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From the beginning of his first term, President Obama sought to end our conflicts with Islamists by apologizing for past misbehaviors. I'm not sure what his thought process was, but based on a history of continued religious battles from about 1,000 years before Mohammed breathed his first breath, warring has been prevalent in the Middle East. Fracases have ensued since Cain murdered Able somewhere near a future Saddam Hussein palace.
From the beginning of his first term, President Obama sought to end our conflicts with Islamists by apologizing for past misbehaviors. I'm not sure what his thought process was, but based on a history of continued religious battles from about 1,000 years before Mohammed breathed his first breath, warring has been prevalent in the Middle East. Fracases have ensued since Cain murdered Able somewhere near a future Saddam Hussein palace.
The advent of Islam, a religion at war with itself and outside world, preceded the establishment of the USA by 1,100 years. In a previous article, I revealed that our first conflict with Islam occurred when they began attacking our trade ships near what is now Libya in 1785 with the only provocation being that we weren't Muslims.
Many of the spiritual ancestors of those Muslims have aligned themselves to deliver either corpses or Muslim converts to the feet of Allah, in the name of his Messenger, Mohammed. One of those groups was born in 1928. They are known as The Muslim Brotherhood.
One would have thought a scholar like Obama could have remembered this history from Indonesia where he went to a Muslim School, high school back in Hawaii, Columbia University, or Hahvad.
Apparently he must have been playing spades or sleeping through class just like he snoozed thru Benghazi.
Actually Obama was schooled or, as some might say, misdirected. He attended church under Reverend Wright who taught the Obama family that on 9/11 "…America's chickens came home to roost!" I'm reasonably sure Obama also spent time with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan whose opinions on America seem to be if the evil whites and Jews all disappeared, things might change for the better.
How has this unjustifiable cowering before Muslims matriculated into Obama foreign policy?
1. On the one hand, Israel has been slapped while the USA coddles Hamas and Hezbollah.
2. On the other hand, Obama-sent drones have killed many a terrorist leader, culminating in the execution of Osama bin Laden.
3. On the other hand, Israelis are ordered to stop building homes for Jews in Israel while hundreds of millions of US taxpayer Benjamins find their way into terrorist hands.
4. On the other hand, Obama has convinced the majority of American Jews what a friend he is to Israel.
5. On the other hand, Obama was witnessed putting a prayer message in one of the crevices of the Wailing Wall. I don't for a minute don't believe the rumor that Obama's message read, "Ha, Israel—you've been punked!"
6. On the other hand, after almost a year of lying and no arrests from the Benghazi torture and murder of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans, the DOJ issued an unenforceable indictment of a bragging terror leader, Ansar al-Sharia. This is exactly what our intern-dabbling President Clinton did in 1998 to Osama bin-Laden. Rumor was Osama laughed so hard he burst a kidney. Just three years later we all found out how effective a deterrent that was on 9/11.
Having run out of other hands, I must conclude that our President has a mind to do the opposite of common sense. He is a long-time backer of one of America's biggest enemies, The Muslim Brotherhood and he's infiltrated their presence throughout our government.
Obama cancelled the History Channel—too many repeats
Born in 1928, The Brotherhood grew quickly to be a more stringent follower of the Koran than other Muslims. They also sought to impose themselves on the lives of their brethren either through legal elections or assassination and stealth.
In the 30's and early 40's, they became enthralled with an up-and-coming Jew-hater in Germany, Adolf Hitler. Brotherhood founder al-Banna and fellow anti-Semite, Hitler developed a close relationship, helping insure the Nazi's murder of 17 million people, including six million Jews during the Holocaust. They also urged Arab/Muslims to fight against the allied forces during WW2.
After WW2, The Brothers participated in what they considered easy pickings--the attack on a fledgling Israel within days of the UN vote that reaffirmed its G-d-Given right to live in peace as the Jewish State.
Via many assassination attempts starting with Egyptian King Farouk and his administration, they first backed the next leader Nasser, and then turned on him in the late 40's. In fact, al-Banna was killed by the Nasser Government in 1949.
The Egyptian faction of the Brotherhood was banned and jailed, let go, then has had the process repeated over the last 65 years.
The biggest blow to them was the peace treaty signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat with Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin in 1979. The Brotherhood's anger led to Sadat's assassination in 1981. Vice President Hosni Mubarak assumed the leadership and angered the Brotherhood once again when he bravely committed to the peace with Israel that had cost the life of Sadat.
Mubarak kept that peace until he was overthrown in 2011 by a group backed by—guess who? The Obama Administration. The Brotherhood took over and President Morsi couldn't wait to dismantle the very democracy he was elected from.
Further, has it not occurred to the President that the current leader of al-Qaeda is none other than Egyptian Muslim Brother and successor to Osama bin-Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri?
My psychiatrist had a sale—she said I was only half off
Based on his totally confusing leadership or lack thereof, President Obama has lost all respect in the Middle East, including our Ally of 65 years, Israel. He cooperates with the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood in their revolts in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Libya, while turning his back on Iranians trying to rid themselves of the very Mullahs who are closely allied with the Brotherhood while threatening to wipe our ally Israel from the map.
Our president continues to aid and abet The Muslim Brotherhood, murderers of Christians and burners of their Churches, while backing our other enemies, al-Qaeda and their franchises in and around a very vulnerable Israel.
One definition of Schizophrenia is a "…mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes by a deficit of typical emotional responses. Common symptoms include auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction…"
Is there a psychiatrist in the House—or the Senate?


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During his first talk with reporters this spring, on Saturday, Jerry Manuel said he may try using Luis Castillo in the leadoff spot, while batting Jose Reyes third.
I did a chat with The Happy Recap last night, and I listened to a lot of talk radio this weekend, and I think people may be taking Manuel's comments a little too literally.
Sure, Manuel may bat Castillo leadoff, but my guess is this is more of a spring-time motivational strategy than it is a permanent solution.
Manuel talked during the off-season about working to create an environment this spring that would help Castillo succeed, and batting him leadoff certainly gets him more pitches and allows him more freedom to start the game. Also, Castillo's not even in camp yet, so by pumping him up and trusting him with more responsibility, and making him a big part of the offense before he even gets in camp, it, again, puts him in a leadership position and in a better chance to do well.
Manuel is clearly looking to preach the message of team this spring, not going so far as to say his team was selfish last year, but saying that to be successful his players need to be more team-first in their thinking.
"Stolen bases aren't important to me," Manuel said, "It's important when you steal the base, you know what I'm saying. But, just to have the numbers aren't important. It's when you steal a base that's important."
Manuel has also talked about challenging Reyes to utilize not only his instincts but his intelligence, and I bet by asking him to bat second or third for a bit in spring, it could help Reyes think differently, and be a smarter hitter.
Lastly, the whole shake-up could just be a way to, again, stress that it's not about stats, it's not about stolen base totals or RBI situations or home run numbers, it's about making adjustments and doing what's best for the team – so if Wright has to hit fifth one day, or Reyes bats third, so be it.
In the end, on Opening Day, I bet Reyes bats leadoff, Wright bats third, and so on, but for spring, I think it's all up in the air.

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Tom Hardy May Play Elton John in Rocketman Biopic
Currently being developed by first-time director Michael Gracey, Rocketman will play as "a biographical musical fantasy that weaves together the life of Sir Elton John and his music." And for whatever reason, Tom Hardy is being considered as Sir Elton. "Right now, the project is out to Tom Hardy. That doesn't mean they've made him a formal offer yet, or even that he's interested, but it's an intriguing possibility," HitFix reports. Hey, every respectable actor needs his or her "holy crap, was that who I thought it was?" moment sooner or later.


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Author Notes: Every cook has dishes that she orders when in a restaurant but never makes at home. Let's call these barrier recipes. In the spirit of trying to get past my barrier recipes -- which usually involve shellfish or a grill -- I've recreated the squid salad that I order every time we go to Motorino. I grilled the squid to give it a little char and then tumbled it together with whole parsley leaves, slices of boiled potato, some capers, red pepper flakes, and a dousing of lemon. It took 10 minutes. And I felt pretty dumb for not tackling this sooner. Watch out clams: I'm coming after you next! —Amanda Hesser
Serves: 4
pound squid, rinsed and dried
tablespoons olive oil, plus more if needed
baby white potatoes (or any small variety), boiled and sliced 1/8-inch thick
red onion, thinly sliced
cup flatleaf parsley leaves
Grated zest of 1/2 lemon
Juice of 1 lemon
teaspoon red pepper flakes
tablespoon capers, drained and coarsely chopped
Freshly ground black pepper
- Heat the grill to medium-high -- if you have a fine grate or vegetable or shellfish basket for the grill this is the moment to use it. While the grill heats, toss together the squid with 1 tablespoon olive oil, and prep the rest of your ingredients.
- Grill the squid, spreading out the heads and bodies on the grill. The bodies will steam and fill with liquid; I lift the pieces with tongs and pour this into the fire as they grill, so they char and don't steam. The squid should take 2 to 3 minutes to char and cook through. Remove to a plate.
- Cut the squid bodies into 1/2-inch thick rings. In a large bowl, toss the warm squid rings and heads with the potatoes, onion, parsley, lemon zest, lemon juice, red pepper flakes, capers, and remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil. Taste and add salt and pepper as desired. Let sit for 10 minutes. Taste again, and adjust lemon, salt, and pepper. Serve!
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Curiosities in Proverbs
D.E. Marvin, comp. Curiosities in Proverbs.
Graceful Proverbs
A closed fist is the lock of heaven and the open hand is the key of mercy. (Persian).
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials. (Chinese).
A generation is like a swift horse passing a crevice. (Chinese).
A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment. (Kashmiri).
J. Hinton Knowles in referring to this proverb gives the following information:
This proverb is credited to a holy and clever Pandit called Nand Ram, who lived at Bawan, a sacred Hindu village in Kashmir. This man wrote many rather clever verses in praise of Krishna. He seems to have been terribly dunned by the officials of Bawan, if one may judge from the following lines:
Nand Ram was a husbandman,
And he paid his debts; but there was always somebody after him (for money),
He never knew what it was to live freely in his own house, but was continually obliged to lodge in the house of another,
(Never mind), from the seed of contentment a harvest of peace will be reaped.
The piece of poetry from which the above proverb is taken is the following:
You should sow the seed of destiny in the soil of Dharma (
virtue, religion, duty, law, moral and religious truth according to the Vedas and the law).
From the seed of contentment a harvest of peace will be reaped.
Plough with the two oxen of the two breaths day and night,
Strike them hard with the whip of extreme meditation;
Endeavour so that not a spot of ground will remain unploughed.
From the seed of contentment a harvest of peace is reaped.
Break the clods with the staff of love,
That the damp of envy may not remain beneath:
From the seed of contentment a harvest of peace is reaped.
A learned assembly is a living library. (Arabian).
A loving disposition is a river without a ripple. (Tamil).
An old friend is a mount for a black day. (Osmanli).
A friend is best found in adversity. (English). A good friend is better than silver and gold. (Dutch). A true friend is known in the day of adversity. (Turkish). An old friend is better than two new ones. (German and Russian). Familiar paths and old friends are the best. (German). My friend is he who helps me in time of need. (German). Old friends and old ways ought not to be disdained. (Danish).
An old man in love is like a flower in winter. (Portuguese).
The German saying, The old man who is loved is winter with flowers, is equally graceful and picturesque.
A poor man without patience is like a lamp without oil. (Arabian).
As the rivers pour their waters back again into the sea, so what a man has lent is returned to him again. (Chinese).
This proverb refers not so much to the loaning of money in business, as the loaning for reasons of benevolence. (Ps. xxxvii:25, 26; cxii:5; Prov. xix:17; Luke vi:34, 35). A similar thought is expressed in the Turkish axiom: Who gives alms sows one and reaps one thousand.
A widow is a rudderless boat. (Chinese).
A woman without religion, a flower without perfume. (German).
A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. (Latin).
Broad is the shadow of generosity. (Arabian).
Death is a black camel which kneels at every mans gate. (Turkish).
The camel kneels to receive its burden. Here death is represented as a camel that is sure at some time to stop before every mans door to receive and bear away his body for burial.
Enjoyment is the grace of God. (Hindustani).
Even the heart has its boundaries. (Japanese).
Every blade of grass has its share of the dews of heaven. (Chinese).
Ilka blade o grass keps its ain drap o dew. (Scotch).
Experience is the looking-glass of the intellect. (Arabian).
Falsehood is the darkness of faith. (Persian).
Modesty is the light of faith. (Turkish).
Flowers open without choosing the rich mans ground, the moon shines bright on mountains and rivers; only within the heart of men is evil; all other things must resolve themselves into heavens parental care of the human race. (Chinese).
Fortune is the good mans prize, but the bad mans bane. (Chinese).
God is the guardian of a blind mans wife. (Hindustani).
God lights him that keeps silence. (Persian).
Gods club makes no noise. (Persian).
This proverb refers to oppression that one has to endure from others, indicating that the cruelty and injustice that falls to ones lot should be borne with patience as the chastisement of God.
Gods help is nearer than the door. (Irish).
Good words are like a string of pearls. (Chinese).
Grey hairs are deaths blossoms. (English, German).
Old age is a crown of nettles; youth a crown of roses. (Hebrew). Hoary hairs are deaths messengers. (Arabian).
Heaven is at the feet of mothers. (Persians).
Children who are obedient to their mothers will enter heaven.
He flings a noose on the star in heaven. (Osmanli).
Husband and wife in perfect accord are the music of the harp and lute. (Chinese).
In the hum of the market there is money, but under the cherry tree there is rest. (Japanese).
Kisses are the messengers of love. (Danish).
Life is a light before the wind. (Japanese).
Man is a bubble. (Greek). As wave follows wave, so new men take old mens places. Men live like birds together in a wood; when the time comes each takes his flight. A generation is like a swift horse passing a crevice. When we take off our boots and stockings today, that we shall wear them tomorrow who can tell? Mans life is like a candle in the wind or hoar-frost on the tiles. (Chinese).
See Job vii:6, 7; Ps. lxxviii:39; ciii:15, 16; James iv:14.
Look at the heavens, how they roll on,
And look at man, how soon hes gone;
A breath of wind and then no more
A world like this should man deplore.
Abul Kasim Mansur.
Life is like the moon; now dark, now full. (Polish).
Memory is a falcon, that, if it be caught, is not held; affection is a sparrows nest, that, if it be crushed, is not made. (Osmanli).
Memory is soon lost; love is fragile and must be tenderly treated lest it be destroyed.
Mild speech enchains the heart. (Arabian).
Nightly prayer makes the day to shine. (Arabian).
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. (English).
Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit very sweet. (Persian, German).
A moments patience is a ten-years comfort. (Modern Greek). An hours patience will procure a long period of rest. The remedy for hard times is to have patience. (Arabian). Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience. Patience is a plaster for all sores. Patience conquers the world. Patience perforce is a medicine for a mad dog. Patient waiters are no losers. Patience is a flower that grows not in every garden. (English). Patience is the greatest prayer. (Hindoo). Patience is the key of Paradise. (Persian, Turkish). Patience excels learning. An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. He that can be patient finds his foe at his feet. (Dutch). Have patience, Cossack, thou wilt come to be a hetman. (Russian). He who ends with patience is a conqueror. (Latin). Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. (Chinese). Patience devours the devil. Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit. Patience is a good plant but it doesnt grow in my garden, said the hangman. Patience is the door of joy. (German). Patience, time, and money overcome everything. Who has patience sees his revenge. (Italian). To wait and be patient soothes many a pang. (Danish). Verjuice with patience becomes wine, and the mulberry leaf becomes satin. (Turkish). He that has patience has fat thrushes for a farthing. (English, Italian).
Prayer is the pillow of religion. (Arabian).
Sacred is the earth when it comes over a grave. (Bulgarian).
Silence is the ornament of the ignorant. (Sanskrit).
Silence is the sweet medicine of the heart. Silence is the cloak of ignorance. (Arabian).
Talent without virtue like silver without a master. (Chinese).
Tears of man for fear of God are the lustre of the eye. (Arabian).
The almond tree is in flower. (Hebrew).
The flower of the almond tree is used in referring to the silver locks of the aged. The simile was probably borrowed from Eccles. xii:5. The blossoms which appear in midwinter after the leaves have fallen, are from an inch to an inch and a half broad. When the branches of the tree are leafless and apparently dead and dry the flowers suddenly make their appearance. They are at first tinged with red or of a flesh color at the base, but are white at the tips, and when full blown cover the tree as with a massive bank of white that is both beautiful and impressive. When the petals fall, the ground beneath the branches is covered as though a snow-storm had visited the spot.
The Hebrew word for almond signifies waker or one who is sleepless. (Jer. i:11, 12). As the almond tree is the first tree to awake or put on the appearance of life it is regarded as the harbinger of spring.
The hope in dreams of a happier hour,
That alights on Miserys brow,
Springs out of the silvery almond flower,
That blooms on a leafless bough.
The ardour of parental affection consumes the heart with its fire. (Arabian).
The bending of the humble is the graceful droop of the branches laden with fruit. (Persian).
The heaviest ear of corn is the one that lowliest bends its head. (Irish). Fruitful trees bend down; the wise stoop; a dry stick and a fool can be broken, not bent. (Sanskrit). The humble man is like the earth which alike kisses the feet of the king and of the beggar. (Persian).
The eye is a window that looks upon the heart. (Osmanli).
The eyes are a balance of which the heart forms the weight. (Turkish). If the eye do not admire, the heart will not desire. The eve is blind if the mind is absent. (Italian). The eye is the mirror of the soul. The hearts letter is read in the eyes. In the forehead and the eye the lecture of the mind doth lie. (English). What the eyes see the heart believes. (German).
The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living. (Russian).
The fear of God makes the heart shine. (Arabian).
The gravity of old age is fairer than the flower of youth. (Arabian).
The Great Way is very easy, but all love the by-paths. (Chinese).
The heart has its summer and its winter. (Osmanli).
The image of friendship is truth. (Arabian).
See Grouping Proverbs: If a man commit these three things, etc.
This proverb is Arabian though used in Egypt. Referring to it J. L. Burckhardt said: It is to be wished that the Egyptians would take this maxim as their guide. Truth in friendship does not occur in the East. I can at least conscientiously declare that neither in Syria nor Egypt did any instance of its appearing under difficult circumstances ever come within my observation; but, on the contrary, numerous cases were those who called themselves friends, betrayed each other on the slightest prospect of gain or through fear or some other base motive.
The ladder of knowledge reaches beyond the ladder of life. (Arabian).
The lamp of a dark house: a son. (Hindustani).
A good son is the light of his family. (Telugu). Who has no son has no satisfaction. (Cingalese).
The nest of a blind bird is made by God. (Turkish).
Sometimes the Turks in referring to strangers say, God makes the nest of the bird from foreign parts.
The pine stands afar and whispers to its own forest. (Russian).
In this proverb one seems to hear the moaning of the wind among the pines, so familiar to the ears of the people of Russia.
The pious need no memorial; their deeds are their memorial. (Hebrew).
There is a road from heart to heart. (Osmanli).
The sandal tree perfumes the axe that fells it. (Indian).
This proverb is intended to inculcate the duty of returning good for evil.
The ship of him who confides in God founders not. (Osmanli).
The soul is the ship, reason is the helm, the oars are the souls thoughts, and truth is the port. (Turkish).
The stars make no noise. (Irish).
The tiles which protect thee in the wet season were fabricated in the dry. (Chinese).
Provision in season makes a bein (comfortable) house. (Scotch).
The water of God for the pines of the wood. (Kashmiri).
The cedar, pine, and spruce are common on the Himalayas, so that the proverb would be natural to the Kashmiri people in speaking of Gods care.
The withered rose of a poor tendril. (Osmanli).
The woof of old age and the warp of death are the same. (Persian).
They divided the flowers; the rose fell to the lot of the thorn. (Osmanli).
Among thorns grow roses. Pluck the rose and leave the thorn. Every rose has its thorn. (Italian). Without thorns no roses. No house without a mouse, no barn without corn, no rose without a thorn. Under the thorn grow the roses. (German). For the rose the thorn is often plucked. A rose between two thorns. Gather the rose and leave the thorn behind. Roses have thorns. (English). He who would gather roses must not fear thorns. Roses fall but the thorns remain. (Dutch). From the thorn springs the rose, and from the rose the thorn. (Modern Greek).
Though the birds of the forest have no garners, the wide world is before them. (Chinese).
Though the sky of this tear-stained world is overcast with clouds, the light of truth shines in the heart. (Japanese).
Time flies like an arrow, days and months as a shuttle. (Chinese).
See Job vii:6; Isa. xxxviii:12.
Today is the elder brother of tomorrow, and a copious dew is the elder brother of the rain. (YorubaWest-African).
To light a lamp in the house is like the flowering of the lotus on the lake. (Kashmiri).
To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long draught. (Chinese).
Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments. (German).
Truth is the gate of justice. (Osmanli).
Unfading are the gardens of kindness. (Modern Greek).
Unpolished pearls never shine. (Japanese).
When folly passes by, reason draws back. (Japanese).
When the hand ceases to scatter, the mouth ceases to praise. (Irish).
When the heart within is enlightened with cheer and brightness it is heavens hall; when the heart within is dark and gloomy, then it is earths prison. (Chinese).
We are full of sins, and Thou (O God) art an ocean of mercy. (Persian).
With opposing warriors, he who has pity conquers. (Chinese).
Youth is a crown of roses, old age a crown of willows. (Hebrew).
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Bluetooth headsets to get dual mics
Aussie developers use secondary mics for noise suppression
Adding a second microphone to a Bluetooth headset significantly improves its ability to capture speech by making it more effective at noise cancellation and suppression, according to Australian audio software developer Dynamic Hearing.
The company has added a multi-mic feature called VoiceField to its Atlas audio processing software for CSR's Bluetooth silicon. VoiceField uses two microphones, one in the usual place to capture the user's speech, and the other located elsewhere to pick up the background noise.
The software in effect subtracts the latter from the former, leaving what Dynamic Hearing's CEO, Dr Elaine Saunders, called "an extremely clean transmit signal".
This multi-mic idea is not new, but it requires memory and a fair chunk of compute power to process the audio streams. Dynamic Hearing said it chose CSR because CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia chip has both memory and a DSP (digital signal processor) built-in.
Saunders added that VoiceField is the latest addition to Atlas, whose software features already include acoustic echo suppression, automatic handsfree volume control, and programmable equalisation in 33 frequency bands of both the transmitted and received audio signal.
CSR software marketeer Gemma Paris said that several CSR customers are developing multi-mic headsets for release later this year. She said that the Atlas software would be rolled up with software from CSR itself and flashed onto the headsets during production. ®


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USC Remains Undefeated
USC coach Pete Carroll said he wanted more production out of the Trojans' passing game. His players responded.
After being kept under wraps for the season's first two games, John David Booty passed for 279 yards and four touchdowns, and No. 1 Southern California opened the Pac-10 season by beating Washington State 47-14 Saturday night for its 35th consecutive victory at home.
The Trojans (3-0, 1-0 Pac-10) are attempting to win at least a share of the conference championship for an unprecedented sixth straight season.
Booty completed 10 passes for 79 yards on USC's first possession, and 28 of 35 overall before coming out early in the fourth quarter. Booty, who passed for 350 yards previously this season, threw for 191 yards and two touchdowns to Fred Davis in the first half, when the Trojans took a 27-7 lead.
The outmanned Cougars (2-2, 0-1) didn't have a first down for six straight possessions after their opening drive.
``I'm really fired up about this offense because we have a lot of ways to go right now, a lot of places to put the football,'' Carroll said. ``We ran for 200 and threw for 300 tonight.''
Actually, the numbers were 302 and 207, giving the Trojans 509 yards of total offense to Washington State's 247. USC averaged 263.5 yards rushing and 175 yards passing in beating Idaho and Nebraska, prompting Carroll to work for a more balanced attack.
``We really needed to work on the throwing game and make sure we didn't lose any rhythm and make sure that we maintained John's confidence,'' the coach said.
Davis, a 6-foot-4, 250-pound senior who caught five passes for 87 yards in the first two games, had nine receptions for 124 yards against the Cougars, both career bests.
Several of Booty's completions came on quick passes to his wideouts, who were given plenty of room by the WSU cornerbacks. And Davis was open over the middle time after time.
The Trojans are 59-8-4 against Washington State, including 37-4-2 at the Los Angeles Coliseum where a crowd of 86,876 watched their latest triumph.
As successful as the Trojans have been in this series, the Cougars gave them all they could handle last year before losing 28-22. The game ended with Taylor Mays intercepting Alex Brink's desperation pass at the USC 4-yard line.
It was a much different story this time, with Brink coming out early in the fourth quarter after completing 17 of 33 passes for 165 yards and two touchdowns with one interception.
``This was an old-fashioned butt-whipping,'' Cougars coach Bill Doba said. ``John David Booty did a nice job. John David is strong and quick and they protect him.''
Chauncey Washington rushed for 84 yards on 11 carries and Stafon Johnson and freshman Joe McKnight each gained 48 yards for the Trojans.
Dwight Tardy, who averaged 101 yards rushing in WSU's first three games, was held to 27 yards on 11 carries. Michael Bumpus and Brandon Gibson, the Cougars' standout wide receivers, made just three receptions each.
``They did nothing we weren't expecting, they were just too physical,'' Doba said. ``They're the No. 1 team for a reason and played well. We did things you can't do against good teams.''
Brink pointed to the Cougars' inconsistency.
``We moved the ball well at times, but shot ourselves in the foot with turnovers or penalties or not making third-and-shorts,'' he said. ``Their defensive line allows them to do a lot of things. They can drop their linebackers in coverage because their line gets so much pressure.''
Booty threw a 6-yard scoring pass to Davis on fourth-and-2, capping an 83-yard, 13-play drive following the opening kickoff and giving USC a 7-0 lead.
Brink's 44-yard pass to Gibson on third-and-18 from the Cougars' 8 triggered an 84-yard, 15-play drive that tied the game. The touchdown came on a 3-yard pass from Brink to Jed Collins.
The Cougars picked up five first downs on their opening possession. They wouldn't get No. 6 until the third quarter.
Desmond Reed returned the ensuing kickoff 44 yards to the WSU 42, and the Trojans needed only seven plays to take a 14-7 lead on Stanley Havili's 1-yard run.
David Buehler kicked a 23-yard field goal on USC's next possession, and the Trojans then turned two WSU mistakes into 10 more points for their 20-point halftime lead.
First, punter Darryl Blunt mishandled what appeared to be a perfect snap from center, and was tackled at the Cougars' 20. Booty threw a 14-yard scoring pass to Davis three plays later.
Then Brink, under heavy pressure, threw into a crowd and Kyle Moore picked it off, setting up a 29-yard field goal by Buehler.
The Trojans scored twice in the third quarter on a 7-yard run by Washington and a 4-yard pass from Booty to Allen Bradford. In between, Brink threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Bumpus.
Booty's 20-yard pass to Vidal Hazelton with 11:28 remaining completed the scoring. That turned out to be Booty's final play of the game.
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The American Ceramic Society announces selection of Ichinose, Lawn and Moskowitz as 2012 Distinguish Life MembersPublished on September 13th, 2012 | By: Eileen De Guire
September 13, 2012 (click for PDF version of this release)
WESTERVILLE, OH The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) today announced the names of the organization's three newest Distinguished Life Members. Noboru Ichinose, Brian R. Lawn and Joel P. Moskowitz are the 2012 recipients of the Distinguished Life Member Award, the highest honor accorded members of the scientific and technical organization. The award is given in recognition of an individual's eminent contribution to the ceramic and glass profession.
"The Society's Distinguished Life Member is presented annually to the organization's most inspirational members, who paved new roads in their science, technical or business fields while contributing to the growth and programming of the organization, and guiding its younger leaders," says ACerS President George Wicks.
The trio will be inducted as Distinguished Life Members at the Society's Annual Awards and Honors Banquet on Oct. 8, 2012, in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Noboru Ichinose
Ichinose, now an emeritus professor, is the former dean of the faculty of engineering at Waseda University in Tokyo and the past director of the school's Kagami Memorial Research Institute for Materials Science and Technology. Ichinose is an internationally recognized expert in the area of functional ceramic materials and has made seminal contributions in the development of a wide variety of functional ceramic materials
Ichinose's work, in particular, covers an enormous variety of electronic ceramic materials, such as ferrites, thermally conductive materials, dielectric materials, thermistors, piezoelectrics, sensors and superconducting materials. These include many commercial products manufactured by Toshiba Corp. A prolific researcher, Ichinose authored or coauthored more than 200 papers, edited or co-edited more than 60 books and earned more than 450 patents.
Ichinose is held in high regard in the materials science field in native country and is the past president of the Ceramic Society of Japan.
Brian R. Lawn
Lawn's name is synonymous with "indentation fracture mechanics" and the pioneering work he did in the development of indentation-testing methods now commonly used in materials science. His work in advancing the understanding of fracture mechanics of brittle materials, from the atomic to the macro level, has delivered major advancements in basic science, engineering and, most recently anthropology.
Lawn authored the seminal materials testing book, Fracture of Brittle Solids, first published in 1975. He went on to publish more than 300 research papers and became one of the most-cited materials scientists worldwide for many years.
Lawn eventually became a staff member at the United States' National Institute of Standards and Technology. In 1987, he was appointed to the position of NIST Fellow. In 2001, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering, and, in 2012, to the Australian Academy of Science.
Although nominally retired, Lawn has shifted his focus to biological applications of indentation, particularly in regard to how dental fracture patterns can aid anthropological research.
Joel P. Moskowitz
Trained as a ceramic engineer at Alfred University, Joel Moskowitz also earned an MBA degree at the University of Southern California, and eventually became an entrepreneurial superstar in the commercial ceramics field. Starting with only his life savings and a telephone in a bedroom, he built Ceradyne into a worldwide, diversified business best known for developing rugged and reliable ceramic armor plates.
Ceradyne's business focuses on defense, transportation, electronics, medical, nuclear, solar and oil and gas applications. Research and manufacturing facilities can be found in the US, Germany, China and Canada.
Moskowitz has provided remarkable leadership and financial support to several academic institutions, including Alfred University and Clemson University. He served for many years on ACerS's President's Council of Industrial Advisors and most recently helped the organization create its Ceramic Leadership Summit meeting series. He has also provided major support for the International Ceramic Congress, the International Federation on Ceramics and the International Commission on Glass.
About ACerS
Founded in 1898, The American Ceramics Society is the professional membership organization for international ceramics and materials scientists, engineers, researchers, manufacturers, plant personnel, educators and students. Drawing members from 60 countries, ACerS serves the informational, educational, and professional needs of its 6,000 members and provides them with access to periodicals and books, meetings and expositions, and technical information. ACerS also maintain an extensive materials science website that provides online access to its journals, publications, science and career forums and specialized technical knowledge centers.
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When gunfire erupted at an Oregon shopping mall last week, Shaun Wik knew instantly what to do: Run for the door. And so, when Wik heard a man he believed to be the gunman shout "Get down on the ground!", the 20-year-old fled instead. And he lived.
In Arizona, on a January day two years ago, Mary Reed reacted the way her reflexes told her to when Jared Loughner opened fire on a meet-your-congresswoman gathering at her local Safeway. Reed shielded her then-17-year-old daughter, taking a bullet in the back.
They were two responses that came from very different places. For Reed, 54, it was purely instinctive. "I didn't think about anything," she said. "Mine was just that mammalian part of your mind that protects your child."
Wik's actions, though, weren't merely a fight-or-flight response. As a sophomore in high school, he had learned about the Columbine massacre and was taught to always have an escape route. When it mattered, he did.
Even as we struggle to figure out what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School — who did what and why — the sad frequency of attacks by men with guns is creating a growing school of thought based on a simple premise: Be ready for the bullets. These mass shootings, but also bombings and terror attacks, have fueled a need, rational or not, to be prepared for the worst in whatever form it may come and know how to act when it does.
The city of Houston, one of the nation's largest, has even produced a video advising residents of what to do should they encounter an "active shooter." It is called "Run. Hide. Fight." and was released in the days after a gunman opened fire in July at a midnight "Batman" movie screening in Aurora, Colo., killing 12 people.
After a spate of school shootings that included the 1999 Columbine massacre in Colorado and the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, schools heightened security, developed new guidelines for spotting potentially threatening individuals and implemented so-called "lockdown drills" to better help students know what to do in the event of an emergency.
And with Sandy Hook, it seems to have marched forward: Have we gone so far down this rabbit hole of mass murder in America that we must make sure our first-graders are ready with escape routes, too?
The response inside the school, authorities said, seemed to be a mix of the two notions of preparation and instinct — as teachers, a school psychologist, a principal risked, and in some cases lost, their lives to protect the children in their care.
Lockdown drills were part of the routine for the nearly 450 kindergartners through fourth-graders who attended Sandy Hook. Earlier this year, principal Dawn Hochsprung tweeted a picture of an evacuation exercise, showing little ones bundled in winter coats standing outside the school, quietly in line behind their teachers. Hochsprung died Friday at the gunman's hand.
And while nothing can ever prepare children for what happened at Sandy Hook, having a specific procedure to follow probably did help keep the youngsters calm and focused — and could potentially minimize the effects of the trauma down the road, said Stephen Brock, a professor of school psychology at California State University, Sacramento.
He recalled in recent days hearing a little girl in Connecticut on the radio "talking about how the teacher told them to go to the corner of the room away from the doors and windows so the animal couldn't get in."
"In her mind, it was probably a ... lion or a tiger," Brock said. Nevertheless, "they followed procedures that they had been drilled in before. By responding appropriately, it can make the situation appear less threatening if there's something that they can do to keep themselves safe."
Not unlike adult survivors of these awful tragedies, children also have their own innate tendencies that help influence their response. Even if they can't make their own decisions to hide or escape — they know instinctively who can: the adults around them, to whom they look for cues about how to behave.
Think of a child at a park who falls off the swing set, Brock said. If they look over at Mom and she's upset, chances are the child will get upset, too. If not, "They'd wipe ... off their knee and go out and play some more," he said. "Young kids are going to have their threat perception significantly dictated by how the adults around them are behaving."
Without their moms or dads to look to, the schoolchildren at Sandy Hook turned to their teachers for those cues. And those teachers, in turn, became their saviors and heroes.
In the school library, clerk Mary Ann Jacob was working with a group of 18 fourth-graders when she heard a commotion over the school intercom. She called down to the main office and was told, "There's a shooting. Then she yelled "lock down" to her students before running across the hall to another classroom to tell them to lock down, as well.
"The kids know the routine, and the teachers know the routine, and everyone has a spot in their room where they're supposed to go to," she told reporters on the scene.
Eventually Jacob and three other adults ushered the children into a storage room and locked the door. They found crayons and paper, which they divvied up among the kids.
"They were asking, 'What's going on?' We said, 'We don't know. Our job is to stay quiet. It may be a drill. It may not. But we're just going to stay here.'"
Jacob, of course, knew that it was no drill.
As soon as she heard the shots, first-grade teacher Kaitlin Roig rushed her 15 students into a tiny bathroom, using a bookshelf to barricade the door. She told her children to be "absolutely quiet." ''I said, 'There are bad guys out there now. We need to wait for the good guys,'" Roig said in an interview with ABC News. "If they started crying, I would take their faces and say, 'It's going to be OK. Show me your smile.'"
Just 29 years old herself, Roig drew on her training but, more so, basic humanity to give the children what she thought they needed to make it through.
"I'm thinking that I have to almost be their parent," she said. So she did what any parent would do. She told them how much she loved them. And she promised that everything would be OK.
"I wanted that to be one of the last things they heard," Roig said, "not the gunfire in the hallway."
University of Virginia forensic clinical psychologist Dewey Cornell expects the shooting at Sandy Hook to reinforce the need for door locks and other security measures at schools, or even prompt additional procedures. But Cornell, a leader in developing assessment guidelines to identify threatening individuals that are now used in schools across the nation, worries about going too far.
"This case is going to distort people's perception of the safety of our schools, and that's really unfortunate," he said. "Elementary schools are extremely safe environments."
Aiden Licata's parents prepped him well before the attack last week at his school. If he ever encountered danger along the lines of a Columbine or an Aurora, they told him, do one thing: Run.
The 6-year-old did just that, having the presence of mind to grab his classmates and flee even after the shooter burst into his classroom and gunned down his teacher.
"He was very brave," Robert Licata said of his son. "He waited for his friends."
It's easy to imagine that similar conversations are happening all across the nation now, after Sandy Hook.
That, too, is just part of society today, said James Garbarino, a professor of humanistic psychology at Loyola University in Chicago who specializes in violence and trauma involving children.
Children have seen enough of these horrors on television news or the Internet or in fictionalized movies to know that something bad could happen to them, too — and to wonder how they should respond just in case. Parents, Garbarino said, should have the conversation as long as they can ensure their children are aware and informed without frightening them unnecessarily about a situation that they are, still, unlikely to ever face.
"What do you say? You say, 'It's really sad. This terrible thing happened. This young man went crazy, and he had guns. But I know your school is safe because the teachers are on the lookout.'"
In short, he said: "Do all that you can to foster their sense of security."
Brock said that doing drills with younger children, a common thing post-Columbine, has produced two important conclusions.
First, kids faced with the mock version of a stressful event respond appropriately. And second, developing that appropriate response can make them feel they have the power to keep themselves safe — and thus make the situation appear less threatening.
"I was kind of worried for a while there that by doing these new things called lockdown drills, we might be unnecessarily frightening kids and preparing them for an event that has a real low probability of occurring," Brock said. "Was the cost worth the benefit, especially since it's going to be so rare that we're going to have to employ these drills?"
"The answer," he said, "appears to be yes."
Pauline Arrillaga, a Phoenix-based national writer for The Associated Press, can be reached at features(at)ap.org


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2000 Ford F-150 ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
There are reasons why it's the best-selling vehicle in the world.
Ford Motor Company has made billions of dollars of profit by providing a pickup truck for every conceivable family, recreational and commercial use, with the broadest possible spectrum of models. Over the years, Ford has continued to lead the pack in overall design, with more and more passenger car features folded into the truck mix every year until it's hard to distinguish between the two from the inside.
For 2000, Ford carries on the tradition. Changes include a more comfortable flip-up 40/60 rear seat and an improved 18-degree rear seating angle in the F-150 SuperCab. A new overhead console and left- and right-side visor vanity mirrors are standard on XLT and Lariat F-150 pickups, optional on XL models. A driver's-side keypad entry system is available on Lariat models. Chromed steel wheels and 17-inch tires, previously available on 4x4 models only, are available on 4x2 models as well. New colors are Island Blue Clearcoat Metallic and Chestnut Clearcoat Metallic. Functions previously handled by the under-8500 GVW F-250 pickups now go to a new F-150 7700 payload group with all of the attributes of the F-250, including heavier frame, larger brakes, higher-capacity wheels and 8,800 pounds towing capability.
Like its worthy competitors, the Ford F-series is offered in an astonishing array of models, with a standard 4.2-liter V6 engine, an optional 4.6-liter V-8, and an optional 5.4-liter V8. F-250 models also offer a 6.8-liter V10 engine and a Power Stroke diesel V8. Aside from engines, there are 5-speed manual and 4-speed automatic transmissions, short and long cargo beds, standard and four-door SuperCab extended cabs, flat (Styleside) and fendered (Flareside) bed styles, two- and four-wheel drive models, and four trim levels: Work, XL, XLT, and Lariat. That means, with colors and options thrown in, it's easy to order a truck that only a few others will have, because the model matrix is so huge.
Our test truck was a standard cab two-wheel-drive F-150 with a Flareside bed, the optional 4.6-liter V-8 engine, automatic transmission, and the XLT package. The near-luxury XLT offers the buyer chrome front and rear bumpers, color-keyed door handles, a chrome grille, chrome aerodynamic power mirrors, color-keyed wheel openings, standard pickup bed tie-down hooks, a cargo box light, a removable tailgate panel, an underhood lamp and polished aluminum wheels with chrome hubs.
This is a very pretty truck, with much more attention paid to aerodynamic performance than either the Dodge or GM pickups. It is rounder, friendlier and much more like a car than the competition. That may be part of the reason it outsells all other pickup trucks by a considerable margin. The new Chevy and GMC trucks are only a year old, but they already look a bit dated next to the Ford, which was mildly restyled last year. The Dodge Ram has lost its luster, too, compared to the slick F-150.
We find the Ford F-150 interior superior in flavor to the GM and Dodge competition. The F-150 takes its interior design cues from the company's successful passenger cars, such as the Ford Taurus and Lincoln Continental. The designers adapted these cues to the pickup's large cab. The curves, surfaces, textures, instrumentation and graphics inside the Ford F-150 are more adventurous, more modern, and better executed than the competition, big and bold but not outsized for a big vehicle.
The F-150 XLT has dual air bags with a passenger-side deactivation switch. It comes with air conditioning, a back panel cover and rear storage tray, dual map lights, map pockets, an upper vinyl applique, courtesy lamps, color-keyed carpeting and headliner, complete instrumentation including a tachometer, an auxiliary 12-volt power point, power windows and locks, an electronic AM/FM stereo cassette system with four speakers, cloth split bench seats with recliners, armrests, and manual lumbar support on the driver's side, speed control, tilt steering wheel, cloth-covered visors, and speed-dependent interval windshield wipers.
Compared to full-sized cars, pickup trucks come with ample amounts of head, leg, hip and shoulder room. They offer a lot of interior space for the money. Even in this F-150 XLT standard cab, which comes without the rear seats and without the extra rear doors, there is plenty of room to stretch out. The XLT has new seats this year with cloth covering, a recline feature and a lumbar support on the driver's side for even more driving comfort.
Obviously, all standard pickups share another trait: a relatively high ride height, even on 2x4 models. That can be a blessing when you're trying to see out over the traffic ahead and a curse if you're trying to go around corners at high rates of speed. But since we do a lot more of the former and very little of the latter, we like the high ride. We especially like the Ford F-150 because, unlike the Dodge, Chevrolet or GMC, the aerodynamic hood falls away very rapidly from the base of the windshield so it's easier to see what's immediately in front of the truck; that's handy for maneuvering and parking as well as dealing with traffic ahead.
Driving Impression
Two-wheel-drive F-150s use conventional steel leaf springs at the rear and a coil spring independent front suspension. This yields a pretty solid ride when it's unloaded, but quite a good ride when you're hauling a refrigerator over bad pavement. (The 4X4 versions use a torsion bar front suspension.)
The power steering is over-assisted to make it easier to park and maneuver in tight quarters. We find the brakes on Ford trucks to be average in stopping power and average in fade characteristics.
Although the optional 4.6-liter V8 engine is rated at 220 horsepower and 290 foot-pounds of torque, we don't think it's as good a performer in many respects as the small V8 engines from GM and Dodge. It's a good, solid engine, with millions of examples on the road, and it sounds good at full throttle, but we find it a little duff for all-around street use, and we would certainly find it wanting if we had to haul anything heavy or tow a trailer up a mountain road. For any customer contemplating those kinds of duties, the 5.4-liter V8 engine is a much better choice.
There's not a lot of new stuff on the 2000 F-150, since it had a major facelift last year, and the body shell is already four years old. But Ford's F-150 is still the most car-like of any of the domestic full-size pickup trucks, with slick looks, pleasing performance, a nice, comfy cabin, and a proven powertrain that will get the job done for hundreds of thousands of truck buyers.
Street trucks aren't for everyone, but if you're looking for one, you may want to start looking right here, at the world's best-selling truck. For less than $24,000, you can haul whatever you need wherever you want in comfort and style.
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By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - A Kansas man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple so they could have a child and now faces a petition for child support, will resist the demand in court next week, one of his lawyers said on Wednesday.
William Marotta, 46, donated sperm to Jennifer Schreiner and Angela Bauer under a written agreement that he would not be considered the father of the child nor liable for child support. A daughter, now 3, was born to Schreiner.
But in October, the state of Kansas filed a petition in county court seeking to have Marotta declared the father of the child and financially responsible for her.
The case has repercussions for other sperm donation cases, lawyers for Marotta said. Sperm banks routinely provide sperm to people who want to conceive a child on the understanding that the donors are not responsible for the children.
Kansas is seeking monthly child support of $189 from Marotta, which is the amount the state provided the couple last summer. The state also wants $5,885 in medical expenses related to the child's birth, according to its petition. A hearing is planned January 8 on a motion by Marotta to dismiss the case.
State officials are required under the law to determine the father of a child when someone seeks state benefits, said Angela de Rocha, spokeswoman for the Department for Children and Families. The couple was compelled to provide that information, which led to investigation of the sperm donation.
Marotta should be declared the father and subject to financial claims because he donated the sperm directly to the women and not through a physician, as required by Kansas law, the state's petition states.
But lawyers for Marotta argue that he had no parental rights to begin with because of his agreement with the couple and cannot be held financially responsible. They cite a 2007 case in which the Kansas Supreme Court ruled against a sperm donor seeking parental rights because he did not have any such agreement with the mother, lawyers for Marotta said.
"So now, we are flipping the argument around," Marotta attorney Ben Swinnen said Wednesday.
If the father had no legal parental rights in the 2007, Marotta should be declared to have no parental obligations in the current case, he said.
Marotta's lawyers also discount the argument that sperm must be donated through a licensed physician in order for the father to be free of any later financial obligations. Their petition said Marotta gave a container of semen to the couple and does not know if they took it to a physician.
The case has repercussions for other sperm donation cases, lawyers for Marotta said. Sperm banks, for example, routinely provide sperm to people who want to conceive a child, they said.
Marotta responded to an ad on Craigslist from someone offering to pay $50 for sperm donations, but he made the donation for free, according to court documents.
"He has no desire to be involved in rearing the child and has had no contact with her," Swinnen said.
Swinnen said his law firm, Swinnen & Associates, is representing Marotta at a reduced rate because of his limited finances. They are also raising money for his legal defense on the law firm's website.
"This is taxing him beyond his means," Swinnen said.
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Editor's Note: Guest blogger Lain Ehmann joins us today to talk about how to regain cropping community in our lives. As someone who used to work in a local scrapbook store who now lives 60 miles from the nearest store, this topic particularly resonates with me. – Nancy
I have a confession to make – I missed CHA this year. I didn't go to Chicago last week, nor did I head out to Anaheim in January. And sure, I was bummed about missing the press room freebies and seeing all the new goodies (can someone please send me some Cosmo Cricket Pixie-Licious NOW!!???), but what REALLY bummed me out was missing my friends. Now that I can't hang at the local scrapbook store, my scrapping pals are spread around the globe, and one of the few times we get together is at industry events like CHA.
Things were different when I started scrapbooking almost a decade and a half ago. Sure, the cute papers and stickers were a huge allure, but what was almost more important was the fact that once a week or so I could pack up my stash and head to the late-night crop at my home-away-from-home, Picture Passion, in Campbell, CA.
Now, I'm as guilty as the next gal when it comes scooping up an online cheapie deal or heading to the big-box retail craft store for my adhesive and stamp pad fix. But without the local scrapbook store, where can you go to share your latest obsession with ribbon roses? Where can you go to bemoan the loss of yet another print magazine? Where can you go to get advice on everything from die-cutting systems to dandruff? (Okay, I admit it, I've never asked for advice about dandruff, as that's one personal hygiene issue I haven't had to face. But I wanted some alliteration there and couldn't think of anything that started with a "d," so I went with it. Poetic license, and all that!)
Yes, the demise of the local scrapbook store in many areas has meant that there are fewer places for scrapbookers to congregate en mass, at least physically. But there are still awesome places where you can get that same feeling of camaraderie and support. If you want to hang with the scrappers, try one of these options:
-Meetups. Go to meetup.com, enter your town and the keyword "Scrapbook" and locate other scrapbookers in your area who are meeting regularly to rock the paper. A quick search for my zip code showed no fewer than 22 groups within 25 miles of my home! Wowzers! Who knew?
-Online stores. Whether your specialty is digi scrapping (head to Oscraps.com or DesignerDigitals.com) or general scrapbooking (Scrapbook.com or TwoPeasInABucket.com), many online stores have vibrant communities associated with them. While it's not quite the same as the all-night crops at your local scrapbook store, it's got the benefit of being there 24/7, 365 days a year.
-Online subscription communities. With the plethora of free communities online, you may be wondering why you'd want to pay to join a membership community. Well, as they say, membership has its privileges! Subscription-based communities (such as Paperclipping.com, which has a membership option, and my new site, ScrapHappy.org, which focuses on quick and easy scrapbooking) often offer exclusive benefits and resources for their members such as projects, videos, resources, and more.
-Education-based sites. BigPictureScrapbooking.com, GetItScrapped.com, and JessicaSprague.com are all fantastic education sites that also offer community support around their classes. You can learn and connect all in one place.
The upshot: There's no reason to be scrapping alone these days – unless you want to! If you're in need of companionship, you don't even have to drive the five miles to the local scrapbook store; you can log on, sign in, and immediately start kvetching – or creating. Your choice.
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Written by Elizabeth Barrett Thursday, 01 May 2014 17:42
Health is much more than physical wellness, according to Beth Ivey.
That's why Gothenburg Memorial Hospital's annual health fair Saturday in the Wellness Center will focus on more aspects of health.
The public is invited to the health fair, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
A free brunch, catered by the hospital's dietary center, is from 9 to 11 a.m.
"We want to encompass more than physical well being and also include emotional well being," said Ivey, GMH's Wellness Center director, who is coordinating the fair.
Ivey said she hopes the fair promotes a more healthy community by providing convenient access to several common diagnostic tests as well as access to exhibitors and speakers with information relating to health and lifestyle.
Vendors will include those promoting eye care, dentistry, health supplements, chiropractics, counseling and hearing aids.
Several speakers are scheduled in the center's workout room and include: Dr. Garret Shaw, Obesity in America (specifically diabetes), 9:45 to 10:15 a.m; Dr. Michael Trierweiler, Detection and Prevention of Breast and Cervical Cancer, 10:30 to 11 a.m.; Patricia Luck, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension office associate, nutrition; 11:15-11:45 a.m.
Kids car seat checks and bike helmet fittings and sales will also be offered.
In addition, a bounce house outside the facility, will also be available.
Participants in GMH's blood draw are encouraged to pick up their results at the fair.


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Mind-blowing but not heart-moving.
With Inception (Warner Brothers), Christopher Nolan definitively proves that he's more interested in blowing the viewer's mind than in tracking where the mind-shards land—or how and whether they can be pieced back together. The director who gave us Memento and The Prestige, along with Batman films The Dark Knight and Batman Begins, may be unmatched among contemporary filmmakers for solemn bombast—but he's also unmatched for visual elegance and genuinely original action. There are plenty of movies that will give you a spectacular chase scene through the streets of Paris, but how many of them would think to fold a Parisian street onto itself until it resembles a three-dimensional game board designed by M.C. Escher?
Escher is a good reference for Inception, and not just because the film includes the image of a Penrose stairway similar to the one the Dutch artist created in his lithograph "Ascending and Descending." The action in this psychological thriller pivots on questions of perception and perspective, questions of exactly the sort that fascinated Escher. How do we know the difference between reality and projection, past and present, memory and dream? If we agree to stop asking these questions and simply live in a shared delusion, what have we lost? These are admirably ambitious riddles for a summer action movie to pose, reminiscent of the shape-shifting and romantic trickery of A Midsummer Night's Dream. But in place of Puck's rueful speech enjoining the audience to imagine "that you have but slumbered here/ While these visions did appear," Inception is content to end on a Keanu Reeves-esque "Whoa."
In a convoluted opening sequence, we learn that Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a master of "extraction"—the art of infiltrating people's dreams to steal their secrets. Along with his partner, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he's hired to engineer elaborate dream worlds that the victim mistakes for reality. A Japanese tycoon, Saito (Ken Watanabe), hires the team to pull off a feat never before tried: Rather than harvest a previously existing idea, would it be possible for them to implant a new one in someone's mind?
Financed by Saito, Dom begins choosing his—fine, I'll just say it—dream team, including an expert forger (Tom Hardy), a pharmacist specializing in deep sedation (Dileep Rao), and an architecture whiz named Ariadne (Ellen Page). (There are moments in Inception when Nolan's script lays the symbolism on with a trowel. Ariadne's character name is one of them.) Together, the team designs a plan to invade the dreams of a young corporate scion (Cillian Murphy) who's about to inherit his father's company.
The plan they come up with is a three-level chess game involving a dream within a dream within a dream, and by the rules the movie establishes, the whole scheme makes a kind of ingenious sense. The problem is that the emotional stakes are consistently too low for the viewer to engage with the story. It's never clear why we should care about the relationship between Murphy and his dying father, played by Pete Postlethwaite—their characters enter the story too late, and are too hastily sketched, to amount to anything more than types. Even more problematic is the love story between Dom and the specter of his late wife, Mal (Marion Cotillard). Until he can let Mal's memory go, we're told, Dom is perpetually in danger of becoming lost in the dream world. (Mal's name, by the way, means "evil" in French. Trowel!) The idea of being weighed down by the ghost of an old love is rich with narrative possibilities, but Dom and Mal's passion never stops feeling like a clumsy narrative contrivance, especially after Ariadne starts intervening as an amateur psychotherapist. In essence, all of Page's dialogue in these scenes amounts to variants on "Dom? Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
It's a shame that Inception's visual sophistication so far outstrips its emotional savvy. The movie's portrait of Mal and Dom's doomed love is a far cry from Vertigo, but its best set pieces are vertiginous indeed, especially a long fight scene that takes place in a hotel corridor under zero-gravity conditions. The effects were achieved not with computer animation but with a revolving set and actors suspended on wires, and the effort and expense pay off in an oneiric sequence that looks like nothing you've ever seen. The cinematographer, Wally Pfister, has worked with Nolan on nearly all of the director's films, and he's familiar by now with Nolan's visual obsessions: sleek reflective surfaces, forbidding cityscapes, sudden down-the-rabbit-hole shifts in perspective.
The score, by Hans Zimmer (who also co-wrote the Batman Beginsand Dark Knightsoundtracks with James Newton Howard), hammers too insistently at the viewer's ear, lest we forget we're witnessing events of great import. Lack of wit has always been a problem in Nolan's films; the only big laugh in Inception may be unintentional, when Page's character interrupts a mission-planning session with the plaintive query "Wait, whose subconscious are we going into exactly?" I never really bought Ellen Page as a dream-designing prodigy; when she first appeared onscreen in her indie-girl duds, all I could think was "This is a job for Juno!" But it's not Page's fault that her character amounts to little more than a peg on which to hang plot exposition. Meanwhile, Cotillard brings her signature world-weariness to a disappointingly one-note femme fatale role; by the end of the film, the unkillable dream-ghost she plays is essentially a pretext for target practice. Gordon-Levitt is excellent as the dream team's detail-oriented middle manager. As for DiCaprio, I've already aired my reservations about him in somber, scrunchy-faced leading-man parts. He's at his best when he plays a trickster unburdened by conscience, yet both he and the directors who love him seem inexorably drawn to these guilt-ridden brooders.
Even so, M.C. Escher drawings are neat to look at, and there are worse summer pursuits than solving the spatio-temporal puzzle of an intricate three-level dream, even if the characters serve more as game pieces than people. At the end of Inception, I hadn't lived through the grueling emotional journey Nolan seemed to think I had, but I'd seen a bunch of cool images and admired some technically ambitious feats of filmmaking (notably the editing of Lee Smith, who by the movie's climax has to cross-cut among four concurrently unfolding realities). Though Nolan is a prodigious architect of detailed dream worlds, he's too controlled and controlling a filmmaker to give himself over fully to the chaotic logic of dreams.


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May 16. 2013 9:05AM
HANOVER — A Dartmouth College freshman from London, England, was arrested Wednesday and charged the rape of a fellow college student, a woman he allegedly attacked after trespassing into her unlocked dormitory room, police said.
Parker C. Gilbert, 20, faces four charges of aggravated felonious sexual assault, stemming from the alleged early-morning attack on May 2, police said. He was arrested Wednesday in his dormitory room without incident. Police also searched the room, pursuant to a search warrant.
TheDarmouth.com website, the website of the student newspaper, said Gilbert is on the rubgy team.
Police said an investigation is continuing, and they said they have reason to suspect at least one other woman was attacked by Gilbert. Anyone with information about the allegation is urged to contact Capt. Frank Moran at 643-2222.
Police said Gilbert was arraigned at Lebanon District Court Wednesday afternoon, and his bail was set at $40,000 cash. A probable cause hearing is scheduled for May 20.
Police recommend that Dartmouth students lock their dormitory room doors when they are sleeping and when the room is unoccupied.


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FAO Director-General reiterates support for South Sudan
5 December 2013, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva held his first meeting with South Sudan Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, Tourism, Animal Resources and Fisheries, Beda Machar Deng, since he was appointed last August. Graziano da Silva congratulated Minister Deng for his appointment and informed him that FAO is in the process of establishing a full-fledged representation in South Sudan. "Our relationship with FAO is very positive. It is very important for us that FAO comes fully in the country to continue its support towards food security", Minister Deng said.
FAO's 38th governing Conference admitted South Sudan, along with Brunei Darussalam and Singapore to membership on June 15. Graziano da Silva already expressed his willingness "to support South Sudan in every possible way as a new member and as a new country". At the meeting held today, Graziano da Silva and Minister Deng discussed the major priorities of the Government regarding food security, agricultural technologies, infrastructure development for economic growth, resilience enhancement and capacity building.
The FAO Chief also referred to the Country Programming Framework (CPF), developed in consultation with South Sudan ministries and requested further support to finalize it. He acknowledged that Land tenure governance and security, diversification of livelihood and employment opportunities are some of the issues that need attention. "Our priority now – Minister Deng explained – is to increase food production: cereals and other crops, and vegetables and fruits. We need FAO's support in livestock to free animals from diseases and pests. We need technology in agriculture and fisheries, training to make our farmers stronger and organize them in cooperatives. We also need to enhance access to international markets, and FAO can provide it".
During the meeting, both leaders discussed specific support to South Sudan and FAO offered technical assistance in agriculture, livestock and fisheries statistics to improve the national capacities to collect and analyse data, an issue already in discussion with the Government and donors.
South Sudan joined the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and has also signed and deposited an instrument of adherence to the International Plant Protection Convention which was done in Rome also on a 6th of December but of 1951. With the deposit of this instrument, the IPPC has reached 181 Members.


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Poetry is thought to have been one of the first forms of writing in the Bible. The great Jewish poets throughout the ages have created the book of Psalms, much of the liturgy, and in the Middle Ages the writings of the great Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino poets fueled the imaginations of generations of Jewish men, women and children. In our own time, Israeli and American Jewish poets have created a continuation of the poetry art form in a chain which stretches back some four thousand years.
In this spirit, the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford announces the establishment of the Muriel Hoff American Jewish Poetry Award. It will be an annual award to an American poet whose published poetry is considered to have significance for the American Jew. It is the Greenberg Center's hope that this award will re-kindle an active interest in poetry as a cultural art form of the Jewish people.
The award was established by the family of Muriel Hoff, an American Jewish poet in North Carolina. She is the author of two books of inspired poems, Messages Via Muriel and The Voice in the Middle of the Night. She is a past president of the Greensboro Writers Club, a member of the Greensboro Group and the Writers' Group of the Triad and a member of the North Carolina Poetry Society. Hoff is a lifetime member of Hadassah and participant in the Women's Cabinet of the Greensboro Jewish Federation.
Just as the Greenberg Center's Edward Lewis Wallant American Jewish Fiction Award (now in its 50th year) is presented annually (this year it will be on Wednesday, April 17, at 7 p.m.) to an American writer whose published creative work of fiction is considered to have significance for the American Jew, so too, we hope that this American Jewish poetry award will spark young people to present their poetry for the enjoyment and celebration of this ancient Jewish art form.
The award winner will be asked to attend our Gala Greenberg Center Awards Dinner and Program on April 29, at the University of Hartford and will read the poem at the program.
A panel of three faculty members from the University of Hartford will serve as judges for the Hoff award, and they will solicit submissions from college students (ages 18-30) for this year's competition. The theme for the American Jewish poetry award this year is "Jewish Life in America."
Only one submission is permitted per poet and submissions cannot be any longer than 100 lines and must be submitted electronically at firstname.lastname@example.com. The deadline is March 22. No late submissions will be accepted. For more information on the Hoff Poetry Award and for a complete submission check list, contact the Greenberg Center at 860.768.4964 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In her paintings and sculptures, Carin Ellberg approaches landscape as both an art historical trope and a physical and sensorial place. Featuring softly colored mounds and cloud shapes, her acrylic paintings resemble gentle, dream-like pastorals. Her mixed-media sculptures approach landscape more obliquely, suggesting natural forms through their assemblages of disparate materials and suggestive titles. For example, her bronze outdoor sculpture Främmande Växtlighet (Alien Vegetation) (2012) evokes French Art Nouveau while its title suggests a mutant variety of tree. Though this work is made with metal, Ellberg typically uses soft materials drawn from her personal life, suggesting that landscape can also refer to the intimate spaces of domestic life.
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North Dakota's 2013 deer season is set, with 59,500 licenses available to hunters this fall, 5,800 fewer than last year and the lowest since 1983.
Randy Kreil, wildlife chief for the State Game and Fish Department, said after a significant reduction in gun licenses in 2012, harvest and survey data revealed deer populations are still below management objectives in most units.
"The statewide hunter success rate in 2012 was 63 percent, which is higher than in 2011 (52 percent), but is still lower than our goal of 70 percent," Kreil said. "The decrease of licenses in 2013 is necessary to allow deer populations to increase toward management goals."
Winter aerial surveys showed deer numbers were down from 2011 levels in the northern and eastern portions of the state, specifically units 1, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2K1, 2K2, and 3A1. Kreil said although deer are still below management objectives in 2A, 2F1 and 2F2, aerial surveys showed numbers were slightly above levels recorded in 2011 or 2012.
"The winter of 2012-13 was severe in the northern and eastern portions of the state, which will impede population recovery in those areas," Kreil said. "Furthermore, high quality deer habitat continues to be lost statewide and will limit the potential for population recovery."
Currently, all hunting units in the state are below management objectives except in 3E2, 3F1, 3F2 and 4F.
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Out west, mule deer licenses in the Badlands will decrease slightly this year. As was the case last year, no antlerless mule deer licenses are available in units 3B1, 3B2, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 4E and 4F. This restriction applies to regular gun, resident and nonresident any-deer bow, gratis and youth licenses.
According to Kreil, the spring mule deer survey did show positive trends, with numbers up 15 percent over last year.
"This modest increase indicates the mild winter of 2011 and no doe harvest in 2012 might be having a positive effect on the mule deer herd," he added. "With the no-doe-harvest regulation remaining in place for 2013, there may be some reason for optimism concerning mule deer."
Hunters are able to draw one license for the deer gun season and one for the muzzleloader season, and purchase an archery license. Like last year, there is no concurrent season and a hunter cannot receive more than one license for the deer gun season.
The number of licenses available for 2013 is 1,150 antlered mule deer, a decrease of 50 mule deer licenses from last year; 1,166 for muzzleloader, down 116 from last year; and 115 restricted youth antlered mule deer, a decrease of five from last year.
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North Dakota's 2013 deer gun season opens Nov. 8 at noon and continues through Nov. 24. Online applications for the regular deer gun, youth, muzzleloader, and resident gratis and nonresident landowner seasons will be available May 13 through the Game and Fish Department's website at gf.nd.gov. Also, paper applications will be at vendors throughout the state the week of May 13. The deadline for applying is June 5.
Bow hunters should note that resident and nonresident archery licenses this year are available only through the department's Bismarck office or website, or by calling (800) 406-6409.
Archery tags will not be sold over the counter at license vendor locations in 2013.
Gratis and nonresident landowner applicants will want to take note of a new law passed recently by the state legislature. House Bill 1131 reduces the number of acres required to qualify from 160 to 150. In addition, gratis applications received on or before the regular deer gun lottery application deadline (June 5) will be issued any-legal-deer license. Applications received after the deadline will be issued based on licenses remaining after the lottery – generally only antlerless licenses remain.
HB 1131 also allows residents who turn age 12 in 2013 to receive an antlerless white-tailed deer license, and allows an individual who turns 14 this year to receive one deer license valid for the youth deer season. Previously, a young hunter had to turn the appropriate age prior to the end of the respective big game season.


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|2012-02-26, 23:55
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Its still a little early to delve into the writing evaluations in greater detail but I'd say we should keep our eye on what they do with Kagura and Zessica from here on out because we're likely to see the plot either pull off something brilliant or we're going to watch it trip and stumbled over the plot threads it created... either way, we'll be entertained.
It would be interesting if Zessica and Kagura defect to the respective other side... but, while this makes sense for the latter, I can't really wrap my head around why the former would do such a thing. The foreshadowing has been/was pointing at Mikono for a long time but I don't even know how that could happen at this point in time.
Which brings us to an interesting question: Why does Altair have two possible Apollos? To which I have an answer~ish. Assume that Alicia is a descendant of the Sylvia line, then her child would be a descendant of the Shadow-Angels, giving Amata full capabilities in operating the machine angel and leaving Kagura to be the actual reincarnation while Amata is actually not a reincarnation at all but a descendant. Could go to explain why he has wings, but not why he doesn't smell like anything (for a simple line, it sure holds a lot meaning and mystery)... unless Kagura can't smell people from Altair for some reason? We've never seen him sniff anyone on Altair have we?
(If Amata is a descendant of Sylvia, and Mikono is Sylvia reincarnated... is that selfcest in some odd way? Also if Amata is from Altair and likewise for Kagura, then we have two guys from that one side and two girls on the other in Vega... seems awfully convenient. )
|2012-02-27, 00:20
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I hope Mikono will defect (or be unwillingly be taken away). Because it would make room for Zessica and actually gives her a chance with Amata.
My heart sunk a little seeing what happened to her genki disposition this episode because of love. So I don't want her sufferings to be in vain and her having an actual real chance. Not just being a foil. She deserves better than that.
This episode was nice, but I liked last week better (what could possibely beat NTRed Kagura), and I'm looking forward next week a lot more, there will be a lot of plot prograssion it seems.
|2012-02-27, 00:22
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(Amata has mommy issues? The manga seems to strongly imply that he's into Mikono because of the resemblance with Alicia).
|2012-02-27, 00:26
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I've been reading the manga and it seems to be implying that but I'm not getting drawn in by the art style, and a lot of the emotion and feel from the anime seems lost somewhere in translation.
|2012-02-27, 01:33
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I have a different theory on the origins of Amata and Kagura.
I won't go in the details about whoever comes from Altair and whoever comes from Vega. There aren't enough evidence for even the the assumption's base to properly speculate.
Instead I bring up something from the original Aquarion series.
Spoiler for mayor Sousei no Aquarion spoilers:
If you didn't watch Sousei no Aquarion (that I assume are relatively few in numbers) then read the spoiler above at your own risk.
Anyways, in short I theorize that the soul of Apollo and Apollonius reincarnated separately.
Amata = The reincarnation of Apollonius
Kagura = the reincarnation of Apollo
That makes more sense IMO than claiming both Altair and Vega has the reincarnation counterparts of every important character.
|2012-02-27, 02:45
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The "translation" is funny I suppose but ARGH NO it's not "Boys before flowers" that's the title of a manga! It's "dango" (団子) as in those cute round dumplings, and the proverb literally means "dango over flowers," "practical over aesthetics"... The title of the manga Hana yori dango (男子) is a pun on this proverb.
(At least this was just a throwaway gag, not something like "La'Cryma" in Noein... I'll never get over that.)
|2012-02-27, 03:12
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Was it a black or red Joker? It's important because, IIRC, black Joker is compared to the Fool (the one who does the journey, the non-numbered one who holds all the cards but he's unaware of his potential and theirs: symbolizing new beginnings, the start of the journey, etc) while the red one (the Juggler) is compared to the Magician of the Tarot.
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|2012-02-27, 03:31
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"i will digg a whole for you" or "i will fill your whole with my dirt"...
|2012-02-27, 03:41
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Sorry, couldn't get help get a good Hong Kong joke pass even if no one will get it.
|2012-02-27, 03:41
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Kagura gets the most important card. The black Joker = the Fool. The one who trumps all.
Since I'm lazy to copy-paste stuff, I'm choosing this site to give a glimpse. Oh, it also symbolizes karma and destiny.
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