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Western New Yorkers were shoveling out their driveways – and their neighbors, too – Thursday following a winter storm that dumped about a foot of heavy snow across the region overnight.
The snowstorm, which has wreaked havoc over much of the Northeast, left roads slick and piled with snow in the Buffalo area.
Emergency responders were dealing dozens of vehicles were slipping off the roads and getting stuck in snowbanks, but no major weather-related accidents were reported.
Light snow and bit of freezing drizzle fell during the morning, but National Weather Service meteorologist Jon Hitchcock said Thursday's precipitation won't amount to much.
"The snow is pretty much over," Hitchcock said.
Most of the region logged about 10 to 12 inches during the storm, which hit, almost exactly at 4 p.m. Wednesday, as had been expected.
The highest storm total in the region was in South Wales, which was blanketed in 15 inches of snow.
Winds didn't end up being much of a problem in urban areas, but Hitchcock said there were reports of "some pretty bad drifting out in the country."
The heaviest snow fell through the first half of the night, falling at a rate of one to two inches per hour, but tapered off "during the wee hours of the morning," Hitchcock said.
That gave highway crews across the region a chance to begin clearing the snow before the morning commute.
As of 2 p.m. in Buffalo, 75 percent of residential streets and all main and secondary streets had been plowed in the city, and about 40 pieces of snow-clearing equipment are out on the road, Public Works Commissioner Steven J. Stepniak said.
The city hoped to be done with residential streets by the time alternate parking rules take effect at 6 p.m. today, and crews are slated to go back in the evening to get the other side of the street.
The city uses GPS technology in each of its vehicles to track where the plows are, how much salt they are spreading, how long drivers are idling and which routes they are taking.
"We're shortening that time between completion of mains and secondaries and residential streets," Stepniak said.
The vehicles are monitored on an electronic map from the city's streets garage, from the Department of Public Works' "War Room" on the fifth floor of City Hall or by laptop.
As complaints about street conditions come into the city's 311 line, the GPS systems automatically close the complaints as the plow passes the street, Stepniak said.
If a lot of 311 complaints come in on a street that was already plowed, a supervisor in the field can check to make sure a plow is adjusted properly.
Mostly, the city follows a snow-removal plan that is filed with the Common Council every year, and does not respond as complaints come in.
"We aren't firefighters," Stepniak said. "We don't put out fires."
As for clearing sidewalks, each property owner is responsible, and a city ordinance states they must be cleared by 8 a.m.
As for the rest of the day, the Buffalo area can expect up to an inch more of snow, Hitchcock said.
Friday was expected to be dry but cold with highs not expected to get above 30.
"Over the weekend we'll see a little bit of light snow but nothing like last night," Hitchcock said.
The weekend snow could cause icy conditions on the roads again, he cautioned.
Temperatures were expected to plummet by the middle of next week, with highs in lower 20s and lows in the teens – right about when youngsters head back to school after the New Year.
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Puppies, kitties, cake, and balloons – it must be a PAW-TY!
The merchants on "Short" Central Avenue in Historic Downtown Summerville are partnering with Francis R. Willis SPCA of Dorchester County to celebrate The Eclectic Chef's ninth anniversary Saturday, June 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will give residents the opportunity to learn how they can support the SPCA and our furry friends through adoption, fostering, volunteering, and donations to the SPCA. Representatives from the SPCA will be set up on Short Central from noon to 3pm.
The Eclectic Chef, a favorite downtown eatery, has a tradition of using their celebrations to benefit the SPCA. Eclectic Chef owner, Ben McCollum, for years has served up his birthday cake at $3 a slice and donated all the proceeds to the SPCA. McCollum's "Dine with Your Dog" event in the fall is another way Ben supports the stray, abandoned, abused or lost pets in our community.
"This year, the whole street is getting into the party spirit and supporting the SPCA," says McCollum. "We are really excited to be doing this as a family here on Short Central. We are the community, and what is important to community is important to us."
In addition to birthday cake, shops up and down the street will be offering discounts or donating a portion of the day's sales to the SPCA.
Downtown Crossing, a Short Central boutique, will be a collection site for material donations. Some of the items the SPCA needs on a regular basis include: food (canned and dry - puppy, kitten, dog and cat – please no red dye in dry food), laundry detergent, cat litter, towels/blankets (new or used/clean), leashes, and collars. You may drop off material donations to Downtown Crossing from 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 28 and 29.
For more information about the Francis R. Willis SPCA, please call 871-3820 or visit the website at www.summervillespca.org or their Facebook page. For more information about this event, including individual shop promotions, please visit the Shop Short Central Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ShopShortCentral).
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Three years after the SPCA raided her Morgan horse farm for alleged animal cruelty – and nearly a year into her ongoing criminal trial in the matter – Beth Lynne Hoskins has filed a civil lawsuit seeking more than $2 billion against an array of people involved in the case.
The Aurora horse farm owner filed notice of the action in State Supreme Court, through one of her attorneys, John P. Bartolomei of Niagara Falls.
The suit names the SPCA Serving Erie County and a number of its staff, including Executive Director Barbara S. Carr, veterinarians who were involved in the case, one of the prosecutors in the criminal trial and Assistant District Attorney Matthew A. Albert, among others. In total, the agency and 18 people are named.
Hoskins is in the midst of a nonjury criminal trial that began last May on 74 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty stemming from the March 18, 2010, raid.
Legal papers filed in Hoskins' suit detail 90 specific complaints, including fraud, defamation, trespassing, abuse of the civil process, emotional distress and numerous others. She is seeking awards and judgments against the defendants totaling more than $2 billion, plus an additional $1 million per day from March 18 of this year, when she filed the suit, through the date of judgment and what the court may decide is appropriate.
In an interview Tuesday about the civil litigation, Hoskins was adamant that the three-year saga has amounted to what she termed "very illegal" actions.
"It was a premeditated setup. It was a likely extortion attempt where the SPCA lied 27 times to Justice Marky to get the warrant," Hoskins said, referring to Aurora Town Justice Douglas Marky, who is overseeing the nonjury criminal trial.
"The SPCA has broken every rule in the book since ... This follows a national template of abuse where these types of agencies don't have normal checks and balances, like police agencies."
Carr declined to comment on the civil action when contacted Tuesday by The Buffalo News. SPCA attorney Alan Donatelli did not return phone calls seeking comment.
However, Carr said Hoskins owes the agency close to $170,000 in back payments since last fall toward care the agency is providing to some of her horses that remain at foster farms.
Hoskins has paid the agency $304,000 since December 2010 for care for her horses, Carr said.
Hoskins on Tuesday said the court papers – the latest of several civil actions in the case – were filed March 18, marking the third anniversary of the SPCA raid at her Emery Road farm. She said an SPCA officer told her the day of the raid that if she surrendered all of her animals that day, she would not be charged. "I looked at her, and said, 'No,' " Hoskins recalled. She also said she refused to provide them with registration papers on her horses.
"I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. If I am guilty of animal cruelty, then everyone is," Hoskins said. "There is absolutely no standard here that applies."
Asked about the amount she is seeking from the defendants, Hoskins declined to comment and referred those questions to her attorney.
"You have to ask John about this amount. John Bartolomei came up with the amount, independent of me," she said.
Bartolomei did not return phone calls Tuesday seeking his comment.
Hoskins lamented the amount she has spent to date on the case. She said she has paid $320,000 in horse care bond money to the SPCA, $16,000 more than the agency says it has received. She also said she and her family have spent three-quarters of a million dollars in legal fees. She also noted that three of her horses have died under the agency's care.
"Plus, my life has been ruined by lies. And I'll never, ever, ever get my reputation back," Hoskins said. "I want justice, and that's what I've been trying to get."
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When Megan Schalau first went to college she thought she was doing it in order to become a doctor.
Schalau is originally from Holt, Mich. and attended Michigan State University. She has a younger brother who is now a senior in high school. When she was going to school she would come home on the weekends and help her brother out with his schoolwork.
One day her dad said to her, Have you ever considered being a teacher? Because I think youd be great at it.
Schalau had heard similar responses from her former high school teachers and college professors. She had not put a lot of thought into it but was beginning to like the idea of teaching more especially after interviewing doctors and learning that doctors do not get to spend much time with their families, and family has always been important to Schalau.
I think Ive always wanted to help people in some way, she said, and I just realized, what better way to help people than help them get through high school?
Schalau ended up majoring in education biological science. During the spring of her teaching internship, Dorchester District Two officials came to a career fair at her college. She had a short interview with them and a couple of weeks later she applied online, which led to a phone interview.
It all just kind of worked out, and I couldnt be happier about it, she said.
She is now at Ashley Ridge High School, teaching honors biology and environmental studies. She is a North Charleston resident and said prior to moving from Michigan she had never visited South Carolina. She moved to the area in June 2013.
Id heard great things and I knew I wanted to move south I wanted to get away from the cold winter, she said.
Schalau is Ashley Ridge High Schools Rookie Teacher of the Year. She said she has learned the hardest thing about teaching has been seeing certain students struggle, or losing students from behavior issues or because they transferred to an alternative school.
You get attached, she said. You want to see them do well and youre happy for those whom you hear are doing some other form of schooling elsewhere, but you miss them.
Some of her best experiences teaching have been seeing some of her shy students reach out and become more extroverted in class with their peers, especially the times when students have come up to Schalau and told her they feel comfortable in her class.
Hearing that youre a good teacher is always fun and nice, she said. I would say really seeing kids break out of their shell has been my best experience.
Schalau has hopes to get her masters degree, though she is not sure what concentration she wants it in yet. She has a few masters credits from Michigan State but has not applied anywhere in South Carolina. Her short-term goal is to finish her masters and one day go into administration or teach at the university level when she is older.
Aside from teaching Schalau co-sponsors the outdoors club at Ashley Ridge with another teacher. She also coached girls lacrosse through Charleston Youth Lacrosse and the team mostly consisted of Ashley Ridge girls.
That was really cool because I got to work closely with students I didnt have in the classroom, so I got to know more kids, she said. That was a really great experience.
When she is not at school Schalau enjoys running, cooking, reading and other fun old lady stuff.
She still goes home to Michigan to visit family and friends, and said her family enjoys coming to South Carolina to visit her as well.
Schalau said she likes to hang out in Charleston, downtown Summerville and Mt. Pleasant. Her life goal is to one day have a family of her own and still be teaching. Schalau would also like to one day be able to travel.
I think the big thing for me is lifelong learning, so thats definitely a goal of mine to continue on with that, she said.
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Since last December, flu scientists have been locked in a battle over two papers reporting successful bioengineering of the H5N1 flu virus. H5N1 (usually known as bird flu) is incredibly deadly to humans, but almost completely unable to transmit from human to human—which many think is the only reason we've been spared a catastrophic H5N1 pandemic.
The two research teams tinkered genetically with H5N1 to produce two new strains that are transmissible in ferrets and thus potentially transmissible in humans.
The battle focuses on whether the two papers should be published with their methodologies intact, and on whether further research along the same lines should be permitted.
Scientists on one side are worried about research autonomy and censorship, and excited about the possibility that publication and continuing research could lead to breakthroughs that might help prevent or prepare for a pandemic. Scientists on the other side are worried about laboratory accidents and human malevolence, fearful that publication and continuing research could actually launch a pandemic even if nature itself does not.
One issue in this battle is what role the public should play in these decisions.
In response to the furor, flu transmission scientists organized a moratorium on their own research, aimed at calming the waters and buying time to make the case for unfettered research and publication. Soon after, the World Health Organization convened a meeting, mostly of influenza researchers, which predictably concluded that research and publication should be unfettered. But the group acknowledged that a pause was needed to allow time to reassure the public.
The "public" that has followed these events is tiny. Most people aren't worried about an H5N1 lab accident or terrorist attack. They're even less worried about an H5N1 natural pandemic. Convincing people that the H5N1 natural pandemic risk is alarming is a tougher and more important task than convincing people that the H5N1 terrorism risk is less so.
But let's take the WHO conferees at their word and assume the job is to reassure the public that it's okay to publish the two papers and resume H5N1 bioengineering research. What are proponents doing wrong in their effort to reassure the public? I'll focus on just two (of many) issues: education and contempt.
I worry that advocates of unfettered H5N1 research and publication want to "educate" the public out of its concerns. That almost never works. In risk communication and planning literature, this strategy is called "decide–announce–defend": Figure out what to do; then tell the world that's what you're going to do; then rebut any and all objections with a mix of technical data and dismissive rhetoric. This is a thoroughly discredited approach.
Decide–announce–defend is especially unlikely to work when serious risks are involved. "How safe is safe enough" is a values question for society, not a science question for experts who have a horse in the race.
The dangers of concocting a potentially deadly pandemic virus in the lab are obvious. The benefits of doing so are less obvious. (Phrases like mad scientist come easily to mind.) So the burden of proof is on those who wish to assert that this is a sensible thing to do. Before making their case, they must first "own" the burden of proof, listen respectfully to people's concerns, and join in a collaborative search for a potential compromise. Arrogant and self-serving rants about censorship won't help.
H5N1 bioengineering researchers are essentially supplicants, asking everyone else for permission to carry out work with huge (but unquantifiable) potential risks and huge (but unquantifiable) potential benefits. I doubt that's how they will address public concerns —as a supplicant—but it's how they should.
Some of my corporate clients use the term "social license to operate" to capture their hard-won realization that they can't do what they want to do if the public doesn't want them to (and that that's how it should be). Science, too, needs a social license to operate. The first step in securing your social license is acknowledging that you need it: supplicant, not educator.
Peter M. Sandman ([email protected]) is a risk communication consultant based in Princeton, NJ. His writing on risk communication can be found at www.psandman.com.
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He'd been to the bridge.
His hands had held the slatted metal railing guarding the edge.
A railing the same international orange color as the cables and towers that reached above him; the same vermilion hue that has become synonymous with the sumptuous hunk of asphalt and metal connecting the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County.
This is where I'm going to be Jan. 3, he thought.
Thirty four years—to the day—after his birth, this is where he'd be, standing on the boundary of the Golden Gate Bridge looking listlessly out across the San Francisco Bay.
On Jan. 3, 2012, his now perfunctory thoughts on the bridge would be his last.
As a musician, Eric Victorino had assumed his thoughts were normal, it was just who he was. The continuous struggle and overflowing feelings of sadness and pain were typical. It's just what it means to be an artist, he thought.
It didn't matter that his band The Limousines was fast gaining fame, not only garnering attention in the San Francisco area but across the U.S. and Europe. It didn't matter that thousands of adoring fans came to listen to shows or that he had a beautiful wife and wonderful friends. The thoughts he had were inescapable and would become his end.
But Eric never made it back to the bridge on Jan. 3. More than six months since his pre-determined day of his death had passed, Eric is still here, recently returned from a tour in Europe supporting the internationally renowned band The Sounds. He's here (still playing badminton in his back yard—in his underwear).
Thoughts of depression have haunted Eric as long as he can recall. "I can think back to being 10 years old and feeling completely overwhelmed, this kind of impending doom feeling of the world's just too big," he says. "But it wasn't until last December [2011] when things"—as he puts it repeatedly—"started to tailspin."
Episodes of depression could no longer be pushed out by a pen, it would take something stronger.
Sometimes you end up looking for the easiest way out for everybody else except for yourself.
Nights became drowned in pints of amber and shaken tumblers. Handfuls of Xanax, Klonopin, Valium or any other alphabet-laden drug handed to him served as canapés for evenings where the pièce de résistance was a wanton disregard for life.
"I kind of hoped it would kill me and then hope that people would just think it was an accident. Then no one would feel guilty and no one would feel like they had to blame themselves for something I did," he says. "It would simply be, 'Wow, what a horrible accident that was.' Sometimes you end up looking for the easiest way out for everybody else except for yourself."
But his body mutinied and threw itself into a vomiting fit—one that doctors believe saved his life.
While it was his visceral reaction that may have saved his life and kept his plan for Jan. 3 on schedule, it was a misinterpretation that may have ultimately saved him from making it to the bridge. The following night, Eric had merely gone to the bathroom when his wife, Sarah, began pounding on the door; the echo of her sobs and screams pleading with him.
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As if Logan Chuy isn't versatile enough. The Academic Magnet High School senior plays quarterback for the Raptors. And also wingback, defensive end, cornerback, punter, holder and kick returner.
He threw for one touchdown and ran for another last week in a 63-24 victory at Burke.
In track meets, Chuy (pronounced Chewy) competes in the long jump and triple jump.
"Logan has really excelled," Academic Magnet football coach Bud Walpole said. "He is a team player and a strong leader."
Busy off the field, too.
Along with day-to-day classroom demands, Chuy has taken it upon himself to come up with a college football playoff system that isn't annoying to most fans. Academic Magnet students must spend almost two years working on a senior thesis, and this is Chuy's working title: "The Bowl Championship Series and Public Opinion."
While some students spend their senior thesis dwelling on global warming or relatively unknown insects, Chuy is out to establish that even the four-game playoff system set for the 2014 season isn't good enough.
"High school football has an expanded playoff, so why can't college do it?" said Chuy, a Clemson fan. "The NFL has a playoff system, so how can a computer basically calculate who is No. 1 and No. 2 in college football?"
When Chuy takes on statistical variables, "binary censored scores" and matrix systems, he's thinking football, not algebra or physics. While juggling exam preparation and Raptor game plans, he's also breaking down BCS standings. There are always bowl implications.
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The biggest surprise, Chuy said, is "the amount of money in the system."
"These bowl games are merely about money and the CEOs of those games get such large salaries," Chuy said. "But not as much money as you think gets pumped back into the schools. Some teams actually lose money going to bowl games."
The updated ideal Chuy playoff system:
• Keep the current BCS rankings
• The top eight teams make the playoffs
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• Seeding based on rankings
• Two wild-card games to get to the quarterfinals
"Logan has always proven himself to be a hardworking and conscientious student," said Anna Merriman, Chuy's senior thesis adviser and Academic Magnet's girls soccer coach. "He's also just a kind and genuine young man. He's the type of student that speaks to you in the halls, asks his teachers how they're doing and shows a genuine interest and concern in his classmates and teammates."
One of only four seniors on the Raptors' 22-member football team, Chuy says quarterback is his favorite position. He's the trigger man in Academic Magnet's "Jet" offense, which features a quarterback, two jet wingbacks, a fullback, tight end and split end.
"I just love leading the team," he said. "I love our team so much; they're like a family to me. Being the guy that starts the play is just exhilarating."
'Wow … 63 points'
A knee injury might keep the 6-2, 180-pound Chuy out of Friday night's game at North Charleston High School. At 3-5 with two games remaining, the Raptors hope to finish .500.
"It really stinks," Chuy said. "It's my senior year and we have only two games left and it hurts to think I might not be able to play."
But Chuy, who hopes to major in Visual Communications or Marketing at Appalachian State or Clemson, has a fresh football memory likely to last. The 63 points against Burke set a school record.
"I really didn't look at the scoreboard until the fourth quarter when the coach took me out," Chuy said. "I was like, 'Wow, we just put up 63 points.' I thought it was a fairly close game until the end."
Though he's not looking at the scoreboard, you can bet the Logan Chuy playoff system will top the current version, and it won't be fairly close.
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1. I don't really like chocolate chip cookies much
2. or ice cream.
3. Thanks to the Motrin thing I was sent this organic pouch & footed blanket (which is absolutely awesome) from New Native Baby Carrier to compliment to my video response. How nice is that?
4. It was kinda fun getting emails and calls from people that saw me on the news.
5. Twitter is quite helpful if you have a question (see below.)
6. I think Ivy needs the Sno Flugan Hoodie by tea.
7. Speaking of tea, I have a new post up at the tea collection blog here.
I think Ivy might be getting some cradle cap, so I went straight to Twitter to find out what really works. Here's the responses!
Adriennevh @babysteph steel wool. I kid!
MeaganFrancis @babysteph ugh, for me nothing but patience! And sometimes a little olive oil and a soft brush. :)
elainea @babysteph I used to put baby oil in their hair. It's a little well, "oily" ; ) but it works!
mamarussell @babysteph Selsun Blue (sp?)
Adriennevh @babysteph Oh yeah, nevermind that's my cure for diaper rash.
thelemons @babysteph I have to say that Arbonne baby oil worked for Z. I put it on his head after every bath, after washing his hair w/ a brush.
dizzyparenting @babysteph We used to gently massage olive oil into our babys' heads when they had it. Morning and night. It takes a few days, but works.
thelemons @babysteph Did that make any sense? 140 char not a lot of blabbing room.
FriedOkra @babysteph Baby oil will get it off that sweet little head, but there's nothing I know of that "cures" it. Matthew's is still bad, too.
laurathemum @babysteph olive oil & a fine tooth comb. good luck. cradle cap always grossed me out!
MelissaKellas @babysteph I have used vaseline and comb through - seemed to do it for us
naturalmommy @babysteph let olive oil sit on head (maybe inside a cap) for a while. brush out flakes.
summerinfl @babysteph doctor told us to use baby oil. However, my daughter is almost 2 and still has some
Selkie1970 @babysteph olive oil. massage oil into scalp. nice warm bath, get all steamy. scrape out crusts w/ fingernails or brush. wash hair.
prairiemama1 @babysteph you and me both! Rub some olive oil on her head and let it sit for a while. Then, comb through, it will get most of it off.
prairiemama1 @babysteph oh yeah, then wash it ;)
mom2kchmw2001 @babysteph baby oil. rub it in and let it soak. next time you shampoo hair it should go.
caseyplusthree @babysteph I dealt with cradle cap with every kid, zach just got some, I used a brush when washing his hair and it's gone already
thebkwyrm @babysteph Rub olive oil on the little noggin, and use a very soft old toothbrush to loosen and slough off the dead skin. Worked for me!
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on December 25, 2012 - 9:23 PM
April 23, 1954 – Dec. 20, 2012
Lunzette D. Butcher, a lifelong resident of the city's East Side, brought sunshine and cheer to everyone around her despite lifelong illnesses that ultimately left her homebound.
Better known as "Zette," Miss Butcher died Thursday in her home. She was 58.
Miss Butcher, who was deeply religious, was known for eloquently expressing her faith through inspirational poetry.
She suffered from spinal meningitis and began having epileptic seizures at age 6. Still, she attended Buffalo Public Schools and was a 1972 graduate of South Park High School. Later, she participated in an educational program for disabled adults on Leroy Avenue and was a member of the Epilepsy Clinic on Elmwood Avenue.
Miss Butcher worked in maintenance at Buffalo City Hall for about two years in the mid-1970s and in housekeeping at Veterans Affairs Medical Center for about five years until frequent seizures forced her to retire on disability in her late 30s.
She was a member of Bible City Christian Fellowship of Getzville, whose pastor, the Rev. Slyde Moran, visited her home with members of the congregation twice each month to distribute Holy Communion and lead a Bible study in her living room.
She also was an active member of Youngs Tabernacle Holiness Church on Best Street in Buffalo, where she had sung soprano in the church choir and was a member of the Usher Board.
Miss Butcher was an avid reader of the Bible and was able to recite the names of all 66 books since she was a child. Because of her bright disposition, she always ended up cheering up the people who had come to her house to cheer her up, according to relatives who helped care for her. She also liked to share her gift for poetry and the art of crocheting.
Some of her poetry has been used in stage plays and for celebrations of Mother's Day, seasonal holidays and birthdays. She baked pound cakes for birthdays and special occasions, and her crocheting has been exhibited at art shows.
This sentiment is from one of her poems:
"Look back at what God has brought me through
And I know that He will do the same for you."
Survivors include her mother, Betty M.; two brothers, Alpheus L. and Ronald S. Sr.; and a sister, Lynda Butcher Martin.
Services will be at noon Friday in Bethesda World Harvest International Church, 1365 Main St.


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A McBarnyard is a McChicken + Mcdouble. It was born in Portland, OR on the corner of 82nd and Fremont. not to be confused with a Mcgangbang which uses a spicy chicken sandwich and both sets of buns. McBarnyard is a more pure form because it merely slips the chicken patty between the thin meat patties. In short it gives you more meat between your buns.
Dude, let's get a McGangbang.
No way man, Mcbarnyard is the new shit.
K lol.
No way man, Mcbarnyard is the new shit.
K lol.
dari mkace Jumat, 11 Juni 2010
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when you get a McChicken a McDouble and a Mcrib and that is the Mcbarnyard!
dude 1: i had a Mcbarnyard last light
dude 2: damn you are fat
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on February 5, 2013 - 12:28 PM
Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority police have made an arrest in the brazen theft of a 38-inch television from the baggage carousel at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport – all under the watchful eye of a video-surveillance camera.
NFTA police charged James E. Livingston, 52, of Grand Island, with petit larceny for taking the flat-screen television from the carousel on Jan. 12, they revealed Tuesday.
After receiving a complaint from the television's owner, NFTA officers and detectives reviewed security video from the baggage-claim area that showed the thief remove the item from the carousel and take it from the terminal.
NFTA detectives and officers Michael Garrity, Kevin Schilling, Craig Palladino and Michael Livecchi, with the help of Erie County sheriff's deputies, arrested Livingston at his home on Jan. 30.
The suspect told detectives that he had taken the television and given it to his unsuspecting daughter, who is not being charged. The television has been returned to its rightful owner.


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Arab newspapers are running articles and opinion pieces with age-old anti-Semitic images and motifs to critique Israel's operation in Gaza, using blood-libel, stereotypical depictions of Jews, comparisons to the Nazis, and allegations of Jewish domination of the United States, the United Nations and the world.
This report features translations of articles that have appeared in the Arab media in response to Israel's efforts to stop Hamas rockets from falling in civilian areas.
Material in this compilation was translated by ADL from the original Arabic or is otherwise from English language sources in the Middle East.
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An exercize consisting of ejaculating deep inside a person's mouth, pulling out swiftly, and then quickly chop striking them in the throat, forcing your cum to shoot back out through their nose.
My girlfriend set a new record last night...fifteen feet off a White Dragon.
av Davemeister 1 september 2006
a uncommmon name for hepatitis
Health is gay but I'm glad I learned about White Dragon...
stay abstinent kids.
stay abstinent kids.
av DuTchess 27 april 2008
This is a sexual action which happens in the instance of a man "coping head off" a female, or in other words when a male's penis is licked or sucked by a female. When such a sexual activity is occuring, the male pulls the female towards him, so that the penis is fully in her mouth and the man has successfully blown, therefore the semen will be excreted from the female's nose by passing through the naval cavity.
see also donkey slap - is as fun as the white dragon.
av CrAzY Dj NaZzA 3 augusti 2006
A man recieves a blow job from a woman whilst standing up. Woman is on knees. Dude skeets off in bitches mouth and then takes a step back and double neck chops the slut prompting her to spew out the jiz. Similar to a Dragon spewing out white flame.
"I just got done blowning off in your moms mouth and gave her the White Dragon. Now im gonna go take a dump."
av drexnefex 10 juli 2006
When a white guy hangs out with a bunch of asians and doesn't want to help hook anyone up. Usually the white dragon gets laid all the time but refuses to hook up his fellow asians because they can't get laid even if they paid for it.
"Hey can you wing man for me tonight? He s not going to fucken help you score any chicks. He s a white dragon!"
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Monday, June 24, 2013
David Lee Manning of 8104 Brookstone Way in Summerville parked his vehicle on the southbound lanes of the Ravenel Bridge and stepped across the lane barrier toward the water and was threatening suicide as he walked back and forth on the bridge ledge. The 6:51 a.m. incident led police to close two of the lanes of traffic as officers tried to talk Manning into coming back across the barrier to safety, according to Mount Pleasant Police Department spokesman Maj. Stan Gragg.
At approximately 11:45 all lanes of the bridge were secure with traffic being diverted. Gragg said that after several tense moments Manning was taken into Emergency Protective Custody at 12:00. Manning, 46, was transported to MUSC for treatment.
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Alan Dargin was born and raised in an Aboriginal tribe in Australia's northeast Arnhemland and is an internationally acclaimed didgeridoo player as well as having roles in a number of feature films. Dargin began studying the didgeridoo at age five. Dargin's grandfather taught him how to play, passing on secret techniques which have been passed dow
Dargin's primary didjeridu is over 100 years old and was given to him by his grandfather. It is made from the branch of a eucalyptus tree which is naturally hollowed out by ants that hatch under the bark and burrow into the wood. The didgeridoo is decorated with Aboriginal tribal markings and was originally used in tribal ceremonies to induce Dreamtime.
Dargin toured extensively in Australia and the US and has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall. He toured Korea on behalf of the Australian Foreign Affairs Department. Alan appeared in over 30 feature films and earned a science degree from the University of Toronto.


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Someone spent a lot of money in the last couple of weeks trying to elect union-backed candidates to the Buffalo School Board.
It didn't work very well.
High-priced smear ads targeted four of the six election districts in the city – those with more than one person on the ballot.
In only one of those four did voters elect the candidate supported by the teachers union: retired teacher and administrator Mary Ruth Kapsiak in the Central District.
In fact, the Buffalo Teachers Federation will lose three solid supporters on the nine-member board once the new members are seated at the beginning of July.
For the time being, four of the six district seats on the nine-member board are filled by people who have received solid union support this year or in past elections: Kapsiak; Ralph R. Hernandez, an administrator for a health care network; Louis J. Petrucci, chief building inspector for the city; and Rosalyn L. Taylor, a retired administrator in the district.
Of the six people who won seats Tuesday, four were actively opposed by the union: Carl P. Paladino, one of Buffalo's wealthiest developers; Theresa A. Harris-Tigg, an assistant professor at SUNY Buffalo State; James M. Sampson, president and CEO of Gateway-Longview child services agency; and Jason M. McCarthy, a manager at Hutch's restaurant, who won re-election.
A fifth – mortgage consultant Sharon Belton-Cottman, the incumbent in the Ferry District – had only tepid backing from the statewide teachers union. And that seemed to come only because the union was unable to recruit someone to run against the often-outspoken critic of the BTF, according to sources familiar with the dynamics of the race.
When the new board members are seated, only one of the six district seats – Central, retained by Kapsiak – will be held by someone solidly backed by the union.
Among the three at-large board members, whose seats will be up in the election next May, attorney John B. Licata received BTF support when he ran four years ago; SUNY Buffalo State administrator Florence D. Johnson did not report getting help from the union in the most recent election; and Barbara Seals Nevergold was appointed to her seat and has not yet run in an election, so it's not clear whether the union would back her.
Whoever sent the pricey smear ads using a postal permit in Queens was not the only entity spending significant sums on the election.
Support from the outside
The leader of StudentsFirstNY, the state chapter of a national school reform group headed by former Washington, D.C., School Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, said Wednesday that his group gave $10,000 to Sampson and $2,500 to McCarthy.
Those donations were not reported on the candidates' most recent campaign finance disclosures, which were due last Thursday. Glen Weiner, the group's acting executive director, said that he was not sure when StudentsFirstNY donated the money but that "everything will be properly disclosed."
The group identified Sampson and McCarthy as "like-minded," he said, based on their positions on several issues. He cited charter schools and issues related to teacher evaluations as two of them.
"In terms of teacher quality, we know Buffalo had that side deal attached to their teacher-evaluation system," Weiner said. "If we had a reform-minded board with Jim Sampson along with Jay McCarthy, I think you wouldn't have seen that kind of undermining of an effective system."
StudentsFirstNY also provided Sampson and McCarthy with strategic support, including how to analyze voter data to most effectively target their efforts, he said.
"We provided direct financial support, but, more importantly, we assisted with organizing efforts, field organizing efforts, based on Obama campaign-organizing tactics," Weiner said. "That expertise and that approach were extremely helpful in driving what were relatively close races."
Neither Sampson nor McCarthy or any of the other newly elected board members, for that matter say they are planning to form a coalition with Paladino. But there are some key issues on which a few of the new board members agree.
For instance, in the last year or two, the only School Board member who consistently spoke in favor of charter schools was McCarthy. Soon, Paladino and Sampson will join him as board members who support charters.
Harris-Tigg, who stopped short of saying she supports an increase in local charters, seems more sympathetic to them than most sitting board members. "There are thousands of children on waiting lists for charter schools in Buffalo," she said. "If families cannot pay for private schools or wait for district schools to improve, I favor quality school choices for all children and families."
Write-ins fall short
Write-in campaigns in School Board elections are not unusual, given that it's fairly common for candidates to get knocked off the ballot after the opposition challenges the signatures on nominating petitions.
This year, two incumbents, both supported by the teachers union – Hernandez and Taylor– got knocked off the ballot and ran as write-in candidates.
Hernandez was better organized than most write-in candidates, with volunteers at many polling places handing voters rubber stamps with his name on them.
That seemed to help – but not enough. Sampson tallied 554 votes, while 466 people submitted write-in ballots. It's not yet clear exactly how many of those write-in ballots were votes for Hernandez, however.
The Erie County Board of Elections has not yet released a breakdown of the number of write-in ballots for any particular candidate in any of the districts.
Last-minute efforts
Taylor's write-in campaign was more of a scramble. She jumped back into the East District race with only a few days left before the election.
Like Hernandez, Taylor was aided by expensive mailers that were sent out a few days before the vote – by the unidentified person or group, widely believed to be the teachers union, sending mailers from Queens – urging voters to write her name onto the ballot.
It wasn't enough. Harris-Tigg got 694 votes, while only 271 people submitted write-in ballots in the East District.
In the Ferry District, a former president of the District Parent Coordinating Council also launched a last-minute write-in campaign.
A few days before the election, the Rev. Kinzer M. Pointer said he knew nothing about the write-in effort, but Tuesday, he was campaigning in front of the polling place on the Canisius College campus.
"I would be remiss if the community said I should run and I stood aside and did nothing," he said.
Belton-Cottman, the incumbent, won with 973 votes, compared with 411 write-in ballots.
Parent group lacks traction
Pointer was one of three past or present leaders of the District Parent Coordinating Council to run for a board seat this year – and one of three to lose.
The other two – Wendy S. Mistretta and Bryon J. McIntyre – were on the ballot but raised very little money. Mistretta spent just over $1,000 on her race, enough for palm cards and a handful of lawn signs, and McIntyre spent less than half that much.
Mistretta, the group's parliamentarian and an active parent at International School 45, came in last in a three-way race in the North District, capturing 15 percent of the vote.
The unofficial vote count, according to the Board of Elections, was: McCarthy, 1,697; Susan L. Gillick, the union-backed candidate, 1,330; and Mistretta, 555.
In the Central District, Kapsiak got 1,174 votes, compared with the 700 votes cast for McIntyre, a vice president for the District Parent Coordinating Council.
Voters in South Buffalo, in what is known as the Park District, cast 2,543 ballots for Paladino and 646 for Adrian F. Harris, a teacher's aide in Lancaster, whom the union rallied behind.
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if you live here you know that it is tight you just gotta know what to do with you time here, go to farm parties and rep west meda boys.. naw im kidding but on the real alameda is a hella little island next to oakland and the beach smells like sewage. you should go there though its tight.
alameda made a t-shirt that says "where the hell is alameda?"...that says something...
by meda bitches August 25, 2006
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An increasingly yuppie little island town in the Bay Area. What you will find; SF transplants, awesome restaurants, old homes, and tree lined streets. What you won't find; affordable housing,big box stores, or much crime. However, having Oakland right across the water does cause some spillage of ghettoness.But it does seem like the gap between the two cities is getting wider and wider by the second.
"Duded what did that bumper sticker say?"
"Alameda, Where hipsters go to breed."
"Alameda, Where hipsters go to breed."
by chuck 02 February 17, 2008
The stupidest place ever where people think they are cool because thye immitate people from Oakland and they wish they were them, but they are actually really bored so all they do is smoke and smell bad and hit on girls they'll never have. Of course, most of the girls are easy and practically all of the guys are stoners that think theyre ghetto. I dont know one decent person that lives in Alameda, and I live there...
Kid 1: Aww my god I went to Alameda last night
Kid 2: Naawww bblud, tight shit huh?
Kid 1: Hell yaaaa
Kid 2: Naawww bblud, tight shit huh?
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by Montoria June 07, 2006
The place that everyone hates. A dinky little bitch hole island in California, which has next to nothing to do, unless you count going to the disgusting beach. Oh, and our flag has an anchor on it. Do you need more proof that this place janky?
1.I just went into the beach water and now I hella have herpes.
2.Add a y to Alameda, and you get.."A lame day."
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FORT MYERS, Fla.—Kennesaw State's Gabe Friese out-dueled Stetson's Kurt Schluter in leading the Owls to a 2-1 win over Stetson in the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship, Saturday at Swanson Stadium.
The loss ends Stetson's season at 26-34, while Kennesaw State (36-21) advances to the championship round on Sunday.
In his final game at Stetson, Schluter (2-2) was simply outstanding. The fifth-year senior tossed seven innings, scattering eight hits and allowing just two runs. He threw 107 pitches, including 73 for strikes, and struck out three batters without a walk.
"He's a warrior," said Stetson head coach Pete Dunn of Schluter. "He's been here five years and he knows how to win. We thought going in to the game that if we could get five innings from him we'd be fortunate, but he gave us seven quality innings and just battled the whole way. If somebody told me they'd only score two runs, I'd say we were going to win that game."
But Friese (2-1) was equally impressive for the Owls. The right-hander limited the Hatters to just an unearned run in his eight innings of work, allowing three hits and striking out three and walking one.
Stetson opened the scoring in the top of the first. Mike Fernland reached on an error leading off the inning, and moved to second on a wild pitch. Tyler Bocock's ground out moved Fernland to third and he eventually scored on a sacrifice fly by Patrick Mazeika to give Stetson a 1-0 lead.
Kennesaw State tied the game when Max Pentecost led off the forth inning with a solo home run.
The Owls took the lead for good in the bottom of the sixth. Pentecost led off with a single and scored two batters later on an infield hit by Brennan Morgan to make it a 2-1 game.
Stetson made the Owls sweat in the top of the ninth. Taylor Cockrell cracked a two-out single, and Garrett Russini followed with a four-pitch walk. With the tying and go-ahead runs on base, Josh Powers lined a 1-2 pitch from reliever Justin McCalvin into the left field corner but the ball was foul by about a foot. Three pitches later, Powers flew out to deep left field to end the game.
"We did exactly what we needed to do in the ninth," said Dunn. "The ball Powers hit was six inches foul. I couldn't see it from the dugout but I looked at (third base coach Mark) Leavitt as soon the ball hit the ground, and he was holding his arms up so I knew he saw it foul as well. Six inches the other way, it's a fair ball and we score two, maybe more. It's cliche to say, but it is a game of inches."
In addition to Schluter, five other Stetson seniors closed out their careers on Saturday. Robert Bruce, Mike Fernland, Austin Perez, K'Shawn Smith and Kyle Zech suited up for the final time.
"I'm proud of the seniors and our effort this weekend," said Dunn. "People looked at our record and probably didn't think we'd do anything this week, or that we didn't deserve to be here. But our kids didn't believe it. We really played hard and I'm proud of them."
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Canty logged a season-high 14 tackles in the victory, including a career-high three tackles for loss. The performance was part of a dominant second-half effort for Duke, as the defense shut out Virginia over the final two quarters and held the Cavaliers to just two yards rushing after the first half.
Canty's three tackles for loss came on key downs late in the game, including a 4th-and-1 in the third quarter with Duke leading 21-17 and a 3rd-and-2 in the fourth quarter with Duke ahead 35-17. The win was the fourth straight for the Blue Devils, whose 5-1 start is the program's best since 1994.
A native of Roebuck, S.C., Canty is the third Duke defensive back to earn ACC Defensive Back of the Week honors this season, joining cornerback Ross Cockrell (Sept. 17) and safety Jordon Byas (Oct. 1). He is the fourth Duke player overall to earn an ACC Player of the Week citation, as wide receiver Conner Vernon garnered ACC Receiver of the Week honors on Sept. 4.
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EAST PALESTINE - The road to becoming and maintaining status as a professional golfer isn't exactly a smooth, paved downhill cruise.
Not only does a professional have to keep up a certain level of play on the course, they've got to deal with all sorts of logistical issues off it.
Alexandra Casi, a 2002 East Palestine graduate and member of the Symetra Tour ("Road to the LPGA"), has found out all about it in her first two years as a pro.
After picking up her first professional win in 2011 at the SunCoast Ladies Series in Florida, Casi had hoped it would be a springboard for 2012. While in some ways it was, she admits the experience has been a lot of learning on the fly.
"The first year on the Symetra Tour, I really didn't know how to pace myself," Casi said. "By the end of summer I felt a little burnt out. Now when I do need a day off, even though it's hard for me, I take it. Because when you're 110 percent focused all the time, you've got to know how to pace yourself."
Casi played in 11 tournaments in 2011 on the Symetra Tour where her best finish was a tie for seventh at the Alliance Bank Golf Classic. She followed her debut year with nine more tournaments on the tour in 2012 and she even made her LPGA debut at the Kingsmill Championship in Williamsburg, Va. in September after making the event through a Monday qualifier.
"I had done three Monday qualifiers before that, and I kept missing by one shot," she said. "I felt like if I was playing well enough to get into the tournament, I could really do something. Even though it was just one tournament, it was a little bit of a milestone for me. I was disappointed in the outcome, but it's a good experience to have under my belt."
Although Casi was a four-year letter-winner on the boys golf team at East Palestine and played collegiate golf at the University of Maryland, she said said she didn't really didn't hunker down towards becoming a professional until around 2007.
"I met my swing coach then," she said. "He's had a progression in the way he's taught me. He did one thing at a time and has been my full-time caddie. It wasn't until this year that I completely understand my golf swing and what I want to do. We've fixed little things here and there along the way, and 2012 was a lot better than 2011."
While her golf game found more solid ground, finances have posed a new set of problems. Expenses - travel, hotels, Monday qualifier fees in addition to anything equipment related - mounted quickly to the point Casi had to take a break by summer.
She said with help from sponsors she didn't have to worry about money her first year on tour. But in 2012 with less available financially to fall back on, golf under pressure took on a whole new meaning.
"The hardest thing about it is that I gain momentum, and then I lose momentum," she said. "There's an added element when you have to do well or you're going home, and you can put a lot of pressure on yourself. But I've played well when I've had to, and it's going to make me better in the long run."
Casi also said the break was a blessing in disguise.
"I got to work what I needed to work on," she said. "When I went back out I was in jeopardy of having to go to stage one of qualifying school, but I finished 13th so I didn't have to go back. Physically and mentally things were going my way, but I had to miss the next week on tour. You've got to strike when you're hot. I was out of money, though."
Now with November rain and soon snow, Casi is hoping to get the word out to potential sponsors so she can spend her third year as a pro - all of it - on tour.
"The goal on the Symetra Tour is to finish top-10 so I can get my card for the LPGA," she said. "But I really need to play a full season and not have to stop to give myself a chance at it. I've been really fortunate with some of the people in the area, but I've got to get back out there. Once you live this lifestyle, and I have a passion for it, I'm not gonna let go until I'm successful on the LPGA Tour."
Casi continues to work on her game and hopes potential future sponsors aren't far off. Anyone interested in contributing or becoming a sponsor can contact Alex directly at firstname.lastname@example.com. She hopes to be able to represent future sponsors successfully the same way she's done in the past.
"The first year out, everything was new," she said. "Now I know how to better manage my budget and expenses as well as my game. The third year is kind of where everything comes together, but I don't ever want lack of finances to reflect on how I play. Hopefully I can get back out there soon and keep proving myself."


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Serves 10 |
Prep Time 2 hours |
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32 ounces Vanilla Edensoy, 1 quartor Extra Vanilla Edensoy
3 cup orange juice
3 Tbsp organic maple syrup, or to taste
2 tsp pure vanilla extract, or to taste
10 ice cubes
Place all ingredients in a blender and pulse several seconds until smooth. Pour into freeze pop molds and freeze a minimum of 2 hours or until frozen solid.
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The xCELLigence systems will have an initial focus on drug discovery, including applications in compound screening and profiling, assay development, and preclinical toxicology. Another important area will be functional receptor analyses, especially those involving GPCRs."The assays can detect a response to receptors that are expressed endogenously," continues Emch. "There is no need to overexpress a given GPCR within a cell line which, in effect, changes the natural cellular condition to get a detectable response. You will be able to use primary cells."An important advantage of the xCELLigence system is the design of the electrodes, maintains Emch. While there are other types of impedance-based products, the xCELLigence system contains interdigitated microelectrodes that cover approximately 80% of the bottom surface area of the well, he says. This means that cells can be detected at low numbers and monitored from seeding on the plate through initial attachment and growth phase, through the point of challenge with some kind of chemical or biologic stimulus, and for as long as the researcher requires post challenge, continues Emch.
The allure of this cell-based assay technology derives from two main features: it is label free and operates in real time, according to Yama Abassi, Ph.D., senior director of cell biology and assay development, Acea Biosciences, and one of the key players in developing the methodology. Labels can damage the cells and are often expensive, he points out, adding that radioactive labels also can be hazardous to your health and costly to dispose. "The essence of impedance technology as a readout is that it is noninvasive and allows experiments to be done under physiological conditions," says Dr. Abassi. The real-time component of the assays provides a clear picture of how cells are behaving in each well, he explains. "Most cell-based assays are endpoint assays that measure only one data point per experiment," claims Dr. Abassi. "Real-time capability means you can continuously monitor the cells in an experiment and obtain a number of data points. It gives you a kinetic profile of the experiment from beginning to end."Real time also offers a quality-control aspect, a point stressed by both Dr. Abassi and Emch. "You can detect any changes in the cell before the point of challenge," says Emch. Real-time readout lets you know exactly when to challenge cells based on where they are in their metabolic or growth cycle, adds Dr. Abassi. "This allows for a QC aspect that is difficult to achieve by standard assays."While Roche will be responsible for worldwide sales, marketing, and distribution of the xCELLigence system, Acea plans to develop other impedance-based products and other specialized applications such as diagnostics, says Dr. Abassi. For its part, Roche will continue to add its expertise in design, engineering, and software functionality to further expand its cell-based assay-technology applications.
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Utilities use several indices to measure system reliability. Three of the most common indices are System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI), System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI) and Momentary Average Interruption Frequency Index (MAIFI). SAIDI is an industry measurement for the annual outage minutes experienced by a utility's customers. SAIFI is an industry measurement representing the average number of power outages a customer will experience each year. MAIFI is very similar to SAIFI but it tracks the average frequency of momentary interruptions not exceeding five minutes. In all three indices, lower numbers indicate better performance from the utility.
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Braindance, on 12 November 2012 - 09:32 PM, said:
Another point that would be great, is to grant intervene the ability to take spells, which I have already proposed multiple times over the years. Intervening to a target could also grant a buff where your next heroic leap would take the intervened target with you - that would also be quite fun.
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averagepriestz, on 12 November 2012 - 10:28 PM, said:
I do agree something could be done, but so far, this season along with season 9 is probably the best that Warriors ever had? And you are suggesting more damage, if the Warrior manages to spin his mouse 360, moving through his opponent, while hammering his Mortal Strike key.
Gag order is completly silly, there is no way Warriors should keep this. If you manage to get away from a Warrior in todays game, you should have the chance to get a cast off. Currently it is impossible to not only root and fear them, but if you find a window where they have a 5 second cooldown on Charge or Heroic Leap, you find yourself Reflected or silenced from Gag Order.
I remember what a good Warrior could do, and still can, it is all about positioning, being fast at peeling and putting out pressure when needed, while the gap has gotten a lot closer, I really hope you can propose some other changes, that are not an increase in damage as your solution.
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Mens Tennis To Face Illinois In NCAA First Round
MUNCIE, Ind.. – The Ball State men's tennis team, which earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships by winning the Mid-American Conference Tournament title, will play a first-round match at Illinois.
The Cardinals earned their eighth automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament under the direction of head coach Bill Richards with a 4-3 win Saturday over Buffalo in the MAC championship match. The Cardinals will face the 12th-ranked Fighting Illini in Champaign, Ill., May 9 at 5 p.m. (EST).
The Cardinals will take a 14-10 overall mark to Champaign, while Illinois enters the match with a 23-7 record. The Fighting Illini made it to the round of 16 at the 2013 NCAA Tournament, losing to No. 1 USC, 4-0.
Richards is in his 42nd season at the helm of the Cardinals, having led the program to 22 MAC titles, including 17 undefeated MAC seasons. Ball State has participated in the MAC for the last 33 years, claiming 38 regular season and or tournament championships. Since the MAC tournament format started in 1997, the Cardinals have won it seven times (1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2011 and 2014).
The championships will begin with regional action on campus sites May 9-11 with the round of 16 beginning May 16 in Athens, Ga.
For the most up-to-date news on Ball State men's tennis, follow @bsuathletics and @BallStateMTNS on Twitter.


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In Spring 1996, for the first time ever, students in grades K-l2 had a chance to help do real science using the Hubble Space Telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (which operates Hubble) contributed three HST orbits to the PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE educational project for this purpose. The planets Neptune and Pluto were selected as targets for original observations by students who served as Hubble Space Telescope (HST) "Co-Investigators", working alongside some of America's foremost astronomers.
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Prep Time 5 minutes |
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1 quart Eden Apple Juice
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1 pinch Eden Sea Salt
Place all ingredients in a sauce pan, stir and heat almost to boiling. Great on a cold winters day.
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Prep Time 10 minutes |
Cook Time 25 minutes
1 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/2 cup diced onions
1 clove garlic, mincedor 1 teaspoon roasted garlic granules
1/4 cup organic sweet corn, fresh or frozen
1/4 cup diced celery
15 ounces Eden Rice & Pinto Beansor Eden Spanish Rice & Pinto Beans
16 ounces Eden Refried Pinto Beansor Eden Spicy Refried Pinto Beans
1/4 tsp Eden Sea Salt, or to taste
1 pinch freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
14.5 ounces Eden Diced Tomatoes w/Onions & Garlic, do not drain
2 cups water
1/4 tsp dried basil
2 Tbsp fresh parsley, minced, for garnish
Heat oil in a medium soup pot, and sauté the onion for 2 minutes. Add all remaining ingredients except the parsley. Mix thoroughly, cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to medium-low and simmer for 20 minutes or until creamy. Serve garnished with parsley.
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Remembrance Day: Honoring our heroes
Today is Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day in Britain, Canada and Australia.
It is a somber day that many countries celebrate to honor those who fought for their countries. We remember those who have protected us and kept us safe throughout the years.
In many countries, Veterans Day and Remembrance Day are commemorated publicly, so that everyone can pay their respects to those who lost their lives. Heroes are remembered through public memorial ceremonies, programs at military cemeteries and parades. The Commonwealth tradition of one or two minutes of silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month marks the time in the United Kingdom when the Armistice was declared. Wreaths are laid at monuments and gravestones. Continue reading "Remembrance Day: Honoring our heroes" »


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Overcoming Anger
Being angry is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy dies. Just look at Mike Tyson. But, anger is as human as farting, and we all know what bottling up that stuff can do to you.
People who pitch fits are making themselves into victims. The rock is smarmy. The bolts are in the wrong spots. The rope is too slack or too tight. You are entitled to succeed. Waaaa!
Falling is nothing to fly into a rage over. It is just shameful. Your disappointment in your performance is manifesting itself in anger because you are failing to accept responsibility for your mistakes.
If you've ever pried a milky teat away from the wiggling fingers of a baby, or a ham bone from the drooling jowls of a rottweiler, you understand that anger is a survival instinct and is fueled by adrenalin, which helps explain why so many climbers, like you, pitch fits.
Just the other day this piss-ant crawled up my leg and bit me in a soft spot. Did I curse and kick? No, I reached up my pant leg, grabbed the little fellow by his cojones and crushed him like a red-tagged project. I responded appropriately. Your response is inappropriate.
Some climbers used to use their anger to actually climb harder. This technique, now called being a dick, was popularized in the early 1990s and was effective. Today, you can find those same folks living out of bread vans, flipping the bird to everyone, real or imagined, who ever short-roped them. You can do better. Next time you feel a wobbler coming on, imagine that your granny is smiling down at you from heaven, cheering you on your send. If that doesn't change your behavior, you are s.o.l. Whatever you do, do not get a job at the post office. Next!
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The popular fighting brothers - DIEGO AND JESSE MAGDALENO - of Las Vegas train for their respective fights on Top Rank's "The Future is Now" back to back shows on Friday, August 3 and Saturday, August 4 in the Dallas Event Center at Texas Station Gambling Hall and Casino. Photo Credit: Top Rank read more »
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Two-division world champion, Argentina's Sergio "Maravilla" Martinez works out in preparation for his upcoming September 15, middleweight championship clash against undefeated WBC Middleweight Champion, Mexico's Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Photo Credit: Chris Farina/ Top Rank read more »
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For years, lobbyist groups for legalizing marijuana have been given the Congressional cold shoulder, but the last election had two states, Washington and Colorado, legalize small amounts of marijuana for recreational use.
Suddenly, the idea of legalizing marijuana isn't such a taboo subject. Lobbying groups such as the National Organization for the Reform of marijuana Laws (NORML) are getting calls from lawmakers on the Hill who wouldn't give them the time of day in the past.
As interest in legalizing pot for personal use becomes prevalent, more competition for fundraising money will develop.
"These were folks who wouldn't take a call five years ago and now they are calling us and telling us to get up there with our PAC money and our expertise," said Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML in The Hill report. "For those of us who have been at this for the past 20 years, it has been nice to see the warm turn."
Oregon is another state that has been pushing for a pot initiative, but measure 80 failed in 2012. It will likely skip the 2014 election in hopes of a better chance to get passed in 2016, with the tide of increased acceptance and more voter turnout of a presidential election.
According to a statement from The Hill, the government relations group, Marijuana Police Project (MPP) plans to increase fundraising for drug legislation through more political action committee activities. The group has set a goal of reaching $150,000 by the 2014 election cycle.
"The ground has shifted and we now see members of Congress wanting to regulate cannabis like alcohol. Our activity on the federal level is no longer just about medical marijuana," said MPP Director Steve Fox.
Many lawmakers want to see a complete overhaul of the federal drug policy in general, not just marijuana. They say it should include improvements to control over-incarceration, racial disparity and financial conservation.
While Republicans, President Barack Obama and the Democrats are still waged in battle on Capitol Hill over spending cuts and gun control, there are a few lawmakers who are also in the planning stages of legislation to regulate marijuana and other related policies. They include Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT).
In addition, some Grand Old Party lawmakers are giving a second look excluding hemp from the Controlled Substance Act.
The question of funding will play a key role in states where marijuana does get decriminalized and legal pot gets moved into the business arena.
The growing, processing and distribution of pot in Washington and Colorado will be very tightly regulated, but there are gray areas on how a cash-only business can get access to traditional bank funding.
The subject of pot-tourism has been raised, which has been very lucrative for Amsterdam. Experts say there will most likely be an abundance of venture capital investments available to pot startups, while the banks figure out whether or not they want to get on the grass gravy train.
Meanwhile, previously ignored pot-lobbyists are suddenly being treated like the most popular kid in school and their phones are ringing off the hook.
Related reports:
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