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LeTourneau University will present Patrick F. Hamner to speak on faith and work integration during a special chapel service at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in the S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center, 2100 S. Mobberly Ave., in Longview. The event is free and open to the public.
Hamner is the managing director in the southwest for Patriot Capital, a Dallas-based investment firm, which he joined in November 2012. Previously, he served for 24 years with Capital Southwest Corporation, a Dallas -based Small Business Investment Company, rising to the role of senior vice president with responsibility for developing and monitoring venture capital and private equity investments. He also facilitated add-on acquisitions and served on 14 boards.
From 2000 to 2007, Hamner was the founding chairman of the board of Heelys, Inc., a footwear manufacturer whose athletic shoes include wheels embedded in each sole, similar to inline skates. He joined the management team from 2006 to 2008, serving last as a senior vice president.
He served as the chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies from 2001-to 2002. Hamner was appointed an adjunct lecturer at the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business in 2012, after having cofounded a $69 million non-leveraged SBIC in Dallas from 2009 to 2011.
Hamner is a member of the LeTourneau University Center for Faith and Work Advisory Council. He is also the vice chairman of the board of Marketplace Ministries Foundation, which raises and invests funds and endowments to support chaplains in workplace employee care programs. He also serves as a deacon at Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas and is a former scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts.
Hamner earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Southern Methodist University and his Master of Business Administration and Dean's Award from The University of Texas at Austin. He and his wife have three children.
LeTourneau University's Center for Faith & Work was founded in 2011 to reflect a burgeoning "faith at work" movement to help the employed-and unemployed-find God beyond church doors. The Center's website, www.CenterforFaithandWork.com, assembles resources, tools, and curriculum for churches, students, and the global Christian community to equip and connect them to live out their faith in the workplace. Foundational to the Center is the notion that God values good work well done.
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Goldschmidt finishes as runner-up in NL MVP vote
Paul Goldschmidt has amassed quite a hardware haul, as the D-backs first baseman not only won the Hank Aaron Award, but a Silver Slugger Award and a Gold Glove Award.
Goldschmidt couldn't, however, wrestle the National League Most Valuable Player Award from Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen on Thursday, as Goldschmidt finished second in the Baseball Writers' Association of America voting.
Paul Goldschmidt has amassed quite a hardware haul, as the D-backs first baseman not only won the Hank Aaron Award, but a Silver Slugger Award and a Gold Glove Award.
Goldschmidt couldn't, however, wrestle the National League Most Valuable Player Award from Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen on Thursday, as Goldschmidt finished second in the Baseball Writers' Association of America voting.
McCutchen captured 28 of the 30 first-place votes, finishing with 409 points. Goldschmidt was second with 242 points. He had 15 second-place votes and nine third-place votes.
St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina finished third in the voting with 219 points, garnering the other two first-place votes that McCutchen didn't earn.
Goldschmidt, who was seeking to become the first MVP in franchise history, led the NL in home runs (36), RBIs (125), total bases (332) and OPS (.952).
The American League MVP went to Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera for the second consecutive season.
"It's a huge honor just to be one of the finalists," Goldschmidt said in a release. "There have obviously been a lot of great players, just to be mentioned alongside them is a huge honor. I want to say congratulations to Andrew McCutchen and Miguel Cabrera and all of the other winners. It was a good year and hopefully we'll move on and get a little bit better as a team next year and strive towards making the playoffs and winning the World Series."
His second-place finish was the highest for the D-backs, as Matt Williams, newly hired manager of the Nationals, and Luis Gonzalez finished third in 1999 and 2001, respectively. More recently, outfielder Justin Upton came in fourth in 2011.
Many surmised that the vote was expected to be closer, and that the only thing separating Goldschmidt from McCutchen and Molina was that they played on teams that advanced to the postseason.
Goldschmidt was named to his first All-Star team in 2013, and earlier this month he took home his first Gold Glove Award. He finished the year with a .302/.401/.551 slash line, leading the league with the .551 slugging percentage.
Goldschmidt, who made his Major League debut in 2011, hit .286 with 20 home runs and 82 RBIs in his first full Major League season in 2012. The D-backs were so convinced they had a franchise player that they gave him a five-year contract extension in March that could keep him in Arizona through 2019.
"He's good at preparation, before, during the game and after. He's a great teammate. He works really hard," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said during the season. "He has high expectations. He has high aspirations to be a world champion. He would never change. He'll never change until he stops playing. We've talked about the 'Diamondback Way' the last couple of years several times, and he's the model Diamondback guy. The model guy."
Goldschmidt's rise toward MVP consideration really started in May, when he hit .376. He was consistent, hitting seven home runs apiece in May, June and August. He finished strong, hitting .318 with 34 hits in the last month of the season.
Last week, Goldschmidt followed his Hank Aaron and Gold Glove Awards by winning a Silver Slugger Award. It's Goldschmidt's first silver bat, an annual honor for the best offensive player at each position in each league, as voted on by coaches and managers.
Goldschmidt has also been nominated for two Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards (GIBBY) -- one for NL MVP and in the best-hitter category. Fans can vote as many times as they want through Dec. 2.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter.

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SEATTLE – In peril of suffering their second consecutive shutout and their second consecutive sweep, the Astros finally came to life with six runs in the ninth inning to snap their six-game losing streak.
Down to their final two outs with the bases loaded in the ninth, Chris Carter hit a two-run double to left field to help snap the Astros' 17-inning scoreless streak before a crowd of 13,823. With the 6-1 victory, the Astros put an end to their fourth six-game losing skid of the season.
The Astros had not come from behind in the ninth to win since they beat the Reds last Sept. 7.
Until Carter's shot, it appeared as though the Astros were going to waste Jordan Lyles' career-high 10-strikeout performance.
Lyles held the Mariners to three hits and two walks with a career-high 10 strikeouts over seven scoreless innings. He had to settle for a no-decision because the Astros couldn't muster any attack against righthander Jeremy Bonderman, who threw eight scoreless innings.
The Astros capitalized after Seattle closer Tom Wilhelmsen took over in the ninth. Jason Castro led off with a single up the middle, and J.D. Martinez added a single to left. After Carlos Corporan sacrificed the runners over, Carlos Pena drew an intentional walk to load the bases.
Carter then hit a two-run double off the left field wall, giving the Astros a 2-1 lead. After Matt Dominguez was intentionally walked, Brandon Barnes hit an RBI single to left off Yoervis Medina. One out later, Jose Altuve drove in two more runs with a single to center. Another run scored when Trevor Crowe drew a bases-loaded walk off Charlie Furbush.
The six-run rally helped the Astros overcome a two-error performance. If not for the late heroics, Seattle would have won with an unearned run.
After righthander Hector Ambriz took over for Lyles to start the eighth. Endy Chavez hit a leadoff single to left field. Jason Bay followed with a hard bunt back to the mound. Ambriz fielded the ball cleanly and threw to second, but shortstop Marwin Gonzalez dropped the ball for an error.
The error was the Astros' 11th over the last five games and their seventh of the series.
Lefthander Travis Blackley, who picked up the victory, was brought in to face Kyle Seager, who fouled out. After Raul Ibanez struck out, Nick Franklin gave the Mariners a 1-0 lead with an RBI single to right.


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BOSTON — The Gaming Commission today voted 3-2 to award the state's first and only slots parlor license to Penn National Gaming for a casino in Plainville, disappointing backers of a Leominster proposal.
Leominster Mayor Dean Mazzarella said the decision deflated his hopes that a slots parlor would bring much-needed jobs and development to his city, but said he is ready to seek new opportunities.
"I think we did a great job putting a great proposal together, and you know, three people didn't see it that way," the mayor said.
The Leominster plan, which was approved in September by a margin of 5,235 to 3,306, was for a $203 million facility off Jungle Road, which backers said would have created between 500 and 700 permanent jobs and 600 construction jobs.
"We got into this knowing we might not be the community chosen. I'm discouraged, but not disillusioned. It's disappointing, but we will regroup. We have a lot of good land right off the highway where they were going to go," he said. "I was extremely impressed that two of the members fought right up to the end," for the Leominster proposal, the mayor said.
"This would have been a really big shot for those people who have lost their jobs. This would have affected the whole area, and that wasn't played up enough," Mr. Mazzarella said.
Before the vote, commissioners debated the merits of the Plainville proposal, which had been identified as the favorite of three members, compared to the Leominster facility, which was supported by Chairman Stephen P. Crosby and Commissioner James F. McHugh.
"For me it was a close call," Mr. McHugh said. "But in the end it's the quality of the jobs and the number of full-time jobs and the location of the jobs that tipped the scales for me in favor of Leominster."
Mr. Crosby said he ended up choosing Leominster, arguing the jobs are needed more in that region than in others. He was also impressed that Cordish proposed a program to support a challenge grant program to develop medical device start-ups. That would have been done in conjunction with the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.
"I think there is an opportunity to do something really significant in a region of the state that really needs it," Mr. Crosby told the other commissioners before the vote.
"I think the good that we could do by supporting an investment in North Central Massachusetts is greater than the good we can do with any of the other options," Mr. Crosby said.
Commissioners said Thursday's vote was preliminary. A vote formalizing the award to Plainville is to take place Friday, provided the developer accepts special conditions being developed for the license.
Backers of Plainville said it was the strongest proposal. None of the commissioners favored a third proposal for a slots parlor at the former Raynham greyhound park in Raynham.
Cordish Cos. President Joseph Weinberg said the most disappointing aspect of not winning the license is that he will not get to see the project built in Leominster.
"We really created some great relationships, and I think we could have had a transformative effect on the entire North Central Region," Mr. Weinberg said.
"Two of the commissioners really understood this could have had a much greater impact in the North Central Region than locating it anywhere else," Mr. Weinberg said.
He said the process was thorough and that the commission vetted the projects well, even though "we believed we clearly had the best proposal."
During discussions leading up to the vote, commissioners took turns outlining and defending their views of which would be the best casino choice.
Commissioner Gayle Cameron said she supported the Plainville choice because it assures continued horse racing in the state.
"Frankly I value the ability to have racing continue in a full-time capacity as an important additional consideration here," she said, noting that Penn National also runs many other gaming facilities, including racetracks.
Commissioner Bruce Stebbins cited Penn National's extensive experience with other gaming facilities, arguing the Plainville proposal was the surest bet for maintaining new jobs in the long run.
Commissioner Enrique Zuniga cited the added benefit of protecting jobs associated with horse racing and Penn National's experience and expertise running gaming facilities around the country.
"It comes down to how nimble and flexible an applicant can be in a competitive environment," Mr. Zuniga said.
Timothy Wilmott, president and chief executive officer of Penn National, said he was ready to begin building the new gaming slots parlor complex in Plainville.
"I'm feeling great about the decision and for the employees at Plainridge Park and the 120 whose jobs are tied to the horse racing industry. This ensures we are going to be doing live racing this year and for many years to come," Mr. Wilmott said. "We can get the permanent facility open in the second quarter of 2015. We are prepared on Monday to begin this project in earnest, and we are going to move forward as fast as humanly possible," he said.
The 1,250 slots parlor will pay a 49 percent state tax on gambling revenue.


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Naya Rivera is an open book.
In the actress' soon-to-be-published memoir, "Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes and Growing Up," the 29-year-old TV star reveals for the first time she got an abortion in late 2010 while starring on "Glee."
Rivera discovered she was pregnant just weeks after breaking up with "Justified" actor Ryan Dorsey, whom she later wed in 2014 and is now the father of her 11-month-old son, Josey Dorsey.
Rivera chose not share the news with Dorsey at the time, instead choosing to focus on her career. The actress says she terminated the pregnancy during a day off from filming.
"It was very scary to open up about everything," Rivera said in People's Sept. 5 issue, out Friday. "It's not something a lot of people talk about, but I think they should. I know some people might read it and say, 'What the Hell?' But I hope someone out there gets something out of it."
After the news was made public (and received some backlash), Rivera took to Twitter to address her past. "I set out to write a book that was true to myself and would hopefully help others along the way. Media will always distort anything," she tweeted. " I hope that you all enjoy my story and respect my good intentions in sharing them with you. Xoxo #sorrynotsorry."
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In her book Rivera also reveals that she battled anorexia during her teens.
"By the time I was a sophomore, I started feeling that what had begun as a game had maybe gone too far. I just avoided food at all costs," she writes in the book, as excerpted by People. "If my mom had packed a lunch for me, I'd either trash it or find some excuse to give it away."
It wasn't until she began writing a memoir, Rivera says, that she realized the seriousness of her eating disorder.
"I was so young and it just seemed to be the norm. Everyone was going through similar stuff," she explains. "I had no way of knowing if I was going through it worse. I was juggling my feelings and it makes me sad that there are girls still going through that 15 years after I went through it."
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Earth is currently weathering the largest solar storm recorded in more than eight years, thanks to a giant wave of charged particles from the sun that slammed into the planet's magnetic field Tuesday morning. (See pictures of auroras generated by the solar storm.)
In the early hours on Monday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught an extreme ultraviolet flash from a solar flare, which was followed by a giant coronal mass ejection, or CME—a cloud of superheated gas and charged particles hurled off the sun.
The cloud headed toward Earth at a speed of about three million miles (4.8 million kilometers) an hour, reaching the planet a mere 35 hours after it had been unleashed.
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When CMEs strike Earth, the charged particles pummel our planet's protective magnetic field, causing geomagnetic storms that can trigger brilliant auroras. Sky-watchers in Scandinavia, Alaska, and Canada are already reporting a surge in the northern lights, with the strongest activity expected tonight.
But intense solar storms can also cause electrical disruptions to power grids, damage orbiting satellites, and interfere with GPS signals, radio communications, and even airline flights.
"Because the initial solar flare was measured to be quite strong, it produced a substantial wave of solar radiation, the likes of which has not seen since October 2003," said Bill Murtagh, senior forecaster for NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.
"The solar radiation is currently at strong levels, and [such storms] typically persist for at least for a day or two until the entire storm passes Earth," he added.
"At this point, we have reports of sporadic radio-communication blackouts in high-latitude regions, which has led to the rerouting of some polar airline flights."
Why Solar Storms Impact Polar Flights
Airlines conducting flights across the polar regions are particularly concerned about solar storms, because particles from CMEs get funneled by Earth's magnetic field so that they become concentrated around the poles.
"Because long-distance flights across the polar regions cannot always use satellite-based communication, they rely on traditional radio communication," Murtagh said.
"However, during a solar-radiation storm, there are frequently extended periods of radio blackout. Adhering to federal aviation regulations then becomes a problem, because flights are required to remain in communication at all times."
Despite the airlines' precautions, this solar storm is actually considered to be moderate and isn't expected to cause major disturbances to ground- or space-based assets, said Antti Pulkkinen, a space weather scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
However, the storm could have been much worse, he said.
"The CME was big, with well over a billion tons of mass behind it barreling through interplanetary space ... so it probably had the capability of causing some damage," he said.
"We pretty much dodged a bullet, because the CME did not directly hit Earth's magnetic field, so we got lucky in that we only got a glancing blow from the storm and did not feel its full effect."
In March 1989, for example, a severe geomagnetic storm caused a massive power blackout the Canadian province of Quebec, plunging millions into darkness for nine hours.
More Sun Storms to Come
Thanks to improved computer modeling and a flotilla of sun-monitoring satellites, space weather researchers have been able to refine their forecasts to the point where they know down to mere hours when a solar storm might arrive.
"We are very pleased with how precise our predictions were for when [today's] CME would hit," Pulkkinen said. "Our models were off by a mere 13 minutes from the actual arrival time, which is quite remarkable."
The sun is currently heading toward solar maximum in 2013, when it will reach peak activity in its natural 11-year cycle. Space weather forecasters are therefore expecting a definite uptick in the power and frequency of solar storms, making such monitoring and prediction efforts all the more critical.
"As we approach 2013, we expect to see more intense solar blasts on the sun, and some of them will no doubt be directed toward Earth," Pulkkinen said.
"So we are definitely in for more of these kind of events in the near future."


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The women's-liberation movement of the late sixties and the seventies—the so-called second wave of feminism—introduced Americans to the notion that their mothers and sisters and daughters ought not to be "objectified": that there was something wrong with reducing female people to boobs, gams, and beaver. "At what age does a girl child begin to review her assets and count her deficient parts?" Susan Brownmiller asked in "Femininity" (1984). "When is she allowed to forget that her anatomy is being monitored by others, that there is a standard of desirable beauty, of individual parts, that she is measured against by boyfriends, loved ones, acquaintances at work, competitors, enemies and strangers?" Or, as Nora Ephron put it in her celebrated 1972 essay "A Few Words About Breasts," "If I had had them, I would have been a completely different person."
Women's libbers told us that this was a problem—that biology need not be destiny. In the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir, they challenged the assumption of an "essentialized" feminine rooted in the corporeal. We had been sold a bill of goods, they said, by everyone from Descartes to Hugh Hefner, who had tried to convince us of a (hierarchical) dualism: men versus women, reason versus emotion, mind versus body. The woman-as-body trope, they argued, had serious and worrisome implications: if a woman is necessarily irrational, hormonal, instinctual, and sensual, you don't want her running your company, let alone your country.
But from that philosophical starting place two factions of the women's movement went in radically different directions. Brownmiller, in league with other eminent feminists—Andrea Dworkin, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Steinem, and Robin Morgan—was convinced that pornography was the quintessential expression of women's oppression in a culture that devalued their intellect and restricted them to sexualized second-class citizenship. It was, in short, the "undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda." Morgan, who coined the phrase "The personal is political," came up with a new slogan: "Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice." In "Pornography: Men Possessing Women," Dworkin asserted that the "world's foremost pornographer" was the Marquis de Sade, who both "embodies and defines male sexual values." She went on to work with Catharine MacKinnon on drafting a city ordinance that made pornography a civil-rights violation. The ordinance was signed into law in Indianapolis, in 1984, but was soon ruled unconstitutional by federal courts and overturned.
Plenty of feminists agreed with the courts, feeling that the anti-porn faction was veering from the larger goal of freedom. If theirs was a liberation movement, why were feminists trying to patrol the erotic imagination? Women of that ideological persuasion called themselves "pro-sex" feminists. In a memoir published years later, Brownmiller described the dissenting responses to the anti-porn campaign: "Sometimes they were emotional defenses of free speech, but to our bewilderment, we also saw that some women identified their sexuality with the s/m pictures we found degrading. Porn turned them on. . . . They claimed we were condemning their minds and behavior, and I guess we were." The pro-sex feminists believed that their former allies had fallen into the age-old patriarchal habit of trying to control female sexual power and dictate its parameters—they didn't want men defining their sexuality, and they didn't want other women doing it, either. They had a point, but there were problems with the pro-sex position, too—things could get a little zipless and g-spotty. Like their cohorts in the sexual revolution, many of the pro-sex feminists fell prey to the alluring but dubious conflation of fornication and emancipation. Orgasms are swell, but they are not the remedy to every injustice.
Of course, feminists on both sides of the porn war considered themselves to be "pro-sex." The anti-porn crusaders thought that they could rid society of a regressive vision of sexuality that devalued women's pleasure and degraded their humanity, and put in its place something more enlightened. As Steinem put it in Ms., in 1978, erotica is as different from pornography "as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain." Her opponents wondered why on earth she thought she was entitled to decide which was which. Everyone in the movement agreed that there is much more to ourselves than our bodies, but the disagreements within feminism about the sexual body, and how it ought to be used and represented, were left unresolved. "Ironically, the anti-porn initiative constituted the last gasp of radical feminism," Brownmiller wrote in her memoir. "No issue of comparable passion has arisen to take its place."
Naomi Wolf came to prominence in 1991, with the publication of "The Beauty Myth," her first book. In it, she revisited the ideas that Brownmiller had explored half a decade earlier, in "Femininity," and argued that things were getting worse. "The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us," Wolf wrote. She started her career (and, some have argued, another wave of feminism) with a fresh iteration of an old idea: that our culture had reduced women to their bodies. Many feminists, then, may be perplexed to find Wolf, in her eighth book, situating the essence of the female being right back where it started: in the body, in one particular place.
"To understand the vagina properly is to realize that it is not only coextensive with the female brain but also is part of the female soul—it is a gateway to, and medium of, female self-knowledge," Wolf writes in "Vagina: A New Biography" (Ecco). She refers throughout the book to a "profound brain-vagina connection" but sometimes suggests that the vagina is, or ought to be, the rightful site of mission control.
This epiphany was prompted by a "medical crisis," Wolf explains, after which she "had a thought-provoking, revelatory experience that suggested a possible crucial relationship of the vagina to female consciousness itself." It came at a time when she felt "emotionally and sexually happy, intellectually excited, and newly in love," and yet she "started to realize that something was becoming terribly wrong." Her "clitoral orgasms were as strong and pleasurable as ever," and yet "I realized one day, as I gazed out on the treetops outside the bedroom of our little cottage upstate, that the usual postcoital rush of a sense of vitality infusing the world, of delight with myself and with all around me, and of creative energy rushing through everything alive, was no longer following the physical pleasure." This may sound like a high-class problem to you. For Wolf, it was "like a horror movie."
Things became so bleak that late one night, "sitting by the cold iron woodstove alone, frantic with questions, and feeling hopeless, I began literally bargaining with the universe, as one does in times of great crisis." Wolf found the strength to visit her gynecologist, who suggested that spinal compression might be compromising her pelvic nerve and sent her off to a specialist for X-rays and, ultimately, corrective surgery on some damaged vertebrae. The operation was a success, and Wolf recovered well: "As my lost pelvic sensation slowly returned, my lost states of consciousness also returned." (Italics, which Wolf is very fond of, are hers.) Wolf concluded that the pelvic nerve "is the secret to everything related to femininity itself" and that the "vagina is a gateway to a woman's happiness and to her creative life."
Wolf explicitly tries to distance herself, in this book, from her feminist foremothers. She accuses them of denigrating the vagina as something "retro, housewifey and passé" in their attempts at "reglamorizing the clitoris," and of failing to grasp that women's sexual functioning actually involves a virtual kingdom of pleasure, internal and external duchies all working together. Worse, the feminists of yore were soulless. "The post-1970's 'reclamation' of female sexuality is quite mechanical," Wolf says. "It is not about the spirit. It is much debased." But, in returning to the sexual body, the site of radical feminism's last internal battle, Wolf ends up marshalling the worst arguments from both sides of the porn wars.
In a chapter about "the pornographic vagina" (adapted from a New York article that Wolf wrote in 2003, entitled "The Porn Myth"), Wolf makes the old anti-porn-feminist mistake of assuming that what is off-putting to her is off-putting to everyone. "Female masturbation to porn can desensitize women themselves to their own vaginas," she writes. Though she promises that "recent studies" support her claim, the only evidence she cites is readers' posts from Web sites and testimonials from acquaintances.
Anti-porn feminists were always accused by their pro-sex counterparts of being ideologically in league with a patriarchy that was frightened by unbridled female sexuality. (Dworkin and MacKinnon notoriously worked with a conservative city council and the Republican mayor of Indianapolis to pass their city ordinance.) Wolf herself lent support to this suspicion when she concluded "The Porn Myth" with an anecdote about visiting an Orthodox Jewish friend at a settlement in Jerusalem, who "had abandoned her jeans and T-shirts for long skirts and a head scarf." Wolf was dazzled by her friend's new life style: " 'Only my husband,' she said with a calm sexual confidence, 'gets to see my hair,' " Wolf writes. "She must feel, I thought, so hot." In opposing porn, then, Wolf found herself drawn to purdah—to the traditional view of women as sexual creatures who need to be covered up to protect the social order and their own welfare. To feel beautiful, it seems, a woman requires the protection of a husband and a head scarf.
And yet Wolf adopts the pro-sex-feminist position that sex is the solution to every problem and the source of everything worth anything. She is convinced that "the vagina delivers to women the feelings that lead them to want to create." Men have been making that claim for some time, to the great frustration of female artists. In 1919, Georgia O'Keeffe's lover and gallerist, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, wrote that "the woman receives the World through her Womb. That is the seat of her deepest feeling. Mind comes second." O'Keeffe married him five years later, but she spent the rest of her life debunking that claim, arguing that a work of art comes from a woman's vision, not her vagina. (As Clare Boothe Luce put it, "If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?") Wolf, though, seems to think that Stieglitz had it about right. As evidence, she quotes a young woman who told her that, after a positive sexual experience, "creatively, it was like I had melted into everything. . . . I have been writing stories about the Goddess Persephone."
For a woman to be truly productive, Wolf argues, a sexual partner must ply her vagina with what she refers to as "the Goddess Array"—namely, "a whole set of words, actions, and gestures that women cannot do without." The alternative is grim. "Straight men would do well to ask themselves: 'Do I want to be married to a Goddess—or a bitch?' Unfortunately, there is not, physiologically, much middle ground available for women," Wolf writes. "Either they are extremely well treated sexually, or else they become physically uncomfortable and emotionally irritable." The vagina is no longer an orifice within a woman; the woman is now a support mechanism for the vagina. Anger the vagina and the woman will have no choice but to become a harpy. Biology is destiny once again.
Watch what you say around the vagina. Over time, if a woman's "vagina is targeted verbally, her heart rate, blood pressure, circulation, and many other systems will suffer chronically," Wolf writes. Thus, if you "bully a woman by insulting her vagina," you are committing an act of physical violence. Wolf claims that vaginal slander—referring to the vagina by its "awful" feline moniker, for instance—"apparently affects the very tissue of the vagina." She bases this conclusion on a study of female rats whose vaginal tissue showed signs of change after periods of stress. The experiment did not, however, entail researchers yelling "Rat pussy!" at the animals; stress was manufactured physically. Wolf's interpretation of the science is, as usual, rather free.
Vaginas are not only careful listeners, in Wolf's schema; they are also assertive conversationalists. "The vaginal pulse," she says, "seems to be a way for the vagina continually to inform the woman about herself on many other levels." The vagina knows best. "As my friends and I now sometimes joke—or half joke—to one another, when narrating a romantic adventure, 'But what did the yoni have to say?' " Your yoni (Sanskrit for "vagina") is your connection to "the Goddess," Wolf believes, and "when women realize the spark of the Goddess in themselves, healthier, more self-respecting sexual behavior follows."
But Wolf forgets that the vagina, like her good friend the penis, is not a team player. The vagina wants what she wants when she wants it, for her own mysterious reasons, and if you let her run the show you may find yourself consorting with people who are unsuitable in the many arenas of life about which the vagina knows nothing. A pathological liar? A relentless narcissist? Really not that smart? The vagina couldn't care less.
Well, my vagina. Wolf's vagina is apparently a virtuous and enlightened entity that steers her host toward a higher plane of being. Like many a spiritual seeker from an earlier generation of feminists, Wolf looks eastward in her quest. She is charmed by the names given to the vagina in the "rich tradition of erotic literature" of Islam, such as el cheukk, or "the chink," though she thinks the Western term "slit" is "violent-sounding." A similar kind of Orientalism infuses her reverential account of a Tantric workshop at a hotel in midtown Manhattan, at which a group of total strangers pair off for genital massage.
Wolf is taken with the miraculous powers of a sexual healer named Mike Lousada, a former investment banker who now specializes in "yoni massage" and "yoni-tapping," which he sometimes administers naked, to "address the trauma stored in the genitals," as Wolf puts it. ("I don't generally have intercourse with my clients unless it is extremely therapeutic," he says.) Lousada tells her that he "actually had an experience of seeing the Divine within the vagina—an image came to me of the Virgin Mary." Wolf begins to think of him as "my resident adviser for all things yoni," and is impressed by his approach. "When Lousada was gazing deeply into a client's eyes, he was stimulating the neurobiological response prepared in women by eye gazing," she writes. "When he said, 'Welcome, Goddess,' he was de-stressing her, reassuring her on the level of her autonomic nervous system (ANS) that she was sexually safe—respected and valued, and seen as uniquely lovely by a potential partner." Wolf forgets that vaginas—like their handmaidens, women—have distinct personalities and preferences. If my vagina heard a potential partner murmur, "Welcome, Goddess," she would turn to me and say, "Get us out of here now."
Yet Wolf may have the Zeitgeist on her side. At least, that's the sense you get when you turn from her book to the erotic blockbuster "Fifty Shades of Grey" and its two sequels. The trilogy's wild success—the books have occupied the top three positions on the Times best-seller list for the past five months—has been interpreted by many as a kind of S & M referendum on feminism, inconvenient evidence that what women really want is to be dominated and hurt. "The awkwardly un-PC fact, it seems, is that when the lights are out, ascendant career women are getting bored with respectful partners," Tina Brown has written. Barbara Walters told the ladies of "The View," "Women, especially women like us, who work, and who argue, and who this and that, when you go home you want the guy to be in charge." But the "Fifty Shades" series is less about a man being in charge of a woman than it is about a man worshipping a woman. The trilogy's hero, Christian Grey, is the full-blown Wolfian ideal—a born yoni-tapper who focusses his masterly Goddess Array on our passionate narrator, Anastasia Steele, to the point that, as she puts it, he "has a direct hotline to my inner goddess."
When we first meet Anastasia, she is a twenty-one-year-old college student who has never had sex or been drunk. She employs wholesome expletives like "holy cow" and "double crap" and "jeez"—as in "Jeez, this is hot"—when she interacts with the "enigmatic" billionaire Grey, a twenty-seven-year-old captain of industry. Like Bella, the young heroine of the "Twilight" series (which inspired E. L. James to start writing "Fifty Shades" as "fan fiction"), Anastasia is just a humble innocent who wears sneakers and jeans and has no idea how desirable she is.
It takes Christian, with his "panty-busting smile," to awaken her sexuality, and, once he does, her "inner goddess is jumping up and down, clapping her hands." True, Grey used to be into whips and chains, but only because of a "need in me that wasn't met in my formative years," he explains. "Whoa, a bucket load of information to process," Anastasia says, reeling, but she heals him in no time with her radiant heart. This isn't exactly "Story of O": the morning after Anastasia loses her virginity to Christian, he introduces her to his mother.
But that's the least of it. He says her name "like it's a litany or a prayer." He likes to give her candlelit bubble baths. He stares at his beloved "with adoring wonder," satisfying Wolf's requirement for eye-gazing. He is forever kissing and stroking her hair, which Wolf says is crucial. He talks and talks about his feelings and listens and listens to hers. He doesn't call her vagina any of the bad names that make it angry. "To enter the transcendental state that takes the female brain into 'high' orgasm," Wolf writes, a woman must feel "safe in the sense of knowing you are entering a trance state in the presence of someone who will protect you if necessary at the very least, and ideally, in the presence of someone who values you and who cherishes you." Christian Grey is that someone. He provides Anastasia with security guards and turns up whenever she's in danger—"My life's mission," he says after they are wed, "is to spoil you, Mrs. Grey. And keep you safe because I love you." The yoni could not be in better hands.
Is it going too far to say that Wolf's book, which clearly belongs to the same realm of the erotic imagination as the Grey trilogy, is itself a kind of pornography? Wolf conjures a fevered, enchanted world where female consciousness is situated not between the ears but between the legs, where investment bankers see the Divine inside the yoni like Jesus in a piece of toast, and where "vaginas are now everywhere in the culture, like wallpaper." (Breasts, sure. But genitals?)
Of course, Wolf would not be the first person to replicate what she means to castigate. In "Pornography" (1979), Andrea Dworkin catalogued the goings on in dirty magazines and movies in so much lewd detail that the reader never quite knew whether she ought to be getting mad or getting off. Porn's defining demerit, Steinem maintained, was that "much of the tension and drama comes from the clear idea that one person is dominating another." To skeptics, those who presumed to police the erotic were merely taking up the whip themselves, and trying to assume a position of domination. Naomi Wolf has done her feminist forebears one better. She has found a mistress we must please, serve, and honor. Resistance is futile, and escape is impossible. There is a new dominatrix in town. And her name is Vagina. ♦


text: Westeros #1 Posted October 18, 2011 The king, returned to his royal city with a holy fervor in his heart and a body made weak by predation and the venom of vipers in the Boneway. Still, after a time of rest and contemplation, occasionally closeted with the High Septon and less occasionally the Hand, the king held court for the first time since his return. The glittering court gathered to see the young king, and hear his commands. Some noted that the High Septon and members of the Most Devout went before the king in his arrival, and the High Septon stood near the dais with the royal kindred. The four knights of the Kingsguard accompanied the wan, pale young king, who wore—to the surprise of some—plain, undyed woolen robes and the slenderest of circlets for a crown. Behind him came the radiant Queen Daena, who seemed graver than usual, with her ladies.Leaving the queen to take a place near the dais, the king first greeted the Hand, his uncle Prince Viserys, and thanked him for his service. And then he mounted the dais to speak to those gathered. The king spoke of his journey to Dorne, and his many prayers for peace, and their answering in the similar views of Prince Marence Martell. Revealing his intention to hold to the agreement he had made with the prince at Sunspear, the king announced his young cousin Prince Daeron would be betrothed to Marence's daughter, Princess Mariah. Moreover, with the aid and advice of the High Septon, he anulled the marriage of the former royal huntsman, Ser Ethos Mertyns, to the former hostage, Joleta of House Gargalen, the heiress to Salt Shore.For many at the court, neither announcement was a surprise. Nor was it a surprise when he named his cousin, Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, the truest and most honroable knight in the realm, and named him also the new Lord Commander of the Kingsguard; together, they would find three worthy knights to fill the ranks of the White Swords. But then…Then the king began to talk of things less expected. His command to empty the gaols and dungeons could not have pleased the commander of the City Watch, Ser Richard Harte, especially after two men had assaulted his gold cloaks. His remittance of all fines for mischief and criminal conduct, to see the coins donated to the Faith instead, made the Hand frown. And then he spoke of his dream from the night before, which he said the Seven sent him: standing on the battlements of the Red Keep, looking out across the great city, and seeing the glorious sight of a huge sept atop Visenya's Hill. If the gods sent it, he suggested, it was meant to be—and so he ordered that no tariff, tax, or toll would be raised in King's Landing over the next month and a day which would not be given over to the project. The master of coin, Beron Buckwell, semeed nearly read to faint when he heard that, and it was clear to the wiser members of the court that the king's sudden generosity to his subjects and the Seven were determined without consulting the Hand or the small council first.If any of them wished to argue him away from piety and towards reason, they held their tongue… or perhaps he gave them little opportunity: stating he was tired, he shortly after departed, hardly speaking to his queen, giving nothing but a farewell to his uncle, and instead falling into conversation with the High Septon as the Kingsguard escorted him not to Maegor's Holdfast and its apartments, but to the royal sept, where he intended to pray and contemplate.Visit the Site! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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When Shu Uemura had 20% online before Christmas I pointed Mr C towards the Takano Limited Edition Lip & Tint Pots as I wanted the Apricot and Pink versions for Christmas.
Later on, I went to the counter and swatched them all and wasn't keen on Love Apricot or Harmony Pink, instead I liked Passion Red the most! D'oh! So I bought that for full price there and then.
The packaging is so cute!
Shu has this habit of making certain products Asia only so just because you see it in the promo shots doesn't mean that it will be on sale in the UK. A SA told me once that that's because there might be some ingredients in it which aren't allowed in the UK.
If I really want something I buy it online from Asia.
The pots consist of two layers, a tint and a gloss:
The packaging is cute, can't fault it. The tint and gloss makes sense; the tint is the creamy pigmented layer, the gloss is…well, gloss. On the counter the swatches were a little weak and both the pink and apricot were too pale for my liking.
Shu Uemura is a funny one. I feel like I'm getting at them sometimes, which is not really the case; I love the brand and it's the first make up brand I fell in love with but the products haven't been very interesting to me recently. Also I'm not that keen on their new thing, which is the multi use palettes – (strangely I saw it at £39 on counters but some stores were selling it at £49 – prices should be consistent!).
Love Apricot – peach and sparkly white gloss is quite a natural look:
The Shu site also needs some working on. I talked to a few tweeters at the time and none of us had had any updates on the order, whether it had been dispatched or charged etc.
Also, Mr C's order was on the 4th Dec and they only charged it now 6th Jan! It also went through as Kiehls.co.uk – much confusion, Mr C had to call his card company and investigate to find out what was going on – who charge for a product nearly a month after!?
Passion Red is just gorgeous – the red side is a beautiful Spanish red (spanish red? it's just what it reminds me of!) and a weird purple gloss – I guess the purple won't affect the depth of the red like a pale gloss would:
Harmony Pink is just ok – the tint side is a light pink and the hot pink gloss is super sheer. It's just ok:
The tint side is not like a normal tint, it's creamy, it almost feels like it sets a little so it has decent staying powder. I hate using my finger with these 2 pots, it feels unhygienic!
Will do swatches later, I am admiring how perfect they look at the moment!
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Quick Summer Mini Album with Grid-Based Design
Mini scrapbook albums are a fantastic way to document your summer memories because they keep all your stories together in a way that allows you to look at the season as a whole. By using two or three different grid designs throughout your album, as well as a variety of scrapbooking products, you can create a mini album that is simple to create yet fresh and exciting to look at. Here are just a few of the page designs you can make your own:
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FORT MEADE, Md. — The military judge presiding over Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's court-martial threw out some government evidence Wednesday that the classified information Manning disclosed through WikiLeaks had a chilling effect on U.S. foreign relations.
Army Col. Denise Lind's ruling eliminates as a sentencing factor some of the headline-grabbing testimony that State Department officials gave over the past week. The 25-year-old Crescent, Okla., native faces up to 90 years in prison for leaking more than 700,000 diplomatic cables and Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports, plus some battlefield video, while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2010.
His sentencing hearing began July 31 and is scheduled through Aug. 23 at Fort Meade near Baltimore.
Two State Department officials, Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy and Acting Assistant Secretary Michael Kozak, testified that WikiLeaks' release of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables had made some foreign citizens less willing to speak privately with U.S. diplomats for fear their conversations wouldn't be kept confidential.
Lind ruled Wednesday that Kennedy's testimony about a chill was admissible only if the effect came directly after the information was published on the anti-secrecy group's website or revealed by news media. She threw out Kennedy's testimony that leaked information published more than two years ago continues to hamper U.S. foreign relations and policymaking.
"It is speculative and inadmissible," Lind said, ruling on a defense motion.
She refused to throw out other statements Kennedy made about a chilling effect he observed directly after the cables were published.
On Tuesday, Lind rejected for similar reasons Kozak's opinion that Manning's actions caused and would continue to cause some international human-rights workers to avoid seeking U.S. help.
Lind heard testimony Wednesday from a military intelligence official, civilian James McCarl, who leads a Pentagon effort to analyze information about the enemy's use of homemade bombs, or improvised explosive devices, which McCarl said accounted for 60 percent to 80 percent of all casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. The more than 470,000 battlefield reports Manning leaked included five years' worth of detailed information about roadside bomb and IED attacks.
After giving his credentials in open court, McCarl gave classified testimony in a closed session about how U.S. adversaries could use the information Manning leaked, and what changes in enemy tactics he observed afterward.
Earlier Wednesday, Manning's lawyers released a schedule of the 20 sentencing witnesses they plan to call next Monday through Wednesday. The list includes Manning's aunt Debra Van Alstyne, with whom he lived in Potomac, Md., before joining the Army in 2007.
Manning is not on the list, but court-martial rules allow his lawyers to call him to the stand without notice, or to offer his sworn or unsworn statement. Prosecutors would not be allowed to cross-examine him about anything in an unsworn statement.
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Pagers, also called beepers, are channels of short-hand communication.One-way numeric pagers only receive messages consisting of a few digits, typically a phone number, that the user is then expected to call. Paging is a subscription service in Jackson offered in a variety of plans and options to meet the needs of a subscriber. Beepers were the first and the simplest form of paging ; they are called beepers because originally they made a beeping noise.
Modern paging systems use system delivery by satellite controlled networks in Jackson. This type of distributed system makes them inherently more reliable than terrestrial-based cellular networks for message delivery, as many paging transmitters may overlap a coverage area.


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Six children and three adults were hospitalized after a
tractor-trailer rear-ended the passenger van they were in Sunday night, the Department of Public Safety said.
About 8:30 p.m., the van was southbound in the 4600 block of Pullman Road, about four miles south of Interstate 40, when the driver turned left toward a driveway. The cattle truck behind the van struck the back of the van, knocking it off the east side of the
road, where it overturned, DPS said.
None of the injuries the van's passengers suffered appeared to be life-threatening, DPS said.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was unharmed, authorities said.
Nearby residents rushed to help the passengers of the van, several of whom suffered from lacerations, witnesses said.
"I just heard a giant smack and ran out in my boxers and a shirt," said Scott Arnett, 19, as he stood barefoot in the road. "Some of them had pretty good lacerations."
Five ambulances and about 25 firefighters responded to the incident, authorities said.
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SANFORD — The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) has delivered warm winter clothing to the York County Head Start program to distribute to all Head Start sites in York County.
RSVP has chapters throughout the United States. Members of the organization take part in activities that range from building houses and working on environmental projects to immunizing children and teaching them to read. All RSVP members are 55 years old or older, and have acquired a lifetime of skills and experience.
The Portland Chapter of RSVP has for many years provided children in the YCCAC Head Start Program with hand-knitted hats, gloves and scarves. This year is no different. The items — bags and bags of them in every size and color — were delivered on Tuesday, Nov. 20, to the Head Start Program office in Sanford, and were expected to be distributed to the various program sites in the following days.


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LA Times: Incendiary Tear Gas Reportedly Used in Dorner Standoff
The LA Times has new details on the use of incendiary tear gas devices in the standoff with Christopher Dorner, leading to the fire that destroyed the cabin where he was holed up: Dorner Manhunt: Incendiary Tear Gas Reportedly Used on Cabin.
Faced with regular barrages of gunfire, officers confronting suspected killer Christopher Dorner lobbed incendiary tear gas into the cabin where Dorner allegedly was holed up, said law enforcement officials with knowledge of the situation.
The cabin caught on fire and authorities believe Dorner was burned inside. A body was discovered but authorities have not confirmed it was Dorner. …
SWAT officers surrounding the cabin were under a "constant barrage of gunfire," one source said. "He put himself in that position. There weren't a lot of options."
Hoping to end the standoff, law enforcement authorities first lobbed "traditional" tear gas into the cabin. When that did not work, they opted to use CS gas canisters, which are known in law enforcement parlance as incendiary tear gas. These canisters have significantly more chance of starting a fire. This gas can cause humans to have burning eyes and start to feel as if they are being starved for oxygen. It is often used to drive barricaded individuals out.


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Tim Hobin never thought he'd have to put metal bars in the windows of his Cottage Street apartment on the western end of Allentown. He's lived there for almost three years, and he said it's always been a safe neighborhood.
But after burglars broke into his home and a neighbor's home and stole their personal belongings over the past week, Hobin is bolstering his apartment's security.
"It's like nothing has ever really happened, and now there's this huge rash of things happening," he said.
Allentown residents like Hobin are concerned after an uptick in crime involving break-ins and face-to-face encounters, some occurring while residents were at home. Buffalo Police Department records show that in a five-day span from last Friday through Tuesday, at least seven such crimes were reported to Buffalo police in the Allentown area. That includes five burglaries or attempted burglaries, plus an assault and a vehicle break-in.
The numbers are apparently up – during the same five-day period in June, there were only three such crimes. Similar crimes have been reported over the last week in surrounding neighborhoods, up through the Elmwood Village, according to police records. And since Tuesday, more crimes, including grand larcenies, were reported around Cottage Street.
Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda and spokesman Michael DeGeorge said that there has been no unusual crime activity on the West Side and that any increase could be attributed to any number of factors, including the warm weather, which always comes with an increase in crime. They said they spoke to Central District Chief Brian Patterson, who heads the Central District which includes Allentown, and that numbers actually appear to be down. During a recent, routine walk through the neighborhood, Chief Patterson asked for residents' input on what officers could do, DeGeorge added.
"Although there's been just a few incidents, as we always say, one incident is one too many, therefore Buffalo police has added patrols to the area to ensure the safety of residents," DeGeorge said. He advised residents to report activity that appears suspicious and do "the little things," such as locking doors and leaving lights on, to help prevent crimes.
But residents in the Days Park and Cottage Street area of Allentown said they've definitely noticed an increased volume of break-ins.
Hobin said the burglary at his apartment – he lost an iPod, a Kindle and a portable DVD player – was the first crime-related incident he's had since moving in almost three years ago.
"They're coming in while people are home. That's what's scary," said Deb Ellis, president of the Days Park Block Club. Ellis said she's mostly heard stories from residents of burglars coming in through open back windows and hasn't heard of anyone forcefully entering homes.
Days Park resident Jessica Buscaglia said that in the beginning of the summer, a burglar slit the screen door to the first floor apartment in her building, taking money and a laptop. Buscaglia, who lives in the second-floor apartment, said thieves rummaging through unlocked cars is fairly common in the neighborhood. But she is unnerved by the home break-ins.
"In the home, it is a little more disconcerting," she said. "It's pretty violating."
One resident who lives on Maryland Street, which intersects Cottage Street, said a burglar entered his home one morning about three weeks ago and stole a laptop as he was preparing for work. The resident, who did not want to be identified, said he went downstairs to load clothes in the dryer and then upstairs to put the dog away. By the time he returned to the first floor, the laptop was missing and his home's back door was wide open.
"It was quick. It was quiet. I didn't even know it happened," said the resident, who estimates he was probably gone for two or three minutes. "It freaks me out a little bit. They were definitely bold."
Another resident, who also did not want to be identified, said he came face-to-face with someone who entered his home at about 9 p.m. Tuesday. The resident, who owns both the first- and second- floor apartment in the building on Cottage Street, said he was making renovations to the first-floor apartment and left the door unlocked.
The resident said he heard the door to the foyer open and walked out to investigate. He approached the stranger, who appeared to be in his 50s, and confronted him. The man said he was looking for someone named "Phil" on the second floor and appeared distracted, afraid and scared, the resident said. The unidentified person then backed away and left.
"I shut the door behind and locked it. I didn't even follow him," the resident said, adding he was surprised to see someone walk in, as the lights to his second-floor apartment were turned on.
"You would think that they could see that someone was living there," the resident, who did not notify police, said.
Kelly and John Weber, residents of a home on Days Park, said they believe that two or three weeks ago, a bicycle was stolen from their home and used as a "getaway vehicle." Someone entered the home behind the Webers' and came face-to-face with that homeowner, the Webers said.
The Webers believe the suspect ran through their backyard in an attempt to escape, commandeering the bike and fleeing. The family's backyard gate was open when they arrived home and police arrived shortly after.
"It's a scary feeling to know that people are doing this while people are at home," Kelly Weber said.
"Whoever it is seems not to care whether people are home or not," her husband added.
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Ctra. SG-500 El Espinar-Ávila, Km. 10.
40400 Espinar, El, Segovia (Castilla y Leon)
Tel.:+34 921182542
- Autonomous region: Castilla y Leon
- Province/Island: Segovia
A rustic course with a flat layout presenting very little difficulty. Accessible to almost any type of player. Its main features are its numerous bunkers and the water areas marked with red poles, in addition to several holes with out-of-bounds areas.
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Opened in: 1991
Designer: Club de Golf El Espinar
Setting: Countryside
Number of holes: 9
Par for the course: 72
Information on services
Club hire, Driving range, Golf school, Putting green
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City of Lincoln
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng today encouraged children ages 8 through 14 to apply now to be a judge for the 20th celebration of the Star City Holiday Parade December 4. The theme for this year's parade is "Our Lasting Treasure." It is presented by First National Bank and produced by Updowntowners, Inc., the Downtown Lincoln Association and the City of Lincoln.
"Children are 'our lasting treasure,' and this annual event is dedicated to them," said Mayor Seng. "Our parade is judged entirely by children. The opportunity to be a judge is a once in a lifetime experience, and I hope many children will apply."
To apply, children are asked to write a short essay (three to four sentences) telling about their lasting treasures. They should send the essay along with their names, ages (as of December 1, 2004), addresses and phone numbers to Parade Headquarters, 1200 "N" Street, Suite 101, Lincoln, NE 68508. Applications must be received by Friday, November 5.
The judges will have special seating at the parade and will be assisted by an adult mentor. Parents will be seated in a reserved area nearby.
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Mike D'Antoni has emerged as the hot name the be the next coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Both Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski and CBS's Ken Berger report that D'Antoni is a "prominent name" who has been discussed in the organization.
But Wojnarowski also reports that D'Antoni won't be able to coach for 5-6 weeks due to knee surgery, although he would still take the job.
It would certainly make things entertaining.
D'Antoni popularized the fast-paced, "seven seconds or less" offense with Steve Nash in Phoenix before moving on to coach the Knicks.
He was ousted as Knicks coach last year, but has stayed around the league as an assistant coach on the Olympic team in London.
There are some issues with this.
1. He runs very rigid offensive system. A D'Antoni-coached Lakers team would be Steve Nash's team, not Kobe's, and no one knows if Kobe would be willing to give up control. We all saw what happened last year in New York when Carmelo Anthony refused to buy-in to D'Antoni's system.
2. D'Antoni's system relies on spacing the floor and shooting 3s. The Lakers, as constructed, don't have the players to fit his offense. It's just as bad of a fit as NY's roster was last year.
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What are Omegas?
There are three types of fats commonly found in a healthy diet: saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fat. Of these, the polyunsaturates appear to be most beneficial to overall health.1
Omega-3 and Omega-6 are the 2 most important types of polyunsaturates. Appropriate levels of Omega-6s are reached by eating certain oils (corn, sunflower, cottonseed, soybean), as well as nuts, meat, chicken, and eggs.1 Omega-3s, however, are even more important to health, but it can be hard to get enough in food.
The types of Omega-3s and why you need them all
The Omega-3 fatty acids are ALA, EPA, and DHA.
- ALA is found in some nuts and seeds (eg, flaxseeds and walnuts), and in some leafy green vegetables like romaine lettuce and spinach. The main role of ALA is as an ingredient for making EPA and DHA.1
- EPA and DHA are found in fatty fish, such as salmon, tuna, and catfish; they are also made in the body from ALA, but the amount made varies from person to person, and can be quite limited.1
Omega-3s have a number of important biological roles in the body, but the most important of these appears to be in controlling triglycerides. As DHA and EPA can help maintain healthy levels of triglycerides in people with normal levels.2
EPA and DHA also play a role in blood clotting and can help regulate inflammation.2 Supportive but not conclusive research shows that consumption of EPA and DHA Omega-3 fatty acids may reduce the risk of heart disease!1,3 In addition, DHA in particular is important for the production of brain tissue (so important that it is often added to infant formula!), eye tissue, and healthy sperm.3
The Omega-6s are also important to heart health, having been shown to decrease total and LDL (bad) cholesterol.1 But diets too high in Omega-6 can contribute to an inflammatory response and could contribute to an adverse impact on health, unless a certain amount of Omega-3s are included in the diet. Since Omega-6s are found in so many of the foods we eat, it's important to add the right amounts of Omega-3s to your diet.
So, how much should you eat?
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends that people eat Omega-6 and all 3 types of Omega-3s every day1:
- Omega-6: <22g (about 4 ½ tsp) per day1
- Omega-3 (ALA): 1.3–2.7g (less than 1 tsp) per day1
- Omega-3 (EPA/DHA): 500mg per day1 (or 8 ounces of fish per week)1,5
Notice that you should aim to eat an overall diet that is 1 part Omega-3 for every 5-8 parts Omega-6, a proportion that has been associated with supporting health.2 But most people today consume 1 part Omega-3 for every 15-20 Omega-6s, because they don't get enough Omega-3s in their diet.2,6 So the goal, as stated in the National Dietary Guidelines, is to increase the amount of Omega-3s eaten every day.5
Where to find Omega-3s
Naturally occurring ALA Omega-3s are found in seeds and nuts low in saturated fat such as flaxseeds, walnuts and almonds; they can also be found in oils made from these nuts and seeds, and in some leafy green vegetables (romaine lettuce, spinach).
Naturally occurring EPA/DHA Omega-3s are found primarily in fresh or canned fatty fish, including salmon, halibut, tuna, catfish, and sardines, as well as in farmed oysters.
Foods with added Omega-3s: Many food companies now tout the addition of "Omegas" to their products. Remember to pay attention to which types of Omegas are included, not just the total amount, looking for products that specifically add Omega-3.
You'll find that most products with added Omega-3s contain only the more easily available ALA. So do your body a favor, especially your brain, eyes, and even your heart… be on the lookout for foods that also contain EPA and DHA.
The ABCs of Omega-3s
Anyone who's ever been remotely concerned about heart health has surely heard about the importance of omega-3 fatty acids.
Your Questions—Answered
By Willow Jarosh, R.D., and Stephanie Clarke, R.D.
Q: What are the benefits of omega-3s and what's the best way to get them?
A: Omega-3 fatty acids are a type of polyunsaturated fat, and the major benefits are that these essential fatty acids, particularly EPA and DHA (discussed below), can help support cardiovascular health, healthy brain function and overall health.
The Many Splendors of Omega-3s
By Dayna Winter, M.S., R.D.
Omega-3 fatty acids continue to make big news in the world of health and nutrition—and it turns out their stellar reputation is well deserved. For instance, select population studies and clinical trials have shown that omega-3s support a healthy heart. Some studies have also shown that omega-3s play a positive role in inflammation, support healthy triglyceride levels and have other positive health benefits.
A Fish Tale
By Liz Krieger
Full disclosure: I had a bit of help with this week's cooking escapade. You see, I spent the weekend at my parent's house in the suburbs, and the bountiful harvest in their refrigerator was a big reason why I took on an ambitious recipe. There's something about having so many ingredients to choose from that makes me feel more confident.
Fishing for a Healthy Heart
By Beth Sumrell Ehrensberger, R.D.
You know by now that omega-3 fats, like those found in fish are important to eat. But what makes them great? Marine sources of omega-3s can help support heart health and mental and visual function.
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Our rich, creamy polenta is a heart-healthier take on the Italian classic—a fantastic side for any occasion.
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Jean Legried was one of those people you admired. I thought about her last week when I realized I hadn't received her usual Christmas letter. Now I know why, Jean passed away on January 1st and her health had been declining.
I first met her back in the early 1980s. She taught me that a disability or other challenge need not stop a person from living, helping others, or from becoming a knowledgeable professional genealogist who kept up with standards and education.
Jean was a well-known genealogist is the Norwegian research community, in Albert Lea and Freeborn County as well as in Minnesota in general. She served on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Genealogical Society with me. She taught us about the importance of handicapped accessibility at our meetings (and library) and that such access did not mean the dirty freight elevator! She was 200% correct. People who have been active on the discussion list of the Association of Professional Genealogists and other online lists may remember her posts of past years. Jean was also an associate of the Board for Certification of Genealogists for many years.
Her late husband Peder was a fantastic cook and I remember the chicken salad he made for a meeting of a group of Minnesota professional genealogists many years ago. Jean bragged about her son, daughter-in-law and especially about the grandkids. I met her mother a couple times and she was so nice.
Genealogy has lost a special person.
Thank you to Sandy Thalmann for alerting me to Jean's obituary http://www.bayviewfuneral.com/obits/obituary.php?id=140931 I love the picture her family chose for the obituary.
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The test isn't the problem: they don't let just anybody who wants to take the test.twistor wrote:You can become a citizen by taking a test. I don't see what the problem is.
"Applicants for citizenship are asked ten questions, and must answer at least six correctly."
twistor wrote:You can become a citizen by taking a test. I don't see what the problem is.
"Applicants for citizenship are asked ten questions, and must answer at least six correctly."zxcv wrote:The test isn't the problem: they don't let just anybody who wants to take the test.
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how immigration procedures work. But I know the test is rarely the hard part about getting citizenship. You can see the questions online. My friend, for instance, was part of the constitution team at my high school and knows his civics plenty well for 5th grade level test like that.twistor wrote:I've never heard anyone on this forum complain about not being able to take the test. I've never ever heard anyone say that they've even tried.
Of course, the test has a few ridiculous questions ("Who helped the Pilgrims in America?") but most are really easy.
In addition to the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada
prat wrote:I don't think it really works in the long run. People are mingling. No matter that there is nationalist thinking and behaviour. The only reason English is thriving and regional languages are kind of taking the backseat is because English is so accommodative. They've freely adopted words from many languages - I guess mostly because the British Kingdom spanned that many different countries - but still, they accommodated.
Science especially, since its language is largely Mathematics, does not really have any problem.
I guess humans will really unite only on the treat of an alien invasion
Yes, so it goes for people from New York or California or Iowa, and different classes of society. Everybody relates to their background, and differentiates w.r.t it too.
Everybody sends home money if they can afford it. Even if you are of Norwegian origin and your family lives in Italy.
Well, most American citizens , and citizens of other countries too, end up buying Chinese products. Now what do you make of that? I just think its a matter of taste. I'm an Indian. The youth are not so much Indian here! They prefer eating from McDonald's or Pizza Hut or Baskin Robins or some-other-american-mnc . We are paying much higher price than what we pay for 'local food' . But nobody's really complaining that we're making profits for "an American company". We are purchasing your cultural products being very much in our own country. It's business. Nothing else.
Yeah, two people from any place (on earth) can relate easily. Sometimes not.
C'mon! In the American Civil War the South fought against the North though they were all Americans! Humans will squabble as long as they are humans. They just want get into groups and defend them.
I don't know. I find that human beings are essentially the same everywhere. There are good people and bad people... and people in between .. everywhere.
I think insular immigrant communities are as much the fault of the "natives" who fail to reach out they are the fault of the immigrants.
vicente: U.S. does not give away free education to foreigners. In return of their education, foreigners are putting money into U.S. economy. If a foreigner receives financial support as a student, then he usually does work (as TA/ RA) and pay taxes. It is a give-and-take mutual benefit thing.
I am not sure what you mean by "nationally funded education".
In 2006 in the USA, approximately 46% of all international masters students were funded from such sources, while institutional financial awards constituted a similar amount of all fee-paying international students.
As far as res grants go...these grants are not meant to support education per se, rather to support research. As a RA, a student gets his tuition paid + a stipend; in return, he drives forward a specific research project of interest to the natl funding agency + pays taxes. This is essentially an employment, not free education.
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