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The WHO on Wednesday released its new 54-page "Guidance on couples HIV testing and counselling, including antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treatment and prevention in serodiscordant couples: Recommendations for a public health approach," according to the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog. "Intended for national policymakers and relevant health program managers in low- and middle-income countries with generalized HIV epidemics, the guidelines were set to be released at the International AIDS Conference in Rome last July, but delayed in order to consider results from two clinical trials looking at ART use as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) that showed a strong prevention benefit, as well as the relevance of couples counseling and testing among pairs who are men who have sex with men (MSM) and/or inject drugs," the blog notes. The guidance "also touches on recent evidence that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with some antiretrovirals taken in discordant couples can help to prevent sexual acquisition of HIV, and notes that the WHO is reviewing this data and hopes to have a 'rapid advice' document on PrEP available sometime this year to help guide programs in discordant couples and in MSM communities," the blog states (Mazzotta, 4/18).
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Today's MSNBC website has an excellent report by Martiga Lohn of the Associated Press on the hefty price tag of Sexually Violent Predator laws in the United States. Lawmakers are stymied because they don't want to appear "soft on crime," yet the mushrooming detention facilities are squeezing out social programs such as schools and health care.
The costs of incarceration alone are more than $500 million a year and rising, according to the analysis, and that does not include the "considerable legal expenses" of the actual commitment process. Last year, New York and California spent about $175,000 PER OFFENDER. In the 20 states with SVP laws, the average cost per offender was more than five times that of a regular prison bed, and more than double the cost of a year at an Ivy League university. For a fraction of these costs, imagine how many high-risk offenders could be enrolled in comprehensive "Circles of Support" to protect the public.
As Ms. Lohn reports, "these 'civil commitment' programs are costing states hundreds of millions of dollars more than anyone envisioned, and they've created a political quandary for lawmakers who need to cut spending but don't want to be seen as soft on rapists and child molesters."
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A woman riding her bicycle to a job interview was killed when her bicycle was hit by a beer truck at Beville Road and U.S. 1 in Daytona Beach about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Kelley Davis was intent on riding her bicycle to a job interview Tuesday morning despite her sister's offer to give her a ride to the highly anticipated appointment.
Davis, the 32-year-old mother of a 10-year-old boy, told her sibling she wanted to lose weight and riding the bike would give her the exercise she wanted.
Tuesday afternoon as she held her newborn daughter, Davis' sister Karen Knight cried inconsolably as she stood just a few feet from where Davis had just been killed by a large beer truck at Beville Road and South Ridgewood Avenue.
Police said Davis was heading east on Beville and crossed into the path of the Bud Light rig driven by 35-year-old Michael Cotton.
"She disregarded the truck," said Daytona Beach police Lt. Major Garvin. "The truck driver had the green light."
While the preliminary investigation shows Cotton was not at fault, he was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center to have his blood drawn, as is routine in fatal crashes, Garvin said.
"He was very distraught," Garvin said of Cotton.
Davis is the fourth bicyclist killed this year in Volusia County while Flagler County has had one death so far. And a bicyclist in Flagler County was critically injured Monday morning.
Terrance J. Conley, 61, was riding east on Palm Coast Parkway shortly before 8 a.m. Monday when he was hit at the intersection of Florida Park Drive in Palm Coast, a report states. He was airlifted to Halifax Health Medical Center in critical condition, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The driver, Marquis T. Norwood, 19, was also traveling east and did not see Conley, according to the report. Norwood drove away and the Dodge Stratus she had been driving was later found in the parking lot of Daytona State College. Charges are pending against Norwood, the report states.
James Harding, 32, was the first bicyclist killed this year in Volusia or Flagler counties. According to the FHP, Harding was struck by a car on U.S. 1 north of Ormond Beach on Jan. 3.
Frederick J. Martinez, 51, of Flagler Beach, was killed March 19 as he rode his bicycle in a bike lane on State Road 100 about a mile east of Interstate 95. Martinez was struck by a van, FHP said. The van's driver said he sneezed and struck the bicyclist, the FHP said.
Volusia and Flagler counties saw a drop in fatal bicycle accidents in 2012. Preliminary estimates show three fatalities last year, down from eight the previous year. And over the long run, studies show bicycling has been getting safer nationally over the past decade.
In 2012, Volusia County recorded 177 bicycle-related accidents that left three people dead and 148 people injured, Florida Highway Patrol statistics show. The FHP numbers come from a new pilot reporting program, so no comparable number is available for 2011.
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An Alliance for Bicycling and Walking report last year looked at three years of bicycle fatalities and ranked Florida as the most dangerous state and Jacksonville the second-most dangerous city in the United States for cyclists.
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As police directed traffic through the busy intersection and waited for the Medical Examiner's office to arrive to take Davis' body, Knight sat on a bench outside a Walgreens at the corner bemoaning the fact that her older sister would never get to know Knight's baby daughter.
Knight said she and Davis were living together so they could help each other out financially. She said she believes her sister was interviewing for a server's job at Joe's Crab Shack on the Daytona Beach Pier.
Knight said the sisters had never really known their parents well and "we were all each other had."
"I want everybody to know that she was a wonderful person," Knight said through tears. "She would ride her bicycle everywhere looking for a job."


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Christina Aguilera Covers Up on Marie Claire Cover
Christina Aguilera was once known for stripping down and showing off her assets. But as she grew up, she went for a more old Hollywood glam look, all the while baring her ample cleavage and curves. On her February 2012 Marie Claire cover, Xtina covers up and she still stuns! That's called natural beauty.
Wearing a white jacket with navy piping, which picks up the soft ocean shade of her baby blues, it's a subdued, sweet version of the singer. Her platinum blond hair is teased in waves and blown back off her face, while her lips look extra kissable in a soft pink hue. She's not vamping it up a la Marilyn Monroe with crimson lips and the verdict is in: We likey! Aguilera remains glammed out, just in softer tones.
The spread photos find Aguilera dressed in nautical hues and that shot of her in the navy bustier and blazer? In one word: heartstopping!
The cover tag hints about what's going on inside the magazine and in Xtina's mind. It reads: "I love my body. .. My boyfriend loooves my body."
That's all that matters, girl.
It's 2012 and that means new year, new Xtina, new season of 'The Voice' and new album on the horizon. She addresses her not-so-hot 2011 – save for 'The Voice' — which was marred by her divorce, a public drunkenness arrest, a flop album ('Bionic') and a flop film ('Burlesque'), all of which were topped off by ardent criticism about her weight.
"That was a rough year," Aguilera said about trying to make manufactured pop on 'Bionic,' that didn't rely on her best trait, which is her gorgeous voice. "Between my divorce and the other things I went through, a lot happened. It's hard for anyone to go through that in public. But when you're a celebrity and under a microscope, it's 58 million times harder. I grew an even thicker skin after that hard year."
It's served her well and she's not letting anything, especially words, bring her down, to borrow a line from her most famous song 'Beautiful.' She continued, "I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body. My boyfriend loooves my body. My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me."
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Anybody who was born subsequent to 1953 can probably tell you exactly where he or she was when they first heard the news that John F. Kennedy was dead, the victim of an assassin's bullet while on a trip to Dallas, Texas.
November 22, 1963 certainly is one of the iconic dates in American history, not unlike July 4, 1776, December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001.
Now, everybody — including those who do not personally remember JFK's death — can relive that day through the new movie, "Parkland," named for the hospital where the president was rushed after being felled by an assassin's bullet.
The movie provides a glimpse into Dallas that day and the actions of some of the major players in the event. For those who remember that day all too well, it will fill in some blanks. For those who do not, it will give the event some context.
Most people have an iconic and historical day where they can remember what happened, that remains in their memory years after the event itself.
For me, there are several. I will never forget the morning of November 12, 2001, two months and a day after 9/11, when a large Airbus A 300-600 augured into the street on the block were my son and his family lived, only three blocks from my apartment and a mile from where I worked as a newspaper managing editor.
I remember hearing on the police scanner, "Central, we have a heavy airliner down on Beach 129 and RBB." Those words still bring chills nearly a dozen years later. That day and the following weeks were perhaps the most hectic of my long life.
So, I am no exception to the rule that everybody who was old enough to remember where they were and what they were doing on any of those iconic dates above, or others of their own, personal choosing, will certainly do so for the rest of their lives.
As to Kennedy, it was a Friday and I had travelled home from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Far Rockaway. The ship upon which I served at the time, the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42), a 67,000 ton aircraft carrier, was in the sprawling yards for a refit and repairs and I had become something of a commuter for a few months, riding the A Train to and from the yard each day rather than sleeping on the ship.
I walked into the apartment I shared with my parents in Wavecrest Gardens and put on the television set.
The announcer said something about Kennedy sliding down into the backseat of his limo.
My first thought was that the president had once again hurt his bad back. The reality, I soon learned, was far worse.
I called my then girlfriend (who became my wife four months later and remains so until this day) and she tearfully told me what I happened. I rushed back to the television set and remained glued to Walter Cronkite and the story for the remainder of the weekend.
On Sunday, however, I went to take part in my regular bowling league at the Woodmere Lanes. During a break in the action, I walked into the lounge for a coke and watched transfixed as Lee Harvey Oswald. Who had been arrested for the assassination, was in turn shot and killed by Jack Ruby, the owner of a strip joint in Dallas and a police buff.
It all seemed so surreal, but we all accepted the "fact" that Oswald, an open supporter of "fair play for Cuba" and of Fidel Castro operated alone in killing the president.
On Monday, I went back to the ship and my duties as a court reporter. We had a muster on the flight deck and Captain Gerald Miller, the ship's commanding officer, read the official orders from Robert McNamara the secretary of defense, announcing Kennedy's death and the honors that were to be given by each of the armed forces. I still have a copy of those orders on my wall at home.
Fifty years later, the finding that Oswald had acted alone has been alternately challenged and supported in nearly 2,000 books and articles and by a few official investigations.
The first challenge came from author Mark Lane, who quickly wrote an article for the National Guardian in December, entitled "Defense Brief for Oswald." Lane later wrote a book about the subject.
In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald had acted alone and that there was "no credible evidence of a conspiracy that included others involved in the shooting."
In 1979, however, a House Select Committee on Assassination" took up the question of who killed Kennedy once again, agreeing with the Warren Commission that Oswald acted alone, but that the commission's report and the action of the FBI in investigating the murder were "seriously flawed." The House committee concluded that at least four shots were fired and that there was a "high probability" that two gunmen fired at the president that day. "The Warren Commission failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the president."
Those who favor the conspiracy theory and a governmental cover-up argue that there was witness tampering, intimidation and foul play involved in the investigation, that many witnesses to the event suffered strange deaths, that Kennedy's body was altered before the autopsy, that it was impossible for the murder weapon to have fired the "pristine bullet" that reportedly killed Kennedy and then injured the Texas Governor who was riding in a jump seat in front of him.
There is the Grassy Knoll and the three "tramps" who were arrested there and then disappeared into history.
In 1996, author William Manchester wrote the seminal book on the assassination, "The Death of a President." It brought together all the reports and conspiracy theories.
Even today, however, authors continue to churn out works about the Kennedy assassination, some factual, others fanciful. All of them are entertaining in their own way.
The History Channel also continues to churn out documentaries about the subject, keeping it alive in ways that books cannot any longer do, studying the shooting and using computer generated reproductions to show how the shooting might have really happened.
In 2003, a Gallup poll indicated that 20 percent of Americans believed that Vice President Lyndon Johnson had a hand in the murder.
Having lived through it, what do I believe?
First of all, three people can't keep a secret, let alone hundreds. If there had been a wide-ranging conspiracy in 1963, we would have heard about it by now.
I do think, however, that Oswald was a dupe for the Cubans, the CIA and the mob.
Look at some of the Cubans who were later involved with the Watergate break-in; Bernard Barker and his crew. The Cuban ex-pats hated Kennedy because of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, where Kennedy decided not to back a CIA-funded attempt to retake Cuba from Castro and give it back to the mobsters. So did the CIA. The mob hated Kennedy because it lost its final hope of recovering its gambling profits from Cuban casinos when the Bay of Pigs attack failed.
They were essentially one large group, the Cuban ex-pats, the CIA who funded them and the mob that relied on them for control.
They got Oswald, who really thought that killing Kennedy would help his beloved brothers in Cuba and Russia, to do the deed for them and then walked away.
The debate rages (perhaps the word "rages" is too strong in 2013) even today. New books, both fiction and non-fiction, continue to pop up on e-readers throughout America.
Will we ever know the truth? Probably not. So many of those who were conjectured to be involved in a conspiracy are dead. Others have gone to dementia and nursing homes.
Those of us who were old enough to remember, however, keep the memory alive. I had just turned 24 two weeks prior to the assassination. For somebody who was only three years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked, the Kennedy assassination remains a seminal memory, along with the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, the 9/11 attacks and the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 into my hometown.
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Is there anyone else like me who found her just completely offensive?
I don't usually critcize dead people. When she was alive I used to say, "All she is is a black Tammy Faye Bakker."
Houston tried to play it both ways. On the one hand she was a successful figure in the entertainment industry. On the otherhand, she wanted to present herself in a very conservative manner. Its like she still had to prove something, make some sort of a claim to legitimacy. Needed to present a conservative image, seeking approval, is not becomming.
She just went right up my spine.
Anybody see her the way I do?
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Mostly, I didn't see her at all, and the less I saw her, the more I liked it. I didn't care for her music or her movies (The Bodyguard?!? SPARE ME!), and as for anything she may have had to say in public, never heard it and couldn't care less.
From where I sit, she wasn't worth noticing ... so mostly, I didn't.
I was never a consumer of her product, …not a pop culture person I s'pose.
"She was a great talent; maybe, the best voice in the last few decades."
Subjective, …I worked in the biz for three decades, …I wouldn't call her a "great talent" or "best voice". Her performance was always (to me, a 45 years musician, and a session player, studio musician, music teacher for many decades), marked by pretense and cliche, …great for pop culture, but compared to any of the greats, …mediocre.
I love me some Whitney. Wish I could hear her yell, "Bobbaaayyyy!" right now.
I don't have an opinion of her either way, not my type of music though I do admit she had a lovely voice. I cannot think of Whitney without thinking of a clip on The Soup, when she yells at Bobby in her best crack laden ghetto voice: "Kiss my ass". It is hilarious.
However if you are a fan, you can now show you love by spending only $300 bucks:
Because when it comes down to it, it doesn't matter how many illegal drugs you take when your alive or what illegal drugs cause your death, if you are a great singer you will still get into heaven. Hypocrisy number 23,658 257.
See, that above picture gets to what has always bothered me. There was in Houston a covert message of social conformity, and the Jesusolotry Movement is a big part of this.
I can't stand her. And I agree that the movie "The Bodyguard" is horrible.
It made me laugh. It looks like he's breaking her neck. XD
Jesus loves you, Whitney! *crack*
/lulz on so many levels (still sad, but...)
Might you be able to elaborate further? Your words might be able to convince some who aren't seeing it.
To me, its the conservative hair style, the conspicuous prosperity, on top of trying to present herself as a media icon. Its how she tried to glamorize smoking, make it seem chic instead of an addiction.
I remember around the same time as the Body Guard, she made a music video with her husband. It showed her riding around in a limosine. She was showing off her high living. Then there was a shot of she and the husband from behind. Then they both turned center and faced front. They were holding their new baby. So she was tokenizing the baby too, along with all the expensive stuff she showed off.
Again, its the juxtaposition of all of this, playing everything both ways. To me it is obvious that she has been deeply influenced by Pentecostalism. Like I said before, a black Tammy Faye Bakker.
Perhaps Patrica you might be able to shed some further light on this.
Again, I don't normally attack dead people. I did attack this one plenty when she was alive. I'd just forgotten about her in the years since.
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Nancy White is not a showy painter. Her abstract works at Steven Zevitas Gallery, no larger than 10½ inches tall, sport a consistent color value, which means there's little contrast of bright and dark — rather, this group of paintings is fervently dim.
That's part of what captivates. White doesn't romance the eye, but she draws the viewer into her small worlds of slicing shapes and tilting planes with compositions that suggest surprising space. Within the dusky tones, there may not be glamour, but there's mystery.
These works verge toward monochromatic, with "#35" shuffling oranges, and "#40" built from wine reds with the occasional sliver of green. White's color consistency evokes temperature, humidity, and the suggestion of stepping into a small, enclosed space with passages and obstructions that invite you to find your way by touch.
These are White's largest paintings to date, and she introduces curves amid all her straight edges. In "#44," which is all gray-blues and browns, the left side looks like a brown bracket, cupping a scoop of blue twilight — the deep space in this painting. The layered planes of gray and brown to the right might be a pyramid, opening at the front to spill an unlikely shadow.
The flat, opaque forms in these works build on one another to suggest volume, they scissor around each other like slotted pieces of construction paper, or they angle out as if crisply folded. The orange piece, "#35," features that last trick, as triangles pivot one into the next, making a zigzag in which one angle nests into the next. These fractured, complex spaces confound, but, in their delicacy, they draw you in.
White's powerfully understated paintings are effective because her formal rigor prompts the experience of night vision — groping through shadows, looking for edges — which makes you feel as if you can't see at all. But of course you can. It's just a different way of seeing.
Obscured vision
"Lake Effect/Nor'easter: Part II," a group show at LaMontagne Gallery, also takes up on the idea of obscured vision. The exhibit follows "Lake Effect/ Nor'easter: Part I" staged at Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago late last year, which spotlighted artists from LaMontagne's roster. For this show, three Rafacz painters were invited to reflect on winter weather.
Zachary Buchner's pieces, in which he coats his painted canvases with plaster, smartly evoke whiteout conditions, although sometimes with lurid colors. In "Untitled (Lake Effect 01)," he uses a peach-toned plaster. The powdery grain is indeed snowy. The paint beneath seeps through in blue-black contours, like the rims of snowdrifts. Buchner creates a sense of porous veils through which the elements seep.
Much the same occurs in Philip Vanderhyden's paintings, all titled "Screen," in which gray and blue-gray surfaces befog obsessive mark-making beneath. Here, there's a sense of something tangible — a landscape, a map — just beneath the surface, edgy and full of clues we can't quite perceive.
Nothing is obscured in Andreas Fischer's exuberantly expressionistic abstractions that hint at landscape and architectural detail. "It Seemed Downright Useful in Its Application" might depict some DIY disaster. Beneath a balcony on the upper right, a bright orange form like a four-legged stool spews a slather of autumnal browns and reds, accented by limey white. Fischer's narrative is secondary to his luscious strokes of paint, and their dark flowering beneath that flying stool.
Anniversary show
Boston Sculptors Gallery, founded in 1992, celebrates its 20th anniversary with a cleverly installed exhibition featuring its 36 current members and 15 alumni. The gallery started in a West Newton chapel, where members mounted ambitious installations that were up for several weeks at a time. In 2003, they moved to Harrison Avenue and changed the programming to two solo shows a month. The model seems to work for this for-profit artists' collective, which has done a mighty job promoting Boston sculpture.
The work comes across as varied and, on the whole, incisive and witty. Niho Kozuru's "Nova," a red rubber circle, serrated on the inside, blobby on the outside, combines the organic with the industrial. Nancy Milliken's "Honey Wall" is fairly simple — a translucent square case filled with honey, mounted on the wall — but it deliciously conflates structure with light and taste. Roz Driscoll's "Moult" features a ceiling-high ladder, and a strip of rawhide twines down it like the castoff skin of a snake. Dan Wills's "Nervous Reaction," a cartoon sculpture of a bolt shying from a voracious wrench, is a hoot.
I'm a sucker for sculptures that play against monumentality, such as Hannah Verlin's "Extinct," a cube of paper circles, each written over with the name of a species that has become extinct. Viewers are encouraged to take a circle with them. Then there's Andy Moerlein's "Hanging by a Thread," suspended over the gallery's front door: It looks like a boulder, but it hangs from a string; it's likely made of something much lighter than the rock it purports to be.
A fast-paced Pecha Kucha panel discussion, "Sculpture That Works With Audience: Kinetic, Interactive, Installation, and Public Art" is scheduled at Boston Sculptors Gallery for the evening of Jan. 23.
NANCY WHITE: New Work
At: Steven Zevitas Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave., through Jan. 26. 617-778-5265, www.stevenzevitasgallery.com
LAKE EFFECT/NOR'EASTER: Part II
At: LaMontagne Gallery,
555 East 2nd St., South Boston, through Jan. 26. 617-464-4640, www.lamontagnegallery.com
HEIGHT, WIDTH, DEPTH, TIME: Boston Sculptors Celebrates 20 Years
At: Boston Sculptors Gallery, 486 Harrison Ave., through Jan. 27.
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By Mike Organ, The Tennessean Staff Writer, September 4, 2008
Mark Blau says his daughter Lynsie shoots a rifle better than she shoots free throws.
Some former college basketball players might take exception to such a statement, but not Lynsie.
She fired her first rifle before she shot her first basketball. That's the way it is for boys and girls who grow up in the Texas hill country.
Lynsie Blau is Lipscomb's new women's basketball assistant coach, and her background is an interesting blend of hunting and high-tops. When she wasn't shooting hoops she was shooting dove, whitetail deer and rabbits.
"My girls were raised on a ranch and hunting was just the natural thing to do for them,'' said Mark Blau, who owns a 2,700-acre ranch in Menard, Texas. "There's lots of women who hunt here."
That is not the case nationwide. According to a 2007 U.S. Fish and Wildlife survey, fewer than 10 percent of the nation's 12.5 million hunters are female.
Blau was 9 when she shot her first deer. Her largest deer was a 13-pointer and she has never harvested one with fewer than eight points.
"I am not a morning person but there's something about getting up early and getting all camo-ed up and going out and trying to find the right spot,'' she said. "I like the strategery of rattling something up or just happening to be at the right place at the right time."
When Blau grew to be 6-3, playing basketball also became quite natural. That's when she started balancing her two favorite pastimes. She'd play basketball through the week and hunt on the weekends.
Even after she moved on to Abilene Christian, where she was one of the team's top players her junior and senior seasons (2002-04), she continued to hunt. College friends, male and female, would come home with her for holidays and weekends to hunt on the family ranch.
Even after she graduated and became a wedding planner for two years, Blau never stopped hunting.
"I don't know what it's going to be like now that I am in Tennessee,'' said Blau, who spent last year at her alma mater as a graduate assistant coach.
"I am going to be very busy not only with coaching but with recruiting. I will probably only hunt when I go back home. But I have heard the hunting in Tennessee is very good."
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Some pics. First, OOTD's.
My furry vest is a fall favorite and I wear it so much I'll bet people are tired of looking at it. And my boots (recent TJ Maxx find you may recall); I refuse to take them off of my feet except to shower.
My ON shirt; I love it. Heading back for another color.
My precious cowboys. We had a birthday party this weekend and it was so much fun. My 5 year old refused to ride the pony (he felt the pony was too tall, ha!) but my 3 year old gave it a try. We've been to a couple of fabulous birthday parties lately at friends' homes and they are so much fun. I think I may try to be brave next year and have a birthday party at our house for the first time?! I'm inspired! Clearly I'm renting the pony.
Happy Monday! What've y'all been up to?
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8 comments:
- Danielle said...
Great idea ladies. And thanks for the cookies Andrea!
--Danielle Cordaro.
- June 27, 2008 at 1:39 PM
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- June 27, 2008 at 9:25 PM
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I agree with Danielle - what a great learning community this will be - I can only see benefits for both parties.
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- June 27, 2008 at 9:28 PM
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Hi everyone and greetings from the University of South Australia. My name is Liz and I am a team leader and member of the of the Learning Advice team at the university. This is a really wonderful initiative started by Andrea and Linda and I can see it becoming a great success.
maybe one day Purdue staff can come over and visit us in Adelaide to see what we do here. But for now keep up the good work and I look forward to posting many comments on this blog
- June 29, 2008 at 5:14 PM
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I have chosen to 'redo' my original comment using my 'real' name rather than linking to a site which had obsolete blogs on it!!!
Story suggestions (again)
* When G'day meets Howyadoin' - idiom in language
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- June 29, 2008 at 7:24 PM
- Brady Spangenberg said...
Hi folks,
Greetings to everyone, particularly our new partners at UniSA. I have some material to post, but I cannot figure out to create a new thread. Can someone help me?
Every now and then we receive difficult inquries through the OWL, and I want to post our responses to these.
I'll also be managing a Grammar Group this fall, which meets once a week for an hour to discuss all things grammar related. I plan to post recaps from these sessions here as well.
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A few comments:
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telly programme--Don't you folks know how to spell "program"?
Sickie--That was the nickname of one of my college friends.
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During her upper school career, she was frequently called upon to go easy against the Tigers' weaker opponents; otherwise her scoring total would have been much higher. Of course, she drew a lot of attention from Germantown's stronger rivals, and could serve as a decoy to free up her teammates. Following the Hun School game, Germantown Friends chalked up league victories over Abington Friends and Shipley to reach an overall record of 11-0 at week's end.
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Stalin was an atheist
Joseph Stalin was an incredibly complex person who made understanding him even more difficult by suppressing information about himself. The claim that Stalin was X, is extremely difficult to establish as there exist so few documents.
He attended an Eastern Orthodox primary school. This was not out of the ordinary as nearly all primary schools were administered by the church. Then he attended seminary at Tbilisi. There are many stories about him leaving seminary, some with scandal, some with conspiracy. Regardless, he "left" seminary at the end of his final year. There are accounts that he was ordained as a priest, and others that he was not. These accounts are so specious because Stalin silenced many of his former classmates and teachers, in fact he did not like it known that he came from Georgia at all. Little is known about Stalin's life until the age of 44 when he became the head of the Communist Party.
Apologists often point to people like Stalin, trying to make a point about atheism:
- Stalin was an evil murderer.
- Stalin was an atheist.
- Thus, Stalin's atheism has something to do with him being an evil murderer.
- Therefore, atheism causes evil.
The point of the argument is to try establish that it's wrong to be an atheist, because if too many people are atheists, bad things will happen.
Counter apologetics[edit]
Association fallacy[edit]
While it is certainly arguable that communism would be untenable in a theistic climate - making atheism necessary for communism - the apologetic fails because atheism isn't sufficient for communism; fires only start in the presence of oxygen, but no fire has ever said to have been caused by the presence of oxygen. Indeed, (weak) atheism can't be considered sufficient for any action. For this reason, this argument is an instance of the association fallacy being employed between atheism and Stalin.
Factual problems[edit]
To claim that he was an atheist is overly simplistic. As the de facto ruler of the USSR, he initiated many purges. Many clergy were killed and this is often cited as Stalin's anti-christian mark. However, like Henry VIII he did not simply remove clergy, he replaced them. He established a new national church of Russia, which of course answered to him. He considered the church very important to extending control from Moscow to the satellite nations. Stalin's church was called the Russian Orthodox Church or The Moscow Patriarchate; and the suppressed church was called the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. They have a bitter history.
Stalin was many things, a former theologian, the head of the national church, and one of the most brutal dictators in history. His own views on religion are difficult to guess. Many scholars think of Stalin as a ruler who envisioned himself as a god.
Furthermore, there is the concurrent claim that the USSR was an atheist nation. While the Communist Party suppressed religious fervor, it did so only out of jealously of loyalties. The Communist Party demanded loyalty to itself above all others, even above God. Russia has always been an intensely religious nation. They consider the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church to be equal to the Vatican's Pope; or even above the Pope. To claim that Russia became atheistic overnight in 1917 only to emerge deeply religious in 1989 is incredibly ignorant.
Other Russian atheist leaders did not suppress religion[edit]
One may also note that almost all of the leaders of the USSR, from Lenin to Gorbachev, except for Malenkov, were atheist or non-religious or did not have their religion documented. Yet only Stalin committed such historic atrocities. Gorbachev explicitly affirmed his atheism, but he nonetheless campaigned for religious freedom and was very friendly toward believers.
Scriptural arguments[edit]
According to Christianity, God supposedly places those in authority in power Romans 13:1 , including corrupt and psychotic leaders. This makes God responsible for the actions of Stalin and shows that God is capable of evil.


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I get what you're saying, and I used my own little work in the same example in a previous post.
I've always been keen to soundtracks in general, even at the most horrible films, for the most part there are tracks that I do like.
Anyone that likes scores should always have a "best of soundtrack" album in their CINCO MIDI organizer to avoid having to deal with the other pile. .
It's one of my favorites too, but my point was that on the surface there's nothing incredible about its composition. If we heard it for the first time shuffled somewhere in the middle of this OST, would we appreciate it the same way, would it stand out above everything else, or would we consume it in the same fashion as the rest of the album?
a role reversal of the eclipse with Zodd and Skull Knight.
I doubt the Skull Knight had any interest in preventing Zodd from going there.
Rather, it's more likely that Zodd sought him out to fight on purpose (which leads SK to reflect that everything is happening again).
If Zodd had just wanted to get there unhindered he could have flown in without any problem.
The other possibility is that they bumped into each other without intending to, because of causality.
I'm not so sure. Zodd essentially evacuates Griffith from the area before the Kushan army can show up and defends him from the Bakiraka.
But it certainly would've been inconvenient if he was stranded naked in the middle of the towers ruins surrounded by Midland's invaders.
If the events from the eclipse were mirrored, I think an argument could be made that not only is their encounter a reflection from that time, but there roles were as well.
And why wouldn't SK want to thwart Zodd's intervention?
While this fits Zodd's personality, I don't think it's a very accurate mirror of what happened at the Eclipse.
At the Eclipse, Zodd was playing "the gatekeeper."
I suppose he had some time for a brawl before the incarnation. It's not as if he doesn't enjoy fighting with SK.
I doubt Zodd specifically sought SK out, it just mirrored the eclipse
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Yes, because Griffith really needed to be defended against the Bakiraka, as was made clear by the Skull Knight in volume 28 when he said no ordinary man was a threat to him, or that Flora was more dangerous to him than an army of 10,000. Even though he's a supernatural being, just imagine what a well-placed arrow could do to him at close range (see volume 22 for reference)!
And by the way, it's hilarious to believe that the members of the God Hand somehow need Zodd to protect them.
To say he "rescued" Griffith would be a big stretch, as all facts point to Griffith being untouchable.
It's certainly not on the same level as Skull Knight beating past Zodd at the Eclipse to rescue Guts and Casca from Femto and the Apostles. Griffith's life was never in danger.
Yeah like that time when Ganishka exploded and he had to fly away using his own wings.
Then perhaps you ought to remember that Zodd specifically told the Skull Knight at the time that he wasn't guarding the Occultation ceremony. His sole interest was only ever to fight. So, in short, exactly what I said.
Wrong, he specifically denies it. You should re-read that part of the story.
He took the term as an insult similar to "errand boy" (and this is likely how SK intended it) that's essentially what I saw him as... He was protecting the GHs interests, the same as he'd done at Doldrey and with Wyald.
Zodd sought SK out, not the other way around. SK was talking to Luca, then just as she left, Zodd arrived. Zodd could have gotten to the place in many different ways, easily avoiding trouble if he had meant to. It clearly wasn't the case. As for why the Skull Knight wouldn't want to thwart Zodd's intervention? First, nothing leads us to believe he was aware of said intervention, and second, when said intervention actually occurred, he was content to just look at it happen and didn't try to prevent it. Like I explained in the podcast, he likely knew his chance was gone. Preventing the incarnation would have been possible had he managed to kill the Beherit-Apostle. That was his chance and that is what he tried to do. Whether Zodd got there or not changed nothing. Once Femto was incarnated, it was over.
ApostleBob, to follow up on what Aaz said, you're taking the circumstantial "role reversal" of that encounter to a point that just isn't supported by the text, particularly their motivations, in both your interpretation of the Eclipse and Incarnation ceremonies.
The symmetry is no less compelling though, Zodd and Skull Knight confronting each other again, only this time it's Zodd that crashes the ceremony and takes Griffith away while Skull Knight watches and contemplates the consequences.
You're cherry picking what I said. I specifically acknowledge that Griffith is untouchable in the material world.
More likely it was out of deep respect for the one who defeated him
The main difference is that there were dozens of witnesses at the incarnation that would be able to identify Griffith as a scary supernatural being if he transformed into Femto.
This would be pretty inconvenient as he's about to go on the Public Relations tour as the savior of Midland. He can't have rumors that he's a bat-like monster.
So technically you're right.
I am aware of this, I just interpreted it differently. As I said.
In the scene you're referencing, I saw SK's inquiry as to whether he had been commanded to be the gatekeeper as more than just an innocent question. It's an insult to someone as proud as Zodd. It's like calling him an errand boy that isn't invited to the party. Considering their rivalry, I don't think it's out of the question for Skull Knight to trash talk him.
Why would the GH need him to do this? Well, if the GH knew that the SK might interfere with these junction points, assigning Zodd to be watch dog was a good insurance policy.
And just think what would've happened if he didn't stall SK for a while. Most likely Casca wouldn't have been raped and the incarnation would have been hindered pretty significantly without Casca's tainted child.
This being said I did re-read it, and it's much more ambiguous than I remembered. Zodd initially says he knew that Skull Knight would show before Skull Knight makes the gate keeper remark. I still think it's possible that Zodd is making excuses for running the GHs errands, but I'll admit it makes my initial interpretation much weaker. I could be completely off on this.
I saw it more as causality bringing them together at that point. How would Zodd know where to find him, especially at a place as widespread as Albion and especially with SK bouncing all over the place.
Yeah, I think I'm starting to read too much into it. Depth that isn't quite there or at least not intentionally.
I think I got a bit excited with Aazealh's observation that SK saving Luca paralleled his rescue of Rickert. Never noticed it before, but it sure fits.
Podcast 6 is wrapped, but it will be going up a little more later than normal. So basically, expect it by tomorrow morning
Oh boy, the Bakiraka could have been able to identify Griffith as a scary supernatural being! Do you think they might have even tried to kill him had they known he wasn't just a regular guy?Yeah man, imagine what the gossip would be among his enemies! They'd never believe he was their savior! Whereas flying off naked on top of a monster made him look like a saint!
Glad we agree.
You didn't "interpret it differently". You're refuting what we're told in the story in order to believe what you want. I'm sorry but that's not a valid basis for anything.
Please save yourself the trouble of trying to tell me what the characters say to each other. It's just embarrassing.
You're assuming the GH knew what would happen, cared to prevent it, had the means of telling Zodd what to do, went through the trouble, and that he cared to do it. That's basically fan fiction. Almost all of it goes directly against what's in the story. Furthermore, it doesn't actually look like a good insurance policy at all given what happened, does it? Especially considering Zodd was happy to just let SK go when he saw that Guts was still alive.Riiight, so Zodd went down on the third round like he'd been told by his coach on purpose, because the timing had to be very precise, and then all those apostles inside feigned to attack him. Same with Femto, he just missed on purpose, it was all for show. Because had Zodd actually managed to hold the Skull Knight off, Guts and Casca would have likely died like the rest of the Band of the Falcon. The fact is you have no idea whether or not the Incarnation ceremony would have been significantly hindered, nor do you even know that the God Hand was aware of the role Casca's child would play in it. They certainly couldn't have known that the Skull Knight would save Casca specifically, even if they'd somehow been able to know he was interested in Guts (which is never hinted at). Not to mention that the very concept of these junctions of times is that their outcome can't be predicted. It's even specifically mentioned by Ubik at the time. You're building speculation on top of speculation in order to justify an idea that goes against the story in every single way.
Like Griff said, it's not like Zodd taking Griffith away doesn't parallel SK taking Guts & Casca away. It does and it was done on purpose. But the personal motivations for it (and the more specific context and finer details) don't have to and simply cannot perfectly coincide.
But the fact is, Miura didn't have him just turn into Femto and fly away on his own. And he never does at any other point until he has a pretty private audience with Ganishka above the clouds.
I think it's been clear that Griffith makes a concentrated effort to appear both human and heroic.
We agree that Griffith could have flown away on his own without Zodd's assistance. I'm saying that it would be out of character for Griffith, and it wouldn't have been without some consequence. But he could have gotten away just fine.
Subtext in dialogue been a basis of drama
If there were only one meaning to get out of a story there'd be no need for discussion.
But in this case I probably read into something that wasn't there and I acknowledged it.
And as far as my translations being off, I was at work without my DH volume in front of me. The actual quote wasn't off by much anyway.
You're right, all this planning does seem to go against the notion of causality just kinda working out the GH and IoE's favor. The idea of the GH masterminding a big master strategy and ordering individual apostles to do this or that is a little absurd the more I consider all it would entail. It's much more subtle in most of what we've seen, using people's own natures to achieve a desired goal. There's an elegance to it.
He was guarding the gate whether it was his intention or not, and no command was needed.
What would motivate Zodd to go out of his way to Doldrey, not fight any of the strong warriors there, but intervene in the way he did.
Same for the intervention with Wyald.


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SN-95 ProjectI have a neighbor trying to find out where to find buyers for her '94 Mustang that needs some work. She would hate to see it sold for scrap if an enthusiast is in need of such a car for a project of their own. She does not have access to a computer, so I'm trying to help her find a buyer. Some advice as to what she can do would be helpful, thanks!
Jan Cormany
Tavares, FL
The early '94-'95 SN-95 Mustangs can be a great foundation for a project vehicle. I'd personally love to build one into a Saleen clone with a modern Coyote/six-speed swap with '03 Cobra IRS, but no budget in the Houlahan checkbook right now for such a build. I suggest your neighbor check with their nearest Mustang club, which appears to be the Mid-Florida Mustang Club based out of Orlando. Unfortunately, they do not list any mailing address or contact number on their website. As a good neighbor, perhaps you could email the club president (contact info can be found at www.midfloridamustangclub.com/contacts) on your neighbor's behalf and get a phone number for her to reach out to with details on the Mustang. This way the club can help find a new owner for the Mustang, and potentially a new club member as well!
No Go OdoI have a '98 Mustang and the small motor that updates the mileage is not working. It is on the back of the instrument cluster. I checked at my local Ford dealer but no part number is available. Do you know of some place I can get one without having to buy the whole cluster?
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Have you verified it is indeed the odometer worm gear motor that is bad in your case John? We ask because the '94-'98 Mustang gauge cluster is notorious for early failure of the odometer worm and driven gears. It only takes about 10 minutes to pull the gauge cluster from the dash, and then you can easily remove the odometer worm gear motor from the rear of the cluster and inspect the gears. You can order new gears from Latemodel Restoration (www.latemodelrestoration.com). We're betting the gears are the issue here, however, if you really do need a new odometer worm gear motor your best bet is someone like MPS Auto Salvage (www.mpsautosalvage.com) where you can pick up a good used cluster or possibly individual cluster parts.
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The increasing use of aluminum in vehicles to save weight is certainly a big concern in the automotive refinishing aftermarket. As vehicles use specialty alloys like high-strength steel, aluminum, and so on the repair procedures become extremely critical in ensuring the vehicle is repaired properly and the paint finish adheres as it should and lasts. Ferrous metal contamination of aluminum is probably the biggest problem of all these different alloys. Many body shops we've spoken with will not repair a damaged aluminum panel and opt to simply replace it, realizing they do not have the proper facilities to prevent contamination. Now considering a big OEM like Ford should have the most high-tech spray and cleaning equipment this side of NASA it's a bit disappointing that Ford has had such a large issue with the S197 hoods and has done so little to make customers happy. As long as the hood is not damaged our recommendation is to refinish the hood you have by seeking out a specialty/high-end refinisher who is extremely familiar with working on aluminum body panels.
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TODAY: 4th Circuit Appeals Court hears oral arguments in Virginia marriage case
May 12, 2014
On Tuesday, May 13, the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond will hear oral arguments in Bostic v. Schaefer, a federal lawsuit that seeks the freedom to marry in Virginia. The hearing, which begins at 9:30am Eastern Time, follows a victory in the case at the district court from February 2014.
In February, Judge Arenda L. Wright ruled in favor of the freedom to marry in the case, Bostic v. Rainey, striking down anti-marriage laws in the state and making sweeping references to the damage that marriage discrimination causes to families in Virginia.
She wrote: "A spirited and controversial debate is underway regarding who may enjoy the right to marry in the United States of America. America has pursued a journey to make and keep our citizens free. This journey has never been easy, and at times has been painful and poignant. The ultimate exercise of our freedom is choice. Our Constitution declares that "all men" are created equal. Surely this means all of us."
Listen to the full audio from the oral arguments in the Bostic v. Schaefer case at the 4th Circuit:
The ruling in the Virginia case - which will likely not come down for another few months from the 4th Circuit Appeals Court - could have far-reaching impact on the state of the freedom to marry in the country. The appeal will certainly impact marriage marriage laws in Virginia, but it could also have a wider reach. Because the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals covers four states - North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia - a broader ruling could potentially impact these other three 4th Circuit states as well as VA.
Freedom to Marry founder and president Evan Wolfson reflected on the 4th Circuit hearing today. He said:
Americans have come a long way in supporting the freedom to marry, with a majority for marriage nationwide, and so has Virginia, where we've won over a majority of 56% now in favor. So have the courts - with 11 out of 11 federal judges and numerous state courts from New Mexico to Arkansas all ruling in recent months against marriage discrimination. The momentum is undeniable, but every day's denial is a real hardship to families in the states, like Virginia, where the Constitution's guarantees are still unfulfilled. The 4th Circuit should follow the lead of the lower courts, and the language and logic of the Supreme Court's ruling last year, and end marriage discrimination now.
State equality groups in the 4th Circuit - including Equality North Carolina, South Carolina Equality, Equality Virginia, and Equality West Virginia - have been working together this year to spread the word about the potential impact of the Bostic case. Today, they hosted a joint press conference with reporters explaining the stories of why marriage matters in each of these four states. They also released this joint statement:
Families living in the American South are universally discriminated against daily by being denied the freedom to marry in every state they call home. This explains why our region is not only at the heart of nearly 50 pending marriage lawsuits, but is also a likely bellwether for the fate of all state bans on marriage equality across the country.
As a result, state equality groups all across the South, including Equality Virginia, Equality NC, Fairness West Virginia, and South Carolina Equality, are taking a strong stand today and leading the charge for a new tomorrow – to grow public support for the freedom to marry across the region and amplify our many stories and supportive voices so that there is no mistaking that all of America is ready for a 50-state legal resolution.
This is why we demand the Bostic case be upheld: to keep our states, our region, and this entire nation on the right side of history.
The 4th Circuit is the second federal appellate court this year to hear oral arguments on the freedom to maryr, following the 10th Circuit's hearings last month in Oklahoma's Bishop v. Smith and Utah's Kitchen v. Herbert. In the coming months, 4 other federal appellate courts will hear arguments in marriage cases - in the 9th (Nevada's Sevcik v. Sandoval), 6th (Ohio's Obergefell v. Wymyslo and Henry v. Himes; Michigan's DeBoer v. Snyder; Tennessee's Tanco v. Haslam; and Kentucky's Bourke v. Beshear), 5th (Texas' DeLeon v. Perry), and 11th (Indiana's Baskin v. Bogan). One of these cases – or perhaps one of the more than 70 active lawsuits nationwide seeking the freedom to marry or respect of legal marriages – could make its way to the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court would then have the chance to provide national resolution on marriage for same-sex couples.
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In a sign that the economy is still in a slump, private nonresidential construction spending slipped 0.4% in July, according to the September 1 report by the U.S. Census Bureau. However, private nonresidential construction spending is 5.7% higher from the same time last year. Total nonresidential construction spending, which includes both privately and publicly financed construction, was $533.7 billion in July — down 1.1% for the month and down 1.7% from July 2010.
Eleven construction subsectors posted decreases for the month including manufacturing, down 6.2%; conservation and development, 5 % lower; and public safety, down 4%. Construction subsectors with the largest decreases on a 12-month basis were lodging, down 24.6%; religious, 20.8% lower; and sewage and waste disposal, down 13.7%.
In contrast, five of the 16 construction subsectors posted increases for the month, including water supply, up 3.9%; religious, 2.3% higher; and commercial, up 2.2%. Four construction subsectors saw increases in construction spending from the same time last year including power, up 19.1%; commercial, 15.1% higher; health care, up 1.2%; and communication, 0.9% higher.
Public nonresidential construction spending fell 1.9% in July and is down 25.4% year-over-year. Meanwhile, residential construction spending dipped 1.6% lower for the month, but is up 4.1% compared to the same time last year. Overall, total construction spending decreased 1.3% in July but is up 0.1% compared to July 2010.
"We are now facing a period of declining spending in both public and private construction categories," said Associated Builders and Contractors Chief Economist Anirban Basu. "The momentum in commercial construction spending continued through July, but with financial market volatility and economic uncertainty generally on the upswing, it is likely that lending has become more cautious, which will translate into diminished commercial construction starts going forward.
"Today's construction spending data are now reflecting the renewed weakness that began to pervade the economy earlier this year," Basu said. "The most recent gross domestic product data indicated that the economy grew less than 1% on an annualized basis during the first half of this year, and that inevitably will translate into weaker construction spending during the months ahead.
"The construction data are also reflecting the impact of diminished state and local government fiscal health. Spending declines were posted in public safety-related construction, education-related construction, and sewage and waste," said Basu. "Decline in these categories is likely to persist for the rest of this year in much of the nation due to a general lack of revenue growth among the nation's local governments."


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May 21, 2010
For Immediate Release
16 Cal South National Cup Champions and 2 Wild Cards Receive $4500 Each to Attend the 2010 US Youth Soccer Far West Regionals in Albuquerque in June; 15 Far West Regional League Wild Cards Receive $1500 Each
FULLERTON, CA (May 21, 2010) - In keeping with its long-standing tradition of donating funds to aid teams in its membership who are traveling to regionally and nationally held championship events, Cal South announced the donation of roughly $210,000 to 47 youth and 7 adult teams involved in upcoming US Youth Soccer and United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA) regional championship play.
Cal South will provide a total of $103,500 in subsidies to its 33 teams taking part in the 2010 US Youth Soccer Far West Regionals, to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico from June 20-27. An additional total of $63,000 will go to the 14 Cal South teams attending the 2010 US Youth Soccer Region IV Presidents Cup Regionals in Medford, Oregon from July 18-25. The total youth figure of $195,425 also includes $28,925 paid by Cal South in entry fees in the names of the teams that qualified for both events.
For the first time ever, Cal South will be awarding $2000 apiece to seven adult teams which will travel to the 2010 USASA Region IV Cups to be held in Sacramento, California. The Men's Open division is being played this weekend from May 21-23, and the Men's Amateur, Men's Over 30, Men's and Women's Under 23 and Women's Cup will be held from June 4-6.
Often considered "the ultimate in membership benefits" to leagues and clubs in Cal South, these donations are made annually in order to ease the burden of traveling expenses for these teams as they compete for a spot in their respective championships. All of the funds for these donations are derived from entry fees gathered at the Cal South State Cup, National Cup and Adult State Cup competitions.
The breakdown of the donations this year amounts to $4500 for each of the 16 Cal South National Cup champions and two wild card recipients attending the Far West Regionals, and $1500 for each of the 15 teams that earned wild card status for the event by their success in the Far West Regional League circuit, in either the Fall 2009 or Spring 2010 seasons. Cal South also donated the sum of $4500 to each of the ten Cal South State Cup Presidents Cup division champions and four wild card recipients that are set to attend the Presidents Cup Regionals.
"We are more than eager to help our teams that qualified for these regional events to hopefully carry their success to the national level," said Cal South President Johnnie Garza. "Cal South's ultimate purpose is to provide for our member leagues and clubs in these situations. On behalf of the entire Cal South board of directors, State Tournaments committee and staff, I wish all of these teams the best of luck at all three of these prestigious regional events."
Cal South National Cup champions (U12-U19) move on to the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series Far West Regionals. Regional champions in the U14 to U19 age groups will move on to the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series National Championships, to be held in Overland Park, Kansas from July 18-25, 2010.
Presidents Cup Division champions in the U13 through U17 age groups move on to represent Cal South in the US Youth Soccer Region IV Presidents Cup Regionals. Cal South teams U14 through U17 who win the Region IV Presidents Cup will then represent Cal South and Region IV in the US Youth Soccer Presidents Cup National Finals in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to be held July 8-11, 2010.
Live scoring updates will appear on www.CalSouth.com for each of these events.
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Best Kids Parties: Monsters
Name: Ella (6)
Location: Midwest, USA
We're a pretty crafty family, with a definite weakness for paper! Every once in awhile I feel the need to purge the supply drawers a bit and start fresh. Being pregnant with my second child as my oldest was about to turn six made that purging/nesting instinct that much stronger! As I cleared out stacks and remnants of paper and magazines and art supplies I started thinking about how to put them to good use. Around the same time, Ella started thinking about her upcoming birthday. She declared she wanted a "Monster Art Party." At first I assumed she just meant a really large art party, but no - she really meant an art party...with monsters.
We found some cute monster plates at the store, and started from there. Over the summer we collected our art remnants and some recycled goodies too - like pop bottle tops and aluminum foil. Plus lots and lots of paper and plastic grocery bags. We assembled giant brown paper monsters with scissors and glue, and stuffed them all fluffy with plastic grocery bags. In the heat of the summer, as we retreated more and more indoors, we'd listen to music and cut letters out of those soon-to-be recycled magazines. We had quite the collection.
Her invitation was crafted from all of these magazine clippings, and we painted up a few sample monsters for decoration. We asked her friends to clean out their art drawers and recycling bins, and the kids showed up with bags of their own - half used paint containers and mixed up vials of glitter. We had large picnic tables covered in newspaper and the kids painted giant sized monsters and ate cupcakes for dessert. When the party was over, we swept the scraps into the recycling bin and headed home - happy and full of cake - to our much more manageable art supply stash.
Thanks Kristin! Readers, check out much more of Ella's party at third story(ies).
(Images: Kristin of third story(ies))