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When it comes to his 28-year-old fiancee, Alec Baldwin is very protective.
He used Twitter to blast a New York newspaper for "crashing" yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas' class.
He tweeted Monday: "Shame on the no-talent trash from the Daily News for invading the privacy of 75 people in a yoga class to take a picture of someone."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Matching its total from a year ago, the MIT field hockey team had four players selected to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) All-Region team, as announced on Thursday. Molly McShane and Kameron Klauber were named to the New England East Region First Team while Keri Dixon and Alex Wright were Second Team picks.
McShane, who was the Player of the Year in the region a year ago, garnered the second All-New England nod of her two-year career. A two-time New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-Conference selection, McShane has helped lead the Engineers to back-to-back appearances in the conference title game, winning the league crown in 2009. McShane led the team in assists with 12 on the season, a total that was good for third in the NEWMAC.
Klauber joined McShane on the First Team, after also collecting NEWMAC accolades earlier this month. The junior forward set Institute records for goals (22) and points (52) in a season, ranking third in the conference in both categories. Klauber had the 13th highest goals per game total in the Nation as well.
Dixon also earned repeat All-Region honors, having been named to the First Team as a junior. The senior was in net for all 15 of MIT's wins this season and allowing just 1.73 goals per game. She finished her career with a record of 39-22 and a 1.82 career goals against average, second-best in program history.
Wright was the final All-New England honoree. The senior defender has long been a steady presence along the MIT back-line but had a breakout offensive campaign this year, scoring the first seven goals of her career, including a season-high, four-goal outburst against Clark. The senior captain was a Second Team All-Conference pick in 2009 and has been named to the NFHCA National Academic squad on two occasions.
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ATTLEBORO, Mass. — Cooks who favor organic ingredients in their salad could be getting their next batch of bean sprouts or lettuce from an indoor farm.
Friends and health food enthusiasts Ashley Driscoll of Seekonk and Brad Rao and John Irving of Attleboro have teamed up to raise thousands of sprouts, herbs and starter seedlings of lettuce, tomatoes and other produce in an unexpected place — the top floor of a 19th century jewelry factory on County Street.
The entrepreneurial trio and several employees and volunteers began growing plants from seeds in December. They aim to sell trays of locally grown seedlings this spring through farmers' markets and commercial garden and health food stores.
They also have other big plans, including opening their own outdoor farmer's market and eventually processing wheat grass and other greens for commercial sale. There's also talk of an organic food restaurant.
Driscoll and company are calling their business Indoor Organic Farm of Attleboro, and plan to raise vegetable and fruit seedlings for sale to gardeners on a seasonal basis. They'll grow sprouts and other crops year round to supply health food stores and other retailers.
IOF already has a contract with a Boston garden retailer to supply thousands of trays of plants.
Driscoll, who serves as president of parent company Bridge Organics, said the business is a result of consumers' growing awareness of healthy foods grown from natural soil without the intervention of artificial fertilizers or pesticides.
"People want to consume foods that make them feel better," said Driscoll, a bookkeeper by profession, who said her health and energy level have improved since she changed her diet to include fewer processed foods and more live and organically grown vegetables.
Irving, a career contractor, also swears by organics.
"I've lost weight and I feel a lot better," he said.
On the third floor of a building where workers once toiled over machinery, thousands of trays filled with plant seedlings soak up artificial sunlight from electric lights that move back and forth automatically across the ceiling. Workers patrol the 10,000 square feet of indoor garden, irrigating seedlings from backpack sprayers filled with spring water.
Besides growing and distributing locally grown indoor plants, IOF is working to market its concept through its soon-to-debut website and a Facebook page that will include tips and recipes and allow consumers to add their own comments.
"Part of our job is to educate people," Driscoll said.
Each of the three partners brings a particular piece of expertise to the indoor gardening game.
Rao, a former physical education teacher and a health consultant for professional athletes, has researched organics and healthy foods and growing methods for years, and brings a wealth of expertise in urban agriculture.
Driscoll obtained business training as a bookkeeper and also teaches Tai Chi at the local YMCA.
Although Irving is now devoting his full-time energies to the plant business, the partners lean on his construction skills to keep things running and renovate their facilities to accommodate future business.
Currently, IOF is preparing to formally launch its business by setting up booths at various farmers markets and opening its own outdoor sales area next to its 104 County St. site in May.
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Joe Hockey says his first budget will aim to create tens of thousands of jobs through the biggest road building plan in Australia's history.
The treasurer also confirmed that politicians and senior public servants face a pay freeze for a year, in what he is calling a "contribute and build budget".
But he does not accept that other initiatives in Tuesday's budget, such as a deficit levy on high income earners, would be breaking an election promise.
"We never said we were going to never change a tax or alter a tax," he told the Nine Network on Sunday.
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen wanted to see the whole budget before saying how Labor would respond.
"But we don't like this proposed deficit levy one little bit," he told ABC television.
The government has taken a hit in a new opinion poll that shows Labor comfortably ahead of the government, with voters strongly opposed to key budget measures that include lifting the pension age to 70 and a co-payment for doctor visits.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says the quality of healthcare shouldn't depend on someone's credit card.
"You should not avoid going to the doctor because you are poor," he told reporters in Melbourne.
Government frontbencher Jamie Briggs concedes it will be a "very difficult" budget to sell to the general public and to get through the parliament.
"We didn't create this mess but we are going to take the responsibility to fix it," the assistant infrastructure minister told Sky News.
Mr Hockey said a key component of the budget will be a six-year road funding plan of more than $80 billion, of which the commonwealth will contribute in excess of $40 billion.
That figure will be matched by the states and the private sector.
If the government raised the fuel excise, which has been frozen since 2001, it would go into roads, he said.
The treasurer said the biggest road building plan in Australia's history would create tens of thousands of new jobs, while addressing the significant drop-off in mining investment.
He said he inherited an economy that pointed to an unemployment rate of 6.25 per cent.
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I am currently finishing up research on the D0 experiment at Fermilab, and am a member of the Mu2E and g-2 collaborations, also both at Fermilab. I spend a small part of my time on detector R&D including the development of a proton tomography device.
I have been involved in experimental particle physics since 1976. I did thesis work on a number of Fermilab neutral kaon experiments including production of pi-mu atoms (my thesis topic), KS regeneration, and KL scattering cross section measurements with a group from Wisconsin, Stanford and Chicago, under the leadership of Sam Aronson, Mel Schwartz, and Bruce Winstein. After receiving my Ph.D., I did my postdoc work at Stony Brook under Mike Marx and Paul Grannis. My initial effort was on a Brookhaven neutrino experiment which investigated neutrino oscillations, and weak neutral currents using the nu p->nu p and nu e->nu e channels. In 1982, I also began working on a new experiment at the Fermilab collider, LAPDOG, which evolved into D0. D0 is a large, over 5000 ton, general purpose experiment designed to be sensitive to all physics within reach of the 2 trillion electron Volt energy available at Fermilab's collider. Over 500 physicists from 90 institutions and 18 countries are members of this collaboration. In 1995, we, along with another Fermilab experiment CDF, discovered the top quark, up to now the heaviest observed of the fundamental particles which make up our universe. Tevatron operations at Fermilab ended in 2011 and D0 is currently completing its analysis of its full data set. In 2012, D0 along with CDF, and the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN, shared in the discovery of what is probably the Higgs Boson.
My primary responsibilities on D0 have been the muon system design, construction, and operation, and on exploiting muons for a variety of physics processes, especially using them to help trigger and tag b-decays. I have been involved in measurements of b-quark production and searches for new phenomena containing b-quarks and missing energy. This has included Higgs decay, third generation leptoquarks and bottom squarks. I helped design both the Run I and Run II upgraded muon detectors and constructed aspects of the PDT and scintillator systems, and was the coordinator of the muon identification group with primary responsibility for muon reconstruction from 1985 to 1997 and, for Run II, from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2008-2012. I was also a B-physics coordinator from 1990-1994 and helped formulate some of the ideas now being exploited in Run II in that area including the intital (and very preliminary) studies of using dimuon charge asymmetries.
I am currently a member of the Mu2E and g-2 experiments at Fermilab which will respectively search for the conversion of a muon to an electron in a nuclear field and measure the magnetic moment of the muon. My activity of Mu2E is pimarily simulating the backgrounds and looking at shielding optimizations. Other members of NIU on Mu2E are Sasha Dychkant, Nick Pohlman, Eric Johnson and currently students Ashlyn Shelitto, Steve Boi, and Graham Stoddard. The NIU g-2 group currently consists of Mike Eads, Nick Pohlman, myself and students.
Starting in 2000, the NIU group has been working on aspects of accelerator and detector R&D geared towards the future of Fermilab, such as the use of electron-based or muon-based accelerators. NIU R&D efforts in accelerator and future detectors are detailed on the NICADD page.
In 1987 I co-founded the NIU experimental high energy physics group. This group has been supported by grants from the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, the State of Illinois, and directly from Fermilab and Argonne. Over 160 NIU students have worked with us, doing a variety of different projects such as building detectors, testing electronics, and analyzing data with 34 receiving MS or Ph.D. degrees (16 under my supervision).


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The Suns have some talent and are trying to gain an identity in the post Steve Nash era and Goran Dragic is really helping. Their problem is there bench, which struggles to score points. The Suns love to play up tempo and like we saw in Houston that can cause an issue for the Knicks' defensive rotations, but the Suns do a poor job of defending, specifically on the perimeter. Teams are shooting 47% from the field against the Suns and 44% from.
- Bench Play- The Knicks' bench has been a really strength for them this season and they must outplay the Suns. Phoenix has a nice core group of young players, but they rely on journeymen bench players Jermaine O'Neal and Sebastian Telfair for major minutes. Advantage Knicks.
- Make Brown Handle the Rock- Dragic likes to dictate tempo, but the Suns don't have a secondary ball handler. The Knicks would do well to throw a few traps and deny a few outlet passes to Dragic to make Shannon Brown handle the ball into sets. That will help slow tempo and take the Suns out of their offensive rhythm.
- Win Front Court Battle- Like in football, the battle is often won up front and the Suns are talented with Gortat, Beasley and Morris logging the most minutes. The Knicks have to be ready to close possessions, especially versus Beasley, who always plays his best games under the bright lights at MSG.


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Viewers of the latest Republican presidential debate didn't get a straight story from the candidates on U.S. taxes vs. the world, the state of the health insurance marketplace under "Obamacare" or what might happen if that law is taken away.
Among other fumbles:
—Marco Rubio seemed unaware that Kurds are Sunnis.
—In his zeal to condemn the Obama administration's immigration record, Ted Cruz once again vastly overstated deportations under the previous two presidents. And he continued, as in a previous debate, to struggle with the meaning of carpet-bombing.
—Chris Christie misstated the U.S. policy on paying ransom to hostage-takers.
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Sue-mei Wu, Ph.D., Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese Studies in the Modern Languages Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the project leader and primary author for the Chinese Link textbook project (Beginning and Intermediate levels). She received her Ph.D. in linguistics, with a minor in language pedagogy, from the Ohio State University. She has taught at Ohio State University, Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. She has devoted her linguistic, pedagogy and technology expertise to creating and developing various innovative new Chinese courses, textbooks, online courses and web pages. She has designed, developed and coordinated all levels of Chinese languages and culture courses and received several awards to support developing online language, culture and folk performance modules. She is the chair of the Chinese LearnLab of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC, funded by NSF, http://learnlab.org), and the PI of various online Chinese language and culture projects. She is the project leader and coordinator of the Chinese Online project funded by NSF. She is the co-author of Classical Chinese Primer (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press) and the co-author of a new textbook for heritage learners.
Yueming Yu, PhD., Teaching Professor and Coordinator of the Chinese Studies Program of the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University and co-author of the Chinese Link textbook project. She came to CMU in 1992 to start the Chinese Program at the Department of Modern Languages and has been the Coordinator of the program ever since. She has more than 40 years of experience in teaching a foreign language. She has taught various levels of Chinese courses and in recent years has focused on the content courses at the advanced level of Chinese. Before she came to the US, she was an Associate Professor of English as well as the coordinator of the International Journalism Program at the Shanghai International Studies University. She was also one of the founding members of the English newspaper (Students Weekly) in Shanghai and a pioneer for the English News Program of Radio Shanghai. She has translated several books from English to Chinese, and compiled English-Chinese dictionaries. Her doctoral dissertation was a research on the criteria used in the selection of textbooks for teaching Chinese in the United States. Her current research focuses on pedagogical issues in Chinese language education with an emphasis on the relationship between teaching language and teaching culture, including a special focus on the teaching of heritage students. She is also the project leader of another textbook of Chinese for heritage students and published a series of Chinese textbooks for online use by high school students.
Yanhui Zhang, PhD., is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD. in Second Language Acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on the fluency and robustness of second language basic skills learning, cross-language transfer, computer-assisted language learning, and bilingual education.
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It was the spring of 1959 when the Coasters released the first of their three Top 10 hits that year, "Charlie Brown." By early summer, half of America sat waiting for the chorus every time the song played: "Why is everybody always pickin' on me?"
The song is still fun today and could quite possibly be the theme song for the Bears' offense.
This week it was Jamie Dukes, former offensive lineman with the Atlanta Falcons and current analyst with the NFL Network, who joined Mully and Hanley on 670 The Score after the Bengals game and suggested the Bears' offense hasn't really changed at all.
Really? That's not what everybody else has been saying. Let's take a look.
In 2012 under Lovie Smith and Mike Tice, the Bears averaged 23.4 points a game, 310.6 yards a game on offense, 123.1 rushing yards a game, 187.4 passing yards a game, 36.5 percent third-down efficiency and 5.2 yards a play.
Against the Bengals, the Bears scored 24 points, produced 323 yards of offense, 81 yards on the ground, 242 through the air, converted 42.9 percent of the time on third down and averaged 5.3 yards a play.
Hmm, could Dukes be on to something? Maybe.
But if you understand that statistics can lie and know to look a little deeper, you can go all Lee Corso on Dukes with a "not so fast my friend."
Pull back the covers and you see that it appears a big part of coach Marc Trestman's plan is success will breed more success, and he's trying to get the fundamentals in place before he starts playing with the bells and whistles.
The reality is that the Bears' offense was different in the first half against Cincinnati than it was in the second. Asked what halftime adjustments he made, Trestman said none. He just wanted to "keep Jay clean" in the first half, in essence saying, "Let's prove to ourselves we can block this, and then we'll go for more."
In the second half, Trestman said he just started calling more of the plays in the game plan once he knew they could block them.
The offense was actually worse than last year in the first half, producing just 92 yards, but much better than 2012 in the second half, churning out 231 yards.
Jay Cutler was asked Thursday if he thinks the offense is restricted at this point.
"Yes and no," he said. "I think, at the end of the day, we want to make sure we protect and we're able to get rid of the ball. We don't want to take sacks. We want to keep the front five confident, keep me confident and believing in those guys. But, at the same time, we've got to play football. If that requires us taking a shot or getting five (receivers) out, that's what we've got to do."
Which brings us to another point about where the offense is now and where it's going. It's hard to get five receivers out if you've only got three.
That Marquess Wilson was inactive against the Bengals and Joe Anderson dressed but didn't take a single snap on offense speaks volumes about where Trestman believes his receiving corps is.
It's not to say the kids can't play, but apparently they're not ready yet. So far, it appears offensive linemen Kyle Long and Jordan Mills are ready. But they're not playing because they were so ready Trestman couldn't keep them off the field, they're playing because they have to.
Anyone who suggests this offense isn't dramatically different from what Bears fans are used to just isn't paying attention to personnel groupings, playcalling and execution.
This offense is already better than any the Bears have fielded in recent seasons and very different from what Mike Tice, Mike Martz and Ron Turner coached.
But just how good will have to wait until it's been fully taught, fully learned and until Trestman has all the bullets he needs to fully load his gun. I'm not a fan yet, I just know there's still a lot we haven't seen.
• Hub Arkush covers the Bears for Shaw Media and HubArkush.com. Write to him at email@example.com.


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WHO: In recognition of their contributions to the city, Rochester Mayor Thomas S. Richards will present members of the University of Rochester YellowJackets, the University's oldest male a cappella group, with a key to the city.
TIME, DATE, PLACE: 1 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9, in Hirst Lounge in Wilson Commons on the University's River Campus.
ABOUT THE YELLOWJACKETS: The YellowJackets, who recently competed on NBC's hit reality television show The Sing-Off, have a history of community service in the city. Over the last decade, they have performed concerts and hosted workshops throughout the Rochester City School District. In 2009, the group organized the Harmony for Hope concert, raising funds for the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center. And, this fall, the YellowJackets teamed up with the Rochester City School District to create an extra-curricular a cappella group at the World of Inquiry School. The group, called ROC-appella, will join the YellowJackets on stage at two sold-out concerts on Dec. 11.
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Priest Who Served In Los Angeles Among Seven Suspended In Mexico Pending Abuse Probe
MEXICO CITY (AP) – The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico confirmed on Friday that it has suspended seven priests, including one accused of abuse while serving in Los Angeles, from its diocese in the border city of Tijuana pending an investigation into alleged sexual harassment and abuse.
The Archdiocese of Tijuana didn't reveal the names of the priests but it did confirm to The Associated Press that Rev. Jeffrey Newell was among them.
Newell was first mentioned as being a part of the priests under investigation in a statement by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, which is the main U.S. group of victims of abuse by priests.
In 2010, a U.S. man filed a lawsuit in California against the Los Angeles archdiocese alleging that church leaders engaged in fraud and negligence by allowing Newell to continue working around children after he went to church officials to accuse Newell of abuse.
"It's tragic that this predator priest has apparently struck again," the U.S. victims group said in a statement. "Fr. Newell should have never been given a church job in Mexico."
Prosecutors in Baja California state, where Tijuana is located, said that no one had filed a complaint against the priests and that police could not open an investigation without one.
The investigation against the seven priests was first mentioned this week by Tijuana Archbishop Rafael Romo, who told local media that the alleged victims were teenagers and that the investigation was continuing.
The Archdiocese of Tijuana issued a statement this week calling on those who had been victims or witnessed abuse to come forward and go to authorities.
The case in Tijuana follows the suspension of a priest in the northern Mexico state of San Luis Potosi. Last week, 19 people filed a criminal complaint alleging they were sexually abused by priest Eduardo Cordova and charging his archdiocese covered up the allegations for years.
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Dave Brockie Talks GWAR's 'Battle Maximus,' Moving on Without Cory Smoot + More
Dave Brockie, better known to music fans as GWAR frontman Oderus Urungus, was the guest on Full Metal Jackie's radio show this past weekend. The singer, making a rare appearance as himself, spoke about Gwar's 'Battle Maximus' effort, continuing without late guitarist Cory Smoot and more. If you missed Full Metal Jackie's show, check out her full interview with Gwar's Dave Brockie:
Full Metal Jackie coming at you. On the show we've got a good friend and someone who we haven't had on the show theoretically, Dave Brockie, AKA Oderus Urungus from GWAR. Dave, it's weird, never called you Dave before.
I know, I almost choked up a little bit hearing that because it was like, 'Wow it's like there's this whole other person inside of me that most people don't even know about but uh, I actually have a lot of similar characteristics to?' It probably won't be that much different than our regular interviews which are always completely awesome.
Of course, we're here to talk about a lot of things. Of course, the brand new GWAR album 'Battle Maximus' is out now.
Yeah, um, and we are really delighted with the impact that it is getting and the reviews that it's getting and the reaction the fans are having to it. I mean we've kind of been on a bit of a musical roll ever since like bouncers arrived in 2000. You know any band that enjoys a career as long as us you're going to go through ebbs and valleys and its going to be stuff happening and um, I think there towards the late '90s GWAR was definitely, we'd gone through a lot of different lineup changes and um, you know and we were kind of adrift I thought musically. I mean I always knew in my heart that GWAR was a metal band. It was best at being a metal band but I, as a songwriter, really like great metal songs I can write metal lyrics you know till the cows come home.
And I can arrange those lyrics in kick-ass ways but I needed a musician that could come along and just really just get the band back on track and that guy was a guy named Cory Smoot who in 2000 stepped in and took over the role of Flattus Maximus. And for the next four albums GWAR steadily you know we got on the sounds of the underground and we started getting back on peoples' radar and we just put out devastating album after devastating album and you know I know not everyone is going to agree with that you know, assessment, but for the most part even people that have kind of written, a lot of people had written GWAR off kind of gave us another listen and once they listen I think they liked what they heard. And so you know, everybody knows we lost Cory in the most tragic of ways and the last couple of years it's like its became so important for me to put out another really great album.
I absolutely could not have the band put out an album that people will go, 'Ah that was okay but boy we sure miss Cory.' I just couldn't have that happen and that's really been the whole focus of my energy for the last almost two years and it's this huge sigh of relief to see that it seems to be going over pretty well. So. I'm not saying we're going to get a gold record or a Grammy nomination and but I think in the hearts of GWAR fans I think they're satisfied and happy with the new direction that Pustulus (aka Brent Purgason) brought to the band.
The story of 'Battle Maximus' is that of Pustulus Maximus winning the right to join the band after his cousin Flattus Maximus, Cory Smoot departed Earth. How did the facetiousness of GWAR cope with the loss of Cory for the sessions on this album?
Wow, that's a good question. It definitely helps if you know that GWAR is at its heart a joke. And I'm not afraid to say that. I've always said that comedy never got the respect it deserved you know, from the critics because comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off you know. It's making people laugh unless your just like falling down a flight of stairs is not really the easiest thing to do in the world. And there is a reason why standup comics generally live to about the age of 45; it can be pretty tough. But with GWAR it helped us because we were able to write. Basically I was able to write songs that are kind of serious like 'Blood Bath,' like the song that's kind of really about the unexpected mind blowing nature of sudden death when you don't see it coming. And all of a sudden it's right there.
But at the same time the power of GWAR gave me the gumption as a songwriter to somehow put something into it that made it an inspirational experience as well, a liberating experience. Even in those horrible few minutes after we realized that we had lost Cory, we knew that we were going to have the power of GWAR to draw upon in order to make it happen. I had all these characters where I could create Pustulus Maximus and he's going to come to Earth and waves the "Battle Maximus" and all the Maximuses from all over the universe, we have some kick ass guitar players. We haven't made a big deal out of it, but Mark [Morton] from Lamb of God, Zach [Blair] from Rise Against, Ol' Drake from Evile, they're all Maximus's incognito on that song. We had also the support from the whole community.
As a songwriter, I felt I had a lot of guns I could draw upon and at the same time, I had to keep it facetious and lighthearted. It doesn't mean I couldn't make it melancholy at times, didn't mean we couldn't mourn and grieve but at the end of the day I wanted it to be a hopeful and inspiring message to anyone who listened to the record. At the same time, it was our personal attempt to deal and grieve for our loss, but prime the pump for the next chapter of GWAR.
For the last year and a half I've been trying to pass this turd and wondering the whole time what it would look like when it came out of me. I think it's a success. At this point, I'll say it's a success. I haven't read a bad review yet. That's not usually how a GWAR album goes down. When a GWAR album comes out, there are usually about five horrible reviews and then finally one good one. It's been completely different on this one; people really seem to like it. Mission accomplished as far as that is concerned. We'll never, ever get over that feeling of losing someone like that. But godd---it I wasn't going to let it destroy the freaking coolest shock-rock band that has ever been invented. That was down to us, and the great guys I work with.
Would playing music be nearly as much fun without the fantasy and satirical elements?
If you're asking me if it would be as much fun without wearing that giant costume, I'd say yeah, it would be. I've played in a ton of bands before I was in GWAR. I've always enjoyed the act of playing music, very very much. But, where GWAR kind of takes it to a different level is that, what you get off the audience is just like unlike anything else. Because GWAR is such a spectacle and so many people love GWAR and because when you play at a GWAR show you're playing in front of 1200 people whereas if I was doing some weird Dave Brockie side project, there might be 80. Even though I love both experiences intently, yeah, that GWAR. Especially like venues of LA House of Blues. Where you come out, the place is packed, the audience is right in your face, everyone is in on the joke, everyone is there, I am a worthless pee-on. "I am a worthless pee-on and I'm about to be in the presence of my masters" anyone who doesn't feel that way who got dragged into the show anyway is backed way against the far wall. You go out there and you feel that rush that comes off the crowd when they first see you.
As a performer, it's what Freddie Mercury lived for, it's what Kurt Cobain never could understand and it's what's been driving GWAR for almost 30 years now. Lack of both in different ways but there's no comparison with the brutal rush of power that you get when you add those elements. I had been in so many bands before GWAR. I had tried every single band. Then I tried doing bands that started adding light theatrical elements and I could see immediately that it was having an impact. There weren't a lot of bands that were doing that stuff 30 years ago. Green Jelly was the only other ones, except for guys like Alice Cooper who had been doing it forever. The more we seemed to turn up the theatrical elements, the more success it seemed to bring us. I'm not going to shoot the horse I rode in on but at the same time, I really love performing out of character, out of costume. I do spoken word, I do standup. I love it all. I'm a natural ham. I was the kid in show and tell who would just make stuff up.
What's the starting point for a GWAR album -- specifically 'Battle Maximus'? Is it a musical idea? Riff? Lyric? Or is it more thematic in terms of the on stage presentation?
I think it's an idea; the very first thing is an idea. The idea was, OK how are we going to do this? I think within 5 minutes of us realizing we had lost Cory, we had that idea. We were out in the middle of nowhere parking lot in North Dakota and I just leaned up against the bumper of the bus and thought really hard about everything that I was going -- that was going to be expected of me and how we could possibly segue this into a new chapter. Immediately I knew that it was going to be another Maximus.
That was the only way it could not come off cheesy. Let's make a whole new character, but make the new character have the elements of the old character. Like it's his crazy cousin, Pustulus who lives halfway across the galaxy. I don't know if we all settled on that immediately but the very first thing it was, was an idea. Then after the idea was there, we had to go through the whole process of finding the guitar player. That was exhaustive. Right from the get-go, we wanted a local guy. We wanted a guy that absolutely shreds. The first guy we tried out was Brent who was a local guy who completely shredded, also a good friend of Cory's but the next thing we knew we were trying out everyone else. The next thing I knew, we were flying people in and we really went all the way around on that. We really did things we said we weren't going to do and we worked on that for months and month. That's kind of where we got the idea of, well maybe the album should be about this process to a certain extent.
All of these different guys we're bringing in are different Maximus' and the tracks they leave behind us are their salvos in the battle Maximus. Whoever leaves the baddest barrage; he's the one that'll get the job. That's exactly what happened. I was really happy that after we tried out everybody, we went back to where we started and gave Brent the job. It was about 2 weeks after he got the job, I was at his house doing the obligatory, getting to know ya by hanging out until 5AM getting wasted with you. He's like, 'You gotta check this out,' and he pulls out this Marshall out of the wall. 'Me and Cory were building this together.' It's this tricked out Marshall, where they had basically tried to wire in every transistor ever into this thing and create this amplifier that would explode if you ever plugged it in. At that moment I knew, we definitely got the right guy. Here we are in this basement and work on amps with Cory that are obviously about to explode anyway, well, he's got to be our guy.
What is the most fun aspect of being in the studio and what about recording 'Battle Maximus' will you most fondly remember in 20 years?
I guess my favorite time in the studio is when you've recorded everything, when you've got it all together and you've heard rough mixes. What we did this time is, this is the first time we recorded the whole album in our own studio, Slave Pit studio. It was designed by Cory; he was going to be presiding over the knob twiddling. In fact, I'm just dating myself when I say "knob twiddling." Not so much knob twiddling anymore as much mouse clicking involved with making records. But, once we had recorded all the basic tracks and had a good idea of what was going on, recorded all the leads, all the recording was done.
I remember we had this big piece of paper on the wall, a giant bar graph. It had everyone's name, everyone's song list and then all the things that needed to go into each song. Soon there was this incredibly complicated code system going up. Certain things were getting slashes through them, certain things were getting check marks, half colored pink, half colored purple so you couldn't even understand what the damn thing meant anymore, unless you're Mike Derks who plays Balsac who's been with us since 'Scumdogs.' We went through this incredibly laborious process and then we sent it off to Glenn Robinson, who had produced so many great records but for us, he produced 'America Must Be Destroyed' and 'War Party.'
Then when it comes back from him and we all sit around, we looked at each other, hit play and you hear that first final mix and our jaws just hit the floor. We couldn't believe what he had done with our song(s) in a good way. In the first song he mixed, 'Mr. Perfect' is one of the more complicated songs on the record. It's got three-minute noise intro and then a weird spoken word outro. It's all over the place. I was just wondering how he was going to pull that together, when I heard it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' I have never heard Gwar sound like this before. I can't wait to get to the rest of the album. I knew at that point, we really had something special we were working with.
Obviously always a pleasure to have you on the show. We love having the mad minutes, wish you the best of luck with the record and the touring. I know I'll see you very soon.
I love you Jackie so much! Oderus Urungus would say the same thing but he would be talking about how much he would love to eat your spleen. I'm sure he likes you and everything, can't thank you enough for all the support you've given our band and all the mad minutes. We've got a lot of those now. Now that the record is all done and out there, we'll pick up the pace on the mad minutes and keep them coming. We got to turn those things into an incredible comedy album one of these days.
This coming weekend, Full Metal Jackie will welcome Slayer guitarist Kerry King on her show. Full Metal Jackie can be heard on radio stations around the country -- for a full list of stations, go to fullmetaljackieradio.com.


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Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- The young man locked eyes with Jerry Sandusky in a packed courtroom Tuesday and stared him down. He'd waited a long time for this moment.
"You were the person in my life who was supposed to be a role model," he seethed angrily at the man convicted of sexually violating him and nine other boys. "I can't begin to express how this has screwed up my life. Because of you, I trust no one and I will not allow my own child out of my sight for fear of what might happen to him."
He is known as Victim No. 4. He is 29 years old now.
When he was 11 or 12, he was the coach's favorite. Sandusky told the boy many times that he loved him.
He took him to places most kids only dream of going: inside the Penn State football team's locker room, where he dressed up in the uniforms of star players three times his size; to the sidelines at game time, where sports network cameras captured him by Sandusky's side; to bowl games and banquets, where he was treated like the team mascot.
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The attention made the boy feel special and important, but it came at a terrible price. Sandusky, Penn State's legendary defensive coordinator, was a serial child molester and the thing that brought them together, Sandusky's Second Mile charity was, in the words of the prosecutor, "a victim factory."
For years, the boy pushed dark thoughts to the back of his mind. He kept his secret, believing he was the only one. He didn't come forward when the Sandusky investigation began three years ago. But police combed through the coach's 2000 autobiography, "Touched," searching for potential victims and tracked him down.
Cpl. Joseph Leiter of the Pennsylvania State Police knocked on his door early in 2010. By then he was a young man with a son of his own.
"Go away," he said.
He was "very, very reluctant to talk," Leiter recalled during Sandusky's trial. "I remember he curled up in the fetal position at the end of his couch."
And he was "shaking and distraught" when he walked into the state police barracks a few weeks later, finally willing to talk, said his attorney, Ben Andreozzi.
"He viewed Jerry as a father figure, and it's been extremely difficult for him to talk publicly about this," the lawyer said.
No. 4 was perhaps the most devastating witness against the man he called "Jer." He'd kept photographs and the gifts Sandusky gave him -- snowboards, a drum set, ice hockey gear, team jerseys, sweats, goggles, shoes, an Orange Bowl watch, game balls and other memorabilia -- as well as cards and letters in which Sandusky poured his heart out in his most unguarded moments.
The boy's picture was in Sports Illustrated and Sandusky's biography. He starred in football training videos, demonstrating the moves that made Penn State famous as "Linebacker U."
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For a while, he got to be one of the cool kids. Sure, others teased him about Sandusky "all the time," he'd later say, but he'd just brush that off as jealousy.
"They're making things up like, oh, you know, you're being molested by Jerry and you're his little butt buddy and all these kinds of things, you know?" he testified at Sandusky's trial. "I'm sure they'd switch places with me in a heartbeat, but they're just jealous. You know how kids are."
As a teenager, he kept his secret buried deep. "If I had ever said anything and it had got out, it would have just been so much worse. I mean, I denied it forever. Forever."
The five years he spent with Sandusky weren't just about an older man's roving hand squeezing a boy's knee in the car, furtive groping and soapy bear hugs in the shower, or even the eventual, inevitable sex. It was a relationship, say experts who work with sex offenders and their victims.
For Sandusky, it might even have been a love affair. But for No. 4, it was a violation, a betrayal that will take a lifetime to get over. He took a giant step in the recovery process in court Tuesday, his lawyer said. He gave Sandusky a piece of his mind.
But if he was hoping for an apology, none was forthcoming from a man who insisted to the end that he was the victim. And without an apology, or even an acknowledgment, there can be no forgiveness.
"I don't forgive you for what you did," No. 4 said. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive you, but I hope that the others who were abused after me will forgive me for not coming forward sooner."
Sandusky: 'I've been me'
It's official: Sandusky, the 68-year-old retired football coach once considered Joe Paterno's heir apparent at Penn State, has been formally labeled a "sexually violent pedophile."
He did not fight the classification Tuesday, which was required under Pennsylvania's mandatory sex offender reporting rules, known as Megan's Law. But he didn't admit it, either. No, far from it.
Sandusky clearly sees himself as the victim of a vast conspiracy at the hands of boys he once mentored, the state attorney general's office and the powers that be at Penn State.
"They can take away my life, they can make me out as a monster, they can treat me as a monster, but they can't take away my heart," he said in a prerecorded jailhouse interview played on the campus radio station on the eve of his sentencing.
"In my heart, I know I did not do these alleged, disgusting acts. My wife has been my only sex partner and that was after marriage."
Jerry Sandusky takes to the airwaves
To the prosecutor, it was yet another depraved assault by Sandusky on his victims. "He went on the radio and whined about his own pain," said Joseph McGettigan III, who called out Sandusky's performance on the radio and again in court as "banal, self-delusional, completely untethered from reality. It was entirely-self-focused, as if he himself were the victim."
Usually taciturn, the white-haired prosecutor wasn't finished talking. "Ridiculous," he added. "An insult to human decency."
No. 4 had something to say about it as well. "Rather than take responsibility for your actions, you attacked us," he scolded Sandusky. "You have no morals."
When Sandusky's turn finally came to speak in court, there was little insight to be gained from his rambling, 15-minute soliloquy. There was no remorse, no apology, no accounting for his actions, good or bad. He did touch on a range of subjects: how he awoke on his 46th wedding anniversary and "knocked my head" on the cinder-block wall of his tiny cell; how he has "special inmate friends" in jail; how he hopes to be "a candle for others"; how he passes the time behind bars tending to his memories.
Many of those memories seemed disturbingly self-absorbed and childlike.
"I see me throwing thousands of kids up in the air" and tossing hundreds of water balloons, he said. "I see kids laughing and playing, and I see a big, lovable dog licking their faces and I feel warm."
At other times, he seemed to deliver his own eulogy:
"I've forgiven, I've been forgiven," he said. "I've comforted others, I've been comforted. I've been kissed by dogs, I've been bit by dogs. I've been a fighter, I've conformed, I've been different. I've been me."
He choked back sobs as he recalled a lesson learned by a grandson at preschool: "You get a crinkly heart when you're mean to others," he said, his voice quavering. "You get a big heart when you are kind to others."
He then returned to the defense table and slid his prepared remarks into a manila envelope.
Some observers said they saw Sandusky smirking. But his expression seemed to be that of a man confused by his legal predicament. In the end, the man who had fooled so many for so long and called himself "The Great Pretender" appeared to succeed only at hoodwinking himself.


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Auction, banquet slated Saturday night.
The Bethel FFA and 4-H will hold an annual auction and dinner this Saturday. The dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the auction at 6 p.m.
The location is at Bethel Public Schools in the old gym, at 36000 Clear Pond Road, Shawnee. The old gym is located right off of Clear Pond on the north side.
The groups reportedly have been working the last couple of months on getting donations for the auction, and building projects in the shop. There is also a silent auction held for smaller items that have been donated.
FFA and 4-H members serve the guests dinner, and during part of the auction some students are sold in the labor auction. They then help with whatever their buyer may need such as fixing fence or even doing smaller tasks.
This auction helps fund the Chapter throughout the rest of the year for activities that members attend and the speech contest the chapter hosts in the spring.
Tina Hanna, executive director of South Central Industries, is extending an invitation to Shawnee Community leaders to attend the Hassen Family Park Dedication, tour South Central facilities and meet the clients and staff.
She said South Central is hosting a Park Dedication on Friday, Nov. 22, from 9 a.m.-10 a.m. at 130 N. Louisa, downtown Shawnee.
She added "We sincerely hope you will be able to join us for a ribbon cutting and refreshments on this special day. Please feel free to call me at 405-275-3851."
Changes coming to the state's workers' compensation system will be outlined and questions answered during a free conference at Gordon Cooper Technology Center.
The interactive video conference sponsored by the American Subcontractors Association of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Bid Assistance Network is scheduled 1-3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14 at Gordon Cooper Technology Center, Interstate 40 and SH 18.
The conference speaker is attorney James Ferguson with the Oklahoma City law firm of Walker, Ferguson & Ferguson. James Ferguson's practice emphasizes workers' compensation defense. The presentation will last one hour including 30 minutes for questions.
Register for the conference online at www.asaok.com or call OBAN Coordinator David Hoffmeier at (405) 273-7493 ext. 2317.
Shawnee Electronic Recycling Day in recognition of America Recycles Day will be held on Saturday, Nov. 16 8:30 a.m.-2 pm. The dropoff location is: Direct Colors Inc., 430 E. 10th Street, Shawnee.
Accepted materials include: computers/laptops; computer peripherals; fax machines; printers; photocopiers; VCRs; home/office phones; consumer electronics (DVD players, alarm clocks, etc.); televisions, monitors, stereos, cell phones. For more information about this event and recycling in Shawnee, visit www.sustainableshawnee.org or call 275-6657
Duck hunting season is now in full force statewide with the opening of Zone 2 this past weekend.
Josh Richardson, migratory game bird biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, said waterfowl numbers "look very good" this year, although slightly down from the last two record-setting production years. In addition, improved habitat conditions over much of the state as a result of drought relief should have a positive impact on duck hunting.
"To our benefit, water conditions across most of the state have improved, and recent rains and forecasts of more to come continue to bode well," Richardson said. "This year it should be a little easier, as water levels have climbed back up to the vegetation level. Or, in areas still lagging behind on rainfall, the vegetation level has encroached out to the water level, providing better cover to hunt from."
Richardson added that field hunters should find corn and soybean crops and new wheat crops that benefitted from recent rains as well.
With over 1 million acres of surface water and a spot right in line with the Central Flyway, Oklahoma hunters who invest some time and effort into duck hunting generally have successful seasons. Except for a small split in the Zone 1 and 2 seasons that runs Dec. 1-14, Oklahoma sportsmen can hunt ducks for the rest of the year and into 2014. Full season dates, details and regulations can be found in the current "Oklahoma Waterfowl Guide," available free online at wildlifedepartment.com and in print where hunting licenses are sold.
"As always, hunters should check the regulations to see what has changed from previous years," Richardson said. "This year the canvasback limit has increased to two birds per day, while Canada geese have increased to eight birds per day and light geese increased to 50 birds per day. Scaup limits were reduced this year to three birds per day."
Duck seasons are generous, with opportunities to hunt a variety of duck species that spend time in Oklahoma during their annual southward migrations from their northern breeding grounds. Every summer the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes frameworks to states for structuring their migratory bird hunting seasons. The Service publishes the federal hunting season frameworks for these species after their meetings, and state wildlife agencies like the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation can then make their season selections within the federal framework guidelines.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT entered the fourth quarter with an 8-7 edge, but Babson College generated a 3-1 spurt during the last nine minutes of regulation to come away with a 10-9 victory in a Pilgrim Lacrosse League game on Saturday night. Morgan Krey posted a game-high five points on four goals and an assist for the Engineers (4-5, 2-1 Pilgrim) while Cam Caruso led the Beavers (6-6, 2-1 Pilgrim) with three goals and an assist.
Caruso opened the scoring 2:22 into the contest, but Dan Piemont buried a man-up goal for the equalizer just over a minute later. Babson responded with five unanswered goals which spanned the first and second quarters.
Piemont ended MIT's scoring drought by connecting on a feed from John Kucharczyk at the 9:49 mark of the second frame, but Babson's Tom Mallon increased his squad's margin to 7-2. Krey closed the first-half scoring by redirecting a pass from Nick Sisler with 1:15 remaining.
The Engineers carried the momentum into the third quarter by registering five straight goals which resulted in an 8-7 advantage. Kucharczyk scored after 30 seconds expired before Krey became a factor in the next four markers. He earned the assist on Piemont's tally and then scored the next three with Sisler picking up two assists and Kucharczyk providing the helper on the go-ahead goal.
At the nine-minute mark of the fourth quarter, Andrew Packer registered a man-up goal for the Beavers, which was matched by Kucharczyk's man-down tally a minute later. Packer then posted the equalizer with 5:44 on the clock and earned the assist on Jamie Schmidt's extra-man game-winner with 2:55 left in regulation. MIT had a pair of chances to force overtime during the final minute, but Piemont's shot was stopped by goalie James Whalen and Kucharczyk's blast sailed wide.
Sisler finished the night with four assists as Kucharczyk totaled two goals and two assists. Piemont posted a hat trick and two caused turnovers while Justin Myers recorded seven groundballs. Timothy Wilczynski notched five groundballs as Christopher Rullan compiled 13 saves and three groundballs.
Alex Patinkin tallied two goals and two assists while Packer registered two goals and an assist. Mallon, Ryan Kucinski, and Schmidt each scored once as Mallon added three groundballs. Ryan Dawidjan paced the Beavers with five groundballs as Caruso contributed four groundballs. Mike Griffin won six of his nine faceoffs while Whalen collected seven saves.


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French In Action "Entering School Zone III" Over their third aperitif, Robert and Mireille are discussing education. Neither notices that a strange man in black has taken an interest in their conversation.G
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French In Action "Fishing for An Invitation I" Robert manages to place a telephone call to Madame Courtois. She is a great talker, and Robert can't get a word in edgewise, but he does get a dinner invitation.G
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Western Tradition "Alexander The Great" For a brief moment, his empire rules the world from Greece to India.G
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Western Tradition "The Hellenistic Age" After the break-up of Alexander's empire, a series of Hellenistic kingdoms extends Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean world.G
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Discovering Psychology "Health, Mind, and Behavior" This episode examines how research is forcing a profound rethinking of the relationship between mind and body.A new bio-psychosocial model is replacing the traditional biomedical model.G
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Discovering Psychology "Applied Psychology" New innovative methods are applied to psychology professionals in areas concerning human behavior, law and conflict resolution.G
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DragonflyTV "Montana and Yellowstone" Nicole and Ellen dig up a dino bone at Egg Mountain and then head to the Museum of the Rockies to find out how old their dino was when it died. Phoebe and Shannon roam Yellowstone National Park investigating why some areas have geysers while others do not. And simmering under Montana, Wyoming and Idaho is a science secret of volcanic proportions. D
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Biz Kid$ "The Marketing Mix" Now that you've decided on your business product or service, how will you promote it? Let the Biz Kids help you understand your target market and learn about the four P's of business success: product, price, promotion, and placement. Learn how "Exclusive Cuts" barber services, "Wow, Take a Bow" dog grooming, and other businesses market their services and products. D
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Wishbone "Pantin' at the Opera" This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures intheir hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger hi s imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, the Henderson Library may be haunted by a former librarian. D
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Cyberchase "Lost My Marbles" (topic: Navigation) - A day at the library turns into a cyberventure when Jackie, Matt, and Inez learn that Hacker has kidnapped Dr. Marbles, the only person who can save Motherboard from an evil virus! The team learns to use a map as a mathematical tool as they navigate across a cyber island in search of Marbles.then try to escape before a huge earthquake turns the island inside out! The Big Idea: A map is a mathematical tool you can use to find your way from one place to another, anywhere on earth. D
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Quilting Arts "Functional Quilting" We all love to quilt - but not every piece belongs on the wall. It's fun to include quilting in the items we use every day. Debbie Grifka start out with a triangular shaped carry all pouch - perfect for carrying makeup and it features piping. D
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Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Pheasant in the Rough, Part 5" In this final episode Jerry shows how to paint in all of the final details and highlights like snow on fence post and rail plus final drifts up against weeds. The grand finale of detailing the pheasant with the smaller sable brushes. Then finishes with the script brush putting in final close-up tall weeds to seat the fence post and pheasant. D
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Cooking with Nick Stellino "Espresso Ribeye & Fried Green Tomatoes" Sometime in life, the most unexpected combination of flavors creates true culinary masterpieces. In this episode Chef Stellino does just that, a magic rub containing espresso turns a great steak into a work of art. Then Nick teaches us how to create a southern favorite, Fried Green Tomatoes. D
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Kevin Dundon's Modern Irish Food "Fish, Hunt and Harvest" Kevin prepares smoked mackerel with a blackcurrant Jus, Skeaghanore duck breast with black cherries, pickled wild mushrooms, sauteed garlic potatoes and to finish, a spiced apple with Killowen yogurt. D
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60s Girl Grooves (My Music) Join host Mary Wilson of the Supremes as she celebrates the great girl groups and solo singers of the 1960s, including archival performances by the Supremes, Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Petula Clark, and Martha & the Vandellas.G
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Finding My Crunchyroll Girl
Well lets say this isn't a tale about slaying Cosplayers dress up as dragons or picking up fantasy princesses from dungeon. This is about how long it took me to find my Crunchyroll girl.
It was just another day coming onto the crunchyroll home page and watching my typical anime like Campione,SAO,Dog Days and so on until i saw a amazing post.The post said that SailorBee is attending Awa con. I immediately knew awa con was in my state and immediately fantasy what it be like to meet someone i have seen on the crunchyroll front page more than once...I immediately bought my ticket and filed my days off. I was truelly excited because i haven't been to a Conn so long and never was old enough to stay over night so i went on the forums to gain that experience also.....
I was lucky enough to room with some great people like Taisa and Rick from the AWA Forums. My friends whom never been a Conn too was extremely excited when i invited them. SO I WAS LIKE THIS IS GOING BE OFF THE CHAIN. ^^ 1. Priority will be meeting crunchyroll girl EVERYTHING ELSE DOESN'T MATTER!.......
This is where that priority got very tough to manage. On my trip to AWA Conn where i suppose to pick up my friend i had a flat tire. It was aweful. Plus my Mom called me and told me that a friend family had someone past away. "I can't believe this is happening to me." then it started drizzling that thursday evening! T.T i was like GOD! A few AWA Staff members tried to help me out after I had to go on a insane car drive with a random Fanimatic. I felt so desperate to pick up my friend and get my car wheel fix.
The Fanimatic drove me to Auto Zone so i can get a CAN in A Wheel but that didn't fix the probably after trying 2 cars i had to make the attempt to go to a tire store and get a new tire. I accidentally took the wrong turn in the highway and got stuck at a BP knowing that I wont be able to make it .
I called a tow and they charge me this and that and had to ask another random girl that i barely talk to. TO do a favour for me! She definitely demanded that i own her something or she own me now or something like that but yet again being desperate to I was like sure whatever I just need her to pick up my friend that been waiting at work since 5pm.... She didn't arrive to me until 1030pm. That's a 5 hour waits! I felt like shit. But was still excited on meeting my crunchyroll girl. I just couldn't stop thinking about it! After we got to the room and meet rick and taisa i told them after today all I wanna do is meet my crunchyroll girl.
They were obviously clueless of who i was talking about but i was clueless too! I realize i didn't know her name! SUPER FAIL! So my explanation to them is it is the girl on the Crunchyroll home page doing prizing and podcast. They obviously didn't have a clue but they could figure out it was some famous chick!
The went to sleep dreaming about tomorrow after a horrible day! I woke up my friend and she was like yeah! i was like we have to get going or we won't be able to go to the dealer room before it gets packed. Everyone was telling me to calm down so i did. It was about 12 or 1 before we left after the opening ceremony and i couldn't find the table. I look all over the hotel and was like how do u hide a orange table.
I eventually found the table and no sight of my crunchyroll girl! At first they didn't know who i was talking about but eventually they told me her name was Victoria! They told me to circle around and i will see her but no luck. I didn't have time because there so many other things and events I wanted to do! So i said if i have time ill try again later! Ended up with no time after the 4 or 5th go around in the vendor room.Well after a long night of event and dancing we called it a night!
I wanted to have a head start for the next day so i woke up earlier than anyone to go to Super H Mart to grab some breakfast!. Got caught in traffic and then again another bad luck day! I got into a car accident just after fixing my wheels on Friday.
Didn't really look for Victoria this day because i was pretty sad that my car was gone! I went by like 3 times and they said she went off somewhere. Yet again i spend most of my day psying* until my friends took me to the gangnam style flash mob. It was so much fun learning I completely forgot about anything that happen that day! Went to a awesome rave and got to dance with some many people! Thank god for shy guys that can't dance its was like 3 to 1 in the rave.
Finally I made my last attempt Sunday before i had to leave and said no! I will waiting this time and she eventually came! I was so happy.
In the game like my life depended on it
Very happy to see you got to meet this Crunchyroll girl, good for you!
But man my eyes hurt from reading your post. Paragraphs man... paragraphs! I once did a paper like this in elementary and when I handed it in my teacher looked at me like she wanted to slap me. Never did that since.
Could you shorten that to about 3 sentences please.
My eyes hurt and my head feels all fuzzy after reading this.. it's nice that you found your CR girl but really, this was way to long!! If I didn't know better I would say you mistook the CR forum for your own personal blog!!
Only DEATH can cure STUPIDITY!!
Made the OP readable and fixed some errors to make things understandable.
@OP: Good on you, good on you... You should try smiling more, considering how excited you sounded. : )
It wasnt meant to be a long read or in blog form .... just supposes to summarizing events that lead to my crunchyroll girl! sorry sort of did this on the fly
In the game like my life depended on it
Well good thing you finally found her. It's funny I've seen her so many times at cons, but never felt that way about a Crunchyroll person. But I'm glad you got to meet her.
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holy biscuits that was a long read. i understand tenacity but dude, kinda stalkerish imo.
tl;dr but cool story bro Glad it worked out for you haha
The things we can't obtain are the most beautiful ones. -Gilgamesh (F/SN)
Well, someone likes to babble.
But, cool story bro?
1% evil. 99% fangirl.
I like stories with happy endings, good for you man.
Your optimism and tenacity should be admired. If it was me, after my car broke down I'd just be "screw this I'm going home."
Winter Is Coming.
didnt read but nice pic
When you really want something, the whole universe conspires to make it happen.
Ya I would of said screw it too and went home.... good thing you stuck it out.... I wish I was going to a convention of some sort. all I get to do when traveling is business meeting after business meeting.... and it really sucks cause its not about anime.. its about work. going to san diego on thursday till sunday... hope I can escape for a few.
You were very dedicated to meeting this crunchyroll girl I see. Way to go?
Good for you dude, glad to hear that everything worked out in the end and you got to meet that girl. Sorry to hear what happened to your car tho, sound like some serious bad luck.


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It is hard to believe that this is my last Girl Friday post of 2012, does anyone else feel like time is flying by?? When you see your life on paper (or a computer screen) it is much easier to remember the little details that make life sweeter and sometimes a little sour. Looking back over my blog and my entries of 2012 was definitely bittersweet. We had so many happy days, but another year has come and gone!!
We had a great Christmas and the festivities are still going on.
My sister is in town until tomorrow, we have a few days of down time, then my sister in law and her family come for 5 days.
During our "down time" we have NYE to celebrate. We have a friends' party that night and I like to ring in the new year with a little sparkle.
If you are in need of a little sparkle, look no further...
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Don't forget the accessories!!
I am obsessed with the Free People sparkle pants, they would be perfect for our party!!
Here's to a beautiful and sparkly 2013!!


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The German Cookie Caper
Someone purporting to be the "Cookie Monster" claims to have stolen the golden Leibniz Cookie logo from atop the Hannover, Germany offices of Bahlsen GmbH, maker of the famous rectangular butter cookie embossed with the Leibniz name. As WSJ's Laura Stevens reports, the thief appears to have had a purpose.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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2013 Audi Melges 20 Sailing Series Back In Portoferraio
7 June 2013
Portoferraio, Italy - The 2013 Audi Melges 20 Sailing Series is back this weekend taking place in Portoferraio, Italy. Twenty-six teams will actively participate and enjoy the biggest and the best in one design racing on Saturday and Sunday.
All attention will be focused on current Series leader Achille Onorato aboard Mascalzone Latino Jr. as he will attempt to defend his leadership gained in Porto Ercole.
It will not be an easy game for the 'mascalzoni' team, as the Audi Melges 20 fleet seems to be more fierce than ever. Teams such as Guido Miani's Out of Reach, Alessandro Rombelli's STIG, Federico Albano on 3Menda and Mirko de Falco on Pecceré will be looking to make a move on the fleet and advance in the overall Series standing.
A substantial number of foreign teams have made their way back to the Italian arena including Rob Wilber on Cinghiale flying English colors. Andrea Pozzi will helm in place of American Russ Lucas aboard Shimmer. The fleet is thrilled to welcome the first ever boat representing the Czech Republic, Aloha helmed by Jan Kuchar.
The 2013 Audi Melges 20 Sailing Series is organized by B-Plan Sport&Events in full collaboration with the International Audi Melges 20 Class Association and Melges Europe. A maximum of six races are scheduled over the next two days.
The remaining Series events are Torbole (6-7 July) and Porto Rotondo (29 August - 1 September) where the very first Audi Melges 20 European Championship will take place.
1.) Jan Kuchar/Martin Trcka, Aloha
2.) Jurgen Fuchs/Corinna Fuchs, Hellcat
3.) Robert Wilber/Anthony Kotoun, Cinghaile
4.) Achille Onorato/Lorenzo Bressani, Mascalzone Latino, Jr.
5.) Dario Levi/Andrea Casale, Fremito D'Arja
6.) Alessandro Rombelli/Paul Goodison, STIG
7.) Claudio Dutto/Fabio Zeni, Asante Sana
8.) Mirko de Falco/Guglielmo Giordano, Peccerè
9.) Vincenzo Adessi/Dario Desiderio, Raffichetta
10.) Michele Dandolo/Fabio Montefusco, Tachicardia
11.) Luca Carafa/Filippo D'Arrigo, Shut Up
12.) Lauro Bonora/Carlo Fracassoli, Camay
13.) Valter Campanile/Niccolo Bianchi, Nellaria 20
14.) Francesco Farneti/Alberto Bolzan, ITA-157
15.) Stefano Santucci/Andrea Fornaro, Tomahawk
16.) Saverio Bifulco/Paolo Scutellaro, Noi di Notte
17.) Manfredi Vianini Tolomei/Lorenzo Bodini, Maolca
18.) Simone Anichini, Henneken
19.) Marco Zaoli/Gabrio Zandona, Shadow
20.) Marco Franchini/Sandro Montefusco, Mezza Luna
21.) Giancarlo Capolino/Francesco Ivaldi, Legionario
22.) Federico Albano/Giulio Desiderato, 3Menda
23.) Renato Vallivero/Enrico Fonda, Audi Turnover
24.) Guido Miani/Gabriele Benussi, Out of Reach
25.) Andrea Pozzi/Chris Rast, Shimmer
26.) Wes Whitmeyer/Maxwell Fraser, Slingshot
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Rio+20: A voice from Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ahmed Swapan Mahmud is an activist and researcher, and executive director and founder of Voice
guardian.co.uk, Friday 15 June 2012 10.21 BST
To meet the development goals, a human rights-based approach, gender equality, decent work, and environment and ecological protection should be at the heart.
Since 1992, the global economy has become more accumulative and centralised, which goes against the principles of sustainable development goals. A series of crises such as climate, food, power, energy and financial emerged due to overexploitation of natural resources, overconsumption and the capitalist nature of the economy.
Most of the world's resources are in the hands of around 5% of the richest people. Thus, in the past two decades, marginalisation – the rich and poor divide – has increased. So, the development goals must assert social and economic equality, and environmental protection. The green economy cannot solve the problem until the current architecture is changed.
Bangladesh has made economic progress with constant GDP growth of 6% in the past few years, but the rich and poor divide has increased and climate change becomes an issue that makes life more vulnerable than before.
Rio+20 must deal with how the international leadership comes to a consensus to resolve the crises and help the south, as they committed [to do] earlier, under the millennium development goals. A forward-looking vision for post-2015 should be at the core of discussions in Rio to deal with the unfinished business of commitments that global leaders made before.
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Barack Obama gave a speech on patriotism today in Missouri. As always when Obama waxes "eloquent," the media swooned. And, as always, the speech raised interesting questions if you actually read it.
The implicit premise of the speech was that Obama's patriotism is being widely questioned. As far as I've seen, that isn't true. What has happened is that Obama's judgment and political ideology have been questioned because he has chosen to associate himself closely with people who manifestly are not patriotic, like Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.
In his speech today, Obama said that America "is the greatest country on Earth." I'm happy to assume he means it, although whether Obama ever means what he says is an open question. But how, then, did Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright become Obama's spiritual guardian for twenty years? And how do we reconcile Obama's "greatest country on earth" rhetoric with the cynical comment by his political sponsor Bill Ayers on Ayers' own acquittal: "Guilty as sin, free as a bird. What a great country!" Obama failed to acknowledge, let alone answer, the questions that are raised by these associations.
To the crowd's applause, Obama vowed that "I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign." That's big of him, I guess–he won't try to tell us that John McCain is unpatriotic. Although, actually, his campaign surrogates have done just that. And it's worth noting that in the small-minded, partisan jabs against President Bush that he needlessly inserted into the speech, Obama came perilously close to questioning the patriotism of our current President. That kind of mean-spirited pettiness is sadly typical of Obama.
Finally, Obama's surprising ignorance of American history, on which we have commented a number of times, was again on display. As a liberal, Obama sees patriotism mostly in dissent. In fact, rather than asserting that dissent may be patriotic, he seems to assume, perversely, that opposing one's own government is always patriotic. His version of the history of the 1960s is hilariously inverted:
In the early years of the civil rights movement and the opposition to the Vietnam War, defenders of the status quo often accused anybody who questioned the wisdom of government policies of being unpatriotic.
Meanwhile, some of those in the so-called counter-culture of the '60s reacted not merely by criticizing particular government policies, but by attacking the symbols, and in extreme cases the very idea of America itself, by burning flags; by blaming America for all that was wrong with the world; and, perhaps most tragically, by failing to honor those veterans coming home from Vietnam, something that remains a national shame to this day.
This is the reverse of what actually happened. Antiwar, anti-American activists burned American flags, blamed America for everything that went wrong in the world, and attacked veterans. Normal Americans concluded, correctly, that these anti-Americans were not patriotic. Contrary to Obama's naive assumption, "dissent" is not always a good thing.
Then there's this:
I remember, when living for four years in Indonesia as a child, I listened to my mother reading me the first lines of the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
I would have thought that pretty much everyone–certainly every Presidential speechwriter, and every Harvard Law School graduate!–knows that these are not the "first lines" of the Declaration, which begins, "When in the course of human events…." What, exactly, accounts for the fact that Obama is not a laughingstock?
Finally, this:
As we begin our fourth century as a nation, it is easy to take the extraordinary nature of America for granted.
"Fourth century?" The United States of America came into being in 1789. We have just recently begun our third century. I suppose Obama would say that the 21st century is America's fourth, just as Minnie Minoso played major league baseball in five decades. As always with Obama's howlers, you should ask yourself: would the press have bought it if it came from Dan Quayle?
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TALENT — Oregon's Government Ethics Commission has voted to drop an investigation into allegations that City Manager Tom Corrigan improperly benefited when city workers installed panels on the side of a personal trailer he was using to haul trees to a city nursery.
Commissioners voted 5-1 in Salem Friday to drop the case despite a staff recommendation to move to investigation.
Joe Strahl, who oversees city engineering under a contract, filed the complaint on April 8. Public Works Superintendent Lester Naught and employees Bret Marshall and Chance Metcalf also signed the complaint. "I wished they had gone forward," Strahl said Monday. "I'm disappointed. I think a lot of misinformation that was out there could have been resolved by doing an investigation."
Corrigan and attorney Lauren Sommers of the Local Government Law Group, which represents the city, attended the session in Salem. The Talent City Council had earlier agreed to supply legal counsel for Corrigan in the matter. "I would compliment the ethics commission on their work," said Corrigan. "It is a very difficult job. They are very diligent in their pursuits. I appreciate the job they have to do and the conclusion that they reached."
Commissioners felt they had enough information to decide against going forward, said commission Executive Director Ron Bersin. The meeting was a closed executive session and Bersin would not discuss the reasoning behind the commission's action.
"There are times that the staff here will recommend to move (an investigation) forward. We may want to know more information," said Bersin. "I believe (the commissioners) got all the information they needed to get their decision."
The complaint alleged that Corrigan benefited financially when wooden panels were fitted to his trailer by Metcalf and Marshall. Corrigan was bringing trees on the trailer from his property in Sams Valley to a tree nursery established by the city's Together for Talent Committee.
Corrigan paid for the panels, but Metcalf and Marshall spent an estimated 51/2 hours on procurement and installation in late February.
According to information cited in a staff report:
- Corrigan donated more than 100 trees to the project. Larger ones that had to be hauled on the trailer about 40 miles arrived wind-buffeted and defoliated.
- City staff recommended the panels and offered to install them using scrap metal brackets, the report notes. The brackets have been returned to the city.
- When contacted by the ethics commission in mid-April, both Metcalf and Marshall indicated they felt pressured to sign the complaint and, given more time for consideration, might not have signed. They felt Strahl had a "personal vendetta" against Corrigan.
The employees also said the work was performed to protect the trees while in transit.
But Strahl said he did not regret pursuing the case. "I had to do what I did. I did the right thing. My obligation to the city of Talent and those employees is satisfied," said Strahl. "It was up to the commission and they chose not to pursue it further."
Strahl's complaint also indicated that Corrigan advised Strahl during a meeting before the installation that he was "the sole person in charge at the city and that his authority was not to be questioned."
Corrigan would not discuss specifics in the report. Strahl had not seen the report and also declined to talk further about details. Naught declined to comment on the commission ruling.
Tony Boom is a freelance writer living in Ashland. Reach him at email@example.com.


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Escorted by security and a tour guide, Kim, Kourtney and Rob Kardashian along with Scott Disick, little Mason, momager Kris Jenner and youngest sisters Kylie and Kendall Jenner enjoyed a VIP excursion on Disneyland's It's a Small World ride on Tuesday.
The Kardashians really do live in one big fantasyland.
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Lindsay Lohan Arrested For Fighting
Lindsay Lohan was arrested around 4 a.m. Thursday (November 29) at New York City hotspot Avenue.
The 26-year-old actress allegedly got into a fight and punched a female at the club, reports TMZ.
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Lindsay is already in legal trouble – she lied to cops saying that she was a passenger in the Porsche when actually she was driving during a car accident on Pacific Coast Highway in June.
At the time of this post Lindsay is still at the police station.
Over the weekend, Lindsay's TV movie Liz & Dick scored Lifetime a total of 3.5 million viewers.


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September 2013 Dr. VernPosted in Features on August 27, 2013
Of all the various indignities inflicted upon me over the years, the worst was when I realized my son wasn't really my own. Granted, he looks like me and is polite and charming, i.e., acts like me, but I discovered proof that I've been unknowingly raising some other guy's offspring. Recently, the two of us (my son and I, not this other mystery guy) were at a stoplight. With two lanes and Jersey barricades blocking any side traffic until the next light a quarter of a mile away, it was like staring down a bona fide drag strip. With a Chevy 350 and 4.27 gears, my '63 Willys wagon is no slouch off the line, but I was only there to watch the show. To our left was a sleek Porsche bristling with go-fast goodies.
I thought it would be a crying shame if the Porsche driver didn't take advantage of this opportunity. The light turned green, and the other driver was clearly thinking the same thing. When I finally caught him waiting at the next light, I couldn't help but smile. All was well with the world, until the young man beside me proved he wasn't mine: "Why did he waste those resources to drive so fast, knowing he'd still have to wait at the next light like us?"
Even if my son didn't inherit my motorhead gene, where did I go wrong raising him? I taught him right from wrong. He learned never to get a tattoo anywhere a judge could see it. And most importantly for a young man's development, I proudly displayed a framed portrait of Ronald Reagan on the fireplace mantel. (Editor's note: What was he doing up there when you took the picture?)
I blame Al Gore and public schools for scaring the next generation into thinking the world will stop turning if, amongst other things, we don't all scrap our cars and ride public transportation. I am reminded of a quote by a good friend: "The primary purpose of public transportation is to get other cars off the road so I can drive faster." Wise words indeed. Personally, I've got nothing against public transportation on a theoretical level. It's just that I've encountered far too many psychopaths on the subway.
Make public transportation better by identifying sociopaths
As a public service, I am freely offering my plan to keep antisocial types safely away from the rest of us. After undergoing a simple one-time screening process, you'd be assigned to ride in the normal or nutjob section. Ridership would grow by leaps and bounds, as the wackos would no longer make the rest of us feel threatened.
Before I explain this latest idea, I must admit that some of my past attempts didn't quite work out for the benefit of mankind as I had hoped. For the embarrassed owners of Jeeps with square headlights, it turns out covering your head with a bag creates a safety issue, no matter how carefully you align the eyeholes. In my defense, this was only a problem while in motion. My latest idea will most certainly work, though, because it's so startlingly simple.
So how can we make public transportation better by identifying sociopaths—the people who sadistically enjoy making others suffer? Simply place a help wanted ad for an auto parts store and see who answers. Years ago this test wouldn't have covered everybody because one was expected to have at least some rudimentary automotive experience if applying—but apparently this isn't a prerequisite anymore.
I can safely say this because every parts clerk I've met recently doesn't know much about cars, but still looks down his nose at me in my humble quest for Jeep parts. While finding parts for an old Jeep is never easy, the crusty old guys behind the counter at my old neighborhood store seemed to enjoy the challenge and took good care of me. Apparently California even named a famous wine-growing region after this chain. After all, automotive parts purveyor is a noble and honorable profession, ranking right up there with UPS driver for that magical ability to put Jeep parts in my hands.
Of course, all good things must end. At my new neighborhood, I'm at the mercy of an endless stream of skateboard punks behind the counter at the only parts store in town. I thought I was going to be banned for life when an old brake cylinder core had the audacity to leave a couple of drops on their color-coordinated countertops. Judging by the clerk's reaction, I must have had horns growing on my head the time I asked for a 6-volt battery for my '48 CJ-2A. Sometimes I make the long drive to my old store just for the great service.
Oh well, life's not all bad. Back to my alleged son, at least he's slowly coming around. Remembering the fun we've had with my old Jeep, he keeps dropping hints he'd like to inherit it someday, which brings a tear to my eye. All that time must have done him some good, as he keeps suggesting other outdoor activities, too. Sweet guy that he is, he got me a gift certificate for unlimited jumps with Bubba's Discount Skydiving Service. It still must have been a little spendy, as my son said he won't be able to join me.
- Dr.Vern