iPhone to roam on Verizon's much better 3G network, download media at will, and also use your iPhone as a modem for your PC. But don't hold your breath.
The iPhone is also a closed platform. Unlike your Macintosh computer, which can run whatever software developers write for it, the iPhone will, in native mode, run only whatever Apple (and AT&T) approve of. While there are some technical and security reasons to do things this way, there's an ideological point here, too. The closed iPhone stands in contrast to the open-platform design that has been the bedrock of both the personal computer and Internet revolutions. By design, the iPhone embodies the opposite of what made the Apple II so successful.
Sensitive to this point, Steve Jobs claims to have left someroom for developing iPhone applications. The iPhone, as we said already, is a miniature Mac, and comes with Apple's Safari browser. Developers will be able to write Web-based applications that will work on the iPhone via the browser.
Whether this will mean much is hard to say. Doubtless, many will take a shot at trying to write a killer app for the iPhone, and some may be pretty good. But the problem is that you have to be online to use a Web application. Unless you're in an open Wi-Fi zone, that means running right into the limits of AT&T's slower-than-a-dialup-modem EDGE network. In addition, the phone won't support Java or Flash, which are both important components of many powerful Web apps. Without access to the full power of the phone, the limits on developers will be severe.
We're left to wonder, then, why the iPhone plays by the rules. Isn't this Apple, the company of "Think Different"? You could argue that the iPhone proves that Apple is no longer a company interested in transforming industries. Once Big Brother's foe, it's now more like Little Brother, happy to sell cute little devices that are easy to use, make money, and spread false consciousness.
If you're an optimist, the more intriguing possibility is that Apple's iPhone is a Trojan Horse. The iPhone is fatally attractive to AT&T, since it gives the firm a chance to steal tens of thousands of new customers from rivals like Verizon. But Apple may be betting that, once it has its customers, they'll be more loyal to Apple than AT&T. With its foothold in the wireless world, Apple may be planning to slowly but inexorably demand more room. If iPhone 2.0 is a 3G phone that works with any carrier and supports third-party apps, then industry power will begin to move away from the carrier oligopoly and toward Apple and other Silicon Valley firms. Now, that would be a revolution.


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Chris Beutler
Chris Beutler was elected Mayor in May 2007 and re-elected in May 2011. He is a native Nebraskan, who has devoted the majority of his life to serving the City of Lincoln, the people of Nebraska and the nation.
Chris attended Yale University, where he played safety for the Bulldog football team and graduated in 1966. Heeding the call to public service by President John F. Kennedy, Chris joined the U.S. Peace Corps and taught children in Turkey. Chris is a veteran of the Armed Forces. He served in the U.S. Army, mostly in Thailand, from 1969 to 1971, rising to the rank of First Lieutenant. After his military service, he returned to Nebraska to attend the University Of Nebraska College Of Law, earning his J.D. in 1973.
Professionally, Chris worked in the title industry in support of Lincoln's commercial real estate and housing markets for over 15 years. He started, grew and sold his own business, Beutler Title Company.
As a development consultant for the City of Lincoln, Chris raised millions of dollars for the City's Parks and Recreation Department. Beutler's work was key to the renovation of the Sunken Gardens - restoring one of Lincoln's crown jewels.
Beutler was elected to the Nebraska Legislature in 1978, representing Central Lincoln's 28th District. He was re-elected in 1982. He returned in 1990 and was re-elected in 1994, 1998 and 2002.
During his Legislative career, Chris was a champion for campaign finance reform. He led the effort to reduce the influence of big money in campaigns and increase the power of Nebraska citizens at the ballot box. Beutler has been a leader on the environment, enacting key water and anti-pollution legislation. He advocated successfully for education finance changes that boosted state support of classroom teachers and reduced educational reliance on property taxes. He was a strong supporter of business incentives that improved Nebraska's business climate and led to the creation of thousands of new jobs and new investment. He also effectuated court system administrative reform saving Lancaster County taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
During his time in the legislature, Beutler served as chair of the Judiciary Committee, the Natural Resources Committee, the Executive Board, and the Performance Audit Committee. He also served on the Education, Rules and Appropriations committees.
In the 2006 session, Beutler was instrumental in securing an additional $1.1 million per year for City of Lincoln street building efforts. As Mayor, his aggressive efforts to secure funding for roads and other infrastructure have continued:
Other accomplishments of his Mayoral administration include the creation of the Development Services Center (DSC) to help developers create jobs more quickly. The DSC opened in the spring of 2010. He has corrected the City budget structural imbalance with a combination of budget cuts, revenue enhancements and reorganization. This was accomplished without increasing the City property tax rate and without closing branch libraries, neighborhood pools, recreation centers or parks.
The Mayor has been a champion for the proposed Lincoln Haymarket Arena development, approved by voters in May 2010. The 2008 passage of LB 912 (the Turnback Tax Measure) will return about $700,000 per year in state sales tax revenues for the project to the City of Lincoln.
Beutler created the Stronger Safer Neighborhoods Initiative to focus on revitalizing problem neighborhood areas. He also launched the Cleaner Greener Lincoln initiative to improve energy efficiency and boost the use of renewable and clean energy technologies across the community. He also has appointed committees to tackle specific issues in the community, such as the City Audit Advisory Board, the Impact Fee Study Committee, the MOVE (Mayor's Opportunities for a Vibrant Economy) Council, and the Mayor's Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Health Care Safety Net.
Chris and his wife Judy live at 7021 Fernhill Place and together have five grown children - Lori, Alexa, Erica, Mikahla and Sam - and seven grandchildren.


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Feeding America Responds To New USDA/IOM Report On The SNAP Program
Jan 17, 2013, 06:22 EST
CHICAGO, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Feeding America, the nation's largest hunger relief organization commends the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) for their new report examining the adequacy of the SNAP (formerly Food Stamps) benefit. Meager SNAP benefit levels are insufficient to allow families to access an adequate, nutritious diet, and the report draws needed attention to the need to protect and strengthen SNAP benefits.
The report released today, "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy," assessed the feasibility of establishing an objective, evidence-based definition of the adequacy of SNAP allotments in meeting the program's goals of improving food security and access to a healthy diet among low income Americans.
The report identifies some limitations in the way the SNAP allotment is currently determined, and suggests areas for further study to enable the program to more adequately meet the nutritional needs of many SNAP recipients.
In examining current structural elements of the program, the report finds that the SNAP benefit formula should be adjusted to more accurately reflect household expenses, such as housing and medical costs. The research also suggests that the benefit allotment should take into consideration environmental factors, like time constraints, geographic food price variation, and access to affordable, nutritious food.
Many low-income families juggle multiple jobs, may not be able to afford child care, may rely on public transportation, and may have additional burdens on their time that make it more difficult to cook food from scratch, which is what the USDA's Thrifty Food Plan assumes in setting the allotment levels for SNAP.
"Feeding America knows that millions of Americans struggle to feed themselves and their families on current SNAP benefits. The average family of three receives about $290 a month in SNAP benefits, which averages less than $1.50 per person per meal," said Bob Aiken, president and CEO of Feeding America. "Most SNAP benefits are redeemed by day 21 of any given month, leaving families scrambling to find enough food – and increasing the burdens on food pantries run by our nation's charities."
Feeding America's annual "Map the Meal Gap" research reinforces key findings of the IOM report, including stark variation in food prices across the country.
According to "Map the Meal Gap" 2012, a meal costs $2.52 on average but the analysis reveals average meal costs ranging from as little as $1.80 in Zavala, Texas to as much as $5.51 in Union, South Dakota. Among the counties with the top 10% highest food insecurity rates in the nation, food prices reach as high as 143% of the national average (or $3.60 per meal in Colusa, California). For a food insecure household struggling to afford housing, utilities and other necessities, the additional burden of expensive food can have a significant impact on a household's budget.
The report recommends that more research is needed to make modifications to the SNAP Program.
"Feeding America urges our nation's leaders to keep the SNAP program fully funded. With millions of Americas out of work, employed in part time or low wage jobs, and still suffering economic woes in this tough economy, this report underscores that our leaders should be talking about ways to strengthen SNAP, not cut its funding. We continue to urge Congress to not attempt to balance the budget on the backs of the nation's poorest and most vulnerable citizens and to protect and strengthen SNAP," said Aiken.
Ross Fraser
SOURCE Feeding America


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Haploblepharus pictus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Haploblepharus pictus (Müller & Henle, 1838)
Common Name(s):
Scyllium pictum Müller & Henle, 1838
|Taxonomic Notes:
|H. pictus has been commonly misidentified as H. edwardsii, particularly east of Cape Algulhas, South Africa, where it is now known to occur. Problems with taxonomic keys that are currently available, have further confounded misidentifications. A taxonomic key has recently been developed to address this problem (Human 2003, 2007).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Human, B.
|Cavanagh, R.D., Stevens, J.D., Pollard, D., Dudley, S. & Valenti, S.V. (Shark Red List Authority)
Haploblepharus pictus is endemic to Namibia and South Africa. An abundant inshore catshark, it is commonly caught by rock and surf anglers, and regularly seen by scuba divers and snorkellers. Its habitat preference appears to be kelp forests and rocky inshore reefs. Variation in colour pattern of this species and morphological similarity with other members of this genus has led to misidentifications of this species for H. edwardsii, particularly east of Cape Algulhas, South Africa. The main threat is recreational fishing where this shark is taken as discarded bycatch, generally regarded as a nuisance by the fishermen, and persecuted as such. It is not seen in other inshore fishery activities. Its apparent abundance and lack of significant fishing related threats give no reason to suspect a decline in abundance and this species is listed as Least Concern. However, its endemicity and habitat preference means that monitoring is required for both its abundance and health of its preferred habitat. Possible population substructuring needs to be assessed.
|Range Description:
|Southeast Atlantic Ocean and Western Indian Ocean. Southern African endemic occurring from north of Lüderitz, Namibia, south along the west coast of South Africa. A recent taxonomic revision of this genus has identified H. pictus ranging eastwards to at least the Storms River mouth, South Africa, southwestern Indian Ocean (Compagno et al. 1989, Human 2003, 2007).
No information available is available on its population structure, however it is likely, given the sedentary nature of this species that population sub-structuring may exist (Human 2003, 2007).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Namibia (Namibia (main part)); South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape)
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – southeast
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|This is an apparently abundant species, regularly seen by divers and rock and surf anglers (Human 2003, 2007). There are no quantitative data available on abundance or population structuring.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Preferred habitat for this species appears to be kelp forest and rocky reef. Although not observed in sandy habitats, it presumably traverses these to move between rocky outcrops and fragmented kelp beds. Although the depth range is unknown, H. pictus is apparently confined to shallow inshore waters given that all specimens examined by Human (2003, 2007) were collected very close to shore and H. pictus not been taken in any research trawls undertaken by the research vessel "Africana", further confirming its inshore habitat.
A breeding season is apparently absent (Bertolini 1993). H. pictus has extended single oviparity, depositing one egg case at a time (von Bonde 1945a, Bass et al. 1975, Compagno 1984b, Bertolini 1993, Dainty et al. 2001, and Dainty 2002). Gestation is six to ten months with hatchlings between 10.2-11.7 cm TL (Dainty 2002). Dainty (2002) determined that at 50% maturity H. pictus is 15 years old and that they live to be 25 years old.
Maximum size is probably about 60 cm TL (Bass et al. 1975). Males are embryonic at 10.3 cm TL, juvenile at 16.5-36.9 cm TL, adolescent at 28.2-40.7 cm TL, and mature at 40.0-57.0 cm TL. Females are juvenile at 11.0-30.6 cm TL, adolescent at 43.0-53.3 cm TL, and mature at 35.9-59.7 cm TL (Human 2003, 2007).
|Major Threat(s):
|The main threat is recreational fishing where this shark is commonly taken as discarded bycatch, generally regarded as a nuisance by the fishermen, and persecuted as such. Survival rates from recreational angling are unknown, although are presumed to be low (Human 2003, 2007). It is not seen in other inshore fishery activities (Human 2003, 2007). A possible threat, due to the very shallow habitat preference for this endemic species, is this sharks potential vulnerability to habitat degradation. The recreational catch of this species needs to be monitored, and the fishers educated. Habitat loss is a minor threat, as its range in southern Namibia and northwest South Africa coincide with relatively low human population densities, although its range east of, and including, Cape Town, falls within coastline that is relatively densely populated by humans.
|Conservation Actions:
|No conservation measures are in place for this species at present. However the population appears to be stable given the anecdotal evidence. Appropriate habitat and catch monitoring is recommended for the near future.
|Human, B. 2009. Haploblepharus pictus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T161650A5472861. . Downloaded on 20 August 2018.
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News - September 5, 2013
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller is a story- and character-driven point-and-click adventure by the designers of The Silver Lining, with Jane Jensen as story consultant.
Erica Reed, an FBI agent with paranormal powers, is haunted by the unsolved murder of her brother, Scott, by a serial killer. She'd been unable to save him, even with her sixth sense.
Three years later, she investigates a new serial killer who seems to be leaving clues that only she can uncover. Will she finally be able to solve Scott's murder, or will she be ensnared in trap that will cost her life?
Don't miss the thrilling Season Finale -- Cognition Episode 4: The Cain Killer!


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Template:Infobox:C C (シー, Shī; Viz "Shee", English TV "Cee") is a jōnin-level shinobi from Kumogakure.[1]
Personality Edit
In contrast to his easy-going partner, C is portrayed as a very serious individual normally seen with a look of self-assured confidence on his face. He often puts duty above all else, as shown when he told Darui there was no time for rest upon their return from the Kage Summit as they had to begin planning immediately. He also seems to have a slight dislike for Konoha ninja, calling Naruto's group "Konoha dogs".[2]
Appearance Edit
C is a young man with short, blond hair and dark eyes. He wears a sleeveless black shirt with a one-strap-over-one-shoulder white flak jacket, forehead protector, characteristic black, elbow-length arm-guards, and the red and white Kumogakure shin-guards along with a pair of sandals.
Abilities Edit
C is a sensor-type shinobi, allowing him to sense the chakra of others even from extended distances. Additionally he is a medical-nin which allows him to play an even greater support role on the battlefield. He also appears to be very analytical, and knowledgeable on foreign shinobi techniques, as he is shown recognising Sasuke Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan,[3] along with Amaterasu,[4] even having knowledge on Itachi Uchiha's use as well.[5] C was able to deduce how Sasuke's Blaze Release worked after only seeing it once.[6]
C is a skilled genjutsu user, witnessed from his use of the Lightning Illusion Flash of Lightning Pillar technique which makes use of his Lightning Release nature transformation to emanate light from his entire body to blind his opponents.[7] His genjutsu prowess is further exemplified by his placing a secondary genjutsu within the first.[8]
All of these abilities also imply a mastery of multiple skills requiring very fine chakra control. Also of note is when he went to defend the Raikage from the bodyguards of the other Kage he took a defensive, taijutsu stance, implying that he is competent in close-range combat as well.[9]
Part II Edit
Five Kage Summit Arc Edit
C and Darui were chosen to escort the Fourth Raikage to the Kage Summit in the Land of Iron. During a brief rendezvous with Team Samui while en route, C sensed that they have been followed by Naruto Uzumaki, Kakashi Hatake, and Yamato and after the Raikage spoke with the Konoha-nin, they continued on their way. Once they arrived and the meeting began, C and Darui came to the Raikage's defence following his outburst, blocking the attacks of the other Kage's bodyguards. After being told to stand down, they returned to their posts after things settled down, only to again come to the Raikage's side when White Zetsu appeared. White Zetsu revealed that Sasuke Uchiha, Killer B's captor, was nearby, so C and Darui accompanied the Raikage in tracking Sasuke down.
C located Sasuke and his team and reported a number of samurai casualties as they got nearer. When they arrived, C launched an attack with his Lightning Illusion Flash of Lightning Pillar technique to blind Sasuke and his team, creating an opening for the Raikage and Darui to attack. The Raikage then instructed C to find and eliminate Sasuke's sensor. C was not able to defend himself properly during his search, and despite Darui's attempts to keep him safe, he is struck by one of Sasuke's genjutsu and passed out. Darui later revived him and helped him get on his feet, and together they observed the Raikage's fight with Sasuke. The Raikage was eventually struck by Sasuke's Amaterasu and was forced to cut off his arm. When the fight was interrupted by the Sand Siblings, C used medical ninjutsu and stopped the bleeding and silently worried about how far the Raikage was willing to go.[10]
While the Raikage was being healed, Sasuke escaped. They followed him to the Summit hall, where Tobi explained his Eye of the Moon Plan to them. As part of his explanation he revealed that B only pretended to be captured; C sighs at this most recent example of B trying to get some vacation-time, which did not surprise Darui. After the formation of the Allied Shinobi Forces, C joined the Raikage in searching for B. Before they leave, C told the samurai that two members of Sasuke's team were still in the area.
From several miles away, C was able to detect B's chakra contained within a large sphere of water. When they arrived there, they found B fighting Kisame Hoshigaki. C thanked Kisame for producing the water dome and thus, inadvertently helping them find B. After Kisame was "eliminated" they all returned to Kumogakure. C later attended a war council meeting where he advised the Raikage on how to form a reconnaissance team to find the Akatsuki base.
Shinobi World War Arc Edit
When the war began, C was placed in the Sensor Division. C was a bit unsettled since it is the first war he would ever fight in. However, Ao told him that if they did their jobs well, they could have a huge impact on the outcome of the war and not to slack off.[11]
Ten-Tails Revival Arc Edit
On the second day, mobilising with the remaining members of his division and the Allied Shinobi Forces, C arrive at the battlefield where the jinchūriki were. With this, he and the other members of the Allied Shinobi Forces stood to face their opposition. Following the strategy relayed to them by Shikaku, C and Darui, along with several other Kumo-nin begin the assault. Launching their assault, C and several others blinded the enemy with the Lightning Illusion Flash of Lightning Pillar technique, allowing Darui and other Storm Release bearers to use the Storm Release: Laser Circus technique to aim for the beast's eye.
Following Obito Uchiha's attack of the shinobi on the battlefield, it was revealed that C, while sustaining injuries, was still alive. He later commented on the change that had occurred in Naruto Uzumaki's chakra from a sensory perspective. C later recovers, and with Naruto's Kurama chakra cloak helps fight the enemy.
Creation and Conception Edit
Masashi Kishimoto noted that he created C with a cool, good-looking male idol in mind, but also as a serious character. As such, C generally has a look of aplomb on his face and wears the standard attire of Kumogakure without any embellishments.
Video Games Edit
In Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations and Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, C is a support-only character.
Trivia Edit
- "Shī" is the Japanese pronunciation of the letter "C". This parallels the name of several other shinobi of Kumogakure whose names are letters of the alphabet.
- In Naruto: Shippūden episode 261, when deploying with the Sensor Division, C is not present like he was in the manga. He is instead replaced with someone else.
References Edit
- ↑ Naruto chapter 461, page 3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 457, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 463, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 463, page 14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 463, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 464, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 461, pages 4-5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 461, pages 5-6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 458, pages 4-5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 464, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 515, page 15


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TORONTO, CANADA (CBC News/CNN) - They can be tacky, cheerful, unusual, and downright hideous, but 'tis the season for the ugly Christmas sweater.
The ugly Christmas sweater has become a trend to wear at holiday parties.
Two friends have taken it to a new level. "We had matching penguin sweaters. We just thought it was a gag, and then it got called the Ugly Sweater Party." Jordan Birch of the Now That's Ugly Society said.
They've been holding an annual ugly Christmas sweater party for more than a decade, and it's grown so big they now hold it in a ballroom.
"It's a pretty awesome party, 1,110," Chris Boyd said. "We have live music. We have a DJ. We have a gospel choir. We have all the festive elements."
The duo pushed for the city of Vancouver to proclaim Ugly Sweater Day on Dec. 20.
The popularity of the festive knits has led to skyrocketing sales at a trendy vintage store.
"The uglier the better: the more tacky, the more adornments," co-owner Drew Heifitz said.
He said even though about 85 percent of them are women's sweaters - the kind grandma would wear - they're hot.
"I sell these all year because I'm also a wholesaler," Heifitz said. "I wholesale these sweaters all across North America and actually some to Europe. We've probably sold 25,000 sweaters this year."
With so many choices, picking the right holiday sweater can be tough. Still, the uglier they are, the bigger the smile.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Following a week where the King University baseball posted a record of 4-1 and took a road sweep at Limestone College, second basemen Steven Todoschuk was named Conference Carolinas Baseball Player of the Week.
The junior record three multi-hit games last week, and had a batting average of .429 in five games. Todoschuk, a native of Stoney Creek, Ontario scored at least two runs in four of the five games for a total of nine for the week. Against Concord he went 3-for-5 with three runs scored and drove in two. Against Limestone, he hit his second home run of the season in game one and went 3-for-5, drove in two and scored twice. For the week, Todoschuk had a slugging percentage of .714 and on base percentage of .520.
The Tornado baseball team is in action this afternoon at Mars Hill College. King returns home to face Tusculum College tomorrow with first pitch scheduled for 3:00 p.m.


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Tom Joyner earned the nickname "The Fly Jock" and "The Hardest Working Man in Radio" by working long hours and flying between his morning job (in Dallas, Texas) and afternoon job (in Chicago, Illinois) every weekday for eight years, collecting over 7 million frequent flyer miles.
Tom Joyner grew up in the town of Tuskegee, Alabama. He is one of two sons. His mother was a secretary for the military and his father served as a Tuskegee Airman. His beginnings were very much like many young blacks in the south. During the Montgomery Boycott, there was the "Tuskegee Boycott". Tom and many others fought for their civil rights. They took their protests to the streets weekly to try and effect change. One such protest was taken to a local radio station that refused to play "black" music. Eventually the station manager relented and Tom (naturally) nominated himself for the position.
Tom Joyner graduated from Tuskegee Institute in his hometown of Tuskegee, Alabama in 1970. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and immediately began his career in radio. He started at WRMA (an AM station in Montgomery, Alabama). After breaking onto the airwaves there, he worked his magic at WLOK (an AM station in Memphis, Tennessee), KWK (an AM station in St. Louis, Missouri), and KKDA (an FM station in Dallas, Texas).
Eventually, he moved to Chicago – the Windy City. He blew through the Windy City on radio stations WJPC (FM), WGCI (FM), WVON (AM) and WBMX (FM) and caused a whirlwind of excitement on urban radio. Never before had listeners experienced such energy, humor and vitality.
Opportunity came knocking in the mid 1980′s. Tom's upbeat style and comedic antics put him in an awkward position. His contract was about to expire and it was decision time. He was offered the MORNING drive time position at KKDA (Dallas, Texas) by one company and the AFTERNOON Disc Jockey position at WGCI (Chicago, Illinois). Any normal human would have chosen one position or the other – Tom Joyner chose to do BOTH! His plan was to fly thousands of miles everyday by airplane each day between Dallas and Chicago. He spent so much time in the air that he received the name "The Fly Jock". This commute and his rich on air style gained him national publicity and high ratings.
In 1994, Tom Joyner took his show to a new level. He knew that if he wanted to reach a broader audience, more "Fly Jockeying" would not do the trick, so he convinced ABC Radio Networks that his show could work in syndication. ABC, impressed with his determination, credentials and following gave it a try. In 1994, The Tom Joyner Morning Show started with Tom Joyner at the helm.


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Bully Ray will need to defend his title twice in the next fortnight if he is to remain the TNA World Heavyweight Champion.
Ray, who was not due to fight again until the winner of the Bound for Glory Series became his mandatory challenger, was given the news in a stunning announcement from company chief Hulk Hogan.
The 60-year-old once known as 'Super Destroyer' told an appalled Ray that in two weeks he could have to defend his title against a 'member of his own family', a member of the Aces & Eights club of which Bully is president. But only if he can defeat his first challenger this week: four-time World Champion, the Icon: Sting.
It was not the only surprise news from the General Manager, who announced that the Bound for Glory Series, seemingly completed with this week's three one-on-one matches, is in fact not over. A 12-way gauntlet match offers the winner a final 20 points, meaning that several wrestlers could still gate-crash the top four.
At the start of the night's action on 'Must Win Thursday', the current leaders of the series included Magnus (with 39 points), Bobby Roode (34), Christopher Daniels (30) and Austin Aries (28). The top four will advance to 'No Surrender' in two weeks' time, where the competition to find a challenger to the Heavyweight Title will continue.
But with ten points available for a submission win, and seven points for a pin win, several fighters still had ambitions of making a late surge for a finals spot.
The first match paired Jeff Hardy (in seventh place with 24 points), against Kazarian (ninth, 22). Kazarian, one third of the Bad Influence trio, was warned ahead of the match that any interference from his cohorts Daniels and Roode – as seen regularly over the last fortnight – would result in instant disqualification.
Hardy dominated the early stages, coming close to a leg-lock submission before Kazarian managed to grab the rope. Kazarian was slowly working his way back into the match, until Hardy pulled off his specialist move – the 'Twist of Fate' – to trap his opponent and claim a seven point pin win.
Following the match, the Main Event Mafia came to the ring to thank AJ Styles for his part in last week's victory over the Aces & Eights, which saw Devon removed from the TNA Company.
Styles accepted the thanks, but turned down Sting's offer to 'join his family', claiming that he wants to continue forward as his own man.
"I must do this myself… I respect what they're doing and I hope they get rid of Aces and Eights, but it's just not me," Styles commented.
"I've developed some trust issues, when two of my best friends stabbed me in the back, it made me realise the only person I can trust is myself. I am with no one…. Although I love what I do in this ring, I have to understand that this is just a job.
"I've realised over the past year that I deserve better. I've been your go to guy for the last 11 years, and for what. Every time I'm there to bail this company out and put it back on my shoulders. I kept hoping you would fire me so I wouldn't have to quit. But I've stayed here and done my job, so I can take care of my family. That is my job and that is what I do.
"I like being your go to guy, the guy you depend on, the guy who can steal the show and send the fans going home happy. I will win the Bound for Glory Series and become your new world champion."
Styles, well adrift of a top four spot with 22 points ahead of his match with Roode, knew that only a submission win would give him the required points.
Roode was victim of a series of unsuccessful submission attempts from Styles, whose intentions were made clear when he pulled out of an attempted pin to instead lock his opponent in a headlock.
But Styles was denied maximum points by his own instinctive winning desire, dodging a Roode attack and rolling him into a pin, collecting a seven point win and leaving him fifth in the series.
In the final match Austin Aries, who turned down an offer to join Bad Influence last week, was on top form as he defeated Daniels.
A 'suicide dive' first sent Daniels sprawling outside the ring. Aries slung a dazed Daniels back onto the canvas before putting together a stunning combo against his dazed opponent, following up a flying drop-kick with an earth-shaking 'brain buster' – grabbing the pin and a seven point win.
The results left a top four of Magnus (39 points), Aries (35), Roode (34) and Hardy (31), but following the announcement of next week's gauntlet match, Daniels (30), Styles (29), Samoa Joe (26), Mr Anderson (24), Kazarian (22) and even Joseph Park (17) can still reach a place at No Surrender.
It could be a busy couple of weeks for Aces & Eights vice-president Anderson, who has been shown voicing his discontent at Bully Ray's attitude, and could yet be revealed as the second of Ray's title challengers.
At the start of the night Ray described Devon, his partner and friend of over 15 years, as a 'disappointment', a 'loser', his 'co-star and side-kick', before revealing that Tito Ortiz would replace Devon in the Aces & Eights.
His decision did not go down well with Anderson, who reminded his fellow club members that no one man was bigger than the Aces & Eights and that if Ray was not going to give them a vote in such matters that he would have to be removed.
In the only other match of the night, ODB defeated Gail Kim in a '2 out of 3 falls' match by a score of 2-1 to become the #1 contender and mandatory challenger for current World Champion Mickie James.
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I was climbing up a mountain-path
With many things to do,
Important business of my own,
And other people's too,
When I ran against a Prejudice
That quite cut off the view.
My work was such as could not wait,
My path quite clearly showed,
I carried quite a load;
And there that hulking Prejudice
Sat all across the road.
So I spoke to him politely,
For he was huge and high,
And begged that he would move a bit
And let me travel by.
He didn't even try.
And then I reasoned quietly
My time was short —no other path—
The mountain winds were cool.
He sat there like a fool.
Then I flew into a passion,
and I danced and howled and swore.
Till I was stiff and sore;
He got as mad as I did—
But he sat there as before.
And then I begged him on my knees;
I might be kneeling still
If so I hoped to move that mass
As well invite the monument
So I sat before him helpless,
The mountain mists were rising fast,
The sun was sinking slow—
When a sudden inspiration came,
As sudden winds do blow.
I took my hat, I took my stick,
My load I settled fair,
With an absent-minded air —
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In decision 1/CP.21, the commitments from all actors are recognized, including those launched through the Lima–Paris Action Agenda, as well as the urgent need to scale up the global response to climate change and support greater ambition from governments.
At COP 22 in Marrakech, a High-Level Event on Accelerating Climate Action was held to highlight outcomes from the Action Events throughout the conference and culminated with the launching of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action; a new framework to catalyse and support climate action.
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I just discovered this guy, and apparently he's an old school bodybuilder that's been advocating a Vegan diet for ages. He may have already been discussed, but I enjoyed hearing his story.
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Menlo Park native Keith Wilbur, who graduated from Princeton and helped the Tigers win three Ivy League Championships as team captain and goalie, is in his 11th-year directing both the men's and women's water polo programs at Santa Clara University.
Wilbur was hired in July of 2002 and has become the winningest
coach in SCU water polo history. He has recruited and coached six
Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-Americans,
led both men's and women's programs to their best-ever
seasons, including taking the women's team to the Western
Water Polo Association (WWPA) Championship game in 2009 and has
twice been named WWPA Coach of the Year.
His men's program achieved a No. 10 national ranking in 2009 by the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA), and both programs have enjoyed extended time ranked among the nation's top 20. The women's team's best ranking came in 2007, when the CWPA tabbed the Broncos No. 12.
Not only have his teams excelled athletically, his
student-athletes have posted a 100 percent graduation rate on the
women's side and over 95 percent on the men's side. As
recently as July of 2012, the Bronco women's team placed a
league-best 11 student-athletes on the WWPA All-Academic team.
The Broncos best-ever record on the men's side came in 2009, when SCU went 22-12 and advanced into the WWPA semifinals, behind All-America driver Jack Wall, who finished his collegiate career among the most accomplished water polo players in school history.
The Bronco women's best overall record of 25-8, came in 2006. In 2009 SCU was one win away from its first-ever NCAA tournament berth. Utility player Lindsey Bacolini was the program's first Division I All-American in 2006 and lefty Amy Lamb was honored as an All-American in 2009.
Prior to being hired at Santa Clara, he served as the top assistant at San Jose State University in 2002, helping the Spartans rank as high as No. 6 nationally.
Following an outstanding playing career, which included a brief stint as a member of the US National Team and competing in the 1997 World University Games in Sicily, Italy, he moved into coaching, getting his start at his high school alma mater Menlo School. Wilbur coached four high school All-Americans and led the team to the CCS Championship game three times in his four years at Menlo. Before his arrival, Menlo had never won a CCS playoff match.
Wilbur is a 1996 honors graduate of Princeton University, earning his degree in Economics.


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On a day notable for yet another Iraqi comeback, Chile, Uzbekistan and Croatia all passed up opportunities to join sole qualifiers Spain in the Round of 16 of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Turkey 2013.
The Lions of Mesopotamia came from a goal down to beat Egypt 2-1 and move a step closer to taking a wholly unexpected place in the knockout phase, their fightback leaving the Egyptians with much to do to progress. Group E rivals England posted another draw and may now have to go for broke on a final day on which all four teams in the section will be in contention for a place in the next round.
In Group F, meanwhile, Uruguay bounced back from defeat to Croatia to beat New Zealand, while Uzbekistan's draw with the Croats leaves the pool wide open, with even the pointless Junior All Whites still in with a chance of making it through.
The results
Group E: Antalya
Chile 1-1 England (Goals: Nicolas Castillo 32 pen, Chile; Harry Kane 64, England)
Iraq 2-1 Egypt (Goals: Ammar Abdulhussein 33, Mohanad Abdulraheem 79, Iraq; Hassan Ahmed 27, Egypt)
Group F: Bursa
New Zealand 0-2 Uruguay (Goals: Giorgian de Arrascaeta 4, Nicolas Lopez 75)
Croatia 1-1 Uzbekistan (Goals: Marko Livaja 65, Croatia; Sardor Rakhmanov 24, Uzbekistan)
Memorable moments
Never say die
Iraq have announced themselves as one of the revelations of Turkey 2013, a status they owe to staging two fightbacks in as many games, which have brought them four points out of six and the lead in Group E. After clawing back a two-goal deficit in the final 15 minutes of their game against England, the Lions of Mesopotamia hit the comeback trail again after falling behind to Egypt, going on to record a famous win.
What's in a name, and a haircut?
Judging by events on day six at Turkey 2013, players called Nicolas and wearing a Mohican hairstyle have a strong chance of getting their name on the scoresheet. Proving the point were Nicolas Lopez of Uruguay and Nicolas Castillo of Chile. The former, the top-scorer at the South American U-20 Championships with six goals, helped his side recover from a first-day defeat by hitting the second in their 2-0 defeat of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the latter converted the penalty that ultimately earned La Rojita a vital point against England and kept them right on track for the last 16.
A touching tribute
Wednesday saw the football family pay a heartfelt homage to Alen Pamic, the young Croatian who played for Istria 1961 in the country's first division and tragically died a few days ago while playing an indoor match. In his memory a minute's silence was held before the start of the Croatia-Uzbekistan match, while FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter sent a letter of condolence to the Croatian Football Association in which he mourned the youngster's death. "He was a strong and energetic midfielder," wrote Blatter. "I can imagine that he was full of hope for the future, making plans and mapping out his dreams. We will miss him very much."
The rub of the green
There are times when the two posts and a bar that make up the goal can be the difference between success and failure. Chile's Bryan Rabello had cause to rue their intervention in the latter stages against England. Thundering in a 30-yard drive reminiscent of the goal he struck to seal Chile's place at Turkey 2013, Rabello looked on with frustration as the ball shuddered against the bar and bounced away to safety. For Uruguay's Nicolas Lopez, however, the woodwork proved a useful ally. After heading towards goal in his side's match against New Zealand, the Celeste striker was grateful to see the ball strike the post, evade the grasp of the Kiwi keeper and roll right back into his path, allowing him to make sure of three valuable points for the South Americans.
The stat of the day
0 - The number of victories England have achieved against CONMEBOL opposition in their nine FIFA U-20 World Cup appearances. Having recorded two draws and six defeats in games with Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Colombia, the English extended that winless run with today's draw against Chile. The stalemate in Antalya was also England's 16th consecutive match without a win in the competition.
The words
Disappointing for the boys to get another point I thought we deserved to win the game on to the next one on sat massive game against Egypt
— Luke Garbutt (@luke_garbutt) June 26, 2013
Next up (local times)
Group E
Iraq-Chile (Antalya, 21:00)
Egypt-England (Bursa, 21:00)
Group F
Uzbekistan-Uruguay (Antalya, 18:00)
Croatia-New Zealand (Bursa, 18:00)


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