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These past few months I nearly got overwhelmed by anxiety.
This hasn't happened to me in a LONG time.
I lost control of my rational thought process and simply dove into a feeling that was suffocating and terrifying. I can't say that I was in any way comfortable. The only thing that pulled me out of it was my toddler Hunter. She forced me to get out of myself and engage her. The moment that I disconnected from her off I went into a very uncomfortable sense of overwhelm.
I refused this.
Take Control of Your Anxiety and Fear
Instead of allowing myself to be pulled by this avalanche of anxiety and fear I chose to meet it, with softness and full consciousness. I looked at it straight in the eye. I used a technique that I heard in a podcast, and I sooooo wish that I remembered what episode and what this guy's name was because I would share it, believe me, but at this moment, finding the episode would take me YEARS, so that will wait. I may update this post to add the info.
Anyway, the technique was to feel where the emotion was in my body, fully. You are to notice which was its winding, clock wise or counter clock wise, and slowly unwind the feeling the other way until it dissolves. At first just moving into that hard ball of tension in the middle of my diaphragm was enough…but as I practiced this technique I began to see that I could literally unravel the anxiety!
Unraveling- It's all about creating space, space to feel, to choose, to remember, and to find your ground. Most importantly, finding space helps you remember that you are part of something so much bigger. Anxiety is about disconnection and isolation. It's an emotion that rises when you absolutely become limited and small. As you unravel the feeling, you begin to get more spacious, there is literally more room in your body, your breath, your mind, your heart, and you can step back a bit and see things as if you are watching from a bird's eye view.
You are ok. You truly are. You are more than ok in fact 😀
A couple of days ago I received and email from one of you requesting a more breathing centered practice. Although this simple audio meditation is not specifically about the breath, there is no way to escape the breath. Space is breath.
Every time choose to center myself and incorporate this very accessible and easy meditation practice, you get the opportunity to re-attune yourself to align with something more than anxiety and fear.
I want that!
Listen, practice and do this and tell me what happens! I'd love to hear if this works for you
Do you have any techniques for dealing with anxiety and challenging situations?
Remember I'm here to serve you, so feel free to comment and tell me if meditations like this offer you support and ease 😀
BTW, the following is the song that I used in the meditation. Was that not the most beautiful song?
"South Wind" (mp3)
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Milner - England improving under Hodgson
England midfielder James Milner feels the side are in a much healthier position than they were the last time they faced Ukraine.
The two sides meet at Wembley on Tuesday evening in a World Cup qualifier following England's 1-0 victory over the co-hosts at this summer's European Championships. Milner reckons the England squad is much better prepared this time around as manager Roy Hodgson has had a chance to implement more of his ideas following his appointment in May.
Hodgson's first qualifier ended in a 5-0 win in Moldova on Friday, and Milner said: "We changed manager just before the tournament, and I think we looked very solid and difficult to beat but maybe didn't play as well as we could do with the ball. We are moving forward already, we saw that the other night."
He added: "The longer we are together working with the manager we will become better as individual players and as a team."
The 26-year-old has featured in every fixture since Hodgson replaced Fabio Capello and admitted he now feels like a more important member of the squad.
"I think I definitely feel more comfortable," he said.
"I have played a number of times and I think the more you are in and around the squad the more comfortable you'll be. I was very fortunate to get a number of caps at Under-21 level and I think the more experience you have at international level can only be a good thing for you as a player."
Despite his recent run of games, the Manchester City midfielder's goal in the win over Moldova was his first at senior international level.
Milner was pleased to open his account for his country, saying: "There is no better feeling than scoring a goal - the best thing is pulling on an England shirt and being part of a winning team.
"Everyone likes to represent their country and contribute to an England win, which we can get by keep improving and moving forward as a team - that is the most important thing."

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Hi there. This is a template for using Dexy to produce talks for the 2012 yt workshop. Email me if you run into any problems (firstname.lastname@example.com). What Does Dexy Do For Us? ========================= Dexy will: * Automatically re-run any scripts it has detected have changed * Include the output of those scripts (stdout) in your presentation if requested * Include the syntax-highlighted content of those scripts in your presentation if requested * Allow you to version control your talk * Separate scripts from the talk: people can download and inspect them without having to copy/paste from a PDF If you don't want to use Dexy, and instead prefer something like Keynote or PowerPoint, please feel free to use those. It would be very helpful if you would include annotations on each slide that includes a script that point to a paste on paste.yt-project.org, so that we can include them in a repository at a later time. Getting Started =============== * First install Dexy, which can be done with pip: $ pip install dexy Dexy's homepage is http://dexy.it , but for the most part we might be able to avoid detailed documentation. * In this directory, copy the example.tex_ file to a filename of your talk. (It has an extra underscore because I don't want it to get run by dexy.) You can name them however you like, but mine will be lowercase with underscores. You'll need to 'hg add' this file. * Now we have to initialize dexy. Run this command: $ dexy setup * I've already provided a config file, .dexy , which you can inspect or modify. It took me a while to decipher the contents when I started using dexy, but basically it describes associations between files and operations to perform on those files. How To Add Scripts ================== Inside the scripts directory, you can place new scripts which can then be included. While support exists for many different types, I have only ever used .py and .sh scripts. For examples on these, see the princeton tutorial I gave, here: https://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/2011-yt-princeton-tutorial/src To add a new script to the presentation, it should be under the scripts/ subdirectory. You then simply include it in the presentation with this little bit of magic: <<d['scripts/inspect_grids.py|fn|pyg|l']>> This tells Dexy to take the file scripts/inspect_grids.py, tell it that it's a filename, run it through pygments (a syntax highlighter) and then convert it to LaTeX. Whew! This won't actually *run* the script, but it will include the contents verbatim. To have Dexy run the script through Python, you have to additionally specify a 'py' filter, like so: <<d['scripts/inspect_grids.py|fn|py|pyg|l']>> So, for instance, this is how I set up a slide in my talk, using Beamer (and a few macros of my own.) \begin{frame}[fragile,t]{} \tiny <<d['scripts/popiii_proj.py|fn|pyg|l']>> \hline <<d['scripts/popiii_proj.py|fn|py|pyg|l']>> \end{frame} \fullimage{DD0087_Projection_x_Density_Density.png} This uses the "fullimage" command which I made for Beamer, but you should feel free to include images however you like. NOTE: If you want to include images *not* created from the output of running scripts, you have to use ../ to point back to the top level. How To Reference Data ===================== All scripts will be run from under the artifacts/ subdirectory. To use data, I recommend you place it somewhere else and create a symbolic link inside artifacts/ that points to that location. For instance, I might have a artifacts/DD0087/ symlink that points to my ~/data/ directory. How To Build Your Talk ====================== Now that you have a .tex file with some scripts and images included, just run: $ dexy This will build any .tex files in your current directory. The resulting PDF will be under output/ .


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Continual coverage of the trial of "PECLB004315">Drew Peterson for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
4:40 p.m. Testimony concludes for the day
Week two of testimony in the Drew Peterson trial is over. Court is scheduled to resume Tuesday.
4 p.m. Peterson mistress takes witness stand
Susan McCauley, who worked at a bar owned by Drew Peterson, testified about seeing Peterson at a Bolingbrook fundraiser after Kathleen Savio died.
McCauley said she gave Peterson a hug and asked how his boys were.
"Oh they'll be fine, she was crazy," Peterson said of his ex-wife, according to McCauley.
"He said she was on antidepressants…and that she was drinking wine, that there was a wine glass found by the bathtub."
"I said to him, basically, 'You must have a lucky horseshoe placed somewhere,'" she said. "Now you don't have to pay child support — you get the house.
"He laughed it off and made a couple jokes."
McCauley is Peterson's former mistress — a detail that jurors were not allowed to hear.
2:55 p.m. Savio's sister signed book, movie deal
Kathleen Savio's sister Susan Doman testified that she signed a book and movie deal that guaranteed her $30,000 if a film was made, specified that she be portrayed in a "positive" light and allowed the story to be "fictionalized" to make it more colorful.
Defense attorney Joseph Lopez asked if she now has a financial motive in seeing Drew Peterson convicted so her the book will be released.
"No," Doman replied. "This book is about domestic violence."
"This book is about you being paid," Lopez replied.
"No," Doman said.
2:45 p.m. Pace of trial frustrates jurors
With the trial continuing to move at what the judge has previously called a "glacial pace," some jurors have begun to get irritated.
Some jurors began to groan after the judge dismissed them from the courtroom over the latest objection, this time brought by prosecutors during the cross-examination of Kathleen Savio's sister Susan Doman.
Judge Edward Burmila sustained the objection, brought the jurors back and the testimony has resumed.
2:10 p.m. Savio's sister confronted Peterson
Not long after Kathleen Savio died, Susan Doman said she confronted Drew Peterson.
"Did you kill my sister?" Doman said she asked him. "He was very surprised — he kind of choked and said, 'I wouldn't kill the mother of my children.'"
1:40 p.m. Savio 'was terrified,' sister says
Kathleen Savio's sister Susan Doman told jurors that Savio told her several times about an alleged attack by Drew Peterson inside her home.
Doman said her sister told her she was in the basement when Peterson held a knife to her throat.
"He told her he could kill her and make it look like an accident," Doman testified. "She was terrified."
12:05 p.m. Lunch break
The trial has recessed for lunch. Kathleen Savio's boyfriend is done testifying. The next scheduled witness is Savio's sister Susan Doman.
10:45 a.m. 'She told me Kathy was dead'
Kathleen Savio's boyfriend Steve Maniaci said he and Savio had an argument on Saturday Feb. 28, 2004, because she was upset with him for not coming over to her home.
He did not speak to her the following day, and was unable to reach her on the phone Monday.
That Monday evening, he got a call from Savio's neighbor saying that Drew Peterson was at the home with a locksmith, and they were preparing to enter Savio's home.
Maniaci said he called the neighbor back a little while later.
"She told me Kathy was dead," he said.
Maniaci drove to Savio's home, where he saw Peterson standing near the street.
"(He) was underneath the streetlight, seemed to be writing a report," Maniaci said. " I went up to him and asked him what the hell happened. He said he didn't know. I said, 'Drew I hope you didn't have anything to do with this.' He said he did not. There was a little bit of small talk and then I said, 'Boy, this sure worked out well for you.' He said she would have lost anyway during the divorce."
10 a.m. Savio boyfriend didn't see abrasions
Kathleen Savio's boyfriend Steve Maniaci testified that he reunited with Savio in December 2001 after a Christmas party, and the two began seeing each other several times a week.
He said he knew Savio's marriage was "not good."
Maniaci said that on Feb. 27, 2004, the Friday before Savio's body was found, the couple went to Naperville for dinner and drinks, then returned to her home where they had sex.
Maniaci said he did not notice any of the abrasions that were later found on her arms and buttock when her body was discovered.
9:40 a.m. Witness list: Cop, boyfriend, mistress
Today's witness list includes Kathleen Savio's boyfriend Steve Maniaci, her sister Susan Doman, former Bolingbrook police Sgt. Teresa Kernc and Drew Peterson's former mistress Susan McCauley.
Kernc took a police report from Savio about Peterson threatening her, allegedly with a knife. Kernc testified at a hearing in 2010 that Savio did not want the detail about the knife included in the report because she was worried it would cost Peterson his job.
When interviewed by Kernc, Peterson denied attacking Savio, said she had invited him over to her home and alleged that Savio exposed herself to him and asked if he "missed this."
McCauley, Peterson's former mistress who worked as a bartender at his Montgomery bar, testified during a pretrial hearing about a 2004 conversation she had with Peterson at a Bolingbrook bowling alley after Savio's death.
McCauley testified that Peterson told her his boys would be fine and that Savio was "crazy." He allegedly told her Savio drowned in her bathtub after taking antidepressants and drinking wine, saying a wine glass was found on the tub.
Prosecutors sought during that 2010 pretrial hearing to use the statement as an example of Peterson telling different stories about how Savio died.
9:20 a.m. More letters from jail inmates
For the second time in as many days, the trial began with an announcement from Judge Edward Burmila that he had received letters from inmates regarding the trial.
"I hope this isn't going to become a daily occurrence -- and maybe the news media will be happy to know that they have legions of followers in the Department of Corrections -- but I've received letters from two more inmates," Burmila said. "The inmates say they've been closely following the news on television and in the newspapers and they want to share information that they have on this case."
Burmila gave copies of the letters to both sides in the case and said they would be part of the record, but added that "once again, I will not be contacting these individuals."
Following his announcement, the trial opened with testimony from Steve Maniaci, Savio's boyfriend, who said he met Savio when they worked together in the mid-1980s.
9 a.m. Hearsay testimony 'dirties up Drew'
As he entered the courthouse this morning, defense attorney Steven Greenberg said hearsay testimony that has been allowed in the trial "dirties up Drew" but doesn't prove he was in Savio's house the night she died.
On Thursday, Savio's friend recalled seeing Savio "in shock" and watching as she unzipped her fleece jacket collar. "I saw red marks on her neck," Mary Parks said, clutching her neck with her right hand to indicate where she saw the three marks.
"She told me that, the evening before, she was coming down the stairs and her husband came into the house and he grabbed her by the neck and pinned her down. She said her husband at that point said to her, 'Why don't you just die?' "
6:45 a.m. Trial enters 8th day after friend's testimony
The murder trial of Drew Peterson enters its eighth day after dramatic testimony from Kathleen Savio's friend, who said Peterson's third wife told her a year before she died that Peterson once broke into her home, grabbed her by the throat, pinned her down and threatened her.
Mary Parks, who attended nursing classes at Joliet Junior College with Savio, tried to keep her composure as she recalled seeing her friend "in shock" and watching as she unzipped her fleece jacket collar.
"I saw red marks on her neck," Parks said, clutching her neck with her right hand to indicate where she saw the three marks.
"She told me that, the evening before, she was coming down the stairs and her husband came into the house and he grabbed her by the neck and pinned her down. She said her husband at that point said to her, 'Why don't you just die?'"
Parks said she frequently walked Savio, who was afraid of Peterson, to her car after school. Savio told her how Peterson threatened her.
"Kathy told me that her husband, Drew Peterson, told her that he could kill her and make her disappear," Parks said. Later in the day, Parks broke down in tears on the stand and the judge called a brief recess so she could compose herself.
Parks said Savio told her the incident occurred on the stairs of her suburban home the night before the women spoke around Thanksgiving in 2003.
A year later, Savio's body was found in a dry bathtub at her home — a gash on the back of her head. Her death was reclassified from an accident to a homicide after Peterson's fourth wife, 23-year-old Stacy Peterson, vanished in 2007. Peterson, now 58, is a suspect in her disappearance but hasn't been charged.
While Parks' testimony was sometimes confrontational, the trial Thursday also included moments that provoked laughter in the courtroom.
There was Brodsky's successful objection to a question by a fellow defense lawyer; State's Attorney James Glasgow's questioning of a witness before jurors were there to hear it; and a letter from a prison inmate to the judge offering information that linked the Peterson case to the Abraham Lincoln assassination and Trayvon Martin's fatal shooting in Florida.
Also Thursday, Kris Peterson -- the youngest son of Peterson and Savio -- visited the courtroom and also signed a waiver of his claims in a pending wrongful death lawsuit filed by Savio's relatives against his father, something the teen could do only now that he is legally an adult, attorneys said. He turned 18 on Wednesday.
The waiver and courtroom visit show the support Peterson has from his two sons with Savio, defense attorney Joel Brodsky said. "They know he's innocent," he said.
Kris Peterson walked into the packed courtroom after a lunch break and took a seat near the front of the gallery, leaning forward to speak to his father, who turned around in his seat at the defense table.


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Peak Waste and Poverty – A Powerful Paradox
Urbanization is the most powerful force shaping the planet today. This can be good news as urbanization is the best bet we have to meet our global poverty reduction targets. Cities generate our wealth, our culture, and our innovation. This is also bad news since cities generate the lion's share of the world's GHG emissions, and cities are responsible for most of the planet's current decline in biodiversity. Cities also generate solid waste; lots of it and the amount is growing fast.
'Peak waste' – that point in time when all the waste from all the cities finally plateaus around the world, and then slowly starts to decline, is not on track to happen this century. Estimates are that it will peak at three-times today's current waste generation rate. Peak waste is an excellent proxy for humanity's cumulative global environmental impact; therefore we are on track to triple today's overall global environmental impact. Our 'assault on the planet' will start to subside on the other side of peak waste. Therefore we must move peak waste forward and reduce its intensity when it finally does arrive.


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PROVO, Utah — The top-ranked UC Irvine men's volleyball team fell at No. 3-ranked BYU, 25-20, 25-23, 19-25, 25-22, in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation action Friday to extend its losing streak to three matches.
UCI (4-3, 1-3 in conference) was led by senior All-American outside hitter Kevin Tillie who had a season-best 19 kills.
Junior outside hitter Jeremy Dejno had 16 kills and a team-high 10 digs, while UCI teammate Connor Hughes added 11 kills for the defending NCAA champions.
Junior middle blocker Colin Mehring had five kills, one solo block and five block assists for UCI, which hit .273 as a team, 66 points worse than the Cougars.
All-American Taylor Sander had 16 kills and hit .375 to pace the winners, who received 12 kills from Russ Lavaja and Josue Rivera.
Hawaii 5, UC Irvine 2
HONOLULU — Reo Asami won at No. 2 singles and Jonathan Hammel and Shuhei Shibahara combined to win at No. 2 doubles to pace the visiting Anteaters in Big West Conference action Friday.
UCI is 0-2, 0-1 in conference.


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Trampoline Exercise for Seniors
Nov 18th 2017
Get all the benefits of exercise without the stress
Using a mini-trampoline (or rebounder as they are also called), is one of the best forms of exercise for seniors known today. Rebounding on a mini-trampoline is a unique low-impact form of exercise that provides all of the healthful benefits of traditional exercise, but without the stress on joints and muscles that can sometimes make traditional exercising uncomfortable.
Walking is typically the primary form of exercise for seniors. Although it is excellent exercise when there are no restrictions, it can become difficult as bodies age and movements become limited. Exercising on a trampoline, however—with its flexible, forgiving, and gentle rebounding action—eliminates the stress on joints and muscles, enabling seniors to continue to enjoy the important benefits of exercise without pain or stress.
Trampoline exercise is better for seniors than walking
To illustrate: While walking, a 150 lb person generates an average of 570 lb of pressure that the foot and leg must absorb. Expending a similar amount of energy while rebounding on a trampoline significantly reduces the amount of the pressure generated and therefore reduces the stress on joints and muscles. According to the findings of a University of Utah study on this subject, exercising on a mini-trampoline reduces the impact pressure on the feet and legs by 83%. In other words, using the 150 lb person example, the 570 lb of pressure produced by walking is reduced to 97 lb when using a mini-trampoline.
Rebounding is great exercise. It forces the body to compensate for its location in space, therefore calling upon every muscle group to respond: legs, arms, and core. While much of the response occurs naturally without a lot of obvious effort, the body reacts with every rebound, thereby strengthening the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems, and improving balance, coordination, and spatial awareness in the process. Rebounding exercise also stimulates the circulatory and lymphatic systems, improving circulation and the body's ability to remove wastes, toxins, and fats.
Feel healthier and younger
In addition to these important health benefits, trampoline exercise is a lot of fun! Everyone naturally loves the sensations of flying and weightlessness. Maybe this is why kids start jumping almost the minute they learn to walk. Exercise for seniors, especially rebounding, can be incredibly freeing, eliminating the earthbound feel that sometimes comes with age and recapturing a bit of their youth.


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"Ectopia": The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
via NEWSgrist, May 24, 2006:
Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
via Artnet News, May 23, 2006:
The International Center of Photography in New York has set the lineup for its big fall show, "Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video," Sept. 14-Nov. 26, 2006. Organized by ICP curatorial staffers Brian Wallis, Christopher Phillips, Edward Earle and Carol Squiers, with assistant curator Joanna Lehan, "Ecotopia" features works by 39 artists that reflect a growing concern about natural disasters and global environmental change. "We found very few artists relating to the theme in an overtly political way," said Wallis. "Rather, the sense was of something ominous looming on the horizon."
Artists in the show -- many of them contributing new works or installations -- include Robert Adams, Doug Aitken, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Wout Berger, Patrick Brown, Catherine Chalmers, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg, Stéphane Couturier, Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak, Yannick Demmerle, Goran Devic, Mark Dion, Sam Easterson, Mitch Epstein, Joan Fontcuberta, Noriko Furunishi, Marine Hugonnier, Francesco Jodice, Harri Kallio, Vincent Laforet, Christopher LaMarca, An-My Lê, David Maisel, Mary Mattingly, Gilles Mingasson, Simon Norfolk, Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar, Kadwo Eshun, Richard Couzins), Sophie Ristelhueber, Clifford Ross, Thomas Ruff, Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Diana Thater and Qingsong Wang.
The ICP's first photo triennial, mounted in 2003, took up the theme "Strangers," and focused on people -- often with the same sense of anxiety. "Ecotopia" is sponsored by United Technologies Corporation.
from the ICP site:
September 8–November 26, 2006
Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
Fact Sheet [PDF]
List of Artists [PDF]
In a time of rampant natural disasters and urgent concerns about global environmental change, this exhibition demonstrates the ways in which the most interesting and engaging contemporary artists view the natural world. Shattering the stereotypes of landscape and nature photography, the thirty-nine international artists included in this survey boldly examine new concepts of the natural sphere occasioned by twenty-first-century technologies; images of destructive ecological engagement; and visions of our future interactions with the environment. Considering nature in the broadest sense, this exhibition reflects new perspectives on the planet that sustains, enchants, and—increasingly—frightens us.
Ecotopia is being organized by ICP curators Brian Wallis, Christopher Phillips, Edward Earle, and Carol Squiers, and assistant curator Joanna Lehan, and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
Above: Mary Mattingly, The New Mobility of Home, 2005, © Mary Mattingly, Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery


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Honors and Awards
- Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2012-13)
- Academic All-Big Ten (2012)
- Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Winner (2012)
- First-Team Academic All-Big 12 (2010)
- Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2012; Spring 2013)
2012: Senior
Allison McNeal claimed academic All-Big Ten honors and a Big Ten Sportsmanship Award for the Huskers in 2012 • Played in 28 matches as a senior • Exploded offensively for Nebraska against Colgate, recording 10 kills on 14 swings for a .571 hitting percentage • Also notched four total blocks in the match • Posted eight blocks against Duquesne on Sept. 7 • Had three kills and three blocks for the Huskers against UMES in the NCAA first round • Averaged 0.42 kills and 0.44 blocks per set in 2012.
2011: Junior
McNeal was sidelined with an injury for the 2011 season.
2010: Sophomore
McNeal started 17 matches and saw action in 23 matches overall during her sophomore campaign • Produced career highs in kills (10), attacks (16) and total blocks (nine) during the season • Averaged 1.33 kills and 0.88 blocks per set, while also hitting .500 or better in eight matches • Played in the Huskers' NCAA Tournament opening sweep of Sacred Heart on Dec. 2, recording one block • Set a career high in blocks with nine and put away six kills on nine swings (.667) in a home sweep of Kansas State on Nov. 10 • Hit .500 (5-1-8) on Nov. 6 in a sweep of Texas Tech in Lubbock • Led the Huskers with eight blocks and added seven kills in a road win over Baylor on Sept. 25 • Recorded 10 kills on 16 swings, both career highs, and added three blocks in a four-set win over Kansas on Sept. 22 at the NU Coliseum • Hit .750 with six kills on eight swings along with two blocks in a win over Western Michigan on Sept. 10 during the Ameritas Players Challenge.
2009: Redshirt Freshman
McNeal gained valuable experience as a freshman, appearing in 11 matches, primarily when the Huskers shifted into a 6-2 offense • Averaged 0.68 kills and 0.47 blocks per set while hitting .321 on the season • Played in six Big 12 matches, including the regular-season finale against Colorado on Nov. 28, when she had three kills • Started against Texas Tech and had a block and a dig against the Red Raiders on Oct. 28 • Recorded a kill in her only swing at No. 19 Baylor on Oct. 14 • Came off the bench for a kill and a block in the last set against Texas A&M on Sept. 23 • Saw extensive action against Texas Tech on Sept. 16, recording a kill before suffering a bloody nose • Made her first career start against Louisiana-Lafayette on Sept. 4, totaling a season-high six kills on .333 hitting with a then- personal-best four blocks at the LSU Tiger Classic.
2008: Freshman
McNeal redshirted and provided depth at the middle blocker spot in her first year at Nebraska.
High School
McNeal was one of the country's top middle blockers playing for Coach Donald Zapalac at Schulenburg High School • Rated as the No. 4 prospect in the country by Prepvolleyball.com and was chosen a Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 selection in 2008 • Totaled 399 kills and 208 blocks as a senior, leading Schulenburg High School to a regional final appearance • Totaled 10 or more blocks in seven matches and was named the Victoria Advocate Blocker of the Year • Highlighted her senior year with 23 kills and nine blocks against Rice High School in the district playoffs • Selected as the District 28-2A Hitter of the Year as a junior and senior • Enjoyed her best match as a junior against Edna with 25 kills while establishing career bests in blocks (13) and digs (12) • Garnered first-team all-state accolades for the first time as a junior, racking up 345 kills, 214 blocks, 156 digs and 64 service aces • Started for three seasons, amassing 987 kills, 532 blocks and 158 aces • Gained experience at both the club and international levels during her high school career • Started at middle blocker for the U.S. Youth National Team at the 2007 FIVB Girls' Youth World Championship in Mexicali, Mexico • Played for four-time Olympian Tara Cross-Battle at the Texas Tornados Volleyball Club in 2008 following three years at the Texstar Volleyball Club under coaches Milton Kollere and Brian Froebel • Competed all four years in track and field in the high jump • Won the Texas Class 2A state title in the high jump in 2007 and was a two-time runner-up (2006, 2008) • Excelled in the classroom as well, carrying a 3.90 GPA • Looked at Florida, Texas and Texas A&M before selecting Nebraska.


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Stocks finished modestly higher in lackluster trading Monday, with the Dow and S&P 500 closing at new highs for the third-straight session, as investors digested a handful of mixed economic data and ahead this week's slew of earnings reports.
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"The second half is underway, and things are already looking encouraging," according to Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ. "Catalysts for the market's advance, as well as our own optimism, are found in our interpretation of historical precedents, economic projections, fundamental forecasts and technical considerations. So when describing our outlook for the second-half performance of U.S. equities, we borrow liberally from Herman's Hermits: 'Second verse, same as the first.' While we expect the trend to be the same, we think the magnitude of advance will be less, but the volatility will be greater."


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The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG); the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG); The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew); and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) have announced plans to develop the World Flora--the first modern, online catalog of the world's plants--by the year 2020. This massive undertaking will include the compilation of information on up to 400,000 plant species worldwide. It will also achieve a primary target of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, an ambitious effort first adopted by the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity in 2002, to halt the continuing loss of plant biodiversity around the globe. Representatives of the four botanical gardens recently met to organize a framework to guide their efforts and respond to this need for a baseline survey of the plants of the world that has been called for by the international community. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) detailing plans to create the World Flora was recently signed into effect by the four institutions.
"The world's great botanical gardens are proud to lead this effort," said Gregory Long, Chief Executive Officer and The William C. Steere Sr. President of The New York Botanical Garden. "Thanks to advances in our botanical knowledge and in digital technology, an online World Flora is within our grasp. It is imperative that we create this resource, which will help us assess the value of all plant species to humankind and be effective stewards to ensure their survival." Professor Stephen Hopper, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew said, "Using the wealth of resources available at our institutions, we will help to provide the baseline data needed to develop plant-based solutions for a rapidly changing world. Botanical institutions worldwide have much expertise to contribute to this effort to capture the information necessary to better conserve and sustainably use the planet's plant diversity."
"Botanic gardens have led the way in spearheading international conservation strategies and programs, and are a natural partnership for mobilizing much needed information on plant biodiversity," said Professor Stephen Blackmore, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. "This is a large task, but with many contributors we can deliver what is needed."
"There are few institutions in the world that have the capacity to foster this project, and no one of us could do this alone," added Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, President, Missouri Botanical Garden. "We all want to see this come to fruition, and the entire international community will benefit from it. With the botanical resources and knowledge we each possess, it was implicit that our institutions would step forward to collaborate on this project."
Plants are one of Earth's greatest resources. They are sources of food, medicines and materials with vast economic and cultural importance. They stabilize ecosystems and form the habitats that sustain the planet's animal life. They are also threatened by climate change, environmental factors and human interaction. There are an estimated 400,000 species of vascular plants on Earth, with some 10 percent more yet to be discovered. These plants, both known and unknown, may hold answers to some of the world's health, social and economic problems. A full inventory of plant life is vital if their full potential is to be realized before many of these species, and the possibilities they offer, become extinct.
The critical situation for plants, where at least 100,000 plant species are threatened by extinction worldwide, has been recognized by the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In 2002, a Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was developed and adopted by the Convention.
In 2004, a Global Partnership for Plant Conservation (GPPC) was formed, involving leading environmental, conservation and botanical organizations, which came together to support the achievement of the GSPC. The four botanical gardens involved in this new project are all members of the GPPC.
"An online Flora of all known plants" is the first of the GSPC's targets for the period 2011-2020. Earlier work by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden addressed one of the GSPC's earlier targets for 2010 with the launch of The Plant List, an online portal containing the accepted names and synonyms of all known plant species. The forthcoming Flora will use The Plant List as a building block for something much more detailed, containing not just names but also descriptions, images and distribution information about every plant.
The team tackling the World Flora will build a collaborative partnership for this work worldwide and create a structure and program able to incorporate data from institutions and individuals all over the world. In some cases, existing electronic data sets will be combined and augmented with the results of botanical research published over more than a century around the world. Much historic information will require a thorough review and update, along with a conversion to an electronic medium. As new plants are subsequently collected, named and described, they too will be added to the World Flora.
"We look forward to working with institutions worldwide to produce a sustainable resource to aid conservation globally, regionally and nationally," said Hopper.
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About The New York Botanical Garden:
The New York Botanical Garden is a museum of plants, an educational institution, and a scientific research organization. Founded in 1891, the Botanical Garden is one of the world's great centers for studying plants at all levels, from the whole organism down to its DNA. Garden scientists conduct fundamental research on plants and fungi globally, as well as on the many relationships between plants and people. A National Historic Landmark, the Garden's 250-acre site is one of the greatest botanical gardens in the world and the largest in any city in the United States, distinguished by the beauty of its diverse landscape and extensive collections and gardens, as well as by the scope and excellence of its programs in horticulture, education and science. Learn more: http://www.
About the Missouri Botanical Garden:
Today, 153 years after opening, the Missouri Botanical Garden is a National Historic Landmark and a center for science, conservation, education and horticultural display. With scientists working in 35 countries on six continents around the globe, the Missouri Botanical Garden has one of the three largest plant science programs in the world and a mission "to discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment in order to preserve and enrich life." Learn more: http://www.
About the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew:
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a world-famous scientific organization, internationally respected for its outstanding living collection of plants and world-class herbarium as well as its scientific expertise in plant diversity, conservation and sustainable development in the U.K. and around the world. Kew Gardens is also a major international visitor attraction. Its landscaped 132 hectares and Kew's country estate, Wakehurst Place, attract nearly two million visitors every year. Kew was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2003 and celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2009. Wakehurst Place is home to Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, the largest wild plant seed bank in the world. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and its partners have collected and conserved seed from 10 percent of the world's wild flowering plant species (c. 30, 000 species) and aim to conserve 25 percent by 2020. Learn more: http://www.
About the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh:
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a leading international research organisation delivering knowledge, education and plant conservation action in more than 80 countries around the world. In Scotland its four Gardens at Edinburgh, Benmore, Dawyck and Logan attract nearly a million visitors each year. It operates as a Non Departmental Public Body established under the National Heritage (Scotland) Act 1985, principally funded by the Scottish Government. It is also a registered charity, managed by a Board of Trustees appointed by Ministers. Its mission is "exploring and explaining the world of plants for a better future." Learn more: http://www.


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Thanksgiving traditions are a wonderful thing. Think Thanksgiving, and you think turkey, family, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the National Dog Show Presented by Purina.
This is the 10th year anniversary of the broadcast with dog show guru David Frei and John O'Hurley.
"I don't know what you get someone for a 10th anniversary of co-hosting the dog show; I haven't looked that one up," Frei said. "Maybe aluminum foil or a gold leash. Anyway, I'm glad were able to make John a TV star."
O'Hurley, of course, was J. Peterman on the TV-classic "Seinfeld," he was the winner of the first season of "Dancing with the Stars," he's written numerous books (including some about his dogs), hosted TV game shows and is currently starring on Broadway in "Chicago."
With all that — and more — O'Hurley says he's very often recognized, but people don't know how they know him. In New York's Central Park just a few weeks ago, O'Hurley says he was recognized by someone who then said, "How do I know you exactly?"
O'Hurley answered, "Don't you remember me from Junior Prom?"
"She looked confused," O'Hurley said by phone from New York. "She really began to study me, as I then added, 'Well, the years haven't been very good to me.'"
O'Hurley said he loves co-hosting the dog show because it's what television should be. He's no fan of reality programming. "My test is that at the end of an hour or two hours, however long the show is that you can say, 'That was a good use of my time.' It's that simple. After watching reality shows, I don't say it's a good use of my time; I say, 'I think I have to take a shower now.'"
O'Hurley continued, "That's the thing about the dog show — it's for everyone in the family, from 5-year-olds to 95-year-olds. And that's good TV."
Of course, as J. Peterman on "Seinfeld," O'Hurley was involved in one of the best sitcoms ever.
"I was very blessed," he said. "It was the right cast at the right time with great writing. It was about the language we generated, like 'spongeworthy,' 'no soup for you' or (then he lowers his already uniquely dulcet tones and transforms once again into Peterman), 'Elaine! You're out on your patooty!'"
On "Dancing with the Stars," O'Hurley was the first season's winner.
"Oh, gosh, back then, we had no idea this show would be as big as it's become. I may have won, but I considered myself lucky to not fall down."
O'Hurley said that watching "Dancing" is in some ways very much like watching the National Dog Show.
"It's TV for the entire family," he said. "I think that's a part of the reason for the success — Grandma judges a dancer and so does that teenager in the family. The dog show is the same; everyone judges from home. That's a part of the fun."
The National Dog Show is a taped-for-TV scaled down version of the legendary Kennel Club of Philadelphia Dog Show. There's just no time to see everything, but of course, the Group competition and Best in Show segments are televised.
The Philadelphia show features over 2,000 dogs representing 185 breeds and varieties. Dogs in any American Kennel Club dog show compete in one of seven categories: Herding Group, Hound Group, Non-Sporting Group, Sporting Group, Terrier Group, Toy Group, or Working Group. One is selected as 'top dog' in each group. The final seven move on to the Best in Show competition.
This year's Best in Show judge for the National Dog Show is Karen C. Wilson, of Sperryville, VA. "The judge isn't supposed to compare the dogs with one another; after all, a Toy dog and a Herding dog can't be compared really," said Frei. "The judge is comparing each individual dog to a written standard. The dog that comes closest to that standard should win. But at this level, the truth is you can close your eyes and pick any of the seven — and you know it's an excellent example of the breed."
The National Dog Show airs at 9 a.m. (PST), immediately following the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Jake Locker is hoping he can pick up where he left off for Tennessee before the team's bye week.
Locker missed five games waiting for his left, non-throwing shoulder to heal before returning Nov. 11 at Miami. He helped the Titans end a two-game skid with a 37-3 win, and just as he was working off the rust the bye week arrived.
Now the Titans (4-6) will try to put together a winning streak starting Sunday at Jacksonville (1-9).
``It was good for us as a team to have the opportunity to kind of let our bodies rest,'' Locker said Wednesday. ``You know it's 10 weeks. Really if you count the preseason it's 14 weeks. That's a lot of pounding on your body, so physically it's good for guys to just take two, three days to get away from it, come back refreshed. I think it's always a benefit for you.''
Coach Mike Munchak gave the Titans six days off for the bye week.
Now they're ready to see what Locker can keep doing for them as they try to make a run through the final six games at what would be the franchise's first playoff berth since 2008 after a tantalizing glimpse at what he brings to the offense in Miami.
Locker threw two touchdown passes and had a 93.8 passer rating in picking up his first career road win as a starter. He didn't throw too much as Tennessee had short fields with four turnovers, and he was 9 of 21 for 122 yards. But he also ran four times for 36 yards, including turning a trip over Chris Johnson's foot and possible sack into a 20-yard gain early.
``That's how we designed it,'' Locker said with a smile.
Locker said he knew he had protection up front on the pass play and only wanted to avoid a negative play, trying to get back to the line of scrimmage when he found a crease. Locker's ability to run was just one of the reasons why the Titans drafted him at No. 8 overall in 2011.
``That just reminds you of the things he can do that you can forget about when he hasn't played in a while,'' Munchak said. ``That's one. Most quarterbacks, that's second-and-20 right there. They don't get up, or they get up and can't get out like that and even something worse happens.''
Locker's teammates appreciate what he brings to the offense. Even with sitting out five games after hurting his left shoulder Sept. 30, Locker still ranks second on the team with 103 yards rushing.
``The ability to make plays with his feet certainly gives us a weapon that defenses can't prepare for,'' safety Jordan Babineaux said. ``That's good to see. ... Jake is making progress. He's developing as a player, and he's starting to understand his comfort level, and you can see that in his performance.''
Another quarterback who can run isn't what the Jaguars want to see as they try to win their first game at home this season. Andrew Luck ran for two TDs against Jacksonville on Nov. 8, and the Jaguars are giving up 137.3 yards per game.
``He has a great arm, and I know his ability to make things happen with his feet is a dangerous thing,'' Jaguars coach Mike Mularkey said.
This will be Locker's first game against Tennessee's AFC South rival. For the season, he is completing 59.8 percent of his passes with six touchdowns and only two interceptions. He's been sacked only four times.
Munchak said they didn't limit the game plan against Miami to ease Locker back into the game, and the quarterback easily shook off a hard sack by the Dolphins early.
Munchak pulled Locker against Miami early in the fourth quarter with a big lead. He said Locker has a great understanding of what they want him to do.
``I'm excited to see him play again,'' Munchak said. ``It seems like he hasn't played in a while. When you have a week off and we waited six weeks for him to play, and he played well, then it's been like another two weeks, and now he's going to play again. I'm excited to see where we're at again as a team after sitting out for a week.''
Notes: TE Craig Stevens (hamstring) did not practice along with S Al Afalava (ankle), RB Jamie Harper (ankle), and WR Lavelle Hawkins (ankle). Munchak said Stevens is expected to practice Thursday. WR Kenny Britt (knee) practiced along with LB Colin McCarthy (right ankle) and OT Byron Stingily (back).
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US actress Lindsay Lohan is to make her stage debut in London's West End in a play about the movie business.
She will appear in Speed-The-Plow, by US writer David Mamet, from September 24.
The play, described as a "satirical portrayal of Hollywood", will run at the Playhouse Theatre until November 29.
Lohan will play Karen - portrayed by Madonna in the original production - with further casting details yet to be announced.
The actress, who first found fame as a child star in Mean Girls and Freaky Friday, has been in the headlines more recently for her troubled private life.
Recent roles include playing Elizabeth Taylor in the TV film Liz And Dick about the star's relationship with Richard Burton.
Mamet is one of America's most respected dramatists and the author of critically-acclaimed plays including Glengarry Glen Ross.
He has worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter on films including The Untouchables, Hoffa and Hannibal.
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Tekken Revolution Trailer: Meet Eliza
Eliza, the vampiric new character chosen by fan votes, will finally be making it into Tekken Revolution. This new trailer shows off her moves and a few of her more endearing character quirks.
Fans asked for her and now they're going to get her when she's eventually added to the roster in the free-to-play fighting game, Tekken Revolution. Eliza is an attractive vampire whose moves seem to always accompany a flurry of bats and blood. As might have been expected, a lot of her grab attacks feature a blood-sucking component, whether it be a bite to the neck or even to the abdomen. We can kinda dig it.
Eliza also has a ground projectile that's reminiscent of King of Fighter's Terry Bogard's Power Wave attack. This move looks like it can be linked into combos a number of ways, opening up the enemy for more attacks.
But perhaps the most interesting thing about Eliza is the fact that she seems to be a narcoleptic. She nods off during a few cutscenes and during her win animation, but let's just hope her condition doesn't affect her in the middle of a fight.
There's no word on when she'll be added to the Tekken Revolution roster, but we'll keep you updated as the information is made available. Until then, watch her trailer above and study her moves!


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
A British-based Iranian woman brought up as a devoted Muslim has told a conference in Jerusalem how she became a Christian after an encounter with the God of the Bible.
She heard His voice as she watched a movie about Jesus, and later responded to His personal invitation spelt out in the Book of Revelation.
At the time Esther Esfahani was in the midst of divorce proceedings against her husband because he had become a Christian, but they were subsequently reconciled and her entire family is now following Jesus.
[Editor's Note: We have not used her real name for security reasons as the Iranian government not only persecutes Christians but has also vowed to destroy Israel.]
Esther was addressing a conference in Jerusalem called At the Crossroads aimed at deepening bonds of reconciliation between Arab and other Muslim-background Christians and Jewish followers of Jesus.
Delegates arrived from all over the Middle East and beyond - some at risk to their lives - to sample the hospitality of their Jewish brothers and be shown around some of the Holy Land sites.
Shortly after moving to England some years ago, Esther started a coffee shop and took on some Christian staff. But she left strict instructions that they were not to talk about their faith.
On her day off, Esther's husband, who worked elsewhere, took care of the shop, and one day she noticed a book about Christianity on top of the dishes. It turned out that her husband had decided to follow Jesus.
Speaking in Farsi, translated by her sister, she said: "I had this idea that if you're a Muslim and you accept another religion something bad will happen to you."
Two weeks later she saw a Bible in the shop. "I got so angry I kicked out the Christian staff and initiated divorce proceedings against my husband - we had been married 19 years."
She wasn't just a committed follower of Islam; she had actually taught the Koran. In Esther's own words:
"So I told him I could not be with him any longer if he was now a Christian. But the angrier I became, the calmer he grew. He was being so kind.
"So to prove Islam is better I started to read more of the Koran and wrote down what was either good or interesting. But then I discovered things that weren't so good, like all this about cutting hands and taking multiple wives. So I decided not to read it anymore, but still wanted to divorce my husband.
"So I went to inform my sister about this, only to find that she too had become a Christian! And a little later, when my husband was away, she suggested we watch a movie together.
"It was all about Jesus, and I was so angry that people opposed him when he had done so many good things.
"Then suddenly I heard a voice saying: 'You are just the same! You are watching this, but cannot believe it.' I looked around to see who was speaking, but there was no-one there.
"I subsequently got quite depressed because I didn't have any kind of relationship with God and after all these years was suffering at the hands of my husband.
"So when my sister took a shower, I secretly picked up her Bible and started to read it. Eventually I prayed: 'If you're real and alive, can you start speaking to me as you speak to them?'
"And that evening I opened the Bible at random (as Muslims do with the Koran) and it fell open at Revelation (the last book of the New Testament). My eyes were drawn to the words of Jesus, which said: 'Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.' (Rev 3.20)
"I was so afraid I was shaking. So I closed the book, but then opened it again at the very same place, at which point I just fell down and said, 'OK, you are God; I want to accept you!'
"Next day I was crying when I called my husband, who at first misunderstood as he pleaded for me to give him another chance. But I told him that, when he came home, I wanted to read the Bible with him and together commit our way to Jesus.
"By this time he too was crying as he thanked God for answering his prayers.
"When he returned, my heart had been totally changed and I was in love with my husband. My two sons noticed the difference in our lives and how Jesus had brought peace out of conflict, and now all our family are serving God in church."
Esther finished by praying for all Iranians and believes the gift of God her family has experienced is also available to all Muslims.
PHOTO CREDIT: Carino Casas, Christ Church
Charles Gardner is author of Israel the Chosen. He recently reported live from At the Crossroads in Jerusalem. His previous reports can be found here:
Arab & Jew Unite in Mideast Breakthrough
Peace in Our Time - in Jerusalem!
Muslim Goes to Mecca - and Finds Jesus!
Israel and Iran Pray for Each Other
From Baghdad to Jerusalem
Setting the Stage for the 'Isaiah 19' Highway
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The latest battle in the War on Women comes from California: a 6'8, 220 lb male Desert Storm veteran who is now playing women's college basketball. His teammates are not opposed, but the other teams (and, perhaps, the sixth best player on his team, who no longer starts) are irate. (Hat tip: Stacy McCain, and really Stacy this time, not Smitty dressing up as Stacy. Or something.)
This is allowed to happen because Ludwig was born a man, grew to be 6'8 and 220 lbs, then had a sex change operation a few months ago.
The 95th percentile in height for women is right around 5'8, 5'9. For men, the 95th percentile is somewhere around 6'2. (Here's the bimodal distribution; Ludwig is 203 cm, for the record.)
Without getting too much into the math, let's just point out the obvious: almost no woman can compete athletically against a man. Debbie Heald, featured in this month's Runner's World, set the women's world record in the mile (and, IIRC, still has the high school record) in 4 minutes, 38 seconds. (The current women's world record is 4:26.) Guys at my high school ran 4:30 miles on a semi-regular basis.
If you want to ruin women's athletics, make us compete against men. Like Sarah Palin, I'm a Title IX girl and loved playing sports in high school, loved competing, and loved winning. (I also loved being part of a record-setting relay team, which would never have happened if men had been part of another relay team.) Athletic women understand that most of us can't compete against reasonably strong men, and that none of us can compete against 6'8 Desert Storm veterans.
So, progressives: which is more important, women's athletics or fighting 'transphobia'? Because this 'transsexual rights' thing is a war on women if I've ever seen one.
Why not a sensible solution: unless you are unequivocally female, play on the men's team? Hormones ridiculously out of whack? Men's team. Have y-chromosomes in every cell in your body? Men's team. Let us do our own thing and succeed as we are capable of succeeding – by competing against each other and not men.
Update: Evil Blogger Lady writes about a man, with intact genitals, who exposed himself to women in a sauna. How that is not some form of sexual harassment, indecent exposure, or sexual assault is beyond me.


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|About CSRI
The Corporate Social Responsibility Institute (CSRI) is a flagship program of the League of Corporate Foundations (LCF). As the capacity development arm of LCF, it is envisioned to play a crucial role in deepening the skills of the budding number of CSR practitioners. CSRI taps on the wealth of expertise around the League and its partners to help CSR practitioners get to learn the rigors of managing social development programs that bring significant impact to the society at large while creating value to the business.
The CSRI aims to enhance awareness, understanding and promotion of CSR. It endeavours to be the repository of experiences, learning, best practices and challenges to sharpen and improve the practice of CSR among the existing practitioners. CSRI also wishes to design CSR courses for integration into the degree programs and ultimately professionalize the practice of CSR in the Philippines.
A. To enhance awareness and understanding and promote the practice of CSR;
B. To sharpen and improve the practice of CSR among the existing practitioners;
C. To be the repository of experiences, learnings, best practices, challenges of the practitioners of CSR, initially that of LCF members and eventually of other organizations;
D. To be the one-stop-shop for those who want to learn about the practice of CSR;
E. In partnership with academic institutions, to design CSR courses for integration into their degree programs
F. To professionalize the practice of CSR in the Philippines.
2018 Calendar of CSRI Training (March - November)
2017 Calendar of CSRI Training (April - September)
2016 Calendar of CSRI Training (April - June)
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The Callaway name is synonymous with truly unique Corvettes, with one only having to look at past creations, such as the Callaway C16 Speedster of 2007, for an idea of the types of masterpieces the company can come up with. With the reveal of the new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, it appears Callaway founder Reeves Callaway and his crew in Old Lyme, Connecticut just couldn't help themselves from designing another stunning custom Corvette. This time, Callaway has gone with a shooting brake bodystyle for the Corvette, which, if this early rendering is anything to go by, lends itself rather wheel to the lines of the latest C7 generation. The shooting brake bodystyle, traditionally a coupe with the tail of a wagon, has undergone a strong resurgence of late, appearing on a number of concepts and product cars in the recent past.
We must admit that Callaway's take on the design is particularly handsome and we hope the company ends up building one once it finally gets its hands on one of the new Corvettes. Callaway says its Corvette Stingray shooting brake, dubbed the AeroWagon, will be produced if demand is sufficient. The company is currently taking orders for the vehicle and says the option should cost no more than $15,000. The rear hatch will feature carbon fiber structural components developed using Callaway's proprietary Resin Transfer Molding process, so it should be both lightweight and strong. Callaway also says its AeroWagon will be capable of speeds in excess of 200 mph, though it's not clear what drivetrain is required. The 2014 Corvette Stingray, which features a 6.2-liter V-8 engine rated at an estimated 450 horsepower, is unlikely to have a top speed above 200 mph, though future versions of the car certainly will.
We'll bring you the first photos of Callaway's new AeroWagon as soon as we get our hands on them. If production goes as plans, the first Callaway AeroWagons will be delivered by the fourth quarter of the year.


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NRA goes on lockdown
The National Rifle Association is on lockdown in the wake of the massacre that left 20 children dead at a Connecticut elementary school Friday.
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It's shuttered its Facebook page. It's silent on Twitter. It's released no public statements on its website. It isn't responding to media inquiries. And it hasn't launched an aggressive push on Capitol Hill to shore up support among its allies.
The go-dark strategy is unusual for an elite interest group so deeply entwined in a national controversy — even for the NRA, which released condolence statements soon after past shootings, including this summer after a gunman killed 12 people in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater.
( Also on POLITICO: Pro-gun Sen. Joe Manchin: Time to act)
It's also not the normal course of business for the NRA in Washington, where the powerful lobby has spent years building an arsenal of pro-gun lawmakers, an extensive grassroots network and a political money arm that has made gun-control legislation nearly untouchable.
But crisis communicators said the decision isn't surprising considering the unique circumstances.
"I'm sure the NRA considers itself in a lose-lose situation regarding communications," said Jonathan Bernstein, a crisis-management expert. "When there is that level of anti-gun outrage, there is literally nothing a pro-gun organization can say in the near term."
( Also on POLITICO: W.H. vague on Newtown follow-up)
Richard Feldman, a former NRA lobbyist and president of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, agreed.
"I'm sure what they would want to say is, 'We're so sorry; this is horrible,' but if they said that, it would be viewed as it's cynical for them to be saying such a thing," Feldman said.
The NRA did not respond to an email and a phone call requesting comment.
How long they can stay silent is unclear. Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which left 20 children and six adults dead, has put the gun issue back on the national political stage.
The group also hasn't been aggressive with allies on Capitol Hill, even as pro-NRA members like Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) have said there might need to be more gun control to prevent future shootings. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) also said Monday that it is time to have a debate on the country's gun laws. Rep. John Yarmuth, a Democrat from Kentucky, also came out publicly, apologizing for not speaking out on gun violence over the past six years. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has pledged to reintroduce the federal ban on assault weapons, which expired in 2004.


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Antje Dorn
From 18 January to 4 May 2013, Galerie m Bochum will show its first solo exhibition of the works of
Antje Dorn
(b. 1964 in Aachen). The Berlin-based artist's recently completed
series, encompassing 45 abstract landscape paintings, will be on view in its entirety.
In this new series, Dorn focuses on "gazing at the sky," as she herself puts it, and which the title also hints at. And in fact, the area above the horizon is where the action takes place in the majority of the pictures. Multiple shapes in vibrant colors sprawl across each canvas. Geometric or amorphous forms stand out in a kind of close-up against a monochrome ground – sometimes piling up to form structures. In most cases they are arranged on surfaces that recall landscape silhouettes, while at other times they seem to float in the pictorial space or firmament. Some of these forms summon immediate associations with trees, clouds or the sun, but others remain ambiguous and enigmatic. They are reduced to essentials, partaking in the same symbolic quality found throughout the artist's work. Antje Dorn does not set out to execute a naturalistic representation of an object, but rather creates a simplified depiction using icons to symbolize certain phenomena in our world of things. As a result, we see the vertical brown stripes topped by a rounded green blob as a tree. It is not only color and shape, however, but also context that helps us to interpret what we see in figurative and narrative terms.
Dorn is inspired here by an aesthetic we are familiar with from comics and similar pictorial genres. The individual components of a picture are set side by side, isolated from one another, through which they convey their autonomy. Their surfaces are made up of bold monochromatic colors. The artist makes little use of painterly perspective and renounces atmospheric lighting effects entirely. The pictures are hence self-referential; they do not show a space defined by clues to depth, but instead develop their message on the flat painted plane. This flatness is reinforced by the marked traces left behind of the application of paint, which lends a tactile quality to the works. They derive their physical presence from the impression of simultaneous lightness and heaviness, intensified further by a feeling of equilibrium.
Dorn's paintings exude a light-hearted, humorous aura through apparent interactions and mutual influence between the individual elements, which hence become protagonists in their own unique world. In their respective constellations, they convey occurrences that seem quite matter-of-fact and inevitable. And seen together as a group, they present an animated, surrealistic panorama.


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On the first Wednesday of every month, the Museum hosts inquisitive minds for cocktails and conversation about the latest science topics at SciCafe. The popular after-hours series returns on October 5 with an evening devoted to scientific evidence about the nature of race and "racial" differences led by Museum Curators Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, who recently co-authored a book on the subject.
Dr. DeSalle, an evolutionary geneticist, and Dr. Tattersall, a physical anthropologist, will discuss the lack of biological evidence for racial boundaries among human populations, the evolutionary processes that account for distinctions among Homo sapiens, and more. They recently answered a few questions on the topic.
Why is race a scientific myth? What has science or culture done to perpetuate it?
Tattersall: "Race" is a within-species phenomenon. And within a species there are two possible processes, the effects of which are diametrically opposed: diversification and re-integration. The human diversity we see today, and its distribution, is a product of both, producing a messy picture that is not helpfully clarified by trying to recognize discrete "races."
DeSalle: Why race as a biological concept keeps raising its ugly head is a question that is addressed by biologists, sociologists, and historians all the time. Almost all racialist scientific approaches have been detrimental to our understanding of human cultural variation and have led in some instances to the worst atrocities committed in the name of science. Social Darwinism, Eugenics, Nazism, and the IQ Debate all stemmed from scientific racialism.
Your new book, Race? Debunking a Scientific Myth, describes how many features that we consider markers of race are actually of recent biological origin or superficial. Could you give an example?
Tattersall: Our species is extremely young by general mammalian standards, and modern diversity appears to have even more recent roots. All the variations in modern human skin color, for instance, appear to have originated within the last 50,000 years, a mere blip in evolutionary time.
DeSalle: Skin color is, ironically, the one trait that most racialist biology is based on. But there are many ways to produce dark skin, just like there are many ways to produce height or weight in humans. There are equally many ways to produce light skin and a multitude of ways to produce "in-between" skin colors. Skin color then becomes one of these complex traits that exist in human populations, like weight or height or tolerance to altitude—or any of a number of other traits we humans have evolved.
What's unique about speaking at SciCafe?
DeSalle: The informal tone creates a "living room" atmosphere, but with a lot of people in the living room. The format forces the scientist to relate better to the audience. There's no hiding behind slides or a flashy PowerPoint presentation at these things.


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Definitions of lap
n. - The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. 2
n. - An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. 2
n. - The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury. 2
n. - That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing. 2
n. - The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below). 2
n. - The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader. 2
n. - One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2. 2
n. - In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game. 2
n. - A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine. 2
n. - A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis. 2
v. t. - To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap. 2
v. t. - To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10. 2
n. - To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth. 2
n. - To wrap or wind around something. 2
n. - To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish. 2
n. - To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one. 2
n. - To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working. 2
v. i. - To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap. 2
v. i. - To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something. 2
v. i. - To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue. 2
v. t. - To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue. 2
n. - The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap. 2
n. - The sound of lapping. 2
The word "lap" uses 3 letters: A L P.
Direct anagrams of lap:
alp pal
Words formed by adding one letter before or after lap (in bold), or to alp in any order:
c - clap e - leap pale peal plea f - flap i - lipa pail pial l - pall m - lamp palm n - plan o - opal p - palp s - alps laps pals salp slap t - plat u - pula w - pawl y - paly play
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Council votes for additional years on Zentis abatement
PLYMOUTH - The Plymouth Common Council voted a "no fault" tax abatement to Zentis Food Solutions Monday night.
In the Council's previous session earlier this month Kevin Chestnut - tax advisor for the North American branch of the German company - came before the board to ask for the extension of a tax abatement offered the company when it first considered where it was going to place its base of North American operations. In 2006, the Council voted Zentis a two-year abatement when the company had requested a five-year abatement for the project.
Chestnut called into question the true intention of the Council at the time of that abatement, suggesting that perhaps they intended to give the company a full five-year abatement for the project instead of the two. He also said that - in any case - had he been a consultant for the company at that time he would have come back before the Council every two years until the project's completion to request another two year abatement.
At that meeting City Attorney Sean Surrissi told the Council that state statute allowed them to correct the mistake - if indeed they felt that was the case - or extend the abatement for the full five years requested.
Estimates at the time of the abatement by Zentis were that the project would be completed for a total of $34 million. To date the actual completion of the project added $38 million in personal property value and has provided 100 more jobs to the community than the original estimate. The company is also currently hiring.
The company did not request that the city repay the increased taxes paid in the three year period but merely for the city to award the abatement for the next three years on the investment of $38 million.
Plymouth Clerk-Tresurer Toni Hutchings pointed out to the Council that it was unlikely that the Council in 2006 had actually made a mistake in not awarding the full five years asked for by the company since it was common practice at that time to award the two years because of the effect on the tax rate. She also stated that she could understand that a company new to the United States would be confused by a different nation's tax laws.
In the end the Council voted to award the company the additional three year abatement on the $38 million investment, stipulating that they could not determine if that were the original intention of the Council in 2006.
The abatement will apply to the company in the coming tax year.


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hold harmless clause,
n a contract provision in which one party to the contract promises to be responsible for liability incurred by the other party. Hold harmless clauses frequently appear in the following contexts: (1) Contracts between dental benefits organizations and an individual dental professional often contain a promise by the dental professional to reimburse the dental benefits organization for any liability the organization incurs because of dental treatment provided to beneficiaries of the organization's dental benefits plan. This may include a promise to pay the dental benefits organization's attorney fees and related costs. (2) Contracts between dental benefits organizations and a group plan sponsor may include a promise by the dental benefits organization to assume responsibility for disputes between a beneficiary of the group plan and an individual dental professional when the dental professional's charge exceeds the amount the organization pays for the service on behalf of the beneficiary. If the dental professional takes action against the patient to recover the difference between the amount billed by the dental professional and the amount paid by the organization, the dental benefits organization will take over the defense of the claim and will pay any judgments and court costs.


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