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It sounds so good.
You trade Magic for McCourt and how can it be a bad deal?
But then you know me, Clayton Kershaw goes eight wonderful innings and all I can think about is Jonathan Broxton warming up.
I hear Magic Johnson's name and I'm wondering who picks Nancy Bea Hefley up off the floor knowing Lon Rosen is attached at the hip to Magic.
You remember Rosen, who was Magic's agent and who now works at Magic Johnson Enterprises. He worked for Frank McCourt's Dodgers, scaling back Hefley's work on the organ while turning up the volume on the music in Dodger Stadium and silencing Ross Porter.
He helped come up with the slogan "This is L.A. Baseball." Got paid for it, too. He also took notice of the Angels' Rally Monkey and explored the idea of the Dodgers' having their own mascot for the first time in franchise history.
Too bad he was fired before he got the chance to put together a Rally Dog campaign.
Now maybe Magic is smart enough to put a leash on Rosen and allow him nowhere near Dodger Stadium again.
The thing is, as good as Magic-for-McCourt looks right now, we just don't know.
We know we love the guy as a basketball player, but not so much as a talk show host. We know almost nothing about the Guggen-whatever thing that will own the team.
Reports are the Guggen-whatever paid $2 billion for the Dodgers, which is sickening. It's not my money, but the Parking Lot Attendant leaves a winner, and it's never good when a loser comes out ahead.
There had been talk before the final process that the other two groups insisted that the parking lots be included in the final sale, but Magic was not so insistent.
Strike one.
Magic's smile doesn't do a thing for me as Dodgers owner if I have to see McCourt's face again.
Maybe all that matters is getting the team, and Guggen-whatever had to play the game the way McCourt wanted it played. I can't imagine doing business with McCourt. Guggen-whatever, it would seem, will be doing so again if McCourt is free to mess with land that skirts the parking lots.
Strike two.
Now I think I know what everyone of you out there is saying right now: "Hooray!"
Nothing else matters beyond the fact McCourt is gone.
But most of you were saying the same thing when Fox sold the franchise and the McCourts promised a family experience.
And for some it took almost seven years and the McCourts' announcing publicly they were getting a divorce before everyone figured out just what they were like.
As for Magic, he owned a minority piece of the Lakers, and how much of a role did he play in the Lakers' day-to-day affairs?
He sold his interest, and now here he is again as minority owner of a baseball team as if that's the big news.
But before going all gushy about Magic, what about the folks who will actually be writing out the checks, the Guggen-whatever and how it might conduct business?
Anyone who spends $2 billion is probably going to expect a standing ovation and the red carpet when it arrives.
Maybe it's just me, but I would hope to greet the Guggen-whatever with tough questions.
Was this primarily a TV network buy? Is Guggen-whatever going to be any different than Fox owning the Dodgers? Why would you agree to allow McCourt anywhere near Dodger Stadium?
If someone spends $2 billion — and who spends $2 billion? — you would think they're not going to mess this up. As it is, they probably think $2 billion proves them worthy to own the Dodgers.
But it's going to take a whole lot more than that to be successful. Good judgment would be a great start.
Can't wait to see whom they hire in public relations, the McCourts never getting it right, and we'll learn a lot about the Guggen-whatever from the way it deals with the public.
Former NBA, NHL and MLB executive Stan Kasten is listed as part of the group. He was Atlanta Braves president during the height of the team's success, leaving all baseball decisions to general manager John Schuerholz.
He also worked as president of the Washington Nationals. No reason why he can't be successful here so long as the Guggen-whatever is also worthy.
Instead of Magic, that's where we have to start. Just what are we getting in Dodgers ownership?
I like the fact that Arte Moreno walks the Angel Stadium concourses, the fans telling him the beer is warm and he takes notes.
I like the fact there are rumors that Vinny Del Negro might be out as Clippers coach and Donald Sterling stops partying long enough to address the issue.
I like the fact that Jim Buss went on the radio last week taking questions from fans.
I've never liked the recluse that is Philip Anschutz, the Denver resident leaving Tim Leiweke here as his spokesman.
When it came to building a football stadium, Leiweke told us he could do it, but he had to wait for the nod from Anschutz. I wish we could have seen that nod.
How frustrated are Kings' fans not knowing if Anschutz gives a hoot beyond financial considerations whether their team wins?
What's the downside of being skeptical and asking tough questions that might become annoyingly persistent?
Does it really matter what Magic says, or the former NBA, NHL and MLB executive? Just who is in charge here?
Do you really want to be surprised again and find yourself duped by a corporation like Fox that really never cared, or owners like the McCourts who always seemed to be out to an expensive lunch?
Sorry, but I'm already looking beyond Magic's smile.


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Wright, Cunti Take Early Series Leads over Tokarski, Barberio
N.A. Juniors Playoff Game Night: 3/31
Opening night of Round 2 in the CHL ... Cunti sets up game winner ... Screaming Eagles use 4 OTs to beat Quebec ... Tokarski shines, but Spokane comes up short ... Fadden another multipoint night.
Omaha Lancers 6 @ Fargo Force 1 (Regular Season)
D Luke Witkowski, FGO: 1-0-1, -2, 0 PIM, 2 SOG, *Second Star*
Season totals: 54 GP, 6-16-22, +30, 114 PIM
Fargo had a chance to clinch home ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs, but fell two points behind Omaha as the West Division's 3 seed. Both teams have one game remaining. Witkowski has a three game point streak.
QMJHL Playoffs – Conference Semi-Finals
Rimouski Oceanic 2 @ Moncton Wildcats 1
Rimouski leads Best of 7 series 1-0
W/C Luca Cunti, RIM: 0-1-1, +1, 0 PIM, 1 SOG
Playoff totals: 5 GP, 2-3-5, +4, 6 PIM
Season totals: 57 GP, 20-25-45, +10, 32 PIM
D Mark Barberio, MCT: 0-0-0, -2, 2 PIM, 0 SOG
Playoff totals: 6 GP, 0-4-4, +6, 4 PIM
Season totals: 66 GP, 15-30-45, +9, 42 PIM
Cunti has points in all five Rimouski playoff games thus far, and set up Logan MacMillan (Ducks '07 first rounder) with the game winner late in the third period. Moncton's David Savard (undrafted) had tied the game for Moncton early in the final period. Game 2 is Saturday night.
Cape Breton Screaming Eagles 3 @ Quebec Remparts 2 (4 OT)
Cape Breton leads Best of 7 series 1-0
D Michael Ward, CB: 0-0-0, +1, 0 PIM, 2 SOG
Playoff totals: 5 GP, 1-1-2, +1, 8 PIM
Season totals: 65 GP, 7-27-34, +9, 105 PIM
Robert Slaney (undrafted) scored at the 12 minute mark of the fourth overtime to give Cape Breton home ice advantage in this second round series. CB is 5-0 in the playoffs. Game 2 is Sunday.
WHL Playoffs – Conference Semi-Finals
Kelowna Rockets 3 @ Tri-City Americans 4
Tri-City leads Best of 7 series 1-0
C Mitch Fadden, TC: 0-2-2, +1, 0 PIM, *Third Star*
Playoff totals: 6 GP, 2-9-11, +4, 2 PIM
Season totals: 63 GP, 37-39-76, +24, 49 PIM
TC captain Taylor Procyshen (undrafted) scored with under two minutes to go to give the Americans the first lead in the series. TC had a 3-1 lead in the third period that was nullified when Tyson Barrie (Second Star) scored at the 6:58 mark for the Rockets. Kruise Reddick, who played for the Lightning in Traverse City last summer, was First Star with a goal and two assists. Fadden is now tied for second in WHL playoff scoring behind Tyler Ennis' 13 points. Mikael Backlund (Flames '07 first rounder) did not play for Kelowna due to a lower body injury. Game 2 is Saturday.
Spokane Chiefs 1 @ Vancouver Giants 3
Vancouver leads Best of 7 series 1-0
G Dustin Tokarski, SPO: Loss, 36 saves on 38 shots, *Third Star*
Playoff totals: 6 GP, 4-2-0, 1.84 GAA, .944 sv%
Season totals: 54 GP, 34-18-0-2, 1.97 GAA, .937 sv%, 7 shutouts
C James Wright, VAN: 0-0-0, +2, 0 PIM
Playoff totals: 5 GP, 1-3-4, +4, 4 PIM
Season totals: 71 GP, 21-26-47, +26, 54 PIM
Gary Nunn (undrafted) deflected a point shot over Tokarski's blocker on the power play mid-way through the third period to snap a 1-1 tie and send top-seeded Vancouver to a 1-0 series lead. James Wright had his four game point streak snapped, but finished plus-2 for the Giants. The press in the Northwest has said if Spokane is to win this series, Tokarski has to stand on his head and he did just that, stopping 36 shots to Tyson Sexsmith's (Sharks) 18 for Vancouver. Nunn and Sexsmith were the game's First and Second stars, respectively. This is a match-up of the last two Memorial Cup winners. Both Sexsmith and Tokarski have backstopped their teams to championships, and Tokarski beat out Sexsmith to get a spot on Canada's WJC team last December. Vancouver had an empty net goal to close out the scoring. Game 2 is Saturday.
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Sarah DeVan
Class of 2009
Major/Minor: Human Development
Sarah DeVan '09 is her family's second-generation Shorewoman—her mother, Sandy Green DeVan '78, and two aunts, Barbara Green Kurgansky and Tracy DeVan Wolf '77, also attended WC—but Sarah wasn't drawn to the school just because of the family connection.
A human development major, Sarah chose Washington College because she felt it would give her the best preparation for a career in education.
"They send you into the schools really early here—freshman year for elementary education students," she said.
During her field experience at Garnett Elementary School in Chestertown, Sarah observed a gap in the academic achievements of students of different races, motivating her to minor in black studies to gain a better understanding of the discrepancy and to research solutions.
In the spring of 2008, Sarah received a Frederick Douglass Fellowship grant, an award funding student research in the area of African-American studies.
"I wanted to connect the black studies minor and human development major. I was hoping to have learned about the minority achievement gap in the classroom and I hadn't yet," she said.
For her project, Sarah evaluated standardized test scores from Maryland, Kent County, and Garnett Elementary School. She also compared early reading experiences and family life and studied some programs that have shown success in closing the achievement gap.
"I really enjoyed reading when I was growing up, exploring the world through books and, as a future educator, I thought it was such a shame that not all students felt the same love of reading," she explained.
Sarah received a grant from the College's Society of Junior Fellows to continue her research the following summer with a project called "'Reading Together': A Pilot Program to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap."
As part of the project, Sarah tutored African-American students, identified by local reading specialists, who were performing below grade level.
"The education program at Washington College has prepared me to earn my master's degree as a reading specialist so I can help struggling readers and impact the achievement gap in the classroom," she said.
Before beginning her career in the classroom, Sarah traveled to Boston, Orlando and Washington, D.C. to attend several conferences as the Student Vice-President of Pi Lambda Theta International.
Sarah, who served as president of the WC chapter of the honor society for education studies, was appointed the undergraduate representative for the organization for her senior year.
After graduation, Sarah returned to Harford County, Md., where she grew up, to teach fifth grade. She's also pursuing graduate studies in Education Leadership and Administration.
"I feel really grateful to have the opportunities I've had at Washington College." she said. "I'm doing exactly what I dreamed I'd do and loving it!


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Ghost town? I don't think so.
Agenda, Kansas, is an important place name in my family tree. During the 1880s, my great-great-grandfathers, Ashbel Mapes and Almus Hill had neighboring farms just a few miles from this prairie village. Their children married, and to make a long story short, here I am today!
Agenda has a population of less than 100 people. Huge grain bins tower above everything else in town. The streets are not paved, but there's a pretty good sidewalk along the front of the business district.
The ice cream shop is delightfully old-fashioned with a long wooden counter and a pressed metal ceiling. A friendly lady was tending the shop. After we ate our ice cream, she took us down to the small museum/library at the end of the street and let us inside. She also told us to be sure to walk outside through the back door of the ice cream shop.
The back side of the ice cream shop opens to a pleasant little park. If it had not been so hot that day (over 100°), it would have been nice to sit at an outside table with our snack.
The park may be some empty lots that have been reclaimed and repurposed. A local resident has done an interesting landscaping project. He painted a "hills-and-sky" mural on the side of a building on one end of the park. The stream in the painting merges with a real stream that runs across the park and ends in a fountain.
Birds love this sheltered, shady spot, and their songs fill the air. Frogs like it here, too. This little fellow was soaking himself near the foot bridge.
I took the rest of these photos in the small Agenda museum. I attempted to photograph some of the museum's interesting old photographs, but it was challenging. I had a lot of trouble with reflections on the glass, and my photos didn't turn out too great. But irregardless, here are a few of my pictures, showing Agenda in its early days -- a little prairie town, fortunate to be on the railroad.
The store in the photo above was lost in a fire. The business district today is not the business district that my great-great grandparents knew.
The USA Service Roll is from World War II. It's about four feet long. It probably hung on the wall of a store in Agenda. Or maybe it was displayed in the same building where it is hanging today -- the Agenda State Bank, which serves as the museum. The main room of the bank is now a small library, and the vault has become a storage closet.
The museum also has some records for the Agenda cemetery, including a notebook of funeral records and a listing of the location of graves.
Agenda is listed in a book of Kansas ghost towns, but it's not dead yet. I saw evidence that its residents are improving their little town and preserving its history. They are planning a 125-year-anniversary celebration and homecoming for next summer. I think it would be interesting to attend.


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I have to admit something - even though I am still deep down a WWE fan, I'm probably one of the most jaded you'll find. If not for force of habit, I might've "lost interest" the minute I left the company.
If I had, I'd have missed quite possibly the best moment on Raw in a long, long time - a moment that could become one the most important of the 2010s: Monday night's promo between The Miz and MVP (check it out for yourself).
It doesn't even have anything to do with the content, per se. Yes, most of what they said was a shoot. But in the process of using that info as storyline fodder, both Miz and MVP showed more character depth than most of the roster has in months.
And it could be the moment that launches both men into the upper echelon for good.
For once, people now have a reason to care about Mike Mizanin as more than just the reality star goofball who puts himself over at everyone's expense and causes trouble everywhere he goes.
Now, the general public is seeing what those of us who have been behind the scenes at WWE already know - his road to success hasn't been easy.
Fans hated him. Superstars hated him more. His in-ring talent was limited. People resented him and where he came from, and used every little excuse they could to bury him.
He kept going, because he wanted to be a WWE Superstar. Love or hate the guy, I can tell you this much about Mike Mizanin: When it comes to desire, he's much more John Cena than Brock Lesnar, so to speak.
I know the feeling. I always wanted to be in the wrestling industry too. And even though my path took me down the journalistic route, I can identify with what Mike Mizanin has gone through to make "The Miz" a WWE Superstar.
After he delivered the promo of his life on Monday night, 15,000 Minnesotans did too, because they had no problem chanting along with his "I'm Awesome" catchphrase.
All because he finally showed his true colors.
And the truth is, he has worked hard and is leaps and bounds better than the guy who lost Tough Enough IV to Daniel Puder (remember him?) in late-2004. He's shown it in the ring by winning the U.S. title and both halves of the Unified tag team titles, though not when they were unified. He's shown it by finding success on all three brands. And he's shown it in his personality; when I worked for wwe.com, "The Dirt Sheet" was always one of our top-streamed videos of the week (and, to be honest, also usually the most entertaining).
He's built the sundae, so to speak - and now, this feud with MVP might just be the cherry that completes it.
Of course, MVP had a hand in that too. Ever since he became "fan-friendly," as he put it, he has been sorely lacking something. As a heel, his ego and his killer instinct were his entire character, but since moving to Raw he's been just another dude in the midcard shuffle. Now, he's back in the game.
But on a show that has relied on decade-old nostalgia as of late, the MVP/Miz brouhaha had me harkening back to a decade-old rivalry that actually was great for both parties: The Rock vs. Triple-H, circa DX vs. The Nation.
Miz could easily be The Rock - a guy who came into WWE with much fanfare but was hated by the fans until he developed a personality and/or catchphrase that made him cool.
Likewise, MVP could be Triple-H - a guy who came in as a "holier than thou" character, had some midcard success, and floundered a bit until he developed an edge.
Throw in a secondary title to feud over, and voila! A recipe for success.
That Rock/Triple-H feud - highlighted by a tremendous ladder match at SummerSlam 98 - generated a lot of buzz and made both of their careers.
If the Miz and MVP can knock one out of the park when they finally step into the ring, they could do the same exact thing.
Louie Dee
PWI Contributing Writer
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
How a (reality) star was born on Monday's RAW
2 comments:
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated said...
Couldn't agree with you more, Lou. I thought that whole segment brought both guys to a new level (esp. Miz, he does a helluva JBL imitation). Not so sure I'm ready to christen MVP/Miz as the next Rock/Triple-H, but i see your point.
--Frank Krewda
- January 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- Michael said...
This was easily the best part of RAW. I used to be one of the people who hated the Miz. He was a stupid character when he first appeared. Now he is the most interesting wrestler on the roster. He has done an amazing job. I hope WWE realizes what they have here.
- January 14, 2010 at 11:29 AM
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Mememolly's journey to the anchor desk
We knew Molly, aka mememolly, way back when, when she was a student in Canada and helped us launch our site there in 2007. Now she's moved to the Big Apple and has a regular gig with Rocketboom as an on-air personality. Here she tells Creator's Corner about the transition from bedroom vlogger to pro anchor, and how she's come to get used to all that planning.
How did you catch the eye of Rocketboom?
The first time I spoke to Andrew Baron was in June 2009 when I received an email asking if I had any interest in being Rocketboom's anchor. I had started watching the show when Caitlin (thehill88) hosted it earlier in the year and was definitely interested.
I think what Rocketboom found attractive was how many places they could find me online. I maintain active accounts on a number of different social media sites in many media. Beyond YouTube and Twitter, I love Dailybooth, Lookbook, Last.fm and even gaming sites like Kongregate. I've been told that the video that got people's attention was one I made in 2008 called "The Internet."
What kinds of adjustments have you had to make, going from your own vlogging style to a more "formal" anchor role?
The first few videos I shot were pretty bad; I had absolutely no experience in actual production besides my high school's digital broadcasting class, where I read the morning announcements once a week.
When vlogging, you may only do one take and make everything up as you go along. Jump cuts are also very forgiving. Whereas when shooting a show with a script, you have to read accurately, from prompts or by memorizing the lines. It's harder than it seems.
I also had to adjust to the many levels of approval. I first present the video concept, then the script is approved. After that, we shoot the episode. Drafts of the video receive notes as it is being edited and then the final version is approved and published according to a schedule that we prepare weeks in advance.
I have never stuck to a schedule or style for my personal videos, but I'm used to the process at Rocketboom now and it helps to produce higher quality videos.
What do you do to prepare before you go "on air" for Rocketboom?
I drink a glass of water and put on translucent powder. I also make sure I haven't worn the same clothes in a recent video and sometimes Leah D'Emilio and I get all hopped up on sugar!
What advice would you give to other YouTube users who want to make a career in online video?
The best advice I could give is to develop your personality and to network. 'Networking' is really just a clinical term for 'making friends'. It can be pretty daunting to first approach people, but once you become involved in a community, you'll encounter more and more opportunities.
When opportunities present themselves, it's important to listen but also understand that you need to be comfortable and careful not to be taken advantage of in any way. I'm still getting acquainted with the industry side of online video, but the people aren't so different from the people I met early on.
Which meme that you've covered still blows your mind as unbelievably weird or fun?
I think my favorite Know Your Meme episodes are "Autotune" which guest-starred Weird Al Yankovic -- that was an exciting day in the office -- and "Om Nom Nom." Otherwise, I like the "Rollercoaster Chess," "Geddan" and "Sexually Oblivious Rhino" memes.
Tell people something they wouldn't know about yourself.
I was especially shy and logical when I was younger. I actually wanted to be an accountant. I started making videos when I was about 16 and it changed my perspective towards doing what I enjoyed and doing what I had decided was respectable.
I moved to Ottawa, Canada, where I was encouraged to try creative things in an academic environment. In the last year of high school, I took my first real art class and the following year, I ended up attending the Emily Carr University of Art and Design on a scholarship.
Somewhere between finishing a year in Vancouver and today, I moved to New York to work for Rocketboom. I've been incredibly lucky to have so many opportunities, and I'm extremely grateful to everyone who's had a hand in that.


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Huckabee admits he's opposed to gay marriage, in part, because of the "ick factor"
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In an upcoming New Yorker profile, set to run in the magazine's June 28 publication, Mike Huckabee admitted that part of his opposition to gay marriage stems from "the ick factor," adding that "the fact is two men in a relationship, two women in a relationshiop, biologically, that doesn't work the same."As Media Matters has noted, Huckabee has previously drawn "parallels between homosexuality" and drug use, incest and polygamy.
From the Ariel Levy's upcoming June 28 New Yorker profile of Huckabee:
One afternoon in Jerusalem, while Huckabee was eating a chocolate croissant in the lounge of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, I asked him to explain his rationale for opposing gay rights. "I do believe that God created male and female and intended for marriage to be the relationship of the two opposite sexes," he said. "Male and female are biologically compatible to have a relationship. We can get into the ick factor, but the fact is two men in a relationship, two women in a relationship, biologically, that doesn't work the same."
I asked him if he had any arguments that didn't have to do with God or ickiness. "There are some pretty startling studies that show if you want to end poverty it's not education and race, it's monogamous marriage," he said. "Many studies show that children who grow up in a healthy environment where they have both a mother and a father figure have both a healthier outlook and a different perspective from kids who don't have the presence of both."
In fact, a twenty-five-year study recently published by the American Academy of Pediatrics concluded that children brought up by lesbians were better adjusted than their peers. And, of course, nobody has been able to study how kids fare with married gay parents. "You know why?" Huckabee said. "Because no culture in the history of mankind has ever tried to redefine marriage."
But in the Old Testament polygamy was commonplace. The early Christians considered marriage an arrangement for those without the self-discipline to live in chastity, as Christ did. Marriage was not deemed a sacrament by the Church until the twelfth century. And, before 1967, marriage was defined in much of the United States as a relationship between a man and a woman of the same race.
Regardless of the past, wouldn't Huckabee be curious to know whether allowing gay people to marry had a positive or negative effect on children and society?
"No, not really. Why would I be?" he said, and laughed.
Because saying that something ought to be a certain way simply because that's the way it supposedly has always been is an awful lot like saying "because we said so." And Huckabee is supposed to be the guy who questions everything.
(h/t to Talking Points Memo for first reporting on Huckabee's remarks)
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WFP has launched a groundbreaking programme which harnesses the power of leading multinational companies and focuses it on the job of ending hunger and malnutrition among children in the developing world.
Project Laser Beam
What is it?
An alliance between WFP, four companies and GAIN to end malnutrition in a given country.
By focusing their expertise and assets on eliminating the underlying causes of malnutrition, with an emphasis on nutrition, food security, health and hygiene in five priority areas:
- improving hygiene and parasite control
- increasing micronutrient intake
- improving complementary feeding practices
- improving treatment of acute malnutrition
- improving household food security
Over the next five years.
DSM, Heinz, Kraft Foods and Unilever – all of which are leading the nutritional agenda globally. Other companies will be encouraged to join as the project unfolds.
Initially in two pilot countries in Asia.
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The CGI is a non-partisan platform for action which provides the means through which global leaders from the private sector, NGOs and governments come up with innovative solutions to growing global challenges. The core of CGI's mission is to enable specific and measurable commitments to action.
Irreversible effects
"The effects of under-nutrition are irreversible if a child under two does not get enough nutritious food. This makes it nearly criminal for the world not to act together."
WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran. Read more
ROME -- Project Laser Beam (PLB), announced by former US President Bill Clinton at a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, will combine the know-how of WFP with the business expertise of private sector partners, such as Unilever, DSM, Kraft Foods, Heinz and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). Read news release
Over the course of the five-year initiative, WFP will raise a collective US$50 million from these and other companies.
"With the numbers of hungry going up, we need the private sector to join us in the fight," said WFP's Executive Director Josette Sheeran. "It's a battle that's too big for any one player but together we can find new ways to radically reduce malnutrition."
As a first step, PLB will conduct an analysis in two Asian countries of crucial gaps in nutrition, food security and hygiene. Individual companies and UN agencies will determine which gaps they can fill, with an overall aim of producing a scalable, sustainable and replicable model for eradicating malnutrition.
WFP Executive Director Sheeran called on other prospective partners in the public and private sector to join the initiative and fight hunger. [9 ways business can help fight hunger]
What is malnutrition? - How WFP fights malnutrition
Project Laser Beam: participating companies
Unilever, with operations in 100 countries and products available in 50 more, is one of the world's leading consumer goods companies with a portfolio of foods, home and personal care brands. Unilever became one of the first companies to establish a partnership with WFP in 2006 with a programme to improve nutrition and health of poor school children around the world. In 2008 it provided 16 million meals, feeding 76,000 children across 6 countries providing them with their primary meal of the day.
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Hello fellow sopranos fans,
In season 2, the episode Funhouse, Tony is in an indian restaurant smoking his cigar and eating . In that scene, some indian trance/techno music is being played, i dont know what it is, who its by, etc.
Has anyone ever heard that song, and if so, where could i find it? Who is it by?
Please let me know
thanks again
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I've been wondering that myself. They don't play very much of it before it kind of melts into "Thru and Thru" by the Stones. If I'm not mistaken, that song is actually played at least one more time elsewhere in the series, I noticed it the other day.
Still can't help you, though. Sorry.
Still can't help you, though. Sorry.
What violin?!
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that same song plays in "Eloise" when Gene Pontecorvo is intimidating the juror at the 7-11
Taps, lights out, 2200 hours. What's missing? Give up? Television.


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You may think of painting walls in different rooms of your home, arts and crafts but you may not have considered painting a metal front door. This type of door gets drilled by the sun every day and the metal may get very hot. Through time, the pain is going to start peeling off your door. In just a couple years after painting it, the door may look like a cracked egg all over. When others come to your home, they won't be all too thrilled. Some people say that lighter paint is going to help with this.
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A Clarkson research team led by Andrea Ferro, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Philip Hopke, the Bayard D. Clarkson Distinguished Professor and director of Clarkson's Institute for a Sustainable Environment and Center for Air Resources Engineering & Science (CARES), worked with Air Innovations to test the device. The team received funding in 2006 from the Syracuse Center of Excellence's Technology Application & Demonstration Program and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to complete the research.
HEPAirX fits into a child's bedroom window; it filters out indoor air pollutants such as dust mites, pollen, cat dander, mold spores and other allergens many times an hour, while simultaneously filtering additional outdoor air supplied to the room. The device heats cold winter air and cools warm summer air as it filters into the bedroom to keep the temperature constant.
Clarkson conducted two separate studies of 20 and 30 children with physician-diagnosed asthma that revealed significant improvements in lung function and reductions in inflammation when using the device. Those children who used HEPAirX while they slept at night continued to show improvement even after several weeks of not using it.
Following feedback from the first study, the Clarkson team suggested modifications to HEPAirX to make it smaller and more energy efficient and user-friendly while maintaining performance.
"It's been rewarding to work on something that has a direct impact on people's lives," Ferro said. "You can't control everything, but you can provide clean air when a person is sleeping. If they're breathing clean air while they sleep, it helps them throughout the day, even though they're not in that clean environment all the time."
"It was a pleasure for us to work with Drs. Hopke and Ferro and their team of graduate students on these projects," said Air Innovations President and CEO Michael Wetzel, P.E., a 1988 Clarkson graduate. "They were extremely responsive to our needs and those of the subjects in the studies. We look forward to continuing to work with Clarkson University as we develop new products and technologies for the HVAC market."
Air Innovations (www.airinnovations.com) designs and builds specialty air conditioning, refrigeration and environmental control solutions for end-users and original equipment manufacturers around the world. The company's systems are custom designs that feature close tolerance control of temperature (to +/- 0.01°C), humidity control (to +/-0.5% stability), filtration and pressurization, and can be configured into a variety of spaces. AI's capabilities range from concept development to prototyping, from sample runs to mass production. Over the past several years, AI and its personnel have been the recipients of numerous awards of distinction, including Engineer of the Year (HPAC Magazine 2011), Inc. 5000 (2011, 2010), Manufacturer's Association of CNY Hall of Fame Award (2011) and CenterState CEO Economic Champion (2010-2013).
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Plus I might catch French if I stay there too long
Think carefully when turning down a lady (if I may be so bold as to call Elvalia a lady)...I remember turning down Delyth Morgan in year 8 at school...a decision I made much too lightly now I look back...just because I was in training for the Conker tournament. I didn't get any more offers until year 10!
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If not for freedom of speech ideas would never get the proper checking and criticism, this transforms society into fertile environment for thought and progress offering the full potential of the entire society's collective intellectual power.
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Hi Guys,
I have a problem while compiling the systemload-plugin on my archlinux.
For some reasons i had to use the graphical installer of xfce 220.127.116.11 so I installed it into /opt/xfce, but now i try to compile the systemload-plugin (downloaded from http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel- … oad-plugin (the 0.4.1 release)). The problem is that there is an error while executing ./configure:
config.status: error: cannot find input file: panel-plugin/Makefile.in
I was asking Dr. Google for help and also try to solve the problem with solutions of similar problems in this forum, but no success, does anybody of you has a clue howto fix that?
I don't think this is the problem, since the Makefile.in file is in the archive.
Damn it... thanks found the error.... thats the problem when you try to solve such problems at night a bit sleep and voila found the problem... this §$%" xarchiver (0.4.2 rc2) seems to be buggy it is not able to extract all the files in the right dirs... extract in with tar xvf and it works... what do we learn out of this? don't trust gui tools shell for ever
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Bringing the Family Together Over the Kitchen Table: Tips on Getting Kids to Appreciate Good Food
1. Its Up to You. Parents give signals to their kids all the time. Little facial gestures or unintended messages that you probably don't even notice. Studies have shown that even small babies have incredible facial-recognition ability. Trust me, they are watching you! If you are picky eater as a parent, your kids will be too. If you express disdain about eating a particular food, they will copy you — especially young children. As a parent, you need to take the lead. If you expose your children to a wide variety of foods at an early age and express your enjoyment in eating something good, your children will pick up on it.
2. Start Young. Don't limit your child's palate at an early age. Expose them to fresh food. I see a lot of young eaters become picky when they first start on solid foods. I know it is convenient to purchase the supermarket baby food. After a long day of work, it is totally understandable. I have used them myself especially when traveling, but creating your own baby food ,even out of the simplest things, will start them out early on the right path. There is an early window of opportunity to get your kids to have an adventurous palate. In my experience, that age is between 1-3 years old. It is harder to change bad habits once they reach the age of saying "no" randomly and expressing their independence.
3. No Kids Menu. None of my children eat off the kids menu, but not because I say so. Chicken fingers, hot dogs, pizza or other dummied-down dishes for your kids are convenient pretexts for placating picky eaters but just plain bland. My husband and I have traveled with our 5-year-old since he was very young. When we would go out to a restaurant, Robb and I would order for ourselves and Matias would eat from both of our dishes on his own plate. Now at age 5, he refuses eat off the kid's menu and actually cried when one of our friends ordered from it on his behalf. Kids enjoy good food too!
4. Cook with Them. Kids love to cook and they will appreciate the effort of preparing food if they have participated in making it themselves. My eldest loves to claim that he is "a good cooker." Giving kids the opportunity to cook with you is an easy way to get them motivated to eat well and appreciate the effort. Finding small tasks and developing knife skills will give them the ability to actually help. The Montessori system in school helps a lot! This is my eldest helping Tony put the lobsters in the pot.
5. Show Them The Source. This is one of the most important elements. Kids need to understand that food doesn't naturally come in shrink-wrapped plastic. Showing children where vegetables and fruit actually come from with the local grower is a great way to introduce them to the concept. It is fun for kids to pick their own produce in the summer or better yet when you have a little garden in your back yard. When we were in Maine, we went to the Lobster pound to see how they are harvested. As well, we waded into the mud to gather our own mussels. Both kids loved getting muddy, trying to find the right-sized mussels. It gave them context to what they were eating and a great story to tell.
6. Appreciate Where You Are. We try to go on a family vacation every summer and eating locally is one of our favorite things. Getting the best of where you are is important, not only to appreciate the joys of traveling, but to expanding your child's palate. Don't just plan what tourist sites you are going to see, talk about what you are going to eat long before you get to your destination. My son was talking about the mussels, one of his favorites, long before we arrived in Maine. He enjoyed his meal even more after he harvest, cleaned and helped prepare them.
Coming up! The recipe that we enjoyed in Maine — Lobster Enchiladas with Pipian (Mole Verde). It was so GOOOOOD! Picture below.
As always . . . Peace, Love and Good Food.


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Penny Anita Mears Franklin, 50, born in Altha, Florida, and a resident of Tallahassee most of her adult life, lived April 10th, 1962 until January 2nd, 2013.
Penny is described by loved ones as a free spirit, with childlike appreciation for life, and whose curiosity and sense of adventure led her to explore the deeper meaning to life, existence, politics, and spiritual truths. She was known well for her easy laughter, generous spirit, courageous heart and sunny disposition, touching those closest to her as well as those that came into her life even briefly. She enjoyed traveling internationally, visiting 13 countries during 2009, satisfying a lifelong interest in traditions and cultures different from her own. She was generous with her time and love with her family and friends, and is remembered for her kind gestures and good hearted conversation. In her own words, she had this to say about her life's purpose: "I would like to truly touch and be a 'transforming' force in people. I want to also be transformed through our relationships. I want my life to be simple, but rich and deep."
Penny is preceded in death by her father, Ernest Mears and her sister, Teresa Stilwell.
She is survived by her daughters, Holly Elyse Franklin and Hillary Nicole Franklin; Mother, Lucile Mears; siblings, Ronnie Mears, Tim Mears, Chris Sears, Sharon Pollard, and Elizabeth Holland; Grand-dog, Rio; as well as many nieces, nephews and friends.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held, Saturday January 5, at 3 pm at Culley's MeadowWood Funeral Home at 1753 Riggins Road in Tallahassee Florida. A private burial service will be held on Sunday, January 6, at 2 pm at Sunny Hill Church in Altha Florida.
Donations in lieu of flowers can be made to Big Bend Hospice of Tallahassee Florida or to the American Cancer Society.
Culley's MeadowWood Funeral Home in Tallahassee is in charge of arrangements (ph. 850-877-8191).
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There's not enough oxygen on Mars for us to breathe. The water is trapped in ice caps, and the soil is alkaline and dry. But up on that red planet, there's the potential for growing hops, the plant that gives beer its delightfully sharp, sour taste. That ought to make it feel more like home. The hops discovery ...
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Last week Sarah Palin sat down with Oprah as part of her media blitz. I, along with millions of others, tuned in and listened with rapt attention. My conclusion? This is a very dangerous woman with the power to twist truth and the vanity to think that she is doing it for the good of others and not for herself. She is shrewd, narcissistic and is into myth making as much as Hitler was.
Like Hitler she is a larger than life figure who weaves flattering national fantasies that bear very little resemblance to reality. She has charisma and speaking ability and she launches a powerful appeal to those who feel angry, fearful, and misunderstood, using paranoia and half truths to make her case.
I could almost see the torch light parades forming as I watched her romance the TV camera and Oprah's audience. She painted herself as the underdog and innocent victim--a role many Americans identify with, especially those who have lost homes, jobs, and health insurance or who never had much to begin with. They see her as their champion and her simplistic notions and twisted truths as an answer.
Palin vs. Hitler
Hitler rose to power in a period when Germans felt frightened and taken adantage of-- when economic conditions were terrible and the Weimar Republic was just not working. When people feel threatened and powerless, they are ripe for exploitation and that is what I see Sarah Palin in the process of doing. She is exploiting people for her own ego gratification and I don't think it is a mere political career that she wants. I think she is looking for more-- much more.
I see in her the megalomania of the true narcissist. America today has much in common with Germany in the 1930's. People are disenchanted with their leaders and are looking for answers. There was a world wide financial crisis then too. The notion of American exceptionalism that Palin embraces so heartily echos Hitler's notion of the master race and the special role of the German people. I can hear those American militias in the heartland now, cleaning their weapons and talking about the evils of socialism, Obama, Liberals and gun control. Scary, very divisive stuff.
We are part of a world community that cannot afford to let nationalism, isolationism, xenophobia and ignorance triumph. Let us hope that " Going Rogue" is not Palin's " Mein Kampf"


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A horse owned by Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells won a $250,000 race on Saturday afternoon at New York's Belmont Park.
Saratoga Snacks captured the Empire Classic Handicap for New York-bred horses by about a length after sitting just off a strong pace and taking over the lead near the top of the stretch.
The victory was the four-year-old horse's seventh in 10 career starts and raised his career earnings to $464,600.The winner's share of the purse was $150,000.
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Sunday's first release of the Bowl Championship Series standings got a last-minute shipment of adjustments, edits and amendments.
They arrived in a packaged labeled "Saturday."
The last year of the BCS (sob, sob) is sure going to be fun.
The top 25 got worked over this weekend with defeats suffered by half the teams in the top 10.
The implosion started Friday night when No. 8 Louisville lost at home to Central Florida and then spilled into a bloodbath Saturday.
No. 9 UCLA fell at No. 13 Stanford at about the same time Auburn was pulling off an upset over No. 7 Texas A&M in College Station.
Not even Heisman winner Johnny Manziel could rescue the Aggies from the 45-41 loss.
There was also a guaranteed top-10 loser in the matchup of No. 5 Florida State at No. 3 Clemson, but who expected a 51-14 Seminoles victory?
And, for good measure, No. 6 Louisiana State lost at Ole Miss.
Let's just say it brought a lot of teams back into the hunt.
Stanford, which dropped eight poll spots to No. 13 after last week's loss at Utah, will find itself hip-deep in the BCS top 10 and right back in the national title race.
Stanford, remember, still has a Nov. 7 game against No. 2 Oregon.
The Southeastern Conference got turned upside down as Missouri, Vanderbilt, Auburn, Tennessee and Mississippi pulled upsets against Florida, Georgia, Texas A&M, South Carolina and LSU.
The SEC is suddenly a multi-loss mess with Alabama and Missouri — Missouri! — as the league's last two unbeaten teams.
Only Alabama fans could rest easy as the top-ranked Crimson Tide dismantled Arkansas in Tuscaloosa.
The Michigan-Indiana game outdid Auburn at Texas A&M for the day's most ridiculous numbers.
After all, Auburn and A&M combined for "only" 86 points, 1,217 yards and 56 first downs at College Station.
That was almost "three yards and a cloud of dust" compared to what happened in Ann Arbor.
In Michigan's crazy 63-47 win, the teams combined for 110 points, 1,323 yards and 63 first downs.
The Newcomers
Texas A&M and Missouri, two ordinary programs from the Big 12, joined the SEC two years ago.
There were supposed to be growing pains. In fact, many thought the schools would get devoured in America's best conference.
But Texas A&M, in its first year, became the only team to defeat national champion Alabama.
And Saturday, Missouri improved to 7-0 for the season and took a two game lead in the SEC East.
What is going on down there?
Texas A&M you can sort of understand. The Aggies entered the SEC with Manziel as their starting quarterback,
Missouri's rise is more surprising. The Tigers went 5-7 last year, 2-6 in SEC play.
Missouri wasn't really tested early in the season with wins over the likes of Murray State and Toledo.
The Tigers were supposed to get thumped these last two weeks, but were fortunate to face Georgia and Florida teams that have been devastated by injuries.
Missouri defeated Georgia last week in Athens and downed Florida, 36-17, on Saturday.
Give Missouri credit, though, because it is playing without starting quarterback James Franklin.
Missouri holds a two-game lead over South Carolina, which visits Columbia, Mo., next week.
The question now: How long can Missouri make this last?
Bowden Ball
The Spotlight looks for any chance to mention the Akron Zips — one of the best nicknames in sports.
So here it is: Akron defeated Miami of Ohio, 24-17, to earn its first road win since Oct. 18, 2008 at Eastern Michigan.
Akron (2-6) has won more than one game for the first time since that season after three straight 1-11 seasons.
Akron is led by second-year Coach Terry Bowden, who went undefeated at Auburn in 1993. Terry's dad, Bobby, leads all major college coaches with 377 wins.
House of Cards
Louisville's path to the national title game was always going to be shaky
The Cardinals simply did not have the schedule strength to keep up with the best teams from the power conferences.
Jeff Sagarin's ratings had Louisville at No. 125 in SOS this week.
Louisville's only chance was to go undefeated and then pray all the other top schools lost once, or maybe twice.
Gee, it almost happened Saturday, but Louisville's 38-35 loss to Central Florida on Friday night effectively ended the Cardinals' chances.
Or did it?
"It doesn't damage them at all," quarterback Teddy Bridgewater said. "We are still 6-1, this is college football and anything can happen and anything is possible."
If nothing else, Louisville's stumble will have a ripple effect in the BCS standings.
The loss helped Fresno State and Northern Illinois, as those teams look to snag the last non-automatic qualifier major bowl berth in BCS history.
The highest-rated champion from a league outside the top six earns a bid if it finishes in the top 12 of the BCS standings.
The non-AQ champ also gets the bid, though, if it finishes in the top 16 ahead of a champion from a major conference.
No. 17 Fresno State (Mountain West) and No. 23 Northern Illinois (Mid-American) might have had a tough time reaching the top-12 threshold.
Louisville's loss, however, gives Fresno State or Northern Illinois a chance to finish 16th or better ahead of the American Athletic Conference champion.
Northern Illinois improved to 7-0 with a win over Central Michigan, as quarterback Jordan Lynch rushed for 316 yards. Fresno State (5-0) hosted Nevada Las Vegas in a late Saturday night game.
Northern Illinois used the BCS clause last year to earn a bid to the Orange Bowl. The Huskies finished No. 15 in the final BCS standings ahead of Big East champion Louisville (21).


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Rather than taking the easy road by focusing on Ashkenazi roots music, the Bay Area's Jewish Music Festival earned an international reputation by spotlighting traditions too often overlooked or ignored, presenting artists from far-flung locales such as Central Asia, Argentina, Tehran, Iran, and New Orleans.
This year, a confluence of several anniversaries marking critical historical events related to Poland have turned the festival's attention squarely to Yiddish culture. While one might assume that means commemorating a once-vibrant world destroyed by the Holocaust, the festival's programming makes a persuasive case for the ongoing vitality of Yiddishkeit, the Old-World cultural roots of the vast majority of American Jews.
"I've always been committed to showcasing Jewish culture from around the world, but this year made perfect sense to focus on the history and culture and traditions of this community," says Eleanor Shapiro, the Jewish Music Festival's longtime director. "This culture is still so vibrant. People think of Yiddish as a language of old people and wonder whether it has a future.
"We're doing our best to spread the word that, yes, there is a future to Yiddish, a future to music that comes out of this tradition."
Produced by the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay, the festival begins Saturday and runs through March 9 at venues around Berkeley, opening at Berkeley Rep's Thrust Stage with a fascinating double bill, "The Future of Jewish Music in Poland."
The concert features the California debut of Shofar, an astounding Polish trio that blends Hasidic melodies and free jazz, and the West Coast premiere of Polesya, a singular project by Polish vocalist Olga Mieleszczuk and Israeli reed expert Ittai Binnun that explores the repertoire of Mariam Nirenberg, a pre-World War II Jewish folk singer who collected Yiddish songs in the swampy borderlands between present-day Ukraine, Poland, Russia and Belarus. (Polesya will also be at a March 4 matinee at the Jewish center.)
Featuring three top Polish musicians — guitarist Raphael Roginski, reed expert Mikolaj Trzaska and drummer Macio Moretti — Shofar has forged a bracing blend of traditional Hasidic melodies and avant-garde jazz. Their source material comes from a volume of Hasidic songs collected by Moshe Beregovski in the decades before World War II.
"As an improviser, I recognized that these melodies should be explored," says Trzaska, who discovered in his late teens that members of his maternal family were Jews who survived the Holocaust by hiding in the mountains. "The first step was understanding what religious music means and then learning how to compose melodies together live.
"I'm not religious, but when I hear the moment when music comes together, I think God really exists."
Both Shofar and Polesya reflect the way that contemporary Poles are engaging with the gaping hole left by the deaths of about 3 million Polish Jews during World War II. Shapiro, a frequent visitor to Poland, has observed firsthand how a new generation has eagerly sought out information about this lost world.
"Since the fall of communism, the interest in Jewish culture has exploded," she says. "Numerous universities have created Jewish studies departments, and Krakow's Jewish Cultural Festival attracts thousands of people to its free outdoor events. It's not just about delving into the past. Like on our opening night, musicians inspired by Jewish music are creating new classical, jazz and Yiddish music."
The fraught history of Polish Jewry is what turned Shapiro's attention to Yiddishkeit for this year's festival. In 1913, Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, better known as the author An-ski, led a storied folklore expedition to collect music, stories and artifacts from shtetls in Polish lands then held by the Russian empire. Intended for a Jewish national museum in prerevolutionary St. Petersburg, the music he collected helped fuel the klezmer revival in the mid-1970s, a movement that first took root in Berkeley.
A free panel discussion and performance at the Graduate Theological Union's Easton Hall, "An-ski Expedition at 100," includes An-ski scholars Gabriella Safran (Stanford University) and Nathaniel Deutsch (UC Santa Cruz), and renowned Yiddishist and multi-instrumentalist Michael Alpert (who also performs Ashkenazi and Ukrainian music March 5 at the Jewish center with bandura master Julian Kytasty).
Three decades after An-ski's survey, the world that he documented was in flames. The festival marks the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when desperate Jews marked for extermination rose up against the Nazis and held off the German war machine for a month, with a March 9 memorial concert at Berkeley Rep's Thrust Stage that concludes the festival.
"The uprising was one of the major events of Jewish history," Shapiro says. "As time goes on, fewer people are aware of the heroism that was involved."
The evening features the world premiere of "Vilna Poems," a song cycle composed by David Garner setting six pieces by the great Yiddish poet Avrom Sutskever to music. It will feature soprano Lisa Delan, pianist Kristin Pankonin, cellist Matt Haimovitz and clarinetist David Krakauer. Haimovitz and Krakauer also present "Akoka — The End of Time," a project featuring violinist Kay Stern and pianist Kathleen Tagg inspired by Olivier Messaien's "Quartet for the End of Time" (an epochal piece the composer premiered Jan. 15, 1941, as a prisoner in Stalag VIII-A, a POW camp in Görlitz, Germany).
No living performer better embodies the enduring links between Yiddish culture in the old and new world than Theodore Bikel, the 88-year-old folk singer, actor and Broadway star. In a followup to November's sold-out Jewish Music Festival concert at The Magnes, Bikel holds forth at Freight & Salvage on March 7 with Bosnian accordionist Merima Kljuco and Amsterdam-based Yiddish vocalist Shura Lipovsky, exploring a program of Yiddish and Bosnian/Sephardic songs.
28th annual jewish music festival
When: Saturday through March 9
Where: Venues around Berkeley
Tickets: Passes, $100-$125; individual shows, $20-$28, www.jewishmusicfestival.org, 800-838-3006


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Numerous midfielders dot the roster for the 2011 Lipscomb men's soccer team, with a cavalcade of talented upperclassmen being joined by an intriguing freshman group that will push for playing time.
Senior Drew Longinotti returns as a two-year starter in the midfield. As one of six seniors on the 2011 squad, Longinotti will be counted on to provide leadership in the midfield.
Sophomore Joey Chiappetta had a huge first year as a Bison, assisting on seven goals (second-highest single-season mark by a Bison) and adding two goals of his own. The New Berlin, Wis. native will be back and looking to move up the all-time assists list; he's already tied for fourth in career assists after his freshman season.
Jeremy Reid redshirted last season and has returned to stake a claim to a midfield spot. The junior started 19 matches in 2009 before sitting out last season due to injury.
Junior Deven Bahadoorsingh appeared in 18 matches a year ago and appears ready to claim a starting spot going into 2011.
Juniors Tyler Burkhardt, Thomas Blair, sophomores A.J. Theofanis and Kyle Erickson and senior Evan McGee will also see time in the midfield. Burkhardt and McGee will split time between the midfield and up with the forwards.
Freshmen Edvaldo Pedro, Matt Kerridge, Gates, Max Robinson, Zandar El-Hindi, Evan Beutler and Quintin Walker also join the Bisons as midfielders this fall. Gates (Michigan), Robinson (Kentucky) and El-Hindi (New York) were all-state picks in 2010.
Check back with Lipscombsports.com all week for more position previews; Wednesday, the defenders will be profiled. Also Wednesday, the Bisons host Trevecca at 5 p.m. in an exhibition match at the training field behind Cofer's Chapel Church on the corner of Caldwell Lane and Franklin Pike.
Be sure to follow us on Twitter (@LUMSoccer) and on Facebook at the Lipscomb University Men's Soccer Team page.


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I had a friend from high school "friend me" on Facebook years ago. He's a preacher now and even though I'm an atheist I kept him as a friend as I had no problems with him until he started outright attacking atheist. This shouldn't come as a surprise but his most recent post became an attack on me as I know I am his only atheist friend. I unfriended him after this post. Even though I knew he was wrong and I could refute his claims, I just got tired of his hate. I attached his post below, what do you think I should have done:
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How about a verbal one. i remember at college when we had a liberal arts class, this one involved reading aloud. One poor guy stood up to read his paragraph, where he had to mention a sign that said, "GENTILES ONLY, NO JEWS". In a panic, he stammered, "Genitals only, no juice".
I'm trying to be more open with my feelings when it comes to religion but I'm very much a pacifist and adhere to the "Do No Harm" philosophy so it's hard for me to confront/refute people as I hate having arguments/debates. I know it is important and that creating a dialogue can only shine a light on the issue which has to do some good...but THOSE people have a very hard time being open minded to any idea outside their dogmatic way of thinking. They can't even see the harm they are doing...and if they can, then the must be very heartless because they seem to not to care. Sometimes I wished there WAS a hippie Jesus to come down and chill them all out and preach some more love and understanding...we need a new John Lennon.
Randy, the guy's a bully [we all got into a fight with a gipsy? good times? wtf? ... "why bring Jesus into this?"] and you're better off without him. It's a shame he thinks that "morals" are different from "right and wrong". It would have been good if you could have thought up a few choice one-liners before unfriending him, then you wouldn't be left with this unresolved anger. "I'm very much a pacifist and adhere to the "Do No Harm" philosophy so it's hard for me to confront/refute people as I hate having arguments/debates." - so you're letting yourself be harmed, and wolves like **** take advantage of lambs like you.
Debating is a skill, is it not? You need a thick skin and a stock of properly-thought through arguments, and to recognize when the other person is making a lot of noise in order to evade being pinned down. People like **** are sure to start off on the offensive anyway, which just means you can't argue with stupid.
Thank you. I very much need friends that tell me how it is. Most give me the impression that raising waves is best left to those that are sure of themselves. And I guess I'm not there yet...but I want to be.
You don't have to be sure of yourself to tell it like it is.
What would hippie Jesus do? He'd need a lot of charisma, and to have really thought about this problem.
I got you, had your former friend read the introduction to Michael Martin's Atheism: A Philosophical Justification he would know he is dead wrong. He tackles many of the common criticism, the arguments people render against atheists and his responses. I recommend reading it.
I'll have to check that out. Thanks.
Frankly, I would have welcomed it as an opportunity to refute his claims. I don't see it as different from gleefully welcoming Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons into my home so I can skewer them with logic and science. If you are uncomfortable with that, perhaps you are not as much of an atheist as you claim.
I can see where he is not wanting to see the post. I think it would hurt to have a friend say something like that about me. Even if I could reject their claim, they have clearly shown that they do not really value my friendship and are not worth my time. I wouldn't be uncomfortable, but saddened. If it was someone who I didn't know I would have given them the best argument I had.
Thank you. I'm seriously thinking about sending a personal message to him just to show him how it made me feel. Not as a way to stand up for my beliefs, but to show how he hurt me and is constantly hurting others. Not very Jesus like of him at all.


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CTG REMOTE EPIC WILLOW ANALYST in Hialeah, Florida
Title: REMOTE EPIC WILLOW ANALYST
Location: United States
Job Number: 19205227
CTG Health Solutions is in need of an Epic Inpatient Willow Analyst resource to assist in the implementation of Epic for our client in the Southeastern United States. The opportunity is an approximately 6-month predominately-REMOTE position. Integrated testing and other readiness activities may require being onsite. CTG Health Solutions has been given the opportunity to support this Epic implementation by our client, which is a very large national non-profit provider of health services.
CTG is looking for an outstanding consultant with Epic Inpatient Willow experience. The consultant will be responsible for build, Implementation and support of the Epic Willow application and the analysis, build, and testing.
Current Epic Certification in Willow Inpatient
Previous experience with rolling out existing build to additional clients.
At least 3 years of experience
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Understands Epic methodology along with potential risks and implications.
Strong consulting and communication skill
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CTG (NASDAQ: CTG) provides industry-specific IT services and solutions that address the business needs and challenges of clients in high-growth industries in North America and Western Europe. CTG also provides strategic staffing services for major technology companies and large corporations. Backed by more than 50 years of experience and proprietary methodologies, CTG has a proven track record of reliably delivering high-value, industry-specific staffing services and solutions to its clients. CTG has operations in North America, Western Europe, and India.
CTG's greatest asset is its people, and as such, we are committed to providing employees programs and processes to support their performance, hone their skills, and advance in their careers. This commitment is reflected by CTG being named a Best Places to Work in Healthcare company by Modern Healthcare (2013-2016) in North America, and a Best Workplace in the United Kingdom (2013), Belgium (since 2007), and Luxembourg (since 2011).
CTG will consider for employment all qualified applicants including those with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable local, state, and federal laws.
CTG is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and strong advocate of workforce diversity. Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Disability/Veteran.
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After healthcare law delay, Medicaid expansion in Florida remains in the shadows
The Obama administration's decision to delay the Affordable Care Act health insurance mandate on employers has lessened some of the leverage advocates of expanding Medicaid in Florida had on lawmakers, but it won't end the debate.
On Wednesday, House Republicans cast the one-year delay as proof that lawmakers are right to worry about the consequences of the law, which they say is deeply flawed.
Supporters of Medicaid expansion, meanwhile, said the decision of the federal government shouldn't affect deliberations in Florida.
"If it's not ready for prime time, why are they trying to jam it down America's throat?" House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, told the Times/Herald. "I think it just clearly shows that the whole thing is just half-baked."
The Obama administration announced the year-long delay Tuesday, saying businesses need additional time to comply. As part of the law, companies with more than 50 employees must provide health care coverage to their workers or face steep fines.
The mandate mainly affects small-to-medium size businesses that typically pay low wages, such as the restaurant and hotel industry. Some worried businesses would downsize their workforce or cut workers' hours to skirt the rule.
Most big employers, like Publix, already offer insurance to full-time employees and are largely unaffected by the delay.
In Florida, state lawmakers added a second wrinkle when they rejected plans to expand Medicaid. Here, businesses would have been required, starting next year, to provide health care coverage to people who otherwise might have qualified for Medicaid.
With that requirement now delayed, businesses are far less likely to pressure lawmakers to approve a Medicaid deal.
The health care law's "heart is in the right place, but it's such a massive change," said Florida Retail Federation President Rick McAllister. "What happened this week should be a model for all aspects of it. Nobody is going to repeal this, but we can take our time and make it work."
Bill Herrle, executive director of the Florida chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business, said the delay "is evidence a poorly knit sweater is fraying at the edges."
The federal government said it is pressing ahead with other parts of the law, including the so-called individual mandate, which requires that most Americans have health insurance or face a penalty.
The discussions in Washington should not impact what happens in Tallahassee, said Rep. Mike Fasano. Fasano, R-New Port Richey, was the lone House Republican to support using as much as $51 billion in federal money over 10 years to reduce the number of uninsured, a plan also supported by the Senate and Gov. Rick Scott.
"With all great respect to them, one has nothing to do with the other," Fasano said.
The message was echoed by U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, who said he supports the delay but doesn't think it should be an excuse for Florida to abandon Medicaid expansion.
"The delay by Florida's governor and Legislature to expand Medicaid is inexcusable," Nelson wrote in a statement on Facebook. "It will deny health coverage to more than 1 million Floridians, while the state itself will face the loss of $51 billion in federal funds."
Even before this week's decision by the federal government, Senate President Don Gaetz had appealed to the Obama administration asking for flexibility from the terms of the Medicaid expansion, which requires the state cover anyone who meets the income threshold.
Gaetz said Florida should be allowed to chose who is covered under an expansion and be allowed to charge more for doctor visits and premiums than the program currently allows.
McAllister, with the Florida Retail Federation, said he thinks Tuesday's announcement does little to change the dynamic in Tallahassee — where House Republicans seem dug in against the health care law.
"I've heard Will Weatherford say he thinks it's a bait-and-switch," he said. "The speaker is not inclined to revisit the issue — which is pretty much a death knell."


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Under the specific direction of K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 75-6103(b)(2), jurisdiction does not exist under the Small Claims Procedure Act, K.S.A. 61-2701 et seq., to entertain claims under the Kansas Tort Claims Act, K.S.A. 75-6101 et seq.
Appeal from Reno District Court; WILLIAM F. LYLE, JR., judge. Opinion filed February 17, 2006. Appeal dismissed.
Travis Hauschulz, appellant pro se.
Jon D. Graves, special assistant attorney general, Kansas Department of Corrections, for appellee.
Before BUSER, P.J., LARSON, S.J., and WAHL, S.J.
LARSON, J.: Travis Hauschulz, an inmate at the Hutchinson Correctional facility, appeals the district court's ruling that the small claims court did not have jurisdiction over his tort claim against a prison guard.
Hauschulz filed a petition in the small claims court pursuant to the Small Claims Procedure Act, K.S.A. 61-2701 et seq., for damages against Corrections Officer C. Gobble, contending the guard had violated prison policy in confiscating and destroying two photographs from his locker.
Officer Gobble moved to dismiss, contending the claim fell within the scope of the Kansas Tort Claims Act (KTCA), K.S.A. 75-6101 et seq., and that it could not be pursued under the Small Claims Procedure Act. Gobble further stated the pictures were removed because they violated the facility's obscenity policy and the removal took place during his established workday as a part of his duties within the scope of his employment.
The small claims court dismissed the petition for lack of jurisdiction.
Hauschulz appealed the decision to the district court.
Officer Gobble again moved to dismiss on the grounds the claim fell under the KTCA. Hauschulz opposed the motion arguing the claim was against Gobble as an individual, outside the scope of his employment. Defendant Gobble's affidavit stated he was lawfully employed as a corrections officer; the event Hauschulz complained of happened while he was at work and in uniform, during his scheduled hours; and the action he took against inmate Hauschulz' property was appropriate and within the scope of his employment and duties.
The district court, after a hearing, found the small claims court was correct in finding it did not have jurisdiction over Hauschulz' KTCA claim and dismissed the appeal. Hauschulz timely appeals.
The question in this appeal is whether the small claims court had jurisdiction over a KTCA claim.
Whether jurisdiction exists is a question of law over which an appellate court's scope of review is unlimited. Mid-Continent Specialists, Inc. v. Capital Homes, 279 Kan. 178, 185, 106 P.3d 483 (2005).
The KTCA provides that, unless a statutory exception applies, governmental entities are liable for damages caused by the negligent or wrongful act or admission of employees acting within the scope of their employment under circumstances where the government entity, if a private person, would be liable under the laws of the state. K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 75-6103(a).
A governmental entity means the State or a municipality. K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 75-6102(c). "State" includes any department or branch of state government. K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 75-6102(a). An employee is any officer or employee of a governmental entity. K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 75-6102(d). In this case, Officer Gobble is a corrections officer at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility employed by the Kansas Department of Corrections. He is an employee of a governmental entity for purposes of the KTCA.
But, K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 75-6103(b)(2) specifically states: "Actions within the scope of the Kansas tort claims act may not be brought under the small claims procedure act."
Hauschulz' argument that the KTCA does not apply because Officer Gobble violated prison procedures in confiscating and disposing of the pictures is without merit.
The comment to PIK Civ. 3d 107.06 teaches us:
"An employee is acting within the scope of his authority when he is performing services for which he has been employed, or when he is doing anything which is reasonably incidental to his employment. The test is not necessarily whether the specific conduct was expressly authorized or forbidden by the employer, but whether such conduct should have been fairly foreseen from the nature of the employment and the duties relating to it."
See Commerce Bank of St. Joseph v. State, 251 Kan. 207, 833 P.2d 996 (1992).
In this case, it is uncontroverted that Officer Gobble was conducting a "shakedown/search" of Hauschulz' cell when the pictures were discovered. The search was one of Officer Gobble's job duties for which he had express authority from his employer. The search was not for his personal benefit but in furtherance of the State's obligation.
Hauschulz' contention that the disposition of confiscated property was not accomplished in accordance with prison management policies is not persuasive. Gobble was performing services for which he was employed, and his conduct was fairly foreseen from the nature of his employment and his job duties.
Although the parties both argue about the propriety of Gobble's actions, liability is not the issue here.
Gobble was clearly a state employee acting within the scope of his employment. Any damage action against him clearly falls within the purview of the KTCA.
The prohibition of K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 75-6103(b)(2) previously cited expressly forbids actions that fall within the KTCA from being brought or entertained in small claims court.
Jurisdiction did not exist in this case in small claims court. Both courts below correctly held they did not have jurisdiction over the action. We do not have jurisdiction for the same reason.
The case and the appeal are dismissed.


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We've been asked to post this by someone who's been particularly hurt by gossip:
"The tongue is mightier than the sword."
This should be a sermon given regularly and the community should practice daily.
For those in this town who like to talk about others: they know who they are, how would they like to be talked about themselves? The little bluebird sitting outside every window is capable of spreading those hurtful words around town too...Gossip hurts reputations, feelings, families and lives.
Have we forgotten..."Judge not, lest ye be judged", "Do unto others as you'd have done to you"?
It is not our place as human being to judge others. We are not on this earth to judge others are we? GOD is our only judge...Remember..."The judgement you pass is how you will be judged"?
I love this town but we need to live as one community. We are all neighbors, " a brother lives far off".
GOD forgives but He does not forget.
"Don't let the sun go down on your anger" Anger leads to judgement...judgement leads to gossip...gossip leads to hurtful, hurtful words.
Most of these statements are passages from the Bible. If this town believes in anything believe in the word of GOD>>>
Gossip hurts
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Ken Hulse necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 8 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
Looking for a website design for a new business, pickatimeshare.com. This is a ecommerce site whose purpose is to connect timeshare owners looking to sell, buy or exchange their timeshare week. The website will allow the sellers/lessors to list their space on the listing service for either a monthly fee or for a percentage of the rental or sales price. Buyers/Lessees will be able to search the listings by locale (city, state, region, country) and by select criteria (size or timeshare, week available, location, etc). In order to list a timeshare for sale, lease or exchange, the visitor will need to become a paying member of the site. Potential buyers or lessees may search for free and do not need to become a member of the site.
There are 2 target prospects for this website that we want to attract:
1. Buyers/Lessees- These are timeshare customers looking to buy, lease or exchange a rental week anywhere in the world. Many timeshare customers are family oriented looking for a week of vacation or business.
2. Sellers/Lessees- These are timeshare owners looking to sell, lease or exchange their rental week to anyone in the world. Many timeshare owners are family, hotels, resorts, and businesses looking to sell, lease or exchange.
Design only, no coding
Must be layered PSD format with rasterized fonts (to be sent with final design)
Top navigation just below the header
Two column layout with as much above the fold space as possible
Rough Dimensions:
940 pixels wide
200 pixels from top to bottom navigation
Content area on left approximately 550 pixels and side bar on right roughly 400 pixels
View the following competitor websites to help understand the concept for site:
Not too restrictive on the colors or design, but it should probably incorporate blues, greens and white for the ocean and water themes with graphics/photos.
Would like to have a logo design as well consistent with the website.
In the content area, need blocked space for content and blocks for "Timeshares for Sale" and "Timeshares for Rent" and "Timeshares for Exchange'' where content can be added (similar to redweek.com).
Side bar should have a box for email opt in, login, and a box for social media buttons
Must be creative and fresh and not too cluttered.


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Eastern Japan Support Fumi no Miyako Charity Concert Kodo x Siena BeatMay 17 (Tue ), 2011
Eastern Japan Support Fumi no Miyako Charity Concert Kodo x Siena Beat
- Todokeyo Kokoro no Kodo (Let's Send Our Heartbeats) -
Bunkyo Academy Foundation has partnerships with Kodo and Siena Beat (Percussionists of the Siena Wind Orchestra) and will present a charity concert featuring both ensembles.
Bunkyo Ward will send the full price of each ticket sold and all donations collected in the lobby on the day of the performance to the Tohoku Pacific Earthquake disaster area. Furthermore, while maintaining the artistic atmosphere, this concert will be presented using power-saving techniques.
Date: May 28 (Sat)
Venue: Bunkyo Civic Hall Dai-Hall, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo
Kodo, Siena Beat
Part 1: Siena Beat (30 mins) / Part 2: Kodo (30 mins.), joint performance. (Total: Approx. 90 mins. including intermission)
Doors Open:
3,000 yen (Tax inc.)
Seating Details:
All seats reserved
Ticket Availability:
Tickets on sale May 2 (Mon) at 10:00 am.
Civic Ticket Reservation Dial Tel. 03-5803-1111 (10:00 - 19:00 everyday incl. public hols., closed on May 15 only. )
*Operation times may be changed due to planned power outages and in case of earthquakes.
*Limit of 4 tickets per order on the first day of ticket sales. Seat selection not available.
Ticket Pia Tel. 0570-02-9999 http://t.pia.jp/
[Tokyo Metro] Take the Marunouchi or Nanboku Line to Korakuen Stn. 1-min. walk from Exit #4b or 5.
[Toei Subway] Take the Mita or Oedo Line to Kasuga Stn. (Bunkyo Civic Center Mae Exit). Connected by underground passage. 1-min. walk to the venue.
[JR] 8-mins. on foot from Suidobashi Stn. on the JR Chuo & Sobu LInes
Bunkyo Academy Foundation http://www.b-academy.jp/index_j.html