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Some people just seem to have an impact on others. Bayleigh Phillips fits that description.
Some people just seem to have an impact on others. Bayleigh Phillips fits that description.
Bayleigh's positive attitude during a six-year battle with a brain tumor has touched many people, including former Auburn University football coach Gene Chizik; his wife, Jonna; and their children.
A phone call on Thanksgiving from the coach showed just how big an impact she has made — the Chiziks gave Bayleigh a car for the sixth anniversary of her diagnosis.
Bayleigh and her parents had been at Children's Hospital on Thanksgiving, delivering dinner to families in the hospital.
"My mom and dad were in the room where plates were being made, and I was running food to the patients," Bayleigh said. "My mom's phone kept ringing, but she had not stopped to answer. Finally she looked at it and it was Mrs. Jonna Chizik, so she handed me the phone and asked me to call her back."
Mrs. Chizik told Bayleigh that Coach Chizik wanted to talk to her, and asked if she would be available in about an hour.
She then talked to Bayleigh's mom, Dixie, filled her in on the secret and asked her to video the phone call.
Bayleigh and her parents headed to her grandparents' for Thanksgiving, and Bayleigh fell asleep.
"Suddenly I was awakened by my mom, nudging me, telling me it was the Chiziks on the phone," she said.
Bayleigh talked to Mrs. Chizik for a while until she handed the phone to her husband.
"He was just talking to me like normal. He asked me how school was going, what classes I was taking, and I told him," Bayleigh recalled. "He asked me how I was doing in driver's ed. I shared with him about class, and told him that I was doing good, but every now and then I get a little too close to the mailboxes. He laughed and said, 'I have been driving a long time, Bayleigh, and every now and then I get a little too close to the mailboxes, too."
Bayleigh said they laughed about that, then Chizik told her something that left her speechless and in tears.
"He said, 'You know, me and Mrs. Jonna have known you for a long time, and you are such a responsible young lady and such an inspiration to us, we wanted to tell you that we got you a car,'" she said. "I just cried and cried. I could not believe it."
Bayleigh then talked to one of the Chiziks' daughters, Landry, who is a twin and also is 15 years old.
"She was so excited for me, she was just bubbling all over the place," Bayleigh said. "That alone speaks volumes for the kind of kids they have raised. They are very loving, caring and giving children. All I could do was cry. I was so humbled, shocked, surprised and overwhelmed."
She said she was overwhelmed that the Chiziks took time on Thanksgiving, two days before the Iron Bowl against Alabama, to call her with the news.
Bayleigh, a huge Auburn fan, first became acquainted with the Chiziks in 2010, at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes banquet.
Mrs. Chizik sat down at the Phillipses' table and began talking to them.
"She was so down-to-earth and talked to me like we had known each other forever," Bayleigh said.
She saw Coach Chizik two months later at the Greater Birmingham Auburn Club kickoff party.
"I will never forget when I walked up to him to get him to sign my jersey, and he remembered me," Bayleigh said. "I could not believe it. All the people he sees every day, and he remembered me. That made my day."
In August of that year, Bayleigh found out her original tumor had grown and there was a new area of concern. Doctors initially thought she had a new tumor, but it was attached to the original one. She already had completed a 70-week cycle of chemotherapy, and the news was unexpected.
"At first I was a little heartbroken," Bayleigh said. "Once we got over the initial shock, I was ready to go. I know God has a plan for me, but sometimes I wish He would (show) me the blueprint, so I could be a little more prepared for bombs like that."
The same day she got the news about the tumor growth, she got a message on her cellphone from Mrs. Chizik telling her she was praying.
"I was so encouraged by that call," Bayleigh said. "It made me feel so special that once again she had thought of me, with all that she has going on."
On her 13th birthday, on Aug. 20, 2010, Bayleigh received a call from Coach Chizik to wish her a happy birthday.
"I was so super excited," she said.
Once at her party, she received a call from Mrs. Chizik.
"She wished me a happy birthday, and had me describe my entire birthday to her," she said. "She asked me all about my cake, the food, the music, the decorations, who all was coming. She made me feel like she cared about every detail."
On Oct. 23 of that year, Bayleigh and her mom were invited to join aTeam Ministries for what was called the Auburn Wish Trip. Bayleigh described the day as "unbelievable."
"We started the day with lemonade from Toomer's Drug Store, met Aubie, got to tour the locker room, trophy rooms, press room (and) press box," she said. "We got to go on the field, and they put our names in lights around the stadium. We got to be on the field during warm-ups, inside the Tiger Walk, had pictures taken with the eagle."
They sat in the Chiziks' box that day and were served all types of food and drinks.
"That should have been enough, but Mrs. Chizik came to the box, got all the kids with cancer and took us to get ice cream," Bayleigh said. "She got down on her knees in the floor and talked to each kid like they were the only person in the room. She asked them what all they wanted to do, did they have any special wishes, and she made each one of them happen.
"That was like nothing I had ever experienced before. We beat LSU that day, and yes, we rolled Toomer's Corner."
Within months, the Phillipses' found out the chemo was not working and the tumor had continued to grow, so Bayleigh began radiation in November 2010.
Soon afterward, aTeam Ministries was planning Art Gala, a fundraiser, and the Chiziks were the featured speakers.
"I was chosen as one of 12 artists that year," Bayleigh said. "I was paired with a great artist named Lee Wilson."
Wilson's speciality is angels, she said, and he had done a painting of angels that represented the Chiziks' three children.
"So it was Mrs. Chizik's idea to pair myself and Lee to paint that year," she said.
That night she met Landry for the first time.
"We just really clicked," Bayleigh said. "She is a very outgoing girl and ended up purchasing my painting at the auction that night."
Mrs. Chizik sent Bayleigh a text the night Auburn won the national championship.
"She sent me a very encouraging message that night," she said.
They stayed in contact during the next two years through Facebook, aTeam Ministries and by cellphone.
However, Bayleigh had no idea about the car.
She has not been able to go to school for several weeks because of low blood counts and sickness.
But because it would only be her family in the car, and she would not be exposed to a lot of germs, she was able to go to Montgomery to pick up the car, which she has named "the Foxy Box."
"I was so excited all the way there," she said, although all the excitement left her exhausted and she slept all the way home.
Bayleigh still sometimes pinches herself to make sure the gift is real, and she says the Chiziks' act of kindness has inspired her to make a difference with the gifts God has given her.
"You don't have to be an SEC coach or a movie star," she said. "We can all give in our own capacity."
Bayleigh said one thing she has learned is to "pay it forward."
"I have always tried to give back to the organizations and foundations that have helped my family on this journey, as well as to the families that have a child with cancer and to any church or youth group that has asked me to speak," she said.
"I don't know why I was chosen for this journey. But I will never pass on the opportunity to share with others what has God has done in my life in the midst of the storm. This may seem clich�, but life is what you make it."


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Critics question the viability of South Korea's stealth fighter
South Korea's proposed KF-X stealth fighter program has not been short of influential opponents. Now it has another. A defense ministry think tank, the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis, has told a public meeting that the country is not technologically equipped to develop the aircraft, that the project is economically unviable and that the KF-X would not be a successful export product. The institute challenges cost estimates by the Agency for Defense Development, which is leading development of the aircraft.
KF-X development would cost more than 10 trillion won ($9.2 billion), one of the institute's researchers, Lee Juhyeong, has told a seminar on the program. Over the life of the program, the KF-X would cost the country more than twice as much as an imported aircraft, Lee says.
The institute's stance has not previously been publicly stated, although the Naeil newspaper reported last year that it had submitted a confidential report doubting the viability of the project. Now speaking openly, the institute questions whether the U.S. will be willing to help develop the KF-X. Other skeptics wonder how it could be exported in competition with U.S. aircraft, since South Korea would probably have to use major U.S. components, whose export could be blocked by Washington. Another influential think tank, the Korea Development Institute, reported as early as 2007 that the KF-X was not viable.
KF-X program director Lee Daeyearl, of the Agency for Defense Development, told the same seminar that the fighter would cost 6 trillion won in development, 8 trillion in production, and 9 trillion for operations over 30 years, according to an aerospace industry executive who attended.
South Korea needs to develop its own fighters to be capable of upgrading them and to install South Korean weapons systems, Lee Daeyearl says. "It will contribute to the nation's aerospace industry in the future," Yonhap news agency quotes him as saying. "Without making a first step, we'll have to rely on imported aircraft and that will benefit foreign defense contractors."
The agency has prepared two series of designs, one for an aircraft with its horizontal stabilizers aft, which it considers to be a U.S. style, and one for a "European" fighter with a canard stabilizer. The aft-tail series has run through the iterations C101, C102 and, now, C103, all with two engines and a single seat. The C102 design was further broken down into three variants: C102E with one engine, C102I with internal weapons and C102T with two seats. Those ideas have been discarded, however; the current aft-tail design is C103. Similarly the C201, C202 (with variants E, I and T) and the current C203 follow the same pattern, except for a canard planform.
The agency proposes that either C103 or C203, whichever was chosen, would then advance through three design standards. Block 1 would be "reduced observable," which it says would be equivalent to the B-1B, Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and Eurofighter Typhoon. For its low signature, Block 1 would rely on fuselage and inlet shaping, including edge alignment, and on radar-absorbing material and semi-conformal weapons carriage.
Block 2 would carry weapons internally, a provision for which would be made in the Block 1 design. Antennas would be conformal, and sensors would be "integrated"—for example, in the radar, radome and apertures. There would be minimal gaps and a radar-absorbing coating on the canopy, and the structure of the aircraft, not just its paint, would absorb radio waves. The result would be an aircraft as stealthy as the F-117, the agency proposes.
Block 3 would advance the aircraft to the level of the B-2, F-22 and F-35, but no details are given.
All of this is a step beyond the previous concept, in which the KF-X would have aimed only at something like the Block 1 standard.
The aircraft is expected to be between the Lockheed Martin F-16 and Boeing F-15 in size. Consistent with that, the agency shows the C103 design with two engines of 18,000 lb. thrust each. According to a 2009 external review of the program, the empty mass of the KF-X should be 10.4 metric tons.
Since work began in 2002, the KF-X has been stuck in feasibility studies, concept definition and preliminary design. The finance ministry last year put a stop to it entering full-scale development this year. Instead it allocated just 4.5 billion won for further studies.
The agency's Lee says that if full-scale development begins in October 2014, the first prototype could be rolled out in August 2019 and fly in September 2020. Two years ago, the South Korean air force said it expected the KF-X or an alternative to enter service in 2021. That would obviously be impossible for a type that made its first flight in 2020.


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On this day — the House and Senate send a flurry of legislation to the Governor's desk as the clock winds down on the special session; meanwhile the drama surrounding the anti-groping bill continues to play out as the 'sanctuary cities' ban appears to be dead; Rick O'Donnell and the UT System come to a settlement; and sometimes the John Wayne you're talking about isn't the John Wayne you think you're talking about.
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***Finally Moving Again
After spending the better part of the last week stuck in neutral, the Legislature kicked it back into gear on Monday as the clock on the special session continued to tick down; Houston Chronicle/San Antonio Express-News reporters Gary Scharrer and Patti Hart write:
After earning poor attendance marks last week, the Texas Legislature kicked into high gear Monday by forging agreements on school finance and windstorm insurance, and advancing an airport "anti-groping" measure.Lawmakers, however, all but abandoned an effort to outlaw "sanctuary cities."
The bill prohibiting cities from creating a "sanctuary" for illegal immigrants by restricting law enforcement stalled last week when a House committee did not have enough members present to take a vote. Gov. Rick Perry pressured legislators this weekend to add the measure to an unrelated bill on school finance, but key lawmakers balked.
Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, said conference committee members decided it was unwise to attach the controversial sanctuary city proposal to the school finance bill, which is essential for the operation of public schools and the main reason for the special session.
***Deal Reached on TWIA
In the waning hours of the special session, legislators appeared to have also reached a deal on how to overhaul TWIA, the much maligned windstorm insurer that serves Texas' gulf coast communities.
The news was somewhat surprising because late last week it appeared the House and Senate were still stuck on many of the same issues they couldn't resolve during the regular session and Gov. Rick Perry had threatened to call a second special session if a deal wasn't reached.
Quoting again from Chron/E-N's Scharrer and Hart:
Rep. John Smithee, R-Amarillo, the House sponsor of the TWIA legislation, said the agreement preserves the right of policy holders to go to court if the association commits "egregious" denial of claims.
"My objective was to cut down on litigation as much as possible and I think this bill will do that," he said. In most cases, claims will be settled through an appraisal process, but if TWIA denies coverage "there is potential for double damages" in very narrow circumstances, he said.
Though opposed by trial lawyers, the agreement could be approved by both House and Senate as early as Tuesday, Smithee said.
Below the fold — 'The Round-up' gets you caught up on all the latest Campaign 2012 news; read about Rick O'Donnell's settlement with UT in 'The Clips;' and the pride of Southern California baseball files for bankruptcy in 'EXTRA.'
***The Roundup (of Campaign 2012 news)
– The Houston Chronicle's Joe Holley writes that it might make sense for Mitt Romney and Rick Perry to revive the old Austin-Boston political connection.
As in 1960, when JFK-LBJ tied together the frayed and disparate wings of the Democratic Party long enough to win the White House, Mitt Romney-Rick Perry could be just the ticket for the GOP to unite its increasingly disparate wings and make Barack Obama a one-term president.
"For a Republican Party torn between hard-money conservatives and social conservatives, it would be an intriguing way to balance the party," Texas Christian University political scientist James Riddlesperger said.
"Romney is clearly the front-runner, and depending on how (Perry) conducts his own campaign for the presidency, he's a viable vice presidential pick," Southern Methodist University political scientist Cal Jillson said.
– The Atlantic's Ron Brownstein sits down with chief Perry strategist Dave Carney.
If Perry enters the race, he is determined to compete in all parts of the country–including areas that historically haven't been as welcoming to Southerners, said David Carney, the governor's longtime chief strategist, in an interview. That intention to compete everywhere looms as an important factor in Perry's deliberations, Carney told National Journal. One of the "dilemmas," he said: Whether Perry and his team have enough time to raise the funds and build the organization to support a national campaign.
Another key element of the as-yet preliminary Perry campaign plan: To direct his attacks from the outset at President Obama, not his potential Republican rivals.
"We are not going to run against the other candidates," Carney said. "If he runs, he will be out there campaigning on what he would bring to the table in terms of running against Obama."
Carney's prediction is somewhat surprising after Perry's forceful, even confrontational, speech to the Republican Leadership Council in New Orleans earlier this month.
– Houston Chronicle/San Antonio Express-News Austin Bureau Chief Peggy Fikac writes that there aren't as many similarities between former President and Texas Governor George Bush and Rick Perry as the national press seems to think there are.
As Perry contemplates a presidential run, his twang, cadence and mannerisms are invoking comparisons to Bush. But his miscues are rarely as ear-catching. And Perry's message? It's a whole other story, and not just because of Bush's ear-catching miscues.
Bush, the first time, sold himself as "a uniter, not a divider." He bragged on a bipartisan record as Texas governor at a time when the Legislature was led by Democrats, with whom he forged solid relationships (though he soon found the Washington pols weren't so easily swayed).
Perry works with Democrats on some issues, but he's got a GOP-controlled Legislature and unabashedly uses his power to promote the agenda dear to his base, from a ban on so-called sanctuary cities to requiring women to have sonograms before abortions. As he made clear at the recent Republican Leadership Conference, he sees that as a duty.
"We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business. We need to stop apologizing about stemming the tide of entitlement mindset that's out there," Perry said. "Our party cannot be all things to all people … And our loudest opponents on the left are never goin' to like us, so let's quit tryin' to curry favor with 'em."
– The Los Angeles Times reports that Michele Bachmann discovered that not all John Waynes are created equal in Waterloo, Iowa – the town where she announced the launch of her presidential campaign.
Of note — one John Wayne wasn't actually named John Wayne and is from a town about 100 miles away from Waterloo, the other was a famous serial killer who dressed up like a clown and killed more than 30 people in Chicago.
***The Clips
– The Texas Tribune's Morgan Smith reports that Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst threw the 'sanctuary cities' ban firmly in the House's court yesterday afternoon.
Talking with reporters after the upper chamber broke for a few hours to refine a court reform bill it expects to hear this afternoon, Dewhurst said the fate of the controversial sanctuary cities legislation lay across the dome.
"The House has 101 representatives and a number of other members who often vote with the speaker, and all they have to do is pass SB 9 in the form that we sent it to them, and it automatically goes to the governor," he said, adding that news over the weekend that prominent Republican donors Charles Butt and Bob Perry had been working behind the scenes to defeat the legislation had come as a surprise.
"I don't pretend to understand the House… I have enough challenges with running the Senate that I'm not going to get into the House business," he said, "but I would love to see the House come together and take that legislation so we can send it directly to the governor."
– The Texas Tribune's Emily Ramshaw reports that the House and Senate both passed SB7, a key Medicaid bill, sending it to the Governor's desk.
– The San Antonio Express-News' Melissa Ludwig reports that the UT System and former special adviser Rick O'Donnell have come to terms on a deal that will give O'Donnell $70,000.
Rick O'Donnell's six-week stint at UT kicked up a storm of controversy, with observers questioning his $200,000-a-year salary during a hiring freeze, his job description and his attitude toward academic research.
Neither party admits wrongdoing in the settlement. O'Donnell agrees not to sue in exchange for the $70,000 payout and a letter from Gene Powell, chairman of the UT Board of Regents, praising O'Donnell as "professional and hardworking" and saying the furor that led his firing was not his fault.
"Much of what you were hired to do… was, as you know, mischaracterized by some and the subject of controversy that was not of your making, a controversy that deflected attention from the mission of your important work," Powell wrote in the letter.
– The Austin American-Statesman's Chuck Lindell reports that the Governor's office reached a compromise with budget negotiators that adds language to a must pass fiscal matters bill that would make travel vouchers for the Governor's DPS detail secret for 18 months.
– The Houston Chronicle's Harvey Rice reports that state officials are asking the state Supreme Court to drop its decision on the open beaches law because the woman who filed the initial suit has moved away.
State officials are asking the Texas Supreme Court to abandon a ruling that weakened the state Open Beaches Act because the beachfront property at the center of the controversy has been sold.
San Diego, Calif., attorney Carol Severance, who brought the lawsuit challenging the Open Beaches Act, sold the storm-battered property last week to the city of Galveston. Money for the purchase came from a Federal Emergency Management Agency buyout program for homes in areas prone to repeated flooding to ensure that nothing is built there again.
The Texas General Land Office sent a letter to the court last week arguing that the opinion issued in November favoring Severance is no longer relevant now that the house has been sold.
"Vacating the opinion would avoid confusion and unnecessary litigation about what that decision means," Land Office spokesman Paul Sturrock said.
– The New York Times continues its series on significant questions that are being raised about the viability of shale gas.
– The Los Angeles Times breaks down the bankruptcy filing by the Dodgers; plus analysis from Bill Plaschke.


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Obama's legacy trap
President Barack Obama hopes — expects, really — that '13 will be his lucky number, a year to cement his historical legacy and reap the benefits of an economy on the cusp of real revival.
That expectation, as much as anything, explains how Obama approached the fiscal cliff and why he opted for compromise over confrontation. The president, eyes fixed on history, always viewed the fight as an obstacle, not a destination, a thing to be gotten past on his way to breaking the historical pattern of weak, scandal-scarred and anticlimactic second-term presidencies.
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(PHOTOS: Fiscal cliff's key players)
But the endless battle over the budget — new fights over the debt ceiling and automatic spending cuts loom in a matter of weeks — could become a legacy trap for Obama, robbing him of precious leverage to redefine his relationship with Republicans on terms more favorable to an ambitious second-term agenda, scholars of the presidency say.
"People don't queue up in lines to see the pens for a budget deal under glass, or 'Hey, I just cut this deal with Boehner,'" says presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.
"Presidents are remembered for the big things. FDR did Social Security. Truman created the CIA. There's Eisenhower and the highway system. Kennedy and the moon," Brinkley added. "So, it's going to be Obama and what? Obamacare, that's the big one, and killing Bin Laden. There's room for one more big item. What will it be? Immigration? Climate change? It won't be deficits or the fiscal cliff."
(Also on POLITICO: Dems win key tax fight)
The White House is casting the potential fiscal deal as a major victory because it forces Republicans to turn their backs on a two-decade policy of opposing all tax increases, even those on the wealthiest Americans, which is a "big win," in the words of one West Wing adviser.
For his part, Obama said Monday, "If we're going to be serious about deficit reduction and debt reduction, then it's going to have to be a matter of shared sacrifice — at least as long as I'm president. And I'm going to be president for the next four years, I think…" he said with a widening smile on Monday.
The challenge for a president unusually attuned to his place in history is how to manage fights like the cliff without being diverted by them, and how to suppress the GOP challenge without it becoming a major drain of his time, popular good will and power.
(VIDEO: Obama's address on the fiscal cliff)
"The question is whether he's willing to use the leverage he has to get a better deal. He has a chance to make history here," said Jared Bernstein, a former adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, reflecting the mixed emotions of many nervous progressives watching the cliff talks from the sidelines. "Standing up to them would not only be a gift to the country, but a big part of his legacy."
One staffer for a senior Senate Democrat, summing up the view of several other aides interviewed by POLITICO, called the potential deal a "cave," and warned that Obama's Monday afternoon campaign-style event ahead of the final deal was a "Leon Lett moment" — a reference to the Dallas Cowboys lineman who fumbled the ball while celebrating a touchdown short of the goal line.


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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A senior militant commander linked to the kidnap of a U.S. soldier was killed on Friday in a suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun tribal region on the Afghan border, security and militant sources said.
Sangeen Zadran was the operational commander in Pakistan's tribal areas for the Haqqani network, which regularly attacks U.S. forces in Afghanistan from its mountain hideouts in Pakistan. He also served as the Taliban's shadow governor of Afghanistan's Paktika province.
The United States placed Zadran, 45, on its list of global terrorists in 2011. He was accused of planning bomb attacks and assaults on U.S. bases in eastern Afghanistan, planning movements of foreign Taliban fighters and orchestrating kidnappings of Afghan and foreign nationals in border areas.
His death will be a temporary blow to the Haqqani network, said Saifullah Mahsud of the FATA Research Center, a Pakistani thinktank that works in the tribal areas.
"He was one of the chief mediators among the Taliban factions, responsible for settling disputes," said Mahsud. "He is or was holding Bergdahl."
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, captured in 2009, is the only American soldier the militants hold. They have had repeated discussions with U.S. authorities about exchanging him for some of the high-profile prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.
Zadran died when drones fired two missiles on a compound in the village of Dargah Mandi in North Waziristan, destroying a house and killing seven people, one security official said. Another official put the toll at five.
Mosques in Miranshah, the regional capital, announced over loudspeakers that prayers for Zadran would be offered on Friday, residents said.
A source among insurgents on the ground said the dead from Friday's drone attack also included a 32-year-old al Qaeda commander who was an expert in explosives, and identified him as Zubir al Muzi, an Egyptian national. Three Jordanians and two local fighters were also killed, he said.
There was no official comment on the death toll. Pakistan's foreign ministry condemned the U.S. drone strike in a statement.
U.S. drones have been killing militants in inaccessible border areas such as North Waziristan, the main stronghold of groups aligned with al Qaeda and the Taliban, since 2004.
Pakistan says publicly that the drones cause civilian casualties and violate its sovereignty, although senior commanders have admitted some strikes were authorized. In response to the criticism, the United States has reduced strikes in recent years.
It is hard to assess the impact of drone attacks because independent observers and journalists have almost no access to the areas where the strikes occur. Most information comes from officials who speak on condition of anonymity.
U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan have fallen significantly over the past 2-1/2 years, to total 20 this year. There were 48 in all of 2012 and 73 in 2011, a tally by the New America Foundation shows.
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Born in New Jersey, but a Rockland County, NY resident for over thirty years, I earned a BFA from Syracuse University and Masters Degree in Art Education from the College of New Rochelle. I studied watercolor with Carolyn Pedersen, NWS. I recently retired from teaching art in the Clarkstown School District for thirty-two years. Mywork has been exhibited in juried shows in NY and NJ and am an active and signature member of many art societies. Currently I am a member of the Piermont Arts Gallery, Piermont, NY. In my paintings I use traditional transparent watercolor, or mixed media such as acrylic, gouache, and collaged elements such as variously textured papers to cardboard, and dried beans. I am constantly experimenting and...
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This week I started the Nutrisystem program and will be following it for the next 4 months. I've been interested in Nutrisystem for awhile now, my mother and aunt did it with some great results but I've never been able to afford it on my own. Thankfully Nutrisystem is going to be sponsoring me for the next 4 months and it means the world to me!
I've been on other diets more times than I can count but I have never tried a program where the food is already prepared so I was really excited about this. Not having to cook? That is amazing, because honestly, I am not a good cook but I can call in a to-go order like no one else. With Nutrisystem, my breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert is already prepared for me. All I have to do is add some protein, dairy, vegetables, fruit and carbs to supplement each meal.
This is me on my birthday in October. I've dealt with weight for as long as I can remember and I've been on other diets more times than I can count. Now that I'm in my early thirties it's really time to get serious and get this weight off so I can live my life to its fullest.
My weight has kept me down for a long time, it's the reason why you probably don't know what I look like until now… because I'm just not comfortable or confident showing you what I look like without taking a gazillion photos in just the right lighting or just the right angle. I'm trying to turn this around now and become the person I want to be, a healthier person!
For the next 4 months, I'm going to be blogging about my experiences with Nutrisystem once a week. While blogging about a diet isn't necessarily beauty related, I know, I hope you'll bear with me during this time. After all, our diet affects our skin and our skin is at the core of our look… right? Here's too some good before and after shots! 🙂
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What is the spacecraft?
The spacecraft is the protective "spaceship" that enables the precious cargo (that is, the rover!) to travel between Earth and Mars. It is separate from the launch vehicle that carries the spacecraft and the rover outside of Earth's atmosphere and gravity pull.
Like NASA's twin Mars rovers that landed on the red planet in early 2004, the Mars Science Laboratory rover was tucked inside a tightly packaged cruise stage and aeroshell with a heat shield. Unlike the two Mars Exploration Rovers, the Mars Science Laboratory Rover extended its wheels similar to the way an airplane unfolds its landing gear just before touchdown.
The spacecraft includes the mechanical units that safely carried and maneuvered the rover as it entered the Martian atmosphere and landed on Mars.
The spacecraft design for Mars Science Laboratory consists of:
The spacecraft design for the Mars Science Laboratory mission is based largely on the successful twin Viking landers sent to Mars in the 1970s. The rover design is based on the Mars Exploration Rovers, which landed on Mars in early 2004. The system for entry, descent, and landing is entirely new.
How much does the spacecraft weigh?The Mars Science Laboratory mission had a total launch mass, including the rockets that lifted it away from Earth, of 1.17 million pounds (about 531,000 kilograms). The total mass of the spacecraft is 8,463 pounds (3,893 kilograms). The mass of parts of the spacecraft is as follows:


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So, have you people heard the news? No? Okay well listen up, I have a cyberwebs job working on an Idol website. This way I do not have to pollute my precious Game Girl Racing with all the Idol stuff and I can still write about it, but somewhere else. Exciting, yes? I thought so too.
So if you are interested in what I am doing over there. You need to go over there. Which means you most likely need a link, huh?
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A miniaturized condenser microphone with a fully integrated preamp and detachable cable.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
As Americans go to the polls today to elect their next president, many Christian voters on the Republican side remain uneasy over their candidate's Mormon background. And while Mitt Romney has tried to keep the issue of faith off the election agenda, at times he has been cornered into acknowledging his church's views.
Much of Mormonism is shrouded in secrecy, but one point that most outsiders are aware of is that Mormons believe Missouri, not Jerusalem, will be the center of Messiah's coming reign, a position that for many reeks of Replacement Theology.
In 2007, prior to the previous presidential election, which Romney also contested, Christian radio host Jan Mickelson of WHO-AM in Des Moines, Iowa pressed Romney on this topic.
A clearly agitated Romney insisted that his church "says that Christ appears on and splits the Mount of Olives, which is in Jerusalem. ...That's what the [Mormon] church says. The Second Coming, the arrival of Jesus Christ, our church says is in Jerusalem. That's our doctrine."
Romney went on to note that this position is rooted in scripture. "Throughout the Bible Christ appears in Jerusalem, splits the Mount of Olives to stop the war that is coming to kill all the Jews. Our church believes that."
But that's not the end of the story. For Mormons, Romney admitted, after Jesus intervenes on Israel's behalf, he proceeds to establish Missouri as, if not the sole base, then the primary center of his earthly kingdom.
"We also believe that over the thousand years that follow [Christ's return], the millennium, he will reign from two places, that the law will go forward from one place, from Missouri, and the other will be Jerusalem," explained Romney.
A video of Romney's exchange with Mickelson was posted to Youtube one week ago. To date it has already garnered well over two million views.
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Grace Lutheran Church, Oak Ridge, will host a candle-lighting service at 5 p.m. Oct. 13 in support of those challenged by mental illness, substance use disorders and other brain disorders.
"The church is in a unique position to provide a community of support for those who are in pain," said Pastor Steve Damos. "We can provide solace and faith, and be compassionate advocates for those seeking recovery and wholeness."
The service caps off the church's first observance of Mental Illness Awareness Week, Oct. 6-12.
Singer-songwriter and Kingston native Woody Wright will make multiple appearances in the East Tennessee area this weekend.
Wright is a featured artist with the "Gaither Homecoming" series and a gospel recording artist.
He will be the guest speaker as he revisits some of his school teachers at the Oct. 11 Roane County Retired Teachers luncheon in Kingston Community Center.
Wright will provide special music in Kingston First Baptist Church's Sunday morning worship service on Oct. 13.
For the second year, several churches in the Kingston and Harriman areas will work together in assisting families and individuals for Christmas.
Partner churches will work together taking applications for Christmas baskets for residents of the Harriman and Kingston areas.
The applications will then be divided according to each church's ministry plan.
Some will help with food and gifts; others offer gift assistance.
It took about 30 months and a few bumps in the road but St. Anthony's Anglican Church is poised to dedicate its sanctuary and altar on Oct. 6 with a Celebration of a New Ministry service.
The church, in Crab Orchard, includes parishioners from Roane County.
"The altar, altar rail and main cross have been installed," said John Moore, junior warden. "Our new priest, Father James Gibson, is on board, so all the pieces of the puzzle are now in place and ready to be dedicated."
St. Anthony's Anglican Church, Crab Orchard, welcomes Father James C. Gibson Jr. as its new priest in charge.
Gibson, known as "Father Jim" by parishioners from Roane, Cumberland and Rhea counties, began providing pastoral services to St. Anthony's on Aug. 4.
He, his wife, Robin, and son, Aidan, live in Crossville.
In an official ceremony on Oct. 6, St. Anthony's will officially accept Gibson as the mission's new clergy.
Sally Peterka shows off some of the items to be available during Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church's annual fall bazaar.
The bazaar, a project of the church's Council of Catholic Women, will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 12 in the church hall at 535 Margrave Drive, Harriman.
Attic treasures, holiday crafts, home-baked goods and a silent auction, which Peterka chairs, are planned.
The bazaar is the CCW's biggest fundraiser. Proceeds go toward providing assistance to parish and community programs.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Harriman will open its doors and grounds to the public next month for its fourth annual Blessing of the Animals.
The event will start at 2 p.m. Oct. 6 in the church at 190 Circle Drive in the West Hills area.
St. Andrew's is joining churches across the country and around the world in this custom.
"It is a simple tradition, but it brings comfort to many," said the Rev. Harry Howard, priest in charge at St. Andrew's.
Swan Pond United Methodist Church, Harriman, will present Jim Darden as guest minister, with church service beginning at 10 a.m. Sept.
He will deliver the message through song and music.
Darden has been on the program with names such as The Cathedrals, Oak Ridge Boys, Florida Boys and The Statesmen.
Now at home in Harriman, he has recorded five CDs and a video and has traveled to most states and Canada.
A love offering will be taken during the service to support J.D. Ministries.
The 24th annual Dudley Evans Singers reunion this weekend at Roane County Park, Midtown, will include a number of area favorite groups for the two-day event.
Music starting at 6 p.m. Sept. 20 includes The Freemans from Nashville.
Music starting at 5 p.m. Sept. 21 includes Heirline from Chattanooga.
The Evans Family will perform and host the weekend event.
Other guest singers include Crimson River, Gracesong, Chattanooga's The Southland Quartet, Dave Raby and others.
For the fourth consecutive year, all pets and their owners will be welcomed to a special event on Oct. 6 at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Harriman, where they will be offered God's blessing.
"Marking the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, we will celebrate our pets and reaffirm our role as caretakers of God's creatures and creation," said the Rev. Harry Howard, who will preside at the service. "All pets and their caretakers from every denomination are invited."
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Personal computing discussed
Moderator: Starfalcon
clone wrote:did you have to up the voltage to hit 4.2 and if yes how high did you get it before you needed to add voltage?
Jigar2speed5095 wrote:1) 3200+ Athlon 64 @ 3.0 GHZ (Max went till 3.2GHZ stable, was a bit unstable @ 3.3GHZ) with Water cooling and AC cooling.
2) 4400+ X2 Atlon 64 @ 3.4 GHZ (Max went till 3.8 GHZ but unstable above 3.4GHZ) with LN2. (Home made)
3) Q6600 @ 3.2 GHZ (Max went till 3.9 GHZ unstable, stable till 3.65 GHZ but temperature goes very high without extra cooling and now i don't have LN2 any more )
4) XDA O2 Atom @ 624MHZ (actual speed 416MHZ) this PDA is rock solid for daily task and phoning but becomes a power hog, once overclocked.
Flying Fox wrote:Can we have some of what he was smoking? X48? 2x16 SLI? Want some more e-penis with that? How about just get the Nvidia triple SLI board with a water block on the 3xGPUs+chipset+CPU?
derFunkenstein wrote:I'll try and get up a screenshot of CPU-Z tonight, but I have a 133% overclock of my Phenom II X2 550 going on right now. Instead of 2x3.1GHz, it's 4x3.6.
It was pretty easy on the motherboard in the sig. Just hit Ctrl+F1 to get your ACC options, and set it to "hybrid" mode with everything else to Auto. I had to bump my voltage up to 1.45 to get it stable, but temps stay around 54-55C under load. The weird thing is now Win7 and my BIOS both think it's a "Phenom II X4 X50" whatever that is, and I have to rely on the motherboard temps as the cores all show 0*C in Hardware Monitor..


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Nikon COOLPIX L6 pinouts
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Vendor: NikonNikon Corporation, also known just as Nikon, is a Japanese multinational corporation. Nikon's products include cameras, camera lenses, binoculars, microscopes, ophthalmic lenses, measurement instruments, rifle scopes, spotting scopes, and the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which it is the world's second largest manufacturer. Among its products are Nikkor imaging lenses (for F-mount cameras, large format photography, photographic enlargers, and other applications), the Nikon F-series of 35 mm film SLR cameras, the Nikon D-series of digital SLR cameras, the Coolpix series of compact digital cameras, and the Nikonos series of underwater film cameras.
Device name: COOLPIX L6Cameras & Camcorders
There are 3 pinouts found for Nikon COOLPIX L6.The pinout (pin-out) is a cross-references between the contacts (pins) of an electrical connector and their functions. The links to appropriate pin outs diagrams are listed below.
- Digital cameras and camcorders with mini-usb compatible connector pinout connector at camera may look different, but mini-usb cable should work
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Martin Scorsese Tribute Art Show at Bold Hype Gallery
Photos by G. Various Artists.
I have mostly bad news for you if you like the images you see in this post. Over the weekend of April 20, 2013, Bold Hype Gallery hosted a 2 night only tribute show featuring artists renditions of their favorite Martin Scorsese films/characters/interpretations. The show was really cool. The bad news is that like I said above, the show only ran for 2 days and is now closed.
However, you can enjoy these images until the end of time (or until my blog license comes up for renewal).
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Blythe Russo
Age 29
Occupation Graphic designer and photographer at dance night Videodrome Discotheque
Residence Waltham
How do you dress for Videodrome, and why?
I like to wear things that make me feel very confident, reflect my mood, and make sure that the night is a fun thing for me to do. I want to channel the vibe of pop and disco, so I like to wear sparkly things.
I get the sense that one of your style icons is Madonna circa 1984?
I actually remember dressing up like her when I was younger, as most people did. But I've always liked that style. I buy a lot of vintage pieces. I always like a lot of accessories. Since high school, Debbie Harry has been an influence. I like the rocker-chic look. I wear a lot of leather, denim, and vintage T-shirts. And then I try to incorporate those into a hodgepodge of glamorous stuff.
Where do you shop for vintage clothing in Boston?
There are a couple of good thrift stores that I'll go to in Waltham, and they're not picked over. So I'll get a lot of weird '70s and '80s shirts in really loud colors. I'll find rock shirts and vintage things on eBay and Etsy. — C.M.
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Must Watch Video: MTV's "Weird Vibes" – Ep. 13 "World's #1 Blogger"
Photo by G. Video by MTV Hive.
As you all know, my life is filled with fun, excitement, art, rock & roll, celebrities and experiences that are at times too bizarre to be true, and yet, I have no reason to lie (plus I have proof). That's why I started carrying a camera around with me. One of the most awesome things to happen to me in 2012 was getting a call from MTV Hive to host their CMJ-themed episode of "Weird Vibes!" For the duration of the music festival, the uber-awesome producer of "Weird Vibes" Shirley Braha and I hit the hottest concerts in Manhattan and Brooklyn in search of buzz and vibes and we got it!
Over the course of the week, I was fortunate enough to interview Mac Demarco, DIIV, Paul Banks (Interpol), Unicorn Kid, Kitty Pryde, and Blood Orange, and appearances by Flying Lotus, Pictureplane, Mykki Blanco, Merchandise, Thieves Like Us, Hot Sugar, Twerps, Madeline Follin of Cults, and Tao Lin! Once again, it's nearly too good to be true, but as you will see in the video, it's all true.
Thanks again so much to all of the artists who agreed to be interviewed.
Thanks again to Shirley Braha for being an awesome partner in crime.
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