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The NEFA Foundation has published a pamphlet — The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States — summarizing the documentary evidence introduced by the government in the Holy Land Foundation prosecution. It is must reading. Here is the report's summary of findings:
The exhibits make four things clear:
1) Many of the existing organizations that have set themselves up as the interlocutors between the Islamic community in the United States and the outside world (including government, law enforcement, and other faiths) were founded and controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood from their inception. Many of them changed their names over time to achieve broader national acceptance.
2) The Brotherhood established a highly-structured organization with many different faces inside the United States while deliberately and continually seeking to hide the Brotherhood


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University of Rochester students are using "The Power of Dance" to kick off a new outreach initiative to Rochester city schools.
Over the past 18 months, students in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering have been discussing ways to increase the impact of their volunteer efforts in the Rochester City School District. Developing more ongoing, formal relationships with local schools, school children, and parents throughout the year was considered essential to the success of any program.
The result of the group's work and partnerships will be demonstrated this month with "The Power of Dance," a performance by four undergraduate student organizations, and the launch of Project CARE (Coaches Are Role Models for Empowerment), a coaching program aimed at increasing elementary students' literacy, social, and developmental skills.
"These programs are a powerful addition to the longstanding partnership between the University of Rochester and our schools," said Rochester Superintendent of Schools Manuel J. Rivera. "As tutors and role models, undergraduate students can have a significant impact on the learning and growth of our children. UR continues to be a model of that kind of partnership which is vital to the success of public education."
Four University of Rochester student groups will visit the Dr. Charles T. Lunsford School #19, 465 Seward Street, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, from 9:45 to 11 a.m. to perform for third through sixth graders. "The Power of Dance" will feature Afro-Expressions, the Ballet Performance Group, UR Hip Hop, and Yosakoi. Each group brings a particular style of expression to the event, from modern West-African dance and traditional Japanese fisherman dances to break dancing and ballet. Student performers will show and discuss these differences as well as talk about the power of art in working across boundaries and celebrating diversity as well as in their own education. Participating groups will stay involved with the school and its children throughout the year through a series of demonstrations, workshops, and special invitations to campus events.
To prepare the University of Rochester students for their performance, Natalie Rogers-Crooper of the world-renowned Garth Fagan Dance Company will conduct a workshop on the role of dance in promoting cultural awareness and engaging children. She will also meet with the College students after their performance to discuss their experience and additional ways to engage area youth in meaningful arts and cultural programming.
The outreach effort is sponsored in part by the Rochester Center for Community Leadership, a center established in January 2005 as part of the College Dean of Students Office to help connect students to the community and to encourage them to become engaged citizens during their college years and in the future. The center's first event was a conference on "Critical Issues in Leadership: Urban Education," held to mark Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday last year.
"Our students truly benefit and learn from their involvement in the city of Rochester," notes Jody Asbury, College Dean of Students and director of the center. "We also think it is important for them to share their resources and talents in return. For them to learn to assume some responsibility for the communities in which they live is essential," she adds.
Following closely on "The Power of Dance" kick-off event, 30 other Rochester students will participate in the Project CARE pilot program at three city schools. This tutoring and mentoring initiative, developed by the Rochester City School District, EnCompass, a local community service organization, and the Rochester Center for Community Leadership, will train and support volunteers to enhance the district's literacy and developmental initiatives while gaining valuable community-based learning experiences.


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The renowned Lincoln Trio, under the auspices of the Ravinia Festival, is coming to Chicago-Kent on Tuesday evening, April 7, 2009, to perform an historic chamber music program in celebration of the Lincoln bicentennial. This special program of the Institute for Law and the Humanities, which is also co-sponsored by Alumni Relations and Development, will take place in the auditorium from 6:30-8:30 p.m., with a reception from 5:30-6:30 in the lobby.
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First there was the Flagship, the business incubator the city opened in a former video store at the corner of Calhoun and East Bay streets in June 2009. Then, two years later, came the Flagship 2, or FS2, a converted television studio next door that offered double the office space for more advanced start-ups.
Now, a third incubator is in the works, and this time it'll be new from the ground up.
Say hello to FS3, the youngest and largest child in the building family.
"It's about accelerating the formation and growth of these start-up companies that are contributing to our economy," said Ernest Andrade, director of the city's business development office and the Charleston Digital Corridor, who is the driving force behind the project. Mayor Joe Riley said it's a matter of right time, right place.
"Keeping the momentum, or helping accelerate the momentum, of the city's knowledge economy is so important, and you have to seize the moment or you may lose it," the 10-term Democrat said.
The project's been in the works for months, but it came before City Council for the first time this week. On Monday, the panel's real estate committee approved the purchase of the land at 999 Morrison Drive, and on Tuesday the full council signed off on the deal. Riley called buying land for such a purpose "something unusual," but city officials see the proposed office complex, which will be built by a private developer, as a logical extension of its older Flagship siblings and filling a need as the city's burgeoning tech companies grow up.
They also see it as a kind of smaller, software-focused, eastside bookend to the biotech-centric Horizon Project slated for the city's west side.
Aubry Alexander, chairman of the council's real estate committee and an early proponent of the first Flagship, envisions a "digital hub" that will sprout "spokes" in the city's peripheral areas.
"It'll offer opportunities for more of these companies to come in," he said, and "make sure these companies we've incubated here have a place in the city," as opposed to Mount Pleasant or farther afield.
The city is paying $1.771 million for the 1.8-acre plot, a significant discount from its recently appraised value of $2.015 million. According to county land records, when the property last changed hands in December 2006, it was sold for $4.5 million.
On the other side of the land deal is an entity owned by Philadelphia-based real estate investment fund Lubert-Adler. Stuart Coleman, the landowner's local agent, said his client sold at a discount because it owns other properties in that area and liked what the city has in mind.
"I'm just excited to see that area change, continue to see that Morrison Drive corridor transition and really come back to life," he said.
Andrade also pointed to the accessibility to U.S. Interstate 26 and Highway 17, as well as the room to grow beyond the plot, as reasons for venturing up East Bay to Morrison.
"We want that to become the corridor for tech companies," Andrade said. The neighborhood is also on board, said Andrade and Councilman Robert Mitchell, who represents the district. Calling that pocket of the peninsula "pretty blighted," Mitchell said, "I'm glad to see this is happening for that particular area."
While many of the details are subject to negotiation with the eventual developer, preliminary plans call for a four-story, 40,000-square-foot building at Morrison and Conroy Street with surface parking. A second phase, connected to the first phase by a parking deck and subject to a separate process, would be a slimmer, longer 60,000-square-foot structure that would stretch to Romney Street.
Together, the new buildings could house more than 50 start-ups, considerably more than the roughly 25 now based in the first two Flagships.
In addition to high-tech amenities, Andrade said there will be a roof deck and some retail, like a coffee shop.
The push for an FS3 comes from both the limiting capacity and leasing terms of the first two incubators.
The first Flagship, which cost $120,000 to start, now features 14 small offices and a couple of conference rooms. FS2, which cost $500,000 to renovate and open, has 16 offices on two floors, along with conference areas, computer lab and other amenities.
The city leases the properties and subleases the offices, on a flexible basis, to the start-up tenants. While the city's FS2 lease is for 10 years, the 5-year Flagship lease is up next May.
"I'll have to evaluate it in pretty short order," Andrade said of the Flagship lease. "It would be reasonable to expect some level of consolidation in the new building."
With the land in hand, the city will now issue a request for proposals. Andrade, who has been prospecting both potential tenants and developers, said that RFP should go out this summer.
"I think it's safe to say that it's highly unlikely that I would not have moved on the acquisition of the land if I did not think there was interest in developing this project," he said.
Nate DaPore, CEO of software firm PeopleMatter and a Charleston Digital Corridor board member, just moved his business to upper King Street. He said the proposed building will become a "dense nucleus" that will help advance the local tech industry.
"It just creates cell division and it attracts more talent," he said.
Speaking at the city council meeting Tuesday, DaPore said he has seen similar developments in San Francisco and Atlanta and that his hometown now has "a tremendous opportunity ahead of us."
"It will be a fantastic catalyst for the future of Charleston's knowledge economy," he said.


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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A top general says federal budget cuts that will ground one-third of the U.S. Air Force's active-duty force of combat planes including fighters and bombers means "accepting the risk that combat airpower may not be ready to respond immediately to new contingencies as they occur."
Gen. Mike Hostage, commander of Air Combat Command at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, issued the warning Tuesday as the Pentagon braces for more effects of the automatic spending cuts triggered by the lack of a budget agreement in Washington.
Hostage said that only the units preparing to deploy to major operations, such as the war in Afghanistan, will remain mission-ready. Other units would stand down on a rotating basis.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwe court has ordered a breakaway Anglican bishop to return church property he seized after his excommunication in 2007.
Supreme Court Judge Yunus Omerjee ruled Monday that Bishop Nolbert Kunonga has no right to the church property because he left the mainstream Anglican Church.
Zimbabwe's Anglican Church has been divided since Kunonga, a loyalist to President Robert Mugabe, was excommunicated in 2007 by the main Anglican Province of Central Africa and the worldwide head of the church for inciting violence in sermons supporting Mugabe's ZANU-PF party. Kunonga broke away from the Anglican Church and formed an independent Harare diocese. He held the Anglican Cathedral in Harare and several other churches, with the help of police.
The schism left mainstream Anglicans without places of worship and many were subjected to intimidation and violence.
After the ruling Monday, Anglican worshipers sang, danced and ululated outside the court.
The head of Zimbabwe's mainstream Anglicans, Bishop Chad Gandiya described Monday's ruling as a "pleasant surprise."
"We prayed, we waited and we have been vindicated," Gandiya said. "This is God's doing."
An earlier ruling made in August last year by Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, another open supporter of Mugabe's party, had allowed Kunonga to retain the cathedral and its administrative offices, bank accounts and vehicles.
During the past five years, Kunonga had intensified seizures of the Anglican Church property, taking over orphanages, church buildings and schools countrywide with the help of police loyal to Mugabe.
Kunonga claims he left the mainstream Anglican Church because of its position on gay marriage.
Leaders of the global Anglican Communion have condemned gay relationships as a violation of Scripture. However, the Anglican Communion is loosely organized without one authoritative leader such as a pope, so some individual provinces have accepted same-gender unions and in the United States an openly gay man was the Bishop of New Hampshire.
Mugabe is a bitter critic of homosexuality.
The former head of the worldwide Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, visited Zimbabwe last year and handed Mugabe a dossier detailing allegations of the intimidation of worshipers.
The report described a "litany of abuses" including murder, harassment and assaults of parishioners by police and Kunonga's followers.
Mugabe then claimed he was unfamiliar with the scale of intimidation experienced by mainstream Anglicans.
Gandiya, the Zimbabwe Anglican bishop, told The Associated Press that most parishioners who had taken to worshiping under trees and leased buildings are "ecstatic" at having their places of worship back.
"We have been in exile for five years but now we are going back home," he said.


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WELCOME to another great year of personalities from the design, painting, and illustration worlds -- we'll be discovering new talents, and revisiting some of our past Designing Women! Ladies and gentlemen may we present : * Maya Barkai, * Sarah Pannell, * Andrea Rahal, * Louise Fili, * Paula Scher, * Jessica Hische, * Lizania Cruz, * Yuko Shimizu, * Gina Triplett, * Kelli Anerson!
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Maya Barkai is a Photographer and Artist based in New York, NY, with a propensity toward 'walking men'
Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Barkai is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts' Photography Department (BFA 2005), and has been based in New York City for the past nine years. She spent her military service in the Israeli Defense Forces as a military photographer for the IDF Official Magazine, 'BaMachaneh'. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide, and she is the recipient of the National Press Photographers
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Documentary and Editorial Photography seldom gets a lot of glamour in today's over-saturated photography world. Yet it's the photo journalists who breathe life into the history of society! While not particularly flashy or zoomy, the sensitivity and scope of the images seen in her Flickr stream are most fulfilling. Bravo, Sarah!
We are really enjoying the work of Sarah Pannell, 23 year old photo journalist in San Jose, California, USA.
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In May the NSCAD graduate in photography and graphic design opened her dream business, Inkwell Modern Handmade Boutique & Letterpress Studio ...
Andrea Rahal, owner, curator and designer is realizing some great success generating custom and classic letterpress printed designs.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Lipscomb women's soccer standout Ellen Lundy has been ranked as the No. 68 best freshman in the country by Top Drawer Soccer, an associate website of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
The Rogers, Ark., native has rewritten the Lipscomb record books posting 13 goals and 29 points in 15 games. She currently ranks No. 6 in the NCAA in total goals and No. 12 in total points.
Lundy is one goal shy of becoming Lipscomb's all-time leader in goals scored.
Of the 100 freshmen ranked, Lundy is fifth of the mid-major conference schools. Only one other Atlantic Sun institution was represented as Tabby Tindell of Florida Gulf Coast was ranked No. 94.
Top Drawer Soccer was created with the mission to provide authoritative, responsible coverage of college soccer and to promote the game and the players who play it.


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A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent at Los Angeles International Airport allegedly told a teenage girl to "cover" herself before she boarded her flight.
The girl's father is BoingBoing.com editor Mark Frauenfelder who posted about the incident Sunday evening. Frauenfelder says the TSA agent "humiliated and shamed my 15-year-old daughter."
He says his daughter, who was with other high school students on a college tour, described the incident to him via text message.
"She was at the station where the TSA checks IDs," Frauenfelder wrote. "She said the officer was 'glaring' at her and mumbling. She said, 'Excuse me?' and he said, 'You're only 15, COVER YOURSELF!' in a hostile tone. She said she was shaken up by his abusive manner."
Though he said it "shouldn't matter" what she was wearing, Frauenfelder included a photo of his daughter's outfit that day -- long pants and a tank top that was just shy of reaching them, with a plaid flannel overshirt. An outfit much like like hundreds of other passengers on any given day.
"It doesn't matter what she was wearing, though, because it's none of his business to tell girls what they should or should not wear. His creepy thoughts are his own problem, and he shouldn't use his position of authority as an excuse to humiliate a girl and blame her for his sick attitude."
Frauenfelder said he and his wife met with TSA at the airport, and says they are opening an investigation. Frauenfelder said Officer Murphy of the TSA was "apologetic, concerned, and professional."


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The outbreak this week of arctic air can be very dangerous to your pets. Don't think because you can layer up that your dog will love walking in -15 degrees to -50 degrees wind chill. You can serious harm to your dogs and their paws.
You should make sure their paws are protected, that they don't have prolonged outdoor exposure and if possible, find safe warmer places for them to relieve themselves.
Pets can suffer easily from hypothermia and frost bite very quickly with this upcoming arctic cold wave. Younger and older pets are especially vulnerable. The brutal cold pavement when you walk your dogs can literally burn their paws with the wind chills expected.
THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS THEM ROMPING AROUND IN SNOW. These brutal wind chills can do serious damage to your dogs and cats. A dogs fur will protect it from the cold but wind chill depletes the body warmth of the same dog.
If you know of neighboring cats and dogs who are left outside, help by seeking and creating a warm place for them with some sort of make shift shelter, straw, blankets or just bring them inside in a closed room until the worse has passed. Make sure they have water since their water bowls can freeze easily


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Tuesday, 29 January 2013 07:52 PM
Al Gore is defending the sale of his television channel to Al-Jazeera, saying the news organization is hard-hitting, especially on climate issues, which is his passion.
The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera earlier this month struck a deal to buy Current TV for $500 million. The cable news network was co-founded by the former vice president. Gore told The Associated Press Tuesday that he had no reservations about selling it to Al-Jazeera.
He says he considers Current TV to have been a success in that it won awards and was profitable each year.
Gore in his latest book titled, "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change," makes only a fleeting reference to Al-Jazeera. He calls it a "feisty and relatively independent" satellite network.
He also takes aim in the book at corporate media for "suffocating the free flow of ideas."
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Thursday, 03 January 2013 05:50 AM
CAIRO — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said Wednesday some of its members had been wrongfully arrested in United Arab Emirates (UAE) on allegations of helping to train local Islamists in subversion tactics.
"I know 11 people were detained. I know that some of them are from the Brotherhood," said Mahmoud Ghozlan, a Brotherhood spokesman in Cairo. "The claim that they are a cell seeking to destabilise the country is devoid of truth."
The arrests came to light on Tuesday when a UAE newspaper reported the authorities had arrested an "Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood cell," citing an unnamed source.
The oil-rich UAE, which has long voiced distrust of the Muslim Brotherhood that helped propel Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to power this year, arrested about 60 Islamists last month, accusing them of being linked to the Egyptian group and plotting to undermine governments in the Gulf region.
In what appeared to be an effort to ease tensions, Egypt's intelligence chief, General Mohamed Shehata, headed to the UAE for talks, airport officials said.
An aide to the Egyptian president also handed over a message from Morsi to UAE's president, a statement from the Egyptian presidency said, without giving details.
"We are in contact with the authorities there and will see what what will happen in the next period," Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr was quoted as saying by the state news agency.
The son of one of the arrested Egyptians said in Cairo that his father, Ali Sonbol, is a medical doctor and is not involved in political activities.
"They didn't say where they were taking him and what were the charges," Ahmed Sonbol told Reuters. "The Egyptian embassy only assured us that he was detained by UAE authorities and he is well."
UAE officials were not available for comment.
Relations between Egypt and the UAE soured after Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak — a longtime Gulf ally — was toppled in Egypt's 2011 revolution.
Last month, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan summoned Egypt's ambassador over claims carried by Egyptian media the UAE was behind a plot against Egypt's leadership, saying they were "fabricated."
Thanks to their state-sponsored cradle-to-grave welfare systems, the UAE and other Gulf Arab monarchies have largely avoided the Arab Spring unrest which has unseated long-serving rulers elsewhere in the past two years.
The Brotherhood has sought to reassure Gulf states it has no plan to push for political change beyond Egypt's borders.
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May 05. 2013 10:06PM
Keene State students unveil design plan for Haitian vocational school
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KEENE - Six Keene State College architecture students unveiled the preliminary design they developed for a 10,000 square foot vocational school in Haiti at the Alumni Center Wednesday.
For more than 20 year students from the college's Communicorps class have worked with community groups in the Monadnock region to tackle design projects through a team effort.
Senior Fritz Henning had already taken the course, but joined in as part of his senior project, he said.
"I hopped on board this because I think it's great designing for outside of the Keene area," he said.
The students were asked to design a vocational school that would be used to teach electrical, masonry, plumbing and carpentry skills, but they also added an automobile shop that would allow the school to teach mechanics and generate income from fixing cars, Henning said.
Peter Temple, associate professor of architecture at Keene State, said he had wanted the Communicorps students to work on a Haitian project since the 2010 earthquake devastated the country. Through a contact at Architecture for Humanity, Temple learned a Boston-based Haitian group was seeking help in the design of a vocational school in the Plateau Central region of the country.
"It means a lot for us because we are from Haiti and we know what education means there," said Estenieau Jean, executive director of the Organization of Support to the Development of the Plateau Central.
"So having this project designed is like a dream come true for us."
Jacques Parent, OSDPC executive secretary/media relations, said higher education for medicine and law are strong in Haiti, but take five to six years to complete and often the newly educated doctors and lawyers can't find work in Haiti.
On the other hand construction workers from the Dominican Republic are often brought into Haiti to work on construction projects because they have the skills.
"This school will teach students on the spot and they will have the skills to put food on the table," Parent said. "The impact this will have on people's lives will be profound."
The Hinche Vocational School was designed through a collaboration between the students - Henning, Bill Preskenis, Jessica Pierre, Kristen Guillette, Jillian Cornelius and Jason Abram - as well as the volunteers from OSDPC and Architects for Humanity Boston.
Though they consulted with the OSDPC volunteers, the students worked on the project by themselves for the most part. So Pierre, whose father is originally from the Plateau Central region of Haiti, was incredibly helpful in designing the school through her cultural insights.
For instance she knew that many people in Haiti get around on mopeds, so the students designed parking to accommodate that transportation. Lunch is also the largest meal of the day in Haiti, so the students were sure to design a cafeteria that would be appropriate culturally.
Because air-conditioning would not be feasible for the school the classrooms were designed to have high ceilings.
The school was also designed to be earthquake resistant and could serve as an emergency shelter if needed.
OSDPC is still raising funds to build the school. Learn more at osdpc.org.


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You know you're "addicted" to tea when ....
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i was watching Orange is the New Black last night. that episode when Piper was transferred to Chicago prison. i felt bad she couldnt visit those awesome tea shops TeaGschwendner/Adagio Marzipan was reporting to us about.
I've been watching it with my boyfriend (he loves it) and I must say, it is strange but on the lesser side of strange. Therefore, I still like it a bit. My only problem is I hate the main character, which happens to me all the time.
she is not my favorite, but i like this mix and match of different women with different backgrounds and how unfortunate sometime life is. i see good sides in these women and i feel sorry for what have happened to them.
i was watching House of Cards before this one. it was much more sophisticated, i would love to continue but they stopped for some reason;(
I also hate Piper, but the first season of that show was really interesting. Hopefully we'll get time to watch Season two soon! I also love Ricky Gervais' Derek. I am astounded by that show, though it makes me cry sometimes.
When you buy a greeting card at the supermarket solely because it has teapots on it.
They say that when you first start drinking a lot of water, you'll pee a lot, but after a couple of weeks it will stop. Life experience determined that that was a lie!
When you take the first sip of a new tea and a rating immediately pops into your head.
Sometimes I actually visualize the numbers…
When you've had no power for six hours (so far) and your chief complaint is that you can't make tea! I even went out and rescued my tea package from postal jail because they miraculously had power but now I just stare at it longingly.
The power outage during Sandy lasted seven days for me. I had to make hot water by my holding a sauce pan over a can of fuel that spouted flame (I forgot what it's called for the moment). One or two cups of Yorkshire Gold was all I got per day. Rough times (not just for tea, of course).
Aww, now I feel bad for whining. Nine hoirs now, but that's nothing. I guess for me it is a bit unusual to lose power so I feel like complaining. We have one tree tipped over and one blgiant branch broke off but otherwise our property is faring well so far. Thanks for the perspective!
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We were kind of lucky actually, since other people had to wait maybe another week or so to get their power back. At least it's summer now. Hope you get your back soon, regardless :]
When you seriously consider dropping your morning triple expresso ritual just so that there will be another opportunity for a tea session each day!
When the only thing you want to do when you're having a bad day is go sit with your pony and share tea – him with his bucket and me with my timolino.
Yep, definitely did that yesterday, in the pouring rain too! :P
eeeeee I second that!!
Mine does :) I use matcha powder to mask his yucky tasting electrolytes and dewormer paste, he drinks a wide variety of teas out of his bucket, and he has been known to take my travel mug from me if I don't share. He's a special cookie :P
He's my whole world and I love him, so why not share something special (like tea) with him? <3
You should do a video of you and your horse for during tea time! I think most of us here would love that.
This is adorable!
When you realize that coffee (my mom's morning hot drink of choice) makes you sick so you start packing your tea along with all the other visiting mom stuff! Also when you realize that packing the tea is even a higher priority than packing your kids' diapers because "we can always buy diapers when we get there, but they don't sell my tea!"
Your tea cabinet is full and you're hiding tea in oddball spots so your husband won't find it. Oh my, I think I need an intervention.
You get incredibly upset when you know your tea package is just miles away but you can't have it because of unknown reasons :(
You obsess about your water quality and how it effects your tea flavor.
I cosign on this wholeheartedly, especially now as I relentlessly stalk my packages progress on the USPS app. Two more stops. T-T fingers crossed I get it today and don't end up having to save it from postal jail.
I just hope my mailman doesn't start to hate me for how often I accost him at the mailbox asking for any packages. Poor man already judges me enough for getting two/ three packages a week. Lol


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Judge bars filming of James Holmes exam, for now
DENVER (AP) — The judge in the Colorado theater shootings case has told a doctor not to video-record the second sanity evaluation of defendant James Holmes, at least until a hearing on the matter.
The judge issued the order Friday after defense attorneys objected to the planned video recording. The judge plans a hearing this week, but hasn't set a date.
The state mental hospital has said the doctor routinely video-records his examinations but didn't say why. He offered to withhold the video from both sides.
Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 people in the July 2012 attack. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. The trial date is up in the air.
The judge ordered a second sanity evaluation after concluding that the first was flawed.


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SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, AZ (Tucson News Now) - Firefighters expect the Soldier Basin Fire, burning near Patagonia, to get worse in the next couple of days.
The human-caused fire has burned approximately 2,000 acres and is under investigation. It is five percent contained.
Even though no buildings are threatened, the sight of the fire is making homeowners a little anxious.
It started around 11:45 p.m. Friday, the Forest Service said.
Nearly 200 firefighters have been used to battle the fire.
The Forest Service said Sunday morning it was using two helicopters, eight engines and six water tenders, among other resources.
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Marylou McAthie
1927 - 2013
Marylou McAthie R.N., Ed.D, was proud of being a nurse. During her career she served as an administrator, consultant and teacher, holding positions at Oak Park Hospital, Oak Park, IL; Sacramento State University; San Joaquin General Hospital; USPHS Department of Health and Human Services and Sonoma State University. She enjoyed telling stories about her time as a student nurse and also about her time as a consultant to institutions in the American Pacific basin including American Samoa, Guam, Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. In her consultant role she helped establish the American Pacific Nursing Leadership Council which is still instrumental in improving nursing care in that region. At Sonoma State she developed the graduate program in nursing administration, was a major force for the creation of a chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, the national nursing honor society, and provided the impetus for an annual research conference highlighting student's research. Dr. McAthie's contributions to quality in nursing service and education have been recognized at the national, regional and local levels.
Marylou died quietly at home after a long period of treatment for end stage renal disease. Although her primary residence was Rohnert Park she also maintained a home in Stockton.
She is survived by longtime friends Carol Lindeman and Laurel Murphy, her sister Connie Kerbow, her brother and sister-in-law, Tom and Vicky McAthie, nieces, nephews, and great nieces and nephews.
Per her request there will be no services.
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Greg Amundson won nine girls' basketball state championships while coaching in North Dakota and had 10 players who were Miss Basketball finalists.
Now coaching at Centennial, Amundson saw something new in Paige Waytashek's recent performance against Hopkins.
Waytashek, a 6-foot senior guard, drained nine three-pointers as her Cougars handed the two-time defending Class 4A state champion Royals a 79-70 loss -- their first defeat in 20 games.
"She was consistent the whole game," Amundson said. "And what people don't realize is, I never subbed her out. She played every minute."
Waytashek, the latest in her family's line of standout female basketball players, leads No. 7 Centennial (14-2) in scoring, averaging 15.1 points per game.
She discussed the Hopkins victory, a loss to Osseo two days later and the lessons of both games with Star Tribune reporter David La Vaque.
Q Your mother, Janice Flicker, played basketball at St. Cloud State. Your older sisters, Joelle and Megan, played at Centennial before you. Did you love basketball right away or did the sport have to grow on you?
A Nope, I always wanted to play basketball. Ever since watching my sister Joelle play I knew. It wasn't even a question. When I was younger I was asked what I wanted to be when I was older and I said, "The next Lindsay Whalen."
Q Coach Amundson said he appreciates your competitive streak. Has that been handed down from your mother and older sisters?
A Definitely. I got my competitive juices from my mom and also Megan. I learned a lot from watching her when she was a senior and I was a freshman, like how to be a leader and get everyone involved.
Q You were 9-of-11 from the three-point arc against Hopkins. Give me some sense of what you were feeling that night as they kept dropping.
A Let's just say I banked a three in. Everything felt right that night except one that rattled out -- I got robbed. [Laughs] The stars were aligned. It didn't really hit me until I was lying in my bed. I was like, 'We beat Hopkins.' That will be, by far, be one of my favorite games in my high school career. Our fans stormed the court. We got to the locker room and started screaming. It was awesome.
Q Then two nights later you laid an egg against the Osseo team that ended your season last year. Was that loss the dramatic opposite?
A Pretty much. I think everyone kind of felt this coming a little bit. We were on such a basketball high and talking like, 'We can't lose to Osseo now because we're starting to make a name for ourselves.' So when we lost it was a real heartbreaker, but I think it was kind of a good reality check. We all came together and talked about what we have to do now in the second half of the season.
Q As a captain, what's your message as the team prepares for the stretch run?
A As a team we decided that we don't want to talk about the "H-word" as in Hopkins or the "R-word" as in rankings. Neither of them really means anything because you can't take any team for granted. You've got to bring it every night.
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LAKEWOOD – A pickup truck driver who led sheriff's deputies on a chase that ended with a crash in Lakewood was behind bars today, facing a possible felony.
Deputies following up on a report of a hit-and-run started chasing the truck about 8:45 p.m. Friday, and the suspect driver crashed into at least two other vehicles near Ashworth Street and Autry Avenue about 10 minutes later, sheriff's Sgt. Steven Paul at the Lakewood station said.
The suspect, whose name was withheld, was taken to a hospital to have his blood drawn to be screened for drugs and/or alcohol, and to be treated for a shoulder injury, Paul said.


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Lung infiltrate
What is it? What specifically causes it? Can it automatically be assumed that it is TB? If not, what other possibilities exist?
Your lungs are usually filled with air as you breathe in and out. When you get a chest x-ray, the air in the lungs causes the x-ray to appear black. Sometimes a shadow (white) can appear on the lung. This can be from an infiltrate or a collapse of the lung. If you have an old chest x-ray, doctors can see if the change is new or old to compare.
A collapse of the lung or atelectasis means that area of the lung is not receiving air so the lungs are not expanding. An infiltrate occurs when a substance other than air enters the lungs. An infiltrate may be due to many causes both infectious and non-infectious. Tuberculosis (TB) can cause an infiltrate on a chest x-ray. However you CANNOT automatically assume that all infiltrates are from TB. Pneumonias from other infections caused by other bacteria, viruses, and fungi can all cause an infiltrate.
Why did your doctor order the chest x-ray? Were you having any lung symptoms such as fever or cough? A person with TB of the lung will usually have had a prolonged cough for greater than 3 weeks that does not improve with antibiotics, fever, night sweats, weight loss, chest pain, or even coughing up blood. Other risk factors for TB include exposure to someone with TB and having a medical condition that might decrease your immune system so that you are more likely to develop TB if you were exposed. Did you have a positive tuberculin skin test (TST) or a blood test for TB?
Your doctor can determine what is causing the infiltrate. If you have symptoms of fever, chills, or cough, he may want to obtain some sputum samples to see if there is an infection of some type. A chest tomography (CT) scan is more sensitive than a chest x-ray and can show more details of the infiltrate to help differentiate among the causes.
A person with TB of the lung is infectious and can spread TB to others when they cough, sneeze, laugh, or sing. Therefore it is important to make the diagnosis quickly. The treatment for active TB requires multiple antibiotics for at least 6 months.
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flc2ascii is a Perl script This script dumps a FITS lightcurve or a XRONOS output file into ASCII and adds header information suitable for QDP/PLT. The output ASCII file contains: (1) the QDP/PLT command 'READ SERR', followed by numbers indicating the vectors which have errors, (2) the FITS header and GTI extension (if present in the input file) with an '!' prepended to each line, and (3) columns of data representing the X-axis and Y-axis (plus additional error columns and a fractional exposure column, if selected from the input file). The script recognizes two possible formats for the FITS lightcurve or XRONOS output: data stored (a) as a single element or (b) as an array of elements in column (Note only one dimension e.g. TDIMn= '(j)'). For the format (a), all the rows in the table for a given column are moved into the ASCII file, for (b), only one row (array type) is dumped into an ASCII file. The script creates an X-axis if not present in the FITS lightcurve or XRONOS output. For the format (b) the X-axis is derived using the auxiliary coordinates column keywords (e.g. 1CTYPn, 1CVALn, 1CDLTn with n column number). Only if the X-axis is TIME for the format (a), the X column in the ASCII file is derived from the timing header keyword TIMEDEL. -h See this message. -i infile[ext] Name of the input file. Extension may be specified with + or []. Default extension is 1. -o outfile Output file name. -q Spawn QDP on output file when finished. -r # For a "one interval per row" type input file, specifies which row number. -x column[,error] Column name for the X axis and (optional) X error column. (For no X column enter 0). -y column[,error] Column name for the Y axis and (optional) Y error column. -f column Column name for the fractional exposure (0 for none).
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Aidan Connell: Manchester Central educated this Hooksett student very wellBY AIDAN CONNELL
December 01. 2013 3:59PM
I had the stifling experience last Wednesday of picking up the week's issue of The Hooksett Banner. Having been away at my first year of college for three months, I forgot the state Hooksett and Manchester were in when I left.
I woke up my first morning back, found The Hooksett Banner on my family's coffee table and looked at the first page to see a poll on citizens' opinions concerning the talks between Pinkerton Academy and Hooksett over where Hooksett students will go to high school. In the comments from individuals were scattered passing phrases, such as "Anything but Central" or "Not Manchester," and these irked me.
I am a former Hooksett student who went to Manchester High School Central. For several years now, I have been told that I was somehow "ripped off" by having taken this path. People say that Central doesn't educate anymore and doesn't give its students preparation for college. However, I don't feel ripped off. In fact, I am thankful for the education Central gave me.
When I sit in the common room of my college dorm, I see my fellow college students struggle with the workload of college and the rigors of the material. But I don't share these struggles. Through my education at Central, I am completely prepared for the research papers and the independent studies that are expected of college students.
In fact, many of the students I see struggling come from some of the best public schools in the United States and from overseas in the United Kingdom and China. This is a sentiment shared by many other Central alums, many of my friends. I have been fortunate to see many of my Central classmates this break, and I am regaled with similar stories of personal success in college.
Unlike many of the other opinions about this subject, I speak not from a moment of anger, but from one of happiness. I am terribly proud and thankful that my friends and I, these recent Central alums, are doing so well in college. I am glad that every day we are disproving what seems to be an archaic and uneducated assumption that Manchester schools can't get anything right. I assure you, they can, and they have.
I don't know the answer to the dispute over what is the best contract for Hooksett to make with a district. All I know is that the populace seems to have a very wrong understanding on what a Central education really is. We, the students, aren't deaf to this argument. However, it seems like all the wrong voices are arguing.
It seems that many parents and local officials step up to the plate on this subject fancying themselves experts on schools like Central or Memorial. Well, I spent four years as both a student and a student representative at Central, and I can tell you that not once has anybody asked me or my friends what their experience has been. In fact, the people who matter most, the students, have been glaringly left out of the conversation completely. While that may be for lack of our own efforts, there doesn't seem to be a strong amount of outreach from those who are making the decisions.
Whatever decision is made concerning Hooksett students and the Manchester school district, I am still thankful. I am thankful for the education Central gave me. I am thankful for having had the chance to learn about slam poetry from Ms. Kelly MacDonald, classical literature and etiquette from a classical scholar like Ms. Selma Naccach-Hoff, the applications of math from Ms. Lesley Fallu and physics from Mr. Michael Patten.
I am thankful for the experiences Central gave me, such as going to see and report on President Obama's visit to Manchester, or making it to the semifinals of Granite State Challenge. I am thankful for both the friendships and connections I made. I am thankful for the real preparation I had for those trying first months of college. In all, I am thankful for Manchester schools, and it would be a real pity if that opportunity weren't extended to future Hooksett students.
Aidan Connell is a 19-year-old college student from Hooksett.


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Quote from: Omen on May 17, 2012, 02:45:35 PMHow many times should a person ask for someone to support their position before it is not ok?It's "not ok" the first time. Question is, what do you choose to do about it, and why? Hence my talk about goal/method and whether one of them might best be adjusted. Goals could be adjusted, as I pointed out, not just methods.
How many times should a person ask for someone to support their position before it is not ok?
You believe evolution and there is no evidence for that. Where is the fossil record of a half man half ape. I've only ever heard about it in reading.
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
What you should do, Omen, depends on what you want. If you want to have a meaningful discussion of religion, then you should find someone who is better suited to it than Jst. That's my advice to you.
In the end I am made out to be a bogey man, because I took it upon myself to bother taking him to task over it.
QuoteIn the end I am made out to be a bogey man, because I took it upon myself to bother taking him to task over it.Oh, get off your damned crucifix.
How do you make a comment in the Shelter? There is no reply button. Am I missing something?
And as for you being falsely accused...of what again? I don't recall doing this.EDIT: And as for your smite...you smote me for not being your friend? Wtf? I mean, I don't really care about having the smite on my record. But I do admit to having a "wtf' moment. This seems out of character for you. It's so...petty.
Quote from: nogodsforme on May 17, 2012, 05:00:23 PMHow do you make a comment in the Shelter? There is no reply button. Am I missing something?It's restricted to certain members. Basically the nice ones.
Am I not nice? Dammit!
I've been harassed for most of the day for something I never fucking did; without explanation, without citation, and for the most part while being completely ignored by anyone practically begging for an explanation.
It doesn't exactly place one in a nice friendly mood.
Your initial response wasn't to address what I'm accused of, of being 'uncivil', but instead to go off on a tangent about 'goals'
where ultimately you're just going to conclude that we should allow people to lie to our faces and treat us like shit.
Accommodating the religious fantasies of others doesn't accomplish anything more than asking them to support their positions ad nauseam, the only net result is that the community is disrupted by someone that has little to contribute.
Quote from: Omen on May 17, 2012, 05:15:02 PMIt doesn't exactly place one in a nice friendly mood.Why should that sort of thing affect your posts?[1] 1. Rhetorical question.
Quote from: Omen on May 17, 2012, 05:15:02 PMYour initial response wasn't to address what I'm accused of, of being 'uncivil', but instead to go off on a tangent about 'goals'I was not aware that the accusations of incivility were the only permitted topic of the thread. I consider my line of questioning to be entirely on-topic to the spirit of the thread, albeit not to those accusations you mention. I wasn't making them in the first place, so I'm curious as to why I should have only commented on them?
Omen, I'm a little late to this party and I'm short on time, but I'll toss in my unorganized two cents.
Your posting style is prickish.The tone of your posting style has been brought to your attention before. Hell, one of the last threads from the old forum in 2008 has you defending yourself from being "uncivil", but I guess that's neither here nor there.I've mentioned this to you before. Why do I give a shit? I give a shit because I view your overly aggressive style as enabling. It makes theists want to run off and enables them to do just that by giving them an emotional out: "Omen is mean, goodbye cruel forum". Take Jst for example: Grimm crafted a specific thread for Jst, extending a warm and friendly hand, and you beat the ever loving snot out of him in that thread. To what end? What was the purpose? What is your goal with Jst? I think Adzgari's question concerning goals was a legitimate one that you avoided.
With that said I doubt you intend to come off as a prick, but people who visit WWGHA that don't know you think you're a prick, like Jst. Yes, you want support for claims, you want accountability, you want them to realize and correct the logical fallacies they commit (I want all of that too). But it seems like you want it all to happen in the very next post. It won't happen of course. Most of the theists we get here have been indoctrinated since birth. And you're right, indoctrination doesn't excuse their behavior, but it is the reason they aren't able to instantly admit their reasoning is wrong. They know for a fact Jesus rose from the dead and all the other nonsense, so when you present them with contradictions or cold hard facts or anything solid that goes against what they "know", then it gets confusing and the mental gymnastics begin. It's precisely the reason you get the dodging, etc.
Do theists dodge my questions? Yes. A theist recently dodged me hard about his god and it's obsession with blood. Did I allow it to happen? Yes, because I realize my goal of freeing him along with other theists from their mythology won't happen overnight. It's going to take time and that's why I try to be patient with them. It's why I don't use your approach and bludgeon them over the head in every single reply, demanding they face the facts. It doesn't work. If anything it creates hostility and bitterness- neither of which help in a discussion. Yes, some do lie to save face and you've rightly called them out on it. But there are those that are lying to themselves and don't realize it, and you get the unintentional byproduct of that. I think because you were never indoctrinated, the inability for a theist to instantly cut through irrationality will probably always be alien to you.
And I've mentioned this before also, but I don't think you and some of the others have been particularly patient with the recent theists. For instance Alzael mentioned he has put in "so much" effort with Jst. Jst only has 550-ish posts under his belt. Effort and patience were displayed by those that helped chip away at Vynn's convictions on the old forum. Before the WWGHA members helped free Vynn he had upward 7,000+ posts as a theist.I like you, Omen. You have a better bullshit detector than I do and you're able to recognize flaws in theists' arguments from more angles than I can, and to that I tip my hat to you. But as far as being personable and caring about the people you're having a discussion with- you're a goddamned robot. What Christian is going to listen to the hostile "angry atheist" that seems like he has a chip on his shoulder? Present your compelling facts and hold them accountable, but damn it man, be as polite as you can.
Quote from: Alzael on May 17, 2012, 05:05:49 PMQuote from: nogodsforme on May 17, 2012, 05:00:23 PMHow do you make a comment in the Shelter? There is no reply button. Am I missing something?It's restricted to certain members. Basically the nice ones.Am I not nice? Dammit!
Thanks Zankuu, you're the first person I think that has contributed some useful criticism. My concern is whether or not I'm being uncivil unfairly, which I have been accused of repeatedly with little regard to promoting solid criticism of realistic examples. This has increasingly made me angry as people keep making accusations, but never adequately support the kind of accusations they make.
Most theist come here with no intention of learning or listening, their primary goal is more often than not to do nothing but confirm what they want to believe.
They have a support system built upon emotional dependencies and often other kinds of rhetorical reinforcements for which to rely upon ( such as tautological in group language in the bible, that either praises those who believe or condemns those who do not believe ). This is a well known phenomenon and one I've deeply thought about, but I disagree on who is or is not 'enabling' them. I find that enabling them involves encouraging their confirmation bias through any means possible. Now that includes being aggressive and unapologetic, but it also includes not challenging their presumptions or engaging in rhetorical games where as long as you never address their presupposition they will always rationalize towards that presuppositional unquestioningly.
Whenever you point out a biblical contradiction, that person will always rationalize it through any effective means available to reach the conclusion that they've already assumed. […] This is a little bit of a pet peeve of mine watching other non-believers engage in it, but I am not saying this to distract from any other criticism.
You're going to mention Vynn in the next paragraph, but I really was a fundamental part of those discussions with Vynn and we became close friends. I bludgeoned him with the same unapologetic fervor as I bludgeon anyone else. […] If you don't challenge them emotionally on what they believe emotionally, they'll never budge from their pedestal.
I do hear your criticism about whether theist will listen or not, but in my experience I've never seen a person come here and convert that wasn't a fence sitter anyway. On the other hand, I see not taking them to task on their claims as simple enabling them by confirming what they want to believe.


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This spring, the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts will host world-renowned performing, visual and literary artists, and sharpen its focus on educating UH students in the history and practice of creative collaboration.
The Mitchell Center's spring 2010 artist-in-residence is Berlin-based, Texas-born artist Amy Patton, who will be in Houston crafting a new film work to debut this fall at Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston. The center also continues its ongoing residency with renowned spoken word artist and choreographer Marc Bamuthi Joseph, who will visit Houston on multiple occasions to plan the fall 2010 festival, "Life Is Living: Houston" and create his new performance work, "red, black, and GREEN, a blues." The center's spring academic activities include the debut of the Graphic Novel Workshop led by award-winning UH faculty member Mat Johnson. This spring also marks the return of local artist Sasha Dela's course, "Art and Activism."
The schedule of spring public events is as follows:
7 p.m., Feb. 2, Artist-in-Residence Amy Patton, Jose Quintero Theatre
Presented in collaboration with Blaffer Gallery, the UH School of Theatre & Dance, and Aurora Picture Show.
Artist-in-residence Amy Patton discusses the development of "Oil," a filmed theater work being created with UH School of Theatre & Dance actors, commissioned by the Mitchell Center with support from Blaffer Gallery. The presentation will also include examples of Patton's previous work and excerpts from influential films. "Oil," which will premiere at Blaffer Gallery in fall 2010, is based on petroleum-influenced lifestyles and economic forecasting that dramatizes our society's experiences with objects and commodities.
7 p.m., Feb. 9, Visiting Artist Scott McCloud, Dudley Recital Hall
Noted comic writer and graphic artist McCloud will discuss storytelling in comics. McCloud created the critically acclaimed series "Zot!" for Eclipse Comics, which was published from 1984 - 1991. He also has written "Superman Adventures," "Justice League Adventures" and "Superman: Strength" for DC Comics. In addition to writing comics, he has authored three non-fiction books devoted to the medium including "Making Comics," "Inventing Comics" and "Understanding Comics." As part of his Houston visit, McCloud will work with creative writing and art students in the Graphic Novel Workshop, taught by professor Mat Johnson.
Artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph will visit Houston for an extended visit as part of his ongoing residency with the Mitchell Center. Co-hosted by Third Ward-based organization Project Row Houses, Bamuthi will develop his new performance work, "red, black, and GREEN, a blues." He also will help organize the November festival "Life is Living: Houston" as part of his national campaign that uses urban street arts to engage communities of color in environmentalism and sustainable living. While in Houston, Bamuthi also will visit the special sociology course "Hip-Hop Culture and the Environment with Marc Bamuthi Joseph."
The Mitchell Center commitment continues to address community engagement and creative problem-solving through academic programs including:
Art and Activism: This Interdisciplinary Art (IART) course allows students to communicate their own political, societal or environmental concerns through creative projects. Students explore works by artist-activists and creative practices that address political, social and cultural themes. Teaching the class for the second year is artist Sasha Dela. This year's visiting artists include Brett Bloom of the Chicago-based collective Temporary Services.
Graphic Novel Workshop: Also offered as an IART course, the workshop is an introduction and exploration of modern graphic storytelling through both critical examination and workshop of original creative work within the form. Creative writing and art students, along with visiting artists, focus on the medium and tools of graphic storytelling, its reoccurring themes and genres, and their relationship with modern storytelling.
The Mitchell Center IART curriculum continues with additional courses in collaborative and interdisciplinary theory and practice.
Additional campus-based collaborations include work with the UH Honors College Center for Creative Work on its annual Dionysia event. "Electra," which will be performed March 26 - 28, will take place in the in the UH Wortham Theatre with support from the Mitchell Center.
For additional details on these events or updates, visit www.mitchellcenterforarts.org or call 713-743-5548.


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Teen smoking is no treat
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The Erie-Niagara Tobacco-Free Coalition is raising awareness during this Halloween season, calling attention to the tactics used by the tobacco industry. Area young people are tricked into smoking for the promised treat of being cool or glamorous, but left with a nicotine addiction and ill health that haunts many for a lifetime.
The 2012 U.S. Surgeon General's report, "Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults," concluded that tobacco industry marketing causes youth tobacco use. Research shows that kids see and respond to tobacco marketing messages in stores that adults don't notice. The result of all this marketing is more than 22,000 New York state kids under the age of 18 become new daily smokers each year.
"We know that if we don't start smoking, the tobacco industry won't have replacement customers," said Kevin Murray, a senior at Sweet Home High School and student representative for the Sweet Home Central School District Board of Education. "We want students to recognize and reject the deceptive tricks used to market deadly products in stores."
"We're working to inform Western New Yorkers about the consequences of the excessive amount of tobacco marketing in our area," said Anthony Billoni, director of the Erie-Niagara Tobacco-Free Coalition. "Studies demonstrate that adults are concerned about the impact of tobacco promotions, yet underestimate how much of it kids are exposed to every time they walk into a convenience store. As parents and community members, we must raise the level of awareness and work together to protect our children."
According to the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, the tobacco industry spends $1 million a day in New York to market its deadly products in stores. At almost every convenience store in New York, kids are inundated with colorful tobacco displays surrounding the cash registers and tempted by cigarettes in candy-colored packages. Retailers are paid to display tobacco products in these highly visible locations where youth are continually exposed. Licensed tobacco retailers in New York display an average of 18 ads per store and more than 82 percent of retailers dedicate 50 percent or more of the merchandising space behind the counter to openly visible tobacco products.
"Halloween provides an opportunity to inform and education about the dangers of retail tobacco marketing," Billoni said. "Reducing the number of tobacco retailers or covering up the ubiquitous display of tobacco will help reduce the rate of youth smoking."
The Erie-Niagara Tobacco-Free Coalition, established in 1993 and located at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, is a member of the New York State Tobacco Control Program. The coalition is dedicated to reducing the risk of cancer, heart, lung and other tobacco-related diseases in Erie and Niagara counties by decreasing tobacco use and exposure to second hand smoke.


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During the Easter season, the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change plans to unveil publicly a "Catholic Climate Covenant," a new initiative to make U.S. Catholics more aware of what they can do to stem climate change and its effects. The covenant includes "The St. Francis Pledge to Protect Creation and the Poor," modeled after St. Francis of Assisi, whose "Canticle of the Sun" praised God's creation in the form of, among other things, earth, water and creatures. The pledge asks Catholics to pray and reflect on the duty to care for God's creation and protect the poor and vulnerable; to learn about and educate others on the causes and moral dimensions of climate change; and to advocate for Catholic principles and priorities in discussions and decisions about climate change, especially their impact on the poor and vulnerable.
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Someone who's only defense against being called an alcoholic is the fact that he/she does not drink alone. One who gets drunk every night at "social events" such as playing video games with a friend or watching TV with a sibling.
Person A: You're an alcoholic.
Person B: No i'm not, i never drink alone.
Person A: Then you're a social alcoholic.
Person B: No i'm not, i never drink alone.
Person A: Then you're a social alcoholic.
by myra197 August 07, 2010
A new type of alcoholic based off of the behavior of Kerry Conway. A social alcoholic is a very spontaneous person and often does stupid and immature things when drunk to get attention from fellow drinking buddies and others in the vicinity. This may only take place in bars. Social alcoholics often take many pictures of themselves and their friends while at the bar. They are also known to sleep until the PM hours of the day in which upon waking up from their slumber they immediately start planning their next trip out to the clubs for another round.
Dude1: Hey isn't that girl at this bar every Thursday, Friday and Saturday getting hammered with her friends?
Dude2: Yeah, she is a social alcoholic.
Dude2: Yeah, she is a social alcoholic.
by AdderallNinja November 18, 2009


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Nursing Admissions
ASN Admission Information
Note: As of July 1, 2017, there is no longer an application fee for the Nursing program.
Georgia Highlands College (GHC) offers an Associate of Science degree in Nursing (ASN). This allows graduates to sit for the National Council Licensure Exam to become a registered nurse (RN). There are two programs of study. In addition to the RN Program, GHC offers a Career Mobility Program for LPNs and paramedics to obtain an ASN degree. For more information on each of the programs of study, click on the following links.
RN Program – It is now a requirement for students to be certified nursing assistants prior to starting the nursing program.
- Fall 2016: Students accepted into the nursing program for fall 2016 must provide a copy of their CNA certification by the time classes start in August.
- Fall 2017: Applicants must provide a copy of their CNA certification along with their application to the program.
Career Mobility Programs:
Paramedic-RN-Bridge – It is now a requirement for students to be certified nursing assistants prior to start the Paramedic-RN career mobility program. Applicants must provide a copy of their CNA certification along with their application to the program.
Admission to the nursing program is a three part process: Admission to the college, acceptance to the nursing program, and submission and acceptance of required documentation. Deadlines for applications vary by program of study and admission semester.
College Application Form – printable version. Applicants can also apply for college admission online.
Nursing Application
Students are admitted to the RN program once a year in the fall. Admission is highly competitive. Applicants are ranked according to an admission score that is based on grades in the core courses, TEAS V scores, and SAT Math and Critical Reading scores.
Because the nursing program is a time consuming, challenging program with both theory and clinical components, students are encouraged to complete as many of the general academic requirements as possible prior to beginning the program in order to maximize success. The required nursing courses are nine (9) semester hours each which is the equivalent of 3 general academic courses. It is difficult to schedule additional classes with the nursing courses unless they are at night or online.
Courses that students are encouraged to complete prior to entering the nursing program include English, Math, the Biologies and PSYC 2103 Human Growth and Development. Students who enter the RN program in the fall have the opportunity to take additional courses during the summer semester between the first and second year of nursing courses. LPNs and paramedics enter the program in the spring semester. LPNs and paramedics can to take additional courses with their transition course (NURS 1103 or NURS 1104) and during the summer semester prior to beginning the remaining two nursing courses (NURS 2204 and NURS 2205).
Admission to the nursing program is a three part process. Students must be accepted to the college prior to being accepted into the nursing program. If not already enrolled at GHC, students should apply for the semester that the nursing program starts (fall semester for the RN program, spring semester for the LPN-RN and Paramedic-RN programs. Please refer to the application to the college. Once admitted to the college, students are encouraged to meet with a Nursing Advising Specialist. Click on the Advising link for information on contacting a Nursing Advising Specialist. The Advising Specialist can review which courses have been accepted from other institutions and can help students map out a plan for completing the nursing program.
Deadlines for applications vary by program of study and admission semester. Please refer to the Nursing Application (As of July 1, 2017, there is no longer an application fee for the Nursing program). On the application form is a checklist of items that must be received by the application deadline. All documentation must be received by the Office of Admissions by the application deadline. An application worksheet will be completed from this information in order to determine your admission score that is then ranked for acceptance. Be sure to provide all information requested on the application form in order for an accurate admission score to be determined. You can view the Nursing Application Worksheet to see how the admission score is calculated.
Deadlines for Application
RN Program:
- Fall Admission – Deadline is April 1st each year
Career Mobility Program:
- LPN-RN Bridge – Spring Admission – Deadline is September 1st each year
- Paramedic-RN Bridge – Spring Admission – Deadline is September 1st each year


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Her Turn
"We can't talk for five minutes without yeling at each other," says forty-year-old Valerie, the former director of a community outreach program. "Half the time I can't remember what we're arguing about; one fight blends into another.
"Mike and I decided that I'd stop working after our first child was born. I thought I'd enjoy the time with the kids--Jenna is four, and our second daughter, Caitlin, was born nine months ago. I adore them, but I wasn't prepared for how completely my life would change. I'm afraid I made the wrong decision.
"I was totally dedicated to my job. Then, when I had Jenna, suddenly I was isolated. I was nursing around the clock, doing laundry, cooking and barely getting out of my bathrobe by the afternoon. I was exhausted and weepy, and my husband was completely unsympathetic. Basically, he thought I was crazy, and didn't hesitate to tell me. I was better prepared with Caitlin, but he still has no clue what it's like to be home all day.
"Last month, when I started to tell Mike how I feel the world is passing me by, he immediately countered with, 'You think you have it hard? Try running a business in this cutthroat real-estate market.' I know he works hard. I simply want him to listen to me, to acknowledge how difficult this is
"The stupidest stuff is ammunition for a battle royal. If we're in the car and I ask him to slow down, he snaps that if I'm not happy, I can drive. We're not strapped financially, but that doesn't stop Mike from nickel-and-diming me about everything. When I wanted to buy a new coffeepot, I get a lecture that the old one is fine. He even has a fit if I buy Jenna a blueberry muffin on the way to preschool.
"Mike also thinks I spend too much time on the phone with my friends after the kids are asleep. But that's the only way I can stay in touch with people who mean a great deal to me -- people who offer me emotional support.
"We've been married for five years. In the beginning we were always on the same wavelength. We met on a blind date and talked for hours. I was struck by the way he approached the world so rationally. Little did I know that would come back to haunt me. He'd send me roses at work for no reason at all. Now, talking is like picking our way through a minefield. Mike is quick to take offense and insists that I'm criticizing him when I'm not.
"It took me a long time to find the right man. My parents' marriage was a disaster, and I had no intention of falling into the same trap. My father, a lawyer, was a cocaine addict, an alcoholic and a philanderer -- your basic catastrophe of the '70s. Chaos was just around the corner: I never knew when my parents would start screaming and throwing things. Then Dad would leave town for weeks at a time with one of his girlfriends. My mother, a housewife, was constantly on the phone, pouring her heart out to her friends. I was fifteen when they divorced, and my father died of a drug overdose when I was in my twenties. Mom remairred and moved to Oregon.
"Mike and I became serious pretty quickly. We weren't kids--Mike had been married before for five years. When he wanted to settle down right away, I thought that was great-- I was tired of commitment-phobic guys.
"We were married a year later in a small outdoor ceremony. I threw away my birth control pills, but we never imagined I'd get pregnant immediately. I had an awful time--.my hormones were way out of whack, and I sobbed uncontrollably for months. Mike didn't know what to do with me.
"The night Jenna was born is symbolic of all our problems. My water broke at 2 a.m. -- a month early. It took forever for the doctor to get back to me, and my husband refused to get out of bed. He told me in this very condescending voice to calm down, then rolled over and went back to sleep. Of course, Mike has a rational explanation for his selfishness. He says he knew we'd have a long day ahead, so he figured he was helping both of us by getting a good night's rest. He has a way of intellectualizing everything-- and making me feel small in the process.
"And then there's Mike's mother, the most overbearing woman on the planet. I have tremendous respect and sympathy for what she's gone through-- Marion survived the Holocaust, then lost her husband and had to raise two children alone. But that doesn't give her license to take over our lives. When I was nursing, she insisted that the baby needed water. Even though I told her no a hundred times, the second my back was turned, she'd pop the water bottle right in Jenna's mouth. My husband can't understand why I don't want to spend every Sunday with her.
"Mike also complains about our social life and our sex life. I don't like to leave my children with just anyone, and, frankly, a good night's sleep sometimes sounds a lot more exciting than dinner or a movie. As far as sex goes, when I'm nursing, it's always felt funny to have Mike touch my breasts.
"I'm tired of fighting, tired of trying to make this marriage work. I'm lonely. If it weren't for our kids, Mike and I wouldn't have anything in common."
His Turn
"Why does Valerie always think she's the only one working on this relationship?" asks Mike, forty-one, who co-owns a small real-estate-development company. "She's not exactly easy to live with. Anything and everything can make my wife come unglued.
"I don't think she has any idea what she sounds like. I don't appreciate her negativity and her sarcasm. In her book, I'm not contributing enough, and when I do contribute, I get it wrong. If I go grocery shopping, I brace for the inquisition afterward. 'Why did you buy this brand of macaroni and cheese?' 'Jenna doesn't like that kind of peanut butter.' Also, it would be nice if she saw things from my point of view. I have a thing about waste, for instance. If the coffeepot works, why buy a new one? And I think it's ridiculous to spend a fortune on a muffin that Jenna takes two bites of.
"Valerie is never content to stick to the problem at hand; before I realize it, I'm defending myself for something I did a year ago. She's an obsessive worrier. When she spouts her anxieties and complaints, I have to get out of there fast. She's my mother all over again.
"My parents were both in a concentration camp in Germany, and emigrated right after the war. My dad died of cancer when I was only ten, so I don't have a lot of memories of him. For my mother, daily life was always a huge burden. I know she'd been through hell, but she was always crying when I was a kid. I know she loved me and my sister, but she was never there for us. I was dying to join Little League, but she had no way to get me to practice. She could have called a friend or the coach, but she never made the effort.
"If I got mad or misbehaved, Mom would take it personally. 'Why are you doing this to me?' she'd sob. When I got older, I became the man of the house-- I'd pay the bills, do the chores, and try to mediate between my older sister and my mother. Believe me, I know how difficult my mother can be, but I feel a huge obligation to include her in our lives. Valerie's being selfish about our Sunday afternoons.
"I met my first wife in college. I was crushed when she walked out, but it left me determined to make my next relationship work. I fell in love with Valerie the minute I saw her. She's gorgeous, she laughed at my jokes, and we could talk for hours without getting bored. Even now, though we fight all the time, I still believe we're meant for each other.
"She's right when she links our problems to her first pregnancy. Valerie was a maniac, and I just tried to hold on until the baby was born. I still don't think I acted inappropriately when her water broke with Jenna. There was nothing I could do for her until the contractions started; at least one of us needed to get a decent night's sleep.
"Valerie's anxieties get worse and worse. I try to be helpful, but she goes on like a broken record. She tells me I'm not there for her; I feel the same way about her. She's got plenty of time to talk to her friends all night, but no time for me, no time for sex, no time even to go out for dinner. Valerie has to stop blaming me for everything, or I'm out of this marriage."
The Counselor's Turn
"I could hear Karen and Mike bickering in my waiting room," said the counselor. "Theirs is a classic example of how unresolved arguments can fuel a bitterness that festers and destroys intimacy. Valerie's and Mike's constant anger pushed aside any positive feelings they had for each other and erased their joy in their children and in their relationship.
"Ironically, Valerie and Mike had similar complaints. Articulate and outspoken, they both felt ignored and unloved. They desperately needed to learn how to listen, and how to express anger without blame and how to really be a couple. To protect herself from the destructive environment in which she had grown up, Valerie developed a tough outer shell. She demanded constant support from Mike, and when she felt she wasn't getting it, she became anxious and even more demanding. Like her mother, Valerie used the phone as a lifeline to her friends. She was totally unaware of the impression she had on her husband. She didn't hear the sarcasm or criticism in her voice and failed to understand that she was making no room in her life for her husband.
"When Valerie brooded or became panicky, Mike would try to pressure her into his solution. When she resisted, he retreated. This was how he had reacted to his mother's helplessness and hysteria. Mike needed to develop empathy for Valerie and to accept the fact that her approach differed from his. Until he did this, their problem-solving would be stalled by power struggles.
"After they spent several sessions blaming each other, I tried to break the stalemate: 'You have a choice,' I said. 'You can continue to squabble, or you can try to see things from the other's point of view. Until you both emotionally commit to this marriage, I can't help you.'
"'When we left last week,' Mike said at our next session, 'Valerie and I walked home holding hands. I can't tell you how long it's been since we did something simple and tender like that.'
"The next few months proved fruitful. Valerie worked on learning to calm herself before she speaks. I asked her to think about specific physical sensations she feels when she gets anxious. She noticed a tightening in the back of her neck, and has learned to take deep breaths or leave the room for a few minutes to compose herself. I told Mike to point out -- nicely -- as soon as she starts speaking in her hammering, blaming voice.
"I taught both of them a listening technique: sitting quietly while one party expresses feelings, then reflecting those feelings back without judgment. Like many women, Valerie needed her husband to pay attention but not necessarily offer a solution. He became more responsive when she asked him to just listen for a few minutes. Since she can now talk to her husband, Valerie no longer needs so much time on the telephone.
"As the bickering ceased, it became easier for Mike and Valerie to compromise. Mike agreed to pay more attention when his mother tries to steamroll her ideas over Valerie--though now that Valerie feels more attended to, her mother-in-law's visits are less of an issue. In addition, Valerie realized that she really missed her career. After discussing it with Mike, she has made plans to resume work after Caitlin's second birthday.
"Valerie's fear that she and Mike had little in common has also eased since she found a college student to baby-sit. Last month, on the spur of the moment, Valerie called Mike at work and said, 'I just read that airfares to Paris are the lowest in years. Go buy two tickets for a five-day trip--before I chicken out.'
"'Paris proved we still enjoy each other's company,' Valerie reported. 'If we work hard to make sure both of us get our needs met, we have faith that we won't lose ourselves in the process.'"
"Can This Marriage Be Saved?" is the most enduring women's magazine feature in the world. This month's case is based on interviews with clients and information from the files of Jane Greer, Ph.D., a marriage and sex therapist in New York City. The story told here it true, although names and other details have been changed to conceal identities.
Originally published in Ladies' Home Journal, November 1998.


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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies combed the Hollywood Hills and the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday for a suspect in the killing of a Texas man found dead in a motel room nearly two weeks ago.
Acting on a tip, authorities fanned out before dawn in the rugged hills above the Greek Theatre and west into Runyon Canyon in the hunt for Oscar Bridges, sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said.
Later, deputies fanned out along Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame as a search dog sniffed at the stars on the sidewalk.
More than 50 deputies were involved in the manhunt, but by early afternoon there still was no sign of Bridges, Nishida said.
"They're searching different businesses. They're going to motels. They're looking up in the hills," she said.
Bridges is wanted in connection with the Jan. 23 stabbing death of Robert Brewer, 21, at a motel in the unincorporated Westmont area of the county. The suspect is considered armed and dangerous.
"We've got a dozen horses. We've got dogs. We've got a SWAT team. This is an extensive search," Nishida said.
Los Angeles police aided the manhunt, which also included officers in off-road vehicles and helicopters. Authorities were searching a rugged section of the Santa Monica Mountains, interrupted at times by neighborhoods tucked into canyons.
Runyon Canyon is one of the city's most popular hiking areas.
Homicide detectives passed out flyers, knocked on doors, questioned local merchants and motel managers, and spoke to people in a homeless encampment.
Bridges, also known as "Rick," frequented motels in the Hollywood and West Hollywood areas, sheriff's officials said.
A staging area for the search was set up in a parking lot near the Hollywood Bowl.
Sheriff's officials described Bridges, 54, as a registered sex offender with a long criminal history.
He was described as black, 6 feet 2, and 180 pounds, with black hair worn in dreadlocks.


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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Germany's finance minister visited Greece on Thursday amid massive police security, insisting there was "no convenient shortcut" for the country's debt problems despite an alarming increase in poverty and unemployment during the crisis.
The 70-year-old Wolfgang Schaeuble is widely seen in Greece as an enforcer of the country's harsh austerity measures and has been often singled out for criticism by protesters.
Security concerns over his one-day visit — which occurred a day after Parliament narrowly agreed to thousands of public-sector job cuts — were such that 4,000 police were deployed and demonstrations were banned throughout much of central Athens.
Schaeuble, on his first visit to Greece since its financial crisis broke out in 2009, said the country had taken "big steps" to try and balance its budget. But he added that the debt-strapped country had little choice other than to press ahead with painful reforms.
"There is no way around structural and fiscal reforms that are currently being carried out. The only way to achieve sustainable growth is to make the economy competitive and reduce public deficits," Schaeuble said, speaking in English.
"There is no convenient shortcut. We Germans know this. Ten years ago we were the sick man of Europe. We had to take a long and painful path to become the very center of growth and anchor of stability in Europe."
Schaeuble discouraged talk of Greece receiving a second write-off — or 'haircut' — on its public debt following the massive debt restructuring deal agreed with private sector bondholders last year. Most of Greece's debt is now owed to other eurozone governments in the form of bailout loans.
"I would like to ask all of you not to continue with this discussion about a new haircut, as it's not in your interest," he said. He argued that writing off some of the bailout loans Greece owes would undermine confidence in Europe's rescue programs by proving they are not reliable.
"You will destroy any confidence ... If you take guarantees and then you are discussing a haircut — then you are a liar. And I'm not a liar."
He did, however, leave open the possibility of more aid for Greece.
During a press conference later in the day, Schaeuble conceded that if by late 2014 Greece has met its reforms commitments and achieved a primary budget surplus — which excludes the cost of debt servicing — "then we can talk, if it is necessary, about more assistance."
He did not elaborate.
Demonstrations were banned throughout Athens during Schaeuble's trip. The German minister met conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and other senior Greek officials, and later Thursday signed a cooperation agreement between Greece and the state-owned German bank KfW to help small and medium-sized companies.
Police placed parliament and the city's main Syntagma Square off limits to protesters, using tighter security measures than those reserved for heads of government. Busy downtown subway stations were also closed for the day, while traffic restrictions were imposed along the route from Athens International Airport into the capital.
Tough austerity measures have helped keep Greece in the euro but unemployment has surged to 27 percent since the country was first bailed out in 2010 by other euro countries and the International Monetary Fund.
Left-wing opposition leader Alexis Tsipras accused Samaras of trying to help his fellow conservatives in Germany ahead of the federal election there in September.
"Mr. Samaras is acting like a manager for the (German) Christian Democrat party, as Mr. Schaeuble tours the countryside," Tsipras said in parliament Wednesday.
"He is coming here to support his catastrophic policies."
Parliament late Wednesday narrowly approved new austerity measures, demanded by rescue creditors, which will mean mass firings and transfers of workers in Greece's bloated public sector. Unions responded with a new round of large protests.
Several hundred striking municipal workers held a peaceful afternoon rally in Athens after Schaeuble's departure, chanting "Schaeuble out, IMF out."
Tsipras' left-wing Syriza party had described the police's banning of demonstrations during the visit as "fascist and undemocratic."
Nicholas Paphitis in Athens, Geir Moulson in Berlin and Raf Casert in Brussels contributed.