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By: Michael Hugill, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 11 Mar 2011
Curated for you: the latest museum, web and tech news from across the net.
A long, long time ago in a suburb far, far away I worked in a bookshop. Sadly, that bookshop has something in common with many of the species studied here at the Museum: it's extinct.
Before it died, though, one of it's most popular areas was the Staff Picks section where readers, overwhelmed by the thousands of titles we had in-store, could see recommendations from people whose job it was to read.
Well, there's an awful lot more to read (watch and listen to) on the internet than there is in a bookshop so perhaps you'd like some links from people whose job is to be on the web (especially museum sites).
With this in mind, I bring you Linkasaurus - a (hopefully) regular blog post you can click on when you don't know what you want to click on. Here goes...
Museum Victoria's Field Guide app
No angry birds here.
Google launches its Art Project
A partnership with 17 museums from Europe and the U.S.
Senior Netizens
How people over the age of 60 use information and communication technologies (ICT).
Browser Wars
Three new updates are being released. Hey, you're not still on IE6 are you?
Using phones, but not to talk
It seems we'd rather app than chat.
Jurassic Lounge on the Today Show
Our very own dino disco.
Outlook Plugin stops passive agressive emails
And has a great name: ToneCheck.
Alien Ant Farm
Watch what happens after scientists pour concrete into an (abandoned) ant hill for 3 days.
Great blog!
There is actually so much going on at the web that I haven't even seen all of these links. Thanks for summarizing ;)
Great start Michael! If anyone wants to follow me on Twitter my name is @lyndakelly61 (or go here). Some of the converstaions I'm folliwng include the hashtags #mtogo and #collectionfishing, as well as a conference I went to last week called Digital Directions (with hashtag #dd11) which I'll be blogging soon...


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- Mercedes news
New exhaust can close gap to frontrunners - Rosberg
- Drivers:
- Nico Rosberg
- Teams:
- Mercedes
Nico Rosberg is confident Mercedes can start to close the gap to the front-running teams with its latest exhaust upgrade.
Mercedes is one of the last leading teams to adopt a Coanda exhaust that uses body work to direct gases towards the diffuser and boost rear downforce. It raced the new layout for the first time in Singapore, but Rosberg believes there is a lot of untapped potential to be gained from the upgrade.
"It was an exciting weekend for us as a team because we had quite a lot of new parts on the car," Rosberg told his YouTube channel. "It's a very complicated development we are doing there on the aerodynamics, with the exhaust gases pointed in a certain direction so you get hot air in the back of the car to create downforce so you can go faster through the corners.
"It's very difficult to direct that air in the right direction so we've found out now that it's going to take a while to really optimise it. Of course it already benefitted us, but it's going to take some time over the next days and weeks to get the most out of it. So I'm quite optimistic that we can extract a lot of potential out of that and the others are a bit advanced on that already so maybe we can catch up a bit, which would be good."
Rosberg finished fifth in Singapore and said the race pace was more in line with Mercedes' expectations than at recent events.
"Qualifying was not great for us and we were just not quick enough unfortunately. We need to try and understand that, but then the race, for the first time in a long time, everything worked out for me. I had a good start with new tyres, a good first stint, the tyre management was perfect. Just before coming to the pit stop my tyres were shot - not two laps before but just before - so it was ideal.
"The safety car came at the exact right moment as I was wanting to pit, so it all worked out really well and that's why I'm quite pleased with fifth place overall. In the end my car had an issue because I lost a lot of aerodynamics grip, the team noticed it on the computer - like 0.7s or 0.8s per lap - so that's why I was slower in the final stint. But all in all fifth place was okay and the best we could have done this weekend."

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December 5, 2008 :: Education, State Officials Continue Discussion on Campus Safety
What: Meeting of Gov. Henry's Campus Life and Safety and Security (CLASS) Task Force to study safety at Oklahoma's higher education and career technology campuses
When: 2 p.m., Monday, Dec. 8, 2008
Where: Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
655 Research Parkway, Suite 200, Oklahoma City
Who: Officials from higher education, career technology education, public safety and health services
Why: To discuss legislative agenda; CLASS annual report; and funding and notification/response survey findings.
Background: Gov. Brad Henry created CLASS by an Executive Order in April 2007 following the Virginia Tech shootings. On Feb. 12, 2008, at the request of the task force, Gov. Henry extended the activities of the task force for the purpose of implementing the recommendations of its final report and continuing to review and evaluate safety and security at higher education and career technology campuses and make recommendations for modifications as needed.


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Universal Pictures has revealed an extended first look for its new film, Les Misérables, due out on Christmas. The nearly five-minute featurette includes a behind-the-scenes look at a movie that, with its emphasis on live singing, may challenge audiences accustomed to hearing finely polished and highly perfected vocal tracks from musicians on the radio.
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If the 2005 film adaptation of Rent cracked open the door, than the hit song-and-dance TV series Glee smashed through it entirely. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's trademark oddness, applied to a big-screen version of Stephen Sondheim's murderous masterpiece Sweeney Todd, introduced many new audiences to an entirely unfamiliar genre of musical.
Legally Blonde made the successful leap to stage (by way of MTV), and so did South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with the wildly popular Book of Mormon.
Les Mis is a musical of a different breed. Long a staple of both the New York and London theater scene, the enormous, traditional-style show is exactly the type of emotive cheesiness popular culture has shunned. Winner of the 1985 Tony Award for Best Musical, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's show might find easier company with 1961's best, The Music Man, than this year's winner, Once--which, of course, is also a film-turned-stage-show.
The film stars Hugh Jackman, probably best known for his performance as the brutal superhero Wolverine in Marvel's X-Men franchise, as the reformed thief Jean Valjean. Russell Crowe plays his nemesis, the Inspector Javert; Amanda Seyfried is Cosette, Valjean's adopted daughter, and Anne Hathaway plays Fantine, Cosette's ill-fated mother.
The cast also includes Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter (Thénardier and his wife Madame Thénardier), Eddie Redmayne (Marius), Aaron Tveit (Enjolras) and newcomer Samantha Barks (Éponine).


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Lauren Varela tallied her second goal of the season Saturday (Gil Talbot).
PRINCETON, N.J. – Lauren Varela notched a goal, and goalkeeper Bethany Kanten recorded six saves, but the Harvard women's soccer team fell on the road at Princeton, 3-1, Saturday evening.
The loss snaps Harvard' s six-game unbeaten streak and drops the Crimson to 7-4-3 and 2-2-1 in the Ivy League, while Princeton improves to 10-3-1 and 5-0-0 in conference action.
Kanten made five saves in the first half, keeping the game scoreless through the opening 45 minutes of play.
In the 61st minute, Princeton earned a corner kick and capitalized for the game's first goal. Rachel Sheehy found Caitlin Blosser for a goal off a header at 60:10, giving the Tigers a 1-0 lead.
The Crimson answered at 69:39 when Aisha Price sent a pass to Varela, who finished with a tally from inside the box, knotting the game, 1-1. With 10:03 to play in regulation though, Princeton regained an advantage as Sheehy placed a free kick into the box and Gabriella Guzman finished with a tally, making it a 2-1 contest.
The Tigers struck again less than two minutes later on a score by Jen Hoy at 81:46. Liana Cornacchio put the ball in the crease off a throw-in, and Hoy put the ball into the back of the net, giving Princeton a 3-1 edge.
Princeton outshot Harvard, 14-6, including 8-2 in the second half, and had two of the three corner kicks in the game.
Harvard will face Brown in a non-conference game at home Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m.


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edited March 2010 in Animal Tracks
[img]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4093/slippinonac.jpg[/img] well i figure why not! ... sure i'm all scummy looking but it must be done! ... notice a few key fun things... how in the first pic Avey's THUMB is in my FIST! ... and the last one was avey with a buddy of mine but i put it in because the TONGUE on avey's shirt is in the BEER BOTTLE! ... fun stuff like that! little white lies like "i was there" this is from May of 2007 ... in IOWA (if you can believe it!) notice the reference to geo beard trim trabblings! and noah actually looking happy for A Change!
I love this! Especially Avey's thumb being part of your hand. at first I didn't realize that Avey wasn't hanging out with the dog! I think your general appearance perfectly compliments your online personality. also, you're one lucky guy to be hanging out with them all!
It's nice to see your face, furry one. Those are great photos! I especially like the subtleties you noticed that make it so hilarious, the tongue in the BEER oh it's fantastic. I bet he'd like that. OK, G.O. stop reading... {{{{omg avey is so freaking kyooooooooooooooooooootttt in that last photo with his sweet smile it makes me want to mwah mwah all over his little earnest face}}}}
for the record, I think Panda looks freaking adorable/awesome [though avey does have a nice smile there].
wow, G.O. Tigers, Derek and me all online!!! In the same place!
it's an Animal Collective gang! We just need Phantom!
it would be nice if the OWNER showed back up, too!
you forgot about the Grizzly Kid! ): (great pics, G.O.[!]!!!)
aw...i'm sorry Grizzly. I'm new though, that's my excuse.
No excuses, no looses, mooses, grew since, walrus... what?
oh god i really regret putting this up now! ... but it was all in good clean old fashion'd fun... this will make it even MORE fun!: [img]http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/1580/animalcosterha4.jpg[/img] roller coaster ac!
they're SO happy!
don't regret it! I love your pictures/your beard! That picture is pretty amazing! So carefree! Also.....Deakin (shit I think I spelled that wrong), looks sooo much like young Gene Ween when he smiles.
Grizzers, you weren't on at the moment I posted that...I would never neglect a fellow animal. Yeah, I see the Deeks/Gene similarity. What a Beach-Boys-esque shot!
Nah I'm kinda sad G.O. posted pictures of himself. Ruined the mystery for me. It's like the tramp talking. Hopefully I will forget the image (not that it's bad G.O.).
Panda looks ecstatic. He's like AWW HELLS YEAH. I've been online for approx. 5 hours straight. What is this I don't even...
Yeah it is a really good picture. Might make it my desktop.
i feel left out! it looks like you sat down to have dinner with them at some awesome medival restaurant with wooden tables and goblets. at least that's the impression i got. i wish i had a beard like yours.
beards really suck! ... i mean it grows long and you don't want to cut it because it'll take forever to get long again... but sometimes you don't want a beard... and i've always sucked at shaving there's always stubble it's never totally fresh and smooth! sometimes that would be nice (but then sometimes it IS nice to have a damn beard!)... i'm a beardo weirdo! and yeah that was the back area of the venue ac played at (in IOWA!) and it was really mellow and nice atmosphere... i had never been to iowa city (shitty) and it seemed pretty nice... you wouldn't expect such good stuff in iowa but sometimes things are like that!
sometimes I wish I had a beard to stroke when I ponder things! The affect of hand vs chin is not as great!
that sounds like an incredibly cool place to hang out with the AC, GO! luckily I never have to debate whether or not to have a beard or not. Sounds like a lot to think about there (to shave or not to shave?)
yeah, I don't get the choice of beard either, but there's always fake ones!
haha, very true. I've actually had a fake beard before......... it was a play sort of thing
i sometimes wish girls could sprout a beard. even if just for a day. i just want to rub it on things. sometimes they're sharp, and sometimes they tickle. i did a documentary on beards once.
be my beard!
i'll hold on to your ears.
you are all my fears!
Can we get some beers?
what does that mean?
I broke the combo. Rhyming combo, any combo. Just happy to bust it.
but you never could trust it!
even so, I must 'git!
geez now even YOU have over a hundred! this is growing out of control! this fire! (burn this shitty!)
YAAAAAAY! GO KAYGEEE!!!!!!! 102 IS THE PLACE TO BE!! now maybe I'll shoot for 103?
years from now you'll have THOUSANDS of posts and lament yr wasted youth!
nostalgia comes with a price, I suppose.
but nothing beats the low prices of todays prostitution. (it's so neat, it just can't be beat!)
won't have time to work the streets if you gab about AC day in and day out!
I'm only interested in prostitution that involves the AC themselves.
how much do you think one Chinese businessman would have to pay for a night with Avey? hmm...
I'm sure Kria handles those appointments.
i wonder if kria really wears stockings or if avey just really meant tights! ... i wonder what that dress that he likes looks like! oh god! these are the things that can't be asked! man i wonder if any groovy girlies tried to be ac groupies and resulted in really awkward turn-downs from the band... deeks needs to get married and then they'll all be taken... so weird to be into them when they were young and watch the years go by and them making babies having famblies gettin married settle down range life... to think when they were posting on akka in 05 they were about 25... when i got into them in 03 and indian only 23! avey's spirit at 20!!! sometimes i think about that and it is crazy but then i realize no that's not that strange that is how it works i guess! look at me talking too much! crap!
Yeah Avey's Spirit at 20 makes me sad since I'm 20 and no Spirit.
you gotta pay your dues before you pay your rent...nice pavement throw in there G.O. Phantom: anything I say will sound like old lady platitudes so I won't.
i wish i could grow old with them. i often imagine how fun it would be to just sit around with them at a casual get together and talk about life. awesome. they'd be welcome in my living room at any time.
imagine how sad it'll be when they're all in their 50s doing reunion shows and avey trying to scream like he used to!
he might still be able to pull it off! Frank Black (Pixies) is in his fifties, i'm sure, and his screams are just as fantastic as they were twenty+ years ago. He's said that it's actually easier for him now.
oh god i hate to keep name-dropping but... i met frank black before i knew who the pixies were! which amuses me... the very idear of that? he was on some hip little x-files soundtrack and he was doing an in-store... [i was introduced to pixies by way of a method a LOT of people got into them... fight club creddies!] also i went to their TRUE first reunion show in April 2004 which for some odd reason was in Minnesota... which was just insane to be a part of... i'm kinda glad they never made a new album and i still really hope they don't...
same here. A new album would not be able to compare with their old ones. I know it! Awesome you met the man. I used to have a copy of Fear and Loathing signed by him, my ex-bf/best friend met him at a random bar in Boston and got him to sign it. How was he? I hear he's an ass. I got to see them last year on their Doolittle tour. The first True reunion would've been more epic. But hearing them play through all of the Doolittle album with six extra tracks was pretty awesome too. I'm also a fight club convert.
fear & loathing signed by frank black? what the! i don't get it! he Was kind of an ass! i was pretty young and out of it so the main thing i asked was if the frank black in the show millenium was named after him (it was!) and then for some dumb reason i then asked Is that your real name? (so embrassing!) ... some nerdy guy behind me then said the full real name and it was just awkward... oh well! why is the person your EX best friend!


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|2009-09-29, 01:06
|Link #20081
Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canada
Age: 29
Stop bitching. I have a life too.
Spoiler for September the Fifth, Day 4: Hallway- The Ponytailed Girl, Again/Hallway- The Pretty Girl, Again:
These are pretty much the same scene, just with Kyon's conclusion to the events being totally different.
The reason for this is because of how Kyon is introduced to each of them originally... whereas he sees Kyonko as just some girl just stealing his shoes, he immediately suspects that Itsuko is important.
This, in turn, is because Itsuko is the hottest thing in this game, and Kyon is very, very shallow.
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|2009-09-29, 01:34
|Link #20082
Lucky Bastard
Join Date: Oct 2007
Back from the dead to give a few comments, take it as you may Kaisos. University will be the end of me!
Good write-up. I love the dialogue in this one, especially Itsuko's fourth-wall-shattering remark. Pacing is good too. I love how different yet similar the tone is between Kyon's narration and Kyonko's. Good job.
However, something has bugged me ever since you posted the parts full of green text a few months(?) ago: you seem to like it a lot... Perhaps a little too much? Especially when Kyonko's turning crazy. I understand the tone and rhythm is part of the narrative... But if you slip key plot elements in there, there's a big risk people will do like I did on my first read-up: they'll skip most of it. LONG LIVE THE GREEN, but keep the reader in mind.
|2009-09-29, 01:43
|Link #20084
Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canada
Age: 29
And we planned to make the Greentext intrusive... maybe I'll have the programmers make it immune to the Ctrl key.
Why does he talk to Haruhi in the first place? Because he wants to ask her out.
Why does he pay so much attention to Mikuru? Because she's hot.
Why does he hate Koizumi? Because he's not a girl.
Kyon IS a good person, but my god is he shallow.
|2009-09-29, 01:48
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Lucky Bastard
Join Date: Oct 2007
Anyways, green text is not that annoying, but I just feel it was overused in those scenes. It just went from ominous to slightly obnoxious.
|2009-09-29, 02:05
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Lucky Bastard
Join Date: Oct 2007
Anyways, what irks me about the green text is not how intrusive it is: it's the sheer volume of seemingly useless GOING CRAZY banter. I think I know what you want to accomplish... But I know most people will skim it and miss plot points, or just plain ignoreit (if you make it too annoying). The scene is still very early into the novel, when there's no big emotional investment in the work yet. You're in danger of losing readers altogether if you make it too obnoxious.
This is a matter of writing style, I guess.
(Sorry if I sound judgemental, Kaisos. I'm a Communications student, so this is pretty much applied theory. It's fun to do! )
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|2009-09-29, 02:17
|Link #20087
Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canada
Age: 29
I'm not toning it down at this stage. The game rarely gets that bad ever again, and the entire scene, as a whole, is a plot point in and of itself.
The text is line by line, as well. It's... a lot more difficult to skim that way, in all honesty.
If you have other recommendations, especially on how to make that scene not boring, then I'd be glad to hear them. For example, how exactly is it "obnoxious"?
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Anyways, I need some sleep... The complete answer -- with proof! -- will have to wait, sorry.
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Also, somewhat interesting how you compressed "Missing Shoes" in a single line, insted a whole scene.
There is one more thing is buging me since a few scenes ago. In The Answers (IV), we learn Itsuko make contact with the Organization. She obviously don't see any problem talking with people from the other world, as long they are not Suzumiya. She even censored Kyonko and Yuuki for fleeing, when it would be more simpler stay and talk. But then, why she did hide her identity from Kyon (beside plot device, I mean)? Wouldn't be better for her just call him for a chat and explain everyting?
I am far from being an avarage reader, tough. This might be because the scene is too long. Making the reading kinda tiresome for me. And, as Kaisos said, in the actuall game is harder to miss anything.
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1. She already told Taniguchi and Kunikida that her name was Yamada and she made the connection early on that those two were probably the same as Kyonko's friends. She obviously knew who Kyon was and would also suspect that he would share a class with Taniguchi and Kunikida on this side as well. So, in order to remove any confusion down the road, she has decided to use the fake name for the time being.
2. It's obvious that sometime prior to meeting Kyon on the street that morning, Itsuko contacted Itsuki's Organization. There was no way for her to have made contact during her previous jump to the other side where she met Taniguchi and Kunikida, so it must have been the night after the final ripple. It's possible the Organization requested/suggested that she not give out her true identity to anyone. Since Kyonko had given her the name Yamada previously, it would make sense that she would just roll with that to alleviate confusion.
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Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canada
Age: 29
I think it's just that they don't think Kyon really needs to know about this at the current time, until they determine for certain if Itsuko is really who and what she says she is.
An optional scene on Day 5 will kind of address this, actually.
Spoiler for September the Fifth, Day 4: Hallway: A Familiar Laugh:
I would remind everyone, or inform those who don't know, to keep in mind that this scene normally only triggers after you've beaten six routes, though this restriction will be removed for the demo.
I'm not actually that pleased with how this turned out, but what can you do, it's too early and I'm sleep-deprived and exhibiting the physical symptoms of stress.
Enjoy. And yes, I am a proponent of the Kansai dialect = Southern drawl translation convention.
(Those who have been paying attention up till now should draw a fair few conclusions from this scene, heh.)
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this? If so, good eye.
I've mentioned it before, but that fanfic was probably my major inspiration for the VN to begin with.
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Alumnus Wins Pulitzer Prize for Risky Photo
April 17, 2008It was gutsy move for University of Houston alumnus Adrees Latif to photograph the fatal shooting of a fellow journalist last year.
With no regard for his own safety and with one click of his camera, Latif captured the killing of Japanese videographer Kenji Nagai amid the violent protests against the Burmese government. Latif's picture won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.
"As I am filled with joy (for winning the Pultizer), I must take a moment to remember videographer Kenji Nagai — a fellow journalist whom I photographed in his final moments of life, while covering his last assignment," said Latif, who works as a photojournalist for Reuters.
Last year, Latif sneaked into Myanmar (Burma) without media credentials, since foreign journalists were prohibited from entering the country during nationwide protests against the government.
On Sept. 23, he arrived at Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, with "some old clothes, a Canon 5D camera, two fixed lenses and a laptop," Latif said.
"For the next four days, my routine was the same," Latif said. "I would walk to the Shwedagon Pagoda (a sacred shrine encased with gold and jewels) and climb its marble steps to wait for the monks. Dozens of people, including monks, asked me who I was and what I was doing . . . My replies were guarded."
On Sept. 27 in the middle of town, demonstrators gathered, taunting soldiers, who threw barbed wire coils across the roads. Eventually, the crowd grew from hundreds to a few thousand.
"Two dark green, open-top army trucks approached, followed by dozens more packed with riot police," Latif explained. "They were hit by a barrage of water bottles, fruit and abuse from the crowd."
Two minutes after Latif had prepped his camera, the shooting started. He photographed four frames of a man on his back. Unaware of the man's identity, Latif first thought the man had been trampled. Two of the frames showed the man's face. A few hours later, his colleagues in Japan had identified the man as Nagai.
A native of Pakistan, Latif moved to Houston with his family at age 7. His first photojournalism class at Jersey Village High School when he was 15 years old sparked his love for the field. That passion led him to UH, where his biggest influence was photojournalist Richard Carson.
"He spotted my drive and worked with me in pursuing my dream as a photojournalist," Latif said. "He assisted me with contacts and internships, which would eventually land me a staff photographer position at the Houston Post."
Latif also was a Daily Cougar photographer and photo editor before graduating from UH.
"Working at the university newspaper, the Daily Cougar, prepared me for the daily challenges one faces as a professional," Latif said.
He also worked at the Houston Chronicle before accepting a position at Reuters. He now works for Reuters in Bangkok, from where he covers news across Asia. He hopes to "keep pursuing my career as a photojournalist and influencing people through my photographs."
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Skip to comments.Catholic Church asks Tom Daschle to stop calling himself a Catholic
Posted on 04/17/2003 9:36:31 AM PDT by SB00
TOM DASCHLE may no longer call himself a Catholic. The Senate minority leader and the highest ranking Democrat in Washington has been sent a letter by his home diocese of Sioux Falls, sources in South Dakota have told The Weekly Standard, directing him to remove from his congressional biography and campaign documents all references to his standing as a member of the Catholic Church.
This isn't exactly excommunication--which is unnecessary, in any case, since Daschle made himself ineligible for communion almost 20 years ago with his divorce and remarriage to a Washington lobbyist. The directive from Sioux Falls' Bishop Robert Carlson is rather something less than excommunication--and, at the same time, something more: a declaration that Tom Daschle's religious identification constitutes, in technical Catholic vocabulary, a grave public scandal. He was brought up as a Catholic, and he may still be in some sort of genuine mental and spiritual relation to the Church. Who besides his confessor could say? But Daschle's consistent political opposition to Catholic teachings on moral issues--abortion, in particular--has made him such a problem for ordinary churchgoers that the Church must deny him the use of the word "Catholic."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Deeper pockets..
Deeper pockets..
Make no mistake about it. Carlson has thrown down a gauntlet, and ordinary Catholics are going to be asking about Kennedy, and Mikulski, and Pelosi.
What's more, they're going to be asking their bishops why they don't do what Carlson has done to these public figures.
Things could get very interesting for Catholic Democrats.
Gray Davis doesn't get a pass evidently:
Bishop William Weigand of Sacramento was the first American bishop to use the new note from Rome. At a pro-life Mass on January 22, he spoke of California Governor Gray Davis's claim to be a "pro-choice Catholic."
After describing the efforts by Davis's pastor to get the governor to see the moral incoherence of his position, Weigand declared, "As your bishop, I have to say clearly that anyone--politician or otherwise--who thinks it is acceptable for a Catholic to be pro-abortion is in very great error, puts his or her soul at risk, and is not in good standing with the Church. Such a person should have the integrity to acknowledge this and choose of his own volition to abstain from receiving Holy Communion until he has a change of heart."
Russ Lopez, a spokesman for Davis, responded with the hilarious and deeply revealing complaint that Bishop Weigand was "telling the faithful how to practice their faith."
Especially seeing how long they drug their collective feet in dealing with pedophile priests.
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Despite taking a few more minutes to enter school buildings in the Fort Osage School District, parents and community members seem to appreciate the new security measures.
"Families have been very appreciative and have not minded that it takes just a little loner to get into our buildings," said Stephanie Smith, director of public relations for Fort Osage. "Many of our parents have read the information and come to the cameras prepared to buzz in with their ID."
The Fort Osage Board of Education discussed the security updates Tuesday.
When visitors come to a district facility, they will see a "buzz in system." This requires visitors to be admitted by someone in the front office. The visitor will push a button that will ring in the front office. The exterior doors will be locked. Then the visitor shows identification such as a driver's license. They then state their purpose for entering the school. Once buzzed in, they go to the front office before accessing any other area of the school.
Smith said the security system is, for the most part, operating effectively. She said there have been some issues with outside community groups who use school facilities such as sports teams or Girl Scouts. Although they have had complete access to the building in the past, that is not the case any longer. She said now, it is all about relaying the district's policies and procedures to them.
"People can't just roam the building any longer," Smith said. "Now we are all about sharing our policies and practices with our patrons, so they know how things have changed."
Smith said there have been a few minor issues with the new security system, mostly dealing with handicap accessibility. She said those have not been working as smoothly as initially thought, so adjustments are being made.
"Parents have said that they feel safer about their kids being in school because of the safety and security upgrades," she said. "People do understand, and most have been very happy with the changes."


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14 The Lord will have compassion on Jacob;
once again he will choose Israel
and will settle them in their own land.
Foreigners will join them
and unite with the descendants of Jacob.
2 Nations will take them
and bring them to their own place.
And Israel will take possession of the nations
and make them male and female servants in the Lord's land.
They will make captives of their captors
and rule over their oppressors.
3 On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, 4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:
How the oppressor has come to an end!
How his fury[a] has ended!
5 The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked,
the scepter of the rulers,
6 which in anger struck down peoples
with unceasing blows,
and in fury subdued nations
with relentless aggression.
7 All the lands are at rest and at peace;
they break into singing.
8 Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon
gloat over you and say,
"Now that you have been laid low,
no one comes to cut us down."
9 The realm of the dead below is all astir
to meet you at your coming;
it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you—
all those who were leaders in the world;
it makes them rise from their thrones—
all those who were kings over the nations.
10 They will all respond,
they will say to you,
"You also have become weak, as we are;
you have become like us."
11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,
along with the noise of your harps;
maggots are spread out beneath you
and worms cover you.
12 How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
13 You said in your heart,
"I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[b]
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High."
15 But you are brought down to the realm of the dead,
to the depths of the pit.
16 Those who see you stare at you,
they ponder your fate:
"Is this the man who shook the earth
and made kingdoms tremble,
17 the man who made the world a wilderness,
who overthrew its cities
and would not let his captives go home?"
18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,
each in his own tomb.
19 But you are cast out of your tomb
like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,
with those pierced by the sword,
those who descend to the stones of the pit.
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
20 you will not join them in burial,
for you have destroyed your land
and killed your people.
Let the offspring of the wicked
never be mentioned again.
21 Prepare a place to slaughter his children
for the sins of their ancestors;
they are not to rise to inherit the land
and cover the earth with their cities.
22 "I will rise up against them,"
declares the Lord Almighty.
"I will wipe out Babylon's name and survivors,
her offspring and descendants,"
declares the Lord.
23 "I will turn her into a place for owls
and into swampland;
I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,"
declares the Lord Almighty.
24 The Lord Almighty has sworn,
"Surely, as I have planned, so it will be,
and as I have purposed, so it will happen.
25 I will crush the Assyrian in my land;
on my mountains I will trample him down.
His yoke will be taken from my people,
and his burden removed from their shoulders."
26 This is the plan determined for the whole world;
this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
27 For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him?
His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
28 This prophecy came in the year King Ahaz died:
29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,
that the rod that struck you is broken;
from the root of that snake will spring up a viper,
its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.
30 The poorest of the poor will find pasture,
and the needy will lie down in safety.
But your root I will destroy by famine;
it will slay your survivors.
31 Wail, you gate! Howl, you city!
Melt away, all you Philistines!
A cloud of smoke comes from the north,
and there is not a straggler in its ranks.
32 What answer shall be given
to the envoys of that nation?
"The Lord has established Zion,
and in her his afflicted people will find refuge."
15 A prophecy against Moab:
Ar in Moab is ruined,
destroyed in a night!
Kir in Moab is ruined,
destroyed in a night!
2 Dibon goes up to its temple,
to its high places to weep;
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.
Every head is shaved
and every beard cut off.
3 In the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the roofs and in the public squares
they all wail,
prostrate with weeping.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,
their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
and their hearts are faint.
5 My heart cries out over Moab;
her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,
as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith,
weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim
they lament their destruction.
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up
and the grass is withered;
the vegetation is gone
and nothing green is left.
7 So the wealth they have acquired and stored up
they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.
9 The waters of Dimon[c] are full of blood,
but I will bring still more upon Dimon[d]—
a lion upon the fugitives of Moab
and upon those who remain in the land.
16 Send lambs as tribute
to the ruler of the land,
from Sela, across the desert,
to the mount of Daughter Zion.
2 Like fluttering birds
pushed from the nest,
so are the women of Moab
at the fords of the Arnon.
3 "Make up your mind," Moab says.
"Render a decision.
Make your shadow like night—
at high noon.
Hide the fugitives,
do not betray the refugees.
4 Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
be their shelter from the destroyer."
The oppressor will come to an end,
and destruction will cease;
the aggressor will vanish from the land.
5 In love a throne will be established;
in faithfulness a man will sit on it—
one from the house[e] of David—
one who in judging seeks justice
and speeds the cause of righteousness.
6 We have heard of Moab's pride—
how great is her arrogance!—
of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;
but her boasts are empty.
7 Therefore the Moabites wail,
they wail together for Moab.
Lament and grieve
for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.
8 The fields of Heshbon wither,
the vines of Sibmah also.
The rulers of the nations
have trampled down the choicest vines,
which once reached Jazer
and spread toward the desert.
Their shoots spread out
and went as far as the sea.[f]
9 So I weep, as Jazer weeps,
for the vines of Sibmah.
Heshbon and Elealeh,
I drench you with tears!
The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit
and over your harvests have been stilled.
10 Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;
no one sings or shouts in the vineyards;
no one treads out wine at the presses,
for I have put an end to the shouting.
11 My heart laments for Moab like a harp,
my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.
12 When Moab appears at her high place,
she only wears herself out;
when she goes to her shrine to pray,
it is to no avail.
13 This is the word the Lord has already spoken concerning Moab. 14 But now the Lord says: "Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab's splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble."
17 A prophecy against Damascus:
"See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted
and left to flocks, which will lie down,
with no one to make them afraid.
3 The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of the Israelites,"
declares the Lord Almighty.
4 "In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;
the fat of his body will waste away.
5 It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
gathering the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet some gleanings will remain,
as when an olive tree is beaten,
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,"
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 In that day people will look to their Maker
and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars,
the work of their hands,
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[g]
and the incense altars their fingers have made.
9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.
10 You have forgotten God your Savior;
you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest will be as nothing
in the day of disease and incurable pain.
12 Woe to the many nations that rage—
they rage like the raging sea!
Woe to the peoples who roar—
they roar like the roaring of great waters!
13 Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,
when he rebukes them they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.
14 In the evening, sudden terror!
Before the morning, they are gone!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.
18 Woe to the land of whirring wings[h]
along the rivers of Cush,[i]
2 which sends envoys by sea
in papyrus boats over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers.
3 All you people of the world,
you who live on the earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains,
you will see it,
and when a trumpet sounds,
you will hear it.
4 This is what the Lord says to me:
"I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
5 For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,
and cut down and take away the spreading branches.
6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey
and to the wild animals;
the birds will feed on them all summer,
the wild animals all winter.
7 At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord Almighty
from a people tall and smooth-skinned,
from a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers—
the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.
19 A prophecy against Egypt:
See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud
and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him,
and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.
2 "I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—
brother will fight against brother,
neighbor against neighbor,
city against city,
kingdom against kingdom.
3 The Egyptians will lose heart,
and I will bring their plans to nothing;
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
the mediums and the spiritists.
4 I will hand the Egyptians over
to the power of a cruel master,
and a fierce king will rule over them,"
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
5 The waters of the river will dry up,
and the riverbed will be parched and dry.
6 The canals will stink;
the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.
The reeds and rushes will wither,
7 also the plants along the Nile,
at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field along the Nile
will become parched, will blow away and be no more.
8 The fishermen will groan and lament,
all who cast hooks into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
will pine away.
9 Those who work with combed flax will despair,
the weavers of fine linen will lose hope.
10 The workers in cloth will be dejected,
and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.
11 The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools;
the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
"I am one of the wise men,
a disciple of the ancient kings"?
12 Where are your wise men now?
Let them show you and make known
what the Lord Almighty
has planned against Egypt.
13 The officials of Zoan have become fools,
the leaders of Memphis are deceived;
the cornerstones of her peoples
have led Egypt astray.
14 The Lord has poured into them
a spirit of dizziness;
they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,
as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.
15 There is nothing Egypt can do—
head or tail, palm branch or reed.
16 In that day the Egyptians will become weaklings. They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the Lord Almighty raises against them. 17 And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified, because of what the Lord Almighty is planning against them.
18 In that day five cities in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.[j]
19 In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the Lord at its border. 20 It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them. 21 So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the Lord. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them. 22 The Lord will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.
23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. 24 In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing[k] on the earth. 25 The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance."
20 In the year that the supreme commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it— 2 at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, "Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet." And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.
3 Then the Lord said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush,[l] 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared—to Egypt's shame. 5 Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be dismayed and put to shame. 6 In that day the people who live on this coast will say, 'See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?'"
21 A prophecy against the Desert by the Sea:
Like whirlwinds sweeping through the southland,
an invader comes from the desert,
from a land of terror.
2 A dire vision has been shown to me:
The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot.
Elam, attack! Media, lay siege!
I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.
3 At this my body is racked with pain,
pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;
I am staggered by what I hear,
I am bewildered by what I see.
4 My heart falters,
fear makes me tremble;
the twilight I longed for
has become a horror to me.
5 They set the tables,
they spread the rugs,
they eat, they drink!
Get up, you officers,
oil the shields!
6 This is what the Lord says to me:
"Go, post a lookout
and have him report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariots
with teams of horses,
riders on donkeys
or riders on camels,
let him be alert,
fully alert."
8 And the lookout[m] shouted,
"Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;
every night I stay at my post.
9 Look, here comes a man in a chariot
with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
'Babylon has fallen, has fallen!
All the images of its gods
lie shattered on the ground!'"
10 My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,
I tell you what I have heard
from the Lord Almighty,
from the God of Israel.
11 A prophecy against Dumah[n]:
Someone calls to me from Seir,
"Watchman, what is left of the night?
Watchman, what is left of the night?"
12 The watchman replies,
"Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you would ask, then ask;
and come back yet again."
13 A prophecy against Arabia:
You caravans of Dedanites,
who camp in the thickets of Arabia,
14 bring water for the thirsty;
you who live in Tema,
bring food for the fugitives.
15 They flee from the sword,
from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow
and from the heat of battle.
16 This is what the Lord says to me: "Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end. 17 The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few." The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.
22 A prophecy against the Valley of Vision:
What troubles you now,
that you have all gone up on the roofs,
2 you town so full of commotion,
you city of tumult and revelry?
Your slain were not killed by the sword,
nor did they die in battle.
3 All your leaders have fled together;
they have been captured without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
having fled while the enemy was still far away.
4 Therefore I said, "Turn away from me;
let me weep bitterly.
Do not try to console me
over the destruction of my people."
5 The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day
of tumult and trampling and terror
in the Valley of Vision,
a day of battering down walls
and of crying out to the mountains.
6 Elam takes up the quiver,
with her charioteers and horses;
Kir uncovers the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted at the city gates.
8 The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
and you looked in that day
to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.
9 You saw that the walls of the City of David
were broken through in many places;
you stored up water
in the Lower Pool.
10 You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.
11 You built a reservoir between the two walls
for the water of the Old Pool,
but you did not look to the One who made it,
or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.
12 The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
called you on that day
to weep and to wail,
to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.
13 But see, there is joy and revelry,
slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
eating of meat and drinking of wine!
"Let us eat and drink," you say,
"for tomorrow we die!"
14 The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: "Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for," says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
15 This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:
"Go, say to this steward,
to Shebna the palace administrator:
16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission
to cut out a grave for yourself here,
hewing your grave on the height
and chiseling your resting place in the rock?
17 "Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
and hurl you away, you mighty man.
18 He will roll you up tightly like a ball
and throw you into a large country.
There you will die
and there the chariots you were so proud of
will become a disgrace to your master's house.
19 I will depose you from your office,
and you will be ousted from your position.
20 "In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 21 I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. 22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 23 I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat[o] of honor for the house of his father. 24 All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
25 "In that day," declares the Lord Almighty, "the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down." The Lord has spoken.
23 A prophecy against Tyre:
Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
For Tyre is destroyed
and left without house or harbor.
From the land of Cyprus
word has come to them.
2 Be silent, you people of the island
and you merchants of Sidon,
whom the seafarers have enriched.
3 On the great waters
came the grain of the Shihor;
the harvest of the Nile[p] was the revenue of Tyre,
and she became the marketplace of the nations.
4 Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
"I have neither been in labor nor given birth;
I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters."
5 When word comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.
6 Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, you people of the island.
7 Is this your city of revelry,
the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
to settle in far-off lands?
8 Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants are princes,
whose traders are renowned in the earth?
9 The Lord Almighty planned it,
to bring down her pride in all her splendor
and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.
10 Till[q] your land as they do along the Nile,
Daughter Tarshish,
for you no longer have a harbor.
11 The Lord has stretched out his hand over the sea
and made its kingdoms tremble.
He has given an order concerning Phoenicia
that her fortresses be destroyed.
12 He said, "No more of your reveling,
Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed!
"Up, cross over to Cyprus;
even there you will find no rest."
13 Look at the land of the Babylonians,[r]
this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians have made it
a place for desert creatures;
they raised up their siege towers,
they stripped its fortresses bare
and turned it into a ruin.
14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish;
your fortress is destroyed!
15 At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king's life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:
16 "Take up a harp, walk through the city,
you forgotten prostitute;
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered."
17 At the end of seventy years, the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. 18 Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothes.
24 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth
and devastate it;
he will ruin its face
and scatter its inhabitants—
2 it will be the same
for priest as for people,
for the master as for his servant,
for the mistress as for her servant,
for seller as for buyer,
for borrower as for lender,
for debtor as for creditor.
3 The earth will be completely laid waste
and totally plundered.
The Lord has spoken this word.
4 The earth dries up and withers,
the world languishes and withers,
the heavens languish with the earth.
5 The earth is defiled by its people;
they have disobeyed the laws,
violated the statutes
and broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore a curse consumes the earth;
its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up,
and very few are left.
7 The new wine dries up and the vine withers;
all the merrymakers groan.
8 The joyful timbrels are stilled,
the noise of the revelers has stopped,
the joyful harp is silent.
9 No longer do they drink wine with a song;
the beer is bitter to its drinkers.
10 The ruined city lies desolate;
the entrance to every house is barred.
11 In the streets they cry out for wine;
all joy turns to gloom,
all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
12 The city is left in ruins,
its gate is battered to pieces.
13 So will it be on the earth
and among the nations,
as when an olive tree is beaten,
or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.
14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy;
from the west they acclaim the Lord's majesty.
15 Therefore in the east give glory to the Lord;
exalt the name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
in the islands of the sea.
16 From the ends of the earth we hear singing:
"Glory to the Righteous One."
But I said, "I waste away, I waste away!
Woe to me!
The treacherous betray!
With treachery the treacherous betray!"
17 Terror and pit and snare await you,
people of the earth.
18 Whoever flees at the sound of terror
will fall into a pit;
whoever climbs out of the pit
will be caught in a snare.
The floodgates of the heavens are opened,
the foundations of the earth shake.
19 The earth is broken up,
the earth is split asunder,
the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth reels like a drunkard,
it sways like a hut in the wind;
so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion
that it falls—never to rise again.
21 In that day the Lord will punish
the powers in the heavens above
and the kings on the earth below.
22 They will be herded together
like prisoners bound in a dungeon;
they will be shut up in prison
and be punished[s] after many days.
23 The moon will be dismayed,
the sun ashamed;
for the Lord Almighty will reign
on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
and before its elders—with great glory.
25 Lord, you are my God;
I will exalt you and praise your name,
for in perfect faithfulness
you have done wonderful things,
things planned long ago.
2 You have made the city a heap of rubble,
the fortified town a ruin,
the foreigners' stronghold a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
3 Therefore strong peoples will honor you;
cities of ruthless nations will revere you.
4 You have been a refuge for the poor,
a refuge for the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the storm
and a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless
is like a storm driving against a wall
5 and like the heat of the desert.
You silence the uproar of foreigners;
as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is stilled.
6 On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare
a feast of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
the best of meats and the finest of wines.
7 On this mountain he will destroy
the shroud that enfolds all peoples,
the sheet that covers all nations;
8 he will swallow up death forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
from all faces;
he will remove his people's disgrace
from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.
9 In that day they will say,
"Surely this is our God;
we trusted in him, and he saved us.
This is the Lord, we trusted in him;
let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation."
10 The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain;
but Moab will be trampled in their land
as straw is trampled down in the manure.
11 They will stretch out their hands in it,
as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.
God will bring down their pride
despite the cleverness[t] of their hands.
12 He will bring down your high fortified walls
and lay them low;
he will bring them down to the ground,
to the very dust.
26 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city;
God makes salvation
its walls and ramparts.
2 Open the gates
that the righteous nation may enter,
the nation that keeps faith.
3 You will keep in perfect peace
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust in you.
4 Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
5 He humbles those who dwell on high,
he lays the lofty city low;
he levels it to the ground
and casts it down to the dust.
6 Feet trample it down—
the feet of the oppressed,
the footsteps of the poor.
7 The path of the righteous is level;
you, the Upright One, make the way of the righteous smooth.
8 Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws,[u]
we wait for you;
your name and renown
are the desire of our hearts.
9 My soul yearns for you in the night;
in the morning my spirit longs for you.
When your judgments come upon the earth,
the people of the world learn righteousness.
10 But when grace is shown to the wicked,
they do not learn righteousness;
even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil
and do not regard the majesty of the Lord.
11 Lord, your hand is lifted high,
but they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame;
let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
12 Lord, you establish peace for us;
all that we have accomplished you have done for us.
13 Lord our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us,
but your name alone do we honor.
14 They are now dead, they live no more;
their spirits do not rise.
You punished them and brought them to ruin;
you wiped out all memory of them.
15 You have enlarged the nation, Lord;
you have enlarged the nation.
You have gained glory for yourself;
you have extended all the borders of the land.
16 Lord, they came to you in their distress;
when you disciplined them,
they could barely whisper a prayer.[v]
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pain,
so were we in your presence, Lord.
18 We were with child, we writhed in labor,
but we gave birth to wind.
We have not brought salvation to the earth,
and the people of the world have not come to life.
19 But your dead will live, Lord;
their bodies will rise—
let those who dwell in the dust
wake up and shout for joy—
your dew is like the dew of the morning;
the earth will give birth to her dead.
20 Go, my people, enter your rooms
and shut the doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until his wrath has passed by.
21 See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling
to punish the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood shed on it;
the earth will conceal its slain no longer.
27 In that day,
the Lord will punish with his sword—
his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan the gliding serpent,
Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster of the sea.
2 In that day—
"Sing about a fruitful vineyard:
3 I, the Lord, watch over it;
I water it continually.
I guard it day and night
so that no one may harm it.
4 I am not angry.
If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!
I would march against them in battle;
I would set them all on fire.
5 Or else let them come to me for refuge;
let them make peace with me,
yes, let them make peace with me."
6 In days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill all the world with fruit.
7 Has the Lord struck her
as he struck down those who struck her?
Has she been killed
as those were killed who killed her?
8 By warfare[w] and exile you contend with her—
with his fierce blast he drives her out,
as on a day the east wind blows.
9 By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:
When he makes all the altar stones
to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles[x] or incense altars
will be left standing.
10 The fortified city stands desolate,
an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,
there they lie down;
they strip its branches bare.
11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off
and women come and make fires with them.
For this is a people without understanding;
so their Maker has no compassion on them,
and their Creator shows them no favor.
12 In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. 13 And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
28 Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim's drunkards,
to the fading flower, his glorious beauty,
set on the head of a fertile valley—
to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!
2 See, the Lord has one who is powerful and strong.
Like a hailstorm and a destructive wind,
like a driving rain and a flooding downpour,
he will throw it forcefully to the ground.
3 That wreath, the pride of Ephraim's drunkards,
will be trampled underfoot.
4 That fading flower, his glorious beauty,
set on the head of a fertile valley,
will be like figs ripe before harvest—
as soon as people see them and take them in hand,
they swallow them.
5 In that day the Lord Almighty
will be a glorious crown,
a beautiful wreath
for the remnant of his people.
6 He will be a spirit of justice
to the one who sits in judgment,
a source of strength
to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
7 And these also stagger from wine
and reel from beer:
Priests and prophets stagger from beer
and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
they stagger when seeing visions,
they stumble when rendering decisions.
8 All the tables are covered with vomit
and there is not a spot without filth.
9 "Who is it he is trying to teach?
To whom is he explaining his message?
To children weaned from their milk,
to those just taken from the breast?
10 For it is:
Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for that[y];
a little here, a little there."
11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues
God will speak to this people,
12 to whom he said,
"This is the resting place, let the weary rest";
and, "This is the place of repose"—
but they would not listen.
13 So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for that;
a little here, a little there—
so that as they go they will fall backward;
they will be injured and snared and captured.
14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15 You boast, "We have entered into a covenant with death,
with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement.
When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by,
it cannot touch us,
for we have made a lie our refuge
and falsehood[z] our hiding place."
16 So this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
"See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation;
the one who relies on it
will never be stricken with panic.
17 I will make justice the measuring line
and righteousness the plumb line;
hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie,
and water will overflow your hiding place.
18 Your covenant with death will be annulled;
your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand.
When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by,
you will be beaten down by it.
19 As often as it comes it will carry you away;
morning after morning, by day and by night,
it will sweep through."
The understanding of this message
will bring sheer terror.
20 The bed is too short to stretch out on,
the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.
21 The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim,
he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon—
to do his work, his strange work,
and perform his task, his alien task.
22 Now stop your mocking,
or your chains will become heavier;
the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me
of the destruction decreed against the whole land.
23 Listen and hear my voice;
pay attention and hear what I say.
24 When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually?
Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?
25 When he has leveled the surface,
does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin?
Does he not plant wheat in its place,[aa]
barley in its plot,[ab]
and spelt in its field?
26 His God instructs him
and teaches him the right way.
27 Caraway is not threshed with a sledge,
nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin;
caraway is beaten out with a rod,
and cumin with a stick.
28 Grain must be ground to make bread;
so one does not go on threshing it forever.
The wheels of a threshing cart may be rolled over it,
but one does not use horses to grind grain.
29 All this also comes from the Lord Almighty,
whose plan is wonderful,
whose wisdom is magnificent.
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Many sick birds can be treated by their owners at home. While some birds are gravely ill and require hospitalization, most birds can recover with proper treatment and care at home. This handout will provide you with some tips to help your bird's recovery.


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Blue underbust corset & Nippies
Added Apr 3, 2012
by Craftine
Castlerock, France
Here are the latest corset that I sewed. For the first time I drew myself the pattern and I immediately saw the difference in curves. I placed a busk for the first time too … but I can not open it because my fabric is too thick! Another thing, I calculated an excessive waist reduction and the opening in the back is a little too big…I will not make that mistakes next time! : )
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Apr 11, 2012, 11.11 PMby jasmine123
Please post the pattern as we would love to join in on the fun
Apr 6, 2012, 06.05 AMby lauriana
Wow, that's a great corset! Judging from the picture of the back, the issue isn't (just) with the waist reduction you calculated but more with the hips. It's always hard to combine the waist reduction you want with the not nearly as 'compressable' areas above and below it: ribcage and hipbones. I'd say that because the sides curve down as low as they do (which is a great look, by the way) your corset would have needed a bigger hip spring (difference between waist and hips) yet than it already has. Keep up the good work, I look forward to seeing more of your creations.
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Apr 6, 2012, 10.40 AMby Craftine
Thanks for this advice Lauriana! it's always good to have advice from experts :)
I prepare a new corset and I will consider your remarks to the hips.
Apr 5, 2012, 08.03 AMby madhu69
Hello, Felicitations pour ce modèle qui te va a ravir, j'ai regarde avec plaisir tes autres réalisations, tu es franchement douée, c'est digne d'une pro. Bonne continuation Madhu
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Apr 6, 2012, 10.40 AMby Craftine
Merci Madhu! : )
Apr 3, 2012, 11.12 PMby celine19
Hello There First congratulation For the perfect Work and Sharing with Us. I just wanna Ask if it´s possible to get the pattern from you please? Thank you ! Celine
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The movie is currently in production in Savannah, Georgia.
The pictures were taken on the set of the movie, and show Alan Rickman sporting a red, curly wig.
In the film, Rickman portrays CBGB founder, Hilly Kristal.
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Kevin Spytko '11
Understanding the importance of engineering's real-world applications is the key to success in college and beyond; at least that's what we hear from senior Kevin Spytko.
"I've learned from experience that just knowing the engineering principles and theories isn't enough when you get out in the real world. You have to have a practical, hands-on education to really prepare yourself well," he says.
A civil engineering major from Richfield Springs, N.Y., Kevin has had some real experience to back up his claim, including three summer internships with the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) as a construction inspector and two individual research projects.
"I like that I've had many opportunities to gain actual engineering experience, not just reading about it in a textbook," he adds.
With the NYSDOT, Kevin inspected paving operations, bridge rehabilitation projects, and earthwork projects. He was responsible for assuring that the work was done up to NYSDOT standards and specifications. "My job commanded a lot of communication with the contractors in order to get the job done right," he says. "It was a lot of responsibility for a college student."
In his first undergraduate research project with Prof. Sulapha Peethamparan, he helped construct, test and troubleshoot a device used to monitor chemical shrinkage in hydrated cement. With this research, engineers are more able to effectively design concrete, given their greater knowledge of the curing characteristics.
In the current research, he is working with Prof. Kerop Janoyan on the real-time structural monitoring of wind turbines. "This research could be used to monitor the structural health of wind turbines and give advance warning if the structure is in danger of failing," he explains. "This will really help the people who work with the turbines on a daily basis."
Aside from his research, Kevin hones his engineering skills through the Steel Bridge SPEED (Student Projects in Engineering Experience & Design) team, where he competes with other New York state universities by designing and building a 20-foot steel bridge. This is especially helpful when it comes to his concentrations in construction management and structural engineering.
"Just having all of these great hands-on opportunities has really helped me step up my game in terms of being ready to work in the field after graduation," says Kevin. "I want to work in a small- to mid-size firm after I leave Clarkson, so at least I feel comfortable knowing what I'm getting myself into."


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Stokehouse Wagyu beef cigars, artichoke tapenade and horseradish
Friday night I was fortunate enough to attend A Taste of Melbourne for the first time with some friends thanks to SBS Food and Green & Blacks Organic Chocolate. Unfortunately for me due to a sick little boy who needed a visit to the Dr I didn't arrive until 8.30pm & couldn't make it again due to a very busy weekend. The doors close at 9.30pm & the bar closes at 9.15pm so 1 hour was really not that long to spend there. Luckily I had printed out the menu and knew some of the dishes I wanted to try. Thanks to the map I even managed to find these places though I only got to try 2 savoury dishes & one sweet & only managed to visit the Green & Blacks produce stall. I have to say I was very disappointed as there was so much I wanted to try, maybe next year I will have better luck.
My first stop was The Stokehouse for the fabulous beef cigars, artichoke tapenade and horseradish. Wow, I am so glad I tried these as they were luscious, crunchy pastry, moist & delicious filling & the tapenade was the perfect partner.
Next I dropped into Green and Vlacks to say i & thanks for the tickets & tried the chocolate and raspberry cheesecake brownies & butterscotch choc chip cookies, both were great & are from the upcoming new cookbook, I will be very interested to see the book when released, I already have one of their books & love it being a true chocoholic.
Longrain was next on my list so I headed upstairs only to be very disappointed to find EVERYTHING sold out, even the cocktails, not very happy!!!!!! So it was off to Charcoal Lane for the Seared Kingfish, Red Curry, Puffed Rice & Coconut. I loved the flavours in this dish though I think the temperature put me off a bit. It was quite cold & I think I would have preferred it warmer even though the guy dishing it up assured me this was the temperature it should be served at.
By this stage I only had 6 crowns left out of my 60 (yes I managed to spend a lot in a short time without even getting much as there may have been some glasses of wine going down too). I stopped by the Melbourne Wine Room & Mr Wolf stall and they were kind enough to let me sample the Vanilla pannacotta and blood orange jelly. Nice though by this stage I was more interested in drinking more wine than sweets so headed out the door for a long night at the Brunswick Green and Retreat!
Apologies too for the lack of photos, I did take heaps more but they were completely crap, I really need that new camera which current financial circumstances have had to put on hold again for now....
Green and Blacks samples
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Beavers close with a flourish, roll Cougars 52-24
PULLMAN, Wash. -- Oregon State's aerial circus kept its act flying high -- and then some -- on a wild Saturday night in the Palouse.
Sean Mannion, the nation's leading passer, threw for a school-record 493 yards and four touchdowns and Brandin Cooks, the nation's top receiver, scored three fourth-quarter touchdowns as OSU (5-1 overall, 3-0 in Pac-12 play) blasted Washington State 52-24.
The Beavers buried the Cougars (4-3, 2-2) under a 28-0 fourth-quarter barrage, scoring the game's final 35 points after the hosts had seized a 24-17 late in the third quarter.
Five of Washington State's six turnovers -- four interceptions, two fumbles -- came in the final period.
"It was a matter of us continuing to chip away at them, coupled with our defense getting a lot of turnovers and giving us a short field," said Mannion, who completed 26 of 43 passes with one interception and broke Derek Anderson's single-game passing yardage record of 485 set against Southern Cal in 2003.
Cooks was all over the place, too, catching 11 passes for 137 yards and two touchdowns and carrying the ball four times for 34 yards and another score.
"Sean and I had another big game because all the guys around us stepped up," Cooks said. "Richard Mullaney was great. The tight ends, the running backs, and Kevin Cummings had some big-time plays. Once you get everybody making plays, everything is going to click."
The final score was in no way indicative of the competitiveness of the game. Through three quarters, it was a fiercely contested battle. Coach Mike Riley told his players afterward that they won by continuing to plug away and by finally breaking the Cougars' will.
"They are very physical," Riley said. "Defensively, they gave us a lot of different looks. It was just hard. In a game like that, eventually somebody breaks. It looked like it was going to be us after they took the lead (in the third quarter). I was proud of our response."
A big part of that was OSU cornerback Rashaad Reynolds, who was twice beaten by Vince Mayle on WSU's go-ahead drive -- once on a 40-yard pass play to the Beavers' 12, then on a fade route for a 4-yard touchdown and a 24-17 lead with 4:50 to go in the third quarter.
Reynolds wound up with a pair of fourth-quarter interceptions in helping Oregon State's defense shut out the Cougars the rest of the way.
"Rashaad was mad about that third quarter," Riley said. "After that, he was pretty fired up, and then he made some plays. He's a real good leader for this team."
"Taking nothing away from (Mayle); he made some good plays," Reynolds said. "But that's the maddest I've been in a game, giving up plays like that and knowing I'm better than that."
With two of the three worst running teams in FBS, the air figured to be filled with passes. There were 108 of then, with Washington State's Connor Halliday (26 for 49 for 248 yards, one TD, three interceptions) keeping things interesting in the OSU secondary.
A major difference, as it usually is, was the turnover discrepancy. The Beavers had two, one late when backup quarterback Cody Vaz threw a turnover near the WSU end zone, well after the issue had been decided.
"Turnovers eventually make it really hard for the offensive team to have any continuity," Riley said. "Tonight, the (WSU) turnovers were huge, and we capitalized pretty well."
Neither team got a lot done on the ground. Washington State gained 123 yards rushing while Oregon State had 102 -- 61 off fly sweeps by Cooks and true freshman Victor Bolden.
"The fly sweep is part of our base run plan," Mannion said. "It adds another dimension to our offense."
Oregon State scored a pair of touchdowns in the final seven minutes of the second quarter to go into halftime ahead 17-10.
Washington State got a break early in the third quarter after driving deep into OSU territory. On third-and-goal from the 1, Jeremiah Laufasa fumbled as he was leaping over the goal line. Referees ruled the Beavers had recovered. After review, officials said Laufasa had crossed the plane with the ball, and the Cougars were awarded a touchdown, tying the score at 17-17 with 11:08 remaining in the third quarter.
After an OSU punt, Washington State was in business again, moving 80 yards in 10 plays. Mayle made a great catch on a 40-yard pass play to the OSU 12. On fourth-and-2 from the OSU 4, Mayle caught a fade pass over Reynolds and the Cougars led 24-17 with 4:50 to go in the quarter.
Oregon State responded, going 82 yards in 11 plays. Mannion hit tight end Caleb Smith on back-to-back passes of 31 and 21 yards on the drive. On third-and-goal at the 9, Mannion found Cummings for the TD and a 24-24 tie with 1:03 left in the period.
Then the Beavers got a huge break. On fourth-and-4 from the WSU 34, the Cougars botched an apparent fake punt. The snap went off the hands of the up back and the Beavers got the ball at the WSU 27-yard line. On first down, Mannion connected with Cummings for 19 yards to the OSU 8 as the third quarter ended. On the next play, Cooks took the ball on a fly sweep and found the end zone, giving the Beavers a 31-24 advantage with 14:55 remaining.
On first down on the next series, Reynolds intercepted a Halliday pass and returned it 18 yards to the WSU 30. A personal-foul penalty, though, moved it back to the 45. Bolden went 14 yards with a fly sweep, then Cooks motored 30 yards on an inside screen play to the 1. Storm Woods bulled over for the score and Oregon State's lead was 38-24 with 13:47 to go.
Cooks put the verdict on ice, scoring the game's final two touchdowns on receptions of 8 and 30 yards.
"We stuck with our game plan," Cooks said. "It's not always going to look just right from the start. Sometimes you have to keep pushing within your system. Tonight, it started off kind of slow, and at halftime we kept with what we had and stuff started to open up in that fourth quarter."
The victory, Cooks said, "means a lot. Winning on the road in Pullman. Crazy atmosphere. I give it to their fans. Like coach Riley said, a win on a road is momentum, and we have that going."
After their 49-46 loss to FCS foe Eastern Washington in the opener, the Beavers have rattled off five straight victories and now share first place in the Pac-12 North with Oregon. Nobody considers the Beavers a serious threat to the Ducks, of course.
"If I'm not mistaken nah, I'm going to stop myself," Cooks said, smiling. "We don't worry about that. We're just going to keep working on our game and keep proving people wrong.
"That's what the Oregon State Beavers are about. We're always underdogs. We always find a way to shock people at the end of the season. We'll take it week by week and keep doing what we have to do."
Smith said the Beavers -- who entered Saturday night's game a one-point underdog -- thrive on being overlooked.
"It's great to surprise everyone," he said. "If people disrespect us, that drives us more. We play as hard as we can every week and hopefully everything will take care of itself."
NOTES: Mannion leads the nation with 25 touchdown passes, already tied for third on Oregon State's single-season list. Mannion has five straight 350-yard passing games, a school record. The single-game passing yardage mark, he said, "is a huge honor. Any school record is something to be proud of, with all the great players who have come through." Oregon State held a big advantage in first downs (29-22), passing yardage (496-270) and total offense (598-383). Riley, on OSU's defense: "Except for one or two plays, we contained (the Cougars') very potent offense pretty well. We tackled pretty well. We kept making them make more plays. We made it hard for them to get into the end zone. I was proud of our defense." Mullaney had five catches for 122 yards -- all in the first half. Oregon State's Steven Nelson intercepted a pass, his fifth this season. The only Washington State player from the Portland area is Parker Henry, a redshirt freshman running back from Vancouver's Skyview High who has played but hasn't carried the ball this season.
Oregon State 3 14 7 28 -- 52
Washington State 3 7 14 0 -- 24
WSU -- Andrew Furney 27 FG 10:49
OSU -- Trevor Romaine 20 FG :31
WSU -- Marcus Mason 3 run (Furney kick) 10:32
OSU -- Connor Hamlett 7 pass from Sean Mannion (Romaine kick) 6:55
OSU -- Storm Woods 3 run (Romaine kick) :44
WSU -- Jeremiah Laufasa 1 run (Furney kick) 11:08
WSU -- Vince Mayle 4 pass from Connor Halliday (Furney kick) 4:50
OSU -- Kevin Cummings 9 pass from Mannion (Romaine kick) 1:03
OSU -- Brandin Cooks 8 run (Romaine kick) 14:55
OSU -- Woods 1 run (Romaine kick) 13:47.
OSU -- Cooks 8 pass from Mannion (Romaine kick) 10:40
OSU -- Cooks 30 pass from Mannion (Romaine kick) 6:43