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I believe that the best way to impart a sense of LGBT equality and rights is to be open and living your regular life in the presence of people who are making big, sweeping decisions for our country."
Undergraduate Degree:
BS in Health Administration and Policy, Spanish Minor, Creighton University
Career Before Law School:
The Nature Conservancy, Human Rights Campaign, Political Consultant/Campaign Worker
"I realized I was gay. By second grade, I knew the word for it." Raised in a close-knit conservative Catholic family in Texas, Blake Johnson says, "It was tough growing up, because you definitely had a sense being gay didn't fit in." It wasn't until he was 20, on a study semester abroad in Ireland, that he told close friends and family his secret. His friends were supportive, but his family had serious concerns.
Things change. Today, Blake is national student cochair of the LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transsexual) Bar Association, an affiliate of the American Bar Association. In between doing his coursework at Vermont Law School, he is phone-conferencing across the country with other members to change the political and legal climate through education and advocacy. As cochair of the VLS Alliance, he organized a well-attended candlelit vigil to demonstrate support for gay teens facing harassment. Its theme, "It gets better," has played out in his own life: his mother now raises funds for LGBT advocacy groups and his father counsels other LGBT parents.
Ten years down the road, Blake would like to be working in a civil rights division or heading a nonprofit that works for LGBT, immigrant, and voter rights and environmental justice -a change from a decade ago when he entered Creighton University, a Jesuit college in Omaha, with the goal of becoming a doctor or a priest. After his junior year in Ireland, he returned to Creighton, dropped out of his fraternity in the face of hostility, and overcame administrative hurdles to get the campus's first Gay Straight Alliance started.
After graduation, he worked a year for The Nature Conservancy in Omaha before being trained by the Human Rights Campaign to work in political campaigns. He was assigned a Democratic congressional candidate in a swing Denver suburb. "We lost horribly, but after it was done, I knew clearly I wanted to be in politics," he says. "As a regular guy, having access to policy-makers is important, especially when you're just a regular guy who is gay. I believe that the best way to impart a sense of LGBT equality and rights is to be open and living your regular life in the presence of people who are making big, sweeping decisions for our country." He adds with a chuckle, "Of course, it helps to work tirelessly to get good politicians into office."
In the following years, working largely in fund raising, he did just that: he helped raise $4.2 million for Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and over $3 million for Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, and also consulted on fundraising for legislative candidates in Colorado, the state he now calls home. "I will disagree when people say all politicians are corrupt or out for themselves," he says. "They are some of the most incredible people I've had a chance to meet in my life. By demonstrating commitment, discipline, and integrity, they've had a profound impact on the way I live my life."
The fact that many of his fellow politicos were attorneys persuaded Blake to pursue a career in law; VLS was an easy choice for him for its environmental and civil rights programs and community feeling. "Students are supportive of one another here in a way that I would challenge any other law school to even come close to-and they're committed to their ideals in a way that makes working and studying a lot easier," he says.
That support swung into place during the 2010 National LGBT Bar Association conference in Miami, which seven VLS students attended-one of the largest delegations. When Blake decided to run for the national student cochair against two opponents, VLS students worked the floor to buttonhole votes. "I'm not sure it was all that tough an election, but we did campaign and the victory was earned," he says. "I just felt someone from VLS needed to run because VLS cares so much about LGBT and civil rights issues."


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Brian Kidd is one of a select band of former players who are admired throughout Manchester's footballing circles. He joined Manchester City as assistant manager in December 2009.
Having won the European Cup with United, Brian later moved to Maine Road and racked up 128 appearances, including over 50 goals, with the Blues between 1976 and 1979. A career that also took in stints at Everton, Arsenal and Bolton ended in the United States before he turned his attention to coaching, where his techniques have won many admirers and brought success at many levels.
Brian spent a decade at Old Trafford as youth team boss and assistant manager before moving to Leeds, Sheffield United and, in 2008-09, Portsmouth, where alongside Paul Hart he managed to keep the south coast side in the Premier League.
Kidd, who was born in Collyhurst and always maintained his family home in the Manchester area, was also England coach under former City chief Sven-Goran Eriksson.

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AVONDALE, Ariz. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. is Jimmie Johnson's teammate and Brad Keselowski's former boss, so who does Earnhardt see winning this year's NASCAR Sprint Cup?
"I think Jimmie is going to win it" for a sixth championship, Earnhardt said Friday. Johnson has "great equipment . . . one of the best crew chiefs in the business" in Chad Knaus, and Johnson "is one of the best drivers in the business."


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If you've been thinking about providing day care in your home for other people's children, you've probably also wondered whether you need some kind of insurance. A child care center or nursery school must have liability insurance to become licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Anyone who provides child care in his or her own home is not required by DHHS to have liability insurance to become licensed. Although DHHS does not require liability insurance, a family child care provider may be required by his or her homeowners insurance company to have business liability insurance in order to avoid cancellation or nonrenewal of the homeowners policy.
DHHS defines a family child care provider as a person who receives some type of payment to provide child care in his or her own home on a regular basis for 3 to 12 children under 13 years old, who are not the provider's own children. If you are receiving payment for providing child care on a regular basis, you should consider obtaining separate liability insurance to cover the child care activity.
Your homeowners policy probably excludes any loss arising out of any business conducted in your home, including child care. Therefore, to protect yourself and ensure that the children in your care are covered for injuries and incidents that may occur while in your care, you should buy a liability insurance policy to cover the daycare business. Having appropriate business liability insurance will also help you keep your home insured. This is because, historically, an insurer could refuse to issue or renew a homeowners policy if a child care business was in the home.
As of September 12, 2009, Maine law prohibits an insurer from denying an application for a new homeowners policy or cancelling or refusing to renew an existing policy on the basis of the daycare exposure under certain circumstances. This law applies only to a DHHS-certified family child care that is in the insured's primary residence. The property must have four or fewer units, and the homeowner/child care provider must have liability insurance for the child care business.
Consulting with one or more insurance producers, other daycare providers, and/or an attorney can provide you with different perspectives and the knowledge you need to make an informed decision about what you need for coverage. The following guidelines are general and will help you understand some key points. However, your individual needs may be different.
If you plan to provide care in a home you own or rent, you may already have a homeowners policy. This is a basic policy that covers your property in case of fire or a number of other perils. It also gives you some protection against claims for injuries to others while they are on the property you own or rent. This type of policy will not cover your day care activities if you receive payment for them.
You may be able to get an endorsement, or supplemental coverage, added to your homeowners policy to provide liability coverage for a limited number of children while they are under your paid care. This extension is usually limited to three children, not including your own, though some insurers do provide coverage for more children. While the endorsement will add to the cost of your insurance, it will be the least expensive coverage you can buy, as long as you plan to care for only the number of children it allows.
If you plan to care for more children than your homeowners insurer allows, you may have to buy another type of insurance policy.
For example:
1. A separate day care liability policy,
2. A "commercial package" policy that provides day care liability coverage combined with coverage for damage or theft of your property.
In each case, the number of children in your care will be a factor in the amount of premium charged by the insurer. Be aware that if you plan to become a licensed provider, your premium will be based on the number of children for which your facility is licensed, not the number actually receiving care. You can save money on your premium if you make sure that you are not licensed for more children than you have under active care.
The other major factor that will affect the amount of your premium is the dollar amount of coverage, or the "limit," you decide to buy. DHHS requires minimum limits for a licensed child care facility, including a nursery school, of $100,000 per person and $300,000 per occurrence for bodily injury. If you provide transportation, Maine's motor vehicle financial responsibility law requires you to have vehicle liability insurance. The minimum requirement for all vehicle liability insurance is $50,000 per person/$100,000 per occurrence for bodily injury and $25,000 for property damage.
Please note: increasing your insurance limits above the minimum requirements does not add much to the premium. Added protection might be worth the difference in cost. Again, you should talk to several insurance producers before you decide how much coverage to buy. It might also help to find out what a few experienced family child care providers do for insurance coverage.
Lead paint may become an issue with insurers if you provide day care for children other than your own. Most buildings constructed in the United States before 1978 have some lead-based paint. Lead-based paint is considered a major environmental health hazard, especially to children. Therefore, many insurers will not cover older properties without a lead-safe certification from a licensed inspector.
You may also obtain liability insurance from "surplus lines" or "excess" insurers. Coverage obtained through the surplus lines market will likely be expensive. However, this coverage may have non-standard exclusions for lead and other liability exposures as well as restrictions not found in a standard policy.
The Department of Health and Human Services Child Care Licensing Unit has rules concerning lead paint. Contact them at (207) 287-5060 for more information.
So far we have assumed that you will have little or no difficulty finding an insurer willing to provide you with the coverage you need. However, you can't be sure that an insurer will always agree to provide day care liability at a price you think you can afford. Insurers are becoming less willing to provide day care liability and some may require that you insure both your home and the day care with them.
There are several things you can do to increase your chances of obtaining liability insurance. The most important is to know an insurer's minimum requirements regarding the physical environment, staff training and experience, and child-to-provider ratios of day care facilities. While general information is available from DHHS, its main interest is in establishing minimum requirements for certification. Insurers may have stricter requirements.
Don't hesitate to ask insurance producers if the insurers they represent have specific requirements before they will issue a day care liability policy. Try to bring your facility in line with these requirements. It might mean putting off the swimming pool for a few years, fencing in a play area (and fencing out the family dog), hiring an experienced helper, installing some fire extinguishers and smoke alarms, or filling in a drainage ditch in the back yard. These steps will not only make it easier to get insurance, they will also reduce your premium.
You can help to keep your child care insurance affordable by continuing to provide safe and responsible care in a clean and healthy risk-free environment. Quality day care is good for the children and good for your insurance budget.
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Toward the tail end of 2013, we highlighted a couple of reports that pointed to a fairly stable angel market in the U.S. The latest from one of those reports, the Halo Report — from Angel Resource Institute (ARI), Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and CB Insights — may suggest reason for a bit of concern. According to the report, median angel round sizes are down $180,000 per deal since Q1 2013 ($700,000 to $520,000).
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With Variable Power recoil springs, the space varies between coils with less space between coils at one end and more space between coils at the other end. They are beneficial with compensated handguns and when using light target loads where less recoil energy is available. Wolff Recoil springs fit over your handgun's guide rod and control how the slide functions. In general, heavy loads need heavy springs and lighter loads need lighter springs. There is no hard and fast rule as to how much "spring" a handgun needs. Too light of a spring and the handgun opens and closes early and hard, increasing the felt recoil and battering the frame. Too heavy of a spring, the slide is hard to open and may not cycle completely, jamming the firearm. Includes an extra power firing pin spring. Installation requires disassembly and reassembly of the slide.
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Colt 1911 length pistols and clones, including models from Para Ordnance, Kimber and Springfield Armory. These pistols all
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Factory 1911 recoil springs are 16 pounds in 45 ACP, 14 pounds in 38 Super, 9mm Luger, 38 Special Midrange, Colt Ace 22 conversion kit, and 19 pounds in 40 S&W.
The Delta Elite 10mm uses a dual factory spring rated at 23 pounds. Single recoil springs require that the Delta Elite recoil spring guide be replaced with a standard 45 ACP recoil spring guide.
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Variable power springs are typically used on compensated pistols or when shooting lighter target ammunition.
Recoil springs fit over a pistol's guide rod and control how the pistol's slide functions.
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Shooters who are using +P ammunition or self defense ammunition will likely need heavier recoil springs.
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|Somali Community Center of Nashville
201 Thompson Lane, Suite 202
Nashville, TN 37211
|(615) 832-4555
|(615) 832-4777
|Mental Health Access for Refugees and Immigrants
|Project Period:
|9/30/04 - 9/29/07
|Project Director:
|Abdirizak Musse Hassan
|Target Population:
|Somali Adults, Elderly
|Health Issues:
|Mental health
|The purpose of the Mental Health Access for Refugees and Immigrants (MHARI) project is to provide access through community outreach, to education and referral services for mental health for Somali immigrants and refugees, ages 18 and older, in Nashville, Davidson County. To increase awareness about mental illness among the Somali population, MHARI uses translated copies of existing mental health educational materials, covering topics such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychotic disorders, and domestic violence. The educational materials are distributed at three Mutual Assistance Associations (MAAs), Cornerstone Community Mental Health Centers, Inc., and at local gathering places such as mosques, refugee businesses, and local provider agencies. Community access cable programs produced in the language of the target population, feature the project and provide information and education on mental health. Community meetings are held to educate residents on the signs and symptoms of mental illness, types of treatment, and availability of services, including interpreters. MHARI coordinates referrals of individuals to mental health services, by providing information about bilingual/bicultural services available at three MAAs, distributing mental health educational materials at refugee resettlement centers and other refugee assistance programs, and developing outreach strategies through focus groups. Three cultural awareness gatherings for Centerstone staff are held each year. Interpreters trained in mental health issues are used to assist in clinical sessions and community education sessions.


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Call Welker a motormouth
We all knew Wes Welker was fast. At least his legs. We didn't know his lips moved as fast as they've moved the last few months.
Is there an interview the former Patriots wide receiver won't do?
I guess that's a good thing, at least for our business, now that the Denver Broncos' slot receiver seems to be a quote machine since leaving New England this winter.
He even said he was tired of "not be able to speak" while with the Patriots.
Welker has become a chatterbox since becoming a Bronco. He's been on ESPN, the NFL Network and he's done several one-on-one interviews with much of the Denver media. Most recently he did a Q&A on an ESPN college football blog about his former teammate and now coach at Texas Tech, Kliff Klingsbury, whom the Patriots drafted in the sixth round in 2003.
Sherman set up to fail
The pressure is on Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, who like baseball's Ryan Braun had his failed PED (performance enhancing drug) test overturned.
He has signed on a periodic contributor to Peter King's new website (along with Sports Illustrated).
In his first column this week he explained his "verbal war" with Tom Brady last year saying Brady was upset with some trash-talking and told one of the Seahawks defensive backs to come find him after the Patriots win the game.
Well, the Pats lost and Sherman, who only heard about Brady's comments, chased Brady down and got pretty nasty afterward yelling at Brady.
Sherman's mouth is very good. So is his talents, though we have to see about his PED testing. If he doesn't continue on his path of greatness, he will be a laughingstock.
The General wins
"The General" Scott Duffany and his partner Tommy Dreamer defeated Mr. T.A. and A.J. Mitrano last Friday to win the Big Time Wrestling Tag Team Title at a Gloucester Police Relief Association Wrestling Benefit at the Dorothy Talbot Rink. "The General" now holds two titles as he is also the USWF Hardcore Champion.
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Columnist Art Thiel
As the parabola of Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson's final pass became apparent -- in play, in the end zone -- there was no doubt that the Seahawks, the Packers, a stadium of fans, and the world that cares about Monday Night Football were about to witness the worst collision between clown cars in the history of the circus.
Boom! Floppy shoes, orange hair, red noses flying across the Pioneer Square landscape. Oh, the greasepaint!
And grinning in the bottom of the mayhem was a hero named Golden.
Does it get more loopy?
Yes. Loopy went overtime, grabbed a snack and came back on the field to kick a pointless point. Ten minutes after the game was over, it was over-over: Seattle 14, Green Bay 12, but the controversy over this outcome will finish the moment the sun goes supernova.
The game was everything absolutely right and absolutely wrong with the industry at the moment. A superb thrash of a match that ended with the wrong team winning. Yes, the wrong team, Seahawks fans -- Green Bay's M.D. Jennings had the interception in the air and on the ground. But by the time the referees arrived, they made it the scene of a sporting crime.
I know -- the football gods owed Seattle one from a little travesty in Detroit a few years ago ago. But let's not go there. Let's go to the man of the moment, Golden Tate, who caught Seattle's first touchdown, fouled up a potential second TD pass, then became semi-immortal with the third chance.
The guy who was fighting me (Jennings) for it, he's strong," said Tate. "I was just trying to hold on to it until they pulled guys off me. I had a lot of Green Bay Packers scratching, clawing and pulling at me.
"I didn't know if it was a touchdown, interception, completion. I didn't know what was going on. Couldn't hear anything."
Golden, replays show Jennings above you catching the ball and coming down with until he hit the ground with you.
"Maybe he did," said Tate, nonplussed. "But I took it from him."
Laughter erupted from the reporters around him.
Across the way in the Packers quarters, no laughter erupted. As TV screens in the locker room showed a replay of the final moment to the Packers players for the first time, groans and curses filled the room and towels were hurled against the TV screens.
"I felt like I had total control of the ball," said Jennings, a second-year pro from Arkansas State. "It was pinned to my chest the whole time. I was very shocked (at the call). But the refs got the last say, so it is what it is."
What the rule is, is that a simultaneous catch between offensive and defensive players goes to the offensive player. But it wasn't a simultaneous catch; Jennings had first possession and Tate reached in. But not only was the miscall made, it was upheld on replay review by regular replay officials, not replacements.
After several tense minutes, referee Wayne Elliott emerged to a still nearly full stadium that fell silent.
"After further review, the call on the field is upheld . . ." As his hands shot up to signal touchdown, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was five feet away, mimicking him.
The roar shook the place: For the first time in the 664-game history of the Monday Night Football series, a game was won on a touchdown with no time left on the clock. And it was wrong.
Packers coach Mike McCarthy could barely contain his fury. Asked whether he was walking a fine line about criticizing the officiating, he said, "I'm not walking it. Don't ask me questions about the officials, alright? So we'll cut to the chase right here. You want to talk about the game?"
Ah. The game. Splendid affair. The Seahawks defense in the first half knocked the snot out of all-world quarterback Aaron Rodgers (eight sacks, one shy of the NFL record), who came back in the second to lead drives that produced two field goals and a touchdown to take a 12-7 lead.
Ferocious defense, painful offense and a cavalcade of officiating errors that would take a Google algorithm a month to sort.
"It was the most unusual football game that I have been a part of," McCarthy said. Even Carroll, the victor, who rarely says anything sour, had had it.
"It's time for this to be over -- it's time for this to be over," he said of the labor dispute with the veteran officials that is slowly eating away the game. "My hat's off to these officials. They're doing everything as well as they can. They're working their tails off. It demonstrates how difficult it is.
"It's a very, very complex process to handle these games and make these decisions. There's nothing easy about it. It takes years and years of experience to pull it off properly and in a timely fashion.
"It's time to be over. The league deserves it, and everybody deserves it."
Give McCarthy the last word: "I've never seen anything like that in all my years of football."
He meant it in the harshest way possible. The Seahawks need not be ashamed to claim it, but the NFL needs to be ashamed to own it.


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In the years 2013, 2006, 2004 and 2003, the ZAS participated in the 'Long Night of the Sciences' in Berlin. With experiments, talks, plays, posters, films and other presentation forms, we showed the fascination of linguistic research.
In 2013 some of the presented themes were: The function of the voice, Bislama language course for beginners, the endangered languages of Ambrym, and in former years: vocabulary of color, taste and smell; numerals; animacy in grammar; secret languages; clicks; exotic European languages. Guided tours through the PhonLab and hands-on experiments in the psycholinguistic lab are each time very popular.
The Berlin International Women's Club was our guest on June 24th, 2009. Event theme: Language acquisition, multilingualism, and language contact.
If you are interested in a presentation on a linguistic theme, our resources allow us to offer such events for special interest groups.


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The terrible history of passenger planes getting shot out of the sky
What is more clear is that, if initial reports are true, this would be the deadliest incident of a civilian passenger plane being shot down in modern memory. In some instances, the causes of the disaster are still shrouded in mystery. Here are some of the worst events.
Starbucks sees more Apple-like stores after Colombia debut
This week Starbucks opened its first location in Colombia — a 2,700-square-foot store with a heated patio, concrete columns, mirrors on the ceiling and walls of colorful plants.
VIDEO: New story emerges about Texas children locked in hot car
After footage showed Texas shoppers breaking the windows of a hot car to rescue children trapped inside, additional witnesses have come forward to correct the story behind what has become a viral video.
Gunshots narrowly miss TV reporter
A reporter for a West Virginia television station narrowly escaped injury or worse Monday while covering a fatal weekend shooting in Beckley.
25 hidden secrets in "Weird Al's" "Word Crimes" video
Yankovic's 14th album was released this week, and it warms my heart containers that he's kept up his geeky brand of humor for so long. While he has written so many incredible songs, none have spoken to my love of proper grammar.
Until "Word Crimes."
VIDEO: Comcast apologizes after customer service call goes viral
Comcast issued an apology after one of its representatives kept a customer captive on the phone for nearly 20 minutes, demanding to know why he was choosing another cable provider.
When your doctor commits suicide, things get complicated
When they call for appointments, patients are told they can't see their doctor. Ever. The standard line: "We are sorry, but your doctor died suddenly."
Police: Man claims prostitute crashed his pickup truck
Police in Pennsylvania are investigating a story they were given by a man who they found intoxicated at the scene of a one-vehicle crash.
VIDEO: Texas shoppers smash window to rescue children in hot car
Shoppers in Texas took matter into their own hands, smashing a Jeep's windows with a hammer when they say they saw two young children inside the hot car. The children's mother reportedly said she left them while she went to get a haircut.
Why fewer people go bowling
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Before they can begin a day of classes, many Tahlequah Public Schools students must take a publicly funded journey.
They get to their respective schools aboard buses, steered by drivers who bear much responsibility in their part-time jobs.
"TPS has a dedicated group of drivers," said Cody Thompson, director of maintenance, transportation and grounds. "They take their jobs very seriously and realize their importance. They are responsible for the transport and safety of over 1,000 kids every day."
On an average day, TPS transports 1,010 students during the mornings and 1,025 in the afternoons. The district employs 26 drivers, and each must carry a commercial driver's license with a specific "S" endorsement for school bus driving. They must also pass a medical exam, drug test and felony background check.
Jack Lankford assumed the district's role of assistant transportation director after eight years as a bus driver. During a typical day as a driver, he awoke at 4 a.m., got home from driving his route around 9 a.m., returned at 2 p.m. and finished his afternoon shift at around 5:30 p.m.
"I know a lot of people think it is an easy job, but there are actually a lot of difficulties," he said. "The kids can act up, and you need to keep taking glances at the mirror while you drive."
Drivers must also deal with parents. Lankford said a common parental complaint is that a child was struck by another while on the bus.
"The seats are high-backed," Lankford said. "That is to improve the safety for the children in a collision. They don't fly over the seats and around the inside of the bus. However, it can make monitoring the kids difficult. The little ones you may not see unless they peek around the side. The older ones, you can only see from their noses up. So there is a potential for the kids to make mischief."
Lankford said another difficulty for drivers is the fluidity of the routes.
"The routes can change on any day," he said. "People move in and move away. Some kids only ride the buses on certain days of the week. The drivers have to know all this and make sure all the kids are getting on the buses and getting off at the right stops. There is no daily memo to remind them. "
Thompson said that for many drivers, the top complaint is also the top reason they enjoy the job.
"Kids are kids, and they have to sit on the bus for quite a while," he said. "Our drivers have complaints, but they are also very understanding. They enjoy kids and enjoy seeing them safely to school and back. They wouldn't do this if they didn't"
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Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia, Joseph Ellis paints a full portrait of George Washington's life and career—from his military years through his two terms as president. He richly details Washington's private life and illustrates the ways in which it influenced his public persona. Throughout, Ellis peels back the layers of myth and uncovers for us Washington in the context of eighteenth-century America, allowing us to comprehend the magnitude of his accomplishments and the character of his spirit and mind.
His Excellency is a full, glorious, and multifaceted portrait of the man behind our country's genesis, sure to become the authoritative biography of George Washington for many decades.
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The raid of the bin Laden compound in Pakistan by the American Seals and his death which followed has brought about a tsunami of emotions around the world, from elation and celebrations in Washington DC by happy Americans to angry demonstrations in Pakistan by his unhappy supporters.
This raises a serious question in my mind as to whether justice was truly served, as President Obama proclaimed, or whether this is even significant at all in the long 1400 years of the suffering that people have endured (both in the Middle East and elsewhere) at the hands of the "Bin Ladens" of the centuries past.
Americans, of course, are jubilant because this major personality of our times who has been a thorn in our side for over 20 years and he is the primary culprit of the 9/11 attacks is no more. But are we finished with the issue of Muslim extremism? Is Bin Laden's death the end of our woes?
My answer is NO! We may be turning a new page as we put this criminal behind us, but the problem is far from being resolved. As we look at the conditions under which people in the Middle East have lived for the last 1400 years, we may understand better what the problem really is. Americans will need to acquire some of the long-suffering abilities of those who have been the continuous victims of this type of violence for over 14 centuries.
My immediate thought is that the killing of just one more terrorist will not bring an end to a culture cultivated over centuries. Bin Laden did not invent Jihad. He just followed in it's path and ideology.
Contrary to the way this is presented in the media, the problem is not a modern one. It has it's roots and conception in the 7th century and the first 100 years of the rise of Islam. Modern extremists merely draw their lessons from history and base their actions on behaviors of the past. Modern Americans have a lot to learn from the lessons of the past.
One major lesson to keep in mind is that it is not wise to rush to celebrate at this point. The death of one criminal is not the end of crime as a whole.
From a Christian perspective, of course, we need to find some direction and wisdom from Christ's life and teachings. Christ is the epitome of patience and non-violence. He rebuked Peter in the garden of Gesthemane when he drew his knife and cut the ear of the servant who had come to arrest Jesus. Jesus also disappointed those who expected Him to come with an army and weapons as an earthly King and who were perplexed to see Him accept suffering and death. They missed His point that His weapons are spiritual ones while humility and long-suffering is the way of defeating the arrogant Satan. He had to remind Pilate that His Kingdom is not of this world.
Likewise, the early Christians in the face of persecution and violence did not respond in kind, but remained steadfast in the Lord who showed His power through the Resurrection. To everyone's surprise the very force of evil that put them down for three centuries (the Roman Empire) bowed it's knee (in the 4th century) to the very Faith they had been persecuting. The power of Christ cannot be underestimated. If there is something to learn from this today is that God is in control, in the end, even when we humans lose our hope.
We do need to turn to God for the modern problem of violence and evil extremism. As we ask for His mercy, we must trust that He is able to protect us from the powers of this world. Ultimately His Kingdom should be our only goal; "Seek first the Kingdom of God and all other things will be added to you."
In conclusion, bin Laden's death is significant to us as Christians in as much as he is one among the thousands who lived violently and died violently, his life being in direct contrast to everything Christ taught. He is significant to us in as much as the ideology and religious tradition he followed stand in opposition to the humility, love and peace which Christ taught and offered the world.
As Christians we must not fall into the trap of our immediate emotions and share in the evil which bin Laden served, but rather continue to condemn evil and declare the love of God as we experience it through Jesus Christ.
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19 Telltale Signs You are Addicted to Scuba Diving
If you're reading this we can already assume you, or someone you know, is bordering on scuba addition. Or, maybe you're thinking of trying scuba diving and you're wondering what all the fuss is about. Your life may change when you discover scuba, like it has for so many others.
In the Maldives it is particularly easy to slip from recreation to obsession when you live a scuba lifestyle for more than a day or two. While others are concerned with a work-life balance you think a scuba-life balance describes your situation more closely.
We all have activities that we enjoy from time to time. So how do you know that an activity has passed that greyish line into the realm of obsession? If you initially denied any accusations of scuba addiction, you've already made it to the first stage – denial. Read on to see just how far your scuba addiction has sunk in.
You know you're addicted to scuba diving when:
- You hear this often: "Didn't you go on vacation? Where's your tan?"
Then you smile remembering what you were doing instead of lazing in the sun. You don't mind that many of your daylight hours were spent in a wet suit under many meters of sea water.
- The time you spend diving is only a fraction of the time you spend talking about it
Not just during the trip but before and after you catch yourself bringing scuba into the conversation on a regular basis. Or you didn't even realize that you did that until now, in which case your addiction is really far gone.
- You become a morning person if it means getting in an extra dive
Waking up for work – set 3 alarms and snooze them all. Waking up for scuba – no alarm needed.
- Your closet has been reorganized to make room for dive paraphernalia
Move over rarely worn outfits and shoes for those special occasions. The most important occasions in your life now only involve wet and dry suits and a pair of special booties.
- Leisure time = scuba time
Whether for actual diving or for research and planning, it's all about scuba. Your internet browser history is 80% dive-related.
- Holding your breath underwater just seems unnatural
You start refusing to swim without a snorkel. You imagine yourself in the shower with a snorkel just for a laugh.
- Instead of football stats or local news you talk about equipment configuration
Topics of normal conversation become boring
- You make big life decisions based on your desire to dive
Pregnancies are planned to avoid interfering with dive trips and you may decide to buy a vehicle to get you to diving locations more easily. On the other hand you might start selling off items to feed the diving addition. You plan your annual budget around dive trips and gear.
- When you catch a whiff of your dive gear, that weird indescribable odor unique to you, you secretly enjoy it
While others ask, "What's that smell", you get flashbacks of shark sightings.
- The return home is spent planning your next dive trip
- No one ever asks you what you want for your birthday
Anything scuba will do.
- As you're reading this you're nodding your head
And you are now realizing why you get all of those dirty looks from your partner and non-diver friends.
- You were probably sent this list as a passive intervention from the same people above
- You imagine breathing thru a regulator when you're at home
If questioned by anyone you explain it as calming breathing techniques because that sounds more normal than what you were really doing.
- During sales periods you only go to dive shops
Black Friday here you come!
- You fall asleep with your fins or dive booties still on
And hopefully someone got a photo of that.
- During your dives you mimic the fish and try to befriend them
You think that you can communicate with them.
- You're signed up to get all the scuba news and deals
You have a constant feed via newsletters, magazines and social media.
- You often dream of scuba
Sometimes the experience is so vivid you wake up feeling refreshed as if it really happened. A great way to start the day!
If you agreed with any one of these you're likely addicted to scuba diving. So your lifestyle is heavily affected by scuba – who cares?! It's obvious that you're not alone. An addiction to scuba is better than all of the other most common dependencies out there so if scuba is the dominant one you may be doing yourself a favor.
Soothe your diving urges with some Maldives diving. Thanks to the deals on summer packages and the upcoming manta season, there is no better time than now to head to the Maldives on a dive package.
Warning: Diving in the Maldives may force diving addiction to surface even more quickly.


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The incumbents took an early lead and held onto it overnight over Malibu challengers in the race for three seats on the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education.
The earliest results, based on absentee ballots, showed incumbents Ben Allen, Maria Leon-Vazquez and Jose Escarce in the lead. More results were not released until the early morning Wednesday, which confirmed the incumbents' victory.
Dense fog delayed reporting of the results on Tuesday night, according to county officials. Helicopters carrying ballots to be counted in Norwalk were grounded late Tuesday at the Puente Hills Mall in the City of Industry.
With so few ballots counted, candidates were hesitant to speak out on the early results.
"I hope that my returns stay the way they are," Allen said just before 10 p.m. Tuesday. "And I hope the Prop. 30 returns get better. Honestly I think it [not passing] will make life on the school board very difficult."
Malibu candidates Craig Foster, Karen Farrer and Seth Jacobson trailed behind, but on Tuesday night Foster was only 100 votes away from Escarce, who called the race "unpredictable" after the first round of results came out.
"I'm only going to wait and see what happens," Escarce said. "... It will go one way or the other."
Foster remained optimistic on Tuesday night.
"I am happy that with so few votes in, it is pretty close," Foster said. "We hope as more ballots are counted we gain ground."
Farrer said Tuesday night she hoped to learn more when additional results come out.
"I have a feeling that what the preliminary results look like are similar to the final," Farrer said.
Those preliminary results did turn out to be a mirror of the final results with the incumbents gaining ground as the results trickled in.
Measure ES, a $385 million bond measure that will go toward facility and technology improvements, won handily with 67.7 percent of the vote. It needed 55 percent approval to pass.
Before the final resulsts were in, Allen said he was encouraged by the vote.
"I'm just happy it is looking this strong at this stage," he said.
SANTA MONICA-MALIBU BOARD OF EDUCATION & MEASURE ES RESULTSCandidate Votes % Ben Allen 17,889 24.57 Karen Farrer 9,305 12.78 Craig Foster 11,653 16.01 Seth Jacobson 6,859 9.42 Jose Escarce 12,803 17.59 Maria Leon-Vazquez 14,294 19.63
Measure ES Votes % Yes 21,981 67.73 No 10,472 32.27
ORIGINAL POST: Malibu voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide who will fill three seats on the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education.
Three Malibu challengers, Craig Foster, Karen Farrer and Seth Jacobson, are hoping to unseat incumbents Ben Allen, Jose Escarce and Maria Leon-Vazquez.
All three Malibu candidates, which are running on a reform slate, have said they will task the superintendent with increasing student achievement in schools across the district, reduce class sizes and close the achievement gap between different demographic groups. They have said they will pay for their ideas by reducing the administrative bureaucracy and creating an independent Malibu School District.
Allen has said he will set high academic expectations and standards, look to preserve programs that are at the core of the district such as art and athletics and address the needs of both Malibu and Santa Monica.
Leon-Vazquez has said she will work to create a culture of inclusion and trust among all families, modernize school facilities, increase revenue through district-wide fundraising and close the achievement gap.
Escarce has said he will seek to preserve programs while balancing the budget, promote teachers' professional development and strengthen intervention programs.
Voters will also decide whether to approve a $385 million bond measure that will go toward facility and technology improvements. The measure needs 55 percent of voter support to pass.
If Measure ES passes, 20 percent of the funds are already slated to go toward Malibu schools.
Measure ES is meant to provide a portion of more than $1 billion of needed improvements at schools in Santa Monica and Malibu, according to assessments by the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.
Projects for Measure ES funding will be selected through a district-wide facility assessment and draft Master Plan, according to SMMUSD Superintendent Sandra Lyon.
"Passage of these three measures will ensure the resources that our local schools need," Lyon said in a letter to the community on Oct. 11.
In Malibu, about $70 million is needed to upgrade science labs, parts of the auditorium, an expanded outdoor eating and lunch shelters, gym and locker room upgrades, and mechanical infrastructure upgrades at Malibu High School.
Nearly $500 million is needed for improvements at Santa Monica High School.
At elementary schools across the district about $93 million is needed to replace temporary classrooms with permanent ones.


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The Mercer Island Fire Department Station 92 responds to fires and medical emergencies throughout the community,…More primarily on the South End. The "South Station" is home to a staff of three firefighters equipped with one fire engine, one midi fire truck and one aid car. The firefighters are on duty seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
The station is also outfitted with an emergency power generator to maintain services during power outages, which occasionally affect the Island.
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First established as the Mercer Island's Civilian Defense Group in 1944, The Mercer Island Fire Department Station 91…More serves as headquarters for responding to all fire and emergency needs.
Led by Fire Chief Chris Tubbs, a native Islander, the department's 28 firefighters respond to an average of 2,300 calls for aid every year. The Fire Department works to educate the public about how to prevent fires and quickly and safely put out the fires when they occur. The Fire Marshal's office conducts safety inspections of all structures and events. Fire personnel are also trained in Basic Life Support (BLS) and certified for dive/water rescues.


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Bridgwater College students visit largest agricultural machinery show (From This is The West Country)
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5:00pm Friday 25th January 2013 in Somerset By Kirsty James
A GROUP of agricultural students from Bridgwater College braved the icy weather to attend the UK's largest agricultural machinery show.
The Level 3 apprentices visited the annual Lincolnshire Agricultural Machinery Manufacturer's Association Machinery Show (LAMMA) at the Newark Showground in Nottingham.
The showground provided the students with information on topics relating to their course, including specialist seed drills and the latest GPS computerised systems and developments in agricultural machinery.
Rob Giles, programme manager for Agriculture said: "It was of huge benefit to the students, especially as it tied in with some of their forthcoming units of study."
The students will represent Bridgwater College next month demonstrating the latest GPS technology at the AMES Machinery Show at the Bath and West Showground.
An Open Day is being wild at the college tomorrow (January 26) from 10am to 1pm at the Cannington Centre. Call 01278-441234 or visit www.bridgwater.ac.uk.
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ORLANDO - Aaron Murray's media boycott is long over, but he didn't want to linger too long at a Capital One Bowl press conference on Saturday afternoon.
"Aaron told me he was in a hurry to get this done so he could go see Mickey Mouse," Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo cracked.
But Murray did hang around a bit, and had a couple interesting insights worth passing along:
- Murray came in to college with the reputation of a dual-threat quarterback, but now hes basically a pocket passer.
Oh yeah. I think in the offseason my goal is to work on my speed a little bit, get back to running it a little bit more," he said. "I lost maybe a step or two in my old age, so I gotta work a bit on that in the offseason a little bit."
Wait, offseason - and not the NFL draft combine? No, Murray said later, he hasn't made any decisions.
After the bowl game well figure it out," Murray said. "I got until January 15, I got plenty of time.
- How much autonomy does Bobo have over the offense now, six years after getting the play-calling duties? Murray explains:
Hes been adding a lot more to the offense when it comes to run plays, pass plays. We talk to coach Richt, and its funny, coach Richt doesnt even know half the plays we call nowadays, because the offense has evolved so much since he brought the offense here to Georgia.
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Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket celebrates first Dusit Charity Cup 2011
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Phuket, Thailand 22 August 2011 - Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket held its first charitable bowling tournament on last Saturday, 20 August 2011 at CS Bowling, Big C Phuket. This successful event was a social meeting point of collegaues in the hospitality industry, as well as their families, phuket residents to participate.
Proceeds from this event go towards the ongoing Dusit Smailes – Operation Smile Thailand programme. This wordwide organisation mobilises medical professionals to provide safe and effective reconstructive surgery for children born with facial deformities, such as cleft lip and cleft palate.
Mrs. Natalie presented The Governor's Cup trophies to the winners at the award ceremony. The winning team from Eakkarat Construction company comprised Mr. Sunai, Mr. Pongpan and Mr Somkeat at the scored 1,420 points total, For men's leagues winner were Mr Sunai Charoenpol at the highest scored of 520 and women's leagues ; Ms Sivarak Pongsanont from Banyantree Spa, at the highest scored of 480.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. --Rick Kara and his girls know the drill.
"Get in your car seat, please," he tells his toddlers.
Every day, Rick straps 2-year-old Bridget and 4-year-old Brianna in their car seats. He, more than most dads, understands the importance of the routine, thanks to his wife.
"The Queen, yes," he laughs.
Rick's wife, Joyce Kara, is a product manager with Britax. The Charlotte company manufactures car seats and is on a push to educate parents about the importance of safety seats.
What should parents look for?
"A five-point harness with the right weight limit and one that will fit in the vehicle and good side impact protection," said Kara.
Car accidents are the leading cause of death in children under the age of 14, she said. Kara has more statistics on why the safety seats are so important, pointing to research that says properly used car seats decrease the risk of death by 70 percent for infants and 50 percent for toddlers.
Kara says properly using tethers, the straps that keep the seats in place, also saves lives.
"Using the tether prevents and keeps the head from flying too far forward in a crash," she said.
Britax safety seats also click, letting parents know that their children are secured tightly. It's a message and a reminder Rick Kara believes all parents need to know.
"These are our children. We've got to protect them," he said.
Britax is offering free lessons on the correct way to install car seats. The Car Seat Check will be held September 21 from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at BRITAX USA Headquarters in Charlotte. The address is 13501 South Ridge Drive. No appointments are necessary.
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The most widely used approach for analyzing solutions of Einstein's gravitational field equations is the initial value formulation, and the key to the initial value formulation is the set of Einstein constraint equations. The study of the constraint equations and their solutions plays a major role in the search to understand the degrees of freedom of the gravitational field, in the search for a theory of gravity consistent with the quantum principle, and in the search for physically realistic models of astrophysical and cosmological gravitational systems. During the past few years, there has been significant progress in our understanding of the Einstein constraints. New ideas from geometric analysis, new techniques from numerical relativity, and new insights from seat-of-the pants physics have all led to this rapid progress.
Some of the topics to be discussed at the Conference are the following:
- initial data engineering via gluing;
- the quasi-spherical method for generating solutions;
- new forms of the conformal decomposition;
- practical attempts to build solutions of the constraint equations which model black hole collisions;
- solutions of the constraints with prescribed boundary behavior;
- rough solutions of the constraints;
- solutions of the constraints with prescribed multipole behavior;
- approximate solutions of the constraints with simplified dynamics ansatze;
- stability of the constraints.
Invited Participants:
L Andersson; R Bartnik; R Beig; Y Choquet-Bruhat; G Cook; J Corvino; L Lindblom; L Lehner; S Dain; E Delay; G Galloway; G Huisken; D Maxwell; V Moncrief; F Nicolo; G Neugebauer; H Pfeiffer; D Pollack; M Scheel; R Schoen; G Weinstein.
Invited Speakers:
A Bahri; R Bartnik; S Brendle; J Corvino; S Dain; E Delay; GJ Galloway; G Huisken; M Khuri; L Lindblom; D Maerten; D Maxwell; P Miao; N O'Murchadha; F Pacard; H Pfeiffer; D Pollack; JW York.
Location and Cost:
The conference will take place at the Newton Institute and accommodation for participants will be provided in single study bedrooms with shared bathroom at Wolfson Court. The conference package, costing £455, includes accommodation, breakfast and dinner from dinner on Sunday 11 December 2005 to breakfast on Saturday 17 December 2005, and lunch and refreshments during the days that lectures take place.
The conference is supported by the European Community and funding is available, please indicate on the application form which EC category is applicable. Self-supporting participants are very welcome to apply. Participants who wish to attend but do not require the Conference Package will be charged a registration fee of £35.
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New Music: Sean Kingston f/ Soulja Boy – 'BBM'
OMG! Sean Kingston types his way into the ladies' hearts on "BBM" from his forthcoming mixtape King of Kingz. The mid-tempo jam, named after the popular BlackBerry Messenger, is an anthem for those who prefer to use modern technology to communicate with their significant other. Soulja Boy gets some female attention with a verse peppered with LOLs and ♥s.
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NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma is the first public university in the nation to be awarded the Davis Cup in recognition of its record-setting enrollment of United World College international freshmen.
OU's 45 Davis United World College Scholars also represent the largest class ever enrolled at a Davis UWC Scholars Program partner institution.
OU is one of 91 Davis Program partner colleges and universities in the United States, including Yale, Princeton, Brown, the universities of North Carolina, Virginia and Michigan, Duke, Columbia and MIT.
The 87 Davis UWC Scholars enrolled at OU represent 43 countries and all 12 of the United World College campuses worldwide.
United World Colleges are two-year residential schools in which a rigorous International Baccalaureate curriculum is employed with all-English instruction. A diverse international student population exists at each of the 12 UWCs worldwide: no more than 25 percent of the students at each school can be from the country where the school is located.


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The Lebanon Skatepark Committee has been organized for the purpose of building a skate board park in the City of Lebanon, Oregon. Our objective includes involving skateboarders, the community at large, businesses and the city government in all aspects of designing, fundraising and building of the park.
The City of Lebanon has donated .95 acres of land to be located right next to the newly built Justice Center (police station) on Tangent Street. The committee has asked a skate park building company (Dreamland, LLC) from Lincoln City to design and build the park. They have completed the design of a 12,168 square foot skate park. We are currently in the fundraising stage of the project.
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"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On December 10, 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. The Universal Declaration sets out a broad range of fundamental human rights and freedoms to which all men and women, everywhere in the world, are entitled, without any distinction. The Universal Declaration is translated into over 380 languages and dialects making it the most translated document in the world.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights will host a global conversation on human rights through social media on Friday, 9 December at 9:30 a.m. New York time. Join the conversation, ask a question, and watch it live.
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Oakley and Shaun White Celebrate Snowboarding in the Most Unlikely of Places
From the hustle and bustle of Beijing the Chinese countryside offers a stark contrast with fields that extend uninterrupted out to the horizon.
It's an hour-long bus ride from the city out to Huai Bei when suddenly, hidden in the otherwise brown hillside, appears the Haui Bei International Ski Resort. Complete with three chair lifts and a custom Oakley Snow Park, the resort is one of the oldest ski resorts in Beijing and host of the 2012 Oakley Rookie Challenge.
Now in it's third year, the Oakley Rookie Challenge is a park event for local snowboarders in China and this year the field came out on fire, dropping heavier tricks and getting bigger airs than this contest has ever seen before.
The field of 15 riders was quickly narrowed to a final eight from which the winner, Ke Zhang, was crowned. All of the final eight competitors won tickets to the Oakley and Shaun White present Air + Style event, which takes place in Beijing's Olympic Stadium later this week.
Before the contest officially got under way however, Oakley hosted a BBQ luncheon for Shaun White, who was on site to do an exhibition for the Rookies, and a few lucky guests in the most unlikely of places: a turret on The Great Wall of China.
Towering over the ski resort is a private section of The Great Wall at Huai Bei. This portion of the wall is not open to the public and features the one and only rectangle turret of the entire Wall. While hiking up the rugged hillside, the owner of the resort, Mr. Wang, explained the history of this engineering anomaly. Three builders attempted to construct a square turret on jagged cliff face and failed; a mistake that inevitably cost them their lives. Finally, a fourth builder was tasked to complete the turret. Rather than follow in the footsteps of his predecessors he approached the problem from another angle and successfully completed the Great Wall's first and only rectangle turret. Listening to the history of the landmark, it quickly became apparent that this was indeed a fitting place to celebrate one of the world's most innovative snowboarders alongside a brand that pride's itself on solving problems athletes didn't know they had.
"It's a surreal experience to be standing on the Great Wall of China," said Shaun White. "I'm hoping the rest of the week will be unreal just like this!"


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