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There's another new pair of twins in the world receiving some quilts from me - two cute little boys, Cameron and Hunter. Needless to say, I've got no shortage of cute fabrics for little boys, including a ton of leftover fabric from the twin quilt I made last year for my son's big boy bed, so I raided my stash, paired it with some Kona solids, went to town, and came up with my 4th and 5th quilt finishes of the year. Must keep the momentum going...
These quilts were incredibly easy to piece together, I went with a simple stacked coin-style quilt, using different sized coins and extra wide sashing strips. Some of the coins were fussy cut, but most were actual scraps from the twin sized quilt. This quilt was made 110% from my stash, which was a nice surprise. It's so nice to have things organized and be able to shop at home!
I tried to give the quilts a little bit of unique personality, though I worry that I didn't make them unique and different enough from each other. The backs are totally different, however, thanks to some super bright Kona solids I used. I'm really feeling solids at the moment, I totally see an all-solid quilt in my future.
Quilt Stats
Name(s): Stacked Robots for Cameron and Hunter
Size: 52" x 56" (each)
Fabrics: David Walker's Robots collection, as well as some random Heather Bailey's Bijoux, Lizzy House's Castle Peeps, and Moda Marble Dots for the binding
Quilting: All-over meandering stipple


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The Beaver Solution: Beaver Dams Instead of Concrete Dams
What is the beaver solution? It is an alternative to concrete dams in areas with little summer rain.
The Land Council recommends the reintroduction of Beavers in Washington, where they can make an important contribution to the ecosystem.
Beavers will build dams which store water in the wet season, and then slowly release it, increasing water flow in creeks well into the late summer.
Turning Scarcity Into Abundance: Vandana Shiva on how indigenous water conservation know-how is bringing back sufficiency—and even abundance.

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Why Are Parents Ordering Fewer Happy Meals These Days? — Dollars and Sense
Sales of Happy Meals and other children's meals that come with a toy inside the box have declined six percent over the past five years. So has all the information about childhood obesity finally sunk in with parents?
A lot of attention has been paid in recent years to the sometimes insidious marketing techniques used by fast food restaurants to engender brand loyalty in even the youngest of consumers.
States like California have filed lawsuits to stop McDonald's from including toys in kids' meals, and some childhood obesity experts have even compared Ronald McDonald to Joe Camel, the cartoon character allegedly created to make smoking look cool.
But while the sales of children's meals have dropped steadily since 2007, analysts note that there's no data indicating kids are actually eating less fast food — only that parents aren't ordering things specially designed for little ones. Many believe they've instead switched to getting items off the dollar menu instead to save money.
And restaurant analyst Bonnie Riggs said some children just don't want the meals that are the equivalent of sitting at a kids' table during holiday dinners. "They've become more sophisticated in their palettes," she added. "They're looking for smaller versions of some of the things mom and dad order."


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Have you ever wondered what it is that causes you to feel completely worn out after traveling from coast to coast? Let's face it, it would be so much easier if you arrived at your destination already adapted to the local time zone. However, many find themselves nodding off while behind the wheel of long-term car rentals.
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Doctors at Oxford University may have found something referred to as "molecular breaks," which are believed to be the cause behind drowsiness related to traveling across time zones. In fact, they even discovered that there is a way to reverse the effects - in mice - and allow the brain to adapt to the local time. Researchers who led the study are hopeful that the information they have uncovered may provide support toward creating a new drug that counters jet lag.
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However, it may be some time until medications are available to help the body adapt to a drastic time change. So, what's there to do in the meantime? Some individuals have experienced success in changing their schedules a few days before departure to the destination they will be traveling to. Depending on how great the difference in time is, this may not be practical. Instead, be sure to avoid too much caffeine upon arrival and hit the local gym.


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New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has drawn plenty of ire in the baseball world as he continues to fight his 211-game suspension from Major League Baseball for allegedly using performance-enhancing drugs.
But MLB Network analyst Peter Gammons took the villainization of Rodriguez too far during a radio interview Thursday.
While speaking with ESPN Radio's Mike Lupica, Gammons said people within the New York Yankees organization say Rodriguez "wants to blow up the world. You know, he's like the marathon bombers. It's just, he's going to get them."
It's unclear whether someone in the Yankees organization made this comparison to Gammons or whether the longtime baseball analyst made the comparison himself. Regardless, he shouldn't have said it.
Rodriguez might be making a vain attempt to rebuild his tattered baseball legacy, but he shouldn't be compared to killers.
Gammons later apologized on Twitter for his remarks:
@dianagram @SI_ExtraMustard Stupidly worded comp of blowing up a process. He is owed, and gets my apology for mispeaking
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) November 21, 2013
@craigcalcaterra It was a stupid, poorly worded comp of blowing up a process. Alex would never hurt a human. I hope I haven't hurt him


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Lions secure Championship future
Millwall guaranteed a third successive season in the npower Championship by beating play-off hopefuls Leicester 2-1.
The Lions trounced City at the King Power Stadium earlier in the season and completed the double with their third win on the trot.
Millwall spent much of the opening exchanges on the back foot but took the lead after 23 minutes when Harry Kane lashed home.
On-loan goalkeeper Maik Taylor did superbly to keep out a fierce David Nugent effort as the visitors threatened, although Andy Keogh's penalty put Millwall further ahead 10 minutes into the second half.
Leicester substitute Danny Drinkwater fired home in the 82nd minute, although it proved a mere consolation to leave the Foxes six points shy of the play-offs.
Millwall named the same side that won 1-0 at Portsmouth for the game, while City brought Paul Gallagher and Andy King into their starting line-up.
It was the visitors who began brightest in south London and would have taken an early lead had Jermaine Beckford managed to prod a Nugent header goalwards.
The former Everton striker wasted another opportunity minutes later when he broke free on the right flank, only for a poor touch to allow Paul Robinson to get in a clearing tackle.
Millwall were forced into last-ditch defending to keep City at bay but came close at the other end through Kane, who almost directed home a James Henry free-kick at the far post.
The 18-year-old made amends for his missed opportunity in the 23rd minute by firing the hosts ahead.
Henry floated in a free-kick from the right side and, after City failed to clear in a penalty-box melee, the on-loan Tottenham man fired home.
Only a fine point-blank save from Taylor prevented Nugent grabbing an immediate leveller, although City almost fell further behind as the hosts counter-attacked.
Kane collected the ball and was through on goal before Souleymane Bamba's last-gasp challenge thwarted him as he shaped to shoot.
Bamba's defensive partner Wes Morgan soon had a shot blocked by Shane Lowry at the other end, which came after attempts by Nugent and Lee Peltier.
Paul Konchesky curled a 20-yard free-kick over in the second half as Leicester continued to press, although they fell further behind in the 55th minute.
Kane was brought down in the box by Konchesky when collecting a squared pass from Andy Keogh, who scored the resulting penalty with a cheeky chipped effort.
"We are staying up" echoed around the Den as the Lions played neat passes and tested the Leicester back line with increasing regularity.
Their growing confidence was epitomised with 15 minutes remaining when Josh Wright collected the ball 35 yards from goal and sent in an exquisite half-volley that clipped the top of bar.
Leicester ensured a nervy end to proceedings when Drinkwater fired home from 20 yards with eight minutes remaining, but the Lions held out for victory.
Millwall 2-1 Leicester: Match Report - view commentary, squad, and statictics of the game as it happened.
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Texas Rangers place LHP Michael Kirkman on 15-Day Disabled List; Purchase the contract of RHP Kle McClellan from Triple-A Round Rock
The Texas Rangers today announced the following roster moves:
--Placed LHP Michael Kirkman on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Friday
The Texas Rangers today announced the following roster moves:
--Placed LHP Michael Kirkman on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Friday
--Purchased the contract of RHP Kyle McClellan (#37) from Triple-A Round Rock
--Transferred RHP Joakim Soria from the 15 to the 60-day disabled list to make room for McClellan on 40-man roster
Kirkman has a recurrence of a cutaneous lymphoma located in the area of his right triceps. He is expected to begin treatment shortly and will be able to participate in baseball activities during this time. A complete recovery is anticipated, but there is no timetable for his return.
The Rangers ask everyone to respect Michael's and his family's privacy during this time.
McClellan, who turns 29 next Wednesday, is 1-0 with a 2.57 ERA (7.0 IP, 8 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 9 SO) and 2 saves in 4 opportunities in 6 relief appearances with the Express. He has allowed one run in 4.0 innings over his last 4 appearances beginning May 28. That includes his last 2 outings, June 3-4 vs. Nashville (0 R/2.0 IP). Left-handed batters are 0-for-10 off him at Round Rock.
McClellan was signed by Texas as a minor league free agent on January 15, 2013 and came to major league spring training camp as a non-roster invitee. He made just one appearance before being sidelined on March 16 with a strained right lat muscle. McClellan opened the season on Round Rock's disabled list before being activated and assigned to Double-A Frisco on May 16. He made 2 scoreless relief appearances (2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 BB, 2 SO) before his promotion to Round Rock on May 20.
McClellan is 19-23 with a 3.69 ERA in 261 games/17 starts, all with St. Louis from 2008-13. He appeared in just 16 games for the Cardinals in 2012 (0-1, 5.30) before undergoing surgery to repair a frayed labrum and split in his right shoulder capsule on July 10. His last appearance for the Cardinals was last May 17. He won a career high 12 games for the 2011 World Champion Cardinals in 43 games/17 starts. McClellan was originally selected by St. Louis in the June 2002 First Year Player Draft.
Soria has spent the entire 2013 season on the disabled list as he continues to rehab from "Tommy John" ligament replacement surgery on April 3, 2012. His progress was delayed by a pectoral strain in May but he has resumed throwing bullpens at the Rangers complex in Surprise, AZ.
Kirkman is 0-2, 8.18 in 25 relief appearances with the Rangers in 2013.


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- Customer Service Representative
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Customer Service Representative
Customer Service Representatives are enthusiastic and bright team members who articulate and sell the 'out of this world' feeling of indoor skydiving in an upbeat and confident way. CSRs have strong communication skills and exceptional customer service attitude and are the first point-of-contact for most iFLY customers.
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• Greeting customers with a positive and friendly attitude, getting them excited about the experience, and assisting them with their reservation in a timely and effective manner
• Attracting potential customers by answering product and service questions, suggesting information about our other services, and clarifying the concept of our unique product
• Maintaining a professional demeanor and speaking with articulation during face-to-face or phone interactions with potential customers
• Ability to multi-task while attending to high volumes of phone calls and customers in tunnel. Answering phones, processing new reservations, and re-scheduling existing reservations
• Sales and up-selling. Recommending different product upgrades that best fit the customer's needs
• Resolving product/service problems by clarifying the customer's complaint, selecting the best solution to solve the problem, expediting the correction and following up to ensure resolution
• Maintaining customer's financial accounts and correctly processing payments
• Additional duties include, and are not limited to: stocking merchandise, cleaning and maintaining the facility, operating and controlling the wind tunnel, and inventory control
• Customer service focus required
• Experience in retail sales or hospitality, as well as point-of-sale technology
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• Friendly, upbeat, compassionate, personable
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• Must be self-starter, detail-orientated and able to organize and prioritize. Tact, discretion, and good judgment are required to maintain positive relationships with co-workers and customers
• Basic computer skills required
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Funeral services have been announced for the Brewster man who was killed early Saturday in a hit-and-run incident on I-84 in Danbury.
Daniel "Danny" Crawford, Jr. was 32 years old.
Born on Jan. 11, 1986 in Danbury, he was the son of Daniel Sr. and Susan (Weizenecker) Crawford. of Brewster. He graduated from Brewster High School and continued his education, receiving an associated degree.
Danny could often be found in the local reservoirs fishing with his friends, it was a great passion and hobby of his. He was a people person and will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
Danny is not only survived by his parents, Daniel and Susan, but also his siblings; Kimberly Crawford of Pawling, Timothy Crawford of Brewster and Kelly Crawford of Brooklyn, and his nephew Brayden Bauer
A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, April 11 at St. Lawrence O' Toole Cemetery in Brewster at 10 a.m. Interment will immediately follow the service.
Family and friends may call the Beecher Funeral Home, 1 Putnam Avenue, Brewster, NY on Tuesday, April 10 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
In lieu of flowers contributions in memory of Danny may be made to the Putnam Humane Society.
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Just a few minutes after 10:00 am PST, nearly all of our suspicions about the new iPhone were confirmed. As Phil Schiller flipped through the slideshow, everyone watching seemed to react like the kid who shook his Christmas presents too much and ruined the surprise. Due in part to a large number of leaks during the production phase, we had a good idea of what was going to be announced today — but now that all the little details are out, there a handful of improvements we didn't anticipate. You can get a good idea from the photos, but here's a quick list of some of the standout new specs:
- The iPhone 5 will be 18 percent thinner than the iphone 4S, and will weigh in at 112 grams (20 percent lighter than the 4S)
- The phone will be a bit longer than older models, with a 4-inch, 1136×640 pixel display. This will allow another row of apps to appear on the first page.
- Additionally, there will be an improved camera and additional microphones, making for vastly better A/V capture
- Apple has also decided to ditch the old 30-pin connector in favor of the new "lightning" connector, which is smaller and considerably faster
Check out our complete rundown of the iPhone 5.


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Features of the Tumble Forms 2 Deluxe Floor Sitter & Feeder Seat Positioner:
Originally developed for feeding, the Feeder Seat can be used for any short-term activity in the home, clinic or school. It's a great alternative to the child's wheelchair or stander. Easy to get the child in and out of, the Feeder Seat Positioner allows good basic positioning without complicated adjustments. It comes in four sizes to accommodate infants through adolescents and multiple colors.
• Shoulder harness slots allow 4" of vertical adjustment of the shoulder straps to accommodate children of different heights.
• Contoured interior has a 90° seat-to-back relationship to provideposturally correct seating.
• A 45° hip strap and quick-release H-belt help maintain child's position.
• Seamless coverings are washable, odor, urine and stain-resistant and nontoxic.
Includes both the Feeder Seat Positioner and the Floor Sitter Wedge. The wedge can be used to position the Feeder Seat Positioner in an upright or a reclined position suitable for the child's activity. A Velcro® brand hook and loop system holds the seat securely, allowing instant adjustability. See sizing chart below to determine size needed.
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Wit Industries Fendor Bendor 3
The other night I went out for a midnight thrash on my track bike and was met quite the downpour. Ok, scratch that. It was absolutely pissing.
I took refuge under a bridge for a while on my way to a bar, waiting for the downpour to pass. I don't mind riding in the rain, but if I'm going somewhere where I'll be surrounded by pretty girls, I'd prefer to not have a coon stripe of Shanghai street grime running up my rear. After the rain passed, I continued on my way to the watering hole simultaneously watering my uh, arse.
Wit Industries has the perfect solution for situations like this: the Fendor Bendor 3. I'll definitely be picking one up and stashing it in my bag for the surprise storm. Did I mention it's foldable? Brilliant.


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Trustees give thanks for ability to serve
Members of the Ionia Public Schools Board of Education recognized members Tim Hemenway and Michael Keast at Monday's meeting.
At their final meeting as board members, the pair expressed their thanks to their fellow members and the district that allowed them to serve. Each received a small token of appreciation.
Hemenway, who has served on the board for 11 years, chose not to run for re-election this fall. Keast has served since the spring of this year and was not re-elected in this year's election.
During business actions, the board approved a motion to comply with seven of eight of the state's "best practices," which will provide $52 per pupil. The chosen practices include the district being a designated policy holder for medical benefits; hosting competitive bids on non-instructional services; accepting applications for enrollment by non-resident applicants; the district using online assessments to report competency and pupil academic growth; the district providing the opportunity for students to receive postsecondary credit while attending secondary school; offering online instructional programs; providing a link to the MiSchoolData Portal on the district Web site and to provide heath and physical education consistent with the policy from the state board.
In other news, the board approved a motion to allow the members of the varsity wrestling team to participate in an overnight trip to Gladwin to participate in a tournament Jan. 12. There is no cost to the district.
In other agenda business, IPS Financial Director Don Wilcox said two bills that may pass in Michigan, including the Repeal of the Personal Property Tax bill and the Cap on the School Bond Loan Fund bill, have the potential to significantly impact school funding. More details will be known in February, as Gov. Rick Snyder is expected to release his budget proposal, Wilcox added.
During public comment, Ionia High School teacher Jeff Marion said he wanted to reiterate the goal of the United Ionia Teachers and also wanted to present information that $20,000 was spent by the district to use a third party negotiator for contract negotiations. He said because the money could go far in the classroom, he hopes the board will speak directly with the teachers' bargaining team.
In addition, Welch High School and IHS teacher Crystal Walcutt said the $20,000 could help her students by purchasing technology used for learning purposes.
In other news, the board members and meeting attendees participated in a moment of silence for the victims of the school shooting that took place Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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Freescale Semiconductor introduces two final-stage LDMOS RF power transistors giving designers a choice between discrete and integrated circuit (IC) solutions. This choice, along with two accompanying reference designs, offers designers greater flexibility and speeds time to market. The new transistors are optimized for use in power amplifiers based on Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA), a third-generation wireless standard that is being widely deployed throughout China and also is being considered in other markets.
Freescale's advanced high-efficiency devices include the MRF7P20040H LDMOS FET and the MD7IC2050N multi-stage integrated power amplifier IC. Freescale's simultaneous introduction of two reference designs based on Doherty architecture speeds manufacturers' ability to create compact, cost-effective, high performance base station transceiver products for TD-SCDMA networks.
"Freescale continues its leadership in LDMOS RF technology by offering high performance solutions for customers using TD-SCDMA wireless technology in China," said Gavin Woods, Vice President and General Manager of Freescale's RF Division. "Freescale is applying its knowledge and leadership in RF power technology to support the specific requirements of TD-SCDMA as the technology is rapidly deployed throughout China."


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"A gay couple is livid after allegedly being turned away by a guesthouse because the lodge did not have a policy on homosexuals. Lindani Mchunu and a gay friend, Lebogang Modise, feel downhearted and discriminated against because they were forced to drive through the night after they were allegedly rejected by the management at Dikolobe Guesthouse in Seabe village, northeast of Pretoria.
Modise said yesterday that they arrived at the guesthouse on Wednesday night – exhausted and hungry.
"We wanted to book as a couple and management told us they did not cater for gay people," he said" (Gay Agenda)
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
South African Guesthouse Discriminates Against Gays
"A gay couple is livid after allegedly being turned away by a guesthouse because the lodge did not have a policy on homosexuals. Lindani Mchunu and a gay friend, Lebogang Modise, feel downhearted and discriminated against because they were forced to drive through the night after they were allegedly rejected by the management at Dikolobe Guesthouse in Seabe village, northeast of Pretoria.
7 comments:
- Laurie said...
Ya know, I'm sure their money spends just
the same as others. This is bad PR for that
place. Just wait till the management has the
same thing happen to them.
- September 2, 2008 at 5:58 AM
- Queers United said...
As soon as they see how many emails they get, I think they will regret their decision. LGBT tourism is HUGE!
- September 2, 2008 at 8:06 AM
I would turn away faggots too. I am sending them a letter of support.
All you have to do is lie and say you are full. And the faggots would have left.
- September 2, 2008 at 9:02 AM
- Connor said...
I think it is terrible to refuse people a stay in a place like this. It is just like saying black people or women can't stay somewhere. Outdated and disgustingly prejudice.
Also, on a different note, there seems to be a ton of comments popping up that are discriminatory and cruel. Such as the one above mine in here and the Anonymous person who is extremely cruel in the the "Word of the Gay: Gay Lisp" post. Is there anyway to stop all these people from adding such hateful comments on this blog. It is very disconcerting and hurtful when you go to a gay blog and see "faggot" posted everywhere. Anything we can do?
- September 2, 2008 at 10:28 PM
Shut the fuck up you censoring faggot. You don't like prejudice? Well be normal like everyone else.
- September 3, 2008 at 6:55 AM
Why are jerks like you even on this site?! What is in it for you? Unless you are just super far in the closet. Go to your own fucking blog or shut the hell up. You are right I do not like prejudice but I deal with it from morons like you every day. And nobody needs that on a site devoted to them. So if you are going to be so disgustingly rude then get lost. Otherwise come say faggot to my face so that I can kick your fucking skull in. All you prejudice bastards deserve as much.
- September 3, 2008 at 7:03 PM
You're sick. Mentally sick. Something you were exposed to while socializing growing up has really fucked you up.
You're not normal. You're fucking sick.
I'm not going anywhere. Baiting filthy shit eating faggots is fun. I'm enjoying watching you bastards fucking have your little delusional bubble broken into. The fact is billions think you're sick.
Just because you live in a country where you've strongarmed your lobby into political power and enforced PC silence on us, doesn't mean we all don't silently think you're fucking disgusting in the privacy of our own thoughts.
You're a camp novelty, a fucking joke, at best. At worst, a fucking threat to the survival of the species, and a traitor to the thousands of generations of hetero couple breeding pairs that carried your DNA from early man to 2008.
You spit on family values... and for that, you get stigma, and spat on, and its rightly fucking deserved you fucking treacherous cunt.
You can fucking coercively enforce public silence and squash criticism of your destructive lifestyle all you like, the private reality for americans is that you are sick. And guess what, america is 5 percent of the world, and majority in america think you're sick. Know you are sick rather, and the billions of other human beings who know how they got here, unequivocally think you are an obscenity.
And you fuckin are.
DIE FAGGOT. HATE HATE HATE? WHY? Is it 'irrational' to hate the fucking sick cunts who if we all became like you we'd go extinct? No! Faggots have stopped more happy lives occurring than fucking hitler.
How many families have you destroyed, parents have you disgusted, fucking ruined kids by bringing them up as faggots and promoting the gay lifestyle to minors. You're fucking sick.
You people spit on the family. You spit on continuity of the human race.
And people who unilaterally decide to launch attacks on the family and on civilization's mainstay, get stigmatized. And rightly so.
All you've done is enforce a coerced wall of silence around stigma that will always exist.
Fuck you faggots. I'll see you tomorrow for some more reality checks from the last place we can speak freely without you fucking faggots coercing normal people to fucking tolerate your shit.
- September 4, 2008 at 6:23 PM


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April 24, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Following strong performances in a pair of pivotal conference games last week, Laura Watson was named the NEWMAC Women's Lacrosse Co-Player of the Week. In a 2-0 week, she tallied 11 points on 10 goals and one assist. The junior midfielder also added four groundballs, three draw controls, and one caused turnover. Last Tuesday, Watson posted a game-high six points on five goals and one assist in a 15-9 win over Wheaton College. She then contributed a team-high five goals in Saturday's 12-10 victory at Mount Holyoke College.
MIT will begin postseason play on Wednesday, April 25 when it travels to Springfield College for the quarterfinal round of the NEWMAC Championship Tournament.


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Jeffrey Goldberg answers him nicely:
Andrew Sullivan should be thankful that The Atlantic's fact-checking department has no purview over the magazine's website. The magazine's fact-checkers vet each word that appears in the print magazine for accuracy and context, but because they have no authority over blogs (or anything else produced for the web), Andrew is free to publish malicious nonsense, such as the series of maps he published yesterday, maps which purport to show how Jews stole Palestinian land. Andrew does not tell us the source of these maps (in a magazine with standards, the source would be identified), but they were drawn to cast Jews in the most terrible light possible.Goldberg could have pointed out that even if the map was relabeled "Jewish" and "Arab" land, it would still be a lie. The white parts show only the privately owned Jewish land, but the green part does not represent privately owned Arab land - it simply shows everything else. In fact, over 75% of the land in 1946 was publicly owned, and all of that land within the Green Line became Israeli after the War of Independence.
The first map in the series of four is most egregious. It suggests that, in 1946, nearly all of the land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean was "Palestinian." Land designated as "Jewish" in this map constitutes maybe five percent of the total. This map is ridiculous, not only because the term "Palestinian" in 1946 referred, generally speaking, to the Jews who lived in Palestine, not the Arabs, but because there was no Palestine in 1946 (nor was there an Israel.) There was only the British Mandate. Jews lived throughout the territory then occupied by the British, including, by the way, on land that today constitutes the West Bank (though in 1946 Jews did not live in Hebron; they were expelled in 1929, after an Arab massacre of Jewish religious scholars). The intent of this propaganda map is to suggest that an Arab country called "Palestine" existed in 1946 and was driven from existence by Jewish imperialists. Not only was there no such country as "Palestine" in 1946, there has never been a country called Palestine. Before the British conquered Jerusalem, Palestine was a sub-province of the Ottoman Empire. (And after the British left, of course, Jordan and Egypt moved in to occupy Gaza and the West Bank.)
And, although Goldberg mentions it in passing, the green sections of the third map do not show "Palestinian" land at all either, as there was no Palestine and the West Bank was annexed by Jordan - with full approval of the leaders of Palestinian Arabs - and Gaza was controlled by Egypt.
The next map in the series is a rendering of the U.N. Partition Plan, which would have divided the British mandate into two equal parts, one part for Arabs and one part for Jews. But Andrew neglects to mention that the Jews accepted this partition of Palestine, and that the Arabs rejected it. When Israel declared independence, the Arabs sought to physically eliminate the U.N.-supported Jewish state, but, to their chagrin, they failed. All that happens today flows from the original Arab decision to reject totally the idea that Jews are deserving of a state in part of their historic homeland.
I'm pretty sure the fourth map is equally false, but I cannot claim to know the geographic details of the areas controlled by the PA.


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Investor-owned utility Black Hills Energy has issued a request for proposals for up to 30 MW of wind power to serve customers in southern Colorado.
Black Hills Energy says adding another 30 MW of wind generation will assist the company in meeting Colorado's 30% by 2020 renewable portfolio standard. The utility has engaged Accion Group to oversee the bidding process, and bids are due June 14.


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PREMIERE: The Extraordinaires video for "Blue Moon," the story behind Dress for Nasty Weather, and their creative new label
Matt Gibson had a tough decision to make in 2011. He either had to figure out how to keep his band, the Extraordinaires, alive in the wake of Punk Rock Payroll, the record label they'd been a part of going under, or accept an offer to go on tour playing in Man Man.
He ended up accepting and touring with Man Man as a multi-instrumentalist in support of their album Life Fantastic until 2012. His experience touring in a nationally recognized act didn't yield the results he'd originally imagined though.
"I think I was going into it with a lot higher hopes of meeting more people and meeting more people that wanted to hear new music, or being able to share the Extraordinaires music with them," Gibson says. "Or meeting people to make contacts with them that may be able to help with the Extraordinaires. But now looking back, that may have been a naive thought. Because the reality of it is that everybody is trying to do the same thing and you really need to have something that's impressive to peak your head out above everybody else's. Nobody really cares unless there's really some hype behind it."
But he did come away with added comfort for playing in front of larger crowds among other things that helped his main band after rejoining in 2012, which come up later in this piece.
However, Gibson later found out what he thought about bands needing hype to catch the attention of the public may not be true. He and the rest of the Extraordinaires took the crowd-sourcing approach in the winter of 2012 to aid in releasing their upcoming album, Dress for Nasty Weather, their first on their new label, Color Theory Records, which they are running with Justin Wolf of Lux Perpetua. Through a Kickstarter campaign the Extraordinaires surpassed their goal by $2,000.
"Because for what we accomplished with Punk Rock Payroll," Jay Purdy says, "it was really hard to lose that support system. But it was really inspiring to know that people had taken notice enough that we could do another book."
Now working under the Color Theory flag, the Extraordinaires want to "keep the spirit of Punk Rock Payroll alive," as Purdy puts it about the original label that released their first couple albums – with handmade books.
"Our current goal is to be an outlet for bands to do interesting releases," he says. "As far as vinyl, CDs and digital downloads go that's kind of standard practice. Because when we were on Punk Rock Payroll, simply by aggregating all of our resources, we were able to do these really unique releases."
Punk Rock Payroll started as a small merchandise company in 2003, by Frede Zimmer focusing on buttons and screen printing and eventually grew into to being a label for a small roster of bands. Releases on PRP weren't just conventional CDs, tapes, vinyl records, or even digital downloads, but much more. The boutique label put out music that were more like art projects than just albums.
For example, the Extraordinaires have put out each of their albums on CD accompanied by a hard bound book with the albums' lyrics printed on its pages. This is more than appropriate for the band's tendency of telling stories in their music. A song about to come out on Dress for Nasty Weather and personal favorite of Purdy's is "Stray Bullet," a tune that he says a bit like a modern version of Pinocchio but a bit darker. And don't forget about "The Egg of Columbus," from 2009's Electric and Benevolent that tells the story of that certain Italian that discovered the Americas. And from the upcoming Dress for Nasty Weather, they are bringing their first music video to light for "Blue Moon." In it each member of the band plays the role of a Charlie Chaplin-like character, meets what Purdy describes as an "Amerlia Earhart character," document their day together with her and maybe fall for her, too.


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BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) - Life in the community of Bayou Corne has been anything but normal since a giant sinkhole opened up. One official says the surface of the sinkhole could double in size. Right now, it is at 26 acres.
Residents have moved away from the place they once called home. Their frustrations and fears still planted on their properties.
"We have a geoprobe in the front yard. We have a geoprobe in the backyard, very active," said resident Carla Alleman.
Alleman and her neighbors live just a couple thousand feet from the sinkhole. This is what is going on in their backyards more than a year after they were evacuated from their homes. Scientists are monitoring the site on foot and by air boat, keeping constant watch over the growing sinkhole.
"My husband and I struggle because we don't know where to go because this was it. This was it," said Candy Blanchard.
President of United Brine, a subsidiary of Texas Brine, Mark Cartwright, explains what it looked like more than a year ago, just hours after the sinkhole began growing.
"I got to the site within about five hours of when it actually developed and at that time it was about 300 feet in diameter," Cartwright said.
The sinkhole has grown into a large lake. Scientists are now working on containing the slurry as they continue to release gas from the aquifer.
"I think to the extent a sinkhole can be controlled we do have it under control," said Cartwright.
The sinkhole is at 26 acres right now. Cartwright says the surface could get to 50 acres but the good news is it is moving in a southwest pattern, which is away from homes and the community.
"I think we're relatively close to matching the volume inside the cavern with the volume we see at the surface. But because of precipitous edges, there will be come continued sloughing," said Cartwright.
Cartwright says while there has been no massive release of gas in the area, he admits the sinkhole event has caused additional discharge. However, he says he is confident the plan the community has put into motion will go offer some relief. As for the communities, he says their concerns have not gone unnoticed.
"I understand it. It's part of the situation and I would hope that soon those signs will come down and we'll get to some resolution - people can feel comfortable again," said Cartwright.
The majority of the homeowners who live in Bayou Corne have agreed to sell their properties to Texas Brine. The company says by the end of the week, they will close on 43 out of the 65 who have agreed to settle.
History of the sinkhole
The sinkhole opened up in August 2012 and was roughly 1/24 of the size it is now. The sinkhole formed when an underground salt cavern collapsed.
In the past, seismic activity is reported, then the sinkhole burps up debris and then a slough-in happens. Burps occur when air and gas from deep in the sinkhole bubbles up. It can cause debris and an oily substance to float to the top. A slough-in is when the sinkhole swallows trees and land that is on the edge of the sinkhole.
Berms were placed around the sinkhole shortly after it opened up to keep the oily, debris filled water contained to the sinkhole area so it would not contaminate the area bayous.
It has more than a year since hundreds living near the giant sinkhole were forced from their homes.
Bubbles were spotted in Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou in June 2012. Two months later, the ground opened up and left what is now a 24-acre sinkhole. Residents were evacuated and the most affected residents began receiving weekly checks from Texas-Brine in the amount of $875 per week. Texas Brine owns the salt cavern that collapsed, causing the sinkhole.
On August 2, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced the state will be suing Texas Brine for environmental damages caused by the failed Texas Brine cavern.
Parish and Texas Brine officials agree the situation is far from over. 3D seismic surveys show the sinkhole itself it beginning to slow and stabilize, but the recovery is focused on another danger; natural gas gathering underneath a nearby aquifer.
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After physician-assisted suicide laws failed to gain traction in the 1990s, states across the country again are proposing — and passing — legislation on the matter, all in the name of a patient's right to choose.
Sound familiar?
Kathleen M. Gallagher, director of pro-life activities at the New York Catholic Conference, likened the growing push in the United States to legalize physician-assisted suicide to the evolution of abortion laws. If it's acceptable for members of society to make choices at the beginning of life, why not at the end of life, too?
"[There's a] whole notion of individual choice that's become so prevalent in our society, almost cemented in our society," Gallagher said. "Instead of a nation of solidarity, of family and community, it's become a nation of narcissists."
Abortion became legal in 1973, and today, many Christian and Catholic employers alike are faced with enormous fines if their employee health plans don't include access to abortifacients. Because of their lawsuit against the contraception mandate, the Little Sisters of the Poor, whose mission is the care for the elderly and the dying, were added in July to the National Organization for Women's "Dirty 100" list of businesses to boycott.
A movement that started 41 years ago with legally allowing women to terminate unborn children has spiraled downward from a choice to a "right." Where will all this choice regarding human lives end? It looks as if the next battle is here.
The pro-assisted suicide organization Compassion & Choices (originally the Hemlock Society until 2003, but now strategically rebranded and renamed) has been determinedly canvassing to change state laws. Their website hosts a tri-colored map designating the states that have "death with dignity," those that are "campaign states" the group is targeting and the states that have assisted suicide laws "in progress."
Compassion & Choices claims to be the "leading nonprofit organization committed to helping everyone have the best death possible." According to the site, the organization's goal is to "make aid in dying an open, legitimate option recognized throughout the medical field and permitted in more states," in addition to "normalize accurate, unbiased language throughout the end-of-life choice discussion." They also "support the expansion of the end-of-life choice movement and exert a leadership role in it."
Dying with dignity and allowing oneself to die aren't opposed to Church teaching, as modern culture might claim.
"They think that the Church teaching is black and white," said Gallagher. "It's really not. It says that every single case needs to be looked at as a single case."
So why the concern over this movement when "death with dignity" sounds like a good thing? The euphemisms and language used by Compassion & Choices are meant to sound innocent, said Patrick Brannigan, executive director of the New Jersey Catholic Conference.
"What they do is basically mislead everyone by saying ... physician-assisted suicide is really the same as hospice and palliative care, which it is not," Brannigan explained.
It's difficult for the average person who isn't in the medical profession or some type of social work or hospice care to "make the distinction between alleviating the pain of someone and killing them," Brannigan added.
"Often, when we're talking about ending suffering, particularly in people who are nearing the end of life, we're not talking about people dying in pain. In almost every case, pain can be controlled," said Dr. G. Kevin Donovan, the director of the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Although not true in every case, the decision to end a life isn't always made solely with the patient's well-being in mind.
"What we're really talking about is something different than pain when we say 'suffering.' We're talking about emotional, spiritual suffering," Donovan explained. "Quite often that suffering is not confined to the patient alone. It's the families that say, 'I just can't take this.' It's the doctors and nurses who say, 'This is just so sad, this is going on too long.'"
Perhaps even more sinister is Donovan's point that death is more cost-effective.
For example, an insurance company in Oregon told a cancer patient that they couldn't pay for another round of expensive chemo, but they would pay for an assisted suicide.
"How are patients going to trust their physicians to act with their best interests at heart and try to be healing them?" Donovan asked. "Patients should also be extremely afraid of a system that thinks that good care includes killing them."
And although euthanasia is not legal in the United States, as it is in Belgium and the Netherlands, "what makes us stop at physician-assisted suicide?" Donovan said.
Donovan said it's a slippery slope. Belgium and the Netherlands had a certain set of criteria, which Donovan said has gone to the wayside and is openly criticized.
"Physicians have written learned articles in medical journals saying that they think it's their responsibility to both end suffering and potential suffering, whether it's requested or not," Donovan said. "This sounds unimaginable, but in fact it's not only imaginable but predictable and logical."
How could killing someone without their consent possibly be predictable and logical?
"Once you've defined something as being acceptable, it's a very short throw to say it is acceptable because it is good," Donovan said. "And if it is good, then why are we placing restrictions on people and denying them access to that good?"
For example: Someone is comatose and can't ask for physician-assisted suicide. They are not terminally ill, but they are suffering. Why should relief be denied if killing a patient in pain has been deemed a compassionate thing to do?
"Once you have defined that killing people for their own good is a good thing to do ... then restricting it in almost any fashion seems untenable," Donovan said.
In the Netherlands, there are no restrictions on circumstances. They range from depression, aging, anorexia, abuse and deafness to euthanizing infants who may have disabilities that might affect their lives (with an emphasis on the "might"). Children 12 years and older are allowed to kill themselves.
Not only do these examples raise red flags for the human lives at stake but also for the medical profession in general.
"To put this in the lap of medicine and make this a professional obligation is one way of severely damaging — if not destroying — the profession," Donovan said.
Brannigan cited statistics that in 2012 more active duty military members committed suicide than were killed in combat.
"The issue is depression," he said. "When people are depressed, they deserve our loving care — treatment — and usually once they get that, they stop thinking about suicide. It's our duty to help people, not to kill them."
In New York, a strong law on the books prohibiting physician-assisted suicide was upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997 when the law was challenged. That law remains intact. But in 2012, a House bill was introduced that would have repealed the ban.
Gallagher approached the sponsor and asked why he introduced the bill. The reason wasn't because a loved one or a family member had faced a terminal illness. He told her that one of his staff members read about a law in Oregon and, according to Gallagher, he said "it sounded very compassionate. So I looked it up and put in a bill to do what they did."
Gallagher was stunned, and through productive meetings, she was able to convince the legislator to withdraw the bill in May 2012.
If you believe that physician-assisted suicide is so good and that this should be part of a physician's healing ministry, she asked him, why limit it to doctors? Why not include other emergency personnel like police officers? That argument proved to be his "ah-ha" moment. Gallagher said statistics from Oregon helped sway the lawmaker. In its publication "Physician Assisted Suicide: Know the Facts," the Maryland Catholic Conference cited a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which showed that the suicide rate in Oregon (where physician-assisted suicide is legal) increased 49.3 percent from 1999-2010, compared to 28 percent nationally. A 2012 study by the Oregon Health Authority revealed that the suicide rate in the state of Oregon is 41 percent higher than in the rest of the nation.
In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie has committed to vetoing an assisted-suicide bill if it gets to his desk. There's little chance a bill would become law, but Christie is in his final term, and after he leaves office, it's anyone's guess as to what could happen.
"What Compassion & Choices is doing is not a one-time, one-year [campaign]," Brannigan said. "This is a multi-year effort [where] they hope to [check] off one or two legislators now, one or two in the future."
In the proposed New Jersey law, Brannigan said, the bill would allow the medical doctor to indicate the cause of death as the underlying disease, not suicide. This is how the law currently operates in Oregon. "That borders on a fraudulent statement on a legal document," Brannigan said.
New York faces a greater challenge than just the state pushing through an outright suicide bill, Gallagher said, as the legislature is attempting to weaken the state's current laws on advanced directives and advanced care planning that would lower the standards for people unable to make their own health care decisions.
In 1990, New York enacted a health care proxy law that allows a person to name somebody else to be his or her health care decision-maker should the patient become incapacitated. In the following 20 years, fewer than 50 percent of New Yorkers had named an agent under the health care proxy law.
"Our bishops are supportive of health care proxy law," Gallagher said. "It can be a morally appropriate tool for making your wishes known."
But in 2010, the legislature passed a surrogate decision-making law. If a hospitalized patient has not assigned a health care proxy, the hospital will appoint one from a priority list (husband, sibling, child, parent, etc.). The New York Catholic Conference was able to heavily amend two laws so there were more safeguards for vulnerable populations.
Among other successes, Gallagher said they were able to beat back attempts to remove the need for a second witness as well as the requirement for a physician to be present.
In 2011, the N.Y. Catholic Bishops published "A Catholic Guide to End of Life Decision Making," to help guide the faithful. In it they wrote, "When choosing someone to be your health care agent, it is important to choose someone known to be of good moral character, who knows you well, is familiar with your religious beliefs, has the ability to understand medical information, operates well under stressful conditions, and who will be sure that end-of-life decisions on your behalf are made in accord with the Church's moral teachings."
What's the solution to all this? Donovan said we need a "massive re-education" and to lobby our state and federal legislators on the issue through the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, state conferences and other trustworthy organizations. People also need to educate themselves on Church teaching regarding end-of-life issues.
"The Church's teaching is so rich and so beautiful and our support for palliative care and hospice and pain management," Gallagher said. "People just don't know about that."
Physician-assisted suicide laws are "sweeping people under the rug," Donovan said. "And over the cliff."
Mariann Hughes writes from Maryland.
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Namco Bandai has set the A/NZ release of Grid 2 for May 30.
Developed by Codemasters, the Grid series has been out of the spotlight since the debut of 2008's Race Driver: Grid, as the studio instead focused on its rally themed Dirt series.
As in the previous title, GRID 2 puts the player behind the wheel of high performance vehicles spanning four decades.
The player takes part in motorsport championships held on city streets, licensed circuits and mountain roads in locations ranging from Paris to Abu Dhabi, Chicago, California and more.
In addition to a single player career mode, Grid 2 has a multiplayer component that connects to RaceNet, the online community portal for Codemasters Racing games.
The multiplayer mode makes use of a unique progression system that contains deep customisation options and integration, tracking player's races, rewards and rivals.
Depending on the retailer Grid 2 is sold at, the game will come with pre-order bonus items and extra content, redeemable via download on PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and on PC.
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Developers face a choice between Javascript, ArcGIS Mobile, ArcGIS for iOS, Android, Windows phone, HTML5, etc. Tom & Lloyd help developers understand their options for Mobile GIS, and help then ask the right set of questions to make a decision for a mobile platform. They walk you through a number of mobile solution scenarios and present a number of mobile development options.


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I have yet to see the movie but she has me really intrigued now.


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May 24, 2012 – 3 Things To Watch For
Fresno Grizzlies (31-15) at Albuquerque Isotopes (27-20)
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Eric Hacker is going for his eighth win this season and 24th in his Grizzlies career. He is currently tied with Matt Palmer for third on the Grizzlies' all-time career wins list with 23. In 2010, Hacker set the Grizzlies franchise record for wins in a season with 16. The right-hander has recorded a decision in each of his eight starts with Fresno this season (7-1).
Hacker and Albuquerque starting pitcher Will Savage are tied for the PCL's lead in wins with seven each. Savage started the 2012 season pitching out of the Albuquerque bullpen, making five appearances as a reliever and posting a 3-0 record from the 'pen. Hacker, meanwhile, made one start for the San Francisco Giants on April 27th.
The Grizzlies recorded 18 hits in last night's win, which fell one base knock short of matching their season-high (19 on April 21st at Tacoma). Fresno had a combined 13 hits in the first two games of the series, but the Grizzlies pace the PCL with 492 hits (Albuquerque is fifth with 472). They are batting .319 (263-for-824) in 22 road games.


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Former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos appeared on Thursday's Good Morning America to bizarrely assert that Democrats have a harder times surviving sex scandals than Republicans. While discussing South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, he breathlessly claimed, "We've never seen anything like this before" and never mentioned his former boss, Bill Clinton, who escaped impeachment conviction after being caught in a sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky.
GMA co-host Diane Sawyer informed viewers that Stephanopoulos had been "looking back at this roll call of apologies for indiscretions, Republicans and Democrats." The "This Week" host spun, "Democrats have had a harder time holding on to office after scandals, recently, than Republicans." Stephanopoulos also appeared on Wednesday night's "World News" and told anchor Charlie Gibson virtually the same thing. And, once again, he failed to cite Bill Clinton, certainly one of the most famous examples of a Democrat retaining office after a sex scandal.
On that program, after Gibson mentioned a number of politicians who have been involved with "personal indiscretions," Stephanopoulos retorted, "But one remarkable fact, Charlie, you look at the breakdown, on the Democratic side, Spitzer, McGreevey, you add the Detroit Mayor, Kilpatrick, all of the politicians were forced out of office. Everyone of the Republicans you just mentioned held on."
Of course, there are some obvious differences in the cases of people like former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, ex-New Jersey Governor James McGreevey and Republicans such as Senator John Ensign. For example, Spitzer used campaign funds to stay in hotels where he met with prostitutes. Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick committed numerous illegal acts and ultimately received a 120 day prison term for a sex scandal that also included felony counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
The fact that Stephanopoulos ignored the elephant in the room, the example of his former boss at the White House, is astounding. That he repeated, on two different program, such a poorly conceived comparison, indicates an attempt to set up talking points and a tone of equivalence between the situations.
(Thanks to MRC intern Mike Sargent for transcription assistance.)
A transcript of the June 25 GMA:
TOM DAVIS: And so, we turn now for the political bottom line to chief Washington correspondent, anchor of This Week, George Stephanopoulos. George, we just heard State Senator Tom Davis, chief of staff, say, if he's sincere in his repentance, the people of South Carolina will forgive him. He shouldn't step down.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And we'll see if the people of South Carolina agree and if the rest of the political establishment in South Carolina agrees. This- We've never seen anything like this before, Diane. The press conference yesterday. The raw emotion. The amount of information the Governor gave out was simply incredible. And we don't really know how this is going to go yet. Here's what we know right now. The Governor said yesterday, he wouldn't resign. At least he didn't address that right now. So far, the other top Republicans in the state have had very tough statements for the Governor. They've raised the kind of questions that Robin was just raising in that interview with Tom Davis. What about the taxpayer money? Did he leave the state in a lurch by not telling anybody where he was going? By letting his staff lie about it? But, they haven't gone to the step of calling on him to resign. What kind of a stance will his wife, Jenny, take, in the coming days. She put out, yesterday, that she basically separated from him two weeks ago. That he should have a chance to resurrect the marriage. Didn't say how much time she would give him. And then, finally, the public. Tom Davis alluded to all that. Governor Sanford wasn't all that popular coming into this scandal. We'll see what the capacity for forgiveness of the people of South Carolina is.
SAWYER: I know you've been looking back at this roll call of apologies for indiscretions, Republicans and Democrats. What do you learn from them?
STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, the recent history is really something, Diane. Democrats have had a harder time holding on to office after scandals, recently, than Republicans. Look at New York. Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York. Governor Jim McGreevey of New Jersey. Kwame Kilpatrick, all forced out of office after sexual scandals, although another Los Angeles mayor, Villaraigosa, was able to survive. On the Republican side, you had Senator John Ensign just last week, of Nevada, caught up in a scandal. He didn't resign. Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, caught up with a prostitute. He didn't resign. And, of course, that whole scandal over Larry Craig. He made it at least through the end of his term. So, Republicans in recent history have had a little easier time holding on to office than Democrats.
A transcript of the June 24 World News segment:
CHARLES GIBSON: And our chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos is joining us now. George, this is becoming somewhat common place these days. Politicians, leading politicians talking about infidelities. But I must admit looking at that news conference, I've never seen anything like that.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Boy, me neither, Charlie. No way. You are used to seeing politicians come out in a stoic mode, even defiant at times, usually, the spouse by their side. Not today. This was raw. This was emotional. This was confessional. And you really saw this was a man in real pain. It was a remarkable performance.
GIBSON: But personal problems aside, George, let me go to that point that Steve Osunsami raised right at the end. The problem here is, he left his state for five days and nobody knew where he was. Nobody was in charge of the ship. Can he survive this?
STEPHANOPOULOS: That is the big question. No one in the state, no major politician in the state has yet called for his resignation, but there are already very tough statements from the Republican Speaker of the House, the Republican leader in the Senate, raising exactly the questions you talked about right there. He left the state, didn't tell people where he was. Let his staff lie about it. Didn't delegate authority. The pressure could build for him to resign, on those grounds, and one former Republican chairman of the state has said the calls are likely to come quickly.
GIBSON: Very quickly, George, we've had a lot of governors and senators with these kinds of problems, personal indiscretions. Governors Spitzer, McGreevey, Blagojevich of Illinois, now Sanford, and senators, Craig, Vitter, and Ensign. There's a lot of them.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Boy there sure are. But one remarkable fact, Charlie, you look at the breakdown, on the Democratic side, Spitzer, McGreevey, you add the Detroit Mayor, Kilpatrick, all of the politicians were forced out of office. Everyone of the Republicans you just mentioned held on.
GIBSON: Hmm. All right, George Stephanopoulos from here in Washington.


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The big day is finally here. We've made it to Election Day 2012 with President Barack Obama seeking re-election and Republican challenger Mitt Romney hoping to lead the GOP back to the Oval Office. The race is neck-and-neck, with the final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll (released Sunday) showing Obama getting support from 48 percent of likely voters, and Romney 47 percent. We'll carry full Election Night coverage from Democracy Plaza and around the country live on NBC News and on your local affiliate, starting at 7 p.m. ET and running until at least 3 a.m. You can also get the full Election Night experience away from the television.
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We're tracking social media commentary on the presidential candidates using a natural-language tool called ForSight, developed by Crimson-Hexagon Inc. Results are culled from all Twitter messages and a sampling of Facebook posts each day, and reflect not national opinion but a broader look at what's being said by Americans who follow politics and are active on Facebook, Twitter or both, and why they're saying it. Read more about what people said during the final presidential debate and what it all means in analysis by NBC News' Alex Johnson here, and turn to NBCNews.com in the days following Election Day 2012 for more analysis of social media sentiment.


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Well, I posted this in another forum, but I got no replies, I suppose I probably picked the wrong forum to post it in. Anyway, comments appreicated, here we go again:
Hello all. Basically I've been doing webcomics at http://hedgehogs.keenspace.com for a while now, from a cartoon about Hedgehogs (which is about to be relaunched) to one about a Factory. I feel I've definitely made strides in terms of artwork, but I'm asking as to whether you guys can help me further, writing or art wise. So if you'd like to help, read a few of the cartoons, there are many, preferably a few from Hedgehogs and Factory (use the links in the quick-jump to get to different series) and give your opinions on what I should be looking at.
Thanks a lot guys.
If you want a peek at the current 'Hejhox' series coming up, one comic is located here: http://hedgehogs.keenspace.com/avatars/hejhox-sample.jpg


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'Boeing, Boeing' a smash
There is an old show business adage about the aging actor on his deathbed who was visited in the hospital by a friend who sympathized, "It must be difficult what you're going through."
The terminal thespian responds, "No, dying is easy; comedy is hard."
That universal truth is being disproven nightly at the Betty Greenberg Center for Performing Arts as director Donny Avery makes it look easy with an attractive and expert cast in the BCP production of "Boeing, Boeing." There is a thriving local theater scene in Southeast Texas, but no production in recent memory has delivered nonstop delight to its audiences as this slapstick comedy that is as funny as it is improbable.
The play is based on a creaky premise, a typical sex farce of the 1960s. In fact, it was written in French in 1960, translated into English in 1961, and enjoyed multi-year runs in Paris and London. It didn't fare as well in the U.S., closing on Broadway after 23 performances. A lackluster 1965 film version starring Tony Curtis was mounted by producer Hal Wallis and directed by Jim Rich in between shooting two Wallis-produced films starring Elvis Presley.
The story is formulaic: Swinging bachelor Bernard couldn't be happier with a flat in Paris and three gorgeous stewardesses all engaged to him without knowing about each other. But Bernard's perfect life gets bumpy when his friend Robert comes to stay and a new and speedier Boeing jet throws off all of his careful planning. Soon, all three stewardesses are in town simultaneously – and hilarity ensues.
It is impossible to overstate Avery's accomplishment here. Usually in community theatre productions, the quality of acting in an ensemble cast varies wildly, but the actors here are uniformly excellent. Michael Saar as Bernard's long-lost friend Robert from Wisconsin adds a layer of sweetness to a confused character, and Rachel Cain as the long-suffering maid Berthe may have a questionable French accent, but there is no question about her comedic gifts.
The three stewardess characters work for TWA, Alitalia and Lufthansa with their uniforms and props rendered in vivid primary colors – red, blue and yellow, respectively. Genevieve Brassard as the American Gloria convincingly portrays a dewy-eyed ingénue who may not be as naïve as she seems. Andrea Garcia flies for Alitalia and invests her role with passion and beauty. Grace Mathis' take on the Lufthansa stewardess Gretchen is enlivened with a harsh accent more suited to a guard in a German women-in-prison movie like "Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS" but soon gives way to a certain vulnerability that is quite beguiling. All three women deliver unforgettable star turns, and you can't take your eyes off them when they are on stage.
But the glue that holds this show together is Chad Petersen. His Bernard recalls a Matthew Perry-esque character with the supreme confidence of a man in the catbird seat who is forcefully disabused of that notion in scene after scene of comeuppance. Petersen laughs, he cries – mostly he cries – with his face a rubber mask of anxiety and grief. Along with Saar, he flies across the stage in a deft series of slapstick set-pieces that often end with them sprawled in a couch or chair with a female cast member on top of them.
The Beaumont Community Players have a hit on their hands. "Boeing, Boeing" runs through Nov. 2. Check it out – you won't spend a more enjoyable evening in the theater this year.


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So, I've been trying to do this for the past few days:
I need to render a GL_POLYGON with it's content masked.
glPolygonStipple() is exactly the function I need but unfortunately it's not supported anymore.
Please note that I want to be able to change the color of the solid areas, so that I can load the pattern from a file but change it's color dynamically.
I'm almost sure that the solution has to do with textures but I don't know exactly what to do.
Thanks in advance,
I hope that I describe my problem correctly.