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Injuries linked to cheerleading may happen. Cheerleading has grown into a sport that demands great strength, agility, and gymnastic skill.
Many injuries are minor sprains and strains, especially in the legs, ankles, and feet. Some injuries affect the head and neck. Most cheerleading injuries happen during exercises like pyramids, tosses, and gymnastics moves.
The American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators (AACCA) have given safety rules. A safe program includes direct adult supervision, proper conditioning, skills training, and warm-up exercises. The following are some general guidelines for high school cheerleaders from the AACCA:
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Mandatory professional training in proper spotting methods must be held.
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Cheerleaders' skills should be evaluated according to accepted teaching standards. Proper spotting should be used until all performers show that they have mastered the skills.
Hard and unbending supports or rough edges or surfaces must be properly covered.
Athletic shoes, not gymnastic slippers, must be worn.
Props, like signs, should be made of solid material with no sharp edges or corners. All signs should be gently tossed or kept under control.
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Shabbat in Jerusalem As Told By Jody
August 16, 2013
Every week, Jody Hirsh, the JCC's Judaic Education Director, provides a Shabbat message that is featured at the top of the JCC's weekly email newsletter. Below is the Shabbat message for Friday, August 16, 2013.
Shabbat in Jerusalem
Last Shabbat (August 9, 2013) was the first Shabbat of my vacation/work trip to Israel. So much to do; so many old friends to see; and although I've never forgotten how special Shabbat is in Jerusalem, actually being here brought it back with the full force of memory and experience. It was as I was shaving in the late afternoon getting ready to go out to dinner with traditional friends that it started. While I was shaving, the Sabbath Siren went off. Special sirens blast all over Israel, but are especially intense here in Jerusalem. The sirens signify the beginning of "Candle Lighting Time." Although the Sabbath actually starts when the sun drops completely below the horizon on Friday evening, candle lighting is usually earlier than the actual sunset. The idea is that if you light candles a little early, and begin the Shabbat when you light the candles, you won't make a mistake and actually light the Sabbath candles AFTER the sunset! In most places, "candle lighting" is 20 minutes before the actual beginning of Shabbat. But in Jerusalem candle lighting is 38 minutes before the Sabbath. Hearing the Shabbat sirens blasting all over the city exactly 38 minutes before sunset has always been a special part of my Shabbat in Jerusalem.
There's a rhythm of Fridays here in Jerusalem. Most offices are open Sunday through Thursday, with a full Friday off as the beginning of the Israeli weekend. The mornings are spent shopping, getting enough groceries for the entire Shabbat, and rushing around and worrying that you'll forget to buy that butter or humus that you need. Then the day slows down as the shops and grocery stories begin closing down. The frantic driving, honking and searching for parking at the supermarkets calms down. The "action" however, shifts to cafes and restaurants all over Jerusalem. All day from Friday morning brunch to afternoon coffee, Israelis enjoy their non Shabbat day off by going out, socializing with friends, and hanging out at cafes. But at some magical point, even the cafes empty out and people head home. But late afternoon, things quiet down and the rhythm of Jerusalem slows down. Evenings are quiet (although admittedly, there now is a nightlife in certain parts of Jerusalem), and both traditional and secular families have their meals together. Shabbat in Jerusalem is truly Sabbath Peace.
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The former Arkansas governor, who is no stranger to hot-button issues, raised some eyebrows for his speech during the Republican's annual winter meeting Jan. 23. His comments on the "war on women" and Obamacare's contraceptive mandate set off a flurry of reaction on websites and social media.
"If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it," Huckabee told Republicans. "Let us take that discussion all across America because women are far more than the Democrats have played them to be."
Some in the media vented their criticism of Huckabee's speech on Twitter. Huckabee shared some of the tweets on his weekend "Huckabee" Fox cable show Jan. 25. Among those he said were inaccurate, one CNN reporter tweeted, "At Rnc meeting @MikeHuckabee just said fed govt shouldn't help women who can't control their libido w birth control." Another at NBC tweeted, "Huckabee: Women 'helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them … birth control because they cannot control their libido.'"
Huckabee, a former president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention when he was a pastor in the state, said, "Trouble is, what they tweeted was the exact opposite of what I said…. To their credit, after some of their colleagues pointed that out, they tried to issue corrections. But by then even White House press secretary Jay Carney was reacting to a completely phony story."
He added, "Here's a fact, it's impossible for women to be equal and then be characterized as helpless victims, dependent upon the government to survive.
"… The Republicans don't have a war on women but a war for women…. We want them to be treated with respect for the decisions they make, whether it's a decision to raise children or enter the workforce…. If the Democrats want to patronize women that's their business but the public deserves professional and accurate journalism, whether it's reported by men or women."
Shaaya Ellis, a junior studying political science at the University of Notre Dame, was a guest on the show. The campus newspaper columnist seemed to agree with Huckabee's message overall, but he suggested it could have been communicated better.
"Given how controversial that this topic is, I wouldn't have gone with the word 'libido,'" Huckabee said. "I would have said something more along the lines of women are more than what the Democrats make them out to be. Women are more than the choices they make. They're our mothers; they're our daughters; they're our aunts and nieces…. And everyone should seek to treat women with dignity, with respect and equality."
During his show's opening monologue, Huckabee took a moment to express his respect and admiration for the women in his life. He said they are examples of how other women don't need to rely on the government for handouts.
"I've got a very strong, well-educated wife," he said. "… I assure you she is not helpless. She's conquered cancer, raised kids, run disaster relief for the Red Cross. And she's built houses for people in poverty in Third World countries in her work with Habitat for Humanity…. My daughter and my daughter-in-law are also strong professional women who are anything but helpless.
Huckabee also made headlines in December for coming to the defense of Phil Robertson, the "Duck Dynasty" television show patriarch who drew a heavy amount of support and criticism for his stand on traditional marriage.
Huckabee, who ran for president in 2008, has said he may consider another run at the White house in 2016 but won't make any political announcements until after the midterm elections. He said his concern for the nation's direction could be the deciding factor.
"I just feel like our country is in an extraordinary world of hurt right now," Huckabee told Baptist Press during a Jan. 15 phone interview.
"I always remind Christians Jesus said we're the salt of the earth and the light of the world," he said. "He never said the putrefaction process of culture was the fault of the secularists; it's the fault of the salt that ceases to be salt.
"If there is darkness and confusion and people stumbling around," he added, "it's not the fault of the people who are the spirits of darkness. It's the fault of the people who keep their lights off."
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OKANOGAN Fall enrollment at area schools is higher than expected, with a couple districts bursting at the seams.
Part of the increase is because the state expanded its support for full-day kindergarten programs, meaning those students can be counted as full-time students instead of half-time ones, but higher-than-expected enroll-ment also accounts for higher numbers.
"Our elementary school is out of room and we are using portables," Brewster School District Superintendent Eric Driessen said. The secondary level also relies on portable classroom buildings to accommodate all students.
Brewster's enrollment is up about 20 students from last spring, and now sits at 925 full-time equivalent students.
"Our surprise is our kindergarten," Driessen said of the 100 kindergarten students.
The district recently hired a fifth kindergarten teacher.
"Our first- and second-grades are also near 90 students each," he said.
Next door, in Bridgeport, enrollment also continues to grow, Superintendent Scott Sattler said.
The budget was built based on 770 full-time equivalent students, but actual enrollment is 807 full-time equivalent students. That includes full-time kindergarten enrollment.
"The big surprise this year is the large kindergarten class of 80 students," Sattler said. "We opened a fourth section of kindergarten and hired a teacher to support that program."
High school enrollment also is up, to 215 students in the top four grades. That's causing "some strain on class sizes," he said.
Continuing east, Grand Coulee Dam School District's enrollment is up by more than 40 students from projections, and the district added another section to its kindergarten and first-grade classes, Superintendent Dennis Carlson said.
The district previously had full-day kindergarten, but paid for half of it out of district funds and counted each student as a half-time student for state funding purposes. With the addition of state-funded full-day kindergarten, those youngsters now are counted as full-time students.
The district planned for 640 full-time equivalent students, but had 687 as of its Oct. 1 count.
"Fortunately, our increase of students – above the kindergarten and first-grade – is pretty uniformly spread throughout the rest of the grade levels," Carlson said.
He attributes some of the increase to retirements from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates Grand Coulee Dam, and younger workers with families coming in to fill the openings.
"Another seems to be that the Nespelem School is at capacity at some grade levels so students are being enrolled in our district at those grade levels," he said.
Nespelem Superintendent John Adkins said the budget has been built on 130 full-time equivalent students for the past five years, but "once again, we're over this number."
The district, which serves students through eighth-grade, moved its fourth-grade teacher to a math/science specialist position for sixth- through eighth-grades, and hired a new fourth-grade teacher and a counselor.
In the Okanogan Valley, enrollment in the Okanogan School District also took a leap this fall, partly because the district now has full-time kindergarten and partly from a general increase in the number of students.
The September student count, as reported to the state, showed 1,078.5 full-time equivalent students. Of them, 76 were kindergarten students who previously would have been counted as 38 full-time equivalent students under the old kindergarten funding program.
Virginia Grainger Elementary School Principal Dean Radke said the state's decision to fund full-time kindergarten and the district's qualification for another first-grade teacher left him scrambling to fill those slots before the district's Aug. 28 opener.
Several teachers' assignments were shuffled around, and Lisa Baum was hired for the new first-grade position, Radke said.
A huge sixth-grade class – at 104 students, one of the largest ever for any grade in the district – led to creating a fourth section for that grade.
Omak resident Lance O'Dell was hired Sept. 25 to teach sixth-grade.
At 1,078.5 students, the district has the most full-time equivalent students since 1,084 were counted in September 2000, state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction figures show. That month, the district's largest class was 105 second-graders.
Middle School Principal Brett Baum said the district had to turn away some out-of-district students who had applied for enrollment because classes were full.
Oroville's enrollment is both up and down, Superintendent Steve Quick said.
The district counted 579.84 full-time equivalent students in June, but had an average of 609.86 for the 2012-13 school year, well over its 599-student budget figure.
"It's always better to end up with a few students more than is budgeted," Quick said.
This year, the district planned for a slightly reduced enrollment, based mostly on students moving out of the area.
"We started the year off essentially where we left off, as our September enrollment was at 583.48," he said. By October, it was down by a little more than three students, putting the district at 580.38 full-time equivalent students.
"We were hoping we'd go up a couple students in October, but this didn't happen. Because enrollment typically goes down throughout the year, it's going to be close to come in at our budget number of 568.0, especially with a 10 month average the state now uses," Quick said. "In the past we've seen enrollment increase mid-year as well, so nobody is panicking at this point, but we are concerned and watching our enrollment numbers carefully."
The Methow Valley School District also has more students this fall, Superintendent Tom Venable said.
"We exceeded our projected enrollment by approximately 40 students across grades K-12, bringing our total enrollment up to 603 students," he said.
The district added one teacher as a result of increased enrollment.
While most Okanogan County districts have seen an increase in enrollment, both Omak and Paschal Sherman Indian School experienced decreased enrollment at the start of this school year.
Despite adding full-day kindergarten and nearly 60 full-time equivalent students at North Omak Elementary, enrollment in the Omak district is down about 23 students from projected numbers.
Following the trends of previous years, projected enrollment by the end of the year is now expected to be down about 50 students from numbers anticipated prior to the school year, Fiscal Administrator Scott Haeberle told the School Board at its Sept. 24 meeting.
That projection would represent a revenue shortfall of about $265,000, Haeberle said.
The full-day kindergarten features 145 students, which pushed North Omak's enrollment to nine students more than projected.
East Omak Elementary School, the middle school and the alternative high school all saw lower-than-projected enrollment numbers in September. The high school, with an increase of five students from the projected number, still saw a drop-off of eight students from last year.
While the brick and mortar sector of the school has lost students from its projected numbers, enrollment in Omak's online education program, Washington Virtual Academy, has jumped significantly.
The 3,168 full-time equivalent students in September translate to a projection of about 5,125 actual students. That would be an increase of 1,555 students over the projection before the school year started.
Despite the projection, Haeberle said that number is expected to flatten out by the end of the year.
At Paschal Sherman Indian School, east of Omak on the Colville Indian Reservation, enrollment is down by a few students, paraprofessional Michele Matt said.
"Throughout all the grades we have a variety of new students in all classrooms," she said.
In Ferry County, Republic, Curlew and Keller districts all report enrollment increases.
The Chronicle requested enrollment information from all districts in Okanogan and Ferry counties. Not all responded by deadline time.
(Chronicle Managing Editor Garrett Rudolph contributed to this story.)
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Obama earlier in the year converted his victorious re-election campaign into an unprecedented nonprofit organization, Organizing for Action, designed to influence policy debates in Washington.Campaigns and political parties bound by traditional fundraising limits are moving to outsource research, advertising, data collection and issue advocacy to groups that can accept unlimited donations while often offering donors anonymity.Experts suggest this could change.A few federal court cases have broadly eased campaign finance rules, allowing donors to give unlimited sums.The idea for an independent research arm was included among dozens of recommendations in a recent Republican National Committee report released last week.Many super PACs have affiliated nonprofit "social welfare" organizations that spent hundreds of millions last year on issue ads.Officials across the political spectrum already acknowledge that there is little oversight in the new world of political fundraising, where the Internal Revenue Service and Federal Election Commission have been reluctant to enforce what rules remain.Indeed, outside groups overwhelmingly favored Republicans in the last election. That included more than $15 million to the organization backing former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential bid and $30 million to Romney's super PAC."I'm going to need some help," Obama told donors.BOSTON (AP) -- Operating with few rules and limited oversight, outside groups spent a record $1 billion to influence last year's election.Its leaders have reached out to at least 50 top Obama donors who intend to raise at least $500,000 this year.
At the same time, the report condemned the proliferation of outside groups that "use unlimited, and often unreported, amounts of the same money federal candidates and national parties are now prohibited from spending or raising. But few are working to change laws that ushered in an unprecedented flood of money made possible by a 2010 Supreme Court ruling that erased years of campaign finance law.Super PACs can raise and spend unlimited funds to help candidates, but cannot coordinate expenditures or strategy with a campaign."Republicans were quick to react to the 2010 Supreme Court ruling, creating well-funded outside groups that spent heavily on television ads that aided the GOP's success in the 2010 congressional elections."Super PACs are a permanent reality within the political ecosystem," said Washington-based Republican consultant Phil Musser. The group is intended to counter a similar organization on the Democratic side established during the last election.While a Supreme Court decision looms, former FEC Chairman Michael Toner says the IRS may trigger a more significant shift by challenging the tax-exempt status of prominent outside groups -- one on the right and one on the left -- in federal court.Such enforcement could have a massive ripple effect across the fundraising world for groups that use their nonprofit status to attract major donors seeking tax breaks.". "And I think their influence and number will increase not decrease. An agency spokesman said he could not comment on potential enforcement activity. Obama initially signaled that he didn't want Democrats to form outside groups, but ultimately gave his blessing after the Republican gains in that election. New groups have formed and others are shaping plans to come back bigger and smarter ahead of the 2014 congressional elections and the 2016 presidential race.Even as some fundraisers report fatigue following a vicious and expensive presidential campaign last year, both sides are aggressively courting donors to help further transform the political landscape.Donors who gave millions last fall, largely on the Republican side, are already lining up to do more."The unregulated system that we seem to be headed in will make Watergate look like a bad soap opera," said Robert Zimmerman, a member of the Democratic National Committee's national finance team who helped raise as much as $500,000 for President Barack Obama's re-election effort."I'm going to do everything I possibly can to help our country and those people who believe in our country," said Republican donor Foster Friess, who gave more than $2 million to a new kind of political action committee, known as a super PAC, that fueled the 2012 presidential campaign of former Sen.Both sides seem to be embracing what they see as a new normal in politics.
That kind of money largely has gone to super PACs.Meanwhile, the number of outside groups leveraging the tax code to court major donors is growing. But the IRS has yet to act.The emergence of super PACs and other outside groups, emboldened partly by the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court in 2010, has done more than anything else to reshape the contours of campaign fundraising.Gingrich, who describes Adelson as "a good friend," predicted that number of Super PACs would grow in the coming years. But Democrats need to be engaged or else Republicans are going to perpetually win," said Bill Burton, a former Obama adviser who led the president's super PAC. One was a $32,400-per person brunch in Atherton, Calif."It's a disaster of a system. Former Obama campaign manager and group chairman, Jim Messina, said that Organizing for Action voluntarily would disclose the identity and specific amount of money it receives from donors, while denying corporate donations. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.Late last month, GOP officials with strong ties to the Republican National Committee started an independent organization designed to track and research Democrats in the coming elections. Those groups don't have to disclose their donors because they're governed by tax law. Individual donations to the Obama campaign were capped at $2,500 last year; the new group has no such limits. The super PAC allied with Obama, for example, spent more than $65 million compared with $142 million spent by that of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.The system faces further deregulation as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case this year that could wipe away aggregate annual limits on direct contributions to candidates and official campaign committees.Politicians of all persuasions griped about the meddling.Instead, political leaders and donors from both parties are preparing for the flow of outside money to intensify.With no requirement to do so, the group will self-police the effort.Like other donors, Friess says he's eager to use his "affluence" to shape policy fights in addition to helping candidates.What laws do remain could become even looser as the Supreme Court considers another high-profile decision.Having promised to headline at least 20 fundraisers in his final presidential term for Democrat's campaign committees, Obama last week raised millions of dollars in four events."Everybody is focusing on raising more," Zimmerman said. Both groups can accept unlimited donations. Open-government groups have pushed Congress, to no avail, for a law that would require politically active groups to disclose their finances."I think it's only lamp socket Suppliers a matter of time," Toner said.Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson topped the list of big donors, giving more than $90 million to Republican super PACs in all.The president, too, is intensifying his fundraising focus to help his party and a new nonprofit organization led by his former campaign manager


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KnowledgeBase 00060: Careful Update of Directory Files
Although modern disk storage sizes make it is much less of a problem than it used to be, running out of disk space when writing a directory file record can cause loss of data.
The Problem
If there is insufficient disk space available for a directory file write operation to complete, the write terminates with an error. Although it is possible for an application to trap this by use of the ON ERROR clause, few applications do this. Where the write was updating an existing record, the original data is likely to have been lost by the partially completed write that failed.
The SAFEDIR Configuration Parameter
Setting the SAFEDIR configuration parameter causes the process of writing a directory file record to write the data to a temporary file and then, only if the write completes successfuly, the previous version of the record is removed and the new version is renamed to replace it.
What About Hashed Files?
The problem described above cannot occur with hashed files. A careful update process is used where, when replacing an existing record, the original data is not deleted until after the new data has been successfully written.
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More uncertainty ahead for change-weary Council staff
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The Public Service Association says a new local government structure for the Wellington region could make a nonsense out of current Council restructuring and pour hundreds of thousands of dollars down the drain.31 October 2012
More uncertainty ahead for change-weary Council staff
The Public Service Association says a new local government structure for the Wellington region could make a nonsense out of current Council restructuring and pour hundreds of thousands of dollars down the drain.
Debate is continuing on the future of the region following the release of a proposal advocating a two-tiered structure with a lord mayor, a strengthened regional council and six smaller councils providing local services.
The PSA which is the largest union representing council staff, welcomes debate on the issue but says any reorganisation must safeguard jobs, improve the delivery of services and enhance community engagement.
It says many councils are already undergoing significant change management, restructuring and moves to shared services.
"There is already a sense of change fatigue out there and the thought of more coming on the top of that will be causing a lot of anxiety and job uncertainty for local government workers," says PSA National Secretary Brenda Pilott.
The Wellington City Council is currently undergoing a top-to-bottom restructure and service review at all levels which has seen job losses, and cuts to staff hours in areas such as the library, IT and finance. There are expected to be more redundancies and changes to pay and conditions as other parts of the Council are reviewed.
"This has been a significant restructuring process which has taken its toll on staff and it could all be undone by whatever local government model is adopted for the region. That potentially represents a lot of wasted time, stress and money," Brenda Pilott says.
The PSA also believes the Local Government Amendment Bill which is currently before parliament will only add to the uncertainty for local government workers. It gives central government substantial power to intervene in and direct council business and will extend the government's public service staffing cap ideology into local government.
"That will only put more pressure on already overloaded staff and provide scope for central government to promote more contracting out and private provision of council services and infrastructure," says Brenda Pilott.
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Epic. Legendary. Sick. Silly. One for the history books. Best pipe contest ever. Period. Canadian Guillaume Morisset won the U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships at Stratton Mountain, Vermont in an upset over the local favorite and last year's winner Ross Powers. He edged Powers by less than a point in the 50-minute jam-format final where each rider could take as many runs as he wanted, but only the top two scores combined counted.
The final featured ten riders who raised the level of the sport to new all-time proportions, with a couple more poaching the pipe in practice, much to the excitement and approval of the frenzied, capacity crowd.
Build it and they will come. Indeed, the Super Pipe, combined with the near perfect, clear-blue-sky weather made it that much easier for the riders to launch ten-, twelve-, and fourteen-foot straight airs and big floating spins and flips out of the pipe.
"There was so much adrenaline," said Morisset of the event, who scored a combined 73.90. "It's so fun to be riding with everyone. The jam format is pretty fun. But at the end we were so tired. But it's so much fun to ride so you do as much as possible even though you're tired." There was a secret to his success: Morisset said that he started off the day with his usual breakfast: Raisin Bran. "That's the trick to land switch backside fives." He did better than that in the final. With a run that included switch backside rodeo, a Haakonflip, a switch backside seven, a couple of grabs, and finished off with a 720 corkscrew, Morisset won the respect of the crowd quickly and helped to build the drama between himself and Powers, who was launching quite possibly the biggest straight airs of the finals, in addition to throwing down 900s and switch sevens. His score was 73.1. Just behind the two was the rest of the pack.
If it was a two-horse race for first place, it was a five-horse race for third place, as German Xavier Hoffman, Swiss Therry Brunner, Canadian Trevor Andrew, American Tommy Czeschin, and Canadian Daniel Migneault were all within two points of each other, and finished in that order respectively. Pity on the judges who had to sort it all out.
Third-place finisher Hoffman credited the level of riding to the pipe. "It's sick," he said. "The pipe is perfect. The pipe fits the riding. It seems like the level was the highest ever. I've never seen a contest like that before. Never. Ever. We definitely need pipes like that to train in."
Hoffman snuck into third place late in the jam final because he sketched his first two runs in the final. But being able to take as many as he needed gave him the opportunity to make up for it. He did in style, putting together a run that included two 900s, one switch and one regular. Sixth-place finisher Tommy Czeschin also agreed that the pipe was the biggest reason for the level of riding. "It was a lot of fun because the pipe was so good. Everyone was just going off. The format did take a toll on the riders, who had been riding since early in the morning. "I was getting a little tired because riding all day really takes it out of you," said Czeschin. He was also stoked on the crowd. "It was awesome. Having so many people here cheering you on, it's really cool."
There were some upsets earlier in the day. Keir Dillon ended up in eleventh place after the semi finals, one place out of the finals, but kept poaching the pipe and boosting huge. Daniel Franck was two places out of the finals, right behind Dillon. Also poaching the pipe, much to the enjoyment of the crowd, was another favorite Abe Teter, who was two places out of the semi finals. He was going bigger than anyone, boosting fourteen-foot airs. He inspired Terje Haakonsen, who missed the semis by one place, to also poach and try to go big. Haakon delivered some twelve- and fourteen footers of his own, much to the delight of the cheering crowd.
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2. Ross Powers 73.1
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4. Therryy Brunner 70.6
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6. Tommy Czeschin 69.6
7. Daniel Migneault 68.5
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The anthro version is the same with a little longer hair and female. :3
Not at all, though it took all of ten minutes at Anthrocon '09 (where I got the tree-hugging badge) after I picked it up for someone to make that observation. The thought hadn't even crossed my mind, since Natasha lives in a forest and is surrounded by trees, and this was the first commission I'd paid for and didn't put any prior thought into in many years.
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PRINCETON, N.J. - MIT men's heavyweight crew team took part in its second regatta of the season when it traveled to New Jersey for the Princeton Chase on Sunday morning. The Engineers fielded a pair eights in the varsity competition, a race that included 49 boats.
Boat A finished the three-mile course in 28th place with a time of 13:20.130, 7.34% behind host Princeton's A boat, who finished first in 12:25.382. The Cardinal and Gray ended up finishing two seconds behind Cornell's C team and less than a second ahead of Holly Cross' A boat.
MIT's B boat crossed the line a little over a minute later in 45th position with a time of 14:22.042, edging out Dartmouth's and Georgetown's B boats by a few seconds.
The Engineers will return to the water next weekend when they take part in the Dartmouth Green Monster Invitational on November 3.
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GLEN ELLYN – Following a strong response from community members to District 41's banning of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" from Hadley Junior High classrooms, district administrators are preparing a revised proposal to bring to the Board of Education regarding the issue.
The board previously voted April 29 to remove the book by Stephen Chbosky from classrooms after parents of an eighth-grade student objected to its sexual content and inappropriate language.
"Our innocent child has already been tainted," parent Brian Bradfield said at the meeting. "These kids – we make a decision whether they're going to be tainted or not."
The board's 4-2 vote went against a recommendation by the district's Reconsideration Committee made up of school and district faculty, staff and one parent to keep the book in Hadley classrooms for independent reading and not instruction.
Committee members also recommended that parents receive a letter from Hadley teachers at the start of each trimester – rather than each school year – about the importance of being aware of their children's choice of reading materials.
At the board's May 6 meeting, several Hadley students asked the board to reconsider its decision.
Students said they didn't want their ability to read certain books to be determined by district parents and board members, rather than their own parents. Many also said certain objectionable passages in the book were considered by the board, instead of its overall message.
"This book gave me hope," Hadley eighth-grader Carly Basler said. "This book inspired me. This book showed me my differences are my strengths."
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" tells the story of high school freshman Charlie as he deals with issues such as sex, drugs and a friend's suicide. It ranked third on the American Library Association's most challenged books list in 2009.
In the days following the board vote, some Hadley students demonstrated their support for the book by placing sticky notes with drawings of flowers and quotes from the book on walls in the school, Hadley teachers said. They also started their own petition, which was sent to board members.
Another petition was launched online at www.change.org. It asks the board to "please reconvene and vote to support freedom of speech and the pursuit of knowledge, rather than censorship and the limitation of young minds." The petition reached 122 signatures as of Friday evening.
In an email to district families, Superintendent Ann Riebock said district administrators have gone back to the issue of the book's removal in hopes of finding a way to retain reading choices for Hadley students while improving parental involvement in those choices.
Riebock said she expects staff will present a revised recommendation at the May 28 Board of Education meeting. The board would then take action on the recommendation no sooner than its meeting June 10.
"I can't say at this time what the revised recommendation will be nor can I predict what action the BOE (Board of Education) may choose to take," Riebock said in the email. "I can say that the voices and perspectives shared by our constituents have been measured and thoughtful, and have been appreciated by the BOE members and staff."


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[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy. Read at your own risk!]
After spending an entire summer wondering about the fates of our favorite Grey's Anatomy doctors, Thursday's premiere dropped several bombshells that forever changed the staff of Seattle Grace. Cristina (Sandra Oh) moved to Minnesota, Mark (Eric Dane) was pulled off life support, and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) was missing in action throughout most of the hour.
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The sad truth was that she was at home in bed, destroyed by the fact that not only lives were lost in the plane crash: Her left leg, which was severely injured in the accident, had to be amputated. Yes, the always chipper and bubbly pediatric surgeon who used to roll around the hospital on wheelie shoes is now missing a leg — and she blames her wife Callie (Sara Ramirez) for it.
How will Arizona deal with the road ahead? TVGuide.com caught up with Capshaw to get the scoop on that and what this means for Calzona. (Shonda Rhimes, don't you dare break them up!) Get the scoop:
What was your reaction when Shonda told you she was planning to amputate Arizona's leg?
Capshaw: I was shocked. I definitely didn't see that one coming. Which, in hindsight seems silly of me given that there was a very, very real and very profound injury at the end of last season, but I just didn't know. I didn't even go there. I guess that's why I don't create shows. [Laughs]
Arizona has always been the pillar of happiness. How dark will her journey go?
Capshaw: I think that's the point. There is no light without dark, and there's no dark without light. Yes, at the inception of the character, I think there was something really nice about how light she was. ... Then, ever since going to Africa, when she came back, things just weren't the same. Something happened. It was the car crash. There was the baby. [And now] an airplane crash. She should just walk [out]. Now I say that and look what happened.
What will we see as Arizona is dealing with this?
Capshaw: The writers and Shonda are obviously trying to tell good stories. It seems, in the many conversations that we've had, there was a real story here. It was an opportunity to tell a good story of something very profoundly difficult happening to Arizona. Now, we'll see the story of how she comes to terms with that, how long it will be dark, and when it will get light again. Hopefully, it's that whole thing about all the people in London and Seattle: When it rains all the time, that one day that you get that's sunny is like the best day ever. I think that's the idea.
Grey's Anatomy: Where were we and what's next?
How will this change the relationship between Callie and Arizona considering she blames her?
Capshaw: I think you saw in the preview for the next episode, Arizona says, "Just don't let them take my leg." That's the only thing that she says. It's hard because they're doctors, obviously, and I think that's an important part of all this. Arizona is a doctor, so on some level medically, she understands what's happening better than your average patient. [But] it's also her partner, so how do you come to terms with that? How do you come to terms with the worst thing that ever happened to you coming from the person who is supposed to be the best thing that ever happened to you? I think that's going to be the journey for them.
How will her relationship with Alex (Justin Chambers) change considering, in a roundabout way, it his his fault she was on the plane?
Capshaw: It's so interesting to see how those two people have been changed because of what happened to Arizona. You were meant to think that Arizona was dead, I think. [Laughs]. It seems like he's going to stick in the peds thing because he has this relationship with Arizona that I think was very distinct. She was the first character to really say, "You are exceptional. You are worth so much and you have so much possibility. If you stick with this, you're going to be the best, so do that and be a good guy." I love that because I love that change in him. We've always known that he was a good guy, but to really see him showing up as a good guy. To now see him sleeping with all the interns, you watch someone slide back into their old habits because they're self-medicating.
Will Arizona ever return to Seattle Grace as a doctor or is there just too much bitterness there over what happened to her?
Capshaw: I think that, inevitably, the journey has to be to go back to the hospital. Without that, there would be no light at the end of the tunnel, and there would be no Arizona. That's the goal. How she gets there is what's going to be interesting to watch.
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How will the rest of the Seattle Grace docs try to help her?
Capshaw: There is a new character that certainly will be helping. Obviously, Callie is doing everything she can, but I think it takes a little bit before Arizona is able to deal with it. There's some nice stuff coming up with Bailey (Chandra Wilson) that's great because the beginning of Arizona was all with Bailey. So to see that relationship come around again is great. Obviously, everyone is very supportive. I was reading the tweets last night, I think it's just so shocking. You don't even know what to do. When I was doing my research and I was talking to amputees, I think one of the questions that I had was, "How do you spend each day almost as a new day because there's going to be someone new that sees you for the first time? How do you not spend every day as, 'Oh, look I'm an amputee!' because that's what people are looking at?" It's a real question. Again, it's so shocking, but it's about the character getting right with herself. There's a lot of stuff between here and her feeling good again.
What can you tease about next week's return to the plane crash rescue?
Capshaw: I think that it was surprising. I imagined that a lot of people thought we'd just go right back to the plane crash in the first episode, and I think that it's kind of genius that it's the second episode because you are going back to what's actually happened, but seeing how it came to be. The next episode you definitely get a window into people showing themselves completely and clearly in extreme adversity, and that's what the aftermath of the plane crash definitely did.
We can't wait to see where Arizona goes this season!
Capshaw: It'll be a journey! I feel very lucky to have been trusted with a story line that is this intense. This is not "show up to work and wheel around on a pair of skates." This has been a real gift of really intense work and really beautiful writing. I hope that it affects people. I'm glad to not have to be silent anymore because it was sort of killing me. What can I tweet about? [Laughs] Here's what I had for breakfast this morning!
Were you surprised by Arizona's fate? Hit the comments!
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by Ernest H. Beutner, Ph.D.*
Professor of Microbiology and Dermatology,
University of Buffalo; School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences;
Buffalo, NY
Patients with pemphigus may benefit by working with their doctors to gain a better understanding of the tests used to detect and control the disease, in some situations. Three groups of tests can help doctors diagnose pemphigus; one of these can also help to control the disease. Two groups use skin or oral tissue samples, one from light microscopy and one for direct immunofluorescence. A third group uses blood tests for the pemphigus antibodies that cause the disease; these fluctuate with disease activity. Many doctors use al three methods to check all diagnoses of pemphigus; each test gives different types of information.
Part 1 of this series summarizes what these blood tests can show and lists the two evaluation programs that labs can use to check if they do them correctly. In running one of these programs, we find: a) most labs that check their tests do them well, b) some need to improve and c) some labs fail to check the quality of the blood tests they do. First we review what these tests can tell us about the diagnosis and treatment responses, if they are done correctly.
Diagnosis: Blood tests for pemphigus serve as highly sensitive diagnostic tests. The "titers" of these tests tell us the amount of antibody; low titers of 10, 20 or 40 need to be interpreted with caution. Almost all patients with active pemphigus give positive blood tests, usually with titers of 80 or more. If two repeat tests in an active phase of the disease give negative results, then three possibilities need to be considered: 1) False negative tests occur if they are not done correctly. 2) The patient may not have pemphigus; that is, the diagnosis may be wrong. 3) Reaction of blood sample may cause special problems; labs can usually see and explain such problems.
The selection of the type of blood tests depends, in part, on the type of pemphigus. Mucosal pemphigus can cause lesions of the mouth, nose, esophagus or genital mucous membranes often also affects the skin. [Medical terms: pemphigus vulgaris, pemphigus vegitans and paraneoplastic pemphigus]. To perform the blood tests properly, they need to be carried out on thin sections of monkey esophagus. Pemphigus of only the skin is usually less severe. [Medical terms: pemphigus foliaceus, pemphigus erythematosus and pemphigus herpetiformis cases]. Added blood tests are often needed since antibodies of these cases may not react with monkey esophagus; but guinea pig esophagus or human skin sections give positive blood tests in almost all-active cases.
Evaluations of treatment responses: Titers of blood tests go down when treatment is successful. If titer becomes negative, it indicates that the disease may be under control. Thus, some doctors ask for repeat blood tests to aid in checking on treatment responses. Labs that do such repeat tests need to keep the previous blood serum on file to compare with the new one.
Checks on blood tests for pemphigus: The reliability of these tests should be checked annually by all labs that do them. Two voluntary proficiency programs give labs certificates of participation, notably:
1) The Ernest Witebsky Center for Immunology of the University at Buffalo and Beutner Laboratories; P. O. Box 26, Buffalo, NY 14215-0026; Phone (716) 838-0549. All labs can use this program.
2) The Mayo Clinic; Attention, Dr. Arnold Schroeter; Department of Dermatology; Mayo Clinic; Rochester, MN 55905; Phone (507) 284-6891. Only dermatopathologists (ASDP members) can use this program.
You may wish to show this to your physician. If he/she is interested, Part II of this series in the next newsletter will give tips on how to work with your physician to check on the reliability of blood tests they order.
*Dr. Ernst Beutner and his team discovered the "pemphigus antibodies" which cause the disease in 1965. Because blood tests for pemphigus play a key role in the diagnosis, management and basic studies of the disease, he and his associates, Dr. Fang and Dr. Sofat continue to provide a non-profit quality control programs for them.


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Chaos beats order as Plymouth edges Warsaw 57-56
PLYMOUTH — It was a game that fit the timeless nature of the rivalry of Plymouth and Warsaw and added it's own question to the legacy: "Was it a blocked shot or was it goaltending?"
History will record the argument; the decision by the officials on this particular night was "blocked shot," and the result was a Plymouth win, 57-56.
In a wildly chaotic final :50 of play, the Pilgrims had taken a lead on a Mack Mercer toss to David Lee in the paint that ended in a basket. With only a little over :07 on the clock, Warsaw inbounded, ran the floor and got the ball in the hands of John Swanson for what looked like the game winning lay-up.
Mercer had other plans.
Running the baseline, Mercer cut off the angle to the basket on Swanson and got his hand on the final shot, turning it away and taking it down for a rebound. A great play to end an amazing game. Or was it?
Warsaw head coach Doug Ogle echoed the sentiments of many in attendance at the game, especially Warsaw fans.
"(Mack) Mercer... (pause) Mercer is a handful," he said. "I'd like to see the replay on that last play. If it wasn't goaltending it was a heckuva a block and a heckuva play."
And that will be the debate for all time, adding this game to the long line of storied games in this rivalry. The bottom line is that Plymouth staged a huge fourth quarter comeback to even be in position to take the win — disputed or not.
The Pilgrims did it with chaos.
"That last quarter we had to cause chaos; we had to make plays," said Plymouth coach Ryan Bales. "The group we had out there was tired. We didn't quit until the final buzzer. To put ourselves in that position it was our guys scrapping and fighting. We found a way to get to the basket and get to the free throw line. I don't know what happened, but we got the win, that's all I know."
Trailing for much of the game the Tigers seemed to have the match in hand with a masterful third quarter that left them up 47-33 at the break. It was a fourth quarter commitment to chaos on defense that once again turned the tide for Plymouth.
"When you are in that situation — Warsaw was hitting 3s, they were on fire — we told them you can't worry about getting beat," said Bales. "You have to deny hard. Our kids trapped at the right time, we made some deflections and they (Warsaw) started to get on their heels, holding the ball as opposed to the third quarter when they were swinging it side to side playing confident."
"We played pretty well for most of the game, Plymouth scored too much — scoring in transition on us in the fourth quarter — off stealing the ball in different ways," said Ogle. "They could have quit, but they didn't and I give them credit for that. We played well enough to win in a lot of ways. They didn't score on us very much in the half court, but you know we have to move on.
"We can build a lead; we just need to work on keeping it. We did the same thing the other night — built a 14-point lead at (Elkhart) Memorial. Tonight we get up and can't hold the lead. Plymouth's good, and their pressure finally broke us there at the end."
Plymouth claimed the NLC JV title with a win over Warsaw 35-30. The win put the JV Pilgrims at 6-1 in the NLC and gave them the regular season title.
Plymouth (15-3) is at Culver Academy on Tuesday. Warsaw (9-8) is at South Bend Clay.
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Score by Quarters
Plymouth: 10 28 33 57
Warsaw: 16 26 47 56
PLYMOUTH (57): Matt Flynn 0, Gabe Vervynckt 0, Joe Knapp 13, David Lee 15, Mack Mercer 25, Ike Kastner 0, Kyser McCrammer 2, Trent Briles 0, Josh Anders 0, Tom Felke 4; Totals 23 7-13 57.
WARSAW (56): Jared Bloom 11, Darren Walcott 0, John Swanson 14, Quim Romans 0, Trae Furnival 0, Nate Pearl 0, Jason Ferguson 4, Taylor Cone 10, Jordan Stookey 0, Rashaan Jackson 9; Totals 22 5-7 56.
3-pointers: Plymoth 4-15 (Knapp, Mercer 2), Warsaw 7-10 (Stookey 3, Bloom, Jackson 2); Rebounds: Plymouth 16 (Mercer 7), Warsaw 17 (Bloom 5); Assists: Plymouth 8 (Knapp 4), Warsaw 5; Steals: Plymouth 8 (Lee, Felke 3), Warsaw 6 (Cone 3); Turnovers: Plymouth 9, Warsaw 10; Fouls (Fouled out): Plymouth 10, Warsaw 18 (Stookey).
Records: Plymouth 15-3 (4-3 NLC) , Warsaw 9-8 (3-4 NLC)


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LAWRENCE, Kan. – Getting a second chance to play for Kansas, Darrian Miller can be excused for being self-conscious.
When the sophomore running back ran out of the tunnel before the Jayhawks began their season at home against South Dakota, a single thought raced through his mind.
"I didn't know if anybody would remember me or what people were expecting," he said. "I just kind of kept it all inside, more of just not trying to make it something for myself."
That's because even playing for Kansas this season seemed improbable when Charlie Weis became coach in December 2011.
Weis dismissed Miller for off-field issues soon after being hired, banishing the team's second-leading rusher. Miller transferred to Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kan., but did not play football so that he could maintain a season of eligibility.
One player on Butler's team, cornerback Dexter McDonald, could empathize.
McDonald also was among the 29 players that Weis dismissed, though his issue was academics. He landed at Butler and told Miller, whom he'd known since high school, to join him. The idea was that they could spend a year there and work their way back to the Division I level.
Maybe even work their way back into Weis's good graces.
"I knew his situation, so I suggested it to him," McDonald said. "They were a great school and a lot of coaches coming in and out of there."
At first, they didn't speak much about trying to return to Kansas. But eventually, both made enough progress that they convinced Weis and running backs coach Reggie Mitchell, who had recruited them, to bring them back to Lawrence.
"I feel like I'm back at home where I should have never left in the first place," McDonald said. "It was already home so it just kind of seemed to me, 'Why not go back?'"
Kansas, which is 2-1 heading into its Big 12 opener against No. 20 Texas Tech on Saturday, has found Miller and McDonald, a junior, to be two stable pieces of a heralded junior college recruiting class that's undergone more shake-ups than expected.
Defensive end Chris Martin was dismissed in June after being arrested in connection with an armed robbery. Defensive tackle Marquel Combs, the Jayhawks' highest-rated JUCO signing, was granted his release to transfer in September, days after the NCAA declared cornerback Kevin Short ineligible for the season. Short was battling McDonald for the right cornerback position.
Even without Short, Kansas' revamped secondary is allowing 111 fewer yards passing per game than last season. McDonald leads Kansas with seven pass breakups and an interception.
"Dexter has big-time ability," Weis said. "I think that we should have high expectations for Dexter. He's been good. He's been really good."
The Jayhawks' running game didn't undergo a major overhaul in the offseason, but the coaches still were excited to have Miller back for another chance. He did about everything he could in the season opener to make sure Kansas fans remembered who he was, running 14 times for 72 yards.
Miller touched the ball only six times in the next two games, largely because he's sharing a job with James Sims, who is coming off a 1,000-yard season.
"I think James is a great inside runner," Mitchell said. "I think Darrian is a change-of-pace guy, that he'd like to be a little on the edge a little bit more."
With his talents, Miller could have searched for a second chance at a different Division I school, maybe somewhere he'd have been the clear-cut starter. But he's comfortable with Mitchell and wanted to prove he could atone for his first stint at Kansas.
Having to work to get on the field didn't deter him.
"Competition pushes me more than a lot of things," Miller said. "I look to the older guys for support as well as they look to me for things in my strong points."


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Yes, if you're having a healthy, normal pregnancy, sex is safe – although as your third trimester progresses and you get bigger, you may have to be creative about your positioning during sex to avoid discomfort.
On the other hand, sex may not be safe during the third trimester in certain circumstances, including these:
- Your placenta covers all or part of your cervix (placenta previa). With placenta previa, if the penis comes in contact with the cervix or you have contractions as a result of orgasm, it can traumatize the placenta and cause bleeding that's significant enough to endanger the pregnancy.
- You have vaginal bleeding.
- Your water has broken. Once this happens, your baby is no longer protected against infection.
- You have or have had premature ("preterm") labor.
- You have cervical insufficiency.
Editor's note: Learn more reasons you might have to say "no" to sex at various stages of pregnancy.


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every Christian outside the visible boundaries of the Eastern Orthodox Church is only a Christian by the grace given to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
I understand. This thread is supposed to be about halloween. That's what I originally wrote about and it ended up turning into a different topic. Btw, I'm not Protestant.
Αριστοκλής , thank you however the new thread title has lots of "\\\\" for me. Is this an error?
Deacon Nikolai, how did you do that please?Thank you and pray for me please.
Hey, the Cubs still have four games in which to win their three to put your D-Backs to rest and move on.
OK, I concede. UNCLE! You win.
We're next. At least you guys are expected to lose!
Hey, at least you don't have to deal with those infernal bugs in Yankee Stadium. Or do you?"What do they live on when they can't get hobbit (or Yankee)?"
I don't observe christmas anymore nor easter. That is one of the reasons why I went through the process of writing what I wrote.
Are you a Jehovah's witness?
Therefore, if someone that is a Mormon or JW is saved, then they are saved through and through even though many Mormon and JW teachings are messed up.
Now the big question, Colorado or Philadelphia ? Who are the Dbacks supposed to beat next?
Anchovies on pizza? BAH! You haven't had pizza unless you've eaten one with smoked oysters on it.
How exactly does one smoke this bile filter of the seas? Just sitting here picturing someone smoking an oyster is laughable.
"The Oyster is amongst most succulent and divine of foods, it is to be taken straight from the ocean, removed from its shell, and eaten raw and alive where you stand, marinated only in its own brine. It is a food that, for all our advances in the culinary arts, is impossible to improve upon. Its consumption in its natural state is a personal, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and culinary experience unlike any other. "
ummm... I don't think we eat food in the same manner.
Apparently not, sounds like you need to learn to better enjoy your food...eating is one of the truly great pleasures in life, one of the few things that make life worth living.
To me, it's not just about taste, but also about volume. So if you're overweight, eating is definitely a burden
And apparantly hunger. I could use a Deep Dish Pizza.
How in Mor's good nameone hundred fifty four postsNo Rachel Weisz picSelam
Okay. So does having a pizza delivered on Haloween constitute a trick or a treat?No, seriously! I once read an article of a pizzeria that coveed it's pies in candy corn and had them distributed in fron to the car with the actual orders. So they would pay for the pizza and get p.o.'d seconds befroe the actual order arrived!
Nasty...candy corn and pizza don't go together
The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over. And the candy corn company sends the guys to the villages and they collect out of the dumpsters all the candy corn we've thrown away. (pause, while audience is grossed out)They wash it!! They wash it!I'll never forget the first time my mother gave me candy corn. She said, "Here - Lewis, this is candy corn. It's corn that tastes like candy". (high pitched sound) This tastes like doo-doo! And every year since then, Halloween has returned and I, like an Alzhiemer's patient, find myself in the room, and the room has a big table in it, and on the table is a bowl of candy corn. And I look at it as if I've never seen it before. "Candy corn", I think. "Corn that tastes like candy. I can't wait". (makes eating motion) Expletive!!
I mentioned that Halloween is no different essentially than going to the beach or acting or having quality time like video games or playing cards (or eating oysters... , except the sexual part). That goes for Halloween or anything else. Modesty is key.
Just remember brother, not everyone will agree with this viewpoint (of which there are many). The above quote has an air of authority, which I'm sure you didn't mean to present. In Christ Gabriel
I don't agree, especially with that whole moderation thing
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Bobby Gene Spottsville of Fayetteville, N.C., formerly of Shawneetown, passed away Oct. 27, 2013.
Bobby Gene Spottsville of Fayetteville, N.C., formerly of Shawneetown, passed away Oct. 27, 2013.
He was born Sept. 7, 1937, to Mansford and Helen Spottsville during the time of the Ohio River flood in Shawneetown. He grew up with his Uncle Ivory and Aunt Ruebena Newsom in Shawneetown. He demonstrated outstanding basketball skills in leading his high school team to their first and only National Championship game.
Following graduation from high school Bobby served in the United States Army, 82nd Airborne Division and served one tour in Vietnam.
He is survived by his wife Barbara Davis Spottsville of 51 years; three children, Sandra Davis (Stanley) of Grovetown, Ga., Mashell Morrow (Alexander) of Jacksonville, Fla., and Bobbie Allen Spottsville of Fayetteville, N.C.; second mother, Ruebena Newsom of Shawneetown; two grandchildren, Sikia Davis and Tamisha Davis; one great-grandchild, Zoe Bey; two brothers, Jimmy Spaulding, Joe Spaulding; and a cousin, Garrison Newsom (Vera) of Chicago; and numerous relatives and friends.
Services were held at the Wiseman Mortuary Chapel, 431 Cumberland St., Fayetteville, N.C. The Rev. L. D. Davis Sr. led the service.
The burial with full military honors was held 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, at Cumberland Memorial Gardens Raeford Road, Fayetteville, N.C. Professional services were provided by the Dafford Funeral Home Inc. of North Carolina.


text: After working as an anchor of a TV travel show called "Full Circle" from 2006-07 and as a model in India, the raven-haired Bombay beauty Frieda Pinto got her big break when Danny Boyle chose her to be the female lead in Best Picture winner "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008). It was just after she'd earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from St. Xavier's College and started taking acting classes from theater guru Barry John. Previously engaged to publicist Rohan Antao, she moved on and in with her "Slumdog" costar Dev Patel. After appearing in a Bruno Mars video and dabbling in big-budget fare like "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and "Immortals," she will next be seen in Terrence Malick's "Knight of Cups." In her spare time, she works with Andre Agassi's charity foundation and does work with the UN, Plan International and the World Bank to promote female empowerment and education and stop genital mutilation and child marriage around the world.


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Winter Eats: FSD's Hottest Soups
Fight winter's chill with these 10 comforting soups.
With the holidays over, the long, cold slog to spring is before us. Warm up your operations with these soup ideas from FSD's Recipedia.
Posole's flavor is intense and earthy, and it has a robust consistency. Since posole corn can be difficult to find, hominy is often used as a substitute in this traditional Mexican stew.


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8th ave wrote:this is stupid. I quit too.
PAWNO wrote:8th ave wrote:this is stupid. I quit too.Come on now bro.. JREED aint no Pied Piper!!1
PAWNO wrote:It's actually your pick 32.BlCKFOOT selected Taj Gibson. (Nuggets)JReed selected Player B (Spures)Thunder would be the next pick off the rank if you look at picks 147 - 149
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Henry Awards: How voting changes for 2010
The Colorado Theatre Guild has adopted a new voting system for the 2009-10 Henry Awards. The eligibility opened June 1, and the panel of judges will no longer simply fill out a ballot at the end of the year indicating their five favorites in each of 21 categories.
In previous years, the panel then voted a second time from among the five nominees in each category to determine the actual winners. This year there were nine judges, six of them critics. All of them had to have seen 50 shows during the eligibility period to earn a vote.
This year, a wider panel of up to 30 critic and citizen judges has been formed, and judges will be evaluating each play they see, as they see them. An evaluation form asks judges to ascribe a points value between 1-50 in all Henry Award categories. For example, if a judge were evaluating the Arvada Center's "The Crucible," he or she would be asked to rate Gene Gillette as a lead actor, with a point score between 1-50. Similar evaluations of the lighting, sound, etc., would be made in each category.
The Guild will endeavor to send as many judges to as many shows as possible, and those that are evaluated by at least eight judges will be eligible for next year's awards. (That number may yet be changed to six).
If a show is evaluated by more than eight judges (if that is the number the CTG settles on), only eight scorecards will be considered. Scorecards by critic judges will automatically be included — the rest of each show's eight ballots will be determined by random drawing of completed ballots.
That way, every show will be evaluated by the same number of judges, solving a major bone of contention that has persisted over the Henrys' first four years of existence.
Points will then be tabulated and the top five vote-getters in each category will be considered nominees. The top point-getter in each category will be the winner.
This system will be more fair to more shows. In the past, if a show was seen by only two of nine judges, it had no chance against a show that was seen by nine judges, because nominees were determined by "most points wins."
The wild-card next year will be the citizen panel. This new system significantly de-emphasizes the critic judges, and should reflect more of a popular consensus. Citizen judges have been or will be asked to undergo a training session to discuss the overall philosophy of the voting scale, so that there is as much consistency as can be hoped for in a process that is so inherently subjective.
It is hoped that all judges will still endeavor to see at least 50 plays throughout the course of the eligibility period, which ends May 31, 2010.
Those wishing to apply to become citizen judges should contact Gloria Shanstrom of the CTG at 303-931-7241.
Just not tonight. She's a little busy with the fourth annual Henry Awards festivities at Denver Center's Space Theatre. Party starts at 6.


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Bungee Jumping Clock: Because Cuckoo Clocks are so yesterday
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The Bungee Jumping Clock is one of those concept devices that I just can't help but report on. It's like someone has finally realized that all those nice curio cuckoo clocks of yesteryear have gone, and it is time to embrace an Xtreme sports era.
Besides this picture, this is about all of the information I have on this particular clock. You have to admit that part of you wants to see some guy who throws caution to the wind tell you what time it is.
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SpaceX 'Test' Flight Off And Running
from the well-that's-nice dept
This is the second time that SpaceX has gotten this far, but rather than just orbiting the earth a couple times, the current mission goal is to have the Dragon capsule actually dock with the International Space Station (and deliver some food). The actual docking process is a bit complex, apparently, so there are still some worries. However, things certainly seem to be progressing.
And, of course, this is just one of many stepping stones towards actually offering private manned spaceflight, which goes beyond just touching the edges of space, but actually into orbit. Either way, it's an important milestone along the way.


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