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- Enter your address in the box below and click "Search Address", OR Pan/Zoom to an area. Address location is provided by Google geolocation service.
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The underground coal mine points consist of mine entrances and may also contain uncertain underground mine locations. The underground mine proximity region incorporates coal mines as well as industrial mines, and it was calculated and constructed using the methodology outlined in ISGS Circular 575. These generalized areas are not meant to replace site-specific studies; they conservatively illustrate areas overlying and adjacent to underground coal and industrial mines that may potentially be exposed to subsidence based on 1) angle of draw from the edge of the underground workings up to the land surface, and 2) potential inaccuracy or uncertainty in mine boundary locations. Please see ISGS Circular 575. for a full explanation. Areas outside the proximity region also could be undermined. Old, undocumented mine openings have been discovered in many parts of the state. However, most undocumented mines were prospect pits or short-term operations that undermined only a few acres.
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Triple gold medal-winning Paralympic cyclist Anthony Kappes returned to the saddle with a brand new co-pilot to get the Peak District & Derbyshire Summer of Cycling off to a trailblazing start.
Anthony, 41, – who struck gold twice at Beijing in 2008 and again in London in 2012, all in tandem track events – teamed up with Olympic mountain biker Annie Last to launch a wide-ranging programme of more than 100 events throughout
the Peak District tourism destination from April to October.
James Berresford, Chief Executive of national tourist board VisitEngland, and other invited guests joined Anthony and Annie, joint ambassadors for the area's Summer of Cycling, to celebrate the start of the six-month celebration of life on two wheels on one of the area's most popular routes, the Monsal Trail, during English Tourism Week, on Wednesday, April 2.
"Cycling fever is stronger than ever this year as the popularity of the sport following the 2012 Games continues to gather momentum," said James.
"The Peak District & Derbyshire Summer of Cycling is a fantastic and timely way to celebrate this legacy as it launches during English Tourism Week.
"There is an exciting line-up of cycling related events coming up this summer, from Yorkshire's Grand Départ in July to the first-ever L'Eroica Britannia, which will be staged in the Peak District National Park in June - these events
create fantastic opportunities to entice people to explore the wonderful cities, countryside and scenery on offer in England."
David James, Chief Executive of Visit Peak District & Derbyshire, said: "Cycling is going to be huge for the Peak District tourism destination throughout the spring, summer and beyond, thanks to everything from major international events to gentle, have-a-go family cycle rides.
"We're delighted that the area is the focus for a much larger Summer of Cycling that everyone from visitors to residents can enjoy.
"We're aiming to make it Britain's number one destination for cycling, by encouraging everyone from beginners to experts to come and stay, have fun, get fit and enjoy some fresh air amid some of the country's finest landscapes.
"Whatever your age or ability, there's a route and a bike to suit, ranging from safe, traffic-free former railway trails to more challenging off-road tracks – and you don't have to own your own wheels. You can hire them from one of the area's many cycle hire centres – where you can take your pick from everything from mountain bikes to trikes.
"At the moment, more than 100 events are taking place throughout the summer, but there may be more to come – I'd advise regular visits to our dedicated webpage, www.summerofcycling.co.uk, or Twitter feed (#summerofcycling) to keep up to speed with what's happening."
Anthony Kappes, originally from Chapel-en-le-Frith, said: "I grew up on the fringe of the Peak District, and discovered a sport that has given me a lot of pleasure over the years here, so I'm delighted to support the Summer of Cycling, which aims to introduce the activity to as wide an audience as possible.
"Whether you're a complete beginner or have plenty of experience, there's excellent cycling on everything from relaxing trails and quiet roads to more demanding upland routes – and the scenery is so varied and beautiful."
Annie Last, who achieved eighth place in her mountain bike event at the London Olympics 2012 and hails from Great Longstone, added: "I was lucky enough to spend my childhood in the Peak District, and now, as a professional cyclist, I love to return between international events to train on roads, tracks and challenging trails amid wonderful, yet accessible countryside.
"The Summer of Cycling is a brilliant opportunity for everyone to get on their bike and get involved. Cycling's good for both the head and the heart – as well as the very best way to get around."
Some of the key events during the Peak District & Derbyshire Summer of Cycling include the follwoing:
Igloo Eastern Peak District Sportive, April 6
High Peak Hog, May 11
JE James Cycle Fest, May 17 to 18
Wiggle Tour of the Peak, May 18
Peak Epic Sportive, June 1
Chinley & Buxworth Cycling Festival, June 14
L'Eroica Britannia, June 20 – 22
Tour de France – Le Grand Départ, July 6
Buxton Spa Sportive, July 27
Staffordshire Cycling Festival Sportive, August 1 to 2
Glossop Criterium, September 7
Grindleford Goat, September 13
Cycle Derby Sportive, September 21
Bike Fest at the Big Shakeout, September 26 – 28
Buxton Adventure Festival, October 11 – 12
For full details, visit www.summerofcycling.co.uk, where you can also download the printed brochure - or pick up a copy from tourist information centres, tourist information points and a variety of other venues in and around the area.
The launch was hosted by Hassop Station and Monsal Cycle Hire, which is supporting the Peak District & Derbyshire Summer of Cycling by offering discount servicing at sister company Bakewell Bikes, two for one cycle hire on 'Wicked Wednesdays' during June and an electric bike demonstration day on Saturday July 12. Hassop Station Café will also be opening until 10pm, seven days a week, throughout the summer season, from Friday May 23. For details visit www.hassopstation.co.uk.
The Derbyshire Times is also holding its popular, annual Flagg Cycle Challenge fundraiser on July 27 for Chesterfield's Ashgate Hospice. For more details on this event keep posted to the DT website www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk and newspaper.

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Laconia police seek vandals who spray-painted cars, homes
December 12. 2012 3:24PM
LACONIA - The Laconia Police Department is investigating a rash of vandalism to buildings and vehicles over the past four days.
The Strafford Street area of the city was hit by vandals who "tagged" or spray-painted graffiti on cars and buildings at six locations, including a car dealership and the Department of Public Works sand shed.
Police say in a press release that all the incidents appear related.
Laconia Police are asking for the public's help and ask that anyone who may have witnessed any of these incidents to contact them at 524-5252 or the Laconia Crimeline at 527-1717.


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Yes, I will buy it, thankfully it's being released seperately. You would think that they would make it a box set exclusive to make people buy the box. But it's being released seperately, not that I'm complaining, I just find it weird.
Okay I saw on another web-site that "Superman IV" "will not" have the long cut that runs 134 minutes. Has anybody heard if there going to release "Superman II" on a limited screen prior to the release of "Superman Returns". If you read the Richard Donner interviews it sounds he is saying that Warner Brothers is going to re-issue the new cut as a theatrical release first? I hope they do. But I can only see Superman II getting a "Limited Release"
Hell yeah I'm buying it!
Aaron Schneiderman wrote: ...put on my Superman jammies and watch the whole damn thing till I pass out on the sofa.
Hopefully these jammies you speak of aren't the same Underoos you had when you were a kid.
Hopefully these jammies you speak of aren't the same Underoos you had when you were a kid.
I will pick up the 14 disc set on release day, close all the blinds, pop some Orville Redenbacher, keep a bottle of Visine readily available, chill some Coca-Cola, order a pizza, grab my favorite pillow, put on my Superman jammies and watch the whole damn thing till I pass out on the sofa. Then I will wake up feeling like I had had a lethal dose of kryptonite!
I'll buy it.
According to AICN Donners Superman II Cut is being included as part of a 14 disc Superman Collection. Donner himself is pretty hands off, so the cut is being handled by his AD on the movie if memory serves. It sounds like an interesting idea, but I have my doubts about this Super-Pack (excuse the pun!) actually getting released. A stand alone release sounds much better I think.
I'd buy this movie if it was sold alone. As long as it's being sold in the 4-pack, I'll skip.
I only enjoyed 1&2, the other two stunk like a big ass pile of dinosaur c**p! LOL
I only enjoyed 1&2, the other two stunk like a big ass pile of dinosaur c**p! LOL
stanton heck wrote: am sure once all the footage is released there will be a million fan-cuts of this movie.
There already are.
There already are.
I hope that Superman II the re-cut will have all the stuff that was shot. You know have a deleted footage segments. I am sure once all the footage is released there will be a million fan-cuts of this movie.
I'll but all 4 if they are packaged together. Not really bothered about 3 and 4 but it would be interesting to see 4 get finished off. I only have 1 and 2 currently and although Warners probably won't do much to 'the movie', 2 desperately needs bringing up to its level, hopefully with the minimum of a clean up and a re-mix. Superman 1 could do with a full digital clean as I seem to remember being surprised that there was still a fair amount of dirt on the Special Ed release a few years back. After the job Warners did on S1 it comes as quite a shock how basic 2 looks and sounds. It will do but they can do better. I look forward to seeing it in what ever form.
I'd pick up another, better version of the Superman II disc, but I'm perfectly happy with the disc currently available for the first film; the commentary track and isolated score are great. A commentary track with Lester and/or Donner on the second film would be good, along with additional scenes availble seperately from the film itself, though I wouldn't be opposed to some of the extra stuff inserted back into the film either. Could care less about the third and fourth movies though...I won't be buying them again.
I for one will likely get the whole set when it's complete. I have the first Superman Special Edition already and the barebones Superman II, but I would like the new version and bonus material for the rest of the movies.
Last I heard Donner's not going to be involved. It's being assembled from his notes, a bit like the extended cut of Alien 3. There are some contractual problems apparently Hopefully they'll be sorted and he'll have some input.
if Warner release a boxset as desribe somewhere on the site and it`s reasonably price I`ll seriously consider buying , I doubt they release the original (Reeve) movies seperately !!!
Unless there is a demand
Unless there is a demand
I don't see how they could possibly make it a good film, it's a much more funny movie than a 'good' movie. (waits for backlash)
I am
Superman II Re-Cut Are you going to buy this There is alot of internet buzz of on this. I will be the first in line to buy it.
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When it's treacherously hot, slaving over the stove or grill to put a meal on the table is the last thing anyone wants to do.
That's where the quintessential summertime favorite known as pasta salad enters the equation.
There's something appealing about having a giant bowl of cold pasta salad sitting in your refrigerator. It can save the day. If you throw one together for lunch, then dinner is easily taken care of too.
Pasta salads were made for fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs. Not only is pasta the perfect vehicle for them, they enhance their cooling and refreshing qualities.
Versatile and adaptable, you can literally toss in whatever you like or have on hand.
Sometimes, what sounds like the oddest of combinations will make the best salad.
Case in point, this pasta salad. Packed with flaked salmon, purple grapes, peaches, scallions, green bell peppers, grape tomatoes and almonds in a poppy seed dressing, it has a wide and unexpected range of ingredients that work surprisingly well together.
You can use the opportunity to clean out those excess boxes of pasta floating around clogging up the cupboard. You know, the ones with only a bit of pasta left in the bottom that you can't bear to throw out, but isn't enough to make anything with? Yes, those. I used both gemelli and whole-grain rotini in mine.
You can substitute apples for the peaches and tuna, chicken or shrimp for the salmon.
- Cook pasta to al dente according to package directions. Meanwhile, add the rest of the salad ingredients to a large mixing bowl.
- In a small bowl whisk together all the dressing ingredients.
- Drain pasta and rinse with cold water until cooled. Add to bowl along with dressing and toss well. Taste and season with additional salt and pepper if needed.
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Lending a Helping Paw for a Kingston Farmer
University of Missouri Extension program connects farmers with disabilities to service animals.
KINGSTON, MO: He's a different kind of dog for a different sort of farmer.
Bruce Trammell hopes that dog soon will help him get up to speed on his farm.
Thanks to PHARM Dog, the brainchild of University of Missouri Extension AgrAbility specialist Jackie Allenbrand, Trammell now has Odie, a yellow Labrador retriever whose job is to help the farmer regain his independence despite his disability.
"It's like a dream come true. It's gonna change my whole life," Trammell said. "What he's gonna be able to do for me is just incredible because not only is he gonna be my friend and my buddy and go everywhere with me, but he's also gonna be my right hand and stabilize me so I can do the things I need to do."
PHARM (Pets Helping Agriculture in Rural Missouri) Dog brought the pair together. The program is part of MU Extension's AgrAbility Project, which works with injured and disabled farm workers who want to remain in agriculture. PHARM Dog trains dogs for farm-specific tasks such as retrieving tools, opening gates, herding livestock or providing balance for farmers.
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The five remaining stars on season 10 of Dancing With The Stars were described as the Perfectionist, the Football Hero, the Golden Boy, the Pussycat and the Jiggly One.
One thing that became very clear last night was that the 'Pussycat' is the one to beat this season. Nicole Scherzinger and her partner Derek Hough were almost perfect last night. The dancing couple received a total score of 59 for their two dances, even receiving a perfect score of 30 for their 1950s-style paso doble.
Tying for second place are Olympic skater Evan Lysacek, and ESPN reporter Erin Andrews. Both stars received a total score of 53 for the night. While Nicole came in first place last night, stealing the show was Erin and her partner Maksim, for their very hot and aggressive Argentine tango, which included a flying leap by Erin off the stage and onto Maksim's shoulders. "Hot!" declared Carrie Ann Inaba, and "Loved it!" added Len, who actually gave the duo a 10 score.
At the bottom of the pack this week are Niecy Nash and Chad Ochocinco. Niecy came in last place with a total score of 43, and not too far up is Chad with a total score of 45 for his two dances.
Tonight is elimination night, as we are just 2 weeks away from the finale. Only 3 couples will make it to the May 24th finale and its looking like Erin, Evan and Nicole will be the three.
The Full Scores Are Below –
Nicole & Derek: 59
Erin & Maks: 53
Evan & Anna: 53
Chad & Cheryl: 45
Niecy & Louis: 43


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Inlaid (Bible?) Box
Scholars question whether or not these boxes actually held the family's Bible. Regardless, this Pennsylvania-designed box deserves high praise.
By Glen D. Huey
Pages: 56-62
From the October 2009 issue #178
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From the minute I brought this lidded box into the Popular Woodworking office, debate began. I called it a Bible box, but some wondered where that term originated. Is it a name coined by those interested in building an interest in these boxes so they could sell them for a profit? Or is that term what the original owner used in 1730?
You can call it a Bible box, a lidded box or whatever you like. I'm going to call it a great project that is an introduction to, or a chance to practice and improve upon, many woodworking techniques, from lathe work to shop-made herringbone inlay to half-blind dovetails. And it's a project that I've had on my "to build" list for many years.
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"Be brave Turner, I know it is scary, but change can be good." (My six-year-old niece Audrey to my three-year-old son, preparing him for his new preschool class.)
Change is scary. Let's be real. Just like Audrey helping Turner, the difficulties of change are eased when you have support.
I am not a Common Core guru. I am a mother, teacher, booklover, and believer in every child having access to research based lessons every single day no matter where they live.
Enter Common Core Standards. This seed was planted many years ago and is currently being implemented across the country in 47 out of the 50 states. News of this shift has been met with mixed reviews by both educators and parents.
Why? Well…in education, we are known for
- Quick fixes
- Fast turnover
- Buying into pretty much anything that is shiny and bright
- Testing, retesting, over testing, testing the wrong things, etc.
Here's why it is not acceptable this go round:
- We need positive! As a first grade teacher, I simply do not have time to deal with teacher, education, or standards bashing. I need to spend my valuable time preparing lessons to support the new standards in a way that is meaningful, differentiated, and of course fun!
- A national assessment has been in the works way before the Common Core Standards came to be. The CCS are not to blame. As the middle school student I mentor would say, "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
- It was time for a change! If the Common Core Standards can effectively be implemented, the students I receive from other states will on the same page as my class-or at least close. This is great news….not for me, but for the children who make this move!
- It's broken, so let's fix it! No one program (Fundations, Singapore Math, etc) will work for every child. Nor do all schools have access to all of these materials even IF (and again the don't!) they did work for every child. What we do know is that we must find what works for the individual child. Having like standards opens the door for national collaboration about improving student learning.
And most importantly…
- Standards do not teach children. Teachers teach children. Common Core Standards are the WHAT, teachers, schools, and counties create the HOW. The Common Core Standards in no way dictate how we teacher our students.
Whether you like the Common Core Standards or not, I invite you to be active. Be active in a positive way. Advocate for better teacher preparation in college, clear teacher evaluations, and ongoing professional development in your child's school. Visit your state Department of Ed site or www.pta.org to learn more about the Common Core Standards.
Make this the first time, in a really long time, that we come together (insert Beatles tune here) for our children. Let's be role models by reading more, learning more, and doing more!
Lyssa Sahadevan is mommy to an adorable preschooler. She is a first grade teacher in Georgia, wife to a terrific hubby, an education advocate, and Georgia's 2011 Mom Congress Delegate. She loves all things books and tells all about it at My Mommy Reads.


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WINGATE, N.C. - King College battled at Wingate (N.C.) University through two overtimes Saturday, but Wingate outscored the Lady Tornado 15-7 in the second extra period as the final score was in favor of Wingate 106-98.
Six Lady Tornado players scored in double-digits, led by Derika Mooney (Athens, Tenn.) with 17. She also had seven assists, seven steals and eight rebounds.
Ashley Deans (Greeneville, Tenn.) finished with 16 points, four assists and three rebounds. Brooke Johnson (Roan Mountain, Tenn.) and Jessica Tharpe (Sevierville, Tenn.) both poured in 15 points each. A dozen of Tharpe's points were from behind the 3-point line and Johnson had six rebounds.
Jana Gross (Dayton, Ohio) knocked down three 3-pointers in route to 11 points off the bench. Brianna Kelley (Greeneville, Tenn.) chipped in a dozen points. Kalen Collins (Wise, Va.) almost made it seven players in double-digits, but she finished with nine points. Collins also had 10 rebounds.
The 98 points are a season high for King, 23 more than the Lady Tornado scored in the previous season best posted on Nov. 13 against Mars Hill (N.C.) College. The last time King scored at least 95 points in a game came against Knoxville (Tenn.) College, a 111-point effort on Nov. 20, 2006.
King went to 2-12 after the game while Wingate owns a 5-3 mark.
The Lady Tornado finished the game 34-for-73 (46.6 percent). Included was 16 three pointers in 30 attempts (53.3 percent). King was 14-for-17 (82.4 percent) at the free throw line. On the other side Wingate was 35-for-43 (81.4 percent) at the free throw line. The home team was 33-for-67 (49.3 percent) overall and 5-for-11 (45.5 percent) from behind the three-point line.
In all King was called for 33 fouls, 13 more than Wingate, which led to the 26 more free throw attempts by Wingate. The Lady Tornado played eight players in the game, three eventually fouled out and three more had four fouls. The 33 fouls are 11 more than the previous season high of 22 which was at Lincoln Memorial (Tenn.) University.
Wingate was led by Kurie Washington with her 30 points. Sarah Wollett posted a career-high 21 points. Janitsha Williams had 12 points, while Tiffany Brown contributed 11 points.
A triple from Wollett gave the 'Dogs a 10-point lead nine minutes into the game. The Lady Tornado battled back, getting a three from Tharpe and a jumper from junior forward Collins to make it 24-22 at the 9:06 mark. Wingate answered with an 11-0 run to push the lead to 13. Washington hit a pair of free throws and a three in the flurry, while freshman forward Chantal Dunbar capped it with a jumper and a lay-up to make it 35-22 with 5:38 to go in the half. A three-point play from Tharpe sliced the margin to six with a minute remaining, but Wollett drained a jumper with 45 seconds to go to give the Bulldogs a 44-36 lead at halftime.
Rutledge hit two free throws to give Wingate a 55-40 advantage four minutes into the second half. A pair of free throws and a three-point play from Washington gave the 'Dogs a 62-48 edge seven minutes into the second half. King cut into the lead, getting a lay-up from Collins and jumper from junior guard Gross to make it 67-60 at the 9:25 mark. Williams knocked down a jumper to push the lead to eight with 7:52 remaining, but threes from Kelley and Mooney quickly cut Wingate's lead to two with 6:42 to go. A pair of Mooney free throws tied the game 73-73 at the 5:27 mark.
A pair of free throws from Brown, followed by a jumper from Brown, put the Bulldogs on top 83-78 with 2:30 remaining. King would score the next seven points, taking its first lead since leading 3-1 in the opening minute. Tharpe drained a three to start the spurt, while Deans tied it with a lay-up at the 1:26 mark. Deans followed with a lay-up with 31 seconds left to give the Tornado an 85-83 lead. The Bulldogs turned to Wollett, who knocked down a jumper from the paint with 16 seconds remaining to tie it and force the first overtime.
Two free throws each from Johnson and Deans gave the Tornado a four-point lead two minutes into overtime. Jumpers from Wollett and Washington tied the contest 89-89 at the 1:45 mark. King regained the lead on a jumper from Deans with 1:24 to go. Rutledge knocked down a free throw with 55 seconds remaining, while a free throw from freshman forward Shey Brown tied it with 10 seconds remaining. King had a chance for the win, but Johnson could not connect on a potential game-winning jumper at the buzzer, forcing a second overtime.
The Bulldogs came out on fire in the second overtime, scoring the first nine points. Washington hit a fast break lay-up four seconds into the period to give Wingate the lead for good. A triple and a lay-up from Wollett gave the 'Dogs a 100-91 lead. A three from Gross cut the lead to six with 26 seconds to go, but Rutledge knocked down a pair of free throws to push the advantage back to eight.
King starts 2011 with a 6 p.m. contest on Jan. 3 with Brevard (N.C.) College in Bristol.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - New starter J.W. Walsh completed his first 10 passes, finished 24-of-27 for 326 yards and four touchdown throws as No. 13 Oklahoma State beat UTSA 56-35 on Saturday.
It's the fourth start for the sophomore Walsh, his first this season after a quick relief performance for Clint Chelf last week. With his speedy start against a Roadrunners team entering its season of football, Walsh led the Cowboys (2-0) to touchdowns on five of six first-half possessions.
UTSA (1-1) tied the score 7-7 when Kenny Bias scored on a 6-yard run with 4:22 left in the first quarter. But Walsh scored from 4 yards out in the second quarter and the Cowboys led 35-7 at halftime.
Walsh left with six minutes left in the third and the Cowboys up 42-7.
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December 04. 2013 8:08PM
Outrage du jour Garcia, Sullivan and victimhood
Howie Carr: N.H. rep draws wrath of misogynist moonbat
NH GOP star shines for national media after her candidacy greeted with 'sexist smear'
Last week, Rep. Marilinda Garcia, R-Salem, announced her candidacy for Congress in the 2nd District. Rep. Peter Sullivan, D-Manchester, reacted with his customary unhinged rant. Suddenly every Republican in New Hampshire was rising to defend young Garcia's honor.
Sullivan tweeted that Garcia was conservative state Rep. "Al Baldassaro (sic) in stiletto heels, a lightweight, and O'Brien clone." The insults kept coming. "Bill O'Brien + Kim Kardashian = Marilinda Garcia," he wrote. Asked to apologize, he later said the comparison was unfair to Kardashian. What a guy.
For those out of touch with pop culture, Kardashian is a pretty reality TV star with long black hair who gained national prominence when a private sex tape of hers was leaked. Garcia is a pretty young woman with long black hair who has bachelor's degrees from Tufts and the New England Conservatory of Music, a master's in public policy from Harvard, and who teaches harp (the instrument, not the beer).
With his little rant, Sullivan vaulted Garcia to national prominence. Suddenly she was the helpless victim of a sexist bully. What we saw was something different: a sad little partisan struggling to express himself because he hasn't the creativity to invent a better put down.
Sullivan has a long history of insult-laden temper tantrums. When his friend Jennifer Peabody (a brunette, incidentally) won a city school board seat, her residency was questioned after her election. Sullivan went online to accuse another Democrat of spreading lies about her after she kicked him out of Raxx Billiards, where she tended bar. The charge was not true (though the allegations about Peabody's residency were, and she had to resign her seat). This is his way. Scream first, think later.
Knowing Sullivan's history, we took his Kardashian comparison to mean that he thought Garcia was an intellectual lightweight, as he said, not that she was trampy, which he did not say. Sexism is a serious allegation, and although plausible in this case, it is debatable. Politics is cheapened by those who leap to label political opponents as sexists or racists or bigots on the flimsiest of evidence, and we were not about to do so here.
It was disappointing that so many Republicans chose to play the victim card here. (If there is one word that we would never think of to describe Marilinda Garcia, it is "victim.") It is a tenet of conservatism that the accusatory tactics of the left are tarnishing American politics. They should be eschewed, not copied.


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World champion Sebastian Vettel is so dominant in Formula One that few will bet against him winning a seventh straight race and 11th this year at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this weekend.
Vettel clinched his fourth straight world title at the Indian GP last weekend to enhance his standing as one of the F1 greats.
The German has won an incredible 10 of 16 races so far, and has shaded second-placed Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso almost to irrelevancy with just three races left.
But that won't quell Vettel's desire for more success.
His consistency has been such that he has secured either pole position or second place on the grid in the past eight races, and only once has qualified lower than third all season — a ninth at the Chinese GP in April.
That rare setback is a distant memory and, given his phenomenal consistency in qualifying and on race day, there appears little to stop Vettel from with another win at the Yas Marina circuit, where he clinched his first world title in 2010.
While Vettel's first was a fraught, hard-fought affair on a tense day, his fourth has been a breeze.
After a mediocre start, Vettel pulled away in August with a superb win at the Belgian GP — responding to Lewis Hamilton's brilliant drive at the Hungarian GP before the summer break — and he has not looked back.
He leads two-time former champion Alonso by 115 points and 2007 champ Kimi Raikkonen by 139 — massive leads, even by Vettel's standards.
Touted to be Vettel's main contender after his impressive win from pole in Budapest, Hamilton trails by 153 and has managed only one podium — a third — since his victory in the searing heat of the Hungaroring.
"For some people it may have looked easier than maybe any of the previous titles, because we had an advance," Vettel said. "For us there was never the luxury of leaning back just because we might know how to win a title."
The talk of who could challenge Vettel quickly dissipated, replaced with predictions of how far Vettel can go in his already remarkable career in a dominant Red Bull team that also clinched the constructors' title last weekend for the fourth straight year.
"Everyone works for each other within the team with a common vision and one desire: To keep winning," team principal Christian Horner said. "The success that we have is a result of having tasted success before. It's almost like a drug."
Having matched Alain Prost's total of four F1 titles, only Juan Manuel Fangio, with five, and Vettel's countryman Michael Schumacher, the record holder with seven who also won five straight from 2000-2004, remain ahead of him.
"It is very hard to realize all of this," Vettel said. "At the same time you are very glad that no one can take this away from you again."
At 26, Vettel has time and the most reliable car on his side.
"I'm not that old yet and to achieve that in such a short amount of time is very difficult to grasp," Vettel said. "To win four titles, I don't know, it's just a big number, you know?"
The only drawback of Vettel's season has been some jeering he's received on the podium, notably at last month's Italian GP where he was heckled.
"Unfortunately nowadays the world is ticking so quickly that people are not always listening exactly to what I'm saying or what I'm trying to say," Vettel said. "I don't blame the people that booed, you know. If I go to the football stadium, for example, I cheer for the home team."
The Abu Dhabi GP is the only race of the year that starts in the late afternoon and ends in the evening, providing the drivers and teams with a unique challenge and the audience with a breathtaking spectacle.
"Especially during twilight when you get some really nice footage and pictures," Sauber driver Nico Hulkenberg said. "The track is pretty tricky and technical, especially the last sector which has a lot of twisty, 90-degree corners."
The temperature range the Pirelli tires will experience is different. Unlike most other races, track temperature falls as the race goes on, rather than rises.
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i current using broadband 1500kps from singapore.
i experienced very slow connection but i was unable to solved it but some of times (example once in a week, the speed of the internet will be like normal wat shld be)
i tried doing reformat..but the connection is still very slow. i decide to change my modem..however it din works as well. so i borrowed one of my frenz laptop to try at my home.but the internet is still very slow. but when i bring the same laptop n same modem from my house to my frenz house.. it work perfectly fine..
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I'll admit it, and I don't care who knows it: I'm digging the everloving shit out of these Harlem Shake videos.
That's right, I said it. It's the greatest music/video fad of the decade. I can't get enough. Every new one that pops up seems funnier, wittier, sharper and more awesome than the last. They're fantastic. I've watched the Miami Heat one like 40 times.
Mario Chalmers dressed as Nintendo's Mario! Classic.
No, I'm not joking. I'm entirely serious, and to prove it, I'll say that I usually hate these things. I was the guy in middle school who refused to even touch the Macarena. I think the Electric Slide should have been stood up against a wall and shot. If anyone ever again sends me a video of a dog or a cat doing something amusing on YouTube, I'm going to send them a dead puppy in the mail. Normally, I can't stand any of this stuff that becomes popular or goes viral, whether it's a dance, a song, a video, or as in this case, a dance/song/video combination. I tell you this only to establish my bona fides as a too-cool-for-school cynic.
But the Harlem Shake? Hell, I'm dancing in the shower as I write this. I've spent the last three weeks watching compilation after compilation. Asian kid, joined by his aging Asian grandparents? Love it. High school lunchroom with jocks doing push-ups? Gimme more. A little kid thrusting his pelvis while a bunch of other little kids sit around looking bored in a classroom? I'd pay you money.
[Now that I'm editing this, I'm aware that last example sounds really sketchy.]
I'm boldly proclaiming my love of the Harlem Shake only because I'm on a listserv with a bunch of my closest Chicago friends, and an e-mail war broke out over the topic of whether or not we should do a Harlem Shake video (by "war" I mean like seven to twelve e-mails). When I suggested we do a video, my friends replied with the following:
Anonymous Friend: "Goddamnit, Steve."
Anonymous Friend: "Steve, I think I let a lot of things slide because you're from Ohio, but this is inexcusable."
Anonymous Friend: "Write a column about how your friends had enough taste to shut down your bad, month-late idea."
Anonymous Friend: "We now have documented evidence of the moment we all became old and irrelevant."
But screw those guys and the joyless horses upon which they ride. Some things get old fast? Yeah, so do the people who say things get old fast! I'm over them! I'll be a part of a Harlem Shake video, and I don't care if it's at my granddaughter's goddamn wedding in 2064. That shit is great. In the meantime feel free to tweet me your favorite Harlem Shake videos. I'll send them to the listserv.


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There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up.
- In response to the burning of Kepari Leniata in Papua New Guinea, covered here at The Wild Hunt yesterday, Amnesty International and the United Nation's human rights office have both urged the government to take "concrete" actions to stop witch-killings in the Commonwealth nation. Quote: "We urge the Government to put an end to these crimes and to bring perpetrators of attacks and killings to justice through thorough, prompt and impartial investigations in accordance with international law […] We note with great concern that this case adds to the growing pattern of vigilante attacks and killings of persons accused of sorcery in Papua New Guinea […] We urge the Government to take urgent action to prevent further cases through education, to provide protection to persons accused of sorcery and witnesses of sorcery-related killings, and to provide medical and psychosocial treatment for victims." Let us hope that the death of Kepari Leniata was not in vain, and this will trigger safeguards against this horror happening again in Papua New Guinea.
- The Pagan Newswire Collective bureau in Minnesota reports on the 6th anniversary of the Upper Midwest Pagan Alliance, and debates whether there will be a 7th as membership has dwindled in recent years. Quote: "The organization notes that while over 300 people have been involved with UMPA over the past six years, membership has dwindled and that is prompting leadership to ask members and the community, '… does this mean UMPA is no longer needed? We don't know. This is an opportunity gather for a great meal, entertainment, and to join in and discuss the future of UMPA; either find some new leadership and participation, or dissolve the organization and pass on any funds raised to another non-profit.'"
- Author and magician Donald Michael Kraig has been named "Acquisitions Editor: Magic(k) and Occult Topics" over at Llewellyn Worldwide and he wants you to write! Quote: "I've been fortunate enough to travel all over the U.S. and Europe giving workshops. Everywhere I go I hear the same sort of thing, "I could write a better book!" Whenever I hear people say that I encourage them! "Please do! We need new books and better books all the time." Some of the people I've encouraged have gone on to write numerous popular books. They had the determination to do the work and see it through to the end. I congratulate them!" Congratulations to Kraig on his new role!
- Science Fiction blog io9 takes the new film version of The Sorcerer and the White Snake to task for making a religious/supernatural persecutor the hero, when he should have been the villain. Quote: "If [Jet] Li had simply been a villain — or if the movie had allowed him to be –- White Snake could have surpassed a lot of the limitations it sets upon itself; one genuinely interesting performance can make up for a lot of mediocre special effects. In one version of the original Chinese fairy tale, Fahai actually is the villain — although he's a vengeful terrapin demon who takes the form of a monk, rather than an actual monk. But I can't help but think that would have been a better choice for everyone."
- While I'm on the subject of io9, they review a recent episode of the show Supernatural that apparently had an abundance of OTO/Crowley references. Quote: "Last night's episode of Supernatural had a lot to offer: a hot lady in a great 1950s dress, several Aleister Crowley references, and at least one trip to the coolest comic book store in the world." [Hat-tip Invocatio]
- It seems that Satan totally loves the full moon.
- What do you do when you rely on the conservative Christian vote, but know that the country is getting more and more religiously diverse? Can you please one without alienating the other? Quote: "The challenge confronting the GOP as it attempts to broaden its base is not limited to Jewish voters. A survey conducted by Pew last year found that more than six in ten (61%) non-Christian affiliated Americans (a group that includes Hindus, Jews and Muslims) agreed that 'religious conservatives have too much control over the Republican Party.' Nearly two-thirds of religiously unaffiliated Americans also affirmed this statement. These groups are among the fastest-growing religious communities in the U.S. And if the GOP is serious about appealing to these voters, its candidates must navigate the difficult path of keeping conservative Christians engaged and committed while not appearing beholden to them."
- The Revealer looks at life in and around the Adzima shrines in Ghana. Quote: "While visitors shape much of the activity in the shrines, they are also homes for the priests, their wives and their children. Since a priest is rarely allowed to leave the proximity of the shrine, his wives take turns staying with him and cooking his meals. The priests' wives have their own homes nearby, built for them either by the priest or on their own, where they reside intermittently, along with their children or relatives. The priest'schildren visit daily, asking for lunch money and school fees. The shrines are not simply or only religious spaces—they're households, with children running around, studying for school, preparing meals, washing clothes, and entertaining guests." This is an amazing piece, please go read the whole thing.
- Rev. Irene Monroe writes about how Haitian Vodou is accepting of LGBTQ people, even if some of the individual practitioners are not. Quote: "Gay males in Haitian Vodou embrace the divine protection of Erzulie Freda, the feminine spirit of love and sexuality. Gay males are allowed to imitate and worship her. Lesbians are under the patronage of Erzulie Dantor, a fierce protector of women and children experiencing domestic violence. Erzulie Dantor is bisexual and prefers the company women. Labalèn is a gynandrous or intersexual spirit. And LaSirèn who is the Vodou analogue of Yemayá, a maternal spirit, is a revered transgender."
- Oh, and Vodou didn't cause the Superbowl blackout, in case you were wondering.
- At HuffPo ReligionPagan and interfaith minister Wes Isley has an honest question about grief. Quote: "Maybe that sense of spiritual isolation after grief is universal no matter what faith we practice. And maybe I'll feel more like my old self in six months or so. But what if I don't? What if I abandon this Pagan path? I've already lost my partner; must I lose my faith, too? This brings me to my central dilemma: Whatever spiritual path we choose should be able to sustain us through the toughest of times; if it fails to do so, is it worth keeping? Once before, I changed my faith when it no longer made sense and failed to sustain. Is that about to happen again?" Maybe some of my wiser readers can help him out?
That's it for now! Feel free to discuss any of these links in the comments, some of these I may expand into longer posts as needed.


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(Published April 11, 2008)
Bill Clinton has been stumping nonstop for his wife, touting her accomplishments and defending her.
But the former president at times appears to be marching to his own drummer. At a campaign stop on April 10, 2008, in Boonville, Ind., he mused on Hillary Clinton's false account of facing sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia, an incident the candidate would surely prefer to put behind her. And in defending her error, he made even more misstatements of his own.
As reported by NBC News' Mike Memoli, Bill Clinton said: "A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me. But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995. Did y'all see all that? Oh, they blew it up."
There are several factual errors here; let's take them one at a time.
First, it was not "late at night."
Hillary Clinton made the remarks that got her in trouble on March 17, 2008, before a speech on Iraq when she reminisced about her trip to Bosnia as first lady: "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
The speech was scheduled for 9 a.m. The campaign Web site shows that she begins the speech with, "Good morning."
She also didn't make the remark one time. She said it previously on the campaign trail in Iowa. The Des Moines Register reported her saying on Dec. 30, 2007, "We landed in one of those corkscrew landings and ran out because they said there might be sniper fire. I don't remember anyone offering me tea on the tarmac there."
She also didn't apologize "immediately." She said she misspoke a week later, after the video showing her landing in a calm, orderly fashion had circulated on the Internet and news stories were written about it.
Finally, the trip took place in 1996, not 1995.
We asked the Clinton campaign about Bill's comments. "Senator Clinton appreciates her husband standing up for her, but this was her mistake and she takes responsibility for it," said a campaign spokesman.
In making her case for president, Clinton has regularly pointed to her expertise in foreign policy, noting that she visited more than 80 countries while she was first lady. It's true that she visited a lot of countries, and many of those visits were more substantive than critics want to admit. ( See our story documenting her travels here .)
But we found she also embellished her accomplishments to the point of factual inaccuracy. We found her statements about China and Northern Ireland to be Half-True , her statement on Kosovo refugees to be Barely True , and her statement on Bosnia to be Pants on Fire wrong.
Bill Clinton has implied that the media is biased and covers his wife too harshly. In Boonville, he seemed to lament that unfairness by warning, "And some of them, when they're 60, they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 at night, too."
It seems bizarre that the former president would defend his wife's misstatements with even more of his own, but that appears to be the case. We find his rewriting of campaign history to merit his very own Pants on Fire ruling.


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Mainstream society has yet to accept video games as a serious form of artistic expression, and video game journalism is somewhat responsible for this fact. Safety's Off examines why journalistic tendencies for video games often fail to uphold the level of respect and critical exploration they demand and deserve.
Because what you call journalists are just people under-educated or blog holders that just writes random thoughts.
When we talk about journalism we talk about people that have studied to work in the press, we talk about people that have been trained to writes articles or write in a decent way about something.
Not this trend coming with internet, with lame articles, those silly titles just to have some clicks on their sites or those news to maintain the console war because it's just what is meant to make your news read.
The video game journalism is failing because everyone has access to this and even the big sites or webzines are doing more and more trash articles.
This society reminds me more and more the one you see in the movie Idiocracy. Stupid media for stupid people (who play stupid games)
happy christmas to all the people that understand me me.
"Journalists" like Jim Sterling are the reason i cannot stand video game Journalism.
Because anyone with a keyboard can call themselves a journalist.
There are no standards. That's really all it boils down to. Whether it's reviews or reports, there are no overarching standards that all journalists must adhere to; hell, in most instances, a "publication" has no standards for the journalists it employs, and the journalists themselves have no standards by which they create their own articles.
Making this worse are two things: the websites that use these poorly written articles- but articles which, nonetheless, manage to incite some group or another by being less than appropriately objective- to get hits (doing it for the money), and the people that use these articles as proof positive of whatever it is they want to support (especially through Metacritic). Both of these actions create an atmosphere in which crappy articles have a place and, naturally, articles are then written to continue to fill that spot.
It's nasty, almost as bad as online passes and on-disc DLC. But this, perhaps, is worse, because poor journalism takes an active part in misleading the consumer, perpetuating fallacies, and otherwise degrading the credibility of gaming and gaming journalism.
Definitely some valid points in here. Some of these points are actually things that I've felt for a long time. Great job. :)


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July 13. 2014 11:26PM
Public trust has been eroded, says Congressional candidate Garcia
By GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
Congressional candidate Marilinda Garcia of Salem is shown during an interview last week at the New Hampshire Union Leader. (DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER)
Marilinda Garcia says the people no longer trust their government.
"There is a complete lack of trust," Garcia said. "The relationship between the citizens and government has broken down."
The four-term state representative from Salem is seeking the Republican nomination to the 2nd Congressional District seat.
Citizens do not believe they can have an open debate, she said, and instead those in Congress will deceive the public and pass whatever mandate they want like the Affordable Care Act.
She also points to the Internal Revenue Service scandal, which targeted conservative groups for heightened scrutiny.
"There is a general sense federal officials don't care about us," Garcia said.
Unlike those currently holding national office, she says she will tell people her position on issues and will not be swayed by public opinion polls or special interests.
Garcia was criticized back home in Salem this past session for not supporting two bills that proposed casino gambling, which many in town see as the salvation of Rockingham Park.
She was criticized when she voted against one of the bills and again when she missed a vote.
"I've been very straightforward about my position on gambling," the 31-year-old Garcia said in a recent visit with the New Hampshire Union Leader. "When I first campaigned, I said I opposed (casino gambling) and it was on my website."
The Republican National Committee last year named Garcia as a member of its new "Rising Stars" initiative, and she is active with the Republicans' GOPAC Hispanic Leadership Training Institute.
She is proud to wear the moniker Millennial and her campaign reaches out to people in non-traditional ways and to those not normally on the county committee picnic circuit.
One way to broaden her appeal is entering 5K road races with her volunteers and supporters wearing her campaign T-shirt. "That's a way to interact with not the usual people," she said.
For the past two terms in the House, Garcia was on the Finance Committee, including 2011 when lawmakers crafted a balanced budget but slashed funding for higher education, popular health and human service programs like Children in Need of Services and uncompensated care for hospitals.
"New Hampshire faced a real economic crisis with a historic budget deficit," Garcia said. "But we produced a balanced budget that was responsible and fair. I was proud to be part of that,"
She also is proud of her involvement with health care reform working with stakeholders including hospitals, insurance companies, patients and physicians.
The group gathered data on pricing and quality in an attempt to bring transparency and equity to the system. "It was great to see people work to identify the problems and challenges and to propose innovation solutions," Garcia said. "We were getting somewhere and then the ACA passed and everybody's attention turned to the federal government."
State flexibility and autonomy are gone, she maintains.
The free market will not be allowed to do its work, Garcia said.
She noted that during the first year of Obamacare, 10 of the state's 26 hospitals were excluded from the network of the only health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, on the state electronic marketplace.
Seven of the excluded hospitals are in the 2nd Congressional District, she said.
Garcia faces one-term former state Sen. Gary Lambert of Nashua in the primary along with former Rep. Jim Lawrence of Hudson. The winner will face incumbent Democrat Rep. Ann McLane Kuster.
The three Republican candidates all wear the conservative mantle, but Garcia said she disagrees with Lambert on energy.
"I don't support cap and trade," she said. "It raises taxes for New Hampshire consumers to feed the special interests and cronyism."
Innovative energy programs should be tested in the free market not through government sponsorship, Garcia said.
She points to the Solyndra scandal. The company received $500 million in federal subsidies before filing for bankruptcy.
Lambert was a key vote in the state Senate on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in 2011 when the heavily Republican Legislature tried to repeal it. Lambert voted against repeal although he backed reforming the program to reduce air emissions in the Northeast.
"I do not want to give government a blank check," Garcia said. "I do not want government to come into every aspect of our lives and mandate something that is not affordable."
Similarly, she criticized Lambert for voting against a bill that would have required legislative approval before adopting the Common Core education standards.
She said she believes in representative democracy and local control.
"I want each parent and each school district to have control and students to have the most educational opportunities possible available to them," she said.
A musician and adjunct music teacher at several private schools, Garcia said it is important for students to be exposed to music, the arts, English, math and science, but she contends public schools are not getting the job done.
"There are many other different ways for kids to be exposed to music and the arts," she said.
Garcia also criticized the government's approach to immigration reform and used the current crisis of young people flooding across the border as an example of the government's malaise.
The federal government has allowed the problems to fester and escalate for years, she said, and then wants to do a major reform that will have disastrous unintended results.
Instead of major reform the problems should be handled one piece at a time, she said.


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Classic cars are lined up for auction in a field on the Lambrecht family farm on September 26, 2013 in Pierce, Nebraska. The cars, about 500 total, from the Lambrecht Chevrolet Dealership will be sold at auction this weekend. When Ray Lambrecht, who ran the dealership with his wife Mildred for 50 years, would get in a new model year car, he would put any unsold cars from the previous model year into storage along with any used car trade-ins that remained at the dealership for too long. Many were stored outdoors on the farm. These leftover cars, along with dealership memorabilia will be sold at the auction. Many of his 500 cars being offered at the auction have never been titled and have less than 20 miles on them. An estimated 10 to 12 thousand car enthusiasts from around the world are expected in Pierce, a town with a population of 1,700, for the auction. Bidders from about a dozen countries have already started the bidding at Proxibid.com
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virtual exhibit fall 2004 - burns library
Guests and Friends: Rev. Francis W. Sweeney, S.J. and His Contributions to Cultural Life at Boston College
April 25, 2002 was a somber day for Boston College as word spread across campus that Rev. Francis W. Sweeney, S.J. had passed away at the age of eighty-six after a half-century of service to the University. Francis Sweeney was a beloved member of the Jesuit Community, a popular faculty member in the English Department and a faculty advisor to the Stylus, a student literary magazine guided by Sweeney for forty-seven years. Sweeney's enduring legacy is twofold. He will be remembered both as an inspiring teacher mentoring many Boston College student-writers over the course of five decades and as the founder of the Humanities Series (now the Lowell Humanities Series), the well-respected lecture series that continues to this day. This exhibit considers both Sweeney's role as the founder of the Humanities Series and the importance of the lecture series to Boston College. Father Sweeney is pictured here on the telephone.
Photo credit: Humanities Series - Director's Files, Burns Library, Boston College.
In the years prior to Humanities Series, Boston College had invited many influential scholars, writers and artists to visit the university and give lectures in various topics. Sweeney, himself, had invited speakers to give talks under the auspices of the student literary magazine the Stylus . The Humanities Series provided an annual program to ensure that such events occurred on a regular basis. Besides the sheer enjoyment of listening to great creative and academic minds, the purpose of the Humanities Series was to enrich cultural life on campus, and to have the world's greatest creative minds interact with students and faculty members. Over the years, thanks to the efforts of Father Sweeney and the Humanities Series, Boston College has been exposed to an amazing range of talent, including twenty-two of the Library of Congress's Poet Laureate Consultants and four Nobel Prize winners in literature. The Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Katherine Anne Porter is pictured here in a conversation with Boston College students following her March 1, 1962 Humanities Series Lecture.
Photo credit: Humanities Series - Director's Files, Burns Library, Boston College.
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What Comes from What?
It's not always easy to tell where things come from. Did you know that chalk comes from rock made out of crushed seashells? Or that plastic comes from oil? Or that paper comes from trees?
Where do you think these things come from?
- cotton T-shirt
- maple syrup
- peanut butter
- glasses
- chocolate candy
- crushed:
- Broken into small pieces.
- oil:
- Oil is a liquid. It floats on water. Oil from the ground is used in cars and machines.
- Draw a picture of a woolen mitten. Draw a picture of a paper bag. Draw a picture of popcorn. Now draw a picture to show where each thing came from. Draw lines between the pictures that belong together.
[anno: Students should draw a woolen mitten with a line drawn to a picture of a sheep. Another picture should show a paper bag with a line drawn to a picture of a tree. Another picture should show popcorn with a line drawn to a picture of an ear or stalk of corn.]


text: GARLAND, Texas – December 10, 2010 – The City of Garland is implementing an expansion and improvement of its humane animal services policies. Garland Animal Services has created a new partnership with Garland Pawsibilities, a local nonprofit group dedicated to finding good homes for adoptable animals, to open a new Pet Adoption Center. The center will be located at Shiloh Road and Kingsley at a former fire station. "Having Garland Pawsibilities and its volunteers partnering with us to further increase pet adoptions is invaluable," said William Dollar, Garland's City Manager. "Their passion and dedication will help further the successful efforts of the Garland Animal Shelter. I can think of no better use for an idle city facility than making it into a place for families to find a new pet." Garland Pawsibilities will begin hosting adoption events at the new Center in January of 2011. Adrianne Erwin, spokesperson for Garland Pawsibilities said, "We hold a number of adoption events around Garland every year. This new facility gives us an easy to find location to host additional events, as well as helps in our fundraising efforts. We believe the new center will greatly enhance our efforts to place animals in loving homes." The City of Garland has been searching for a pet adoption partner since the beginning of the year and will support the effort with veterinarian assistance, supplies, and as many animals as Garland Pawsibilities is able to place for adoption. Although animal placements at the Garland Animal Shelter increased 30% this year, the City continues to stress that spaying and neutering pets is the most effective way to reduce the number of animals that come into the Animal Shelter every year. Planned outreach events in 2011 are intended to increase awareness on this issue. Animal Euthanasia Procedure Altered The new partnership with Pawsibilities is the final step in a series of advances that enables Animal Services to eliminate the current carbon monoxide procedure used to euthanize feral or dangerous animals. The new three step process, developed by Animal Shelter staff with guidance from City veterinarian Dr. Robert Osborne, ensures the safety of the Shelter employees by first securing the animal. The animal is then calmed by administering a sedation drug before sodium pentobarbital is injected in the final step. Staff developed the procedure after months of evaluating methods used in other shelters. Animal Services employees have been fully trained on the new method. "No one likes the fact that animals have to be put to sleep, but properly managing dangerous and diseased animals is a matter of public safety," said Jason Chessher, Deputy Director of Health. "With this injection-based process, we have extra measures in place to ensure Shelter employees are protected from dangerous animals while at the same time ensuring humane treatment of the animal. Although feral and aggressive animals do not like to be handled, we believe the new process will be able to make their passing as tranquil as when they drifted to sleep under our prior carbon monoxide methodology." Dollar said, "Our animal control policy has always strived to balance three principles: public protection, staff safety, and humane treatment. This change in process demonstrates that when groups such as Pawsibilities work with the City in a positive and productive way, outcomes can be achieved which are satisfactory to both parties." The City expects to have the procedure fully implemented by the end of January. This change represents one more revision in the constant process of evaluating and improving all aspects of Garland Animal Services. Garland Mayor Ronald E. Jones was pleased with the comprehensive approach, saying "The City Council wisely gave staff time to put all the pieces into place rather than responding with half-solutions. We've been searching for the best possible combination of agency partners and practices for more than 18 months. The steps we announce today increase animal adoptions, protect our citizens and maintain the most humane animal control policy possible."


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Tax For Australians For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Take on tax issues with confidence — and minimise your tax bill
Paying tax doesn't have to be a nightmare. In Tax For Australians For Dummies, 2nd Edition, Jimmy B. Prince steers you through the labyrinth of everyday tax issues. Whether you're an employee, investor, business owner, retiree or student, this easy-to-follow guide answers your tax questions. Bonus materials are available offline at www.dummies.com.
- Build your tax knowledge—lodge a tax return or deal with an audit with confidence
- Investigate tax-effective investment—take advantage of investing in shares and property
- Reduce your tax bill as a small business owner—understand the rules and claim, claim, claim
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- Case studies—with practical, step-by-step examples
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- Exactly what you need to know about GST
- How to calculate capital gains tax on sale of investments
- Which tax concession you can claim for your business type
Learn to:
- Lodge your tax returns and maximise your refund
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Jon Varsanik begins his fifth season as a member of MIT's Swimming and Diving coaching staff. His primary duties include developing and overseeing the team's strength training program as well as helping out on deck.
No stranger to the MIT men's swimming program, Varsanik joined the team as a freshman in the fall of 2000. In his four years, he was elected team captain and garnered All-America, Academic All-America, and NEWMAC All-Conference honors. Varsanik currently holds four Institute records (50 butterfly, 200 Free Relay, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay) and two NEWMAC conference records (200 and 400 Medley Relays).
Varsanik is currently a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.


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A tutorial that explains how to setup a sample database in Visual Studio using the ado.net data provider
Setup: This tutorial assumes that you have followed the Install the SAP HANA, express edition clients group tutorials to install the HANA, express edition client software.
Setup: You must have Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 or later installed on your computer.
A Microsoft visual studio project can connect to SAP database using SAP HANA Client that has data providers for Microsoft .NET Framework. In this How-To you will use a demo database table setup project to learn about connecting to SAP HANA database servers from Visual Studio.
In this tutorial, you will use the data provider to set up sample database tables, views, and procedures.
Access the sample projects for the data provider, download the appropriate project.
Start Microsoft Visual Studio.
Click File » Open » Project/Solution.
Browse to
Documents\SAP\Projects\DemoSetup and open the
DemoSetup.sln project.
By Default,
Sap.Data.Hana for .NET data provider reference will be added after importing the project as shown below. This data provider will be located in SAP HANA Client installation path.
Click Debug » Start Without Debugging or press Ctrl+F5 to run the project.
In the Connection String field, type a valid connection string and click Connect to connect to an SAP HANA database server. The example given below connects to a database called
HXE assigned to the parameter
HXE is the default tenant database the server connects to on port
3< instance number >15.
Server=hana-server:30015;databaseName=HXE;UserID=system;Password=manager, connects to an SAP HANA database server with the indicated host name or its IP address, port (usually 3 followed by instance number then 15), a database, user ID, and password.
You can also connect to the database using ODBC driver. For example,
Driver={HDBODBC};UID=system;PWD=manager;SERVERNODE=hana-server:30015;databaseName=HXE, Note that driver can be
HDBODBC32depending on whether your application is 64 bit or 32 bit respectively.
If your credentials are correct, then the .NET application connects to your SAP HANA database server. The list-box area is filled with the names of any existing tables, views, or procedures belonging to the DEMO schema.
Example Below.
Click Create demo objects.
The application reads and executes a script of SQL statements contained in a file located in the indicated
Script file path.
If the execution of the script was successful, then the list-box area is filled with the names of tables, views, or procedures belonging to the DEMO schema.
Click Disconnect to disconnect from the SAP HANA server and close the window to shut down the application.
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March's Travel + Leisure mag ranks what its readers call the 20 best cities for pizza in America, and Philly was fourth, behind Chicago (whose deep-dish pizza is hard to replicate elsewhere), Providence (grilled pizza), and New York.
(The editors acknowledge that large metro areas are surveyed, effectively shutting out a small-town pizza hotbed like New Haven, Conn.)
Philly also ranked in the top five of T+L's America's Favorite Cities poll for its museums and cultural attractions.
The T+L copy cited Pizza Brain, the pizza museum in Fishtown/Kensington, and used the pizza at Nomad near South Street to illustrate the Philly section in print.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Tropical Storm Ernesto's forward movement slowed a bit early Monday as it headed for an expected close pass along Honduras' northern coast after dropping heavy rains on Jamaica without causing serious problems.
The storm passed to the south of Jamaica, where authorities said rains fell over much of the island, particularly its eastern areas. Rain and wind began tapering off Sunday evening, but the government urged islanders to remain alert during the night and said fishermen should remain in safe harbors.
Ernesto hasn't made any direct hits on land since entering the Caribbean early Saturday, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm was predicted to stay offshore while swirling past Honduras by Monday night.
Many Jamaicans stocked up on food and water before the storm made itself felt on their island, but few seemed worried.
Daniel Edwards, who was bailing out his small wooden fishing boat next to a dilapidated dock in Port Royal, a small fishing village, said he wasn't overly concerned by the storm.
"It's not much of a muchness," the veteran fisherman said. Forecasters said Ernesto could bring rain to the coast of Honduras on Monday. It is then expected to grow to near-hurricane force before moving ashore near the Belize-Mexico border early Wednesday and eventually passing into the southern Gulf of Mexico.
A tropical storm warning was issued early Monday for the coast of Honduras, from the border with Nicaragua westward to Punta Sal, including the Bay Islands.
A tropical storm watch was in effect for the main island of Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands to the north of Ernesto.
A Cayman government statement urged Grand Cayman residents to monitor the storm but said it was not likely to have serious effects on the British Caribbean territory. Also, Mexico has issued a hurricane watch Monday for the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
The U.S. hurricane center said Ernesto was centered about 145 miles (235 kilometers) east of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua-Honduras border early Monday. It had maximum sustained winds near 50 mph (85 kph) and was moving westward at 12 mph (19 kph).
Far out in the Atlantic, Florence had weakened to a tropical depression Monday with maximum sustained winds near 35 (55 kph).
Additional weakening is forecast and the U.S. National Hurricane Center says Florence was expected to degenerate within the next few days. Florence was centered about 1,610 miles (2,590 kilometers) east of the Northern Leeward Islands.


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El Director General en la Asamblea General de la ONU
25 September 2012, New York – As the United Nations General Assembly gets under way, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva is in New York this week to participate in a number of high-level events and bilateral meetings on issues ranging from scaling-up nutrition interventions and empowering rural women to enhancing partnerships with civil society and addressing food security challenges in dry-land countries.
On Thursday, 27 September, the Director-General will participate in the launch of a joint initiative of UN Women and the three Rome-based UN food agencies to support rural women's economic empowerment and food security. Later that day, he will be a panellist on "Advancing Nutrition along the Value Chain" during a high-level meeting on scaling up nutrition convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Graziano da Silva will also attend an event hosted by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, titled "Feed the Future: Partnering with Civil Society".
Other meetings taking place this week include a high-level event on the Sahel, convened by the Secretary-General, a side event on the G8's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, and an event sponsored by the Global Dry Land Alliance, where the Director-General will address food security challenges and national and international policies in dry-land countries.
On Tuesday, Graziano da Silva spoke at a side event on "Addressing the Impact of Commodity Derivative Trading", organized by the Common Fund for Commodities.
The Director-General also met with Vuk Jeremić, President of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, and held bilateral meetings with a number of high-level officials from FAO member countries.
In a meeting with First Lady Nadine Heredia of Peru, the Director-General invited her serve as FAO Special Ambassador for the International Year of Quinoa, which will be observed by the United Nations in 2013. The first lady would join President Evo Morales of Bolivia, who was named FAO Special Ambassador in June.
FAO efforts to promote quinoa are part of its overall strategy to encourage the rediscovery of traditional or forgotten crops as a means of combating hunger and promoting healthy eating.
Meeting with new World Bank President
On Friday, the Director-General will travel to Washington, DC, where he will meet with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Inter-American Development Bank President Luis Alberto Moreno, US Government officials and representatives of the private sector.


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Kevin Love's return was premature; his injured right hand due for more trauma and more repair before long. Ricky Rubio's return proved anticlimactic; that burst-of-adrenaline game in mid-December followed by a series of fits and starts, cockeyed shooting and meager assists totals.
The Minnesota Timberwolves thus are hoping that the return of coach Rick Adelman can be one of those third-time-is-a-charm things.
Adelman returned to the practice court Monday after three weeks away, his absence triggered by his wife Mary Kay's hospitalization and treatment for an undisclosed illness. She is home now in the Twin Cities, her condition believed stable enough to allow Adelman to work the six-game homestand that begins Wednesday against the Los Angeles Clippers at Target Center.
"I think everybody has their own situation in all walks of life – the difference between mine is it's more public," Adelman told reporters after Monday's workout. "But I think the important thing is we're going to move forward in a positive manner and, hopefully, I can come back and get our team going in the right direction. This group has played very hard. I felt bad for them, felt bad for the coaches, everybody. It's a tough situation."
With assistant Terry Porter taking over while Adelman was out, the Wolves went 2-9. That's worse than their record without Love this season (8-15), worse than their mark without Rubio (13-12).
There has been a cumulative effect, for sure, accompanying the Wolves' sag to 12th in the West and to the bottom of the Northwest Division. Love's re-injury and hand surgery, Rubio's halting progress and injuries to Chase Budinger, Brandon Roy, Josh Howard, Malcolm Lee and, most recently, Nikola Pekovic and Alexey Shved have taken their tolls mentally as well as physically.
Still, the Wolves have missed Adelman's stable hand, his swift decisions, his ability to diagnose and fix problems on the fly and his court-of-last-resort status in terms of disagreements. It's inconceivable, for instance, that Rubio would have griped at Adelman the way he did at Porter last week when he was yanked from a loss to Brooklyn.
Porter and Adelman go way back to their Portland days, so the former NBA point guard had his boss' full support. Adelman attributed the flare-up to the frustration of losing and Rubio's tortuous comeback. He kept in daily communication with Porter and son, David Adelman, another Wolves assistant, but didn't try to steer the team via remote control.
"I've learned, if you're not there, you have to let the guys just do it," he said. "The coaching staff is a good coaching staff, and it had to be their decision. That's why, if I was coming back, it had to be, I was coming back. I wasn't coming back for one day or two days and leaving again. That wouldn't be fair to anybody."
Eventually, more Wolves will return to the pack. Pekovic and Shved reportedly practiced Monday. Love is eyeing a March return. Budinger hopes to be back sometime that month, too, and so on.
The organization, in the meantime, has to determine what it realistically can accomplish in 2012-13: Chase a playoff spot, a goal that seemed a no-brainer when Rubio returned against Dallas Dec. 15 and helped the Wolves reach 12-9? Or regroup for yet another lottery finish – it would be Minnesota's ninth straight – and approach the league's Feb. 21 trade deadline accordingly?
Said Adelman: "We've got half the season left and … even though it's been a lot of things thrown our way, life moves on and you've got to find way to get yourself energized and focus on what you can do right now."
The six teams coming into Target Center were a combined 152-115 heading into Monday's action. Mary Kay Adelman already has an important home stand underway but her husband Rick is facing a pretty vital one too.


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Dec. 22, 2010
Hope you don't mind, but I'm going to bounce around a few topics in this column. Besides, it's the holidays, so I might as well add to the festivity frenzy. There's no point in trying to contain Christmas spirit, is there? So here's what I've been doing to get into the Christmas spirit. And you know what? I think it's working. And I hope some rubs off on you.
First, if you've visited Mosier recently, you may have noticed a bunch of Christmas decorations next to 10 Speed East. The city council sets up a light display there every year, but this year, when all the lighted metal-wire deer and greeting signs were set up, nothing worked.
Not one bulb.
So, kinda like the Grinch, I gathered up these unwieldy items and headed up the hill to my shop with a promise to bring them back to life.
After what seemed like an eternity of mind-numbing work, I replaced close to 200 bulbs. Of course, the "old" bulbs (which were probably made in the exact same factory as the "new" bulbs) had to be swapped out of each little holder, because the new one wouldn't fit in the old one.
As soon as I got these fixed, I was informed that the Lighted Penguin display in front of City Hall was burned out.
I sighed, I installed new batteries in my portable bulb-tester and headed down the hill.
My holiday wouldn't be complete without some music, and this year I was lucky to attend the United Way Holiday Benefit Concert, with Aaron Meyer and his band, on Dec. 12.
And, I've got to say, this single show was perhaps the best musical event I've seen in Hood River County. The only problem? We'll have to wait an entire year for another one.
During the entire show, I was transfixed. Time? I lost track of it. I had to laugh. At one point, Meyer's violin and band tore into Led Zep's "Kashmir," AND IT STILL FELT LIKE A CHRISTMAS SONG.
The last few years, there's a name that keeps popping up in my music column right around Christmas time, and this year I was reminded of him when I saw the advertisement in the paper. But all the information said was "Musical Entertainer Inoke."
Now, I know from past years that "Inoke," aka Inoke Baravilala, is a guitarist. But really, what else did I know about him?
Answer, not much. But when I dug a little deeper, I just got a feeling that there was a lot more to his story.
It turns out Inoke has been playing guitar, all over the world, for over 40 years, and I think his interview is one of the most interesting ones so far. So, if you're a musician looking for some inspiration, or just someone looking for some more holiday spirit, Inoke will be in town on Christmas Eve.
Happy Holidays everyone!
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Hey Archinect. Here are some images from one of the international design studio programs offered by the UF School of Architecture. These first images are from the Hong Kong/China study abroad program, an 8 week summer design studio and urbanism seminar held in Hong Kong, using facilities at both Hong Kong University and the Chinese University of HK. In a few days I will post a second set of images from the UF SOA Vicenza Institute of Architecture in Northern Italy. This program has been offered during both the Fall and Spring semesters for the last 14 years. The Vicenza Institute of Architecture is a satellite institution maintained by the UF School of Architecture. There are also two preservation institutes maintained by the School, one in Nantucket and one in the Caribbean which often holds studios in Mexico. If any readers have specific curiosities about UF or the travel programs etc, let me know...
aaron, glad to see someone representing UF on archinect blog. I almost started one last semester when i began my grad studies at UF.
like the HONG KONG pictures. I will be going to Mexico this summer with UF arch program there in Guadalajara.
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Labour 'apprentice for each foreign worker' scheme
Labour has said it plans to make large companies train a new apprentice for each skilled worker they hire from outside the EU.
The policy would create up to 125,000 high quality apprenticeships over the next parliament, the party said.
Labour leader Ed Miliband also pledged to increase the minimum wage to help with the cost of living.
He was speaking ahead of the start of the Labour Party conference in Brighton.
The apprenticeship scheme would affect foreign nationals brought in under Tier 2 of the points-based immigration system - those offered a skilled job to fill a gap in the workforce that cannot be filled by a settled worker.
Labour said its research had found that many recently created apprenticeships have been for low-quality courses, and demanded that the number of high-quality apprenticeships be doubled.
'Brutish economy'
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, Mr Miliband said: "I want a high-wage British economy, not a low-wage brutish economy, and we've got plans to make that happen to drive up skills.
"So we're going to say to any firm who wants to bring in a foreign worker that they also have to train up someone who's a local worker, training up the next generation.
"We think that can create up to 125,000 new apprenticeships over the course of five years. And that is a massive boost in skills for our young people and that is really important."
But business lobbying group the CBI warned that Labour's plan could lead to more red tape.
Neil Carberry, CBI's director for education and skills, said: "We'd like to see more apprentices being taken on and agree that training through schemes such as apprenticeships are the long-term answer to skills shortages.
"However, we'd be concerned these proposals could add to red tape for firms.
"If we want to get more businesses offering more apprentices, it will be crucial to keep bureaucracy to a minimum and to make sure employers are in the driving seat when it comes to targeting funding."
Budget 'black hole'
On Saturday, Mr Miliband said Labour would increase fines for employers who deliberately broke minimum wage laws from £5,000 to a maximum of £50,000.
He told a crowd in Brighton that the national minimum wage was "one of the proudest achievements of the last Labour government" but it was falling behind price rises under the coalition government. He pledged to strengthen it.
If the national minimum wage had risen in line with the cost of living it would be 45p an hour higher than the current level, which is due to rise next month from £6.19 to £6.31, he said.
And he said the housing benefit cut - affecting social tenants in England, Scotland and Wales deemed to have spare bedrooms - would be scrapped.
Also in the Sunday Mirror, former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott wrote that Labour should use the conference to talk about "all the good things" it did in power and how it could repeat that success, rather than reaching out to the Liberal Democrats about a potential coalition.
It comes as Mr Miliband rejected the prospect of former spin doctor Damian McBride - whose new book is being serialised in the Daily Mail - of ever working for Labour again.
Mr McBride resigned in 2009 after he was caught planning to smear senior Conservatives.
Meanwhile, Conservative Justice Secretary Chris Grayling wrote in the Daily Telegraph that Labour and the Liberal Democrats wanted to "clobber the rich" with tax plans he says would "penalise wealth creators".