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Every year since he arrived at Notre Dame in 2010, head football coach Brian Kelly has worked hard to win the national championship – and every year something happens.
This year it happened early.
Last Saturday, police arrested six Notre Dame football players in two separate incidents for criminal conduct including illegal possession of a loaded weapon, battery on a police officer, resisting law enforcement, and illegal drug possession. The team immediately removed two players, while the fate of the other four remains in limbo.
Old timers at Notre Dame would wryly observe that "boys will be boys," but year after year, a number of Coach Kelly's players have been sidelined not only for "routine" academic violations, but some serious felonies (starting quarterback Tommy Reese was arrested in 2012 for battery on a police officer, and last Saturday senior cornerback Devon Butler was arrested for assaulting a policeman at a bar near campus).
Kelly's first season was especially tough. In October, he allowed Declan Sullivan, a student videographer, to film practice from a scissor-lift in spite of winds approaching 60 mph. Sullivan fell to his death, and, after an investigation by the Indiana Occupational Health and Safety Administration, the state fined the university $77,500. After repeated media inquiries, University President John Jenkins, C.S.C., finally issued a statement. "We failed to keep him safe," he wrote, "and for that we remain profoundly sorry."
The most troubling case, however, began a month earlier, when Lizzy Seeberg, a freshman at Saint Mary's College (across the street from Notre Dame), reported to Notre Dame's campus police that she had been sexually assaulted in a campus dorm by a member of the football team. The campus cops, in what can only be called manifest malfeasance, dropped the ball. Finally, nine days after the incident, Lizzy committed suicide.
Campus police didn't even interview her alleged assailant until after Lizzy's death. (The player's lawyer later said the contact was "consensual" and that the player acted like "a perfect gentleman.") Father Jenkins stonewalled her parents, and the university refused to turn over the file on the case – what there was of it – to the district attorney until November, after Lizzy's family hired a former U.S attorney to look into the case.
By that time, of course, since the witness had died, no criminal case was brought.
Several years later, Lizzy's father told the Chicago Tribune that "the university and police more aggressively investigated the 2012 case of linebacker Manti Te'o's fictitious girlfriend than that of his dead daughter."
Citing federal privacy law, Father Jenkins has never expressed any condolences, much less an apology, to Lizzy's family.
The accused player was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons. After his first season, however, he was immediately put on waivers after he was charged with felony animal cruelty for killing his girlfriend's Yorkshire Terrier.
Notre Dame has now begun a $400 million upgrade to the football stadium, with 3,000 new "premium" seats expected to bring in some $200 million, a university development officer tells me. The stadium will become the new "Crossroads" of the campus, replacing Sacred Heart Basilica (where this author was baptized the same year that the undefeated Irish won a national championship under coach Frank Leahy). The school's multimillion dollar football contract with NBC has been extended through 2025, and Kelly's contract was just renewed for six more years.
For Father Jenkins, football is a major university asset – football and politics, that is. President Obama's controversial starring role at Notre Dame's 2009 commencement brought the school tens of millions in federal taxpayer grants. Although Notre Dame still calls itself a Catholic school, Father Jenkins defied his local bishop by awarding the coveted Laetare Medal to Vice President Joe Biden this past May.
Nostalgic Irish fans regard Notre Dame's 31-30 victory over Miami in 1988 as the most memorable home game ever. That weekend featured the famous sale of "Catholics vs. Convicts" t-shirts on the campus, mocking the inordinate number of Miami players enduring issues with the law that year.
This fall they won't be a hot item.
Lou Holtz's 1988 team went on to win the national championship, and the Fighting Irish haven't won one since. Father Jenkins is betting that football is key to Notre Dame's future.But the six arrests last weekend have even ardent fans wondering.
"Remember when all we had to worry about was quarterbacks," writes the South Bend Tribune's Al Lesar. "Saturday's news shows that something has gone astray somewhere."
The author earned three degrees from Notre Dame and was awarded the prize named after university president Father Ted Hesburgh in 1968.


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My dear friends, we love you so very much.
Heaven exists, right here, right now upon your earth dear ones. It is not a faraway place. It is not a state of nirvana and meditation although some of you will find it that way. It is not a space reserved only for those who have 'earned' God's love or are 'worthy' of it, for indeed none of you have to earn God's love. It is given freely by its very nature. You are made of the very same. Worthiness is not an issue at all in the mind of God. Are the streams worthy of running into the rivers that run into the oceans, or isn't that part of their very design?
Living 'in' heaven is a choice. It is a choice to celebrate the miracles of life around you. You can see! You can hear! You can touch one another and feel with your very delicate and beautiful skin. You can witness the flight of the birds, hear the rustle in the trees, smell the freshly cut grass, and taste of the earth's bounty. Everywhere you look, everything you feel, everything you hear or see, or taste is a part of God's love for you. Heaven is found by looking at the many ways in which you are loved, at the myriad of ways in which your life does work. Even if you are not happy at all with your present conditions, you can find things to celebrate! You can dream your dreams.
We honor your human desires and yet, why oh why we wonder would you put off your bliss becuase your current life does not reflect some mythical criteria of success? If you had nothing, and believed in God's love for you, you would exist in heaven and find a great abundance of love surrounding you. The birds do not have a bank account. The field mice do not worry about their rent! And yet they are fed, housed, sheltered, and cared for. And when their lives end dear ones, they do not bemoan the fact that they did not achieve all they thought they should for instead they have lived one day, one moment at a time, grateful for the abundance around them.
We know that as human beings you want what you want, and there is nothing wrong with this. But do not put off your joy! Do not put off enjoying the miraculous nature of life around you for any reason whatsoever. Heaven can be yours right now if you choose to see the love of God surrounding you in this very moment. As you do so, you feel abundant inside, and you will attract all you need and want externally as a result. Heaven on earth is certainly not a feeling of lack, but rather an experience of contentment "now" even with a desire for growth and expansion.
Take a moment. Look around. See God's love everywhere – in the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures around you; in the eyes of a loved one, or better yet, in your very own eyes as you look in the mirror. God is everywhere. Love is everywhere. Don't deprive yourself of what is already yours, already here, already available in every given moment.
God bless you. We love you all so very much.
— The Angels

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The Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network has a passion for helping small business owners! Our team is ready to share their expertise with Wyoming entrepreneurs around the state, helping businesses grow and succeed, driving economic growth, and building a better Wyoming.
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Wyoming SBDC Network Regional Director Sarah Hamlin talks about how a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling will affect small business in Wyoming that use or compete with internet sales.
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Inception Technologies introduces InfiniTime 8.0 our Time & Attendance solution for large enterprises and growing companies.
A robust solution powered by Oracle designed with ease of use in mind and addressing all of your HR and Payroll requirements.
InfiniTime 8.0 focuses on the effective management of your workforce, ensures compliance and manages your current pay policies as well as complex business rules.
When it comes to Human Capital Management, InfiniTime easily integrates with other applications such as Payroll and HR, providing you with a comprehensive solution to manage the data capture for payroll, ensuring compliance and allowing your organization to focus on increased productivity through our solution.
Focusing on employee satisfaction and retention the InfiniTime solution provides you with more accurate and equitable pay for the employee population, improved communication about their schedules and time worked and the timely delivery of data to relevant personnel to ensure an increase in productivity.


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Everyone has a favorite Churchill speech. This is one of ours and consequently the inspiration for our recent shirt over at Anglotees which is our tribute to this great leader.
Get your order in for our Churchill shirt by Friday – details here: http://bit.ly/1fOwrdj
We're donating $1 from the sale of each shirt to The Churchill Centre, a non-profit that promotes the legacy of Winston Churchill. Details on the site.


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Even before Gov. John G. Rowland called Tuesday to offer him the job, R. Bartley Halloran had thought it through and made up his mind to accept the position as downtown Hartford's development czar.
``I was prepared for it,'' Halloran, a 49-year-old trial lawyer from West Hartford, said of Rowland's call.
Halloran had the time to serve as chairman of the Capital City Economic Development Authority. As one of the lawyers representing people who lost money in the Colonial Realty swindle, Halloran had recently won a $90 million settlement from a national accounting firm.


text: There were some records my dad played for me, and I loved them because of the wonderful stories he'd include with them. Then there are some records I looked for because I knew there were samples buried in there somewhere, and this Grover Washington record was in that group. My favorite Tribe Called Quest record at the time was People's Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm and played it over and over again. So when a DJ at my 16th birthday told me where the sample for the first song on that tape/cd came from, I checked to see if my dad had that record, and lo and behold he did. So here's Grover Washington's "Loran's Dance" follow by Tribe Called Quest's "Push It Along. And if you're lazy, skip to the to the 5:45 mark of Grover's song, and the 57 second mark of the Tribe song to hear the similarities.


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TUD COST Action C8
Best practice in sustainable urban infrastructure
The Action's main objective was to develop better solutions for sustainable urban infrastructure by exchanging experience, assessing different solutions, developing methods to assess various solutions and promoting the diffusion of best practices concerning sustainable urban infrastructure.
The secondary objective was to achieve a common understanding on sustainability and related criteria for decision-making in urban planning and design dealing with infrastructure.
The beneficiaries of the Action results were local authorities, urban planners and designers and other urban practitioners from all European countries, who were provided with new information, visions and insights concerning sustainable solutions in urban infrastructure.
The Action organised or participated at several major workshops (20-22 Sept. 1999, Stockholm; COST UCE Conference "The Future of the City, New Quality for Life", Bled, Slovenia, 14-15 Sept. 2001; C8 Final Conference, 6-8 November 2003, Trento, Italy), which were also opened to experts from non-participating countries. The importance of the papers was recognised by their publication in a special issue of the international scientific journal The Environmental Impact Assessment Review (Elsevier). The Action was promoted at a worldwide level at the 20th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) in Hong Kong in June 2000.
The final scientific report as a handbook gives an overview of the theories, methods and tools used and includes a selection of some 50 case studies representing the best practices in sustainable urban infrastructure with recommendations emerging from these studies.
(Descriptions are provided by the Actions directly via e-COST.)
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Ahhh, menma. One of my favorite ramen toppings.
Sadly, I hardly ever see menma come with vegetarian bowls! This could be because the marinades for many menma recipes are not vegetarian. Some include Weipa (Chinese soup stock), bonito flakes, or even leftover chashu marinade. However, if we use a kombu/shiitake dashi this recipe by easypeasyjapanesey is veg-friendly.
Here's everything you'll need.
Mix the sesame oil, dashi, shoyu, sake, sugar and salt in a bowl (or directly in the pan you're going to use). Once mixed and in a pan, crank up the heat.
Simmer the bamboo shoots in the liquid until all of the liquid has evaporated, but before the bamboo starts sticking to the bottom. Be sure to nudge the shoots around occasionally to make sure nothing sticks in the process.
And we're done!
While I enjoyed the flavor of the menma, I did have one critique: the menma overall was very salty. It had a cloying ocean flavor.
This could be because I substituted a more kombu-heavy dashi in place of the powdered dashi stock as intended by the original author. I will keep this in mind in future menma experiments, but this recipe is still an excellent intro to the flavors of menma.
- 1 lb fresh bamboo shoots
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 2 cups vegetarian dashi
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp sake
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt


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Potential penalties for these offenses are lengthy. Listed here are a few examples of the sentence you could face if convicted of one of these crimes.
Child Molestation (Indecency with a child)
There are several acts that could fall under the umbrella of this crime. Depending on the specifics of the case, you could face 2nd degree felony charges and up to 20 years in prison.
Sexual Assault
This is the crime we commonly think of when we think of a "rape". It can occur between two people in a relationship or two strangers. The offense doesn't always include intercourse and can be charged even when "sexual contact" has been made.
Some child molestation occurrences are charged under the Sexual Assault law.
In most cases, sexual assault is a 2nd degree felony punishable by 2 to 20 years in prison.
Aggravated Sexual Assault
An aggravated sexual assault is one that occurs under particularly violent circumstances. It may involve a weapon, the threat of death, or an elderly or particularly young victim.
Aggravated sexual assault is a 1st degree felony and carries a potential 5 to 99 years in prison
Child Pornography can be charged as up to a 2nd degree felony which carries a 2 to 20 year prison term.
Prostitution can result in a prison sentence of up to 2 years in prison depending on prior offenses.
Texas "Sexting" Laws
Sending (or receiving) explicit sexual or nude images can be a crime. And if the images are of a minor child, the charges can be child pornography.
Even if a teen boy receives suggestive images sent to him voluntarily from his teen girlfriend, under Texas law, he could be charged with possession and distribution of, or trafficking in child pornography, a felony sex offense. The penalty could be years in prison, and a lifetime as a registered sex offender.
Efforts to reform these laws in a more sensible way that reflect the reality of teen behavior and ever-present cell phone cameras have been proposed, but still haven't passed the Texas Legislature.
In addition to the prison terms and fines one can face when convicted of any of these offenses, you may be required to register as a sex offender. This means you will be tracked for the rest of your life.


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Last updated by Isabel M
Can I block unwanted calls from specific numbers?
We don't currently offer a way to block calls from specific numbers, though if you want to block unwanted text messages you can check out this article for steps on how to do that. Some phones have native call blocking ability, but if your phone doesn't have that and you've got a smart phone, you can often download an app that will do this.
Call blocking on Android phones
Native Call Blocking
Some Android phones offer a native call blocking feature. This is generally found in the Call settings of the phone and will ensure that you aren't disturbed by calls from blocked number by sending them straight to voicemail.
Call Blocking Apps
For Android devices that don't have native call blocking, the most popular call blocking app is Call Control - Call Blocker. This app allows you to set up black or white lists, choose how to treat blacklisted numbers--either by sending them to voicemail, a pick up followed by a hang up or simply muting the ringer when calls from those numbers come in--and even blocks entire area codes. You can also block text messages, including short codes. For a free app, it's relatively robust.
Call blocking on iPhones
iPhones running iOS6 and up come equipped with a number blocking feature for both calls and texts. Text messages from blocked numbers will simply go undelivered while calls will go straight to voicemail. Both features can be found in the Settings within their respective apps or within the contact card of the person you would like to block.
You can certainly look into more complex blocking apps for the iPhone but the native options work pretty well.
Call blocking on Windows phones
Currently call blocking is a feature available on the Samsung Ativ S Neo but not the HTC 8XT. The option can be found in the phone's settings. Currently there are no Windows apps available for purchase/download that will add this feature to the 8XT.


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Duels between John Storms and Hal Hamrick highlighted the Second Annual Boca Athletics All-Comers Championship on Thursday at Spanish River High School west of Boca Raton.
Storms and Hamrick squared off in the mile, two-mile and 880 yards with Storms, who ran for Old Dominion University and represents the Annandale (N.Y.) Striders, racing to victories in each race.
Clocking a 4:30.82 in the mile, Storms, who is primarily a 5K and 10K runner, edged Hamrick by more than seven seconds. In each race, Hamrick began strong but yielded to Storms, who said he has been ``taking it easy`` in July since running in the TAC Junior Nationals in Maryland June 27.
``July`s kind of been like an off month,`` Storms said.
The championship meet was also the first competition for Joy Storms, who watched her son stride through his three impressive races.
Joy has been running since the beginning of June and ran a steady mile. ``I couldn`t walk to the mailbox two months ago,`` she said. She is jogging a mile, sometimes two, daily and ``I`ve lost weight and I`ve lost inches on my waist . . . I feel better,`` she said.
Carol Ann Stankovitz also began running to get back in shape and ventured to the All-Comers meets for exercise and to ``possibly learn something.``
She ended up in races with members of some high school track teams, which made her a bit uneasy. ``The first time I came here I was so intimidated; I didn`t know they ran in school.`` Stankovitz ran an 8:59.85 mile in the women`s 25-40 division Thursday.
The meets were set up by Spanish River cross country coach Rick Rothman to promote track and field and give runners a chance to compete and stay in shape. A small turnout on another night with ideal running conditions disappointed Rothman on Thursday, who gathered consolation from the small but enthusiastic field.


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I love my dinnerware, but while I was at West Elm I came across these beauties. If I had some more more to spend on plates these would be the ones I would purchase. These ones are a little more formal with a gold (or silver) rim around the outside. They have great shape to them like mine do.
I love these gold 'scale' glasses from zgallerie, I have the tall tumblers. (they are also available in silver)
Now I just need to throw a dinner party! Do you have dinnerware that you love? What pieces are you looking to add?


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There are certain situations when you can't "unhide" columns on the left and/or rows at the top and it is not a sheet protection issue.
Tag Archives: Alt key
Alt Key Shortcuts
Two more
I use Alt key shortcuts a lot when I am working and I have found a couple more useful ones.
Excel Full Screen
Maximise your grid area
There are times in Excel when you want to see as much of the Excel grid as possible. You may be reviewing or presenting a dashboard or looking at a large PivotTable. Excel has a Full Screen mode that shows just the grid and the sheet tabs.
Custom List Trick
Create looping sequential codes
It is common to use Q1 for quarter one. Excel will even cycle through Q1,Q2,Q3 and Q4 when you drag a cell contain Q1. What if you want to use the sequence M1 to M12 for months? Custom Lists to the rescue!
Restricting the Scroll Area in Excel
Non-VBA and VBA solution
If you need to limit where a user can scroll to in a sheet you can change a setting in the VBA screen to restrict access to a specific range.
Printing in Excel
Some tips and tricks
It is easy to print things from Word. It is not so easy in Excel. Excel has this huge grid and if you don't tell Excel otherwise, it will print everything on the sheet, whether you want it to or not.
Techniques to Paste Values in Excel
Lose the formulas and keep the values
Sometimes in Excel you need to paste just the values from copied cells. You don't want the formulas. You may have created temporary formulas that you need to replace with their values. You may need to capture the current values, make some changes and then compare the new values with their old values to see the difference.
Excel Data and Formula Entry Tips
Speeding up data entry
There are number of shortcuts you can use to speed up your data and formula entry in Excel.
Number keypad
Use the number keypad on the right of the keyboard. This has all the numbers, as well as most of the formula operators (+ * – /), you need to create formulas. It also has a large Enter key. The numbers are laid out like a calculator and so are easy to use.
Excel Macro Keyboard Shortcut
Macros can really improve your productivity in Excel. When you record a macro you have the option to define a shortcut key. Did you know you can also define a shortcut key for non-recorded macros?
Excel Drop Down Selection and Free Form Entry
Flexible data entry
When creating a drop down selection you usually want to restrict the user to certain entries. There are cases however when you want to allow the user to choose an option or allow them to type in their own entry.
DO NOT PASS GO TO in Excel
A quick way to select cells
Excel's Go To feature provides a quick way to select certain types of cells. For example, if you wanted to apply the same fill colour to all formula cells on a sheet, you can do that in five easy steps using Go To.
Excel Alt key shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts rule
The ALT key (there's one on either side of your Spacebar) has some really useful shortcuts. See if they can save you some time and effort. These can be handy if, like me, you sometimes struggle with your laptop's built-in mouse controller and you don't have your external mouse handy. And remember most keyboard shortcuts work in all versions of Excel.
Insert a line break in a cell
Alt + Enter
The shortcut is
Alt + Enter
To insert a line break within a cell hold down the Alt key (next to your space bar) and press Enter. This inserts a fixed line break within the cell.


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These are Belgians, from the past and the present, whom you might have heard of, placed in no perticular order. For a complete list check this link: http://www.famousbelgians.net/
Gerardus Mercator
Gerardus Mercator (born 5 March 1512 in Rupelmonde, modern Belgium) was a cartographer, philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for his work in cartography, in particular the world map of 1569 based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines. He was the first to use the term Atlas for a collection of maps.
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius (31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564) was a Brabantian (in modern-day Belgium) anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body). Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was professor at the University of Padua and later became Imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V.
Andreas Vesalius is the Latinized form of the Dutch Andries van Wezel, a common practice among European scholars in his time. His name is also given as Andrea Vesalius, Andrea Vesalio, Andreas Vesal, André Vesalio and Andre Vesalepo.
Adolphe Sax
Invented Saxophone
Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (6 November 1814 – c. 7 February 1894) was a Belgian musical instrument designer and musician who played the flute and clarinet, and is well known for having invented the saxophone.
Trivia: Sax suffered from lip cancer between 1853 and 1858 but made a full recovery.
Father Damien
Martyr of charity
Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, or Saint Damien de Veuster (January 3, 1840 – April 15, 1889), born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious institute. He won recognition for his ministry in the Kingdom of Hawaii, to people with leprosy, who had been placed under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the island of Molokaʻi.
After sixteen years caring for the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of those in the leper colony, he eventually contracted and died of the disease, and is considered a "martyr of charity". He was the tenth person recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church to have lived, worked, and/or died in what is now the United States.
In both the Latin Rite and the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church, Damien is venerated as a saint, one who is holy and worthy of public veneration and invocation. Father Damien was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday October 11, 2009.
Leo Baekeland
Inventor of Bakelite (marks beginning of age of plastic)
Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland (November 14, 1863 – February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-born American chemist. He invented Velox photographic paper in 1893 and Bakelite in 1907. His invention of Bakelite, an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic, marked the beginning of the modern plastics industry.
Trivia: Baekeland was awarded the Franklin Medal in 1940. Became a recluse after retirement.
George Lemaître
Invented the Big Bang Theory and the Hubble constant
Monseigneur Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, (17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Université catholique de Louvain. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble. He was also the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article. Lemaître also proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, which he called his 'hypothesis of the primeval atom'.
Trivia: Critics called his theory mockingly the "Big Bang".
Albert Claude
Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine
Albert Claude (24 August 1899 – 22 May 1983) was a Belgian medical doctor and cell biologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade.
His elementary education started in a comprehensive primary school at Longlier, his birth place. He served in the British Intelligence Service during the First World War, and got imprisoned in concentration camps twice. In recognition of his service, he was granted enrolment at the University of Liège in Belgium to study medicine without any formal education required for the course. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1928. Devoted to medical research, he initially joined German institutes in Berlin. In 1929 he found an opportunity to join the Rockefeller Institute in New York. At Rockefeller University he made his most groundbreaking achievements in cell biology. In 1930 he developed the technique of cell fractionation, by which he discovered the agent of the Rous sarcoma, components of cell organelles such as mitochondrion, chloroplast, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, ribosome and lysosome. He was the first to employ electron microscope in the field of bology. In 1945 he published the first detailed structure of cell. His collective works established the complex functional and structural properties of cells.
François Englert
Physicist and Nobel prize winner
François, Baron Englert (born 6 November 1932) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel prize laureate (shared with Peter Higgs). He is Professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) where he is member of the Service de Physique Théorique. He is also a Sackler Professor by Special Appointment in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California. He was awarded the 2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics (with Gerry Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, Tom Kibble, Peter Higgs, and Robert Brout), the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2004 (with Brout and Higgs) and the High Energy and Particle Prize of the European Physical Society (with Brout and Higgs) in 1997 for the mechanism which unifies short and long range interactions by generating massive gauge vector bosons. He has made contributions in statistical physics, quantum field theory, cosmology, string theory and supergravity. He is the recipient of the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award in technical and scientific research, together with Peter Higgs and the CERN.
Englert was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Peter Higgs for the discovery of the Higgs mechanism.
Audrey Hepburn
Film and fashion icon (only born in Belgium)
Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third greatest female screen legend in the history of American cinema and has been placed in the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. She is also regarded by many to be the most naturally beautiful woman of all time.
Born in Ixelles, a district of Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem during the Second World War. In Amsterdam, she studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell before moving to London in 1948 to continue her ballet training with Marie Rambert and perform as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions.
After appearing in several British films and starring in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, Hepburn played the Academy Award-winning lead role in Roman Holiday (1953). She went on to star in a number of successful films like Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), My Fair Lady (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967), for which she received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. For her role in Roman Holiday, Hepburn was also the first actress to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for a single performance in 1954. The same year, she accrued a Tony Award for Best Actress in the Broadway play Ondine. Hepburn remains one of few people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. She won a record three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role.
The movie "The Nun's Story" is partly filmed in Bruges.
Jean-Claude Vandamme
Movie icon
Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (born 18 October 1960), professionally known as Jean-Claude Van Damme and abbreviated as JCVD, is a Belgian martial artist, actor, and director best known for his martial arts action films. The most successful of these films include Bloodsport (1988), Kickboxer (1989), Universal Soldier (1992), Hard Target (1993), Street Fighter (1994), Timecop (1994), Sudden Death (1995), JCVD (2008) and The Expendables 2 (2012).
Eddy Merckx
Road and track bicycle racer
Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (born 17 June 1945), better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional road and track bicycle racer, considered to be the greatest pro-cyclist ever.
The French magazine Vélo described Merckx as "the most accomplished rider that cycling has ever known," while VeloNews of the United States declared him to be the greatest and most successful cyclist of all time.
Merckx, who turned professional in 1965, won the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia five times each, and the Vuelta a España once. He also won all of professional cycling's classic "monument" races at least twice each (with 19 Classics victories in all). Merckx was World Champion once as an amateur and three times as a professional, and he broke the world hour record before retiring in 1978.
Since then, Merckx has remained active in professional cycling through various commercial and sporting projects, most notably by manufacturing and selling his own line of bicycles, Eddy Merckx Cycles.
Kim Clijsters
Tennis player
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters (born 8 June 1983) is a retired Belgian professional tennis player. Clijsters is a former world no. 1 in both singles and doubles.
Clijsters won 41 WTA singles titles and 11 WTA doubles titles. She won four Grand Slam singles titles: three at the US Open, in 2005, 2009, and 2010 and one at the Australian Open in 2011. She was also runner-up in four Grand Slam singles tournaments and won the WTA Tour Championships singles title in 2002, 2003, and 2010. In doubles, she won the French Open and Wimbledon titles in 2003. She was also runner-up in two Grand Slam doubles tournaments, one WTA Championships doubles tournament, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles tournament. In 2001, Clijsters was part of the Belgium Fed Cup winning team. Clijsters announced her retirement with immediate effect on 6 May 2007, but almost two years later, on 26 March 2009, she publicly declared her intent to return to the WTA tour for the 2009 summer hard court season. In only her third tournament back, she won her second US Open title, becoming the first unseeded player and wildcard to win the tournament, and the first mother to win a major since Evonne Goolagong in 1980.
In June 2011, TIME magazine named her one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future". According to Forbes in August 2011, she became the fifth highest-paid female athlete over the past year.
The other Belgian tennis phenomenon from the same period is Justin Henin.
Django Reinhardt
Music artist
Jean "Django" Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) was a Belgian-born French guitarist and composer of Romani heritage.
Reinhardt is often regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time and was the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the genre. After his third and fourth fingers were paralyzed when he suffered burns in a fire, Reinhardt used only the index and middle fingers of his left hand on his solos and invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called 'hot' jazz guitar) that has since become a living musical tradition within French Gypsy culture. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, he co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, described by critic Thom Jurek as "one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz." Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "Minor Swing", "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages". Without Django, there would be no Jimmy Hendrix, no Eric Clapton, no Neil Young.
Trivia: Never had music lessons nor could read music notes. Reinhardt's music has been used in the soundtrack of many films, including in The Matrix,Rhythm Futur, Daltry Calhoun, Metroland, Chocolat, The Aviator, Head in the Clouds.
Jacques Brel
Music artist
Jacques Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in Belgium and France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson. Although he recorded most of his songs in French, he became a major influence on English-speaking songwriters and performers such as David Bowie, Alex Harvey, Leonard Cohen, Marc Almond and Rod McKuen. English translations of his songs were recorded by many top performers in the United States, including Ray Charles, Judy Collins, John Denver, the Kingston Trio, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Scott Walker, and Andy Williams. In French-speaking countries, Brel was also a successful actor, appearing in ten films. He also directed two films, one of which, Le Far West, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. Jacques Brel has sold over 25 million records worldwide, and is the third best-selling Belgian recording artist of all time.
Toots Thielemans
Jazz Musician
Toots Thielemans (born Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans, 29 April 1922, Brussels) is a Belgian jazz musician known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his whistling. Thielemans is credited as one of the greatest harmonica players of the 20th century.
He has worked as a bandleader (scoring an international hit in the 1960s with his song "Bluesette") and has appeared on dozens of film/series soundtracks (Midnight Cowboy, Cinderella Liberty, Sesame Street,...). In 2009 he became NEA Jazz Master, the highest honour for a jazz musician in the United States.
He moved to the US in 1952 where he was a member of Charlie Parker's All-Stars and worked with Miles Davis. He has also played and recorded with Ella Fitzgerald, Jaco Pastorius, Stephane Grappelli, Édith Piaf, J.J. Johnson, Michael Franks, Peggy Lee, John Williams, Quincy Jones, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, The Happenings, Astrud Gilberto, Shirley Horn, Elis Regina, Joe Pass, and others. He may be best known to some as the performer whistling the melody in commercials for Old Spice cologne.
He announced his retirement, at the age of 91, on March 12, 2014.
Salvatore Knight Adamo, simply known as Adamo (born 1 November 1943, Comiso, Sicily, Italy), is a Belgian composer and singer of Italian ancestry. He first gained popularity throughout Europe and later in the Middle East, Latin America, Japan, and the United States. He has sold more than 80 million albums and 20 million singles making him one of the most commercially successful musicians in the world. He mainly performs in French but has also sung in English, German, Italian and Spanish.
Rocco Granata
Rocco Granata (born 16 August 1938) is a Belgiansinger, songwriter, and accordionist.
Granata was born in Figline Vegliaturo, Calabria, southern Italy; but his parents immigrated to Belgium when he was aged ten. Rocco's father was a coal miner, but Granata pursued music instead. He played accordion and toured Belgium with his band, 'The International Quintet'. He then released the songs "Manuela" / "Marina" as a single in 1959; the B-side became an international hit, reaching #1 in Belgium and in Germany as well as charting across Europe and in the United States. It sold over one million copies in Germany alone, and was awarded a gold disc. It has been covered many times by artists such as Marino Marini, Ilham al-Madfai, Dalida and Louis Armstrong.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocco_Granata
The Singing Nun
Jeanine Deckers (17 October 1933 — 29 March 1985), better known as Sœur Sourire ("Sister Smile", often credited as The Singing Nun in English-speaking countries), was a Belgian singer-songwriter and initially a member of the Dominican Order in Belgium as Sister Luc Gabrielle. She acquired world fame in 1963 with the release of the French-language song "Dominique", which topped the U.S. Billboard and other charts.
Trivia: Citing their financial difficulties in a note, she and her companion of ten years, Annie Pécher, both committed suicide by an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol on 29 March 1985.
Wouter "Wally" De Backer (born 21 May 1980), better known as Gotye , is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter. The name "Gotye" is a pronunciation respelling of "Gauthier", the French cognate of Gotye's given Flemish name "Wouter" (English "Walter", hence the nickname "Wally").
Gotye has released three studio albums independently and one album featuring remixes of tracks from his first two albums. He is a member of the Melbourne indie-pop trio The Basics, who have independently released three studio albums and numerous other titles since 2002. His voice has been compared to those of Peter Gabriel and Sting. Gotye's 2011 single "Somebody That I Used to Know" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, making him the fifth Australian-based artist to do so and the second Belgian (after The Singing Nun in 1963). He has won five ARIA Awards and received a nomination for an MTV EMA for Best Asia and Pacific Act. On 10 February 2013, he won three Grammy Awards at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards Show: Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Somebody That I Used to Know" and Best Alternative Music Album for Making Mirrors. Gotye has said he sometimes feels "less of a musician, more of a tinkerer."
Gotye is bilingual, speaking both Dutch and English, and also speaks some Japanese,which he studied at University.
Paul Van Haver (born 12 March 1985), better known by his stage name Stromae, is a Belgian musician, singer, rapper and songwriter. He is originally from Laeken, in Brussels. He established himself in both the hip hop and electronic music genres.
Stromae came to wide public attention in 2009 with his song "Alors on danse", which became a number one in several European countries. In 2013, his second album Racine Carrée was a commercial success.
Winning many awards he collaborated and performed with several stars like Kanye West, will.i.am and The Black Eyed Peas.
Stromae is also known for his distinctive physique and clothing style. He has used this image in launching a limited fashion line, called "Mosaert".


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Extended Promo For "The Grandfather: Part II"Steve Marsi at . Comments
Here's a slightly longer version of the first promo we posted earlier today for next week's "The Grandfather: Part II." This could be one of the craziest in awhile.
Picking up where we left off last night, it looks like there's major, catty tension building between Blair and Serena, with Nate possibly caught in the middle.
Take a look at the promo below and tell us what you predict will happen - and what you hope to see transpire when Gossip Girl returns next week ...
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A Visual Perspective of Gunks Climbing at Patagonia NYC
On April 20th, the NYC climbing community enjoyed a presentation by the Gunks Climbers Coalition & photographer Chris Vultaggio about Gunks rock climbing & land stewardship.
April 20, 2017 – The GCC and Photographer Chris Vultaggio at Patagonia in NYC
Join the GCC and photographer Chris Vultaggio at the Patagonia Meatpacking store in NYC on April 20, 2017 for A Visual Perspective of Gunks Climbing.
October 9, 2015 – Mohonk Preserve Climbers Reception with Mikey Schaefer
Update: The show is sold out! On Friday evening, October 9, 2015 at 6pm, the Mohonk Preserve will host a FREE Climbers... Read More


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The Wildlife Experience is an interactive museum located in Parker, CO. The goal of the museum is to promote an appreciate of wildlife and the environment as well as to inspire visitors to participate in protection and conservation efforts in their communities and world.
Visitors to the 111,000 square foot museum will experience interactive and educational exhibits, films, art work, and other events. Visitors can also take in a movie on the large movie screen, eat at the café, or shop in the gift shop.
There are plenty of activities for children at the museum. Movie and Milkshake nights are popular for parents looking for a safe activity for their children while they get the night off. During these events, children watch a movie at the museum, have snacks, and get to explore the exhibits. These events are for children ages 5 years to 10 years of age from 5pm to 8pm. Admission to the event is $15 for members and $18 for non-members.
On May 14th, the museum will be holding workshops on fishing and gardening from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. The cost for the fishing workshop is $9 per person and includes the fee for a one day fishing license. Museum visitors can attend the workshop on gardening for free.
Girl Scout Overnights are fun filled events for Girl Scouts. The cost for each even is $40 per girl. During the overnights, girls get to watch a movie, explore the museum, and earn a Globeology patch. Of course, they also get to sleep overnight in the museum. Overnights will be held September 16th and 17th; November 4th and 5th; and November 18th and 19th. For more information, contact Heidi at 720-488-3385.
Summer camp at the museum is also a big event. Summer camp sessions cost $110 for campers ages 4-8 and $210 for campers ages 8 to 10 years of age. Camp sessions include a variety of age appropriate topics and include lessons, activities, crafts, and snacks. For more information on registering your child for a session or several sessions, call 720-488-3344. Camp spots fill up fast, so call as soon as possible to make sure that your child gets a spot.
Each day, visitors to the museum can watch a fish feeding at 11:30 and learn about different kinds of fish that live at the museum. At 1:30 visitors can meet the snakes, salamanders, and lizards that live on site. At 2:30 each day, visitors are invited to participate in a nature walk on the museum grounds.
There are many other things to do and see! For more information, check out the website at http://www.thewildlifeexperience.org. For those visitors on a budget, remember that museum fees are discounted on the 7th of each month as part of a partnership with Channel 7. Adults admission is just $7.77 on these days; children up to 12 years of age pay $2.77.


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A "coalition of the willing," even if it only included a handful of countries, would prove enough to topple the Assad regime. But someone in the international community needs to take the initiative on this matter. Hint, hint, wink, wink, our neighbor in that big old White House!
Wednesday 18, 2012
Today's death toll: 23. The Breakdown: 9 in Homs City, 2 defectors in Qseir in Homs Province, 2 women in Ma'arrat Al-Nouman in Idlib Province, 1 in Manbij in Aleppo Province, and 2 in rural Damascus who died of wounds received on prior occasions...
Steven Cook: "The conventional wisdom in Washington and beyond is that Bashar al-Assad will fall on his own and that an intervention would be counterproductive, but with thousands dying we need to reconsider those assumptions"
BY Ammar Abdulhamid and Ken Ballen: "The protesters and all Syrians who yearn for freedom are unambivalent in their call for international intervention. America faces a fundamental choice. It can stand behind democratic aspirations fully, or it can continue to rely on 19th century notions of power politics and influence.
After 5 days of shelling and foiled attempts at incursion, loyalist troops were forced to negotiate a ceasefire with local representatives of the Free Syrian Army stationed in the town of Zabadani along the borders with Lebanon. The terms of the ceasefire call for lifting the siege on the town and refraining from any further attempts at incursion, in exchange for maintaining a small security presence in town. Locals say the terms were negotiated by officers taking their orders from Assef Chawkat, Assad's brother-in-law and the man believed to be responsible for orchestrating all current sweep operations in the country. The negotiations happened through the auspices of local dignitaries, that is, there were no direct meetings between defectors and loyalists. The occasional pounding that took place earlier on Wednesday came to a quick halt and the pullout to points further outside the town seems to have proceeded as agreed.
Still, there are legitimate concerns that the ceasefire in Zabadani was made because the regime intends on carrying out major sweep operations in the restive region of Eastern Ghoutah to the East of Damascus. But even if this were the case, the fact that the regime needed to negotiate a ceasefire in order to ready itself for the alleged operations, is a major indication of how embattled its troops are at this stage.
With this in mind, the arguments that Ken Ballen and I made in our column in CNN international website earlier today were pretty much on the money: small groups of "ragtag defectors from the Syrian Army, joined by civilians… have fought Assad's loyalist troops and militias nearly to a standstill with only light arms, obtained locally." As such, all that Syrian rebels need at this stage is some support, and they can take care of the business of bringing down the Assad regime on their own. This is what Ken and I recommended as far as measures that the U.S. can take:
"Providing [the rebels] with more sophisticated gear, including RPGs, night vision goggles and better communication equipment, would likely enable them to neutralize Assad's tanks and possibly free entire towns. Implementing a no-fly zone could also prevent Assad from laying these towns, once free, to waste. A naval blockade of Syrian ports would help prevent arms shipments to the regime… If Russia persists in threatening a veto at the U.N. Security Council, the United States should call for an international conference on Syria, with the Arab League, the Islamic Conference, NATO, Japan, India, Brazil and all concerned states. This would be a viable path to legitimate multilateral intervention while circumventing the Russian veto."
In other words a "coalition of the willing," even if it only included a handful of countries, would prove enough to topple the Assad regime. But someone in the international community needs to take the initiative on this matter.
Meanwhile, unless the Assads have reconciled themselves to surrendering power and negotiating a way out, the ceasefire won't hold for long and it will definitely not be expanded to include Homs, Idlib and other restive parts of the country. Zabadani remains under siege, and the situation remains tense.
Rallies took place in protest communities throughout the country. The following videos highlight the most important developments that took place on Wednesday January 18, 2012.
Zabadani (northwest): despite the cease fire agreement, the sounds of occasional shelling can still be heard in the distance in the morning http://youtu.be/0nqrour2VsE But, by noon the pullout had begun http://youtu.be/LKWWk8KH-w0 This is one of the checkpoints that were vacated http://youtu.be/Fbh0uQzS9tY Locals rally to celebrate their victory http://youtu.be/KzzGP6s33sg , http://youtu.be/eYuIEFnzEC8 Women took part http://youtu.be/N7qLtPlU5pU Local members of the FSA make an appearance http://youtu.be/rl9f68A9U1k Locals take back to the streets at night http://youtu.be/byBIXNO1hYU , http://youtu.be/3de9cMXL9lU With women taking part as well http://youtu.be/AyY5wrG5t_g Fireworks were involved http://youtu.be/IqAfOZsv8Ck This is a tour of some of the damaged homes, courtesy local members of the FSA http://youtu.be/uhjOu7k98kw
Kisweh (south): a mother grieves for her late son in front of AL monitors http://youtu.be/RLr5DPrwt2I Other women took part in a nearby rally http://youtu.be/_f4oOcy9DLQ
Qatana (south): A martyr http://youtu.be/VX_qpi0ZEXY
Saqba (Eastern Ghoutah): martyr http://youtu.be/jOgiTg-obxk And a rally http://youtu.be/Kw1MQVbmiLU , http://youtu.be/7k8EjAYKYZQ Other communities in Eastern Ghoutah continue to rally: Arbeen http://youtu.be/ipXpcPOsT2w Hamouriyeh http://youtu.be/uBAAG7g0PlM Harasta http://youtu.be/agmWRbux6kc Zamalka http://youtu.be/qg3W9W__nBE Kafar Batna http://youtu.be/qB4XHt6gPUU Babbila http://youtu.be/Yelg2Z_1Ixg Douma http://youtu.be/IOP5GwUIr0U
Damascus City: Old Mazzeh http://youtu.be/Y6WWhKeylTs , http://youtu.be/EisEr8-W6PQ Barzeh http://youtu.be/Lno7x2kvz9s , http://youtu.be/5yXnnwj7jnU Jobar http://youtu.be/oKT2BTES9Qo Loyalists storm Qaboun in the cover of dark http://youtu.be/yVYvUgSZzxA Still, locals rallied chanting "we won't bow down" http://youtu.be/TnbZKYE_9xo
Homs City:
The pounding of Bayadah http://youtu.be/4zSitW4ZHmk , http://youtu.be/-mTk44AKghY , http://youtu.be/9vx4-bkoZEo The wounded http://youtu.be/7h1uGjrHkPw , http://youtu.be/64GMgxuWAac , http://youtu.be/dq-DjEqT16Q , http://youtu.be/yf3Iv8jDV3s A martyr http://youtu.be/pmo9DssuTCY A new unit of defectors and local recruit is formed to defend the Neighborhood http://youtu.be/KZCXHMnwxSw
The pounding of Deir Baalbah http://youtu.be/IIdIc8Bdijw , http://youtu.be/nnXJc9oA4UE Deir Baalbah A martyr http://youtu.be/ZgLyXWT5giE Another http://youtu.be/7LLFWM7q8cc Another http://youtu.be/gZr1Wgj-24E A funeral http://youtu.be/gu9jywMt2yQ , http://youtu.be/AhNZzpJXZFw
Baba Amr: A martyr http://youtu.be/dzMQ0ziFqQQ Another http://youtu.be/gFbrypX0KY8 A funeral http://youtu.be/R5KzLG2nKCw Impact of shelling in Cairo Street http://youtu.be/gfJoDDVUKCA Still, local women take to the streets http://youtu.be/HezxoxBjCAc followed by the men http://youtu.be/zglR-3wgTBU Locals come out again at night http://youtu.be/hi22-Z0V3_0
Al-Rifai A martyr http://youtu.be/ojWCyQvHPSo A body lies unapproachable in the street http://youtu.be/njJZif3e8Oo While tanks move freely http://youtu.be/hz30zvu7y7M
Karm Al-Zeitun comes under fire http://youtu.be/axFlij-S88I A funeral in Malaab comes under fire but mourners remain defiant http://youtu.be/MvxcOJQsK4Q
Bab Al-Sibaa: closed shops, mounds of garbage and snipers http://youtu.be/VN0i4USV_NA Some of the poorest inhabitants are forced to forage among the garage in search of anything edible or useful http://youtu.be/ZvHBHsqRV88
New defectors and new units http://youtu.be/q0Mscvb0mjM
Idlib City: A martyr http://youtu.be/VIuNbQdknVY A funeral http://youtu.be/FJ2gy_C2BJk
The pounding of Khan Shaikhoon http://youtu.be/yQDV7B8da14 , http://youtu.be/j5RKfIEandQ Kafar Takhareem comes under fire including the local mosque http://youtu.be/UM_rmKBhiYw A car catches fire http://youtu.be/NvYRZg6yHpk Impact of shelling http://youtu.be/wJrNLV1JIfY
Ma'arrat Al-Nouman: funeral for a local activist http://youtu.be/-G7ZbcYlD88 A funeral http://youtu.be/jc-nah1L8IY Ghadfah A funeral http://youtu.be/o9Qav4ecnfM Firkaya A martyr http://youtu.be/vW9JjOhnDDk
In Kafroumah, local mock AL monitors http://youtu.be/qwx36gEUD9E
Hama City:
Janoub Al-Malaab a Martyr http://youtu.be/xsUnnZ--yHs A funeral http://youtu.be/J69WKV893x0
Mizraab: tanks make a return http://youtu.be/y6-XupvrRus , http://youtu.be/KRNE-O63Lcg , http://youtu.be/e_pBRIpKgPc
Aleppo City:
University students continue to lead the protest movement in the city, with this rally by the students at the College of Literature http://youtu.be/abBYXJn6nsQ
Aleppo Province:
The rural areas of Aleppo will probably become the next hotspot: Bayanoun http://youtu.be/ipXpcPOsT2w Anadan http://youtu.be/e6Zfbmcdlss Marei http://youtu.be/8c5BpZipBp4 Hayyan http://youtu.be/50rKZAzVKGY Atarib http://youtu.be/b1WVXxxsU9M


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Abandoning the Public Interest
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The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
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Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
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Contaminated Meat, Contaminated Water: From Walkerton to Listeria
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The Drug Store in American Meat: We're Eating What?
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Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are c...
The FDA and Frankenfoods: Will the Agency Protect Consumers or the Profits of a Few Corporations
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Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
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Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism
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So Shall We Reap: What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food System -- And How to Fix It
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How everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble. An expose on the ...
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Drug and Alcohol Addiction Detox
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2014, an estimated 1.3 million adolescents aged 12-17 had a substance use disorder. That's 1 out of every 20 teenagers who were in need of treatment for drugs and/or alcohol. Finding the right substance abuse treatment program for teens can be a difficult task. If your teen is struggling with a drug or alcohol problem, it is important to choose a treatment center that offers detoxification.
At our facility, we offer a medically supervised drug and alcohol detox for teens ages 13 to 17. When your teen arrives at our facility, they will be assessed by our clinical director and psychiatrist. After the assessment, our medical staff will decide if detox will be a necessary part of their treatment plan. We only prescribe detoxes for teens that are physically dependent on drugs, alcohol or prescription medications.
During the detox process, your teen will be under the care of our medical doctors and nurses 24/7. The staff at our accredited treatment center will make sure your teen is safe and comfortable during the entire detox, which typically only lasts a few days. Two factors that affect the length of the detox are the substances that were abused and how long the substance was abused. Your teen will be evaluated throughout the detox and their treatment plan will be modified if necessary.
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Nurses care for baby orangutan
A group of NICU nurses spent three months caring for an extremely rare patient — a baby orangutan from Zoo Atlanta.
Baby Sandar was born March 30 at Zoo Atlanta. While Sandar was a welcome addition to the zoo's population of endangered primates, he weighed less than 1 kg at birth and wouldn't nurse. Zookeepers intervened in an effort to save his life.
The staff veterinarians knew the animal needed special care, and called the nurses at the neonatal intensive care unit at Children's Healthcare Atlanta. The nurses helped the staff determine what size feeding tube would be most appropriate for Sandar. They also donated countless hours to care for the young primate.
The nurses received specialized training, but also drew upon their nursing knowledge. Chrys Fields, RNC, BSN told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, "We took what we knew, changed it up a bit and adapted. That's what nurses do — we flex."
Sandar's condition ultimately worsened, despite his round-the-clock care, and he was euthanized July 1. The nurses say they learned a lot from their special patient. "Caring for [Sandar] brought us back to the basics of nursing," Fields told the Journal Constitution, "and reminded us why we do what we do."
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Thank you so much to all the nurses who helped care for Baby Sandar during his brief life. {:(|}
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Sunday, March 25, 2018, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Palmer's Organist Ken Cowan will play Marcel Dupré's Le chemin de la Croix (stations of the cross) on our Fisk organ, Palm Sunday, April 9 at 3:00 pm. This is an intensely spiritual work and a beautiful way to begin Holy Week. Admission is free.
Ken Cowan is an Associate Professor and head of the organ program at the Shepherd School of Music, will present Dupré's masterpiece for organ Le Chemin de la Croix (The Way of the Cross). Each movement will be preceded by a reading in English translation from Paul Claudel's poetry. Both music and poems were based on The Stations of the Cross and recount Jesus journey from condemnation to death and burial. They were first performed together in 1931 at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. Dupré was asked to improvise between the reading of the 14 Claudel poems, written in 1911. Responding to encouragement from the audience, Dupré recalled and wrote down the music during the following year.
The 1927 translation chosen for this event is by the Rev. John J. Burke, and was praised by Claudel who found it "remarkable in its sobriety and terseness". Palmer parishioner and choir member Carol Streatfeild will be the narrator.
Ken Cowan is one of North America's finest concert organists. Praised for his dazzling artistry, impeccable technique and imaginative programming by audiences and critics alike, he maintains a rigorous performing schedule which takes him to major concert venues and churches in America, Canada, Europe, and Asia.


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Singapore: With a weak local property market and many vacant rental units, landlords may now at least have some good news to cheer about.
RENTALS.SG has an absurdly simple premise: Singapore's first residential and commercial rental marketplace to connect landlords and tenants directly with potential savings of thousands of dollars in transaction fees.
By offering members an easy online solution with free photography, downloadable letters of intent, lease agreements and links for online filing, landlords now have all of the tools that they need to easily transact their rental and at a fraction of the commission fees charged by real estate agents.
Founder, Martin Phillips, believes that the real estate industry, which he notes has shown little change over the years, is living on borrowed time. Driven by consumer demand for more direct transactions, new technology and social communities, he doubts the industry will exist in the same shape or form within another 10 years.
The service provides free professional photography to better display the property on-line to potential tenants. All owners are ID verified using the latest technology and optional services, such as support for mandatory tenant background checks, are conveniently available.
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Should established industry players be slightly nervous as RENTALS.SG threatens to tip over the apple cart? Perhaps. For one thing the company has already attracted some attention and has raised a first round of funding from an influential local investor. It is model that can be expanded locally and exported.
Direct and digital HDB real estate platform transactions rose to 24 per cent in 2015 and are likely to grow further as technology disrupts the sector.
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Green Bay defensive lineman Mike Daniels' strip sack of Russell Wilson deep in Seattle territory in the third quarter set up Ty Montgomery's 6-yard touchdown run on the next play to spark the Packers' 17-9 win on Sunday.
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was 28 of 42 for 311 yards and added a 32-yard touchdown pass to Jordy Nelson to make it an eight-point game late in the third quarter.
Rodgers' regular-season streak of passes without an interception ended at a career-high 251. The Seahawks defense reinforced by the return of safety Earl Thomas bottled up receivers from making many big plays and put plenty of pressure on Rodgers.
But the Packers started denting Seattle with runs or quick passes to Nelson, Randall Cobb and Montgomery in the second half, chewing up clock in the process. A 12-play, 53-yard drive that took up more than 5 minutes ended with Mason Crosby's 40-yard field goal with 8:01 left to make it a two-score game.
Green Bay's defense had an even better debut, especially considering how maligned the Packers were against the pass last season.
Seattle managed just three field goals. Wilson was held to 14 of 27 for 158 yards. The Packers held decisive edges in total yardage (370-225) and first downs (26-12). Green Bay held the ball for 39 minutes.
Seattle cornerback Jeremy Lane was ejected after referee John Parry said he threw a punch during a scrum with Packers receiver Davante Adams.
The tussle occurred around the Packers 30 during a play in which Nazair Jones intercepted Rodgers at 9:26 of the first quarter. It was Rodgers' first interception since Nov. 13, 2016, at Tennessee.
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There are a lot of folks, we have no doubt, that would freeze to death. We have seen that in years past.
Nina Moseley, Wayside Christian Mission
A winter blast that stretched from Texas to Maine left 17 dead this week and a million homes without power. The storm dumped snow and ice on the mid-south and mid-Atlantic regions while turning to pure snowfall for the northeast.
Hundreds of thousands were still without power in Kentucky on Thursday where the winter storm left some looking for shelter. Dozens of emergency shelters were opened across the state to help people without power get into a warm building.
The storm also left homeless residents in Louisville looking to get off of the streets for a night.
"We had about 594 [homeless] under our roof [Monday night}," said Nina Moseley, chief operating officer of Wayside Christian Mission.
The Wayside Christian Mission, located in Louisville, Ky., customarily houses about 500 men, women and children each night but can stretch accommodations to 650 if needed. According to Moseley, the mission is under Operation White Flag, which goes into effect on nights in which temperatures fall below 35 degrees.
"What's unique about us in this area is that we run a Samaritan patrol. We have volunteers who take a jeep out every night to look for the homeless and encourage them to come into our shelter. If they won't come into the shelter, we leave hot coffee and sandwiches for them," Moseley said. "If they do come into the shelter, that's when our caseworkers can work with them and find out what they need."
Moseley said having shelters in Louisville is very important for the safety of the homeless.
"There are a lot of folks, we have no doubt, that would freeze to death. We have seen that in years past."
Three governors declared their entire states disaster areas during the storm Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky. Authorities in Oklahoma say they had 1,150 accidents with two fatalities and 200 of those accidents included injury. Arkansas has also declared a state of emergency after ice hit the northern half of the state, leaving thousands without power. Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe said he hoped the disaster declaration would speed up the recovery process.
So far, there have been no damage estimates from the storms, but residents said it looked like a tornado had hit their communities after tree branches weighed down by ice began breaking and causing the power outages.
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Married to her high school sweetheart, Anne Marie and her husband spend their leisure time working (actually playing) in the yard and renovating their 1956 custom-built house on a one-acre lot in the middle of the city. They have two grown children, three white rabbits, two mischievous cats, and one sweet puppy dog.
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What Procrastination Looks Like
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I have few days until my LSAT. I have 177 *new* emails in my inbox (most are shopping emails, but those are important too) and no time for anything. Therefore, I procrastinate in between working analytical thinking puzzle problems that are kicking my arse.
Bits of my morning, for posterity:
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Dear Fellow Patriots:
Recently I shared the following blog with you and I am taking the liberty of sharing it with you again, along other extremely disturbing information that was recently revealed in an article and/or blog posted by a true Patriot Dave Hodges who is the Editor and Host of The Common Sense Show, which I believe relates to this issue-You Decide:
Please note that this is only a draft letter to my NM U.S. Representative because I have now been officially blocked from emailing letters to her office regarding my numerous attempts to find out why they have gone un-answered-I am just waiting to be blocked from posting my blogs and emailing them to you, which is not too far fetched because I recently discovered that I've also been literally blocked from posting my comments on the majority of other websites, which is alright with me because their blocking has confirmed to me that:
1) I've hit a nerve, although I don't write the articles and/or blogs that I post on my blogs-I simply compile them by subject matter and share them with others to read because I believe that knowledge is power;
2) our big brother is monitoring all websites, which is what I've suspected all along because my computer is mysteriously turned off on me when I am in the process of drafting a blog that contains information that may be considered controversial by this administration; and
3) finally, I've accomplished my job of attempting to wake up others about how we've all deliberately and systematically been brainwashed by our own government, which I now believe is by design as a means of accomplishing their evil agenda of taking our beloved Country/Republic down. Now I can do what so many other Americans In Name Only are doing today, which is to: "Stick My Head In The Sand And Pretend That This Is All A Bad Dream and That Sooner or Later It'll All Go Away On It's Own" OR "I Can Play Frog In A Pot of Boiling Water While The Powers-That-Be Keep Turning Up The Heat Until I Boil To Death Without Jumping Out and Ultimately Dying A Slow Death Like Our Beloved Country/Republic Is Today"-You Decide:
Draft letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) Training Exercise)!-Posted on No We Won't-By Jake Martinez-On April 3, 2015:
Note: The following recent article and/or blog by Dave Hodges, along with my blogs that relate to and/or further support his article and/or blog-You Decide:
Recent Hollywood Movie Reveals Mind Control Technologies Designed to Depopulate the Planet!-Posted on The D.C. Clothesline-By Dave Hodges-On April 3, 2015:
Geoengineering Dangers: NWO Depopulation!
The Government-Coordinated CHEMTRAIL Conspiracy Continues Unabated!
Brainwashing in America: 'WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY'! (Part 1)
Note: I believe that the following videos are extremely appropriate today:
The Fightin Side of Me!
When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!
Note: If you have a problem viewing any of the listed articles and/or blogs, please copy website link and paste it on your browser. Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial by this administration is being censored-Don't know how much longer we'll be able to communicate with each other-What happened to free speech?-You Decide:
"Food For Thought"
"All Gave Some-Some Gave All"
God Bless Our Men & Women In Uniform & Our Veterans-God Bless America!
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In recent years, we have had over 250 swimmers on the team. As such, our practices are intended to be more general instruction, with little time for individual instruction. We will work on stroke mechanics as a group, teaching the competitive strokes through drills. Swim team is not a substitute for swim lessons.
Swimmers must be able to swim half the length of the pool before they join the team, and must be able to swim the entire length of the pool without hanging on the side or a lane line by Time Trials to continue participation on the swim team. Final decisions regarding placement will be made by the coaches.
For planning purposes, the CMSL meet schedule ends on the last Saturday in July with the Divisional Championships. The five Saturdays prior to that date are our dual meets. And the week prior to the first dual meet is when we hold Time Trials at our pool – just for FH swimmers. It is where swimmers establish a baseline time for each stroke on which "Best Times" are calculated during the season.
Each year, the Meet Schedule will be posted on the website. Meets begin promptly at 9am. Warm-ups begin around 7:45 am for home meets and 8:30am for away meets.
FHSTC uses Team Unify to assist in swim team management needs. The site allows parents to see meet schedules, sign out of meets, sign up for volunteer jobs, see their swimmers' meet results, and maintain multiple email addresses for receiving email communications all in one location. This greatly streamlines our team communication and provided parents with the opportunity to have everything they need in one location.
New FH Swim Team website
It is preferred that all members of the Forest Hill Swim Team wear the team suit and swim cap for swim meets.
Cy's in Catonsville provides our team suits and this will be the second year of our 2-year suit. Cy's will be at the pool Wednesday, May 23, 2018 from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm with our team suit and other swim gear for sale.
Latex swim caps are provided for all members of swim team (one per swimmer). They are handed out during swim meets. Silicone caps will be available for purchase at the beginning of the season.


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Nancy Pierson and her indispensable team of volunteers lift spirits and lower stress whenever they show up with their canine partners from Paws As Loving Support Assistance Dogs.
They were at Riebli Elementary School earlier this month when students returned to class for the first time since fires destroyed more than a quarter of the 460 students' homes.
They provide comfort in the courtroom, greet anxious travelers at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport, aid children with autism, Down syndrome or other special needs, and bring cheer to those who could benefit from a nudge and some unconditional love.
As founder, president and chief executive officer of the Forestville-based nonprofit PALS, Pierson leads a compassionate brigade that showcases the bond between people and animals, specifically dogs.
Teams make scheduled visits to hospitals, homeless shelters, schools, convalescent homes, libraries, and acute care and rehabilitation centers. They also respond to various emergencies and work with the Sonoma County School Crisis Response and Recovery System of Support that aids students and staff during times of trauma.
Rebekah Pope, a social worker with the Sonoma County Office of Education who coordinates the SOS program, said there is "something magical" that happens when PALS dogs interact with students.
"They have this unconditional acceptance and love that kids can sense," she said. "They're very straightforward and less complicated than people. By nature, they love people and kids."
She recalls one boy with emotional difficulties developing a bond with a PALS dog "that he couldn't have with adults or other students."
The specially trained dogs, from a 3-pound Chihuahua to an English mastiff weighing more than 160 pounds, welcome gentle hugs and petting and provide calming support and a sense of understanding, no matter the setting or circumstance.
"Dogs can sense and smell things we can't," Pierson said. "They're so intuitive, they feel with their entire being."
Pierson has countless stories of PALS dogs providing comfort, support and healing — some in miraculous ways.
She witnessed a dog steadfastly remain at the side of a hospice patient with just days to live and watched a comatose 18-year-old college student with a traumatic brain injury respond when Pierson told the woman she was visiting with a dog with "ears that are just like velvet."
The dog, Pierson's late golden retriever, Peyton, was sitting at the woman's bedside in the intensive care unit of a local hospital when the young animal lover moved her head and opened her eyes.
That was Pierson's first experience "seeing the impact service dogs make in people's lives" and it had a monumental influence on her.
Since establishing PALS from her rural Forestville home in late 2009, Pierson has worked with numerous agencies and individuals reaching out for the kind of assistance only four-legged companions can provide. (Three-legged as well; two PALS dogs are missing a leg.)
"They're just soft and fuzzy and they don't ask anything of you," she said of PALS dogs. "They're just there. People respond to them."
Pierson, a grandmother in her 60s, had some 20 years of experience working with Sonoma County-based service dog agencies before founding PALS. She recognized the growing need to breed, train and place dogs assisting children and adults in numerous capacities.
"It's my love, it's my passion, it's my retirement," she said. "It's just totally fulfilling my dream. I thought it would never happen."
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ACNA'09: Anglicans end meeting with blow-out service
By Julia Duin Belief Blog
June 25, 2009
When it comes to blow-out church services, the Anglicans can sure put on the dog. I've been filing stories for the past three days on the constitutional convention for the Anglican Church of North America, the emerging 39th province of the 77-million-strong Anglican Communion. The big party to end it all was Wednesday night (it's 1:14 a.m. as I type this on Thursday) and it was a splasher.
The site was a Texas megachurch called Christ Church in Plano, a north Dallas suburb. Although I got lost getting there from Fort Worth (first ended up in Garland somehow), I knew when I finally drove up that this was the place. Talk about huge. Buildings everywhere and the sanctuary was cathedral-like in its vastness. All that was missing were side chapels and votive candles. The decor is a bit stark - no Christ on the main cross above the altar which goes along with low-church evangelicalism Texas-style.
Fortunately they got fancy with the music. Some 60 bishops and 323 clergy had to process in, so they needed something sprightly to move these folks in - long robes, mitres and academic hoods and all - rather quickly. What they came up with, composed by trombonist John Wasson was a variation on the hymn "Praise My Soul the King of Heaven" combined with African march-style music in a 4/4 beat. Sounds awful but it was stunning - and beautiful.
Now before that, there was a ton of intro choral and organ music - the brass quintet and organ were the best in a list of very presentable offerings. I don't think this is ordinarily a church that probably doesn't do the smells and bells of a more Anglo-Catholic service but they learned fast because of the huge variation of visitors there - people from around the globe coming to celebrate Archbishop Duncan's installation. The haunting "Veni Creator Spiritus" is very rarely done - usually for the consecration of bishops - and often it's played in a deadly fashion. At this church, the organ pounded it out in grand style. And fortunately the music director - Mark Snow - had the sense to choose the lovely "Missa de Sancta Maria Magdelena" for the Communion chants.
I've been doing this religion writer thing for more than 30 years and in the course of my travels, I've done Rome and Canterbury and Jerusalem; ordinations, installations and consecrations of everyone from Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl to New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson. I've done papal Masses all over the country with two popes. But I've rarely been in a service where every single piece of music was beautifully done at top level during a 2 hour+ service involving 1,500 people. During Communion, a pianist whipped out a movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2. Even hymns I can't stand, like "Fairest Lord Jesus" got gorgeous arrangements.
I am running out of adjectives here so must go to bed. OK, I do play piano, guitar and harp, but I am no music critic. I was told most of the musicians are home-grown although for big occasions, the music director borrows folks from Dallas symphony and opera orchestras plus a few college music professors. There were other parts to the service that were memorable: the new archbishop joking about his bushy eyebrows; the colliding lines of all the visitors wandering to and from the Communion rail not to mention the party afterward outside in a hot and soupy Texas evening.
---Julia Duin is the Religion Editor of the Washington Times
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