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"The International Course on Geotechnical and Structural Monitoring is growing year by year since its first edition in 2014 and, up to now, more than 450 attendees improved their technical knowledge with us!
40 international leaders have joined the courses as invited speakers and have presented their interesting projects from all around the world. In addition, the courses have become a great platform for other speakers to present new trends and case histories.
In 2017 we moved from Tuscany to Rome, allowing easier access and an increase in the available seating space for registrants. The attractiveness of the "Eternal City" was also a plus! We organized a field trip to the historical center of Rome, allowing participants to see a challenging geotechnical and structural monitoring program during construction of a new Metro Line that requires preservation of one of the most famous archeological sites in the world.
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This is such a simple and cheap way to add some Valentine's wall art to your home! You can make it meaningful by cutting out all the places you have lived and visited.
I cut out some of my fave cities (like Chicago and where my family members were born)
More on how to make this sweet project here

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Jesus to me two hours before my alarm was supposed to go off this morning: Get up! Hurry! Get out your pen, I don't want you to miss this!
Man, I am so glad that I didn't. These are real words, exactly as they are in the pages of my journal, just as the Lord gave them to me. For every lie that enemy has planted in my ear, Jesus countered. He will do the very same for you. I feel entirely exposed publishing this, because they are from the deepest, most intimate places in my heart, but I believe from those same places that He has a word for you this morning. I encourage you to sit down, get still and receive it in the name of Jesus. Stand up and walk in healing and in truth. Lovely are His thoughts about you! Let today be the day that the enemy has his final word. Let freedom wash over you. Let Jesus be louder.
Why are you working so hard for something that cannot happen until I say that it can? What if I never do? You know full well that the promise I have for you is greater. Is what I say that you are not enough? You are exhausting yourself when all I want for you is to rest in Me—a Holy energy and peace and joy beyond your comprehension. The mercies I have for you—these are not flecks of glitter falling from the sky, they are catalytic coveralls of a grace that you do not deserve, but that I want you to have and know deeply.
When you wake up in the morning—fix your eyes on me first. See the things that I have for you. You have already seen so many, but they are only the beginning. I am so proud of you, to be seen with You, to hold your hand and run with you. I am jealous for your affections. They will know you by My love. I have marked your countenance with My presence. You are beautiful. I love to see you get excited about the things that I am doing.
Your heart is a prize. It is one of My greatest works. I haven't missed a moment of your life. Since you were a little girl I have been calling you—drawing you to Me. In your mama's belly I whispered to you, I put eternity in your heart before she even noticed you. I set a vision in your eyes in the formlessness of your being. I made room for you in time because I want you here.
The things you are about to do in my name are nothing short of miracles—you are nothing short of a miracle. The woman that I am stretching and refining you to be is one like Sarah and Esther. I will heal your unbelief. I will set you before kings. As your heart continues to shift and change—so will your desires. You will see promise fulfilled. Purpose and vision realized.
I am not confusion. I will be your clarity. I will be your song and dance in the shadows of depression. I will give name to your dead places and I will breathe them back to life. What you have sown in tears you will reap in joy. You will see sheaves from your seed. You will be a strong wife and a gentle mother. You will minister to the nations.
I am your advocate. I live to intercede for you. Like Israel in your obedience, blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. You are mine. I love you wildly, and I will never stop chasing you. I cannot wait for you to be home.
Until then,
"Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. Though one goes along weeping,
carrying the bag of seed, he will surely come back with shouts of joy, carrying his sheaves." Psalm 126:5-6


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Daycare abruptly shuts doors, parents outraged
Owners deny wrongdoing, involvement
Some San Antonio parents got quite the surprise this week, after trying to drop their kids off at a Northwest side daycare, and finding the center had closed its doors without warning.
According to an employee who wished to remain nameless, The Loving Christian Daycare Center, in the 5200 block of Fredericksburg Rd, was still accepting payments this week and had enrolled 12 children on Monday.
The owners, Robert and Barbara Newby, also run another daycare of the same name on the 4200 block of Sun Shadow, but denied being affiliated with the Northwest location when questioned by KSAT 12 News.
"We are not affiliated with that daycare," the operator told us. "We've been getting calls about the closing all day, but people have the wrong location."
Despite the operator's claim, a search of the state's Department of Family and Protective Services website shows the two locations are indeed owned by the Newbys, and the closed location was cited for 43 deficiencies on a recent inspection. The Sun Shadow location was cited for 44 deficiencies.
"The owners knew full well they were going to shut down," the employee said. "The Newbys did a poor job of running both locations. They should not be in the daycare business."
The anonymous employee also said employees were instructed not to refund payments to parents, many of which are low-income and rely on government assistance.
"It's very unprofessional," said Jessica Hernandez, a parent whose son attended the daycare. "Basically, they didn't tell me what was going on. They didn't tell me why they were shutting down. Regardless if there was a problem with the girls, regardless if there was a problem with the facility, or whatever. They were just telling me, 'Sorry.' That's all they were telling me."
Hernandez said she had prepaid a $45 fee for the month of February.
As for the daycare's staff, the anonymous employee said many are still awaiting payment for time already worked.
The employee also said the state was unaware of the daycare's closing, and had plans to meet with the owners on Monday, to get the violations sorted out. KSAT 12 was unable to confirm if that meeting ever took place.
For a list of recent stories Isis Romero has done, click here.
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The Wall Street Journal presents this graph today on the 2013 sales and profits of retailers. Read more details here.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Parents working to find cures for pediatric cancers
When these parents heard the unimaginable words "your child has cancer," they grieved—then got to work to help find a cure. Meet them here.
Climate denial = Holocaust denial
John Kerry vented his spleen on climate change the other day. Brett Stephens writes,
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It is now the dogma of the left that any hint of doubt when it comes to predictions of climate doom is evidence of greed, stupidity, moral turpitude or psychological derangement. "Climate denial" is intended to be the equivalent of Holocaust denial. And yet the only people who've predicted anything right so far are those who foresaw that the Kyoto Protocol would fail, that renewable energies didn't really work, and that climate bureaucrats accountable to nobody but their own sense of virtue and taste for profit were a danger to everyone.
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Sunday, February 16, 2014
2012: The most active year for terrorism on record
Rodrigo Sermeno writes that Congress has been getting reports from terrorism experts that
According to data compiled by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, more then 6,800 terrorist attacks killed more than 11,000 people in 2012, making it the most active year of terrorism on record.
Bill Braniff, a terrorism analyst at the University of Maryland, said the six most lethal groups in 2012 – the Taliban, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda in Iraq, Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and al-Shabaab – were responsible for approximately 5,000 deaths.
One of these Salafi jihadist groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), recently seized control of parts of the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi located in Iraq's Anbar province – the site of a long and bloody battle for U.S. forces during the Iraq war.
Bridget Johnson reports that Florida lawmakers are trying to turn Obama's attention to
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fl), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla), and Senator Marco Rubio have spoken out, but nothing but crickets from the White House.
Venezuela, where protesters frustrated with the socialist government have taken to the streets to demand a better country.Why?
economy in tatters, sky-high crime, and massive government corruption.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fl), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla), and Senator Marco Rubio have spoken out, but nothing but crickets from the White House.
I'd rather be warm than cold
Tom Harris and Dr. Madhav Khandekar write,
The climate change debate should move away from unsubstantiated warming fears and focus instead on determining if the extreme cold of recent years is a precursor to significant global cooling. If it is, then reliable and inexpensive energy sources such as coal-fired electricity generation will become crucially important for our survival. The last thing we should be doing is closing down these stations in the questionable belief that we are helping to prevent global warming, a phenomenon that has already stopped all on its own.
Syria: the war continues
A child is wounded by his government in Syria. A government that cozies
up to and collaborates with some of America's most obstinate adversaries from Iran to Hezbollah, not to mention geo-political rivals like Russia and China.Those of the words of reporter Greg Dobbs, writing in today's Denver Post. Dobbs notes that it is still uncertain who will prevail in this brutal three year war. It might be the Asaad government mentioned above. It might be the
rebels with their hearts set on an Islamic state,or it might be
The least likely outcome now is a new Syria ruled by secular forces.
Dobbs concludes,
Americans are chastened by hard and haunting lessons over these past dozen-plus years about the cost of going to war. But in the absence of significant American assistance to turn the tide in Syria, the death and displacement and destruction there, and the growing threat to security here, show the cost of failing to join the fight.
Dead end at the Gallopin' Goose
An Arizona man named Andrew Dekenipp just could not bear the thought of being without his girlfriend on Valentines Day. He had been in jail since January 10
On Valentine's Day he
on suspicion of vehicle theft, trafficking in stolen property, unlawful flight, theft and driving on a suspended license.
On Valentine's Day he
had to scale a 12-foot fence, crawl through razor wire, and scale another wire-topped fence in order to leave the premises.
He made his way to the Gallopin' Goose Saloon & Grill, where he was set to meet with his girlfriend.
She had just barely arrived by the time authorities caught up with Dekenipp, according to bar patrons.
Do you consume more than you produce?
Why? What is keeping you from producing more than you consume? Jay Wesley Richards writes,
In free markets characterized by the rule of law and limited government, output per capita goes up over time, which means that the productivity of our labor increases. Our labor is enhanced by "labor saving devices." That's why Spanish scholastic philosopher Luis Molina referred to human productivity as the "fruit of our ingenuity."
Even more fascinating: if you follow the history of technological progress, you discover that over time, we substitute more and more of the matter in a resource not with labor per se, but with the unique resource of mind, called information. Information, unlike the water in Lake Superior and the air in your lungs, is not a finite quantity.
People in free and virtuous societies can grow up to produce more resources than they consume. Some societies, in other words, better enable human beings to be fruitful and multiply, rather than merely to consume. If they did not, market economies would shrink. Instead, over the long run, they grow. In such contexts, the more people you have, the more potential producers you have as well.
Analyzing the culture
Nick Van Cleve writes,
The trick is to know that which ought to be changed, and that which ought not.
As those serious about influencing the nation on both sides of the aisle understand, winning in politics first requires winning the culture.How well do you understand the culture? Van Cleve points to James Burke as a man who incisively analyzed the culture, and in 1790 wrote a book that caused world wide interest. Van Cleve believes that
Moral degradation, government bureaucracy, and the willful destruction of established social institutions like marriage would all likely stand out in a Burkian analysis of today's American culture.
The trick is to know that which ought to be changed, and that which ought not.
Diabolic genius!
Timothy Gordon asks,
Through it all, one wonders: how did the nasty, brutish, and truth-befuddling ideas of secular progressives endure so perennially?
Not when masterminds subvert the intelligible good with such furtive labels as: the slaughter of one's own offspring as an item of "women's health"; an illegal resident as an "undocumented" one; the armed defense of one's home or family as "gun violence". Diabolic genius!
From the living room to the marketplace to the courtroom, most conservatives have been disappointingly hasty to forget what republicanism requires: rigorous textual fidelity to dusty, fusty, and musty old palimpsests of moral mandamus at the heart of human culture. In a word, most conservatives have been abjectly unimaginative in their acceptance of "PC," outside of the occasional rant here or there. In that sense, they have been more than a little disillusioning in their wholesale abandonment of textualism: what words really mean. And when the fixed meaning of text is gone, woe to the God-fearer, who will be persecuted for his thick skin and sickened for his sensitive stomach.
The soaring popularity of Duck Dynasty
Every day I see people wearing Duck Dynasty shirts or caps. The show's popularity has never been higher. Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg writes,
A&E has taken unwitting part in adding value to Phil Robertson's brand. They suspended him for a little over a week and it had no detrimental effect on reruns, filming or the new season. In fact, Robertson's book sales have increased since the controversy as have advertising sales for the Duck Dynasty franchise.
We in the conservative community espouse a worldview that compels us to recognize the intrinsic worth and dignity of each human soul. As a matter of properly ordered justice, we have to truthfully and adequately answer to the question "what do I owe the other?" We are required to treat those with whom we disagree with respect, while at the same time charitably speaking out against disordered behavior and ill-formed ideas. As Christians we are called to be unconditionally tolerant of all human persons and at the same time to condemn sin, just as Phil Robertson did. When a society is not ordered to justice by referencing the objective standard, it dissolves into chaos.
It's a dangerous business speaking the truth in public; you never know where it might sweep you off to. Phil Robertson's comments on sin in the GQ interview ring with ordered truth because they condemn the sin and love the sinner. He said "but hey, sin: It's not logical, my man. It's just not logical." There is nothing logical about the wholesale destruction of the first amendment to cater to the pathological desires of a disordered minority who use violence and double standards to triumph over their opposition. It is a sad day in America when a backwoods duck hunter is taking the lead on matters of public morals. And although the dust seems to be settling, this thing ain't over by a long shot.
What about the children?
Joseph Pearce writes,
Is marriage an autonomous thing, divorced from the family?
In the historical and often hysterical debate surrounding the legal definition of marriage, there is one crucial class of people whose voice has not been heard and whose fate and future will be affected profoundly by the radical changes being proposed and initiated.
It seems that the whole marriage debate has been concerned with the rights, real and alleged, of adults and has failed to address our responsibility, as adults, to the millions of children who will be impacted by the changes to the law, now and in the future.
Is marriage an autonomous thing, divorced from the family?
In truth, the present marriage debate would not have been possible if we had not already subverted and abandoned the time-honoured and time-tested presumption that marriage existed for the purpose of having children. Marriage has never been an end or thing in itself. It has always been a servant of the family, the means by which the desired end of giving birth to future generations is achieved in the most socially cohesive and healthy way.
Want to know how to destroy the immagination of your child?
1. Make him stay indoors.
2. Don't let your child play unsupervised games of his own choosing.
3. Don't let them read the old, unedited fairy tales and folk tales.
4. Remember to foster banality. Make every class in school pure drudgery.
5. Flatten love to sex education.
6. Flatten sex education to prurience and hygiene.
7. Don't let them organize themselves into teams.
8. Efface the glorious differences between the sexes.
9. Separate the child's world from the adult's.
10. Deny the transcendent.
Maybe we should read this book.
Thanks to Thomas Howard.
2. Don't let your child play unsupervised games of his own choosing.
3. Don't let them read the old, unedited fairy tales and folk tales.
4. Remember to foster banality. Make every class in school pure drudgery.
5. Flatten love to sex education.
6. Flatten sex education to prurience and hygiene.
7. Don't let them organize themselves into teams.
8. Efface the glorious differences between the sexes.
9. Separate the child's world from the adult's.
10. Deny the transcendent.
Maybe we should read this book.
Thanks to Thomas Howard.
The rise of an authoritarian police state in America
Stephen M. Klugewicz writes fondly and in much detail about the hit 1960s televison show The Andy Griffith Show. Klugewicz does so to remind us of how far we have come from the law enforcement practices of Sheriff Taylor.
Today, Sheriff Taylor feels like a character from a bygone era. As American society responds to its cultural, moral, and social meltdown by heavily arming its police forces and by training them to be aggressive in their enforcement tactics, it has abandoned the creed of the Sheriff of Mayberry and chosen what might be called "the Fife option." As evidence, all one need do is consider the many recent examples of police brutality and overreach, from the shooting to death of a boy armed only with a toy gun, to the tasering and resultant maiming of a handcuffed young woman, to the humiliating body cavity searches that now seem common during routine traffic stops.
The danger in America is that our modern Fifes are not comic characters with single bullets and hearts of gold but deadly serious, heavily armed agents of the state bent on enforcing the letter of the law without regard to common sense or a sense of justice and mercy. Mayberry, the American Shire, is a symbol of our vanished past. Today the dark shadow of authoritarianism has crept into every corner of the land. We have sent away the Sheriff Taylors and replaced them with police officers whose hearts are too often like those of Tolkien's Black Riders—once good but now deformed by their slavish obedience to the all-seeing eye. In the unenviable choice between unlawful chaos and authoritarian order, Americans have chosen the latter, and we are suffering the consequences.
Can conservatives grow to like Common Core?
Kevin T. Brady and Stephen M. Klugewicz acknowledge that conservatives are pushing back against Common Core.
Are American high school granduates deficient in their understanding of American History? Yes!
I saw Zinn's book on the desk of the teacher who teaches history to both of my sons. I confronted her about it, and she replied that she just uses it to promote empathy for Native Americans. Both my sons really like this teacher, something I cannot say for many of their other teachers.
Are American high school granduates deficient in their understanding of American History? Yes!
Recent results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) U.S. History exams reveal that when eighteen-year-olds leave high school, 88% of them score below a proficiency level, meaning their U.S. history knowledge is below grade level. Fifty-five percent of 12th graders are below even a basic, partial mastery of the content.
The little content that history and social studies teachers do receive tends to be colored by a liberal worldview. Howard Zinn's infamous A People's History of the United States, first published in 1980, remains the nation's best-selling survey textbook, selling about 125,000 copies each year.[6] Zinn, a self-proclaimed radical, has heavily influenced many of today's textbooks.[7] His work is infused with a clear theme: America is a corrupt nation founded upon the lie of equal opportunity and designed in reality to empower the wealthy. On numerous occasions, Zinn has stated that the world would be a much better place if the United States had never existed.[8] Following Zinn, radical activists such as former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers have promoted educational reforms aimed at indoctrinating children in an effort to overthrow the existing social order in favor of a system built on a Left-wing version of "social justice."
I saw Zinn's book on the desk of the teacher who teaches history to both of my sons. I confronted her about it, and she replied that she just uses it to promote empathy for Native Americans. Both my sons really like this teacher, something I cannot say for many of their other teachers.
The point for the conservatives is that teachers and educational boards would likely have assigned the objectionable assignments and texts noted above even if the Common Core never existed. For conservatives, the fact that the standards promote the study of primary sources and require students to provide reasoned arguments, including examples from those sources, should be seen as positives. Again, one needs to bear in mind that the Common Core is skill-based, not content-based; teachers can choose whatever texts they wish in their effort to teach their students literacy skills.
It is not the intention of the present authors to defend the Common Core in toto. It is our intent, however, to demonstrate to conservatives that the Common Core Standards actually provide them with an opportunity to accomplish their ends too. For better or worse, for the foreseeable future it appears that the vast majority of states will soon tie the evaluation of their teachers to student performance on achievement tests based on the new standards. Although the Common Core Standards are likely to have a significant impact on education in America, it is important to remember that educational standards and reforms come and go. Whether or not a state has adopted the Common Core, there is an opportunity for anyone, including those on the political Right, to influence the content that is taught when it comes to literature and history.
The Common Core Standards are far from perfect or complete and certainly do not constitute the long-sought-after "solution" to the problems in American education. In regard to the English Language Arts with its history and social studies exemplars, they at least emphasize critical reading skills and an opportunity for conservatives to have a say in which exemplar texts are used in classrooms. Conservative critics should keep in mind that both teacher unions and many individual teachers also oppose the Common Core, largely because they see it as impinging on academic freedom and simply because teachers generally resent being told what to do in their classrooms. Conservative columnist Ramesh Ponnuru is right in characterizing the fight over the Common Core as "a dismal cycle of elite disdain and populist outrage, each side feeding the other's worst impulses." The debate has thus become clouded and slogans have replaced reason, especially on the Right. It is time for conservatives either to oppose the Common Core on legitimate grounds or to drop their opposition and find ways to make the new standards serve their ends.
What made Ronald Reagan great?
Stephen Klugewicz makes the case for the greatness of Ronald Reagan. First, Reagan revived the American economy.
Second, He won the Cold War.
Third, He used the bully pulpit to support socially conservative positions:
Fourth, He was a conservative at heart.
Fifth, He was a gentleman.
Though he reduced federal spending only slightly overall, allowed the United States debt to continue to grow, and failed to dismantle major federal agencies as he promised during the 1980 campaign, Reagan spent his political capital on the central part of his domestic program: cutting taxes across the board for individuals and businesses. This action alone kickstarted the economy, and the nightmare scenarios predicted by critics of Reagan's "voodoo economics" did not come to pass. The inflation rate fell from 10.4% to 4.2%, unemployment declined from 7.2% to 5.4%, and the American economy experienced its largest period of peacetime expansion up to that time. Along with this, Reagan's sunny optimism and can-do spirit was contagious and inspired hope for the future in Americans, spurring them to spend, invest, and start businesses. The Carter economic "malaise" and its concomitant crisis of American spirit evaporated.
Second, He won the Cold War.
Reagan the conservative recognized that earthly life pits good against evil, and he firmly believed that the United States, despite its faults past and present, was on the side of good while the Soviet Union was "the focus of evil in the modern world." Post-Reagan paleo-conservatism has largely adopted a pacifist attitude toward war and conflict and cringes at the notion of going abroad "in search of monsters to destroy." Yet, like it or not, there are ideologies, religions, and countries that seek to destroy the West, and to acknowledge such realities does not entail embracing schemes to make the world safe for democracy. Nor does it make one a "neo-con," but in fact it makes one a conservative, who in the spirit of Tolkien, recognizes that "there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
Third, He used the bully pulpit to support socially conservative positions:
Reagan spoke out often about the importance of family, traditional morality, and the right to life. Though he has been criticized for his failure to do more to fight abortion, the president, of course, has no recognized authority to overturn Supreme Court decisions or to act against federal and state law. What Reagan did as president was to speak out passionately and often for the sanctity of human life—in many speeches, in his State of the Union address, and sometimes off the cuff. His pro-life presidential statements comprise forty-five pages of his official presidential papers.
Fourth, He was a conservative at heart.
Reagan's constitutional views were decidedly conservative: he publicly called the United States "a federation of sovereign states" and sought to appoint only strict-constructionist federal judges (in this he was not always successful, especially when it came to the Supreme Court). Reagan had been a New Deal liberal until he witnessed the anti-Americanism of leftists in the Screen Actors Guild in the 1950s; after his political conversion, he had little time for the moderate, country-club political set that ruled the Republican party. His speech nominating fellow conservative Barry Goldwater for president at the 1964 Republican—formally called "A Time for Choosing" but known among conservatives simply as "the speech"—is still considered a seminal manifesto of conservatism.
In his abhorrence of war, Reagan was also by nature a conservative. Ironically, he was portrayed as a war-monger by many in the media during his rise to national political prominence; Ronnie "Ray-Gun" some called him. But Reagan was really a peacenik. As president he sent American forces into harm's way only three times (in Beirut and Grenada in 1983 and in Libya in 1986). His goal in building up the American military in his first term, as he stated repeatedly at the time, was to force the Soviets to come back to the arms negotiating table where the United States, from a position of strength, could forge deals that did not merely reduce nuclear stockpiles, but eliminated them. Reagan had been deeply affected after watching the television movie, The Day After, in 1983. The film portrayed the horror of a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was this nightmare scenario that drove Reagan and to try to force the Soviets to negotiate and to develop his Strategic Defense Initiative, which held out the promise of insulating Americans from nuclear strikes.
Fifth, He was a gentleman.
Perhaps Reagan's ex-wife, the classy Jane Wyman, said it best upon Reagan's death in 2004: "America has lost a great president and a great, kind, and gentle man." Ronald Reagan was indeed a giant among men, a true Man of the West, and conservatives should rightly and proudly claim him as one of their own.
Romance, familial love, friendship, and spiritual love
Here is another website I have never before visited. Bruce Fronnen writes about romance and much more.
He also writes about familial love, friendship, and spiritual love.
Romance fades—though it comes back stronger and more often than the movies tend to allow. One who constantly seeks the "high" of romantic love (they often say they are "in love with being in love") is like any other addict, loyal only to his or her own needs. What is more, even if romantic love doesn't fade, it simply isn't enough to sustain a marriage. A man must love his wife as a woman (and vice versa), but also as a wife and as a friend. A couple is a couple, but also the basis of a family, needing more than romance in order to raise good children and face all the trials involved therein. And we must love one another as friends, who share triumphs and tribulations, partners in many things and supports in many others, if we are to build a life together. Finally, of course, we must share in the love of God if we are to fully bind ourselves to one another, love without condition as we must, and find our proper place in creation.
He also writes about familial love, friendship, and spiritual love.
Islands in the Stream
Have you ever heard the song Islands in the Stream? I never had heard it. Gerard Vanderleun has two videos, each with Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, nearly thirty years apart. If you've never heard the song, please go over to American Digest now. You won't be sorry. Dolly Parton is amazing, showing great spunk and gratitude.
How did I miss this song?
How did I miss this song?
Love and death
Don't miss Gerard Vanderleun's thoughts about love and death.
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Let's start off the day with a discussion between Ted Nugent and
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All you need is love (?)
Fittingly for the Valentines weekend, Ryan Kearney writes a humorous piece in the New Republic about love. He says love peaked in 1967 when The Beatles released "All You Need Is Love." Kearney writes,
Kearney quotes from a recent piece in Atlantic:
Kearney concludes,
Its chorus is demonstrably untrue. Love is quite far down on the list of things that humans "need"—in fact, it's not on the list at all. Humans need oxygen, water, and food, in that order. Everything else is optional (though clothes and shelter are nearly essential, depending on the climate). Humans are perfectly capable of living an entire life without love.
Love is at least as harmful as it is beneficial. What's odd is that our culture recognizes as much, and yet it venerates love while romanticizing the pain it can cause. Yes, we say, "love hurts, love scars, love wounds," but such are the risks. The thing is, falling in love is kind of awful, too! The symptoms are much the same as heartbreak: You can't eat because you're permanently queasy, can't sleep when she's not beside you, can't pay attention at work or think straight at all (I write and read books far less when I'm infatuated with someone), and you spend most of your time crafting overwrought emails, looking at photos of her, and stalking her social media accounts. We wax lyrical about how love makes fools of us, but there is nothing admirable about being a fool.
This is exactly the problem with being "in love": It is the most subjective feeling in the human experience. "You'll know it when you feel it," people say. This is horseshit. I have been convinced several times of it, only for the feeling to fade (or be stomped out). Furthermore, several people who have told me "you'll know" are no longer with the person who made them "feel it."
Kearney quotes from a recent piece in Atlantic:
With Valentine's Day around the corner, many Americans are facing a grim reality: They are love-starved. Rates of loneliness are on the rise as social supports are disintegrating. In 1985, when the General Social Survey polled Americans on the number of confidants they have in their lives, the most common response was three. In 2004, when the survey was given again, the most common response was zero.
Kearney concludes,
while I do enjoy spending a fair amount of time alone, I'm not foolish enough to believe that I'm happier now than I would be with someone I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. But let's please stop, as a culture, pretending like there is nothing in the world quite like falling in love, and that we should aspire to finding it above all else. That's not just an insult to the human experience. It's an insult to life itself.
Brain-damaging chemicals
Children are being exposed to more brain-damaging chemicals than ever before. Alice Park writes that the number of chemicals contributing to brain damage has doubled since 2006.
Go here to read about the chemicals and the damage they are causing.
the growing body of research that is finding links between higher levels of these chemicals in expectant mothers' blood and urine and brain disorders in their children should raise alarms about how damaging these chemicals can be. The developing brain in particular, they say, is vulnerable to the effects of these chemicals, and in many cases, the changes they trigger are permanent.
Go here to read about the chemicals and the damage they are causing.
A game where no one wins
Young people destroying each other with the help of social media.
In politics, gall pays off
Ed Rogers writes,
Encouraged by the lack of a public backlash, an uninquisitive press, cover from the White House and an eager-to-please bureaucracy, the Democrats are boldly counting on the IRS to be their political and policy enforcer.
Not too big
Shaun White failed to medal in the Olympic halfpipe, but he did not fail these children.
Benefits of video games
A small study in Germany showed that playing video games helped adults grow the parts of their brains responsible for remembering things and solving problems.
Our amazing digestive tracts
How well do you know your innards? Mary Roach has written "Gulp," which has a quiz you can take here. I hope you did better than I.
Vitamins supplements may not be good for your training regime
Yesterday I spent a long time examining various supplements designed to help muscle building. I almost bought one that had high doses of vitamins C and E. After reading this article, I am glad I didn't buy it.
Alcoholism persists
Barron Lerner writes that
AA is still the main resource for alcoholics, but
ittle has changed through the years in our beliefs about alcoholism and what we can do about it.
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, there are a series of genes that are responsible for roughly half the risk of someone becoming an alcoholic.
AA is still the main resource for alcoholics, but
A.A.'s ability to maintain ongoing sobriety among its participants is only about 10 percent, although certain populations, with stronger social supports, do better.
Don't ignore a cat bite!
Did you know that up to 90% of healthy cats have an aggressive bacterium called Pasteurella multocida? If you are bitten by a cat, you are likely to get an infection from this bacterium. If they bite you, it is usually in the hand. Nicholas Bakalar writes about a research study:
Redness, swelling, increasing pain, difficulty in moving the hand and drainage from the wound are all signs that there may be an infection and that treatment should be sought," said the senior author of the study, Dr. Brian T. Carlsen, a hand surgeon at the Mayo Clinic.
"The tendon sheaths and joints are superficial in the hand, and cat bites penetrate easily, seeding those spaces with the germ, " he added. "Once it's in there, it can grow quite rapidly in fluid-filled spaces that don't have blood circulation, and surgery is often required. That's an important message: don't ignore a cat bite."
Building an Empire
Lego only recently discovered that there were two genders. Legos for girls seem to be selling as well as Legos for girls. Now there is a Legos movie, which opened last weekend earning 69.1 million dollars! Gregory Schmidt writes,
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the movie's characters, including the heroes Emmet and Wyldstyle, will be the stars of a video game, as well as being sold in traditional retail stores in toy kits.
Read everything about Legos here.
Drug counterfeiters
Do you know where your prescription drug is coming from? Gardiner Harris writes
India, the second-largest exporter of over-the-counter and prescription drugs to the United States, is coming under increased scrutiny by American regulators for safety lapses, falsified drug test results and selling fake medicines.
India's pharmaceutical industry supplies 40 percent of over-the-counter and generic prescription drugs consumed in the United States.
"If I have to follow U.S. standards in inspecting facilities supplying to the Indian market," G. N. Singh, India's top drug regulator, said in a recent interview with an Indian newspaper, "we will have to shut almost all of those."
The World Health Organization estimated that one in five drugs made in India are fakes.
In one recent example, counterfeit medicines at a pediatric hospital in Kashmir are now suspected of playing a role in hundreds of infant deaths there in recent years.
One widely used antibiotic was found to contain no active ingredient after being randomly tested in a government lab. The test was kept secret for nearly a year while 100,000 useless pills continued to be dispensed.
More tests of hospital medicines found dozens more that were substandard, including a crucial intravenous antibiotic used in sick infants.
"Some of the fake tablets were used by pregnant women in the post-surgical prevention of infections," said Dr. M. Ishaq Geer, senior assistant professor of pharmacology at the University of Kashmir. "That's very serious."
Investigations of the deaths are continuing, but convictions of drug counterfeiters in India are extremely rare.
80 percent of the seafood consumed in the United States, 50 percent of the fresh fruit, 20 percent of the vegetables and the vast majority of drugs come from outside the United States.
American businesses and F.D.A. officials are just as concerned about the quality of drugs coming out of China, but the F.D.A.'s efforts to increase inspections there have so far been frustrated by the Chinese government.
Using its new revenues, the F.D.A. tried to bolster its staff in China in February 2012. But the Chinese government has so far failed to provide the necessary visas despite an announced agreement in December 2013 during a visit by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said Erica Jefferson, an F.D.A. spokeswoman.
The United States has become so dependent on Chinese imports, however, that the F.D.A. may not be able to do much about the Chinese refusal. The crucial ingredients for nearly all antibiotics, steroids and many other lifesaving drugs are now made exclusively in China.
Love isn't blind. Love is the only way of really seeing.
Ann Voskamp's Valentines weekend post:
Read much more here.
None of us ever know whom we marry. And falling in love never made anyone angels… it's only made it clear how far we've fallen. Who we say 'I do' to — is not who we roll over to touch twenty years later. The challenge for the vows is to fall in love with the stranger to whom you find yourself married.
The vows are a vow to make the stranger you marry — come to intimately know love everyday.
This is the only way we become married to the right people.
Real Love truthfully sees the flaws — and still really loves fully.
Love isn't blind — Love is the only way of really seeing. You have loved me real.
The moment you let love into your heart, your heart starts breaking. The only way to stop your heart from breaking is to stop your heart from loving. You always get to choose: either a hard heart or a broken heart. A broken heart is always the abundant heart — all those many beautiful pieces only evidence of an abundant life.
Read much more here.
Thanks to Ann Voskamp
Pick them back up!
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Animal cuddles
Tongue cuddles count, too.
Go here to see 28 more.
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Go here to see 28 more.
Thanks to Ann Voskamp
A dad took the time to do the right thing, and encourage his son to remember and do the same.
Thanks to Ann Voskamp
Thanks to Ann Voskamp
A Hall of Famer
The Lord gives ya the strength to go through most anything.
Thanks to Ann Voskamp
Thanks to Ann Voskamp
Helping each other cross the finish line with dignity
Take away your imperfections, then what is left?
"The ideal just doesn't exist!"
Thanks to Ann Voskamp
Thanks to Ann Voskamp
Thinking of his team
Thanks to Ann Voskamp, where you can see a longer interview with Junio.
He ain't heavy...
According to RT,
Thanks to Ann Voskamp.
Canada's Alex Bilodeau has credited his Olympic gold in freestyle skiing to his older brother Frederic, who has cerebral palsy. The moguls champion said his sibling is an "everyday inspiration" after embracing Frederic at his winning finish.
With Frederic's motivation for life, he "would be four-time Olympic champion," the Canadian said, adding that he himself has "an easy path" and feels the need to go after Frederic's dreams and "do the best I can just out of respect to him."
Thanks to Ann Voskamp.
The Wave
Have you ever heard of "The Wave?" It is in Paria canyon in Utah and Arizona. It was
Thanks to Ann Voskamp.
formed over the past 85 million years as different layers of limestone were worn away.
Thanks to Ann Voskamp.
Target's breach of security
Did Target have warnings before hackers stole 40 million debit and credit cards from its servers? Three WSJ reporters write that
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At least one analyst at the Minneapolis-based retailer wanted to do a more thorough security review of its payment system, a request that at least initially was brushed off.
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The sheer volume of warnings that retailers receive makes it hard to know which to take seriously. Target has an extensive cybersecurity intelligence team, which sees numerous threats each week and could prioritize only so many issues at its monthly steering committee meetings, the former employee said.
The hackers, still unnamed, originally gained access to Target's network by stealing the access credentials of a refrigeration contractor in Pennsylvania. The contractor, Fazio Mechanical Services, has confirmed it was breached and is cooperating with the Secret Service investigation.
The attackers stole not only the card data, but personal information like phone numbers and email addresses for up to 70 million people.
Do you manage conflict, or avoid it at all costs?
Do you have a culture of "artificial harmony" at your work or in your home? Do you have a stomach for conflict? This Wall Street Journal column asserts that people who learn how to manage conflict are more likely to do well than people who avoid conflict. Are you able to stay cool and not take disagreements personally? If you are feeling uncomfortable, maybe you are actually doing the right thing!
Journal notes of Hillary's "best friend"
Are Republicans afraid of Hillary Clinton? Maybe they should be. A person Hillary described as "her closest friend" left her journal notes with the University of Arkansas when she died in 2000. They were kept sealed until 2010. Alana Goodman, an enterprising reporter for the Washington Free Beacon, went to Arkansas to take a look at the journal entries of Hillary's friend, Diane Blair.
Is Hillary pugnacious? Yes. Does she have a temper? Yes. Is she ruthless? Yes! Is she profane? Yes! Peggy Noonan notes in the Wall Street Journal today that
Is Hillary pugnacious? Yes. Does she have a temper? Yes. Is she ruthless? Yes! Is she profane? Yes! Peggy Noonan notes in the Wall Street Journal today that
the Clintons were of the Democratic generation that disdained Chicago's first Mayor Richard Daley, whose administration they literally fought in the streets. He was rough, tough, the machine. The Clintons rose and went on to become . . . rough, tough, a machine. In politics as in life you can become what you hate.
The Blair papers remind us that in the past quarter-century the office of the presidency has become everyone's psychotherapy. There is an emphasis on the personality, nature, character and charisma of the president. He gets into dramas. He survives them. He is working out his issues. He is avenging childhood feelings of powerlessness. He is working through his ambivalence at certain power dynamics. He will show dad.
History becomes the therapist. The taxpayer winds up paying the therapist's bill.
This wouldn't be so bad—it would actually be entertaining!—if the presidency were not such a consequential role. People can lose lives when presidents work through their issues. This Endless Drama of the Charismatic President is getting old. And dangerous.
Finally, the Blair papers are interesting, but don't expect much more. Word in Clintonland will have gone out: Ditch the papers. Have a bonfire. Or see that they're sealed until 2066.
Some President's Day quotes
"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence." – Abraham Lincoln
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation." – George Washington
"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "Honest Man"." – George Washington
"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can re-establish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty." –President Calvin Coolidge
"You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred." Abraham Lincoln
"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." Abraham Lincoln
Found here.
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation." – George Washington
"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "Honest Man"." – George Washington
"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can re-establish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty." –President Calvin Coolidge
"You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred." Abraham Lincoln
"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." Abraham Lincoln
Found here.
A fighter for children
There is a battle going on in New York. It's between newly elected progressive Mayor deBlasio and Eve Moscowitz. Eva who, you ask? She is the CEO of New York's charter school system, which serves 6,700 students who are predominantly from poor and minority families. Recent test scores showed her students performing in the top 1% in math and top 7% in English.
Matthew Kaminski writes,
Matthew Kaminski writes,
Charters hire teachers who don't have to join and pay union dues, and who work outside the traditional system.
The schools are also mushrooming nationwide. Nearly half the public schools in Washington, D.C., and virtually all in New Orleans are charters. One reason the friction in New York is especially bad comes from the city's practice during the Bloomberg years of having charters share space with regular schools. The charters then often proceeded, embarrassingly, to outperform the other schools.
Already deBlasio has cut all funding for charter-school construction after 2015. He announced a "moratorium" on putting new charters inside existing schools. He is considering ways to roll back 25 co-locations already approved for the next school year, including 10 Success Academies.
While Mayor de Blasio can't stop the creation of charters, he controls access to the most treasured asset in New York City, real estate.
Ms. Moskowitz won't concede that charters must pay rent one way or another. Her schools, run by an independent nonprofit, don't charge tuition to students, who are enrolled through a lottery. The state gives charter operators $13,527 per student, less than what it costs to educate a regular public school student.
She says the charters take underutilized space in a school system with 200,000 empty seats.
Peace talks in Syria break off
The Syria peace talks have broken off, and the Saudis are giving the Syrian rebels antiaircraft weapons that can shoot down jets. I thought Obama had gotten Syria to remove all its chemical weapons when he warned Asaad not to cross the red line!
VW workers turn down UAW
Workers at the Chattanooga, Tennessee Volkswagon plant rejected the United Auto Workers Union yesterday by a vote of 712 to 626. Neal E. Boudette writes in the WSJ,
Under an agreement the UAW has with Volkswagen, it now must cease all organizing efforts aimed at the Chattanooga plant for at least a year. The UAW once represented 1.5 million workers, but now has about 400,000, and diminished influence, as a result of years of downsizing, layoffs and cutbacks by the three Detroit auto makers General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. F +1.06% and Chrysler Group.
The election was also extraordinary because Volkswagen choose to cooperate closely with the UAW. Volkswagen allowed UAW organizers to campaign inside the factory—a step rarely seen in this or other industries.
The vote was held amid public campaigning against the union by Republican politicians, including Gov. Bill Haslam, and conservative activist groups. Conservative political groups, including one backed by antitax activist Grover Norquist, put up anti-union billboards around Chattanooga. A small but determined group of workers who oppose the UAW also worked to tilt their colleagues against the union, an effort that ultimately proved successful.
"I'm thrilled for the employees and thrilled for the community," Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker said in a telephone interview, adding that he's "sincerely overwhelmed" by the result.
In addition to letting union representatives into the plant, Volkswagen kept members of management from expressing any views on the vote, and agreed to coordinate its public statements with the union during the election campaign.
"If the union comes in, we'll have a divided work force," said Cheryl Hawkins, 44, an assembly line worker with three sons. "It will ruin what we have."
Other UAW opponents said they dislike the union's support of politicians who back causes like abortion rights and gun control that rub against the conservative bent of Southern states like Tennessee. Still others objected to paying dues to a union from Detroit that is aligned with Volkswagen competitors like GM and Ford.
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Preparing the Bible lesson for your class is where you get to the real "meat and potatoes" of your class time. Without the Bible we would have nothing to offer in Sunday School, save platitudes without substance.
The following download contains the PowerPoint presentations for both "Lesson Preparation: The Outline" and "Lesson Preparation: Application for the Unsaved" as well as accompanying worksheets and sample outlines. No audio/video available (yet). Other parts of lesson preparation will be added in the future, such as giving the invitation and story telling techniques.
Aloha – Tim


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July 26, 2012
Bigfoot in the New Jersey Burbs is a new book from William Taylor that has just been published, and for which there's an extensive blurb that reads as follows:
"Anyway, one of my friends, about two years older than I, absolutely REF– USED to go in the woods there. We'd romp around the pines everywhere and anywhere else, but he just wouldn't go in that part of the forest. This is even when we were older teens. See, he claimed that years prior he has seen … something in those woods. A big, hairy man, face covered in hair, standing slouched in the woods staring at him." – Near Lakehurst, New Jersey – 1980s.
Bigfoot shows up in some unexpected places. There are thousands of reports of encounters of Bigfoot type creatures in North America and the state of New Jersey has its share, with over 200 encounters reported in modern times. The Kittatinny Mountains and the Pine Barrens are two of the places in New Jersey where this unknown hominid has revealed itself most frequently, but sightings have also occurred in areas where one would least expect. Marlboro, Middletown, and Mahwah, are just three of the typically suburban New Jersey towns that have had more than one sighting in the relatively recent past.
The Big Red Eye, the Big Hairy Man, the Bag Man and the Jersey Devil are some of the commonly used names of the Bigfoot/Sasquatch type creatures that have been seen or heard in the woods, swamps and occasional backyards of the Garden State. Whatever name it goes by, reports in New Jersey of encounters with wild hairy men date back to the 19th century and have continued into the present. Reports alone do not prove the Big Red Eye is lurking in the swamps of Mahlon Dickerson Reservation in Morris County, or that the hairy, bi-pedal version of the Jersey Devil, is watching you change your tire, on a moonless night, from just inside the tree-line along Route 72. Something strange is creeping through the forests though, so on your next hike through Allaire State Park, when the birds stop chirping, the bugs stop buzzing, the hair on your arms stands-up, and you feel like you are being watched, consider the experiences of others in that area that are described in the book, and head straight back to the car, then bar.
Bigfoot in the New Jersey Burb's compiles the more modern sightings and encounters with Bigfoot like entities in the state and offers guidance for where these creatures can be found.
We have broken the encounters into four broad sections, and examine historical and modern accounts in (1) North Jersey, (2) South Jersey, (3) Out of the Way Places and (4) a section we call The Turnpike. In each of the four major sections, we narrow down concentrations of sightings and encounters to General Areas of Interest, and then finally "Hot Spots".
Bigfoot in the New Jersey 'Burbs provides seasoned Bigfoot researchers, amateur "Squatch" enthusiasts and curious Jersey residents who think nothing fun ever happens in the state, with details of recent sightings and the reasons why these unknown two legged primates tend to be seen in specific areas.
The book contains twenty-two maps, recent rarely seen track photos; real accounts of Bigfoot sightings, advice and techniques that will help the reader maximize their chances of running into a Bigfoot "in our great but not completely paved over yet state."
Nick Redfern
Punk music fan, Tennents Super and Carlsberg Special Brew beer fan, horror film fan, chocolate fan, like to wear black clothes, like to stay up late. Work as a writer.
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Anime Expo Hosts Death Note Anime Director, Designer
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Anime Expo 2007 announced the Death Note television anime's director Tetsuro Araki and character designer Masaru Kitao as its first non-musical Japanese Guests of Honor. The convention also announced that it has the rights to screen the separate live-action films, Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name in 35 mm.
Araki has worked steadily up the anime production ladder with credits that include the storyboards and technical animation direction for Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat and three Galaxy Angel television series. He made his directorial debut with the Otogi-Jushi Akazukin video series. Kitao worked as an animation director on episodes of Card Captor Sakura and Rozen Maiden, and he created apparel as well as animated an opening on NANA. Previously, he was the character designer of the Madhouse video Pops.
The live-action Death Note films were based on the same Shonen Jump manga as the anime, but were created by a different crew. The two movies recently had their North American premiere in the Newport Beach Film Festival this past weekend.


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The Texas Rangers struck out with umpire Vic Carapazza again.
Alex Rios and Michael Choice both were ejected by Carapazza for arguing balls and strikes in a 3-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels in 10 innings Saturday night.
The ejections put a damper on a superb performance by Nick Martinez, who battled Jered Weaver before the Rangers lost 3-2 on Howie Kendrick's RBI double in the 10th off Jason Frasor.
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Weaver pitched with runners on base in four of the first five innings and didn't get his first strikeout until fanning Brad Snyder to open the fifth. Rios, who came in 4 for 25 against the right-hander, led off the second inning with a double and was stranded at third when Robinson Chrinos popped out and Choice grounded out.
Shin-Soo Choo led off the fourth with a grounder toward the hole that went under second baseman Kendrick's glove for an error, but he kept going and was thrown out by right fielder Kole Calhoun.
Adrian Beltre followed with a single and was erased on a double-play grounder by Rios, who barked at Carapazza about a previous pitch that was called a strike and was ejected. Donnie Murphy replaced him as the DH.
"All Rios said was: `Get it together.' He called that `arguing balls and strikes,"' Rangers manager Ron Washington said of Carapazza. "He seems to think you can't say anything about the strike zone. I don't know if that's written in the umpires' rules when they're teaching these guys to be umpires, but he's taking it to another level."
Choice's ejection came in the 10th after Carapazza called back-to-back pitches for strikes that appeared to be out of the zone. That ran Texas' season total to six ejections -- including one by Carapazza against pitching coach Mike Maddux on May 10 against Seattle, when Carapazza was working first base and confirmed a checked swing on appeal.
"He's got a quick trigger finger. He needs to settle down a little bit," Washington said. "This is the big leagues. There's going to be some tension flying around, and he's got to be able to deal with some of that. People are out there competing. He's got to have some patience. He's got to control himself. It's ridiculous."
Martinez allowed two runs and three hits in seven-plus innings after retiring his first 15 batters. The 23-year-old right-hander gave a needed boost to a beleaguered pitching staff that had surrendered 10 or more hits in six straight games -- the team's longest such streak since a nine-game stretch in August 2008.
"He was great," Washington said. "He was moving the ball around and never really gave them too many pitches in the same spot consecutively. He used his changeup well and spotted his curveball and his fastball."
Martinez recorded 10 of his first 15 outs on flyballs -- including two by Kendrick that were caught on the warning track -- and another deep drive by C.J. Cron. Hank Conger broke up Martinez's perfect string with a leadoff double into the left-field corner on a 2-1 count and scored on a groundout by Efren Navarro that tied it at 1.
"Martinez threw a heck of a game on their side," Weaver said. "I didn't know if we were going to get to him or not, but we were able to squeak one across."
Cron led off the Angels' eighth with a towering drive toward the lower seats in the right-field corner on an 0-1 count. The ball grazed the top of Choo's glove as he made a leaping attempt in front of the fans.
"Martinez was still throwing the ball well," Washington said. "I thought he made a good pitch to Cron."
Josh Hamilton led off the 10th with an infield single against Neal Cotts (2-4), and Kendrick greeted Frasor with a drive to the fence in left-center on a 3-2 pitch.
Mike Morin (1-1) pitched one inning for his first major league victory, striking out three and hitting a batter.
Weaver allowed a run and four hits through eight innings, struck out five and walked two. The three-time All-Star left with a 2-1 lead, but Kevin Jepsen promptly surrendered a home run to center field by Choo on his second pitch in the ninth.
Jepsen, who has only three saves in six full big league seasons, was given the chance to close by manager Mike Scioscia just two days after Ernesto Frieri gave up a walkoff grand slam to Cleveland's Nick Swisher in the 10th inning of a 5-3 loss.
NOTES: Texas 1B-DH Mitch Moreland is scheduled to undergo season-ending surgery on his left ankle Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina. ... Weaver ended a career-worst streak in which he had allowed a home run in seven consecutive starts. ... Angels 1B Albert Pujols missed the game due to pain in his lower back. He felt it while trying to scoring a run in Friday night's 7-3 win.


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US Uemployment Rate at 7.9 Percent for October as Economy Added 171,000 Jobs
The Bureau of Labor Statistics latest report should bode well for President Obama with the US unemployment rate for October remaining virtually unchanged at 7.9 percent, with the economy adding 171,000 jobs. Bad news for the black community, which saw unemployment ticking up to 14.3 percent. The jobless rate for whites came in at seven percent for October and 10 percent for Hispanics. Asians continue to have the lowest unemployment rate at 4.9 percent.
This is good news for President Obama, who can make the case that we have had 32 months of improvement on the jobs front. Here are where the jobs were created in October:
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 171,000 in October. Employment growth has averaged 157,000 per month thus far in 2012, about the same as the average monthly gain of 153,000 in 2011. In October, employment rose in professional and business services, health care, and retail trade. (See table B-1.)
Professional and business services added 51,000 jobs in October, with gains in services to buildings and dwellings (+13,000) and in computer systems design (+7,000). Temporary help employment changed little in October and has shown little net change over the past 3 months. Employment in professional and business services has grown by 1.6 million since its most recent low point in September 2009.
Health care added 31,000 jobs in October. Job gains continued in ambulatory health care services (+25,000) and hospitals (+6,000). Over the past year, employment in health care has risen by 296,000.
Retail trade added 36,000 jobs in October, with gains in motor vehicles and parts dealers (+7,000), and in furniture and home furnishings stores (+4,000). Retail trade has added 82,000 jobs over the past 3 months, with most of the gain occurring in motor vehicles and parts dealers, clothing and accessories stores, and miscellaneous store retailers.
Employment in leisure and hospitality continued to trend up (+28,000) over the month. This industry has added 811,000 jobs since a recent low point in January 2010, with most of the gain occurring in food services. Employment in construction edged up in October. The gain was concentrated in specialty trade contractors (+17,000).
Manufacturing employment changed little in October. On net, manufacturing employment has shown little change since April.
This was cross-posted from The Hinterland Gazette.


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I went to my counter today to check out MAC's newest collection, DSquared. I must say, it's a nice little collection and includes two of the greatest MAC products ever, Sculpt n Shape duo and Feline khol liner.
I was personally underwhelmed by this collection since it came out after my love Style Black (lol) and the beautiful dazzleglasse cremes. I did some quick and dirty swatches just in case anyone is interested. I also wanted to do a quick review of the more buzz worthy items.
Left to right: Greasepaint Stick V, Greasepaint Stick B, Feline, Nude Rose and Blood Red
Greasepaint Stick V: is a gorgeous dark purple liner meant to be used as a base. I like the black GPS I have from Style Black but I was not interested enough to get a purple one.
Greasepaint Stick B: This one looks exactly like Deep Truth in GPS form! I would say if you wanna get one GPS, get either the black or purple one.
Feline: I have gone through two of these bad boys! It's the darkest hottest black liner ever! I use it on my water line and lower lashline. It does smudge on the lower lashline but not if you set with black eyeshadow. I def recommend this khol liner.
Nude Rose l/s: looks exactly like 3N! I would say get this if you missed out on 3N, a nude pink lustre lipstick, that came with the N collection. It's a gorgeous nude pink on a variety of skintones. In my swatch, it looks like it's the same colour as my skin...I guess I see why everyone say 3N is my best nude. Maybe I should go back and get Nude Rose
Blood Red l/s: is a pink berry lipstick and honestly not my cup of tea. I prefer more blue pinks or the nude ones. It looks a little like the berry lipstick that came out with Hello Kitty (the name escapes me now).
Sculpt and Shaping Duos: again get these if you don't already have them! The duo Accentuate and Sculpt work on anyone beween NC/W20 to NC/NW30. I have a full pan of Sculpt (the Pro Pan) and use it almost everyday as my contouring shade and my MAC shade is in between NW25 and NW30. I find it weird that they didn't include a duo for deeper skintones.
I came away with only Feline....well and another dazzleglass creme, this time Creme Allure.
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2012-13 Providence Bruins preview.
With the National Hockey League officially in another lockout, it looks like we won't be seeing any Boston Bruins hockey any time soon, but just because the NHL will be canceling its games, that don't mean professional hockey won't be played in New England.
Here at Bruins Daily we are set to cover the 2012-13 American Hockey League (AHL) season with a key focus on the Providence Bruins.
With a roster full of future and current NHL talent, the Providence Bruins look to make the Calder Cup playoffs for the first time since the 2008-2009 season where they lost in the Eastern Conference Finals to the eventual Calder Cup Champions, the Hershey Bears.
The Bruins are set to kick off the season at home on October 12, 2012 when they host the Manchester Monarchs who are the minor league affiliate of the defending Stanley Cup Champion L.A. Kings.
Last season was another disappointing year for head coach Bruce Cassidy and his Bruins as the squad finished 12th in the Eastern Conference, six points out of a playoff spot. The Bruins were led by forward Carter Camper who had 48 points (18 goals and 30 assists) in 69 games for the Bruins. Craig Cunningham led the team with 20 goals, the only Bruins player to hit the 20-goal mark. Forward Josh Hennessy was also a bright spot for the "Baby B's" with 41 points (19 goals and 22 assists) in 69 games.
The most exciting aspect of the Providence Bruins this year will be the crop of young talented prospects that the Bruins have in the pipeline. Ryan Spooner, Jared Knight, and Tommy Cross, among others are all expected to be key factors for Providence this season.
Spooner has appeared in eight games for the Providence Bruins over the past two seasons. Spooner has lit the lamp three times and chipped in with four assists. Knight who was drafted by the Bruins in the second round of the 2010 Entry Draft appeared in three games for Providence last season where he added two assists.
Some people—myself included—believe that Spooner will win a roster spot with the big club when Bruins training camp gets to take place—maybe beating out Jordan Caron—so maybe some time in the AHL will help Spooner with his goal of making the Bruins this season.
Due to the AHL's age restrictions,—players must be a least 20-years old—this coming season will be the first time Knight and Spooner are allowed to play a full season in the AHL.
One guy to keep an eye on this year in Providence is Max Sauve. The former second round pick by the Bruins is a name that most of you should know as the 22 year-old Tours, France native has attended multiple training and rookie camps. Sauve is a talented forward who shows tons of potential but has never been able to get over the hump and get his shot with the Bruins. Sauve did appear in one NHL game last season for the Bruins, but only saw 3:43 of ice time in a 5-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Just prior to NHL locking out its players, the Boston Bruins assigned 23 players to the AHL roster. Matt Bartkowski, Ryan Button, Carter Camper, Jordan Caron, Colby Cohen, Tommy Cross, Craig Cunningham, Justin Florek, Michael Hutchinson, Jared Knight, Torey Krug, Kevan Miller, Adam Morrison, Tyler Randell, Max Sauve, Ryan Spooner, Niklas Svedberg, Zach Trotman and David Warsofsky were straight out assigned while Garnet Exelby, Christian Hanson, Jamie Tardif and Trent Whitfield had to clear waviers.
As of now 20-year old Tyler Seguin would have to clear waivers in order to play in the AHL for the Providence Bruins, something the Bruins are not willing to do. Top prospects Dougie Hamilton (Niagara Ice Dogs) and Malcolm Subban (Belleville Bulls) are ineligible to play in the AHL due to their age and therefore will be sent back to their respective teams in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).
Training camp is set to begin on September 28.


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