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The Mountains to Molehills columnist asked students at Mills River Elementary School to pretend to be Santa Claus, and these youngsters know plenty about the jolly old elf.
More of their answers to our questions were in Sunday's column. These precious little Santas are sure to have sides splitting from laughter.
Santa, what happens when there is mistletoe over your head?
"I run away from it," says Morgan. Audrey says, "Mrs.
Claus kisses me." But, she adds, "It's gross." "I kiss Mrs.
Claus," says Ashley. Maybe it's a coin toss for Ella, who says, "I can get kissed or not."
That mistletoe is some powerful stuff, according to Jada.
"I start to get chill bumps," she says. It also has an effect on Makayla, who answers, "I would faint." "Run," says Sawyer. "You throw up," recommends Kevin. But it's nothing new for Luke, who says, "Like usual, I do get kissed." One little Santa, however, is too busy for such nonsense. "I say, 'Sorry, lady, I have some presents to deliver,' " says Karlee.
Ah, but it gets even more interesting. Jackson says, "I kiss somebody's mom like I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus."
How do your reindeer fly?
"Magic powder," Zachary reveals. "I feed them special corn and hay," says Kayla. You just have to "believe," according to Montana. "I give them magic berries," says Karlee.
"They gallop their feet and jump three times, and they start to fly and do the same thing on the roof but quiet," explains Riley. And if all else fails, Abbie gives them "hot tamales." But "special carrots" work best for Ella.
Can no one other than Rudolph pull your sleigh?
"No, he is the strongest," explains Kevin. "All of the reindeer do because I need to get around the world fast," says Jake. Mela agrees that "all the reindeer have to work together." But what if there is no Rudolph? "Next to lead the sleigh," says Mela, "is Dancer."
Do you really know whether I've been naughty or nice?
"My elves have been watching you," cautions Zachary.
"I have a big book about you," says Kilah. "I watch you all year long," promises Morgan.
"My crystal ball shows me," says Avery. "I have spy elves," says Jackson. But it doesn't hurt to have a little insurance.
"Just be nice," says Laurel, "and you'll be sure." And it looks like Mountains to Molehills will be receiving presents since Luke tells us, "This year you've been good."
Does Santa have a website?
"Yes," says Ashley, "it's the northpole.com/saintnick." Sawyer disagrees. He says, "It's www.elfontheshelf.com." But if you want to send email, the address, according to Karly, is "email@example.com." There's another site, says Madison, but it must still be under construction. "Yes, I do have a website," she answers, and goes on to say, "Wait, no, maybe!"
Santa, how do you get down the chimney if there's a fire in the fireplace?
"I'm magic," says Emma.
"Jack Frost," lends a hand, according to Ethan. "Dump snow on it," says Duane. Ah, but Santa has a "fireproof suit," says Ben. "Turn it into a slide and slide down," imagines Laurel. "I shrink and fly over the fire," says Avery. And if none of that works, "I go through the window," says Audrey.
Finally, Santa, what will you be bringing to the White House this year?
"A Mazda CX7," says Jamie.
"A collar for the dog, a toy for the child and coffee for the president," says Ethan. You voters thought you had the last say. "A new president," wishes Addison. Kevin agrees: "A new president." "A bunch of stuff," promises Montana, "but only if you stop hitting your brother."
And just what the White House needs, it's going to be "paperwork," according to Alyssa.
But a more practical gift is coming from Kilah: "Dollars."
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'I would faint'
The Mountains to Molehills columnist asked students at Mills River Elementary School to pretend to be Santa Claus, and these youngsters know plenty about the jolly old elf.


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CRANFORD — Despite the threat of rain, the 35th annual Firecracker Four Miler and Fun Run went off without a hitch in Nomahegan Park Friday morning, July 4.
Before the races started, Race Director Jerry Iacovano introduced Jon DeBaro, a junior at Cranford High School, who designed this year's Firecracker Four Miler T-shirt.
See more photos of the Firecracker Four Miler. Gallery 1, Gallery 2, Gallery 3 , Gallery 4, Gallery 5.
See Photos of the Firecracker Fun Run here.
The day started at 8:30 a.m. with the Fun Run in Nomahegan Park. Hundreds of adults and children took part in the one-mile run.
At about 9 a.m. the Firecracker Four Miler started on Springfield Avenue, not far from the entrance to Union County College. More than 1,000 runners of all ages ran the four miles of the race which finished in Nomahegan Park. Scoring was by Split Second Racing and the results were posted for all to see on Raceforum.com.
Highland Park resident Michael Anis, 32, took first place with a time of 21.09.0; Elias Howard of Cranford, 20, came in second with a time of 21.09.3 and Alexamder Livernois, 17, of Scotch Plains, took third overall with a time of 21.38.4.
Amy Cole, 30, of Tucson, Az. took first overall for women with a time of 23.22.7; Jessica Braun, 39, of Bridgewater was second overall for women with a time of 26.04.8 and Kate Warren of Westfield, 28, took third overall for women with a time of 26.17.3.
The top three female finishers from Cranford were: Abbie McGann, 16, with a time of 27.58.7; Angela Lynch, 49, with a time of 28.04.9 and Joy Hanke, 22, with a time of 29.22.8.
The top male finisher from Cranford were: Kevin Mahoney, 27, with a time of 21.51.0; Ryan McGann, 18, with a time of 22:30.8 and Michael Zanfardino, 17, with a time of 22.33.3.
Two women ran in the 70-plus category and 12 men, with the oldest runner being Joseph La Bruno, 82, of Bayonne, who finnished with a time of 47.40.2.
As racers finished, they were handed water and many took advantage of bananas that were being offered to snack on. The runners also visited the timing area run by Split Second Racing, to check on their times and their places.
There were all sorts of sponsors offering free gifts, from pens, at the Investor's Bank table, to free yogurt to try, frozen yogurt pops, popcorn and more. Investor's Bank and the Cranford Jaycees were the main sponsors of the Firecracker Four Miler and Fun Run, but plenty of other local businesses stepped up as sponsors of this annual event.
Once enough people had finished the race, there were awards for the top runners. Aside from the overall winners and top male and female winners, there were awards for each of the top three in each of the multiple age groups.
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Higurashi Kai BGM
I feel like I could listen to the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai (VN; manga gamer) background music forever. I just finished some hard work and kept listening all the time, and I think this wonderful emotional music really helped me doing it. The "You" and "Sora no Mukou" themes are outstanding, I specially love the "Sora no Mukou" vocal version. The ogg compression is not so great but even with this quality, the music is absolutely lovely.
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not sure if this is the correct thread for this and I'm sure a majority of you have already seen this, but this is basically the saddest video+music combo I've seen
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This is really lovely, the background music is well chosen (the first piano chords from the "Kokoro Musubi" album are just wonderful) and the illustrations are absolutely cute. But ... the subtitles tend to ruin the images. And I have a big problem with the last line. Because in my opinion Rena acts like this because of friendship, not love, and she would go through the same hell for all of her friends - but the "I love you" sounds like she would have done it for no other person than Keiichi.
Maybe someone can answer me a rather difficult question. Most Higurashi songs like the You and Dear You Versions are sung by women, because they reflect female characters. Looking at the words (english translation), it seems to me these words - like Sora no Mukou, Confession, Thanks - could mostly also represent the feelings of a male person towards a female, although they were meant to work the other way round. Could a song like Sora no Mukou also be sung by a man with these japanese lyrics or is the song totally "female" in Japanese, in ways translation cannot express? I'm asking myself this because I read some things about male and female language in Japanese. Maybe there's also male and female music. The Keiichi version of Dear You is in a major key, for example, and I don't really like it because the optimism which the arrangement is supposed to create, does not match the fragility of the melody.
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This one? Called "Operation".
It could also be this one
or this one
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Just came across Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Dear You and I am in love with this song now.
I remember this was a series I never did finish either. I remember enjoying the first 6 or 7 episodes before my life changed and I didn'y have time for anime/manga anymore.
Thinks I will start again and finish this time.
Edit bit of searching and I have found there is a Dear You album. Nice!
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Be sure to check out these versions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDbB4a1aec8 ("You" performed by 'Mion/Shion' Satsuki Yukino)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POso2R-FX_U (You - Visionen im Spiegel)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm21634836 (Live performance which WarriorKK kindly uploaded)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHnYEOeRLxo (With You Kizuna, sung by the voice actors of all the club members)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3K1uAhQ2x0 (You - Mirror Sky)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX6PDywtUNo (Violin & Piano Instrumental)
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I just bought the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai soundtrack album (not the anime series soundtrack by Kenji Kawai, but the sound novel soundtrack), containing 2 CDs.
Of course it is great to listen to this in CD audio quality instead of youtube ... I miss some pieces though, for example "Samayoi" and "Mienai" - the latter is played during the great "duel under the moon" scene. I love it so much because for me it reflects all the passion between Rena and Keiichi in that moment. On the other hand there are many pieces on the soundtrack album which are not part of the Manga Gamer version, maybe because of copyright issues. Nevertheless, it's a great purchase. The first of the two CDs contains the great pieces by dai, like "You", "Birth and Death", "Sora no Mukou", "LIVE", "Thanks", which is reason enough to listen to it again and again.
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does anybody know what this one is?
looks like its a gonna be release in nov....do u think it will include the pachitto thing?
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Hello everyone. I searched this topic but found no answer. Can anyone tell me the title of the song used in Tsumihoroboshi hen during the water pistol battle?
I don't mean the mangagamer version which is probably this: http://youtu.be/kicRoXreYKw
This track is in the music replacement pack for the chapter but the accompanying text file just states its title as "4".
Here you can listen to what I mean (music starts at 2:40): http://youtu.be/1JmDPoZosrg?t=2m35s
Is this from the japanese release or is it from somewhere else?
I've googled for this like 4 hours but found nothing. Maybe I have better luck here.
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Installation (Detail) FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 by Ellen Driscoll at Smack Mellon / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 20090926.10D.54748.P1.L1.SQ / SML
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Two Solo Exhibitions
Exhibition dates: September 26 – November 8, 2009
Artists' reception: Saturday, September 26, 5-8pm
Smack Mellon is pleased to present Ellen Driscoll's installation FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 and Fernando Souto's photographic series The End of the Trail. The two concurrent solo exhibitions compress layers of time to explore industries and lifestyles that go beyond geographic borders. Composed of thousands of discarded plastic bottles collected by Ellen Driscoll, FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 takes a critical look at the environmental and human damage inflicted by the oil and water industries in the last two centuries on regions as diverse as Nigeria and the United States. During extended trips to cattle ranches in the American West, Australia, and Uruguay, Fernando Souto photographed the fading culture of ranchers, creating black-and-white environmental portraits in the tradition of iconic photographers such as Walker Evans and Robert Frank. Both Driscoll and Souto are intimately tied to their craft—painstakingly cutting up salvaged bottles and printing large-scale silver gelatin photographs—asserting a tactile personal connection in their work.
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FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2
"This installation is a continuation of a multi-year series which explores the dynamics of resource harvesting and consumption. This part of the series focuses on oil and water. Rising at 5:30 AM, I harvest #2 plastic bottles from the recycling bags put out for collection on the streets of Brooklyn. For one hour, one day at a time, I immerse myself in the tidal wave of plastic that engulfs us by collecting as many bottles as I can carry. The sculptural installation for Smack Mellon comprises 2600 bottles transformed into a 28 foot landscape. Constructed solely of harvested #2 plastic, the sculpture collapses three centuries into a ghostly translucent visual fugue in which a nineteenth century trestle bridge plays host to an eighteenth century water-powered mill which spills a twenty-first century flood from its structure. The flow contains North American, Middle Eastern, and African landmasses (sites of oil harvesting and their consumer destination) buoyed by a sea of plastic water molecules. The piece looks back to eighteenth century American industry powered by water, and forward to the oil refineries of the Niger Delta, site of prolonged guerilla warfare against oil corporations and the source of over fifty percent of crude oil for the United States—the oil that produces the plastic within which our privatized water is currently bought and sold.
The wall drawings in the exhibition are based on a close study of the inner workings of an oil refinery. By using huge shifts of scale between the macro and the micro, they depict a dystopic future based on rampant oil consumption. An oil rig shares the horizon with ocean fires and garbage scows, mega shopping malls are abandoned to spontaneous communities of slums, and a refugee camp is inundated by the waters of a melting glacier. The worlds in the drawings are drained of color, but filled with the flux and spillage of a potentially chaotic future."
Ellen Driscoll is a sculptor whose work includes FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Revenant and Phantom Limb for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan, The Loophole of Retreat at the Whitney Museum, Phillip Morris, As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal (a suite of 20 mosaic and glass images for the tunnels at 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets), Catching the Drift, a restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art, and Wingspun for the International Arrivals Terminal at Raleigh-Durham airport. Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is included in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. She is a Professor of Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.
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Charles Carreon Claims A First Amendment Right To Make Vexatious Legal Threats Without Consequence
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Of course, that ignores that Levy was going after Carreon because of Carreon's vexatious legal threats against the blogger -- to the point that Carreon directly stated that he would wait until interest in the case had gone cold before suing and causing trouble for the blogger. And, even after all of this began, after Register.com stupidly gave up the name of the blogger (on no legal basis), Carreon (while avoiding being served himself) contacted the blogger's employer, Walgreens, and threatened to drag it into the lawsuit as well. Frankly, we could use a few more good lawyers trolling the web to seek to stop people like Carreon from making baseless legal threats.
Carreon has now filed his response to the attempt to get legal fees out of him, and in true Carreon fashion, it's quite a filing. First of all, it highlights that in responding to a discussion over legal fees, Carreon hit back at both Paul Levy and Ken "Popehat" White with significant discovery efforts. White told Carreon to pound sand (more or less). Levy, it appears, delivered the requested documents. Of course, the documents don't show much of anything that impact the discussion at hand, but Carreon uses them to continue his attack on the satirical blogger. Among the "findings"
- The blogger (Carreon uses the ridiculous term "Gripesite Operator") is "not a journalist." So what? What does that have to do with anything, let alone legal fees?
- The blogger is "not a web developer." Same question as above. I can't even see how that's relevant to anything
- The blogger "had not received permission to use" Carreon's "name or photograph." Uh, again, so what? What does that have to do with legal fees, especially given that Carreon has already conceded the basic case. He seems to be introducing a (ridiculous) copyright claim here, one that would backfire on him if he could actually take it anywhere.
- The blogger created the blog to "show support for the Oatmeal." Again, so what? If you don't recall, this whole mess began with Carreon's baseless legal threat towards Matthew Inman and The Oatmeal webcomic over Inman calling out another site for posting his comics without credit. Why would it possibly matter that the blog was created to show support over that threat (and subsequent lawsuit on behalf of Carreon himself, and not the site Carreon was originally representing).
- The blog linked to TheOatmeal.com, which sells stuff. Um. Again. So? The site was created to support The Oatmeal in response to the bogus legal threat Carreon filed against Inman. Why wouldn't it link to the site? And, really, if he's trying to argue some sort of "commercial" claim here, Carreon's seriously reaching.
- The blog linked to Inman's famous IndieGoGo Bear Love campaign which was started initially to mock Carreon's bogus legal threat. Again, what does this have to do with legal fees?
- The blogger has made no money from this lawsuit. Again. Same question. The lawsuit itself was filed in response to a threat from Carreon, and was not filed for monetary gain, but to have a court declare that the blog was legal to avoid the clear threat that Carreon had made against the site.
- The blogger doesn't hold the trademark for Charles Carreon. Same question.
- In the agreement Levy signed with the blogger, it noted that if legal fees were due, Levy's organization, the public interest group Public Citizen, would get those legal fees. I would imagine that's fairly standard boilerplate language.
- The blogger flew to DC from California to be deposed for this fight over legal fees, and Public Citizen paid for his flight. Again, so what?
But, because this is Carreon, and he just can't resist, it immediately veers off into wacky territory. He argues that granting legal fees in this case would allow any gripesite to go after those they're griping over for legal fees, violating the First Amendment rights of those being mocked:
If motions for attorney's fees like the pending one were authorized, then gripesite operators posting scandalous statements like "Thank God For Dead Soldiers" and "Thank God for IEDs" on websites like "AmericasLegion.com" and "ForeignWarVets.com," would have standing to move for attorney's fees in declaratory relief actions against the American Legion or the Veterans of Foreign Wars. In search of fee awards, plaintiff's counsel and his public interest colleagues would be incentivized to sue those organizations on the slightest pretext. In this way, a "First Amendment Shield" would be improperly converted into a "Lanham Act Sword," placing trademark holders in a worse position than their antagonists, thanks to the very law intended to provide them with protection. Adding to the injury, the threat of fee recoveries for gripe-site operators would chill the First Amendment rights of markholders who respond to scandalous attacks on their marks with litigation threats, since litigation threats, that are as much entitled to First Amendment protection as derisive epithets, would provoke unique, negative pecuniary consequences.Emphasis is in the original. Yeah. You read that right. In the first half, Carreon is ignoring that the effort for attorneys fees would only come about after a vexatious threat, such as, for example, Carreon's emailed list of threats, which included claims that he would wait until pro bono public interest lawyers might no longer be actively interested in the case to sue, and that he might sue in inconvenient locations if the blogger didn't just give up. It is those actions that are why Carreon is facing legal fees. Not just because there was a gripesite. So, no, his argument in the first half makes no sense.
The argument in the second half just goes into crazy town. He is, effectively, arguing that lawyers have a First Amendment right to make vexatious legal threats with no consequences.
But, because this is Carreon (who has been given the motto "just keep digging" by parts of the internet), he digs in even further, arguing that vexatious legal threats aren't just protected by the First Amendment, but that they're also protected by "litigation privilege." In fact, he even argues (ridiculously) that the lawsuit against him could have been dismissed via an anti-SLAPP effort.
California law is clear on this point.... The Lawyer's email to Levy was eminently defensible in this litigation as speech protected by the litigation privilege, and no liability could have arisen from it. Indeed, the entire action might19 have been subject to dismissal by way of an Anti-SLAPP motion.That is an... interesting reading of the law. As Steinbaugh summarizes:
I interpret Carreon's arguments to be that (1) the site is protected by the First Amendment, but the case is not exceptional because the speech isn't all that valuable; (2) sending legal threats is protected speech which is worth protecting; and (3) even if it were not protected speech, threatening letters are part of litigation and therefore are protected by the litigation privilege. Taken to their logical conclusion, Carreon essentially asserts that he has a First Amendment right to threaten and bring vexatious litigation.We await the results of this case.


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Alan Keyes wants Americans to embrace "synoptic thinking." Synoptic means "seeing apparently distinct things or events as they relate to one another to form, on the whole, a coherent plan, pattern or design." So he lists a bunch of points that he labels "data" and tries to draw a connection. I'm sure you'll be shocked at the connections he draws.
Data: Obama issues orders to allow open homosexuality in the military.
Nope. False. Obama did not issue an order to do this, Congress passed a law that did this.
Data: An anti-Christian extremist, who decries Christian military personnel who share their faith as "enemies of the Constitution," "virulently homophobic" and "human monsters," meets Obama-appointed Pentagon officials. The Pentagon thereafter issues "a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith."
Also false and debunked repeatedly.
Data: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., says he believes open purchase orders from the Department of Homeland Security to buy over 1 billion rounds of ammunition are part of an "intentional" effort by the Obama administration to "dry up the market" for gun-owning citizens.
Data: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin believes the federal government is "stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest."
Consider the different pieces of information provided above. Taken as discrete bits of information, the reports about the possible prosecution of evangelistic Christians in the military and about GOP quislings on the issue of same-sex marriage might be mistaken for separate and discrete episodes. People concerned about the free exercise of religion may be prodded by the first. People concerned about the nature and integrity of family life may be poked by the second. But then we notice that the person attacking Christian evangelizers in the military seeks to label them as "virulently homophobic." The salience of this attack draws on the moral capital created by the success of the movement to destigmatize homosexuality and demonize those who disapprove of it. The push for same-sex marriage is the cutting edge of that movement. It creates an important component of the moral ammunition being fired off against Christians in the military.
This is wingnut thinking on clear display — start with a bunch of fake "facts" and then build a conspiracy theory around them.


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House Tour Trends: Perfect Pops of Pink
Pink is a color that certainly makes people passionate, whether they love or hate the hue. And with its bold ability to make a huge impact, even in small doses, it's always a fun tool to use in a space. We couldn't help but notice a trend in recent Apartment Therapy house tours: a lot of pops of pink! There just might be some inspiration found in this roundup of great interior shots.
1. In art: Robert's Rooftop View Over Berlin
2. Soft and sweet in Olivia Ellen's Copenhagen Charmer
3. Just a floral hint in Julia & Zeus's California Bungalow with an Architectural Update
4. More floral pink in Mark & Patrick's Curatorial Condo
5. On bold stairs in Two Architects Create Their Own Home in a 1909 House
6. In upholstery in Design Vidal's Renovated Farmhouse
7. Stunning and salmon in Design Vidal's Renovated Farmhouse
8. Colorful chairs in Victoria & Michael's Sunny Art-Filled Home in DC
9. A daring dresser in Laura & Mallory's Mix of Southern Charm and City Style
10. Perfect pillows in Rustam's From Russia With Midcentury Love Studio
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Calories: A Numbers Lesson
You try to eat right, but the number on the scale keeps creeping up. Sound familiar? According to a new survey by the International Food Information Council Foundation, we eat a lot more than we should. Of 1,000 Americans polled — about half of them women — 43 percent couldn't even guess how many calories they should consume in a day.
"So many women are eating on the run," says Barbara J. Rolls, PhD, a professor of nutrition at Pennsylvania State University and author of The Volumetrics Eating Plan. We're not paying attention to supersized portions in restaurants, and we have no idea of the calories when we don't make the food ourselves.
The happy news is that your diet doesn't require a complete overhaul. Our advice: Instead of counting foods out, just start counting — first by calculating how many calories you need, then by indulging in the dishes mentioned in this story. And remember, the more you exercise, the more you can eat! Read on for more indispensable stay-slim solutions.
100 calories
- 18 roasted peanuts
- 4 Hershey's Kisses
- A salad with 2 cups greens, 1 cup cherry tomatoes, 1/2 cup sliced carrots and 2 tablespoons fat-free Italian dressing
- 6-ounce glass orange juice
- 10 Lay's classic potato chips
- 18 Rold Gold Fat-Free Tiny Twists pretzels
- 10 large shrimp with 2 tablespoons cocktail sauce
- 3 cups air-popped popcorn
- 1 ounce Kraft string cheese
- 2 slices bacon
250 calories
- 6-ounce baked potato with 3 tablespoons sour cream and 1 tablespoon chopped chives
- 1 McDonald's small french fries
- 3 ounces broiled salmon and 3 ounces mashed sweet potato
- 1 McDonald's hamburger
- 1 regular-size Nestle Crunch bar
- 1 cup Cheerios and 1 cup sliced strawberries in 8 ounces fat-free milk
- 1/2 cup hummus and 12 baby carrots
- 1 slice Pizza Hut medium hand-tossed style pepperoni pizza
- 1 cup Haagen-Dazs Orchard Peach fat-free sorbet
400 calories
- 1 Taco Bell Beef Chalupa Supreme
- 1 serving (9 ounces) Amy's macaroni and cheese
- 1 McDonald's Quarter Pounder (no cheese)
- 1 Wendy's Caesar Chicken Salad with croutons and Caesar dressing
- 1 Subway 6-inch turkey breast sandwich on a wheat roll with turkey, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and 1 tablespoon light mayonnaise
- 3 pancakes with 2 tablespoons maple syrup and 1/2 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 Starbucks Grande Mocha Frappuccino (no whipped cream)
- 1 cup spaghetti with 1/2 cup marinara sauce
- 14 onion rings
- 4-ounce piece cheesecake with 3 tablespoons whipped cream
- 1 cup meat-and-bean chili with 1/4 cup shredded low-fat cheddar cheese
That Has How Many Calories?
When we put them to the ultimate test — guessing how many calories were in last night's dinner — these women had no idea. Are you a better judge of what's on your plate?
Nancy Jones, age 38, Fort Hood, Texas
Her dinner: Turkey burger with sliced Muenster cheese and barbecue sauce on a whole wheat bun, 1/2 cup cucumber salad with 2 tablespoons Italian vinaigrette, 1 individual-sized pecan pie, and a glass of water.
How many calories she thinks she ate: 450
How many calories she really ate: 1,085
Michelle Henry, age 40, Danville, California
Her dinner: Grilled chicken breast (about 4 ounces) with 3 tablespoons reduced-calorie barbecue sauce, 3 slices grilled zucchini, 1/2 cup sliced grilled Yukon Gold potatoes with 1 tablespoon butter, one 4-ounce glass white wine, and four Trader Joe's Joe-Joe's cookies.
How many calories she thinks she ate: 800
How many calories she really ate: 767
Jessica Monroy, age 36, Walnut Creek, California
Her dinner: Ten almonds, 4 crackers with sliced Manchego cheese and one 6-ounce glass white wine, followed by one slice of a baguette, 4 ounces broiled salmon, 1/2 cup rice pilaf, 8 stalks asparagus, 12 green beans, and 1 scoop coconut ice cream with 3 slices mango and 8 raspberries.
How many calories she thinks she ate: 400
How many calories she really ate: 1,115
How Many Calories Do You Need?
1. Calculate your basal metabolic rate (BMR), the amount of energy your body burns doing such basic functions as breathing and circulating blood.
- If you're under age 30: (0.0621 x your weight/2.2 + 2.0357) x 240 = BMR
- If you're over age 30: (0.0342 x your weight/2.2 + 3.5377) x 240 = BMR
2. Figure out your activity level.
- You rarely exercise: 1.3
- You get some exercise every day, but it's generally light, such as walking or playing golf: 1.5
- You do high-intensity workouts such as spinning, playing tennis, and skiing almost every day: 1.7
3. Multiply your activity level by your BMR. The total is your daily calorie requirement. To maintain your weight, stick as closely as you can to that number.
Too much math?
Check out our quick and easy "calories needed" calculator
Indulge: 10 Treats Under 150 Calories
Whether you love cocktails, sweets, or both, here are some perfect picks under 150 calories:
- 6-ounce glass of white wine
- Rum and Diet Coke (2 ounces 80-proof rum and Diet Coke to taste)
- 3.5 ounces sake
- 12-ounce beer
- 6-ounce Bloody Mary
- 1/2 cup banana pudding
- 16-ounce Jamba Juice Passion Berry Breeze smoothie
- Chocolate-dipped strawberries (made with 2 tablespoons microwaved semisweet chocolate chips and 1 cup strawberries)
- 3 Dunkin' Donuts Jelly-Filled Munchkins
- 1 Starbucks Chocolate Hazelnut Biscotto
The 10 Best Calorie-Burning Exercises
|Calories Burned in 30 Minutes
|Number of Oreos Burned
|Jumping rope
|Running (6 mph)
|Rowing (vigorously)
|Mountain biking
|Elliptical trainer
|Cross-country skiing
|Weight lifting
Note: Calorie counts are for a 135-pound woman.
The Only 3 Diet Rules You Need to Know
1. Eat More...
- Fruits and vegetables: Produce is naturally low in calories and high in water and fiber, so it fills you up.
- Low-fat dairy: Research shows that the calcium in skim milk, cheese, and yogurt may help your body burn fat.
- Whole grains: They're rich in fiber and more filling than refined grains. Try oatmeal or whole-grain bread with at least two grams fiber per slice.
- Lean protein: It's slowly digested, so it stays in your stomach longer. Good choices: Pork tenderloin, broiled Pacific halibut, skinless chicken, and deli turkey breast.
- Salads and broth-based soups: Start your meals with a high-volume, low-calorie food like vegetable soup and you'll eat less overall.
- Beans and legumes: Toss some black beans or chickpeas into your salad at lunch. They boast a unique combination of fiber to fill you up and protein to keep you satisfied.
2. Eat less...
- Sweetened cereals and yogurt: The typical 6-ounce container of yogurt with fruit on the bottom packs more than two tablespoons of sugar — more than 100 calories.
- White carbs such as bread, pasta, and rice: They contain empty calories and little fiber.
- "Fake foods" like rice cakes: They're so lacking in taste that you end up overeating them because you never feel satisfied.
- Salty or fried snacks: Not only are they loaded with heart-clogging saturated fat, these foods also invite mindless munching.
3. Eat a Lot Less Often...
- Sweetened drinks such as soda and iced tea: Drinking just one can of soda a day equals about 150 calories — and 15 extra pounds a year.
- Bagels, muffins, cakes, and cookies: The average deli bagel is so enormous that it counts as four servings of bread.
- Butter, mayonnaise, and full-fat salad dressing: Butter and mayo contain more than 100 calories per tablespoon, and salad dressing can have 75 calories or more. Switch to light mayo and dressing and use them sparingly.
The Best Foods to Eat...
...when you're starving
These fiber-rich foods satisfy and fill you up:
- Whole-grain cereal such as Shredded Wheat 'n Bran (8g fiber, 200 calories per 1 1/4 cup)
- Tabouli (5g fiber, 160 calories per 1/2 cup)
- Broccoli (5.1g fiber, 55 calories per 1 cup, cooked)
- Raspberries (8g fiber, 64 calories per cup)
- Artichokes (6.5g fiber, 60 calories per artichoke)
...to zap carb, fat, and sweet cravings
- Angel food cake (0.15g fat, 128 calories per slice) with fresh sliced mango
- Couscous (0.25g fat, 176 calories per cup, cooked)
- Veggie burgers (3.5g fat, 90 to 100 calories per Boca or Gardenburger)
- Medium baked sweet potato (0.15g fat, 103 calories)
- Part-skim mozzarella cheese (4.5g fat, 72 calories per ounce)
...before dinner
Start with these, and you'll eat a smaller meal — but feel just as full:
- Strawberries (46 calories per cup)
- Light yogurt (60 calories per 6-ounce container)
- Gazpacho (46 calories per cup)
- Baby spinach salad with 2 cups baby spinach and 2 tablespoons light dressing (36 calories)
- 5-10 baby carrots with 2 tablespoons light ranch dip (109 calories)
Sources: Keith-Thomas Ayoob, RD, assistant professor of nutrition at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and author of The Uncle Sam Diet; Joanne L. Slavin, PhD, a professor of nutrition at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; Barbara J. Rolls, PhD; Lisa R. Young, PhD, RD, author of The Portion Teller
Originally published in FITNESS magazine, November 2006.


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Police have taken out an interim apprehended domestic violence order against former Olympic champion Michael Diamond to protect his wife, Cathy.
Diamond, 45, a trap gold medallist at the Atlanta and Sydney Olympics, was ruled ineligible for the Australian team for last year's Rio Olympics after he was charged with firearms and drink-driving offences.
He has challenged a subsequent 10-year ban on having a gun licence in an effort to return to the international shooting circuit.
However, his latest brush with the law threatens to leave his career in tatters once and for all.
In May, he was found guilty of several offences including being in possession of a firearm while intoxicated.
The magistrate, Caleb Franklin, then issued Diamond with a good behaviour bond and warned him that, if he reoffended, he could be sent to jail.
Under the AVO application, Diamond has been ordered not to assault, threaten, stalk, harass or intimidate his wife nor intentionally or recklessly destroy or damage any of her property.
He was also ordered not to approach her for at least 12 hours after drinking alcohol or taking illicit drugs.
Diamond was not in court on Monday when the order was made and the matter is listed again for Raymond Terrace Local Court near Newcastle on Tuesday.
Asked whether he would contest the AVO, Diamond said on Monday: "None of your business, mate."
Diamond, the sport's most decorated performer, had fronted the board of the Australian Olympic Committee last year in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to be cleared for Rio and become only the second Australian to compete in seven Olympics.
His sport's governing body, Shooting Australia, decided not to nominate him but, in May, vowed to stand by him after his conviction.
"We will not turn our backs on someone who has been such a great servant of our sport and our country in the past," a Shooting Australia spokesman said at the time.
Chris Barrett is Sports Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.


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Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) trimmed its full-year outlook Wednesday after its second-quarter earnings plunged 43%, a steeper decline than Wall Street's view.
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The world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment now expects earnings of $6.50 a share compared to previous guidance for $7 a share. In 2012, Caterpillar recorded earnings of $8.48 a share. This year's sales are expected to fall within a range of $56 billion to $58 billion, down from $65.9 billion.
Caterpillar's profit in the second quarter was $960 million, down from $1.70 billion in the year-ago period. On a per-share basis, earnings fell to $1.45 from $2.45. Analysts were looking for a profit of about $1.69 a share.
Revenue declined 16% to $14.62 billion, missing estimates of $15.09 billion.
Shares were down 2.67% at $83.22 in early morning trading. The stock was up about 5.6% as of Tuesday's close.
Weaker demand for mining equipment has put pressure on Caterpillar, as mining companies cut spending amid lackluster demand for commodities. Sales in the resource industries division, which mainly includes mining equipment, slipped 34% in the latest period, while construction-equipment sales fell 9%.
Construction equipment saw weaker demand in most regions, but sales rose 1% in North America as U.S. home building recovers.
Caterpillar has implemented temporary shutdowns of some plants to counter headwinds. It has also reduced the number of "flexible" workers, who can be laid off without severance pay. At the end of June, the company's workforce was down 13% year-over-year at 138,371.
The Peoria, Ill.-based company also said it plans to continue aggressive cost-cutting measures. Capital spending this year will be less than $3 billion, down from $3.4 billion a year earlier.
During the latest period, Caterpillar repurchased about $1.1 billion of its stock. The company said it plans to buy back a similar amount in the current quarter.


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Feb. 27, 2008
Courtesy Coast Guard Sports Information
NEW LONDON, Conn. - Senior Al Sowers had a game-high 18 points while junior Craig Johnson had a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds as third-seeded and defending New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) tournament champion Coast Guard held sixth-seeded MIT to a season-low 44 points in a 58-44 win in the first round of the NEWMAC tournament.
Coast Guard (19-6) advances to the semifinals and will take on seventh-seeded Wheaton at top-seeded WPI on Saturday at 3 p.m. The championship game will be at WPI on Sunday at noon. WPI will host fourth-seeded Babson in the first semifinal on Saturday at 1 p.m.
The Bears jumped out to an 11-0 lead with 16 minutes left in the first half as Sowers hit a pair of three-pointers in the first four minutes. The Engineers responded with 10 straight to make the score 11-10 with 10:48 left in the first half. Coast Guard then scored nine straight, the first six on back-to-back three's by senior Grant Johnson as the Bears led 20-10 with 6:11 left in the half.
Coast Guard also closed out the first half on a 9-2 spurt turning a 25-14 lead into a 34-16 halftime lead. MIT was held to just six first-half field goals (6-of-21) and were 1-of-7 from three-point range while Coast Guard hit 7-of-13 (53.8%) from beyond the arc in the opening period to spark a strong perimiter attack.
MIT (12-14) got as close as 12 on two separate occasions, the final one being 36-24 with 16:21 left, but Coast Guard bolstered its lead back to 20 points with 3:44 left before MIT scored the final eight points of the game.
Junior Jimmy Bartolotta, the NEWMAC's leading scorer, was held to a season-low 12 points and no rebounds. His 12 points still served as a team-high while he moved past Craig Heffernan '01 for fourth on MIT's all-time scoring list with 1,479 points. Playing in their final game donning the Cardinal and Gray, Alex Bagley and Barnett Koryan produced good efforts. Bagley scored eight points on 4-of-5 shooting while grabbing a team-high six boards; and Koryan dropped in six points on 3-of-5 shooting while adding two rebounds and a steal.
Grant Johnson added 12 points for the Bears while Craig Johnson didn't miss a shot all night, going 3-for-3 from the field and 4-for-4 from the foul line to finish with 10 points.


text: luvmnger 125 Report post Posted March 25, 2013 #8 alexander burmistrov C/W winnipeg jets 21yrs.old http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/hockey/jets/put-burmi-in-see-if-he-learned-anything-198729831.html 4 games scratched..coaches dog house sooo...the rumors out of winnipeg is either the coach puts him back in play...or he gets traded. from what i found...the coach seems to think hes not playing the system, but doesnt seem to back it up with any real fundamental situations. this could be a chemistry thing...it could be a russian thing... it could be a communication with coach issue. all in all, it doesnt seem to be a playing style, or a laziness. the fans want something done...they see oodles of talent, but are questioning the coach, trying to understand him. winnipeg media is talking...back in the lineup or move him. the coach is wasting time. if i was holland...i'd be pecking on the GM's car window..."whats it gonna take " pavel could use a talented russian winger. could buy more years of dangle in red. what do you think it would take...opinions? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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In Saturday's showdown of top-10 ranked teams, the No. 3 Tommies outlasted No. 10 ranked Bethel, 23-13, and moved closer to a third consecutive NCAA playoff trip.
St. Thomas (8-0 overall, 6-0 MIAC) never trailed as it ran its regular-season win streak to 22, its conference victory string to 17 and its road win streak to nine.
Coach Glenn Caruso's Toms avenged their only loss in 21 games over the last two seasons, a 12-7 NCAA playoff quarterfinal defeat to the Royals last December.
With one win in their remaining two games, the Tommies can claim the MIAC's automatic berth into the NCAA playoffs and secure at least a share of the conference title. That would also give St. Thomas its first back-to-back conference football championships since 1948 and 1949.
A crowd of nearly 6,000 saw a nearly even statistical game – UST had 335 total yards to BU's 300, with an 18-14 edge in first downs. But the Tommies outscored BU 11-1 in the kicking game as Tim Albright booted a career-best three field goals and UST also blocked a PAT.
UST senior RB Colin Tobin rushed 31 times for 133 yards and collected his 40th and 41st career touchdowns. Sophomore LB Harry Pitera had two crucial fourth-down stops among his three tackles for loss. Senior WR Fritz Waldvogel had eight receptions for 94 yards and 137 all-purpose yards on 10 touches. He moved into No. 3 in conference career charts in both receptions (265) and receiving yards (3,799).
Bethel (5-2, 3-2) was led by senior QB Josh Aakre, who passes for 163 yards and a TD and ran for 76 yards and a touchdown.
Both offenses came in averaging more than 40 points and 420 yards a game. St. Thomas' rushing defense was ranked No. 2 in Division III at 44.7 yards allowed per game and faced a Bethel running attack that averaged 288 yards a game, 10th best in the country.
But the Royals could only gain 137 yards on the ground, including 32 in the first half, and came up short on three fourth-and-short situations in St. Thomas territory. The Tommies limited the conference's leading rusher, Brandon Marquardt to 10 yards on 10 carries, had eight tackles for loss, two pickoffs and five pass break-ups.
The Tommies jumped to a 14-0 first-quarter lead on a pair of four-yard touchdown runs by Tobin. Bethel picked up two quick first downs on its next series, but on fourth-and-one at the Tommies' 46, Marquardt took a pitch and was tackled short of a first down by Pitera.
St. Thomas took over and drove to the Bethel 31, where Albright kicked the longest field goal of his career – 48 yards – for a 17-0 lead halfway through the second quarter.
Pitera ended Bethel's next series at the St. Thomas 25 with a 10-yard, fourth-and-2 sack of Aakre.
The Royals got on the scoreboard with 1:10 left in the first half on Reese Walker's 33-yard touchdown reception from Aakre, ending St. Thomas' shutout streak at nine quarters. UST quickly marched downfield. Two Dakota Tracy completions of seven and 33 yards to Waldvogel and a 15-yard penalty put the ball at the Bethel 20, but the Royals stiffened at the 3-yard-line, and Albright kicked a 20-yard field goal with six seconds left in the half for a 20-7 halftime lead.
Bethel took the second-half kickoff and drove to the St. Thomas 3-yard-line, but Aakre's fourth-down pass into the end zone went incomplete. The Royals held the Tommies to a three-and-out series and drove 41 yards in six plays, with Aakre running the ball in from the 5-yard-line to narrow the deficit to 20-13. The Tommies blocked the extra-point kick to keep the margin at seven.
Neither team could move the ball on its next three possessions, but St. Thomas salted away the win with 2:55 left in the game on an Albright 25-yard field goal to make the score 23-13. The 13-play drive to the Bethel 8-yard-line chewed up 70 yards and nearly seven minutes on the clock.
Bethel gamely fought back, driving quickly to the St. Thomas 25, where Aakre threw into the left corner of the end zone. UST cornerback Jack Gavin's acrobatic interception sealed the victory.
The Tommies return home Saturday for their last regular-season game in O'Shaughnessy Stadium, facing Gustavus Adolphus. The Gusties (1-6, 1-4) lost 24-16 to St. John's on Saturday in St. Peter, their third loss of eight points or less this season.
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David Miscavige works for and answers to Scientology's millions of parishioners. He is unrelenting in his service to their interests and the interests of the religion. The period of stellar growth he has spearheaded has been described as nothing short of the renaissance of the Scientology religion.
As the driving force behind a worldwide program to expand all Churches of Scientology to better serve their communities, Mr. Miscavige led the creation of a new breed of Scientology Churches. These Churches stand as points of succor where all are welcome. These are also the Churches from which Scientologists extend their social betterment programs to mitigate intolerance, illiteracy, immorality and drug abuse.
L. Ron Hubbard expressed the goal of Scientology to create Churches that reflect physically what they provide spiritually:
"You are creating an island of friendliness, decency and succor in the sea of a violent world. ... Some time in the future the islands will become the sea."
To realize this goal, in 2004 Mr. Miscavige launched a program with the stated aim of making every Church of Scientology into an ideal Church of Scientology—ideal in location, design, quality of religious services and social betterment programs.
Each Church is uniquely configured to accommodate the full array of Scientology services for both parishioners and the surrounding community. Each houses extensive public information multimedia displays that introduce every facet of Dianetics and Scientology. Additionally, libraries, seminar rooms and chapels serve as places to hold Sunday services and other congregational gatherings. The first wave of these new Churches now graces world cultural centers, including Madrid, London, Berlin, New York, Rome, Washington D.C. and Brussels.
New Ideal Organizations now regularly open their doors, with many others on the horizon, as Scientologists rally in support of a global Ideal Churches movement to serve their communities long into the future. (See: David Miscavige: At the Helm in the Era of Expansion)


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Cloud computing of late seems to be just a way to steal everything from everyone best i can tell on the privacy topic,i see feu redeeming quality's about cloud anything unless of corse you want to make a dark bot cloud then np.
for only $50 you can set one up with stolen credit cards and DDOS anything on the net gone...yay
all the CORP crap heads seem to want to do is steal your HDD and add it in to the cloud,cloud being little more then a distributed computing model like a cluster computer setup with clients being little more then dumb terminal "thin client" and the cloud is the mainframe server were you have no rights of any kind,just read up on mega upload on this topic to see what i mean.
then theirs the "cloud" anti virus topic,most of late being pure spyware as far as im censored .
SOOOoooo what do you all think about how the cloud topic is going of late.


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I'm not good at it. In fact, it's my observation that a large number of us aren't.
I'm not good at it. In fact, it's my observation that a large number of us aren't.
Last August, in a desperate act, I resigned from every single thing I was doing at my church. That included things like feeding the homeless a few times a year, lay reading, hosting social hour, taking my turn with altar flowers. I wasn't even one of the overly committed in multiple roles including teaching Sunday school or serving in church governance.
Still a year or so ago when our church surveyed activity by members, I realized my list was long and my involvement deep.
The end came during Labor Day weekend when I was scheduled to work at the homeless shelter, along with the usual group, providing a Labor Day meal and serving it to guests there. I've been doing this for years and years. It doesn't take a whole lot of time, just some planning and coordination with the other servers.
This time, though, was different. I'd been out of the country, teaching a class and traveling, and I'd come sliding into the new school semester several days late. While I was gone, my office had moved — leaving a chaos of unpacked boxes and unkeyed doors, and half my stuff remained in my old space. First day students hoping to get on my good side helped me shift them across campus.
I was late putting my syllabus together, had missed meetings. Beginning class felt breathless, and the anticipation of the Labor Day break to get myself combobulated again felt like a huge relief.
That's when the email message came in: "Remember it's your time to serve at the shelter."
NO! I said. And at the same time, NO MORE!
I did my duty at the shelter, fixing a big pan of something and hauling it over. Fortunately one of my fellow servers' daughters was willing to stand in for me, so I could go on back home once I delivered my food.
The very next morning I sent an email to the church secretary: "I resign from everything. Take my name off of every list."
She did. The minister asked if anything was wrong, and when I explained, said he understood, and, in fact, was a little envious. I appreciated that. I was feeling, along with relief, a huge helping of guilt.
Volunteer service, I know, is something done by the angels among us. Without it, as a society, we would most definitely collapse. Churches wouldn't operate. Nonprofits would shut down. Things like Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts would be unavailable for our children.
Even at school, it's volunteer committee work and faculty meetings and presentations at Lunch 'n Learns that keep the place running smoothly. It's the letters of recommendation for this scholarship or that job or transfer application that guide our students into the opportunities that move them forward.
It feels selfish to say no. Selfish to claim to family or friends that I want some Barbara time, but I do, and without it, there's little desire to say yes to anything else.
But why is it so hard, and why do we — for I'm not alone in this — have so much trouble saying no? Why do we volunteer ourselves silly, taking on so many committees and boards and jobs that we collapse under the weight of them?
If you've been on a committee that's tried to plan an event, then you know how hard it is to work around that calendar filled with other obligations and opportunities. Do we really need every single one of them?
I feel guilty in part because I know that if I say no someone else has to say yes. I feel obligated because I have the false notion that "nobody can do it as well as I can."
Maybe as many as 10 years ago, I volunteered to be "historian" for a state organization. I landed the job when I said to the president, "Somebody needs to hang onto all those old newspaper clippings or they'll get lost." That somebody, of course, became me.
For 10 years, I did nothing. Nobody sent in any new clippings or photos. I was simply keeper of the file, an easy obligation.
But then came the 80th anniversary of the organization, and the current president wanted a 10-year history. Who would do it but the historian?
I said yes. What else could I say?
I started in late summer, interviewing people, gathering information from documents and board minutes. I collected photographs taken during meetings. Then I had the brilliant idea to turn this 10-year history into a booklet. Easy, right?
Wrong. Even with the help of a great printer, going from Word document to booklet meant daily back and forth conversations and reformatting. Meanwhile I had editors who were proofing, facts being checked, and more.
But when it was finally finished, I was pleased and proud. The booklet was a big hit at the anniversary celebration.
Then I resigned from my position as historian, shipping the file of clippings to the president.
"No" doesn't mean you're a bad person. Doesn't mean you're self-centered or uncaring. "No" means you have a need — an essential, human need — to do nothing now and then. And in doing nothing to take care of the spirit within that feeds your hungry soul.
Barbara Presnell is a poet and teacher of writing who lives in Lexington. Contact her at www.barbarapresnell.com.


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WILMINGTON � Law enforcement agencies in Wilmington are holding an event to buy back people's guns, no questions asked.
City police announced Monday that the event Aug. 24 will honor two victims of gun violence, one of them who was only 8-years-old.
The locations will be announced later.
Police spokeswoman Linda Rawley says participants will receive a $100 Visa gift card for working handguns and a $200 gift card for assault weapons.
The event is being sponsored by a local nonprofit organization as well as the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office and the local district attorney.
It honors Josh Proutey, a 19-year-old killed during a robbery last year in Wilmington, and Demetrius Greene, an 8-year-old caught in shootout at a housing complex in 1997.


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Fugitive Recovery Agent Shoots Tire of Fleeing Drug Possession Suspect
On March 3 about 10:15 a.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department received a report of shots being fired south of Dean Creek, according to Samantha Karges, a spokesperson for the department.
When deputies arrived on the scene, they discovered a Fugitive Recovery Agent had fired a shot at the tire of a misdemeanor warrant suspect, Sara Klein, as she attempted to flee in her vehicle. Klein was arrested for her warrant on misdemeanor drug charges. The Sheriff's Department gathered information on the case and forwarded it to the District Attorney's Office to see if they want to press charges against the agent.
According to Karges, the Fugitive Recovery Agent had pulled in behind Klein's vehicle in a driveway-like area in order to keep her from fleeing. Karges explained, As "[t]he bondsman reportedly exited his vehicle to approach her vehicle, [Klein] reportedly tried to flee forward in the vehicle, but was unsuccessful due to vegetation and then she put the vehicle in reverse."
The Fugitive Recovery Agent says he feared for his life as the woman put her car in reverse. "That's when the bondsman discharged his weapon," Karges said. When the car began reversing towards him, the Fugitive Recovery Agent fired a shot into her tire. Klein fled into the woods.
"He ended up chasing her through a nearby wooded area," Karges, the spokesperson stated. "[Klein] was later apprehended by the Fugitive Recovery Agent and examined by medical personnel." She was uninjured.
Karges explained that Klein said that she was afraid and trying to flee as she did not know he was a Fugitive Recovery Agent.
Although, Karges said, "The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office doesn't usually aide them in apprehending warrant subjects…The bail Fugitive Recovery Agents usually bring suspects into the jail themselves," under the circumstances, the deputies booked Klein into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility themselves.
She was booked on two counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance.
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Opening arguments: Spicer still facing "perversion" charge
A high-profile murder case with local ties finally made its way to London's Downing Street on Monday, February 24.
Behind the tall metal gates protecting Prime Minister Tony Blair's home in downtown London, a group of wigged lawyers and titled judges examined the intricacies of a 2000 murder on the Caribbean island of Tortola.
Lawyers for William Labrador, a 39-year-old New Yorker convicted of murder, are trying to win his freedom– or at least a new trial.
The case has generated a lot of interest in the United States. Blonde and beautiful Lois McMillen, a 34-year-old artist from Connecticut, was violently drowned on a rocky shoreline in Tortola in January 2000.
A few hours after her body was discovered, island police arrested four Americans, including a Central Virginian, and charged them with her killing.
Although three of them were eventually acquitted and discharged, Labrador was convicted on the evidence of a Texas conman, Jeffrey Plante, who said that Labrador confessed to the killing while the men shared a jail cell.
Charlottesvillian Michael Spicer, 39, a friend of Labrador's and one of the four men charged with McMillen's death, has been keeping close tabs on the case. He knows very well what it's like to be imprisoned on Tortola. He himself spent 16 months there before a judge ruled there was not enough evidence to proceed.
Spicer and others in the defense camp heralded a recent Privy Council ruling in a similar case, in which the court quashed a conviction from Jamaica on the grounds that the judge failed to adequately warn the jury about the danger of accepting a jailhouse confession.
The ruling was "right on the point," Spicer says.
Monday, February 24, was the first of three days of legal arguments in the case. The five-member Privy Council is the final court of appeal for the British Virgin Islands, a British Caribbean territory.
Labrador's lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, spent most of the day discrediting Plante and pointing out that the judge had failed to warn the jury about the danger of accepting his statements.
"The heart of the case is the evidence of Plante," Fitzgerald told the judges, who are also members of the British House of Lords. "His motive to lie was enormous."
Fitzgerald said that Plante– currently in prison in Texas could have been motivated to lie in order to win favor for himself in the eyes of both Texas and British Virgin Islands authorities.
Spicer's own freedom is still at stake depending on the outcome of the appeal. Authorities in the British Virgin Islands have refused to drop charges that he "perverted" the course of justice. They say Spicer and another man, Alexander Benedetto, tried to prevent their taxi driver from giving a statement to police on the night of the murder.
Until that appeal is settled, Spicer remains a wanted man in the Islands.
"The Queen has charged me with perversion/obstruction of justice," Spicer told The Hook before Monday's hearing. "The crown has said they don't want to take up that matter until the Labrador appeal is settled."
Susanna Henighan edits BVI StandPoint, a weekly newspaper in Tortola, and writes regularly for the Associated Press.


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Jakarta: Indonesia's sports minister resigned on Friday after becoming the country's first active cabinet member to be named as a suspect in a multimillion dollar corruption case.
Youth and Sports Minister Andi Alfian Mallarangeng told a news conference in the capital, Jakarta, that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono accepted his resignation earlier Friday, the second such high-profile corruption case this week.
"I believe that the allegations against me as reported by the media are not true," said Mallarangeng, adding he would be cleared in the courts.
Corruption Eradication Commission chairman Abraham Samad told a news conference earlier on Friday that Mallarangeng is suspected of mismanaging the construction of a $122 million sports complex in the West Java town of Bogor.
Samad said Mallarangeng, also the secretary of the board of patrons of the ruling Democratic Party, will be charged with abusing power to enrich himself or others, which carries a maximum 20-year jail sentence.
On Thursday, the commission asked immigration to ban Mallarangeng and two other suspects, including his younger brother Andi Zulkarnaen Mallarangeng, from going abroad.
Mallarangeng has been questioned several times about the case. The party's treasurer, Muhammad Nazaruddin, is now serving a four-year jail term for involvement, and the trial of his deputy, Angelina Sondakh, is under way.
Nazaruddin has alleged that the Mallarangeng brothers received 20 billion rupiah ($21 million).
A government audit found the project was full of irregularities, which potentially caused up to 243 billion rupiah ($25 million) in losses to the state.
The agency also held Mallarangeng responsible for allowing his secretary to sign the project's procurement contract, which violates a government regulation requiring ministers to sign contracts worth than 50 billion rupiah ($52 million).
Mallarangeng's resignation comes after the commission on Tuesday detained Maj. Gen. Djoko Susilo as the main suspect in a high-profile graft case involving the procurement of driving simulators. He became the first active police general to be detained in a corruption case by the commission.
The cases — which underline Indonesia's challenge in changing its graft-ridden image — have threatened the credibility of the party's founder, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whose 2009 campaign for re-election presented him as the "Mr. Clean" of Indonesian politics.
Hundreds of people have been arrested for alleged corruption since Yudhoyono took office, though critics note high-ranking officials have largely been left alone.
According to advocacy group Transparency International's corruption index, Indonesia ranks 118th out of 176 countries polled, down from 100th out of 183 the year before.


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I understand this API will focus on new sensors while still supporting traditional input devices.
I'd like to know to what extent you are planning to support traditional devices in the API:
-Will it support things not very popular in games but often requested by gamers, like two players playing split-screen with two keyboards and two mouse devices?
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Among the industry's most insightful thinkers, Wes Ishmael concentrates on industry price and market perspectives for BEEF magazine. Along with his monthly "Cattle Economics" column, he also writes the BEEF Stocker Trends electronic newsletter, coordinates the National Stocker Award competition, and contributes to the Beef Stocker USA website produced by BEEF and Kansas State University. A BEEF contributing editor since 1999, he's been involved with livestock publications since 1983. Wes grew up in Colorado and has always been in and around the livestock business; he now lives at Benbrook, TX.


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For sale: 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, 56,000-plus original miles, once owned by Steve McQueen, perfect condition, brown.
"It's not my favorite color," admits Mike Regalia, the Thousand Oaks auto restorer whose car is the star of this week's Christie's auction in Monterey. "But Steve loved brown." The Lusso -- a gift from McQueen's first wife, Neile Adams -- was special-ordered from Otto Zipper Motors on Wilshire Boulevard with the "Marrone" paint job, which is what the Ferrari factory called the deep chestnut hue. "Actually," Regalia says with a smile, "it's a very elegant color."
Or colors. When Regalia, 52, pushes the Ferrari out of a storage facility into the Monterey sunlight, the metallic paint ignites with a pale opalescent fire, shimmering in shades of honey and oxblood. Imagine a Ferrari-shaped pool filled with ancient brandy. The Lusso, designed by the famed Italian coachworks Pininfarina, is regarded as one of the loveliest of Ferrari's touring cars, but no Lusso ever left the factory with half the hand-rubbed luster this car has. "I've got 2,000 man-hours in the paint alone," says Regalia.
Will the Lusso shine as brightly when it's pushed under the lights at the Monterey Jet Center on Thursday? That's the million-dollar question, or maybe $2 million. After all, there's a lot of money out there. The euro is huge against the dollar, and the thickets are filled with hedge-fund millionaires looking to diversify their investments while Wall Street wobbles. As the world's car-collecting elite gather on the peninsula before Sunday's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the Lusso is being eyed as a bellwether of the vintage car market, which in some quarters is experiencing a kind of crazed exuberance not seen since the boom-bust days of the early 1990s.
The McQueen Lusso is "the first important car for sale this week," says Ken Gross, automotive historian and authority on the vintage car market. "People will be watching to see what it sells for. If it does well, other cars will do better. If it falls really flat, there'll be a buzz about that. That car will set the tone for the whole weekend."
The Lusso sale will also index to the state of Steve McQueen's legend. The actor, who died in 1980 at age 50 from surgical complications after a diagnosis of mesothelioma, has emerged as a bona fide icon of automotive culture. Not only was McQueen a talented driver, rider and racer -- he won his class at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1970 -- he was, as an actor and producer, responsible for some of the most beloved cult films of autodom, including the weirdly wonderful "Le Mans," in 1971, a movie that does for racing fans what "The Devil Wears Prada" does for shoe fetishists.
"Everything Steve McQueen is hot, hot, hot," says Dick Messer, director of the Petersen Automotive Museum. In November the museum hosted an auction of McQueen-related cars, motorcycles and personal effects. An ordinary pair of Persol sunglasses -- alleged to be the pair McQueen wore in "The Thomas Crown Affair" -- sold for $70,200.
"It was otherworldly," says Messer. "You thought you were in a dream as far as prices were concerned."
The McQueen Lusso finds itself "at a convergence of two tidal waves," says Keith Martin, publisher of Sports Car Market magazine. "On one side is the fascination with Steve McQueen, and the other is the market for fine 12-cylinder Ferraris."
And somewhere in the mix is Mike Regalia, trying not to think about what the car might bring. "I'm not a wealthy man," says Regalia, who bought the car for "under $100,000" and has devoted about 4,000 hours to turning it into the showpiece it is. "This car is the culmination of a lifetime of buying and fixing up and selling cars."
Any other Lusso like Regalia's is worth about $500,000 on the open market. Regalia recently turned down an offer from the Petersen for $750,000. "The real unquantifiable is Steve McQueen," he says. "He was a cool guy, it's a cool car and it's got a cool story," he says. On Thursday, "The market can decide what that's worth."
With some small degree of apprehension, Regalia agrees to let me drive the McQueen Lusso. It is, first of all, as close to perfection as automobiles get. Every shut line -- where hood and doors and trunk and fenders come together -- is dead even down to the millimeter. The chrome sparks with sunshine. Unlike modern production cars, whose machine-applied paint has an orange-rind texture, the Lusso's paint is as smooth as Murano glass, flowing from the brilliant chrome fascia to the distinctive tapered tail, the "Kammback." This is fit and finish the Scaglietti factory -- where the body was built -- could only dream about.
The door swings open with an easy balance and I park myself behind the wood-rimmed steering wheel, trying to imagine what McQueen must have thought of the car. McQueen, whose height was variously reported between 5 feet 7 and 5 feet 10, would have been comfortable in the car, but at 6 feet 1, I have a bit of a legroom issue.
Unlike a modern car that has no scent of machinery about it, the Lusso is delectably perfumed with the smell of leather, fuel and oil. The whiteface gauges are as bright as a Hollywood smile. Every finish screw holding the door trim has been selected so that the screw slot is perfectly horizontal. "You just keep trying screws until you find one that lines up," says Regalia.
Built on the Ferrari 250 GT SWB (short wheelbase) chassis, the Lusso is a luxurious car, particularly for Ferrari. "Lusso" means "luxury" in Italian. The interior is wrapped in meticulously stitched leather -- black leather on the dash and crema-colored leather on the seats, doors and transmission tunnel. The leather on the parcel shelf in the rear is quilted, as was the fashion for these cars.
One clue that the Lusso is not as driver-focused as other Ferraris is that the speedometer and tachometer are in the center of the dash and not behind the wheel.
"Steve didn't consider it a sports car," says William Claxton, a close friend of the actor at the time. "He thought of it as a gran turismo."
And yet, it's still plenty sporty. With a twist of the key (the ignition, like a Porsche's, is situated to the left of the wheel) the 3-liter V12 lights with vintage grind-cough before settling into a mellow, reverberant idle. Rapping the throttle evokes a hot, open-throat cackle from the quad exhaust. "Don't feather the clutch," Regalia warns. "In or out."
After some delicate moments getting over speed bumps -- the exhaust system is perilously close to the ground -- we wheel the Lusso onto a highway. The long hood swings like the prow of a boat as we turn. With no power steering, the Lusso demands a higher energy output from the driver, but its controls are fluid and precise, with none of the empty slack in the steering that cars of this era were known for. The power-boosted brakes (four-wheel discs) haul the car down from speed, the pedal offering hard hydraulic feedback all but unknown in modern cars.
"The Lusso was always my absolute favorite Ferrari," says Regalia. He bought the car from San Francisco collector Tom Sherwood in 1997 after two years of negotiation -- Regalia had to throw in a rare pistol to seal the deal. "I didn't really think about the McQueen connection," he says. "I bought it because it was a good, unrestored car. It wasn't until I got it home and sat behind the wheel that I thought, 'Whoa, this is a different situation here.' "
The Ferrari was one of Regalia's daily drivers until 2000, when he decided to pull it apart and restore it. As the former director of restoration at the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar -- Regalia left as president in 2005 -- he had all the skills required to bring the car back to its full glory. He completed the restoration in 2005.
"That's probably the best Lusso in the world," says the Petersen museum's Messer. "Mike Regalia's reputation is top notch."
At 2,900 pounds and with 240 horsepower, the car is by no means overpowered. It's also geared quite tall, which is to say the ratios in the four-speed transmission and differential favor high-speed cruising more than off-the-line acceleration. Puttering from stoplight to stop sign, it's difficult not to lug the engine at low speeds. Stalling the engine is a sure way not to look like McQueen.
But then the route opens up. I cut my eyes to the right to glance at the tach as I roll on the throttle, steadily closing on the 7,500-rpm redline. The engine warbles. I expect Regalia to wince but he seems serene. Clearing a lazy bend on a back road, I upshift to third and the car catches a billowing updraft of old-fashioned torque.
Here it is, my moment of Steve, behind the wheel of his old Ferrari on a sun-damasked country lane, the V12 pounding away, a snarling exhaust in the wind. It's not the sensual pleasures of driving the Ferrari that will reward the next owner, considerable though they may be. It will be this moment of kinship with the actor over the decades, with the car as the medium.
Where did I put my Persol sunglasses?
There are several ironies in the story of the McQueen Lusso. The first is that McQueen, an ardent anti-establishment type, should have his old car caught up in the big-money, collector car establishment, as embodied by Christie's elaborate PR campaign around the Lusso. "I think he'd probably find it all pretty funny," says his friend Claxton. "He'd probably say, 'Do they want my old underwear, my dirty socks?' " (Answer: Yes!)
There's also some question about McQueen's affection for the car. Chad McQueen, the actor's son, remembers the car disappearing from his dad's collection after only about three years and not the 10 years asserted by Christie's. The Lusso was by no means McQueen's favorite car. "My dad had a lot of favorite cars," says McQueen. Such is the fickleness of a real car guy.
The relationship between celebrity provenance and value is problematic. Much depends on which celebrity. On Friday, for instance, Bonhams & Butterfields is auctioning off a Jaguar once owned by singer Lena Horne, but nobody expects her ownership to command much of a premium over market value. It's not simply a matter of a star's luminosity, Messer says. "It's got to resonate." People have been burned speculating on cars once owned by Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.
"McQueen is not your average celebrity," says Christopher Sanger, vice president of Christie's and head of U.S. sales of automobiles. "From his movie work to his personal life, he was synonymous with cars, horsepower, racing."
And McQueen's stock is rising. According to Martin Cribbs, director of rights representation for Corbis, which manages the actor's image and likeness for his heir, McQueen is one of the firm's top 10 earning accounts and, in terms of requests, among the top three, which puts the unlettered McQueen right up there with Einstein.
"We're amazed at the growing popularity of McQueen," Cribbs says, "not just domestically but worldwide." McQueen has been summoned from beyond to sell Tag Heuer watches, Absolut Vodka and, perhaps most famously, Ford Pumas and Mustangs, in commercials where the actor was digitally rematerialized behind the wheel.
"McQueen was the real deal," says Cribbs. "It's that authenticity that comes across to people, that means something. McQueen stands for something larger than just being an actor."
The McQueen Lusso, Christie's Sanger says, is really the perfect auction car "because it has all these intangibles associated with it. It's the sort of thing that helps folks part with more money than a Lusso would otherwise be worth."
Regalia hopes so. "The bigger the number for this car, the bigger the celebrity the car itself becomes," he says. "This isn't the end of this car's story. It's the beginning."


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Comes in alubox(as picture)which are made for these housing so it is protected.
Have only been udes for 1 production with whales.
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Price: 1400 Euro and shipping price