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Ben Roethlisberger had a thing for Eli Manning way back when.
They entered the NFL together in 2004, but Manning was snatched up 10 spots above Roethlisberger. The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback admits he wanted to outshine Eli early on, but now he's thinking about history.
"As I've gotten older, it's more neat to see (Manning's) success, to see him getting two Super Bowls, because I think it just adds to the legacy of our draft class," Roethlisberger told Jenny Vrentas of The Star-Ledger. "And all four quarterbacks -- Matt Schaub, Philip (Rivers), myself and Eli -- that were drafted there. I hope we can play well enough that one day they talk about us as maybe the best quarterback draft class of all time."
It certainly was one of the more interesting drafts of recent years. After Manning was taken first overall by San Diego, the New York Giants selected Rivers with the fourth pick and worked out a trade with the Chargers to essentially flip quarterbacks. Big Ben then went to the Steelers with the 11th pick, and Schaub went in the third round to the Atlanta Falcons. Less enticing: J.P. Losman, taken No. 22 overall by the Buffalo Bills.
Roethlisberger knows all about the storied 1983 class of passers -- John Elway, Todd Blackledge, Jim Kelly, Tony Eason, Ken O'Brien and some fellow named Dan Marino -- and he has watched this year's crop of newbie quarterbacks adapt almost seamlessly.
It comes down to how you judge success. Big Ben and Eli have produced four Super Bowl wins, more than all of these names combined and certainly putting the 2004 class in the conversation.
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Looking for a drink can be a daunting task at times. Often I find myself flipping through recipes looking for something that calls out to me. I picked up a copy of Left Coast Libations which has a range of interesting and exciting cocktails from some of the best bartenders on the West Coast. One cocktail that immediately caught my eye was the Fior di Sicily, created by Chris Ojeda.
Unlike most cocktails, the Fior di Sicily does not contain a base spirit; there is no gin, rum, whiskey, vodka, etc. Secondly all of the ingredients are in equal proportions which is just as rare. It combines an interesting amaro, an orangey aperitif, one of my favorite sweet vermouth's, and an elderflower liqueur.
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.75 oz Carpano Antica Formula Vermouth
.75 oz Aperol
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Alaska Airlines Adds Routes to Hawaii
Posted May 28, 2009 by Nicki Krawczyk
Okay, get this: Alaska Airlines is adding service from Oakland, California to Kahului, Hawaii and Oakland and Kona beginning in November, plus expanding service between Seattle and Honolulu. Suspicious, wouldn't you say? Alaska and Hawaii, two states who, heretofore, have never done much fraternizing are all of a sudden flying back and forth by way of California.
Coincidence? I think not. It's blatant collusion. I propose to you: "Alaska and Hawaii's Conspiracy to Gang Up on the Mainland" Fact: People in Alaska and Hawaii hate it when tourists go there and say things like "We're from the U.S." as if Alaskans and Hawaiians aren't, too. Fact: Alaska and Hawaii were the last two states added to the union and, as such, missed out on historical moments like the launching of both fruit flies and mice into space as well as the invention of M&M's. Fact: Alaska and Hawaii are the farthest states away from Washington, D. C. and, as such, their representatives have to travel a really long time to get there and undoubtedly miss out on all kinds of congressional parties because of jet lag. Conclusion: Alaska and Hawaii are probably hopping mad and ready to take out their vengeance on the mainland.
And now, now, it appears that we've got all kinds of mingling and moving and perhaps even rampant skullduggery going on between Alaska and Hawaii by way of Alaska Airlines. There's something big going on, people—I recommend you keep your eyes open and your mouths shut. Sure, this could end up being a nice little weekend getaways route for the people of California and a pleasant jaunt to paradise on a nice airline…until Alaska and Hawaii unleash their nefarious plans. You heard it here first. And you've been warned.
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What ever happened to Alaska Airlines going to Lihue, Hawaii? It was there for a very short time, then no more.
I wish there would be more flights, I belive Hawaii and Alaska are really awesome places. Aloha
Nothing happened to Lihue; it's still there and Alaska still flies there. I believe the service is daily, from Seattle
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Algerian-born, Paris-based Zoulikha Bouabdellah creates work that explores identity, the sense of place, and corresponding themes of globalization, otherness, and oppression. Fusing the Arabic, French, and English languages with a rotating cast of religious and social symbols, Bouabdellah's works are semiotic palimpsests that bring to light cultural differences as well as similarities. Her well-known Cheris (2007) explores themes of love alongside the Arabic language and its associations. In the immense installation, 300 sheets of white paper are scrawled with red Arabic characters, resembling blood. Each sheet represents a different Arabic word for love, referencing universal human emotions that transcend national borders and conflicts. In 2009, Bouabdellah was awarded the Abraaj Capital Prize, in Dubaï, for Walk on the Sky, Pisces (2009), an immersive, mirrored installation that delves into the tale of King Solomon and Queen Sheba to suggest shared religious histories and gender distinctions. In Christian, Jewish, and Muslim texts alike, Solomon tricks Sheba into lifting her dress when she mistakes a polished floor for water.
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Bluegrass Community and Technical College recently hosted its annual Multicultural Opportunities, Strategies & Institutional Inclusiveness Conference (MOSAIIC). This year's theme was "The Beauty and Confusion of Fusion: The Memoirs of a Mixed-Up Society" and included keynote speakers Dr. Samuel Betances and Mr. Michael Crutcher as the Spirit of Frederick Douglas.
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Two platform tennis courts were officially opened at the East Hampton Indoor-Outdoor Tennis Club this past weekend with well-attended clinics put on by Marco Grangeiro, the New York Athletic Club's paddle director in Pelham, and Marie Minnick of East Hampton, who teaches the increasingly popular racket sport at four clubs on the South Fork.
Platform tennis, or "paddle," as it is known colloquially, was last written about on the sports pages of this newspaper in March of 1978. That story, by Steve Bromley Jr., this writer's predecessor as The Star's sportswriter, was headlined "The Winter Game."
"It remains a winter game basically," said Scott Rubenstein, E.H.I.T.'s managing partner. "For paddle it's better if it's 25 degrees out than 50." Though, since the courts (which have lights) were finished a month or two ago, they've been getting quite a bit of play no matter what the weather.
"I got the idea," said Rubenstein, when questioned following Sunday morning's clinic, "when I heard our members were no longer able to play at the clubs here that had courts. Seven years ago, things opened up and everybody was playing. Then, about three years ago, our members, who had been playing as guests, were asked to leave. That's when I thought it would be nice to have our own courts and to open them up to the public. . . . I'm a strong believer that there should be more recreation here for everyone of all ages."
Paddle is a doubles serve-and-volley game, though the lob, Grangeiro stressed, is "the most aggressive stroke."
"Ninety-five percent of the time," said Minnick, who is the fourth-ranked mixed over-60s player in the country and the reigning over-50 Long Island champion, "the last one to hit the ball loses the point."
The point being that in paddle, finesse and strategy trump power. As in squash, the court (four of them can fit into one tennis court, but are otherwise the same save that the net is two inches shorter) is bounded on all four sides — by chicken wire in platform tennis's case, rather than laminated wood as is the case with squash. Which means that theoretically, a player skilled at playing the spongy ball off the wires can send up lobs all day.
While the lob is paddle's most aggressive shot, the first volley, the clinic-givers said, is the most important. That volley, Grangeiro and Minnick said, ought to be hit with the paddle squarely in front of one's chest with knees bent and with the feet square to the net. No lunging, no stabbing. Simply block it back.
Servers in paddle get only one chance, which concentrates the mind. Just get the ball in, Minnick and Grangeiro said, and follow the ball to the net as quickly as you can, taking up a position straddling the T with your partner closer to the net at your left or right, depending on the court — ad or deuce — into which you served.
This writer, a doubles tennis player these days who last picked up a platform tennis racket 30 or so years ago, was reminded during the clinic that the two games are, indeed, somewhat different. One needs to be more patient in paddle, for one thing, for it's likely the rallies — assuming everyone can play the ball off the wires pretty well — will be longer. Aside from the first volley, all drives, lobs, overheads, and wire shots are to be hit from a sideways position. Backhand overheads are to be eschewed: only forehand overheads should be hit. Serve returners should favor their stronger stroke, and thus should, facing sideways and with their back toward a side screen, await the serve with one foot in the alley and one foot just beyond the baseline.
Moreover, in paddle you can't get away with wristy shots, and, because the court is so much narrower, there are fewer angles to be exploited. In fact, partners can pretty much control the net, the clinic-givers said, by leaving the third of it diagonally opposite the striker open.
When lobbing, Minnick asked us to think that we were holding a frying pan in front of us, and to follow through smoothly into a Statue of Liberty pose — again, standing sideways, with the lead shoulder pointing toward where one wants the ball to go. "If I have a 6-4 partner," the 5-foot-3 Minnick said, "you'll want to lob over me."
Rubenstein said that the club's tennis members can play paddle for $300 seven days a week year-round, until 11 or so at night. For non-members that fee will be $500.
"There will be no court fees," he said, "and we'll help set up games, the same way we do in tennis."
Moreover, there will be weekday paddle memberships costing $250 for E.H.I.T. members and $350 for non-members.
A warming hut between the courts, under which there are heaters to melt ice and snow, will have a microwave, toaster, refrigerator, hot chocolate, and coffee.
"It looks like there's a lot of interest — it's exciting," said Rubenstein, who added that "the last time I played paddle was in 1978 with the late Sandy Ingraham. We played at the East Hampton Tennis Club. I was pretty confident, for I was good at tennis, table tennis, and racquetball. He trounced me — I didn't win a point."
"That was the last time I played," he said with a smile, "though I may do it again."


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We are pleased to announce the Polis Social Media Prize, a new student award. The prize of £500 will be granted to the post-graduate student with the best dissertation research proposal in the domain of social media. Proposals of 500-1,000 words should be submitted to firstname.lastname@example.com|| by Monday, April 28th 2014.
The judging panel will be made up of Dr Ellen Helsper, of the LSE Media and Communications Department and Charlie Beckett, Polis Director. They are particularly interested in original ideas that might have some relation to a real-world problem.
StockWell Communications|, a strategic communications and reputation management firm, is launching a student research prize|in conjunction with POLIS this October 2013.
The prize, worth £1000, will be awarded for the best research proposal on the topic of 'Corporate Reputation, Media and Society'.
The prize is open to any post-graduate student currently enrolled at the LSE. The student must submit a 500-1000 word proposal on the topic. The proposal should include:
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― its relevance to the subject area; and
― a view as to the value of the research topic to the corporate world.
All submissions should be made in .doc, .docx or .pdf formats.
Applicants are welcome to submit on the same broad topic as that of their dissertation.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to take up a paid internship with StockWell to develop their proposal into a final research paper. This will be jointly published by POLIS and StockWell. There is some flexibility as regards to the timing of the internship.
The judging panel will include Carolyn Esser, Senior Communications Officer, Europe, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Matthew Young, Group Corporate Affairs Director, Lloyds Banking Group; Kamal Ahmed, Business Editor, The Sunday Telegraph; Professor Charlie Beckett, Director of Polis, Head of Media & Communications Department, LSE; and Anthony Silverman, Partner, StockWell Communications.
October 15, 2013, 5pm-6pm Launch event: Media Agenda Talk by Tim Burt, Managing Partner at StockWell Communications.
November 19, 2013, 12:30-13:30 Q&A Discussion with Anthony Silverman, partner at StockWell Communications, in the Graham Wallace Room (5th floor, Old Building). Sandwiches will be provided. Any prospective applicants who cannot attend should register their interest at email@example.com|.
December 13, 2013, 5.00pm Deadline for submissions
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2013 winner: Cristina Malaspina, The Spiral of Silence and Social Media: analysing Noelle-Neumann's phenomenon application on the Web during the Italian Political Elections of 2013.
Cristina Malaspina has completed an MSc in Media and Communications at the LSE in 2013. She has achieved a Distinction in all modules of her Masters, including her dissertation, and has graduated with a Distinction grade overall. In her Dissertation, Cristina has chosen to investigate Noelle-Neumann's phenomenon of the Spiral of Silence on social media and has analyzed the sharing patterns of social media users on political topics adopting human-generated content analysis and interviews. The findings of her research show that specific elements of the theory, such as social pressures and perception of the surrounding climate of opinion, also influence the communicative behaviour of Web 2.0 users. In the specific Italian political context, features such as channel nature and as user anonymity may affect the degree of sharing of political ideas in the online world.
2012 winner: Katherine Relle, A Prescription for Pharma: Social Media Reality Check|
This £1,000 award is set up to strengthen links between the commercial high quality media research sector and the London School of Economics and specifically between Polis, the Media and Communications think-tank, and Human Digital (HD). It seeks to offer an outstanding LSE student the opportunity to relate their research to the applied work of HD.
You should submit an outline research proposal (email@example.com|) of about 500 words by the end of Lent term.
This only has to be a concept note. It is not like an academic abstract. We just want you to describe roughly what you would like to research and why.
We are asking for proposals that address the presence of brands in virtual communities and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The brands can be commercial, political or other organisations.
The paper will have investigated the social, economic and political manifestations of the new relationship between consumer/citizen audiences and corporate brands enabled by social media. Implications for best practice in social media engagement for corporate brands will have been drawn and avenues for future research will have been identified.
We take a broad definition of social media meaning the use of web-based technologies to create new forms of interactive and interconnected communications, both professional and created by citizens.
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If you are chosen, you will write a version of their research – or a paper on a fresh topic – of at least 1,000 words which will be published jointly by POLIS and HD. It should be written in an accessible style for an expert audience with footnotes.
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The successful candidate will be invited to carry out the full research and present their findings in a dedicated workshop.
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POLIS will publicise the publication through the Director's blog, POLIS website and POLIS newsletter. Interaction London will promote the research via a dedicated microsite published on interactionlondon.com. Printed copies of the research paper will be distributed to the workshop attendees.
The student will be invited to present the work to a seminar with IL and invited guests. Held as a public event at LSE premises, the workshop will provide a platform to present and discuss the findings of the research with:
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You should submit (email@example.com|) an outline research proposal of about 500 words by the end of Lent Term with your CV.
POLIS invites applications from practising journalists for two annual POLIS Research Fellowships: the EBU Journalism Fellowship, and the Jornalistfondan Fellowship. We provide research support, facilities and editorial guidance for journalists to produce short research papers on an aspect of their work. These will be published and taken into other POLIS public events and academic activities. Candidates for these fellowships need to have their own sources of funding for their expenses and for an administration fee for Polis. Contact us for details of the financial arrangements at firstname.lastname@example.com|.
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The EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Journalism Fellowship was most recently awarded to Nadja Hahn, a radio reporter from the Austrian broadcasting service ORF for her research on how social media affects the quality of radio journalism. As Hahn notes, "before the Internet gave us Facebook and Twitter, radio was the closest thing we had to a social medium, and the phone-in was the most interactive format out there. It is therefore fascinating to see how the medium is adapting and how radio journalism in particular is rising to the challenge." As the first recipient of this award, Nadja will be publishing her Polis report in January 2013. More information about her research can be found here.|
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The Journalistfonden Fellowship is in partnership with Sweden's media foundation, Journalistfonden (The Journalist Fund), whose purpose is to help professional journalists in Sweden get further training in subject fields of importance to their work.
Our 2013 recipient, Karin O'Mahony, is a Swedish journalist and works for Svenska Dagbladet as online and mobile editor. Her research project at Polis, funded by Journalistfonden, in October-November 2013 is about live blogging and how it affects journalism. The report As it happens – The impact of live news blogs and their future will be published in March 2014.
The 2012 recipient of the Journalistfonden Fellowship was Sanna Trygg, a Swedish journalist, who studied why we moderate public comment and the effects of different moderation policies, comparing two different news sources: Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet, and the UK's The Guardian. A full copy of her report, Is Comment Free? Ethical, Editorial and political problems of moderating news online, can be found here.|
This award is for an international journalist or foreign student from a developing country currently enrolled in a post-graduate degree at the LSE and studying an aspect of global journalism. The recipient will contribute to the work of Polis and publish a short paper based on their work.
The Silverstone scholarship was founded in the memory of the late Professor Roger Silverstone, Head of the Media and Communications Department at LSE and the moving spirit behind the creation of Polis. His last book 'Media and Morality: On The Rise Of The Mediapolis' is a call for a better understanding of the importance of global news.
The 2012-2013 Silverstone Scholarship went to Emal Etigani, LSE MSc student and journalist from Sudan. Here first blog post for Polis can be accessed here.|
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The lottery fantasies of mansions, luxury boats and unlimited travel are over for most people. But for the owner - or owners - of the lone winning ticket sold in New Jersey for Powerball's $338.3 million drawing, they're just beginning.
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No one had won the Powerball jackpot since early February, when Dave Honeywell in Virginia bought the winning ticket and elected a cash lump sum for his $217 million jackpot.
The largest Powerball jackpot ever came in at $587.5 million in November. The winning numbers were picked on two different tickets - one by a couple in Missouri and the other by an Arizona man - and the jackpot was split.
Nebraska still holds the record for the largest Powerball jackpot won on a single ticket - $365 million - by eight workers at a Lincoln meatpacking plant in February 2006.


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Join Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux and Natasha Trethewey for this unforgettable literary pilgrimage over the bridge that inspired Hart Crane, Walt Whitman and generations of poets. The event begins near City Hall, pauses for readings under Roebling's famous arches and culminates in a recitation at Brooklyn's historic Fulton Ferry Landing. The evening concludes with a festive dinner at Bubby's Brooklyn with special guest Bill Murray.
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Are Causeways Making Trouble for Fish?
UVM uses genetics to find out
Are Causeways Making Trouble for Fish?
UVM uses genetics to find out
With eleven causeways dividing Lake Champlain into sections, University of Vermont biologists are studying whether or not causeways form a physical barrier to populations of fish.
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Conservation Correspondent Bridget Butler, talks with Ellen Marsden from UVM about sampling fish from the open lake and different bodies of water cut off by causeways.
Marsden is using genetic sampling to analyse the fish to understand whether or not genetically distinct populations have been created due to the causeways on Lake Champlain.
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Today was the Christmas in the Country parade and festival in our town. It was the first one we've had since we moved back to St. Francisville. Let it be said that Your Working Boy invented a valve-stimulating spicy shrimp creole dish that he prepared in a black iron skillet on a charcoal grill — and it was damn good. Mrs. Working Boy concocted a fantastic vegetarian chili. We had three semi-kegs of beer from Tin Roof in Baton Rouge, and people in and out all afternoon. It was just right, though honestly, is there anything more December-in-Louisiana than one's priest having to catch a menacing yellow jacket in a beer cup?
I also invented a delicious seasonal cocktail, the Smiling Lemon Ashley, named for a friend. It involves vodka, dark rum, Chambord, fresh-squeezed Meyer lemon juice, and soda water. You're thinking, "Seasonal?" Again, this is Louisiana; a mosquito bit me on the cheek last night as I lay in bed reading. It was shorts and t-shirt weather today.
Alas for us, this is the first Christmas parade in years that has not been graced by the presence of our local drag queen, Ginger Snap. La Snap skittered out of town earlier this year, allegedly in the wake of a mysterious jewelry heist. She denied all to me on the phone. One never knows, do one?


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The Washington Post published a huge hint about its Watergate source on the break-in's first anniversary. Nobody noticed.
Max Holland, an investigative reporter and editor of the Web site Washington Decoded, has posted something interesting about Deep Throat, the famous Watergate leaker played by Hal Holbrook in the movie version of All the President's Men. For three decades, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein refused to identify this highly placed source. The mystery was finally solved in July 2005, when Vanity Fair published a piece in which Mark Felt, a onetime second-ranking official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said, "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat." Woodward confirmed it, then published a book about their relationship, The Secret Man.
A fair number of people (including me) had long figured Deep Throat was probably Felt, but before the Vanity Fair piece appeared, Woodward, Bernstein, and former Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee had kept mum. A Deep Throat cult had evolved as Watergate junkies pored over public comments by the three men and especially over Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate stories and their best-selling 1974 memoir, All the President's Men. Even William Goldman's script for the movie became an object of intense study, because Woodward and Bernstein were known to have worked closely with the filmmakers. Yet even after Jim Mann, a former Post colleague of Woodward's, published a definitive piece in the June 1992 Atlantic that carefully laid out compelling reasons why Deep Throat had to have been an FBI official ("Deep Throat: An Institutional Analysis"), the Post maintained a stoic silence. It did the same in 2003 after a journalism professor at the University of Illinois named William Gaines took up a challenge Bradlee had laid down in his 1995 memoir, A Good Life("it should be possible to identify Deep Throat simply by entering all the information about him in All the President's Men into a computer, and then entering as much as possible about all the various suspects") and concluded—erroneously!—that Deep Throat had to be Fred Fielding, deputy counsel in the Nixon White House. The Post didn't respond because the Post didn't play guessing games about Deep Throat's identity.
Or did it?
Holland has dug out of the archives a big, fat clue to Deep Throat's identity that the Post published way back on June 17, 1973, which happened to be the first anniversary of the Watergate break-in. The story appears to have been overlooked by every last Deep Throat sleuth. It went unmentioned in Mann's Atlantic piece, and it eluded Gaines' four-year Watergate document hunt.
It's easy to see why. The Post story Holland retrieved didn't carry a byline from Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein. Its author was Laurence Stern, a much-admired Post writer who subsequently became assistant managing editor for national news. The headline was "Bureau Hurt by Watergate," but there was relatively little about Watergate in the piece, which focused on turmoil at the FBI since Director J. Edgar Hoover's death one year before. The Deep Throat hint was buried deep inside:
One highly placed FBI executive acknowledged that FBI agents may have been instrumental in getting the initial Watergate revelations into public print. Reporters who covered the case acknowledged the role of the agents in opening up the initial peepholes in the cover-up façade some administration officials were trying to erect.
"It wasn't a matter of getting rancorous leaks dumped in your lap," said one Watergate reportorial specialist. "You'd have to go to them and say, what about this or what about that? They'd respond, 'Yes, that's right.' I can think of one guy in the bureau without whom we wouldn't have gotten anywhere." [Boldface mine.]
Holland reports that he e-mailed Woodward and Bernstein to ask whether they remember talking to Stern for the story. (Holland couldn't query Stern because Stern died of a heart attack in 1979, when he was only 50.) Woodward replied that the story "does not ring a bell with me" and pointed out that at the time it was written, the Post had a dozen or so reporters on the Watergate story. Bernstein didn't reply at all, though after Holland sent him his published piece, Bernstein e-mailed back a noncommittal "Thanks, Max—interesting…."
Holland's story goes to great reportorial lengths to demonstrate why the "Watergate reportorial specialist" had to be Woodward or Bernstein—comparing the language with something the two told Timothy Crouse in The Boys on the Bus, collecting denials from the tiny handful of leading Watergate reporters who worked at other publications, etc. Of course, without Woodward or Bernstein saying, "It was me," the "Watergate reportorial specialist" can't be identified for certain. But common sense dictates there is a very high probability it was Woodward or Bernstein. Put yourself in Stern's shoes. You're writing a long story about chaos at the FBI since Hoover's death. You want to include a paragraph substantiating rumors that the bureau was leaking like a sieve about Watergate. You decide to interview a reporter on the Watergate story. The planet's two leading Watergate reporters happen to work a few yards away from you. They also happen to be pretty good friends of yours (Bernstein more than Woodward, in the recollection of Stern's son Marcus, now a reporter with ProPublica; his brother Christopher, now a reporter with Bloomberg, recalls seeing both Woodward and Bernstein around the house). Are you going to pick up your phone and ask some reporter for a competing news organization who his sources are on the biggest political story in Washington? Or are you going to stroll over to Woodward's or Bernstein's desk and do a quick interview with one of the guys who know best where the news media's information about Watergate is coming from? The question answers itself.
Stern's strong hint that Deep Throat was a G-man wouldn't have attracted much notice at the time. That's because:
a) It was no big secret that the FBI was leaking about lots of things, including Watergate. William Ruckelshaus, the acting director, admitted as much in Stern's story: "[S]ome of our agents were getting nervous about the pace of the Watergate investigation and probably talked to the press".
b) Nobody outside the Post—very possibly not even Stern—knew that Woodward had a secret highly placed source nicknamed Deep Throat. Throat's existence wouldn't be revealed until publication of All the President's Men a year later.
c) Even among the few who knew there was a Deep Throat, nobody except Woodward and Bernstein yet knew Throat's identity. Not even Bradlee. In A Good Life, Bradlee writes that he didn't ask Woodward who Throat was until "after Nixon's resignation [more than a year after Stern's story appeared], and after Woodward and Bernstein's second book, The Final Days [published nearly two years after that]."
After All the President's Men was published, "Who was Deep Throat?" became a favorite Washington parlor game. With the movie's release, the game went national. Did Stern tell friends and family, "I know who Deep Throat was, or at least where he worked"? Probably not. By then, the stakes were much higher. This was a source who'd helped bring down a president and was now officially mythologized as the very symbol of journalistic confidentiality. Also, Stern was rising in the Post management hierarchy and therefore was probably feeling a little less free-spirited. But Marcus Stern does remember attending with his father the Kennedy Center movie premiere of All the President's Men in 1976. Driving home afterward, Marcus recalls, the subject of Deep Throat came up. Who was Deep Throat, anyway? "I think the movie suggested it," his father replied. Laurence Stern then went on to cite something in the film—Marcus can't remember what—that indicated the filmmakers meant to hint that Deep Throat had worked for the FBI. In truth, the filmmakers had no idea who Deep Throat was or where he worked. Laurence didn't indicate, as best Marcus can recall, that he'd already spilled the latter secret in the pages of the Washington Post.


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YORK, PA – Junior guard Julian Watson paced four Spartans in double figures as the York College men's basketball team notched a 71-63 victory over Salisbury University in Capital Athletic Conference action on Saturday afternoon in York. The Spartans improve to 9-7 overall and 4-3 in the CAC while the Sea Gulls drop to 2-4 in the league and 9-6 overall.
The game was very choppy offensively on both sides early in the contest as the Spartans led 7-6 with 11:40 remaining in the opening half. The scoring picked up slightly as the half progressed as play was very even as the first half featured ten lead changes and three ties. The Sea Gulls took their final lead of the game with Elijah Gore three pointer with 6:07 left in the stanza. The Spartans then embarked on a 13-2 run fueled by Watson as the Spartan guard had six points during the spurt. The Sea Gulls scored the final five points of the half to trim York's lead to 30-26 at the break.
The Green and White came out of the break and smacked the Gulls with a 19-4 run that changed the tenor of the game. The run pushed the York lead to 19 at 49-30 with 13:03 remaining in regulation.
The York lead would reach 19 for a second time at the 5:42 mark. Salisbury slowly started the chip away at the Spartan advantage over the final five minutes of the game. Salisbury drew to within nine at 65-56 with 1:39 left. Senior Mo Oursler hit a runner in the lane to push York's lead back to 11 but a three pointer from Tim Harwood and a lay up by Mike Maczko cut York's advantage to six with 32 seconds left. Watson would then make four trips to the free throw line in the final 26 seconds to salt the game away for York.
Watson was 5-for-10 from the floor and 9-for-12 from the free throw line en route to his season-high tying 19 points. He added three rebounds, three steals and two assists in the win. Oursler continued his recent outstanding play as the guard tossed in 18 points and five rebounds. Oursler was 6-for-10 from the field including 4-for-7 from three and 2-for-4 from the free throw line. Junior Todd Maciejewski contributed 14 points and two steals in his 22 minutes of work. Senior Paul Kouvaris, the CAC's leading scorer entering the game, chipped in with 11 points, three rebounds, and two blocked shots. Junior Jeremy Skoloda handed out a team-high four assists while he also collected five rebounds.
In all, the Spartans had eight players reach the scoring column.
Salisbury was paced by Maczko as the senior recorded a double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds. He was 7-for-12 from the floor including 2-for-2 from three and 2-for-2 from the free throw line. Harwood contributed 17 points and seven assists while Jason Nwosu was the third Sea Gull in double figures with 14 points.
The Spartans shot 54.5% for the game including 45.5% (5-for-11) from three in the win. The 54.5% accuracy mark is the Spartans highest shooting percentage since York shot 56.9% against LaRoche on December 13. The Green and White shot 69.2% (18-for-26) from the free throw line.
Salisbury shot 47.9% from the floor and a blistering 57.1% (8-for-14) from three. Harwood converted 4-for-5 from three to help the Gulls boost their shooting from distance. Salisbury was nearly perfect from the free throw line as they nailed 9 of their 10 attempts.
The Spartans forced 21 Salisbury miscues and they took advantage of those mistakes to the tune of 27 points.
The Sea Gulls edged the Spartans on the glass, 26-25, as York was outrebounded for just the fourth time this year. Ironically, York is 3-1 when losing the battle on the glass with the lone loss coming against nationally ranked Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
The Green and White returns to action on Wednesday evening as they host Stevenson University in CAC contest. Tip time at Wolf Gymnasium is set for 8:00 pm.
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Roger S. Storm, researcher in advanced ceramics
Jan. 6, 1943 – April 18, 2013
Roger S. Storm of Derby, a researcher in advanced ceramics, died Thursday in Hospice Buffalo, Cheektowaga, after a long battle with cancer. He was 70.
Born in Buffalo, he was a graduate of Kensington High School and attended the University at Buffalo, earning a doctorate in physical chemistry.
He joined Carborundum Corp. in 1969 and was director of the Wendell Center for Research. He was the author of 11 patents in advanced ceramics and material applications and processes. In the early 1980s, he helped direct a joint project between Carborundum and Harrison Radiator to create a ceramic turbine engine for automobiles.
From 1994 to 1997, he was director of avionics and MCM products at Carborundum Microelectronics, then became vice president of Advanced Refractory Technology in Buffalo. In 2001, he became a senior vice president of Materials & Electrochemical Research of Tucson, Ariz., a position he held at the time of his death.
Mr. Storm was an avid runner, bicyclist, skier, chef, wine lover and carpenter.
Surviving are his wife of 21 years, the former Diane Adams Scott; two sons, Jonathan and Don Scott; three daughters, Sarah Bohrer, Jessica Coyle and Bobbi Scott; and a brother, Dr. Donald.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Lakeside Memorial Funeral Home, 4199 Lake Shore Road, Hamburg.


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OK, I am backlogged in posting projects. I never seem to have time to get pictures taken of the stuff I make for myself! I finally got around to getting some pictures done, so here is the first of three to post. I always wanted to have a circle skirt. I had bought this fabric off the bargain wall at Fabricland (I at think I paid $3/m) but held onto it for awhile before I finally decided on making a circle skirt. I followed the instructions on Burdastyle, making the paper pattern on kraft paper. I did find that I had to take it in about an inch or so after it was done because the waist pulled out. I am guessing that it is because of the waist being cut on the bias as it has happened on similarily cut projects. I found that to be a pain. Does anyone know a way around that?
I did follow the directions for the Lesley skirt on Burdastyle (which I can't seem to find right now), except for the waistband. I cut a waistband from the material and lined it with interfacing, put on a button and made a button hole, following instructions from a skirt pattern that I cannot recall right now.. I thought it would hold the waist together better, but I still had to take it in. I did make a previous circle skirt that I was quite disappointed in as it has has been taken in once and is still massive around the waist. I lost my motivation to get it done. I had made that one with a much heavier fabric though. One of these days, I will get that one done! I do love this one though. I think the skirt works well with cotton, although it does wrinkle easily.
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2m printed cotton, 3/4" button, 7" zipper
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Jan 22, 2012, 01.25 AMby domestic-divaonline
Very cool! Love the colors and design.
Jan 15, 2012, 12.45 PMby Lucypie
love it, want it.
Jan 15, 2012, 08.25 AMby jennyrecorder
You're not the only one with waist problems on bias-cut patterns. My circle skirt (pattern from another website) was 16cm too big around the waist, I ended up putting pleats in it to make it fit! I love your fabric btw, your skirt is lovely :)
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Mariah Cooper had imagined her death a thousand times in the past four years, but never had she thought she'd be crouched in a motel room bathtub when it finally happened.
"It's going to be okay." Jake's calm voice barely rose above the wind gusts rattling the windows and howling around the corner eaves just outside the motel room. Across the tub, he locked his hands with hers, his blue eyes meeting hers with steady assurance. "Just another tornado warning, right?"
Mariah nodded. Having spent her whole life in tornado-prone areas, she'd responded to hundreds of tornado siren warnings with actions drummed into her head over the years—go to the basement or an interior room, put as many walls between you and the exterior as possible, get beneath something sturdy if possible. Right now, they were on the bottom floor of the two-story motel, and the bathroom was the only place in the room that didn't have an exterior window. The tub had a long steel handle set into the wall to hold on to if things got hairy.
But she couldn't remember ever hearing the wind howl so loudly or feeling the walls shake with each gust.
"It's close," she said, pressure rising in her ears.
Jake's gaze held hers. "It may not even touch down."
On the counter across from the tub, a battery-powered radio kept up a steady stream of chatter from a local station carrying wall-to-wall weather coverage from a television station out of Meridian, Mississippi. The meteorologist was warning people in the Buckley area to get to their places of safety immediately.
"I love you." The warmth of Jake's voice wrapped around Mariah's shivering body. She held his gaze, her heart sinking under the weight of the truth. Jake didn't really love her. He couldn't. He didn't know who she really was.
A crackling boom shook the motel room. The lights surged, then died, plunging the bathroom into utter blackness. Mariah gasped, her fingers tightening over his.
"A transformer blew. That's all." Jake shifted, turning her until she was cradled between his knees, her back against his chest. He wrapped his arms around her, his breath hot against her neck. "Just a few more minutes and it'll be over."
The roar of the wind rose. Cracks and thuds filled Mariah's ears, frighteningly close. Though she closed her eyes against the darkness, as if she could shut it out somehow, the blackness pursued her relentlessly, carried on a sea of destruction encroaching from somewhere outside.
She repeated Jake's promise in her head. A few more minutes and it'll be over. It'll be over. It'll be over.
Then, suddenly, it was. The roar of wind fell quickly before dying away altogether, replaced by a steady drumbeat of rain against the windows. Jake began to stir, but Mariah clutched his arms, holding him in place behind her in the tub. They sat quietly, listening to the radio. Only when the weatherman started talking about storm damage reports trickling in from Buckley did Mariah finally move.
"We should see if the truck and boat made it," she murmured, struggling to compose herself.
Jake muttered a soft oath. "Didn't think about the boat."
The power was still out, so Mariah had to feel her way out of the tub and into the main part of the motel room. She'd spotted candles and matches in the drawer of the bureau when she was putting away their clothes a couple of days earlier, so she made her way there and opened the drawer, groping inside until she felt the smooth, cool wax of a candle beneath her fingers. A little more searching garnered the small box of matches as well. She struck a match and touched the tip to the candle's wick. The candle sizzled to life, casting a warm, flickering glow across the motel room.
Mariah turned and found her husband gazing at her, his expression tense but confident.
"Told you we'd make it through." He brushed her arm with his fingertips as he passed her on the way to the front window. He moved the curtain aside and peered out through the rain-mottled windows. His back stiffening, he spoke in a raspy voice. "Good news is the truck and boat are still there. But the shopping strip next door is gone."
Her knees buckling, Mariah stumbled to the end of the bed and sat heavily, her heart pounding wildly. There had been fifteen stores in that strip center. They'd shopped at the drugstore there just that morning. And now it was gone?
She'd known it was a bad idea to come back to Buckley.
The bad weather the night before had bypassed Victor Logan for the most part. A few trees had fallen in the woods surrounding his house, a shanty of a place that was the most he could afford to rent with the little bit of money he'd had left after his legal fees. But he'd seen nothing but a little wind and rain where he lived, despite the tornado siren. And as his old box set television couldn't pick up any channels since the conversion to digital, he hadn't watched the morning news before gassing up his van and driving to town to look for work.
So it was with some surprise that he saw the utter devastation wrought across the small town of Buckley, Mississippi, in the early hours of the morning. Houses with roofs damaged or missing completely. Vehicles upside down, including an eighteen-wheeler wrapped around the concrete piling of an overpass, the trailer split in two, spilling its payload of fresh strawberries onto the roadway. Birds swarmed like winged piranhas, pecking bits of flesh from the berries until the roadside bled red with their juices.
Bodies of farm animals dotted the highway into Buckley, buzzards circling overhead. As he neared town, traffic slowed to a grind due to a roadblock on the highway ahead. The cops must be screening people to be sure they had legitimate business in the storm zone, he realized with a grimace.
He didn't want to talk to the cops, so he turned off as soon as he could, parking in front of a small diner. He'd eaten there a few times. Good food, low prices, and the staff mostly left you alone. Inside, he sat at the counter and ordered the breakfast special—eggs, sausage and a gravy biscuit.
Nearby, a half dozen fellow customers huddled around the diner's small television, murmuring in low tones of horror and concern. Victor could see part of the television screen between their bodies, enough that he got a good look at the devastation in downtown Buckley and on the south side, where the road toward Flint Creek Reservoir had taken a hard hit, wiping out a shopping strip center and several dozen residences.
Victor watched for a moment, his only emotion curiosity. The destruction might open up the job market for him. He was a good mechanic. He could also do construction work if necessary. He just needed someone to look past the black marks on his record. He was starting to get anxious—he'd never been a thief, and he didn't want to become one now just to keep his head above water. Theft was Marisol's crime, not his.
Treacherous bitch.
As he started to look away from the television screen, a face in the crowd behind the male reporter caught his eye. Dropping his fork, he walked closer to the television screen, edging another man out of the way to get a better look.
Marisol. As if his thoughts had conjured her up.
Four years later, she'd changed little, her hair still long and coal black, her eyes so light they looked like pools of silver against the dusky olive of her skin. She gazed straight into the camera, as if looking right at him, and his heart beat a thunderous cadence in his ears.
Her eyes widened and she looked away quickly, as if she'd seen him watching her through the television screen, and turned to speak to a tall, dark-haired man standing beside her. He put his arm around her shoulder and they walked out of the frame.
Victor stared at the screen, barely breathing. He forced himself to listen to the reporter's drivel. The talking head was near a residential subdivision the tornado had nearly wiped out. The people behind the guy were volunteers for the rescue and recovery efforts. More volunteers were needed.
Victor returned to the counter and wolfed down his breakfast. He was on the road within a few minutes.
He bypassed the main highway into Buckley, taking side roads that snaked through the forest and farmlands hemming in the town on all sides. A policeman flagged him down as he entered the affected area.
Victor willed himself to remain calm. He'd done his time. He'd gotten out on good behavior. Seeing his parole officer weekly, as required, and still looking for a job. Plus, he had skills the rescuers could use, didn't he?
He said as much to the policeman who rapped on the driver's side window of his van to ask what business he had in the area.
The cop eyed him a moment before giving a nod. He told him where to park the van and where to find the fire department officer who was coordinating volunteers.
Victor parked where directed and walked to the staging area, a pavilion tent set up in the middle of the road near the tornado strike zone. Inside, volunteers were taking names and handing out bottles of water to those who'd come to support the first responders.
Hers was the first face he saw.
Victor's heart jumped. Marisol was only a few feet away, bending to open another crate of water bottles. She pulled several bottles from the package and set them on a collapsible card table set up in the middle of the staging tent.
She was as beautiful as ever, though time had blessed her, at twenty-five, with a more womanly shape and a leaner, more mature face than she'd possessed at twenty-one. Her dark hair was twisted into a careless braid down her back, humidity giving it a hint of curl in the tendrils around her face. She smiled as she handed a volunteer a bottle, and Victor saw she'd fixed the upper left bicuspid she'd broken as a child.
The man he'd seen her with on TV was nowhere around.
Victor slipped from the tent, not yet ready to be seen. He needed to know why she was here. Was she still living in the Buckley area? Surely not. He'd looked for her in vain as soon as he got out of jail.
Who was the man she'd been with, who'd put his arm around her and led her away from the reporter? Her new lover?
Victor wasn't jealous—he'd never consider sullying himself with her. She'd been an intellectual passion, not an object of sexual desire.
But he hadn't plucked her out of filth to watch her whore her way around Mississippi, either. He hadn't schooled her in the classics, filled her formerly dull mind with the precisions of science and the exquisite mysteries of mathematics to watch her throw her knowledge away on frivolous, romantic dreams of marriage and maternity.
She was supposed to be a different sort of creature, dedicated to knowledge and beauty, not a slave to her baser drives and emotions.
Marisol Mendez had been a great disappointment to him.
Text Copyright © 2011 by Paula Graves. Permission to reproduce text granted by Harlequin Books S.A.


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About Will Rogan
Will Rogan uses photography as a central element his drawings, sculptures, and installations that draw attention to the mundane. Rogan's images are both culled from archives and taken from his surroundings. In 2009, the artist took photographs of storefronts containing the word "World" in a series titled "Other World". More recently, he laboriously constructed a delicate structure, Mediums (recent ruins) (2013) made using photographic portraits of 60 artists from catalogues discarded by the library at the San Francisco Art Institute. Rogan's approach is often humorous and ironic, but with a touch of poignancy. Themes in his work include explorations of memento mori and vanitas, nostalgia, and the passage of time.
American, b. 1975, based in Albany, California


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Skip to comments.Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem(5/17/12)[Prayer]
Posted on 05/17/2012 4:40:20 AM PDT by left that other site
Praying for the Peace of Jerusalem, Israel and our beloved Nation.
Continued praters for our FRiends in need and all persecuted.
Blessings, etabeta
The battle is still raging and the most powerful weapon will be used until ordered to cease.
Psalm 94
God the Avenger of the Righteous
1 O Lord, you God of vengeance,
you God of vengeance, shine forth!
2 Rise up, O judge of the earth;
give to the proud what they deserve!
3 O Lord, how long shall the wicked,
how long shall the wicked exult?
4 They pour out their arrogant words;
all the evildoers boast.
5 They crush your people, O Lord,
and afflict your heritage.
6 They kill the widow and the stranger,
they murder the orphan,
7 and they say, The Lord does not see;
the God of Jacob does not perceive.
8 Understand, O dullest of the people;
fools, when will you be wise?
9 He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?
10 He who disciplines the nations,
he who teaches knowledge to humankind,
does he not chastise?
11 The Lord knows our thoughts,*
that they are but an empty breath.
12 Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord,
and whom you teach out of your law,
13 giving them respite from days of trouble,
until a pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For the Lord will not forsake his people;
he will not abandon his heritage;
15 for justice will return to the righteous,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.
16 Who rises up for me against the wicked?
Who stands up for me against evildoers?
17 If the Lord had not been my help,
my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
18 When I thought, My foot is slipping,
your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
19 When the cares of my heart are many,
your consolations cheer my soul.
20 Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
those who contrive mischief by statute?
21 They band together against the life of the righteous,
and condemn the innocent to death.
22 But the Lord has become my stronghold,
and my God the rock of my refuge.
23 He will repay them for their iniquity
and wipe them out for their wickedness;
the Lord our God will wipe them out.
Heavenly Father may you continue to bring an overwhelming, crushing defeat on the forces of darkness in our nation, may you smash every crooked deed as they try to hold onto power and may this be so convincing that everyone knows that your hand is in this. Then we may bring the light of your Gospel to the nations as you did this time in history:
May you block and undo every policy and piece of legislation they have passed that is harmful to this nation. May you make every policy they make fail and may you turn the hearts of the multitudes against them. May you thwart every evil deed they try to divide this nation. May you bring their own mischief upon them ten fold. This day we shatter the clay jar of Jeremiah 19 in their faces. May you punish those in our government who are lawless traitors and also enemies of Israel by exposing them and deliver them into our hands for justice
And this we humbly ask in Jesus name.
Psalm 37
Exhortation to Patience and Trust
Of David.
1 Do not fret because of the wicked;
do not be envious of wrongdoers,
2 for they will soon fade like the grass,
and wither like the green herb.
3 Trust in the Lord, and do good;
so you will live in the land, and enjoy security.
4 Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.
6 He will make your vindication shine like the light,
and the justice of your cause like the noonday.
7 Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him;
do not fret over those who prosper in their way,
over those who carry out evil devices.
8 Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath.
Do not fretit leads only to evil.
9 For the wicked shall be cut off,
but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.
10 Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look diligently for their place, they will not be there.
11 But the meek shall inherit the land,
and delight in abundant prosperity.
12 The wicked plot against the righteous,
and gnash their teeth at them;
13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
for he sees that their day is coming.
14 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows
to bring down the poor and needy,
to kill those who walk uprightly;
15 their sword shall enter their own heart,
and their bows shall be broken.
16 Better is a little that the righteous person has
than the abundance of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but the Lord upholds the righteous.
18 The Lord knows the days of the blameless,
and their heritage will abide for ever;
19 they are not put to shame in evil times,
in the days of famine they have abundance.
20 But the wicked perish,
and the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures;
they vanishlike smoke they vanish away.
21 The wicked borrow, and do not pay back,
but the righteous are generous and keep giving;
22 for those blessed by the Lord shall inherit the land,
but those cursed by him shall be cut off.
23 Our steps* are made firm by the Lord,
when he delights in our* way;
24 though we stumble,* we* shall not fall headlong,
for the Lord holds us* by the hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
or their children begging bread.
26 They are ever giving liberally and lending,
and their children become a blessing.
27 Depart from evil, and do good;
so you shall abide for ever.
28 For the Lord loves justice;
he will not forsake his faithful ones.
The righteous shall be kept safe for ever,
but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
29 The righteous shall inherit the land,
and live in it for ever.
30 The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom,
and their tongues speak justice.
31 The law of their God is in their hearts;
their steps do not slip.
32 The wicked watch for the righteous,
and seek to kill them.
33 The Lord will not abandon them to their power,
or let them be condemned when they are brought to trial.
34 Wait for the Lord, and keep to his way,
and he will exalt you to inherit the land;
you will look on the destruction of the wicked.
35 I have seen the wicked oppressing,
and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.*
36 Again I* passed by, and they were no more;
though I sought them, they could not be found.
37 Mark the blameless, and behold the upright,
for there is posterity for the peaceable.
38 But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed;
the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.
39 The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;
he is their refuge in the time of trouble.
40 The Lord helps them and rescues them;
he rescues them from the wicked, and saves them,
because they take refuge.
Change is coming.
2 Kings 11
Athaliah Reigns over Judah
11Now when Athaliah, Ahaziahs mother, saw that her son was dead, she set about to destroy all the royal family. 2But Jehosheba, King Jorams daughter, Ahaziahs sister, took Joash son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the kings children who were about to be killed; she put* him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus she* hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not killed; 3he remained with her for six years, hidden in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
Jehoiada Anoints the Child Joash
4 But in the seventh year Jehoiada summoned the captains of the Carites and of the guards and had them come to him in the house of the Lord. He made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the Lord; then he showed them the kings son. 5He commanded them, This is what you are to do: one-third of you, those who go off duty on the sabbath and guard the kings house 6(another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards), shall guard the palace; 7and your two divisions that come on duty in force on the sabbath and guard the house of the Lord * 8shall surround the king, each with weapons in hand; and whoever approaches the ranks is to be killed. Be with the king in his comings and goings.
9 The captains did according to all that the priest Jehoiada commanded; each brought his men who were to go off duty on the sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the sabbath, and came to the priest Jehoiada. 10The priest delivered to the captains the spears and shields that had been King Davids, which were in the house of the Lord; 11the guards stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house, to guard the king on every side. 12Then he brought out the kings son, put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant;* they proclaimed him king, and anointed him; they clapped their hands and shouted, Long live the king!
Death of Athaliah
13 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she went into the house of the Lord to the people; 14when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to custom, with the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, Treason! Treason! 15Then the priest Jehoiada commanded the captains who were set over the army, Bring her out between the ranks, and kill with the sword anyone who follows her. For the priest said, Let her not be killed in the house of the Lord. 16So they laid hands on her; she went through the horses entrance to the kings house, and there she was put to death.
17 Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, that they should be the Lords people; also between the king and the people. 18Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altars. The priest posted guards over the house of the Lord. 19He took the captains, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land; then they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, marching through the gate of the guards to the kings house. He took his seat on the throne of the kings. 20So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been killed with the sword at the kings house.
21 *Jehoash* was seven years old when he began to reign.
Please continue to pray with me
For the protection of our dear Teacher, here, Mary Lou.
May all who attack her, be smitten, and halted,,
By the Holy Hand of G-d.
Prayers For The Peace Of Jerusalem, America, Persecuted Believers, Friends in need and to My Fellow Brothers and Sisters in Christ, in Jesus Name, Amen.
I join in prayer for Israel, Jerusalem and all God's beloved.
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Hi guys! i decided to show u quite half of my mvs collection !
I am quite next the fullset and i hope to close it early.
I started to collect about one year ago.
Mvs give me the opportunity to combine treasuring hunting with playing best games never made (in my op ).
I dreamed about neo geo aes for a lot of years but when i was young i never had money for them.
Mvs world give me the opportunity to sold items and collect them. I think that is a great opportunity for each neogeo amateur and collector.
I am so proud about some items that i found like the sealed box of sengoku 3.
Hope that everybody will like it


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Found this today on www.owasp.org.
It's a list of the top ten current vulnerabilities in web applications.
Unvalidated Parameters
Information from web requests is not validated before being used by a web application. Attackers can use these flaws to attack backside components through a web application.
Broken Access Control
Restrictions on what authenticated users are allowed to do are not properly enforced. Attackers can exploit these flaws to access other users accounts, view sensitive files, or use unauthorized functions.
Broken Account and Session Management
Account credentials and session tokens are not properly protected. Attackers that can compromise passwords, keys, session cookies, or other tokens can defeat authentication restrictions and assume other users identities.
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Flaws
The web application can be used as a mechanism to transport an attack to an end users browser. A successful attack can disclose the end users session token, attack the local machine, or spoof content to fool the user.
Buffer Overflows
Web application components in some languages that do not properly validate input can be crashed and, in some cases, used to take control of a process. These components can include CGI, libraries, drivers, and web application server components.
Command Injection Flaws
Web applications pass parameters when they access external systems or the local operating system. If an attacker can embed malicious commands in these parameters, the external system may execute those commands on behalf of the web application.
Error Handling Problems
Error conditions that occur during normal operation are not handled properly. If an attacker can cause errors to occur that the web application does not handle, they can gain detailed system information, deny service, cause security mechanisms to fail, or crash the server.
Insecure Use of Cryptography
Web applications frequently use cryptographic functions to protect information and credentials. These functions and the code to integrate them have proven difficult to code properly, frequently resulting in weak protection.
Remote Administration Flaws
Many web applications allow administrators to access the site using a web interface. If these administrative functions are not very carefully protected, an attacker can gain full access to all aspects of a site.
Web and Application Server Misconfiguration
Having a strong server configuration standard is critical to a secure web application. These servers have many configuration options that affect security and are not secure out of the box.
Any comments?


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The hunt for two Philadelphia carjackers who rammed a stolen SUV into a family, killing three children, entered its third day Sunday as officials offered a $110,000 reward for information leading to their capture.
Investigators said they are working hard to apprehend the suspects, who fled on foot after crashing the vehicle Friday at an intersection in North Philadelphia where Keisha Williams, 34, and her three children, aged 7 to 15, were selling fruit for a church fundraiser.
Late Sunday, Homicide Capt. James Clark said two men were being interviewed by detectives concerning the crash, The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/1ux8gcs) reported. Clark declined to identify the men.
Williams remained hospitalized, along with a 65-year-old woman who was helping the family at the fruit stand and the 45-year-old woman who had been carjacked at gunpoint.
Williams' 10-year-old son died at the scene. His older sister and younger brother were pronounced dead at hospitals.
"There are no words to describe how I feel right now, but we do need to find these two guys," said police Commissioner Charles Ramsey.
Investigators said the two assailants forced the SUV's owner, a real-estate agent, into the back seat about a mile from where the crash occurred. Investigators believe the carjackers may have blown a tire turning a corner at high speed causing the SUV to crash into a stand of trees.
The reward money was posted by the city and the Fraternal Order of Police.


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A New York-based supermarket chain has had a change of heart about grounding Alec Baldwin as a spokesman because of his antics aboard an American Airlines flight.
Wegmans Food Markets said Wednesday it will continue running television ads featuring Baldwin after being inundated with "hundreds and hundreds of tweets, emails, and phone calls" in support of the actor.
"We regret ending the Alec Baldwin holiday commercials one week earlier than planned in response to a couple of dozen complaints," Wegmans said in a statement. "We have decided to run the commercials again, effective immediately. Clearly, many more people support Alec."
Wegmans revealed Tuesday it had pulled the ads after drawing customer criticism about Baldwin's behavior. He was removed from a New York-bound flight at Los Angeles International Airport on Dec. 6 for refusing to turn off his cellphone.
The commercials, which were filmed for the 2010 holiday season, were supposed to run again for three weeks last month but were pulled a week early after Baldwin's airline dustup.
Baldwin was hired for the ads after he mentioned that his mother, who lives in the Syracuse area, is a loyal Wegmans customer.
"We appreciate Wegmans' decision and the sentiment expressed in their statement," Baldwin publicist Matthew Hiltzik said.
Wegmans, a family owned business founded in Rochester in 1916, is credited with helping pioneer "one-stop shopping." It has 79 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland and Massachusetts.


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Similar experience as most here noted. I too have had only 100% positive feedback as a buyer. I asked if I won their auction for a NAD 533 Turntable if I could pick it up locally. Their response was to cancel my bid, listing "Feedback Left For Others' Issues." Then they blocked me from bidding on their items.
Now, in the past 3 months I've had some issues with shipping from other sellers: I had a turntable delivered to me severely damaged, a center channel speaker with a piece loose inside that rattled around like a golf ball, a speaker that had no sound coming from the tweeter (even though description said it sounds great), and another instance where the seller simply never shipped the turntable I had purchased.
In every instance we were able to come to a resolution, and my feedback reflects this. However, when asked why they blocked me after I asked if I could pick up the NAD 533 locally, the good folks at Cape Ann Audio offered the following:
"**?? 'I've had 100% positive feedback from the sellers I've dealt with.' That statement, as ANY eBay agent will tell you, is 100% MEANINGLESS! Since 2008, ALL 'buyers' have 100% positive feedback, thus making the feedback system meaningless. eBay sellers now only look at the FEEDBACK YOU'VE LEFT FOR OTHERS, every word of which is in your feedback profile. And YOU have left unwarranted, picayune, trite, and nasty feedback for MANY decent folks who sell on eBay.
And if you DON'T know why your bid was cancelled, you DO need to take an eBay TUTORIAL, since the reason is RIGHT ON THE LISTING PAGE! And that reason is why eBay has permanently blocked you from ever bidding on our items. Trying to avoid the block by using another ID, or the ID of a family member, friend, or associate is a VIOLATION of 3 eBay rules, and will result in your dismissal from eBay. Have a nice day..."
Nice going guys...you lost a customer who might have been a repeat buyer in a very specialized market, one who could have saved you the cost and hassles of shipping.
I have been seller and buyer on eBay since 2000. I have 100% positive feedback. I was going to purchase a Rotel processor with HDMI 1069. I had asked a simple question that most buyers would do. I had asked if this Rotel processor was guaranteed to be HDMI. He responds, "Beats us--we don't know how to read either." Then I responded and said, "Excuse me? So you do not know if this HDMI-qualified?"
Then he responded back and says, "Why don't you try something new, like READING the listing?" Then I responded, "You are right, description does say all new update software to HDMI, etc. Impressive for a RSP-1069 having all those new features...really nice to have the factory upgrades on this model. I will watch for more upcoming auctions. Thank you for your help."
He than came back with a shocking behavior I had ever seen from supposedly a top seller with 100% feedback, which makes me really wonder the real truth. He responds this: "You are right, description does say all new update software to HDMI..." (Are you SERIOUS??? Who do you think WROTE the description??? And are you always SO inconsiderate of a seller's efforts that you DON'T read listings.)
"...But, never mind, eBay has PERMANENTLY BLOCKED you from EVER bidding on our items. Further, you've been reported to eBay' Trust & Safety for continuing to harass us with your emails. And, if you continue, you'll be visited by a Commonwealth Trooper who WILL arrest you for harassment."
Well this truly is a very bizarre behavior for simple questions being asked. The truth I am a novice in these Rotel products and just wanted to confirm that I am not misunderstanding the descriptions. I felt threaten and very much harassed by this eBay seller. This was a very bad experience and had noticed this was not the first time nor it will be the last he will pull this kind of threat to someone else. He should be banned from eBay or anger management should be addressed here. Thank you for your time and listening...Happy Holidays to all.
I expressed interest in a product that was being sold by Cape Ann Audio on eBay and this was my treatment. Below is a copy of my question and their answer. My question: "Having had the HDMI upgrade does that mean that the unit is now capable of decoding Dolby HD Audio as well? Thank you." Their answer: "????? We're not sure why you asked this, since the listing clearly states that it's an HDMI VIDEO switching upgrade. Further, most folks who are serious about these would go DIRECTLY to the Rotel site, where they would have discovered the same information."
Does this seem helpful? Clearly, I asked a question because I did not know the answer, but the response seems a bit obtuse as I was quite cordial, yet the response clearly has a tone of condescension - as though my question was inconvenient. Additionally, the seller quickly made the assumption that I was not a serious buyer because I had not visited the manufacturer's website regarding this product.
In my opinion, this shows a lack of tact and appreciation of the customer. I will not be doing business with this company. I don't need to see all the cards to know when to fold. If there were any problems with the product, my confidence is gone in the seller taking care of me. I'm an eBay buyer and seller with integrity. I have 100% satisfaction with almost 300 feedback. I am not the only one with a bad experience. Feel free to search others. They are on here too.
EBAY, MASSACHUSETTS -- I made the mistake of asking a question to clarify a small point. His reply was over the top, rude and tried to be intimidating. When I attempted to bid on the item, despite his poor attitude, he had blocked me from bidding. The eBay auction is # **, and the text of my question and his reply are what follows:
"I can't find the link at the Yamaha site for the manual download. Do you have any idea how old this unit is? Is the remote functioning properly?" "Is the remote functioning properly?" Which part of "Flawless Operation & Performance" do you NOT understand??? Have you read our feedback??
CAPE ANN, MASSACHUSETTS -- I had been watching this NAD 3240PE amp for a few days from someone I had on my favorite list, after buying an A/D/S A2 amp sometime ago. The guy, **, seemed to be a stand up seller from an area I was quite familiar with. The auction was on the last day, 8/21/11, so I placed a bid and was promptly outbid. Again I placed a higher bid and that one was good! Later I checked back and I was outbid again! So I put in a higher bid, knowing in the back of my mind I was going to get a great amp from **... however he blocked my bid!
I tried several times thinking it was a mistake, but still no go! I tried asking a question, I was blocked from that also! Now a day later, I've tried to even see what he has listed on eBay (since a day ago he had many auctions going) and he has blocked me from even looking! I have a 100% feed back and in the 5 years I've had an eBay account, I've only given 1 "neutral" feedback and that was only after a great deal trouble from the seller and many second thoughts!
Today I have googled "Cape Ann Audio" and found that I'm not the only one to have been blocked by ** of the eBay store, Cape Ann Audio, and I'm sure I won't be the last until ** is finally shut down by eBay! So, if you're in the market to buy vintage, used high-end audio equipment, I'd steer clear of any dealings with ** of Cape Ann Audio on eBay! Don't just take my word for it, Google it! Thanks for letting me vent! :-/
MASSACHUSETTS -- These people need to grow up. Ask a question, go ahead... I dare you. LOL. What a joke. This guy must have been abused growing up. Two sales he lost because of being a fool. Had the nerve to call me and act like he was a tough guy and hang up. Hope you read this buddy. This guy must have banned hundreds of potential customers. Selling out of his home no doubt. Love the disclaimer that they are not technicians or professionals and then they get all technical in their item descriptions.
Not a problem, I am not buying and selling. Just make an occasional purchase for personal use. Plenty of other places to buy on eBay. Good luck people, just don't ask any questions or even give a compliment. It doesn't matter. Any correspondence gets you blocked. Don't think you can even ask them anymore which is what they should have done to begin with. Good luck **. Keep up the great work... LOL.
Earlier today I saw that Cape Ann Audio was selling 1570 Rotel - received and notated that it comes with 1.4 HDMI switching where the actual Rotel website is still showing 1.3. So I thought I'd ask the details to which I got this response: "Most Rotel fans know where to look, but...since a history of the feedback you've left for sellers indicates an anti-seller disposition, we suggest you shop elsewhere for this. eBay has blocked you from bidding on our items."
I was nice enough to write them back and ask them nicely why they are being rude, and that they probably confused me with someone because my feedback is excellent, and I have been eBayer (both seller and buyer) for over 10 years with 100% positive feedback! And here is what I got back from them: "I have been eBay member since 2000 and have 100% feedback." (Really? As ANY eBay agent will tell you, THAT is a meaningless statement, since ALL 'buyers' have 100% positive feedback.)
"Now, in case you didn't know, EVERY word you've EVER left for your fellow eBayers is available for PUBLIC viewing on eBay. No need to try to recall what you've said, just LOOK IT UP. Just click on that number next to your name (currently '214'), and then click the tab that says 'FEEDBACK LEFT FOR OTHERS'. And, please, do not contact us again." Be aware of this seller and DO NOT do business with them. It seems that I'm not the only one that was treated this way by this seller. Seller like this should be doing business ON THE STREET, not on eBay!
Watch out for these guys on eBay and do not expect a cordial response. A couple of years ago, I wanted to bid on a Yamaha receiver that Cape Ann had. I asked if the unit had a remote. I received a very terse and insulting surprise that "if I was a serious audio fan, I would know that this unit did not have a remote and should not waste their time." Cordial question, rude response. I passed on bidding. Some time earlier this year I tried to bid on another item (making sure I did not ask any questions) and found that they had BLOCKED me from bidding!!! Think someone over there has a serious anger management issue!
MASSACHUSETTS -- I bid on an item of theirs on eBay and rather than being appreciative, they sent me a message asking me to "explain why I bid on their item" when there were other similar items up for auction on eBay. They also stated that I had never bought or sold speakers before. I found this very strange and do not understand why someone would ask such a question. My buying habits is no one's business and not sure why they stalked my profile was beyond me. All I wanted was a pair of speakers.


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Lechenaultia biloba
captioned as Leschenaultia biloba
Blue Lechenaultia
family GOODENIACEAE
artist: Henry George Moon (1857 - 1905)
From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches
by William Robinson (editor).
London, 1884, July - December, volume 26, plate 460.
Chromolithograph (sheet 217 x 280 mm)
Australian Plant Image Index