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Celebrities, beauty brands, even the NFL are putting in overtime, creating inspired ways for fans to beautify, glam up and celebrate their favorite stars and teams. Beauty, fashion and lifestyle expert Stacy Cox joined Margaret to showcase products that are helping fuel the "fandemonium" trend!
Connect with Stacy on Facebook. Follow her on Twitter: @stacycoxbeauty
Here are the products Stacy shared during today's show:
Celebrity: Football!
Brands: Covergirl & The NFL
Product: Nail Polish Combos = Fanicures!
COVERGIRL Outlast Stay Brilliant Nail Gloss bundles ($5.49 per bottle)
Collaboration: COVERGIRL has teamed up w/the NFL to offer female game-goers and –watchers the chance to express their on-the-field allegiance like never before – via official COVERGIRL NFL "fanicures" inspired by all 32 NFL team logos and colors.
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Celebrity: Nicole Scherzinger
Brand: Herbal Essences
Product: Hair Care, Moroccan Oil Craze!
Herbal Essences Moroccan My Shine Shampoo & Conditioner ($3.99 ea)
Collaboration: Moroccan My Shine is a nourishing Shampoo and Conditioner infused with 100% natural argan oil extract which helps to revitalize dull hair and protect from future damage while restoring your natural shine.
Celebrity: French Fries
Do you love them as much as we do? But your waistline doesn't!
Brand: Burger King
Product: Lower Fat/Lower Calorie Satisfries
Price Depends on Size ($1.29-$2.29) Find them at BK locations nationwide.
Collaboration: BURGER KING is the first quick service restaurant to sell a lower-fat, lower-calorie French fry cooked in the traditional method. SATISFRIES are a great tasting crinkle-cut French fry with 40% less fat and 30% fewer calories than the leading French fry. Our waistlines say "Thank You BK!"
Brand: Too Faced Cosmetics
Product: Mascara, Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara ($23)
Collaboration: Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara is an intensely black, volumizing mascara with an unusual hourglass-shaped brush that separates and curls each lash and was inspired by the curves of a woman's body!
Celebrity: Taylor Swift
Brand: KEDS
Product: Sneakers
The Taylor Swift For Keds Collection - Price Range ($50-$55)
Collaboration: Taylor's 2nd Keds shoe collection recently debuted in time for the fall season. It's a logical collaboration between the two: The shoe is a classic American fashion statement and Taylor is America's sweetheart. It's all about style and simplicity...a great alternative for our feet away from heels!
Celebrity: Rihanna
Brand: MAC
Product: NEW Fall capsule collection of Rihanna inspired cosmetics!
Prices range from $16.50 - $44
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Your first look at what's happening around Milwaukee. All of the latest events you can't miss in the city.
On Tap for Today: Pick a concert, any concert
Hello, Wednesday. Looks like your dance card is full, musically speaking.
Counting Crows visit the BMO Harris Pavilion tonight. The Crows should get a personal perspective on the city from Field Report, the Milwaukee band touring with them. It's all here.
The Mark Davis Trio plays the Lake Park Picnic Area 3. It's free.
South End Blues Band plays the Washington Park Bandshell. It's also free.
Peter Donalds and Kay Stiefel entertain at Parkway Elementary School in Glendale. It's a free show.
Madisalsa headlines River Rhythms at Pere Marquette Park. It's free.
Surfing to Mecca performs as part of the Wheaton Franciscan -- St. Joseph Campus Concerts in the Park series in Sr. Jeanne Gengler Park.
I'm Not a Pilot and Sam Llanas share the stage at Hart Park in Wauwatosa. You guessed it. Free.
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Niagara Gazette — ALBANY — After a season of scant berries and beechnuts, scrawny bear cubs have been wandering into some upstate New York towns searching for food before hibernation.
"We've seen more cubs than ever before," said Ed Reed, senior biologist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Reed and other biologists and wildlife rehabilitators have been busy responding to calls about bears in backyards and parking lots this fall, a time of year when nuisance bear reports are rare. "Generally, you don't get nuisance calls after September," he said.
"We saw five of them running around Glens Falls the other day," said Trish Marki of North Country Wild Care. The city 45 miles north of Albany has had numerous bear cub sightings for two months.
Reed said cubs normally weigh an average of 50 pounds this time of year, but biologists have seen a number of them weighing 15 to 20 pounds. They're unlikely to have enough body fat to make it through the winter, he said.
The summer of 2011 had a bumper crop of berries and other bear food, so females were fat and had more cubs than average over the winter. With an unusually mild winter, the cub survival rate was high. But the summer of 2012 was very dry in parts of the state, making food scarce and driving bears into towns to forage in trash cans. The fall crop of acorns and beechnuts was also poor in many places, Reed said.
"There were a lot of cubs added to the population and not much food," Reed said. "Now we're seeing those cubs turning up, and some of them are pretty small."
Jean Soprano, whose Kindred Kingdoms Wildlife Rehabilitation in Oswego County is the state's only facility licensed to care for black bears, said she has six cubs now and has released 10. Cubs usually are taken to her center in spring, not fall. "This is an unusual year," she said. "We've never had so many cubs. We never see little cubs in November."
Soprano said most of the small cubs she's seeing don't appear emaciated. "They appear to be younger than I would expect in November," she said. "They have small bone structure, the size of beagles. I'm not sure what it means. It could be that they were quadruplets."
Soprano and her husband, Len, keep the cubs in an enclosure deep in the woods and feed them with a trough pushed through a sliding door so they don't become habituated to being fed by humans. The bears are released to the wild when they're healthy.
Reed said officials will find out how adult bears fared with reduced food over the summer and fall when they compile reports from hunters over the winter.
He said the fluctuations in food supply and wildlife populations are nothing to worry about.
"We're trying to tell people this is a natural thing and if they see undersize cubs, leave them alone. Don't feed them," Reed said. "Some won't make it through the winter, but that's how nature works."'Smart' bear killed by hunter A black bear that gained notoriety when she learned to open bear-proof backpackers' food canisters has been shot dead by a hunter. Wildlife officials say the 20-year-old bear known as Yellow Yellow was killed on Oct. 21 in the town of Jay in the eastern Adirondacks. Her name came from the yellow ear tags biologists had placed on her. The bear was so well known for her ability to work the locks on BearVault food containers that the company advertised that its product was approved for use everywhere but the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks. Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman Dave Winchell said the hunter contacted DEC because the bear was wearing a radio collar. Her yellow ear tags were missing.


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Flyer with a link and more information regarding the Affordable Care Act. The flyer is also available in Spanish.
MCMLS has an outreach program that works with organizations in the community to reach those patrons that are underserved by the Library.
Montgomery County is on Interstate 45 forty miles north of downtown Houston. The county seat is Conroe. The county is bounded on the north by Walker and San Jacinto counties, on the east by Liberty County, on the south by Harris County and on the west by Waller and Grimes counties.
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BELLEVILLE — Two of the staunchest defenses in the Southwestern Conference will collide at 1 p.m. Saturday when the Belleville East Lancers play at Belleville West.
East (2-1 overall, 1-0 SWC) has permitted a league-low 30 points; the Maroons (3-0, 1-0), ranked eighth in the Class 7A state poll, have allowed 37.
"Our defense is pretty good," said Lancers coach Tim Funk. "Both offenses can move the ball, but the defenses are what people are talking about after the first three games. West's offense has been much more explosive than ours, so it will be interesting."
Maroons coach Cameron Pettus is concerned about the Lancers' suffocating defense and their running game that has been led by junior Demarius Ward (328 yards, two touchdowns).
"They've got some great-looking guys on defense," Pettus said. "They run a defense very similar to ours. And on offense, they've got some big 'hosses' up front. They've got guys who can take it to the house. It's going to be a challenge in all three phases of the game."
Today's game: Belleville East (2-1, 1-0) at Belleville West (3-0, 1-0), 1 p.m.
Last meeting: West ripped East 38-6 last Sept. 22 at West, breaking open a tight game with a 24-point outburst in the third quarter.
Lancers to get lift: Senior Brandon Mason, who led the Lancers with 676 yards rushing last season, is expected to see his first action of the season after suffering a broken leg in June.
"He's been practicing the last couple of weeks and looks real good," Funk said. "If he's able to go and give us some key carries a few times, that's going to make us that much better.
"But Demarius Ward and Lawrence Butler have done a good job picking up the slack for when Mason's been gone. Everyone knows we like to run the football. We're going to have to be able to control the football and keep the ball out of their hands."
Players to watch: West junior quarterback Sherand Boyd is a threat to run or throw, and tailbacks Antoine Davis (342 yards, three TDs) and Brian Hill (306 yards, seven TDs) have been outstanding, as has junior receiver Brendan Saak (nine catches, 204 yards, two TDs). On defense, linebackers Hill and senior Tori Millender are game-changers. East prefers to run, but if senior quarterback Ryan McDonald puts the ball in the air, chances are he's targeting seniors Parker Hendricks (five catches, 76 yards, one TD) or Josiah Bergt (six catches, 65 yards, one TD).
"Sherand has played well," Pettus said. "Our skills guys have really stepped up and done a good job. We've got some new faces on defense, but we're anchored with Tori and Brian and (defensive back) La'Vante (Smith).
Field position: Special teams could loom large in the outcome. Both teams have punters that can pin down opponents and kickers that deliver if necessary.
"With any football game, that's a key," Funk said of the field-position battle. "They have a very good kicker and punter and I think we have a good kicker and punter. Special teams will have a big part of it."
West junior Austin Seibert averages just under 44 yards per punt and already has five field goals.
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skit and focus it on Hillary....
You actually won the states that matter?
Really? Really? I guess when you say that you won the states that matter, you do remember that the last 2 elections that Kerry and Gore won the states that matter right? Really? Really?
You signed a pledge not to participate in Michigan and the rest of the front runners took their names off the ballot there, but you say you "won" that state with no competition so those votes should count for you? Really ? Really?
You say hardworking americans then amend that to say White Americans... so that means the rest of us are lazy but your the stronger candidate for november.... really??


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An Elk Grove assisted living home is offering free professional visits to check on the physical and mental health of area seniors this holiday season.
"About 20 percent of seniors suffer from full-blown depression or a less
severe form of the condition and the holiday season can be particularly difficult," a press release quoted Brenda Chappell, the Executive Director of Emeritus at Laguna Creek, as saying.
Through the free program, family members may call Emeritus at Laguna Creek to request a visit. A staff member will then check on the senior, and help connect the family with community resources if needed. Previously, the program operated on referrals from health professionals.
A press release from the facility says happy memories from holidays past can trigger depression, as can a recent loss, distance from loved ones, or diminished health.
Emeritus at Laguna Creek is located at 6727 Laguna Park Drive, and can be reached at (916) 683-1881.
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|Aita Working Magic At Carolina Regional
CARY, North Carolina – Senior Rafael Aita rallied for a three-set victory over Wake Forest's Nicky Kunz to move into the Singles Round of 16 at the ITA Carolina Men's Tennis Regional Friday at Cary Tennis Park.
Aita, the 2013 Colonial Athletic Association Player-of-the-Year, bounced back from a narrow loss in the first set to post a 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 decision over Kunz late Friday. In another Round of 32 matchup, Duke's Bruno Semenzato topped Seahawk sophomore Christiaan Van der Burgh, 6-4, 6-0.
Two of UNCW's three doubles teams advanced following first and second-round action Friday. In first-round doubles action, Zach Hublitz and Van der Burgh downed UNC's James Coxe and Ryan Hoskins, 8-5, and Santtu Leskinen and Kaue Pereira defeated Winthrop's Yuta Hirokawa and Steve Patrick by an identical score. Aita and Sam Williams were awarded a bye as the No. 2 seed.
Hublitz and Van der Burgh will join Aita and Williams in third-round play Saturday. Hutbliz and Van der Burgh topped Winthrop's Juan Pablo Boada and Corey Decandia, 8-3, while Aita and Williams, playing their first match in the draw, thumped Elon's Jordan Kaufman and Robert Lindgren, 8-2.
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Our turn to give life to The DreamAugust 24,2013Fifty years ago next week, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before a crowd of thousands on the National Mall and called on the nations leaders to open the doors of opportunity to all Americans.
Dr. Kings I Have a Dream speech inspired a generation to act. Five decades later, we are closer to achieving Dr. Kings dream, yet we have not come to realize its full potential. His dream lives on, inscribed not on water but on stone.
The thousands of marchers became one with the millions more who watched, heard or read about it. And in their goodwill and thirst for justice was stored the spark that soon after led to such breakthroughs as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Laws alone cannot change hearts. But they can rule rank discrimination out of bounds, and they can nudge us in a better direction. In part because of these laws, attitudes and behaviors have steadily and dramatically changed over the years. But we must never take this progress for granted.
Within the lifetimes of millions of present day Americans, many of our citizens were barred from some of Washingtons best hotels. Career paths were blocked. Schools and other public facilities were segregated under the fiction of separate but equal. This anniversary reminds us of how far we have come, just as the renewed pressures we are seeing to suppress voting rights reminds us that hard-fought gains can be lost, and must be defended.
Injustice causes damage below the waterline of our republic, and each new generation must take the laboring oar and continue our nations journey in perfecting our union. It is our turn.
The Supreme Courts devastating decision to strike down a key part of the Voting Rights Act must be corrected to protect our fundamental right to vote. Just weeks after the decision, I convened a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, and I invited Congressman John Lewis to testify. John Lewis was the youngest speaker at the March on Washington five decades ago and is a hero of mine. As someone who fought and bled for the original Voting Rights Act, his testimony about the need to restore the Act was personal and compelling.
I also invited Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, who I worked with to reauthorize the law in 2006, to testify. The strong words of these two men, a Democrat from Georgia and a Republican from Wisconsin, embodied the rich and bipartisan history of our steady progress toward civil rights. In the coming weeks I plan to introduce legislation to revitalize the Voting Rights Act to protect all Americans against racial discrimination in voting.
The struggle for justice, freedom and equal treatment under the law has always been difficult. We know this in our state. Vermont led the nation in abolishing slavery. And we have stayed true to those guiding principles of fairness and independence by being the first state to provide civil unions for same-sex couples and the first to adopt same-sex marriage through the legislative process. The example of equality set by Vermont contributed to the momentum needed for the Supreme Courts historic decision overturning Section 3 of DOMA. That decision confirmed my belief that the Constitution protects the rights of all Americans, and it lived up to the motto engraved in Vermont marble above the Supreme Court building that declares Equal justice under law.
The continued fight for justice and fairness will also be a part of the Senate Judiciary Committees agenda this fall. I will introduce the Second Chance Reauthorization Act to support programs that help state and local authorities successfully reintegrate prisoners into their communities and reduce the rate of repeat offenders. I will convene a hearing on bipartisan legislation to address the use of mandatory minimum sentences, the discredited one-size-fits-all approach to sentencing that is costly and unfair and does not make our country safer.
We should be investing our resources in effective programs like those under the Second Chance Act to prevent crime rather than responding after the fact with overly burdensome sentences that are not effective. I also hope that the House of Representatives will pass legislation to reform our broken immigration system, as we did in the Senate, to provide a pathway to citizenship for those who want to achieve the American Dream.
The anniversary of the March on Washington reminds us of what is possible when people look past their differences and work toward a shared goal. When President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, he declared: Through this act, and its enforcement, an important instrument of freedom passes into the hands of millions of our citizens.
Let us honor those who five decades ago marched on Washington. They inspired our nation to move toward a more perfect union, and they continue to inspire me to fight for equality and justice. They taught us that courage, commitment and action, spun from hope, can accomplish great things.
Let us continue their quest.
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How can we get frost when the freezing level is higher than our home?
It's important to cover a basic definition first. The freezing level refers to expected air temperatures NOT affected by the ground. Specifically, the freezing level refers to the altitude at which the temperature is expected to be freezing. Temperatures where we experience them are at the ground, where temperatures are affected by variations in the presence (or absence) of ground cover. Areas covered by trees or plants will cool more slowly, while areas largely barren of cover (rocky areas, for example) will cool more quickly. That has an impact on the air immediately adjacent to the ground. This is why your car may be covered by frost when the observed air temperature is above freezing; metal or glass cools much more rapidly than air. Another factor can be the fact that the density of air (it's 'heaviness') increases as it cools; cold air will tend to slide downslope into valleys or depressions. Official air temperatures are measured about 6 feet above the ground; air temperatures may cool another three to five degrees on clear, windless nights below that level.


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Building Your Own Live CD
You've probably heard of Knoppix, the Debian-based distribution that squeezes 2GB of applications on a single standalone CD. It's been used as a Linux demonstration tool, a rescue disk and even as a Debian installer. It's inspired a small raft of related projects, ranging from CDs containing Knoppix, plus or minus a few extra packages, to complete re-architectures of the system.
I recently set out to produce a live CD for a product demonstration. I started by taking the Knoppix CD apart to see how it ticked, and I ended up with a Makefile and a few ancillary files that are clearly Knoppix-inspired but have little derived code. This is what I learned.
If you put the Knoppix CD in a CD-ROM drive and mount it, you soon notice that it doesn't look much like an ordinary Linux installation. There are a few graphic files and a free music track, but no init, no /dev and no /bin. The magic is in the big file called /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, an ISO9660 filesystem image compressed for the cloop device.
The standard loop device in the kernel allows you to access a file in some filesystem as if it were a device; requests for blocks of the device are mapped to requests for blocks in the underlying file. Because you can mount the device, this effectively means you can create images of filesystems and access them as if they were real hardware disks. If you downloaded Knoppix from the Net, you have an ISO9660 image that can be loop mounted to look at its contents:
# mkdir /tmp/knoppix-cd # mount -o loop -r \ $HOME/KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-09-24-EN.iso /tmp/knoppix-cd
The cloop compressed loop device takes this a step further. In this adaptation of the loop device, each block is compressed with gzip and transparently decompressed when it's accessed. /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX is an image for this device that is mounted during startup—this is how Knoppix gets 2GB onto a 650MB CD.
You don't need to install cloop in your usual kernel if you simply want to look around the inner filesystem. Install the cloop-utils package and use extract_compressed_fs, as shown below. You need about 2GB of free space in /var/tmp or wherever you decide to put the image:
# mkdir /tmp/knoppix-cloop # extract_compressed_fs \ /tmp/knoppix-cd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX \ >/var/tmp/KNOPPIX-cloop # mount -o loop /var/tmp/KNOPPIX-cloop \ /tmp/knoppix-cloop # find /tmp/knoppix-cloop -print
You can look, but you can't touch—the ISO9660 filesystem is read-only. To modify the distribution, you first need to copy both filesystem images to ordinary directories:
# mkdir $HOME/my-knoppix-tree \ $HOME/my-knoppix-cd-tree # tar -C /tmp/knoppix-cloop -cf - . | \ tar -C $HOME/my-knoppix-tree -xvpf - # tar -C /tmp/knoppix-cd -cf - . | \ tar -C $HOME/my-knoppix-cd-tree -xvpf - # umount /tmp/knoppix-cd /tmp/knoppix-cloop
Now, you can hack away to your heart's content. The most convenient way to do this is to change root into the Knoppix inner tree using the chroot command:
# mount -t proc none $HOME/my-knoppix-tree/proc # cp /etc/resolv.conf \ $HOME/my-knoppix-tree/etc/resolv.conf # chroot $HOME/my-knoppix-tree /bin/sh
From here, you can use all the usual Debian package management commands (dpkg, apt-get and so on) to install or delete whatever you like. When you're done, exit the chroot and unmount proc, unless you want your development system's process list immortalised on CD. Then, use create_compressed_tree and mkisofs to create the inner and outer images:
# mkisofs -L -R -l -V "KNOPPIX ISO9660" -v \ -allow-multidot $HOME/my-knoppix-tree | \ create_compressed_fs - 65536 > \ $HOME/my-knoppix-cd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX # mkisofs -l -r -J -V "KNOPPIX with local stuff" \ -hide-rr-moved -v -b KNOPPIX/boot-en.img \ -c KNOPPIX/boot.cat -o knoppix.iso \ $HOME/my-knoppix-cd
Finally, burn knoppix.iso to a CD-ROM and boot it. If you prefer, you can test without burning by using Bochs or VMware.
This simple approach starts to break down, however, when you want more extensive customizations. For example, if you want X to start a particular window manager but don't want to use all of GNOME or KDE, you have to edit the script yourself. This isn't hard to do, but it means that you've essentially forked Knoppix. When a new Knoppix version comes out, you'll have to do it again. In addition, if you intend to sell your Knoppix-based CD commercially, you need to remain compliant with the licenses of all the software you distribute, which means knowing exactly what's on it. The Knoppix version I looked at contained some files that weren't from Debian packages, and sometimes they weren't even free software.
So, is there some other place we could start? Happily, yes. Between the efforts of Progeny, which donated its installer to the Debian Project; Klaus Knopper, the author of Knoppix and the creator of the cloop device; and other Debian developers who are working on adding his custom code into the main Debian repository—today we can put together a passable live CD system from scratch using only Debian packages. The rest of this article describes how.
> use debian or ubuntu This
> use debian or ubuntu
This was true a while back, but recent releases of Ubuntu do not have this setting. Your only hope is to downgrade your kernel to something nice and _old_... Which no-one is really going to do. R.I.P Sandbox
I'm having some trouble with
I'm having some trouble with it but I'm just starting with linux I've been a windows guru but
Linux is a whole new rought.
Getting KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-09-24-EN.iso of Knoppix
Can anyone point me where I can get this version of Knoppix the current one does not have boot-en.img and boot.cat.
Thanks in advance.
You can use this following
You can use this following command:
mkisofs -pad -l -r -J -v -V "My KNOPPIX" -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat -hide-rr-moved -o knoppix-backuptools.iso my-knoppix-cd-tree/
ERROR when chroot....bug? i am using FC 2 with 2.6.6 kernel
The error message is:
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1192: dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Is it a bug in kernel 2.6.6?
If so, what kernel version would solve it?
Is there anyway i can fix the problem without compiling new kernel?
run this before your command
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled
Inconsistency detected
when you want in Fedora or other redhat linux distributions
to execute chroot command you give "Inconsistency detected"
but you try in debian or other distributions those are in debian base
you don't encounter that problem
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Rep. Bobby Rush was asked to leave the House floor Wednesday morning after he donned a gray hoodie and sunglasses to protest the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
Rush was addressing the issue Wednesday morning when he took off his suit jacket, as shown in the clip above.
"Just because someone wears a hoodie, does not make them a hoodlum," Rush said.
Presiding officer Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) cut off Rush several times and asked the sergeant at arms to enforce the House's chamber dress code, The Huffington Post reports. Rush then left the chamber.
Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot and killed while walking unarmed through a Sanford, Fla. neighborhood on Feb. 26. His shooter, George Zimmerman, says he shot Maritn in self-defense. Zimmerman had called police to report a suspicious person in the neighborhood and left his car to follow the teen.
Zimmerman alleges Martin punched him in the face as he was returning to his car, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The death has sparked protests across the country in recent weeks.
Rush represents the 1st Congressional District which includes portions of Chicago and stretches further south and west across the suburbs.
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NORMAN — Karen (Plantz) Lowery, 58, of Lexington and formerly of Shawnee, died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, in Midwest City. Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Cooper Funeral Home chapel. Arrangements are by Cooper Funeral Home in Tecumseh.
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Our Endorsements: The Election Plays Itself Out
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* Mitt Romney breaks down the American pie.
* Wow. The criteria for becoming a politician has gotten really low.
* Maybe we should give the entire Middle East a film class, from Hahajk.
* If politics was like NASCAR…scratch that. Politics is exactly like NASCAR.
* Both Conan and Fallon use late night to make light of Romney's secret tape.
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In response to Mitt Romney's latest self-inflicted wound, Slate's David Weigel coins a term…
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Some of Mitt Romney's Best Friends Own NASCAR Teams
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Mitt Romney went to the Daytona 500 NASCAR race Sunday for what should have been a chance to show he's one of the guys. Instead, in casual conversation with an Associated Press reporter at the Florida track, he reminded people once again that he is not exactly a regular Joe.
Asked by the AP reporter if he follows NASCAR, Romney responded, "Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans. But I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners."
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Michele Bachmann and the Lyin' A$$ B*tches
Unless you spent last week hiding in a turkey carcass, you probably heard about Michele Bachmann's entrance song on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last Monday. The show's band (AKA The Roots) played Fishbone's "Lyin' Ass Bitch" as Bachmann walked onstage. For the 99% of you who are unfamiliar with late 80s ska/punk/funk, let the 1% who are occupy your ears with this stone cold jam.
While the band didn't actually sing the offensive title, there were enough notes for discerning listeners to name that tune. The show's band intended the prank to be tongue-in-cheek. In fact, the drummer Questlove even tweeted for his fans to look out for that night's "snark." But it was hard to find anyone willing to call the stunt a Swiftian satire. It was more Jackassian.
Bachmann then went on a media blitz, stating…
"This is clearly a form of bias on the part of the Hollywood entertainment elite," Bachmann said. She added, "This wouldn't be tolerated if this was Michelle Obama. It shouldn't be tolerated if it's a conservative woman either."
The band has been reprimanded and Bachmann received a personal apology from both Fallon and NBC's Vice President. Only the Vice President of NBC? Was their President too busy high-fiving everyone behind closed doors?
It's valid to ask if it could have happened to Michelle Obama. The Hollywood entertainment elite is undeniably more left-winged then, say, the NASCAR audience that booed the First Lady the day before. But while Bachmann gets to cry elitist, Mrs. Obama doesn't have that luxury. Calling NASCAR audiences "elitist" would be a little like calling NASCAR audiences "elitist."
And if booing is too tame a comparison, don't forget the pundit who actually called Hillary Clinton a "bitch." The Secretary of State most likely checks her mailbox every day waiting for that apology letter to finally arrive.
There's a lesson here for Michele Bachmann: Women in power should never have to tolerate being called a "bitch." Also, all women in power will always have to tolerate being called a "bitch."
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* Is there room for more than one misinformed, xenophobic, hyper-partisan woman in the GOP primary race? Let's hope so.
* Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) somehow manages to get by on only $174,000 salary, but you don't see him complaining about waking up every morning and trying to cut pay for public workers who aren't him. What a trooper.
* Rick Santorum gives a compelling reason why abortion is so evil: It detracts from the pyramid scheme that is Social Security.
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Maryville College's teacher preparation program is among the most effective teacher training programs in Tennessee, according to a report released this month by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC).
The 2012 Report Card on the Effectiveness of Teacher Training Programs, which examines results from the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) and End of Course (EOC) exam scores, shows that students of Maryville College graduates scored especially high in 4th-8th grade math, reading/language, and TCAP composite scores, as well as high school End of Course exam composite scores.
"We are proud of our graduates who come through our program," said Dr. Terry Simpson, professor of secondary education and chair of the Division of Education at Maryville College.
In 2007, the Tennessee General Assembly passed legislation requiring that the State Board of Education produce an assessment on the effectiveness of teacher training programs. The report is required by law to include data on each teacher training program's graduates in three areas: teacher placement and retention rates, Praxis II (teacher certification test) results, and teacher effectiveness based on the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS) scores.
Simpson said he is pleased with the results but cautions that the report is just one type of teacher assessment tool.
"The report's emphasis on assessment focuses not on what teachers teach but on what students learn," Simpson said. "Our goal is that our graduates will do well in all kinds of assessments, not just a multiple choice test score. We want to help them reach their potential in a variety of ways."


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Northwest Whitfield High School baseball coach Todd Middleton hasn't decided who will pitch his team's biggest game of the season so far.
But he has a guess for who the Bruins will be hitting against.
The deciding third game in the Bruins' Class 4A first-round state playoff series against Grady, which started Friday with a doubleheader split and was scheduled to conclude Saturday, was postponed due to inclement weather and rescheduled for 5:30 p.m. Monday at Richard S. Chumley Field in Tunnel Hill.
Northwest (22-6) lost the first game 3-1 as Grady's ace, Liam Henery, pitched a complete game and allowed only six hits. He struck out four, walked just one and the Grey Knights (11-13) never trailed.
"I expect to see him," Middleton said of Henery. "He only threw 80-something pitches.
"I guess he just kept us off balance, mixed speeds well and we didn't adjust to that. We didn't go with our gameplan."
Seth Pierce, the Bruins' ace, also pitched the entire game while allowing nine hits and striking out six. When asked if Pierce will pitch on Monday, Middleton said, "He won't start." The sophomore eclipsed the 100-pitch mark in the game.
This leaves Northwest's other two starters — Andy Whisenant and Wade Terrell. Whisenant started in the second game, an 11-8 Northwest win, and pitched four innings while allowing seven runs. Terrell pitched the final three innings, earning the win, and allowed just one run off four hits.
"It will depend on how everybody feels Monday," Middleton said. "Wade and Andy didn't throw that many pitches (Friday). One of them threw 50-something and one threw 40-something."
Pierce, Whisenant and Terrell have been the Bruins' rotation all season long during Region 7-4A's three-game series format. Divided into sub-regions, teams played each of their sub-region foes in a week-long series during the regular season.
Aside from being the first-game starter, Pierce also has been the team's second- or third-game closer. In the region title series against Cass, Pierce pitched the seventh inning of the third game and earned the save in the Bruins' 7-6 win.
"I'm not ruling anything out, but again it depends on how he feels," Middleton said. "It's on two days of rest and he threw a lot of pitches."
Monday includes a 60 percent chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Peachtree City. If Monday's game is blocked due to weather, Middleton said the game will take place Tuesday, which includes a 20 percent chance of rain. The winner moves on to face Region 8 runners-up Stephens County in the second round. All second round series begin Wednesday, according to ghsa.net.
"If we had to play Tuesday, then they might move the series back one day," Middleton said. "I'm not sure. I don't know if the GHSA would do that or not."
Middleton said he made an offer to Grady to play the third game on Friday, but it was declined.
"Whoever wins will have a short turnaround, if we get to play Monday even. I would've rather played all three games last night," he said. "The thing it does is gives pitchers some more rest."


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A comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum with supporting materials for helping young people on the autism spectrum aged 11+ to understand and cope with the many challenges of adolescence, including the important issues of puberty, sexuality, relationships, gender identity, safety and self-care. more »2014, Paperback: £24.99/ $39.95
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In every part of our vast country you'll find unique experiences to make your dream holiday come true.
Surrounded by a red sand desert which stretches for hundreds of kilometres in all directions, Alice Springs is one of Australia's most famous outback towns. It is the gateway to the iconic natural features of Uluṟu (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuṯa National Park.
Here, stories of Australia's history and heritage are told through a colourful cast of characters and events that include camel races, gold-diggers and outback pioneers.
Alice Springs lies in the physical and spiritual heart of Australia's Red Centre. It is surrounded on all sides by the jagged MacDonnell Ranges, which according to the traditional owners, the Arrernte people, was formed during the Dreamtime by giant caterpillars. The Royal Geographic Society of Australia has calculated the geographical and gravitational centre of the continent at the Lambert Centre, approximately 200 kilometres south of town.
Today, the town's upmarket hotels, restaurants, and 20000 inhabitants, continue to uphold its vibrant history. It's also an excellent place to pick up an authentic piece of unique Aboriginal art.
From here, you can join one of Australia's most challenging walks, the Larapinta Trail; and it is the ideal place to connect with Australia's rich Aboriginal traditions and awe-inspiring landscapes.
Australia's classic outback drive, the Red Centre Way, from Alice Springs to Kings Canyon, is one of the best ways to experience the natural wonders of this vast ancient red landscape.
Seven things to do in Alice Springs:
Start your outback adventure in Alice Springs, in the heart of Australia's Red Centre. Sail over the spinifex plains in a hot air balloon or bike ride to Simpsons Gap. Join a safari of quad bikes across the desert or fly over the MacDonnell Ranges. Peer into the traditions of the Aboriginal Arrernte people who have lived here for 20,000 years and browse contemporary Aboriginal art along Todd Mall. Connect to stories of Afghan cameleers, flying doctors and plucky pioneers in the many heritage sites around the town. This rollicking, modern town is also a day trip from the iconic attractions of Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa and Kings Canyon.
Connect to rich Aboriginal traditions, awe-inspiring landscapes and pioneer history in Alice Springs, which sits just south of Australia's geographic centre. Learn about the area's first inhabitants - the Western Arrernte Aboriginal people - in the Araluen Cultural Precinct and in the vibrant art lining Todd Mall. Find out how plucky pioneers shaped the modern town in the Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, Royal Flying Doctor Service and School of the Air.
You probably know about the red monolith in Australia's Red Centre.
You may know it's sacred to the Aboriginal people here, and that it turns some spectacular colours at sunrise and sunset. You might not know that you can experience it through Aboriginal eyes, or that there are many other sacred and breathtaking sites here in Australia's vast centre. Uluṟu's cousin Kata Tjuṯa is just 40 kilometres away and you'll find the awe-inspiring Kings Canyon not far from Alice Springs.
Swim in Glen Helen Gorge and spot rock wallabies at Simpsons Gap, both in the West MacDonnell Ranges. Listen to the Dreamtime legend surrounding the comet crater of Gosse Bluff. Climb to the rim of Kings Canyon and swim in the tropical pools of the Garden of Eden. Do a dawn camel trek around Uluṟu and wander between the steep russet domes of nearby Kata Tjuṯa.
Trek along the backbone of the West MacDonnell Ranges to attractions such as Simpsons Gap, Ellery Creek Big Hole, Ormiston Gorge and Glen Helen Gorge. This epic chain of day walks stretches more than 223km from the old Alice Springs Telegraph Station to Mount Sonder and Mount Razorback. Stand on ancient escarpments and look out over vast ochre-colored landscapes. Visit sites sacred to the Arrernte Aboriginal people. Scramble down sheltered gorges, swim in cool waterholes and sleep under a sea of stars.
The outback makes you bonkers. How else can you explain the Henley-on-Todd – an annual sailing and rowing regatta held on a dry river bed in Alice Springs?
With pirate ships firing flour bombs, people paddling canoes with sand shovels and bathtubs on legs, you do wonder if there's more heat and dust than sense in this iconic outback town.
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By MARY RAINWATER
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Two young people died Thursday in a Dallas hospital after being rescued from a house fire in Elkhart on Wednesday morning, according to reports from the Anderson County Sheriff's Office.
"We received word from the medical examiner that the female victim was in his custody," Sheriff Greg Taylor reported to the Herald-Press at around 5 p.m. Thursday. "He told us that he was expecting the male sometime this evening.
"They are gone," he said.
The victims — confirmed by personnel at Parkland Hospital in Dallas to be Shauna VanStory, 19, and Michael Murdock, 13 — were transported to Parkland after being rescued from the residence, located at the corner of Sheridan and Church streets.
Unconfirmed reports of the victims' death were reported by Elkhart community members and others on social media sites throughout the day Thursday, with Parkland Hospital officials reporting to the media and law enforcement as late as 4 p.m. that the victims' were listed as "critical."
"We were told by the medical examiner that they were taken off life support and that they have passed away," Taylor said early Thursday evening.
A candlelight prayer vigil was held Thursday night in front of the victims' residence, with attendees asked to bring items of memorial to leave at the site.
"(The family has) lost everything and will need everyone's prayers and help during this time," Taylor said.
According to reports, the house was fully engulfed when deputies arrived on the scene at about 10 a.m. Wednesday and there were two children inside the residence.
"Rescuers got them out, did CPR on them and got a pulse, then care-flighted them to Parkland," the sheriff reported, adding that the parents of the children were not at home at the time, but arrived at the scene later.
"He (the children's stepfather) tried to go in the house to get them, but firefighters did not allow him in."
The house appeared to be a total loss, and a preliminary investigation revealed that the fire was likely accidental — starting in the home's living room.
"There appeared to be no foul play," Taylor said.
Elkhart, Slocum, Tucker and Southside Volunteer Fire Departments all responded to the scene, with the Palestine Regional Medical Center Ambus also arriving to help.
Friends of the family reported at the prayer rally that a fund would be set up for the family at Elkhart State Bank today. Various fund-raisers also were in the works, including a garage sale and bake sale in downtown Elkhart Saturday.
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ENID, Okla. —
Lauren Elise Ortega Wade, an Enid resident and 2014 Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Teen, came prepared to her interview Saturday afternoon with the News & Eagle.
She sat up straight. She patiently waited before speaking. And she had only thoughtful, well-rehearsed answers to give.
And when asked how long she'd been riding her horses, she had a short and sweet answer ready to go, owing to her experience speaking on a stage: "I've been riding longer than I've been walking."
The 16-year-old only happened to be wearing her pageant sash, her official Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Teen cowboy hat sitting atop her dark-brown hair — she'd been around the snow-covered neighborhood handing out invitations for her coronation celebration this Saturday.
Elise's favorite rodeo event? That would be saddle-bronc riding, or "the event that started it all," from its origins on the ranches, where cowboys would see who could ride an unridden horse the longest.
But today, both miles and worlds away from the Midwest's red dirt and dust, Elise will rub elbows with notable Washington figures like Rep. Frank Lucas, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and President Obama himself at a White House reception welcoming French President Francois Hollande.
She, Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Lauren Heaton and Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Princess Emily Smith have meetings with such U.S. officials scheduled all week at the nation's capital before returning this weekend for Elise's coronation at Convention Hall.
After that, it's on to Florida for more rodeos.
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As an official "rodeo queen" in Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Bible Academy sophomore's duties are to promote the sport to both the rodeo community and the general public, who may not understand what exactly rodeo is — a link to the past, to the Wild West days, to Oklahoma's own history as an uncharted and unsettled territory.
"Anything that I've ever done is amazing, whether it was falling off the back of a bucking chute before going on 'Wake Up, Salt Lake' in Ogden, Utah, or getting to meet the president of the United States," Elise said. "The opportunities are insane and amazing. They're endless."
So Elise doesn't have free time to do much else.
Every day last summer, before competing for the Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Teen title, she would wake up before sunrise and ride two to four horses, which sleep out in a massive white barn behind the Wades' home.
Elise was awarded the title after the four-day scholarship pageant last July in Oklahoma City, winning in all the categories of public speaking, personality, appearance, horsemanship and written test. She represented the Chisholm Trail Stampede PRCA Rodeo and the Will Rogers Stampede PRCA Rodeo.
It was her third title, after winning Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Princess in 2007 at 8 years old. She also was Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Sweetheart from 2001-2006.
More than $40,000 in scholarships are available for Miss Rodeo Oklahoma contestants, Elise's father, Doug Wade, said.
"What they're after is developing a new fan," Wade said. "She's very accessible. Miss Rodeo America, you can get to her. That's what they do."
Elise accomplishes her duties through regular rodeo appearances, TV spots, ad modeling and product endorsements. Oh, and the occasional trip to meet the president.
"I'm still on adrenaline and kind of in shock about what's going on," Elise said.