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A follower of the schools of Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett and Benaud
Member of ESAS, JMAS, DMAS, FRAS and RTDAS
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Haha, Arse fans a little touchy today
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RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
The Scottish Premier League will be won by one of the old firm, you heard it here first....
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
So bookmarking it to dig when the mighty Hibs lift the trophy
Dinnen has converted me into quite the Celtic fan itbt.
Guys got taste IMO
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce
Langeveldt: I of course blame their parents.. and unchecked immigration!
GingerFurball: He's Austrian, they tend to produce the odd ****ed up individual
Burgey: Be careful dealing with neighbours whose cars don't have wheels but whose houses do.
Uppercut: Maybe I just need better strippers
Old Firm fans are the scum of the earth. Everyone else ftw.
TBH i do hold a soft spot for Aberdeen due to us poaching half their 80's side, plus Jim Bett was awesome (my memory may well be very hazy on that front though!)
I'm a huge fan of lower league football, it's where the real football takes place.
are we still talking about Scottish football here
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New Freeleaf note pad - canary paper
As a long-time user of Levenger Notationery note pads (canary color) which were perfect writing surfaces for my roller ball pen, I am unhappy with its replacement, the Freeleaf note pad.Read complete review
As a long-time user of Levenger Notationery note pads (canary color) which were perfect writing surfaces for my roller ball pen, I am unhappy with its replacement, the Freeleaf note pad.The Freeleaf still excels in smoothness and complete lack of bleed-through, but due to its much more pale yellow color, now lacks the strong contrast and high readability of the previous Notationery pads. In addition, the more darkly printed lines compete more with the hand written text for the eye's attention.The only defect in the previous Notationery pads was the inconsistency of the microperfs. They were usually excellent, resulting in easy and quiet tear off, but some lots were not cut through enough and would not tear neatly - leaving paper bits that, if not removed with a tweezers, would cause the next sheet to leave even more of its top edge behind. The new Freeleaf pads solve this problem by using slice perforation, but create new problems. They leave a rough edge at the top with visible paper nibs every 4 mm. Plus, they are much more noisy when tearing out a page, making them less suitable for taking notes at meetings and lectures.Under inspection with a magnifier, the Freeleaf paper is shinier, resulting in some light glare that is absent with the more matte finish Notationery paper. It is also more irregular in fiber appearance. Comparing lines drawn across abutting edges of the two papers, there are bits of background paper color showing through the ink on the Freeleaf paper, while the ink completely covers the Notationery paper. This also contributes to the reduced contrast of the new paper.In summary, I am hoping that Levenger will make the old type pads available again or else the search is on once more for the ideal note pad.
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Disappointing for fountain pen use
I'm surprised by the positive reviews because my experience has been disappointing -- at least when using a fountain pen. Being taught to sandwich the negative between a positive start and close, I'll...Read complete review
I'm surprised by the positive reviews because my experience has been disappointing -- at least when using a fountain pen. Being taught to sandwich the negative between a positive start and close, I'll start with my compliment on design and concept. The boxes across the top and the outline/task bar to the left are VERY helpful. I also like the concept of colored paper generally because, if you take a lot of notes, (a) the variation adds a little spice to the ordinary and (b) my personal notes can stand out among files or reams of "white" documents that I deal with. On to the constructive criticism: while the paper stock / weight is nice for fountain pen use, there either is a funky treatment to the paper or some film over the pages that causes many fountain pen inks to immediately defuse, separate, skip. It's akin to the experience of trying to use a fountain pen to write on a plastic laminate -- it just doesn't work very well. Accordingly, any "joy" or "plus" to how wisely laid out the page is or the pleasant colors on offer is overwhelmingly trumped by the "take-away" of not being able to use a fountain pen (at least not consistently). Better to enjoy a fountain pen on boring mid-weight "copier paper" than to have cool paper that a fountain pen succumbs to... As for ending with a positive, um, well, that's hard. How 'bout "I've typically found Levenger products to be top-flite and very well-conceived" (just not this particular product).PS: In fairness, I hesitated to check "NO" on whether I'd recommend this to a friend. The answer is "YES, absolutely" if the person didn't use fountain pens, "NO, absolutely not" if he/she did...PPS: I'm not talking about an apparent "discoloration" of the ink; that's to be expected when writing on colored paper (Color ABC logically will appear differently on white compared to light blue paper). Also, the pen type isn't the issue. I've used comparatively wet and dry pens, from Fine to Broad nibs, and the outcome is the same. I will say that the "ink type" does make some difference -- such that, while no ink performs as well on these Levenger pads as they do on other high quality papers, darker inks from Iroshizuku, Diamine, Visconti, and Rohrer perform better; most inks from Noodlers, J Herbin, Private Reserve, Aurora and DeAtramentis perform very (VERY) poorly. I've not yet tried my inks from Caran d'Ache, Stipula, Mont Blanc, Platinum, Waterman, or Omas; but I've tried enough to know that this is a more miss than hit product for fountain pen users (the nice weight and layout notwithstanding).
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Comments about Levenger Freeleaf Multicolored Annotation Ruled Pads, Letter:
Paper is very smooth and dense. Excellent for fountain pen and soft lead pencil. i use it exclusively, daily, at work. Grid and ruled designs are convenient, not essential.
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Love the colors & thickness of the paper!
By KDB
from Bismarck ND
These pads are really nice! I love the thickness of the paper!The colors are also really nice. Looks fabulous inside my new Levenger Folio!They are a bit on the expensive side, but I'm willing to spend extra on high quality products!
Have been using these for years
By Russ
from Houston, TX
I love these pads for writing and developing ideas. I have been using then for over 15 years and love the weight of the paper. Great quality.
Quality is excellent
By Cowgirl
from Seattle WA
Freeleaf Multicolored Annotation Ruled Pads are a great addition to any desk. I'm in the medical profession and use a sheet as a coversheet for each of my personal charts. The different colors are great to use for different diagnosis. I like that the paper is more heavy duty than regular notepad paper. The way the title boxes are arranged-very easy to organize without spending a lot of time doing so. After using the Freeleaf pads for over a year now, I won't use anything else. I feel the pads are worth the little bit of extra money I pay. Paper can stand up to heavy duty use and doesn't ever "look tired" and ink doesn't fade over time either.
Love the quality
By KAR
from Texas
I really love these pads. I like the design and layout, and this a true quality product. The drawback, they are very expensive per pad at over $6 each. Thus, I don't purchase them often.
Years of using these organizing my notes
By Rosie
from Utah
I have used these for years and love them! The quality of the paper is exceptional. I can keep the sheets in my files without fear of tearing. I use both sides and the ink does not flow through. I love the title boxes at the top. I put my clients name in the topic box and in the file under box I put the name of the person that referred them to me. That way I can remember to thank them for the referral. In the page box, I put the date I need to finish this project. These are perfect for my business and personal life. And I love the color selection. Thank you Levenger. I absolutely LOVE your products!
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This is excellent writing paper. I don't particularly like the blue. Having a choice of a pack of only one color, would be great.
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Love them,.. really help keep me organized with the different projects I have..
useful for brainstorming
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in addition to the format (marginal note section), I like the weight of the paper in these pads, as it stands up to either pencil or permanent ink. I would like to be able to order a single color instead of the assortment, but it's fun trying out all the colors.
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I absolutely love these writing pads. The 24 lb paper is perfect for my writing style. Combined with the left hand column for notes makes for a great organized writing experience. I would highly recommend purchasing this product.
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Vila Olímpica Sant Martí - Moscou
Спальные места4
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Площадь100 м²
Этаж №5(с лифтом)
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Alojamiento 100% recomendable. En muy buenas condiciones, instalaciones inmejorables y una atención excelente por parte del propietario. Relación calidad-precio muy buena. Repetiríamos sin dudar!
Accommodation 100% advisable. Thanks very much to our host for such a wonderful stay. We loved the quality of the rooms and all the spaces in the house. Markt Josef was very kind and warm since our arrival. We really felt confortable and happy with our choice. We definitely recommend your accommodation to others.
Great stay in a very pleasant apartment.
This place is a ripoff please be careful before clinking book on there are massive terrible extra charges and these interhome people are the wrosre people in the entire world fuck them
The apartment 'Palais de Justice' is pretty nice. Although it's not actually in the Palais the Justice as the name suggests, it's next to the actual Palais, in the middle of Vieux Nice. In the same street as the apartment you'll find bars, restaurants and local shops, excellent when you want to enjoy the old town of Nice. Excellent place to get to know the town, minutes walk from the beach, the park and other nice places. The boulangerie is just around the corner and you can smell the fresh baked bread in the morning. The apartment itself is comfortable, we stayed there with 4 persons. The fold-out sleeping couch makes actually a good bed an the bed is the bedroom is good as well. Minor points that are good to know: 5th floor, no elevator and some street noise (which is obvious if you want to stay in an authentic building in the narrow, busy streets of Nice)
Perfect camping, very clean, modern houses! Improvement suggestion is the outdated wifi useage. Helpfull people, clean toilet buildings. Would like to come back when the wifi is multi useable. Good french fries / chips available.
Clean and comfortable. Friendly hostess. Handy for the Circumvesuviana train station for Napoli, Sorrento and Vesuvius sites. Friendly little neighbourhood shop very handy. Our apartment did not have balcony as claimed - others in the complex did. Some noise from neighbouring flat. Very much enjoyed our stay.
Cosy and nice appartment near the town. Clean and well worked appartment. When we arrived we didn't know if we were on the right address but a very nice lady came out and met us and showed us in. The lady was supernice and she was very friendly.
Thank you for this time, we hope to see you again!
We had a very nice stay in Supetar! The apartment was only 100m from the promenade, the apartment was clean and we had a beautiful view from the balcony overlooking the town and sea.
Ivo and his mother where very kind, she even surprised us with a homemade apfelstrudel!
We can recommend this apartment to anyone thinking of staying in Supetar!
Clean and a good restaurant!
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UNIVERSITY PARK - Linebackers Michael Mauti and Gerald Hodges were two of the linchpins in the Penn State defense last year, and Mauti and fullback Michael Zordich were the emotional spokesmen when about 30 players met with the media after the NCAA sanctions came down.
Both Mauti and Hodges were drafted by the Minnesota Vikings - Hodges in the fourth round and Mauti in the seventh round - to further solidify the nickname "Linebacker U.''
They were the two top tacklers on the team - Hodges with 109, including 8 for loss, and Mauti with 95. Mauti's total would have been higher had he not injured his knee in the 11th game against Indiana.
"Obviously they were a great asset to our team last year," said fifth-year senior Glenn Carson, who was the other starting linebacker, "but time moves on, and we're just looking forward to new guys stepping up, and we're looking forward to the season. Last year is over, and we're just moving forward."
Carson, who was third on the team in tackles with 85, says he's talked to both Mauti and Hodges, but there was no pep talk or advice in the conversation.
"I think they know that it's not really needed," Carson said. "They know that I know what is needed to be done. It was just kind of 'Hey, how are you doing?' It was just catching up."
Mauti was already an inspiration before he suffered his third career knee injury, and the Lions wore his No. 42 on their helmets for the season finale against Wisconsin. Mauti and Hodges continue to be inspirations to the current linebackers because they were drafted and trying to make the Vikings.
"You always look up to your upperclassmen as teammates," said redshirt junior linebacker Mike Hull, who had 58 tackles and four sacks last year, "and whenever they move on to the next level, you like to keep in touch with them and see how they're doing. It definitely helps you get motivated for what can come in the future."
"We have a great lineage of linebackers, and G [Hodges] and Mauts [Mauti] are the next step in that," redshirt sophomore Ben Kline said. "We take that lineage seriously and that reputation seriously, and work hard every day. We're really happy for them and excited for them. Knowing them, I'm sure they're doing a great job."
From his inside linebacker spot, Carson, who is flanked by Hull and redshirt freshman Nyeem Wartman on the outside, would logically be the guy who would be next in line to lead the team in tackles and join his former teammates in the NFL next year.
"I'm just taking it day by day, and I'm trying to get better every practice," Carson said.
But a lot is also expected of the 6-1, 240-pound Wartman, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the second game in 2012 playing on special teams and was granted a medical redshirt.
"He's had a really good three days of camp so far," coach Bill O'Brien said last Thursday. "He's an instinctive guy, has good coverage skills, is a tough kid and is another guy who is a potential leader. He's going to help us in a lot of different areas. I believe he's going to be a real good player for us."
"I'm not really one to toot my own horn," Wartman said. "I'm just out there doing what I'm told to do, reading my responsibilities. Whatever I have to do to make this team better is what I'm going to do. I always learned don't toot your own horn because there are 11 guys on the field, and the only reason you're doing good is because the other guys are doing good."
Depth at the position could be a problem, though. Kline, redshirt freshman Gary Wooten and redshirt freshman Charles Idemudia were the only listed reserves on the preseason depth chart. O'Brien said a number of walk-ons, or run-ons in his terminology, are looking to fill spots as reserves.
"Where the depth is more of a concern is linebacker," O'Brien said. "You guys can read the roster. Our three starting linebackers are really good."
"I've seen a lot of good things from all of the linebackers across the board in that lower depth chart," Carson said. "They're getting a lot better from where they were in the spring, which is good and encouraging."
"We have a whole bunch of great players at linebacker, and people always step up," said Kline, whom O'Brien said has been battling a shoulder injury. "I'm sure this year will be no different. We'll have great linebacker play like we always do."
While Ron Vanderlinden returns as the linebackers coach, the defense is under the direction of John Butler, who was the secondary coach last season under defensive coordinator Ted Roof, who moved on Georgia Tech.
"Coach Butler is very intense," Wartman said. "He cares about us. He's a guy who is going to push you until you get it right. He looks for perfection in everything he does, and he makes sure every day you're one step closer to being great."


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Students intending to graduate must make a Senior Contract appointment with the Registrar to start a "Senior Contract and Application for Graduation". The contract declares intent to graduate on a certain date, and allows the Registrar's Office to collect the necessary graduation information from the student. It also provides a method to specify exactly what coursework will be required of the student during his/her final year/semester. Once completed and signed, this form is a contract between the student, his/her advisor and the Registrar's Office. This form should be completed during the student's next-to-last semester before graduation.
The Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music and the Bachelor of Science degrees are granted subject to the following:
1. Minimum of 122 semester units of credit.
2. Completion of the curriculum as given for the chosen major field of study.
3. Minimum of one year or the equivalent of resident study, completing at least 12 of the final 24 semester units at The Master's University.
4. Minimum of 40 semester units in upper division courses.
5. Minimum grade point average of 2.00 in all work attempted at The Master's University and in the major.
6. Four-year students must complete at least 25 semester units of general education requirements in Bible. Transfer students must take a minimum of one general education Bible survey course (B101, B102, B201, B202, BTH321, BTH322) each semester of full-time attendance. Part-time students (taking less than 12 semester units) are not required to take a Bible course. However, a student taking several semesters of part-time coursework must complete one general education Bible course for every 15 semester units taken at The Master's University.
7. No student will be allowed to participate in commencement exercises unless he/she has completed, or is in progress to complete, all academic requirements listed on the senior contract by the time of commencement ceremonies.
Please note that degree requirements within each major are determined by the departmental faculty. Many majors feature a variety of emphases which may have different unit requirements for graduation. Progress toward fulfillment of these major requirements is monitored by departmental faculty and by the Registrar through senior contracts.
Students are held to the unit requirements within general education and their major/emphasis according to the catalog under which they initially enter The Master's University. This applies, as well, to those students whose continuous enrollment is interrupted and then return to the university.
Graduation ceremonies are held once a year with the conclusion of the spring semester, usually in May. Students who finish their degree in the fall semester will receive their degree immediately and are invited to walk in commencement exercises the following May.
It is expected that all graduating students will be present at commencement ceremonies except in cases of extreme emergency or other similarly difficult circumstances. Permission to graduate in absentia must be secured from the Office of the Registrar well in advance.
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Our top fundraisers did a brilliant job setting a new record with Brandon Peterson as our highest marathon fundraiser ever! Taylor Hutcherson and Lauren Branard were right behind him. Great job everyone, especially our top team fundraisers: the 01G Silver North team, and the 03B Red South A team. Also special thanks to Amerie Pruden on 03G Blue North A – with the most line items collected on envelope, she raised $487 by $5/$10 individual donations, and had several sheets added to envelop just to keep track.
Fundraising prizes can be collected from the North office after Monday December 2nd OR at the South office if requested 48 hours in advance.
The Raffle Drawing took place on Tuesday afternoon, each winner has been contacted directly and all results can be viewed here. The most sought after prize, once again, was the amazing Lonestar SC Blanket created by Michelle 'Sharpy' Bailey, out of various Lonestar Tees. Check out a picture at our Marathon FB Album. There were 19 other great prizes, all of which can be collected at the North office after Monday December 2nd OR at the South office if requested 24 hours in advance.
Please help us get over the finish line by 1) Completing the Responsible Sports Quiz, 2) Crediting it to Lonestar Soccer Club Austin, and 3) Verifying through the email they send you! If we can finish top 5, we win $2,500!
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Forrest W. Crawford, PhD
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School of Public Health: Biostatistics | Public Health Modeling Concentration
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Computational Biology and Bioinformatics: Computational Approaches to Functional and Integrative Genomics; Theoretical Molecular Biology and Computational Algorithms
Forrest Crawford's work focuses on statistical methods for learning from stochastic processes in genetics, evolution, epidemiology, neuroscience, and public health. His ongoing projects include studies of evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases, intra-host viral evolution, DNA sequence alignment, DNA forensics, reporting error models for self-reported quantities in surveys, and analysis of medical image data. He is also interested in theoretical and methodological issues in statistical inference, including probabilistic matrix factorization, regularization for high-dimensional regression problems, Bayesian nonparametrics, and optimization.
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Estimation of disease rates in hiddenpopulations
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When Dino Elias, 20, stepped on the stage at the Kennedy Center, he hardly noticed the 2,000-person audience or the interior of the quintessential American performing arts theater. Nothing existed outside of his tap dance routine.
"When I perform, I just perform. I just go with it. When I got on the stage, I got in the zone and went for it. So I don't remember much of it," Elias said.
The Whittell High School graduate was chosen to perform a piece choreographed by tap-dancing star Derick Grant for "Juba! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance," the first show of its kind at the Kennedy Center.
It all started last spring when Elias auditioned for the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. "The Pillow" is home to the country's longest-running dance festival and hosts more than 50 dance companies from around the world.
It's a prestigious venue to show off your talent, and when Director of the Chicago Human Rhythm Project Lane Alexander saw Elias and his fellow tappers perform Grant's choreography, he knew he wanted the company to dance in his celebration of tap set to take place in December at the Kennedy Center.
It was a dream come true for Elias, who started tap dancing in South Lake Tahoe nine years before. His mother and co-owner of Forever Dance Lake Tahoe, Joan Elias, taught him contemporary, modern and jazz, but it was Sharie Jones who introduced Elias to tap.
"Tap just clicks. It makes sense. It's the way the rhythms flow - it's just fun to create your own beats with your feet," he said.
Elias started competing when he was 10 years old and would finish in the top five in each event he entered, according to his mother. But it wasn't until his junior year in high school that he began to consider dance as a future career.
Now he's one of Forever Dance's main instructors, teaching tap and teen hip hop. He also performs in the Reno show "Red Hot Superstars," and said that he'd eventually like to dance on Broadway - "Who doesn't want that?" he asked rhetorically.
For Joan Elias, she's just glad that her son's found his passion and that it aligns so closely with her work.
"It's a family business. It makes it more fun when your kids are there and you get to spend time with them. I'm really proud of him. He's a great dancer and a great role model for the other kids in the studio," she said.
When Elias stepped off the Kennedy Center stage, the show's organizer Alexander congratulated him, saying that his solo tap dance performance was the highlight of the concert.
"The experience was amazing. It was the best show I've performed in so far. Even the famous tappers knew how big of a deal it was to be a part of the first all-tap performance," Elias said.


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Emily & John's celebrity dinners
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Emily Blunt and John Krasinski went over to Jennifer Aniston Full Story
John Krasinski & Emily Blunt's new daughter Violet
She has arrived – John Krasinski tweeted: What better way to celebrate the 4th... than to announce our 4th family member!!! 2 weeks ago we met our beautiful daughter Violet #Happy4th — John Krasinski (@johnkrasinski) July 4, 2016 Full Story
Emily Blunt & Lin-Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins
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I cannot tell you how much this casting delights me. I never think of Emily Blunt as being super-British, which is ridiculous because of course she's British and also how do you gauge the Brit-ness of someone? But I guess, as opposed to Adele or Stella McCartney or someone who is overtly at home in London, she seems more like she's 'from everywhere'. Full Story
The Huntsman: Winter's War is so bad it's weird
I don't think anyone actually expected The Huntsman: Winter's War to be good, and it isn't, so I'm not going to demand anyone spend money on this movie. But if you're the curious type and/or you remember the charmingly bad sword-and-sorcery movies of yesterday, like Willow and Legend—or the better but still f*cking weird entries into the genre, like The Last Unicorn—then The Huntsman: Winter's War offers a sort of nostalgia-infused trip back to a time when Hollywood liked making movies with magic and beasties, and was also doing copious amounts of blow in the bathroom. Full Story
Kanye and The Girl On The Train
Did you read it? Some of you must have. It sold 3 million copies in the US alone and set a record for the most weeks at #1 in the UK. I've read The Girl On The Train several times. Last fall I interviewed Paula Hawkins, literally, 4 times in the space of a week, including a one hour session during a book festival. Full Story
Huntsman people stand next to magnificent owl
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Look at this gorgeous and magnificent snowy owl, so wise, so still. It sits peaceably, suffering the presence of these peasanty humans who dare stand near it. It even bears the hand of Chris Hemsworth Full Story
Team Huntsman
I've wanted to post these photos of Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, and Chris Hemsworth Full Story
The softer side of Charlize Theron
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Don't get it twisted. She's not cuddly all of a sudden. But this is one of the few profiles of Charlize Theron that I've ever read that shows her at her most vulnerable. And while it doesn't make me any less terrified of her (when she's coming down a carpet at you, and she does bitch-face better than most, with the exception of maybe Robin Wright, you feel the cold) it does offer a different perspective of someone who's been famous for a long time – which doesn't happen often. Full Story
The Huntsman: Winter's War still exists
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Defying all the odds, Snow White and the Huntsman prequel-ish thing, The Huntsman: Winter's War continues to exist. And I continue to not understand anything about this movie. Everything about how Charlize Theron Full Story
Emily Blunt: Worst Oscar pink
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Fine. I'll be the dick doesn't like what the pregnant celebrity is wearing. I just don't think women who are pregnant need to dress like the babies they're growing. It's not just the colour either. It's the embellishment. ON THE STRAPS. And the bust line cut straight across. Full Story
Do you understand anything about this Huntsman movie?
I sure don't. Nothing about this movie has ever made any goddamn sense, and now there's a second trailer for us to deal with. The first trailer made this look like a sequel that would fill in the Huntsman's backstory while also dealing with the aftermath of Snow White and the Huntsman. Full Story


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Volunteers to count homeless across Columbiana County
January 16, 2013
Staff Reports LISBON — Volunteers will take to the streets of Columbiana County on Jan....
The purpose of HPRP, as defined in the enabling legislation, was to "provide homelessness prevention assistance for households who would not otherwise become homeless and rapid re-housing assistance to persons who are homeless."
I am so happy to see that all those 49 homeless people are now in homes and working once again! Yes indeed. Isn't that right CAC? L.M.A.O. There will come a day when this blantant waste of tax dollars is exposed. Just going to take the right leadership and public living in denial.
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After seven years of marriage, it's over for Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.
"We have decided to end our marriage," they tell PEOPLE in a joint statement. "This was a very difficult decision. We have come to an amicable conclusion on all matters."
"It is a painful time for all involved," the statement continues, "and we appreciate the respect of our privacy at this time."
Lopez, 41, and Anthony, 42, wed in June 2004 in a casual – and secret – ceremony at Lopez's Beverly Hills home.
They have two children, 3-year-old twins Max and Emme.
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Miria Vazquez holds her niece Amy Munoz while getting a spray on butterfly tattoo at Pumpkins In the Park at Turtle Creek Park in Dallas, TX on October 19, 2013.
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text: Ruth S. Frederick, 87, Martinsburg, died Tuesday. She was born in Fredericksburg, daughter of Harvey E. and Grace I. (Baughman) Glass. She married the late C. Robert Frederick. Surviving are three children: Connie L. Martin, Robert L. and James S.; three grandchildren; and four sisters: Hazel Tate, Betty Creps, Ethel Walker and Mary Lou Dollar. She was preceded in death by four brothers: John, D. James, Robert and Jack. Friends will be received from noon until the 1 p.m. funeral service Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, at Clover Creek Church of the Brethren. Arrangements are by John C. Bolger Funeral Home Inc., Martinsburg.


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See ya, Houston. Tom Brady and the New England Patriots have taken over the top spot in the AP Pro32 NFL power rankings.
Hours after routing the previous No. 1 Texans 42-14, the Patriots were back on top of the rankings for the first time since Week 2. Houston held the No. 1 spot for a month before tumbling to fourth after its second loss of the season.
Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos are second, with the San Francisco 49ers third as they prepare to visit New England on Sunday night.
The Patriots (10-3) received 11 of 12 first-place votes and 383 points Tuesday in balloting by The Associated Press� panel of media members who regularly cover the league. Denver (10-3) got the other first-place vote and had 369 points.
�That was quite a message they sent to the league Monday night,� ESPN�s Chris Berman said of the Patriots� seventh consecutive win.
�The Patriots played a near flawless game and are taking form to make a serious run at the Lombardi,� Fox Sports� John Lynch said. �A potential Super Bowl preview awaits Sunday night with the 49ers.�
The Broncos, meanwhile, take an eight-game winning streak into their game against Baltimore, which fell into a tie for eighth after an overtime loss to Washington.
�Peyton Manning is making his pitch for a record fourth NFL MVP award. He has steered Denver to eight consecutive victories and thrown 19 TD passes during that stretch,� said the Dallas Morning News� Rick Gosselin, the only voter who had Denver No. 1 this week.
The Atlanta Falcons dropped two spots to fifth after their loss to Carolina, and Green Bay and the New York Giants were tied for sixth.
Even at 11-2, voters are beginning to wonder about the Texans, who have clinched a playoff spot but still have two more games against division rival Indianapolis, ranked 10th this week.
�The hope is that Monday�s loss (by Houston) was a wakeup call,� said Clark Judge of CBSSports.com. �If not, make it the beginning of the end to what once looked like a promising season.�
As for the Falcons, their second loss has some voters wondering as well.
�Has any 11-2 team every gotten as little respect? Don�t think so,� said The Sporting News� Clifton Brown, who ranked the Falcons eighth.
Seattle made the biggest advance after its 58-0 rout of Arizona, up four places to eighth.
�It�s like Pete Carroll is back at USC beating up on Washington State. Seahawks absolutely pummel Cardinals 58-0, only 11 points from equaling Carroll�s most lopsided win in college,� Newsday�s Bob Glauber said.
Jacksonville was ranked last this week in 32nd place by the AP Pro32 panel.


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For those of us in the social media bubble it is that time of year again where we try to get our friends, fans and followers to vote for our submitted sessions so that we can speak at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference in March 2013. But as we have done in year's past, we are interested in supporting the B2B community and promoting some of the other sessions in addition to ours.
Last year there was a B2B track with a day's worth of sessions in one Standing Room Only room. It was a sign of progress for B2B content at the session. Kipp and I even did a book presentation for The B2B Social Media Book. Each year there are more B2B sessions submitted than the year before and this year continues that trend. Companies represented include many of the usual suspects like IBM, Cisco, Xerox, Salesforce, but there are also less known B2B companies like National Instruments and Honeywell Aerospace.
If you want to support your fellow B2B marketers, check out these and other presentations on the SXSW panelpicker site. Register for an account to like sessions, leave comments to make the sessions better, or even share them with your networks. Your support may help create more interest in B2B topics this coming year. If you are interested in attending the conference, note that hotels are selling out and the tickets are only getting more expensive as time goes by.
Digital A-Z for B2B
At last year's SXSW, a starved crowd of B2B marketers shuffled into a standing-room-only session track to hear more about this often-neglected topic. Meanwhile, the volume of B2B transactions is 20 times higher than B2C – the B2B industry is worth more than $400 billion.
How drastically does the marketing world change when you're selling to another business? Contrary to the Supreme Court decision, businesses aren't anything like people. But marketing must reach out to role-based B2B tribes. What are the most civilized moves you can make?
In this topic session, you'll learn everything from 101 marketing basics to how much of your budget to protect for unpredicted innovations. Learn how web analytics and optimization testing can help determine what advertising, content, promotions and strategies are right for your business model.
Social Conversion: For Love and Money in B2B
61% of B2B marketers use social media to generate leads, but that isn't enough. Marketers are ignoring a much bigger opportunity: social conversion. Social conversion uses social content and social media platforms to induce an action from an evangelist, lead or customer. Going beyond lead generation, social conversion enables optimization through all stages of the B2B sales and marketing funnel. By using social content at each step of the online decision making process, marketers can drastically improve their results, while giving prospective customers the most relevant content personalized to them. Inject social into all stages of your conversion process from landing pages to your website homepage to scale your online marketing to new heights.
Paradise By The Dashboard Light: Success in B2B
There is a big myth in business today — "You can't track your social media efforts like you do other digital media." False. With the right tools, every component of social media can be tracked & measured against a business goal. You better form your business goals with such metrics to influence all your marketing channels. Yes, all of them.
While looking to understand what impact social activities are having, Mitsubishi Electric Cooling & Heating collaborated with WCG creating a consolidated dashboard to visualize its metrics. For upper management, this dashboard showcases all digital & social activities — in real time via web-based login, which can also be displayed for all employees to see in a common area. Independent figures as well as campaign specific data can all be expanded.
A business need to analyze and showcase ROI has become a real-time illustration board. The benefits to a brand are priceless in an age where strategies need to react as fast as social media unfolds.
Late Night Comedy Secrets for Social Business
Research shows that nearly 73% of people who read corporate blogs are people. One of the most authentic, intimate connections we can make with another person is to make them laugh; which makes comedy the ideal genre for corporate transmedia content. Learn how to apply the same comedy approaches used on Conan, Letterman and SNL to help strengthen and grow online corporate communities. Learn how to produce a comedy video for under $500. We'll share a few successes, failures and near-fireable offenses; as well as case studies our productions including a Cisco video covered by The New York Times and an IBM video which ran on Comedy Central.com.
Getting Away With It: IBM Social Sells the Cloud
IBM and its web-based offering, the IBM Public Cloud, has gone social with its selling – and is exporting the practice overseas. Beginning in the US, IBM.com developed & launched an innovative Social Selling Program to help Public Cloud sales reps close new business using social media channels & techniques – primarily because traditional teleprospecting and email were not a market best fit. By embarking on internal social selling education, a social action marketing calendar, an influencer strategy, a social content management system, weekly reporting & prospect social tracking through the sales pipeline, the innovations has proven that social media has an invaluable contribution to the B2B sales & marketing mix. Hear from IBM on how this Social Selling Program was developed, the learning that the campaign has produced both in US and Europe – and the results that are now serving to influence the use of social media as a sales and marketing tool in b-to-b markets at IBM overall.
Bonus Session Listing (Not B2B, but mine):
The Incredible Disappearing Marketing Trick
Marketing is undergoing its biggest transformation in 80 years. It is disappearing. How can marketing actually disappear, you ask? Not only are marketers getting better at their jobs and creating things that don't feel like marketing, but these highly valuable ideas are shared by your customers, prospects and advocates. By reducing the barriers between you and this army of supporters, your content can get amplified like never before. And this marketing trick will put you on the path to more customers in less time at lower cost. Now who's the magician?
If there are other B2B sessions that sound interesting to you, add them to the comments below.


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Beneficial mutations, scientists say, play a key role in bacterial adaptation, but little is known about the effects these mutations have on bacterial fitness across genetic backgrounds and environments.
Antibiotic resistance, often cited as an example of bacterial adaption, is thought to occur in the presence of antibiotics because resistance mutations confer fitness costs in antibiotic-free environments. But antibiotic resistance is costly for organisms to maintain; for example, mutations that reduce antibiotic uptake also restrict the amount of nutrients entering the cell. Consequently, in the absence of antibiotics, nonresistant bacteria will outcompete resistant bacteria.
But this month, researchers from UC Irvine and Faculté de Médecine Denis Diderot have reported that, by stressing bacteria through growing them at a high temperature, the bacteria could spontaneously develop resistance to the antibiotic rifampicin. And they said, the resistance mutations proved highly beneficial in the absence of antibiotics, depending on both the background of the mutation and the environment.
In their study reported in published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, the researchers documented the selection and fixation of resistant mutations in populations of Escherichia coli B that had never been exposed to antibiotics but instead evolved for 2,000 generations at high temperature.
Specifically, the investigators found parallel mutations within the rpoB gene that encodes the RNA polymerase beta subunit. These amino acid substitutions conferred different levels of rifampicin resistance, with mutations typically appearing early and becoming fixed early in the evolution experiment. The scientists were able to confirm the high advantage of these mutations at 42.2°C in glucose-limited medium, but the rpoB mutations had different fitness effects across three genetic backgrounds and six environments.
This is in contrast, they say, to most previous studies showing that rifampicin resistance is deleterious in the absence of the antibiotic and that compensatory mutations are required for resistance to persist.
The mutations responsible for rifampicin resistance had different effects in other strains of E. coli. In each type of bacteria tested, the mutated subunit of the RNA polymerase rpoB allowed them to grow in the presence of rifampicin, but unlike the original test strain they did not necessarily have a growth advantage at high temperature.
Olivier Tenaillon, Ph.D., of the Faculté de Médecine Xavier Bichat, Paris, who led this study said, "Our study shows that antibiotic resistance can occur even in the absence of antibiotics and that, depending on the type of bacteria, and growth conditions, rather than being costly to maintain can be highly beneficial. Given that rifampicin is used to treat serious bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, leprosy, Legionnaire's disease, and for prophylaxis in cases of meningococcal meningitis, this development has important implications for public health."
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December 23, 2007
Something To Think About As You Get Lots Of Stuff This Christmas
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This was a fantastic link, Stephanie! She is able to simply explain in layman's terms just why we need to halt rampant consumerism. I have a lot of improving that I can do however this makes me feel good about my choice to considerably scale back Christmas and to pretty much stop shopping other than buying necessities.ReplyDelete
Steph, it has been wonderful getting to know over this past year. Your words have encouraged and touched my heart. Merry Christmas to you!ReplyDelete
Wow! that is crazy! I believe it though.ReplyDelete
I'll pass this on later after the holidays.. I think more ppl need to watch this.
Makes me want to take back some Christmas items we got.. but I think this is a great newyears resolution for people.
No more juice boxes! LOl :-) Thats crazy!
I watched it for the first time last week, and it was truly disturbing. Capitalism has its flaws.ReplyDelete
Whew! The film definitely gives you a lot to think about. Thanks for passing the link along.ReplyDelete
Thanks for this link. I found it very informative.ReplyDelete
I love the story of stuff!! My friend introduced me to it a couple years ago and it made an impact on me then too, but, as it usually happens, time goes on and we forget. I'm happy to be reintroduced to it now!ReplyDelete


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Springtime is upon us. Freed from winter clothes, accessories get to shine. Here in Copenhagen, our bicycles are just tools that we use to get around. We don't give them names or fetishize about them, we just use them. However, if you going to spend half your life on your bicycle, you may as well personalise it a bit. We see the bicycle, above, quite often around Copenhagen and it is the ultimate personalised example. Simply gorgeous.
I suppose this isn't really a How To Guide but more of a source of inspiration from the cyclists of Copenhagen to you. With love.
There are different reasons to personalise your bike. To make it look a bit nicer, to make it match your personal style, to hide the rust, to make it less attractive to thieves. Whatever the case, the sky is the limit and only you can make it your own. In Cycle Chic Guide #8 we covered funky bike seats, so we'll leave them out here.
Off we go then. We'll start with a timeless classic:
Flowers on Baskets and Other Bits of Bicycle
Flowers on baskets are almost as old as the bicycle. After the invention around the 1880's of the Safety Bicycle - the design we know today that liberated women and the working classes and provided homo sapiens with the fastest and most effective urban mobility boom in history - baskets were among the first bicycle accessories to appear. Women carried baskets already and it wasn't a quantum leap to start putting them onto the handlebars. Later came back racks and pannier bags but baskets were first.
It's difficult to pin down when women started decorating their baskets with flowers but by all accounts we're still in the late 1800's. I adore the fact that this most simple and elegant personalising detail lives on even today. Many flowers are plastic but here in the spring I've seen several examples of real flowers or pussy willows branches adorning baskets.
You're not restricted to the baskets, of course. The back rack is just as suitable, as well as the steering rod and the rest of the bike. And flora on baskets is not a seasonal issue. In the autumn, why not decorate the basket with leaves like our friend, Klara, with her lovely pink bicycle?
Painting The Frame or Stickering It
The whole damn bicycle is personalisable. Is that a word? Who cares. Armed with stickers, paint or even tinsel, you can go crazy.
A classic Christiania bike stickered ad libitum and a hand-painted bicycle belonging to a girl named Susanne, apparently.
Paint zebra stripes on your fenders, let the world know that it's your bicycle (in the middle photo Tilda has written "Tilda's Bicycle" on the frame) or get creative with stickers, like in the last photo on Marie's bicycle. She used kitchen labels and some other stickers on her frame.
Bicycle Bells and Horns
Bells are another way to leave your mark on your bicycle. Bells are required by law in Denmark, so you have every reason to get one. Like this teapot bike bell, above.
Coffee, tea or me, baby?
There are loads of bells out there but there are also squeaky toys and horns. These are all adult bicycles, by the way. You can also go old school with a vintage bell like the old Husqvarna one at bottom left or the lovely, rusty one on the bottom right.
Decorating Your Skirtguard
Decorating your skirtguard is an obvious choice. It's like a canvas waiting for an artist. In the Cycle Chic #4 we covered Do It Yourself Skirtguards, but here are a couple of amusing examples from the streets of Copenhagen. On the skirtguard to the left the owner has highlighted the hi-tech features on the bicycle; Fingerprint reader, Theftproof, GPS Monitoring, Neighbourhood Watch.
On the bicycle to the right it reads, "Next time, don't touch my bike. If you do, do it nicely. Thank you."
Decorating Your Chainguard
Chainguard decoration is one area of bicycle personalisation that it often overlooked. Putting funky fabric on is one way to do it, but you could also paint it wild. Chainguards used to be gorgeous back in the day, like the vintage Hermes bicycle and brand chainguard to the right. Sweet.
Baskets for Animal Transport
You need a basket for your dog. Nick a shopping basket from a supermarket or dig up a cool, old wooden crate.
Trashing Your Bicycle - Quite Literally
Of course, if you don't personalise your bicycle, and leave it too long without using it, your fellow citizens will personalise it for you. At no extra cost. Rolling bicycles gather no trash, as the old saying goes.
Here's a unique way to personalise your bike for a practical purpose. This bike basket is covered with plastic-covered sheets advertising various pieces of furniture for sale.
Go Hard or Go Home
We started this post with a timeless elegant classic and we'll wrap up with a funkalicious example of personalising your bicycle. Spotted in Malmø, Sweden, just across the bridge from Copenhagen. Plastic grass beneath your ass, funky painted bell, colourful tape on the handlebars, you name it. Go hard or go home.
Alternatively, you're always welcome to visit the Cycle Chic Online Boutique at CafePress.com where various items, including our ever-popular bicycle frame stickers are on offer.


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Superintendent of Upshur County Schools Scott Lampinen presented information about the schools system to his fellow members of the Buckhannon Rotary Club at Tuesday's Buckhannon Rotary meeting.
Lampinen provided a few demographics about Upshur County Schools, as well as a slide show of photos about activities such as Red Ribbon Week, Rachel's Challenge, food collections and veterans ceremonies at local schools.
"We work very, very hard on the academic side, but we're also trying to impart a social conscience in our students," Lampinen said. "They live in this community. It's not just what's going on in their individual classrooms, but we're trying to provide those reach-out opportunities for our students."
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Superintendent of Upshur County Schools Scott Lampinen, a Rotarian, told the Buckhannon Rotary Club about county school demographics and activities Tuesday.
Club members saw images of students participating in renovations of Fred Eberle Technical Center, receiving hands-on instruction, participating in educational and community events and more. Photos of educators being recognized for their hard work were also among the images Lampinen shared in a slide show.
"Good things are happening day to day in each one of our schools," Lampinen said. "I could talk for hours just from my heart about the good things that are going on in Upshur County Schools."
Another piece of good news from Lampinen is that drop-out rates in the county are declining. He said through drop-out prevention programs and grants, the county hopes to keep the drop-out rate on the decline.
Upshur County Schools will host the Destination Graduation Forum that was postponed after Superstorm Sandy. The forum will take place from 6-7:30 p.m. Dec. 13 at Chapel Hill United Methodist Church in Engle Hall. It is open to the public.
The forum will focus on drop-out prevention measures and host communitywide discussion of issues and solutions to improving the graduation rate, as well as other issues that may be facing the county school system. Students, parents, guardians, family members, agencies, businesses, health professionals, educators, retirees and anyone else who is affected by or interested in the issues is encouraged to attend.
Lampinen said that of 3,859 students attending schools in Upshur County, 700 have disabilities, accounting for about 17 percent of the county's student population. Lampinen also said that attendance for those students is at 94 percent.
Lampinen said that as of Oct. 1, 61 percent of all students attending schools in the county are on free or reduced price meals.
"This is a startling statistic that has increased this year," Lampinen said. "Sixty-one percent of what we term in the school system are financially needy."
The county has 48 bus runs to transport students to and from school, traveling an estimated 2,800 or more miles daily.
The county employs 202 service workers, such as custodians, cooks and bus drivers. More than 350 professional employees, such as teachers, nurses, superintendents, librarians, serve the county schools. There are 213 substitutes employed by the Upshur County Board of Education.
"We have an economic impact on the community of Upshur by employing 766 people," Lampinen said.


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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
So, the University of Arizona now offers a minor in hip-hop.
The news shocked me so much, I knocked a Pat Boone album off my turntable.
According to a university news release, the "Hip-Hop Concentration" in the College of Humanities includes the origin and development of hip-hop culture, dance, rap music, graffiti/tagging, fashion, business, and film. Topics will cover migrations, multilingualism, race, class, gender, religions, sexuality, nationality, politics and the economy.
The curriculum "goes beyond the stereotypical gang and drug cultures to examine the movement's intersection with politics, marketing, fashion and other academic disciplines."
Arizona students hoping for an easy minor of just listening to Jay-Z probably shouldn't enroll, officials said. WHAT??
Times change, career fields change. Society changes. That's nothing new. I just didn't realize hip-hop was a movement. Like the civil rights movement? Or the back-to-the-land movement?
I have no idea how a minor in hip-hop would translate to a career, but people probably said the same thing about women's studies and medieval art appreciation.
Now, allow me to brag a bit: Most people don't know this—I no longer put it on my resume—but I double-majored in English and navel-gazing. And it's stood me in good stead, too. Nobody can spot navel lint like I can. I can even find incipient lint—those tiny particles of pre-lint fuzz almost invisible to the naked eye.
Yes, navel gazing has been berry, berry good to me. Without exception, all my bosses have been impressed and amazed by my talent. Okay, that part isn't true: Navel gazing hasn't made me any money or helped me find a job, but at least I was on the cutting-edge of higher education. (My brother T-Bob still tells people he minored in underwater basket weaving, and if you knew T-Bob you'd halfway believe it.)
Speaking of T-Bob, I remember when he brought home the "Tommy" album. My dad frowned and said, "What's a rock opera? And why does the singer look like a woman?"
When T-Bob tried to explain that the album spawned a movie about a pinball wizard, and androgynous Roger Daltrey fronted a band called The Who, whose guitarist smashed his instrument after each live performance, well, communication broke down completely. I'm just glad Dad never heard about Ziggy Stardust; he might've had a stroke.
Back to the hip-hop. I'm no contemporary music critic—I don't know the difference between rap and hip-hop, let alone the difference between West and East Coast rap. So yes, one could argue I'm being ignorant and close-minded here.
After all, a century ago there weren't degrees in packaging science or broadcast communications. "Teach somebody how to talk on the television? What in tarnation is a television?"
Confession time: I actually like some hip-hop; according to iTunes, so do a lot of people my age.
I listen to Outkast, Sugar Hill Gang, Arrested Development, LL Cool J, Run-DMC. (Yes, I'm old school.) I don't like songs that glorify misogyny, violence or drugs, so there's a whole lot I don't listen to: Chris Brown, Eminem, NWA. I've tried to like Kanye West but it's just not happening.
If you watch TV, shop in a mall or go to the movies, you've heard hip-hop. When a musical genre is offered as a minor, it's here to stay… and why not? I'll bet UA will have some cool guest lecturers.
If Snoop Dogg drops by, I'm gonna be so jealous.
Julie R. Smith, who also likes Hank Williams Sr. and Judy Collins, can be reached at email@example.com
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Camp Meeting Revival w/ evangelist Ed Elliott – Addison
Camp Meeting 2013
Dates: July 25, 26 & 27, 2013
Time: 6:00-10 PM each evening
Place: Smith Park, Addison
Internationally renowned evangelist Ed Elliott is coming to Addison to proclaim the Truth about the goodness and love of God. Ed's ministry will touch your heart and change your life! Come expecting… expecting to see people saved, healed, and brought back into right relationship with family, friends and almighty God! Come for your own blessings, and bring everyone you know who needs to hear the truth about God!
Each night a different Christian band will lead worship and then perform an hour-long concert. On Thursday 7/25, we'll feature Lansing's own Jack Clarkson Band. On Friday 7/26, Mark Wagner and his band will come to us from Flint; and on Saturday night we'll be blessed by the dynamic talents of Light Switch—a Christian rock band from Wisconsin. The concerts will begin shortly after the evening ministry.
The place to be in the Lenawee–Jackson–Hillsdale county interchange this summer is Addison Congregational! For powerful, anointed Word and worship, be at ACC's Camp Meeting 2013!
The evening will start at 6 p.m. Ed will begin ministering at 7 p.m. The nightly concert will start around 8:30 p.m.
Bring chairs, blankets or something to sit on. A freewill offering will be received to help meet the expenses of the camp Meeting.


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quote: Electric cars are the only way to go.
quote: but the strain on electric grids and capacity
quote: A few EVs recharging here and there is no big deal - drop, say, 10 EVs per charging station, which works out to 5 million cars, and you're probably looking at a sort of armageddon from the standpoint of electrical generation and distribution.
quote: perhaps by the time we have smart grids we'll have secured a perpetual diesel supply anyway


text: Lisa Brereton, author of self-help guide books, will talk about her newest title How to...Get to the Heart of Your Sweetheart: A Personal Guide for Couples to Strengthen Their Marriage. She will also explore highlights from her two earlier books, How to...Get to the Heart of Your Teen: A Personal Guide for Parents to Re-Connect and Build Better Relationships with Their Teens and How to...Get to the Heart of Your Own: A Personal Guide for Those Who are Looking for Purpose in Their Lives. Lisa writes to help enlighten her readers to make positive changes in their lives. Copies of all three books will be for sale after the program.


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Hi Luke - will there be any facility in Internet Explorer to enable 'experimental mode' to use these features? I'm guessing we won't see any of these until an IE11 beta.
mm?i think he forgot to mention!people shunned ms solution!people chose javascript(ecmascript)even tho ms wish it wasnt so!it was chosen because it wasnt directly controlled!and i bet as soon as it become controlled other standard will probably become popular!rule of thumb?dont try to control it lol!but then it is corporation we talk about here so i bet soon we ll adopt other tool since it lloks like ms and all other corporate are working very hard to control it!ho well was nice while it lasted!cant wait to know what we ll adopt on the open source world!
hmmm.... "WebGL" & "THRRE.Mesh" in a Microsoft slide deck. interesting...
This is the second webcast from LangNEXT I've listened to, the first was WinRT. I am very hopeful that for the next LangNEXT someone will bring a microphone that is capable of recording the human voice at somewhat higher fidelity than what can be achieved with two empty soup cans with a taut string stretched between. When Alexander Graham Bell said the first words "Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you" over the telephone in 1876 it was better fidelity.
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Farmers who grow vegetables and other field crops and want to learn about reducing tillage in their farming operations are invited to join a new local discussion group on the topic.
The "Reduced Tillage Grower Discussion Group" is being organized by the Cornell University Cooperative Extension Service in Erie County.
Local growers will lead discussions.
The first meeting of the new group will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 25 in the extension service's Genesee County office, 420 East Main St., Batavia.
Preregistration for the discussion group meeting is requested and should be made by Friday, organizers said.
To register, contact Carol MacNeil at firstname.lastname@example.com or (585) 313-8796. For questions about the discussion group, the contact person is Donn Branton at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Since I was a little girl, I always had one focus from the middle of summer all the way through October: What was I going to be for Halloween?
My mother being the seamstress she is has always been a huge help to me. She taught me how to sew simple things, and all year-round I would accompany her to JoAnn Fabrics and look through bolt after bolt of fabric. I was always fascinated with the colors and textures, quickly learning which pieces could be used to make different things and what I could use for costumes.
So all year long, I would brainstorm costumes. Watching my favorite movies and getting ideas from the characters became second nature to me. Not only was I searching for the perfect costume, I wanted to play the part as well. My love for acting came into play as I mastered imitations of characters � actions, voices and famous quotes � never leaving out the details; I�m a stickler for the details.
My first big costume success that I played a major role in designing came the same year I first visited Disney World for Halloween festivities in 2006. Of course, I knew I wanted to dress as a Disney character.
One of my favorite Disney movies is �Sleeping Beauty.� With that in mind, know that I wasn�t a typical little girl. I never wanted to be a fairy or a princess or something sparkly and cute. I had an inherent love for the spooky, creepy, villainous and sometimes just flat-out weird. With that said, I went for the obvious choice in my mind: Maleficent (also known as the evil witch from �Sleeping Beauty,� for those who aren�t Disney or fairy tale fanatics such as myself).
I remember wanting every aspect of my costume to be perfect. Maleficent has horns. So how do you make large black horns for an 11-year-old girl? My mother, a creative genius, bought a large piece of foam, a black headband and black silky fabric. Through many trials and many more errors, she cut out a foam piece in the shape of Maleficent�s horns, wrapped them in black fabric and fastened them to the headband. My costume was complete.
We attended Mickey�s Boo To You Celebration, the Halloween party that takes place in the Magic Kingdom after park hours during the Halloween season. What�s better for a kid than being able to celebrate their favorite holiday in Walt Disney World? Absolutely nothing.
Walking through the Magic Kingdom seemed like a whole new experience to me, despite having been there multiple times before. The spooky music playing through loudspeakers, all the characters dressed up in costumes, and free candy were just a few highlights. I just had to get some photos with my favorite villains. Right in front of Cinderella�s castle, the best villains of Disney waited as lines formed so children could have a few moments with the characters. I immediately got in line for Maleficent, who had the largest crowd by far.
The people in front of me seemed to dissipate quickly, which made me wonder just how much time I would get to spend with my all-time favorite villain. My 11-year-old self became worried about what to say to her when I got there but my time to be nervous was running out as the line was extending behind me.
Finally, it was my turn.
I walked cautiously up to Maleficent and she looked back at me and cracked a smile. It was a wicked one, but what more could I expect from the villain of all villains? She began telling me how much she loved my outfit and invited me to be her �apprentice of evil.� I responded excitedly but played off the character and shot her a cool, villainous smile. The entire line was watching us. She seemed to spend more time with me, and everyone seemed to adore my costume and my acting. Eventually, my mother said it was time to take a picture. Maleficent and I turned toward the camera and just as my mother said, �Strike a pose!� we both threw our arms up, extending our capes and gave sinister glares. The crowd went wild. I remember many people taking my picture with her.
I moved on in my Halloween ventures to become various characters and attended many parties, but it wasn�t until high school that I was allowed to wear a costume to school.
My freshman year I was a bit timid. I didn�t know how �all-out� the girls at my school would go, so I opted for a simpler costume � recognizable but nothing with face paint. Max from �Where The Wild Things Are� by Maurice Sendak was my pick. �Where The Wild Things Are� is one of my favorite children�s books and in 2009 the movie was just being released. It was perfect timing.
After learning that the girls at Immaculata Academy really get into the Halloween spirit, I had no problem picking an extroverted character for my sophomore year. Three days after my birthday, March 5, a remake of one of my favorite Disney movies and a remarkable novel, �Alice in Wonderland,� was released into theaters. The new �Alice,� directed by my favorite director, Tim Burton, and starring my all-time favorite actor, Johnny Depp, was the focus of my 2010 Halloween.
My mother and I scoured fabric stores for the best fabric, colors, textures and layers. I became the Mad Hatter on Oct. 31, 2010. As a stickler for details, I had the Hatter�s attire down pat, complete with the chain of spools; his hat, which I had to buy plain and decorate myself with fuchsia fabric, hat pins, feathers and card; and even the makeup, which I did myself. I frolicked around school that day, as only the Hatter could, saying things that made no sense and asking people if they knew why a raven was like a writing desk. I took great pride in not having the slightest idea of the answer.
For my junior year, I had to somehow top the Hatter. With the fourth installment of �Pirates of the Caribbean� in 2011, my choice seemed clear. Being able to play another Depp character made me ecstatic. This costume had to be even more precise than the last. I spent that entire summer watching all of the �Pirates� movies, despite having already seen them more than anyone could ever count. I mastered the drunken pirate walk, the accented talk and the mannerisms. I examined every outfit Captain Jack had ever worn and made sure to include it in my final masterpiece. My mother constructed a puffy pirate shirt, identical to Jack�s, a beautiful jacket with all mismatched buttons (what pirate ever matches?), a vest, a bandana and pants. We searched high and low for the perfect belts and scarves to tie around my waist as well as the tricorne hat, a signature piece to Captain Jack. I fastened a sword holster to my waist and added a plastic pistol and sword that I bought at the �Pirates of the Caribbean� attraction in Disney World.
But I was still missing three crucial elements: snarly hair, a compass that doesn�t point north and makeup to make it look as if I hadn�t showered in weeks. At a Halloween store, I found a wig, which I was quite reluctant to buy because I despise store-bought costumes. It seemed like I was selling out, but for a girl with hair the length of Johnny Depp�s real hair, I didn�t have much of a choice. I bought the wig but refused to accept it as it came. I braided it in different ways and added beads, coins and ribbons to achieve the look of Jack�s trinket-filled hair.
I couldn�t make a compass that didn�t point north so I bought a regular compass and encased the body of it in black silk material. I also purchased a small, lightweight octagon-shaped box, which I painted navy blue and put golden striping around it. I placed the compass inside the box and my dad drilled holes into the box, fastened the top to the bottom and then we added black ribbon so it could hang off of my belt like Jack�s did.
The makeup was solely my department. Since Jack has facial hair, I had reached an obstacle. However, with a little thought, it was easily overcome. My aunt is a hairdresser and owns a salon. So when I got 11 inches of hair cut off a few years before, she had saved it to send to Locks of Love. However, neither of us got around to doing so and there it sat. Luckily for me, she agreed to cut it to the proper size, braid it and have it ready for me. And just like that I had Jack�s goatee braids. I also created a mustache as well. When Halloween finally rolled around, I did my makeup and then attached the hair to my face using theatrical glue.
Not a soul at school recognized me at first. Once people caught on, however, I had a ball joking in my Sparrow voice and walking down the halls yelling �Why is the rum always gone?!�
This year my quest for the perfect costume started in January. It ended in March and my mother and I started construction in September. While this costume hasn�t taken quite as much planning and effort as last year, it still is complicated. My costumes always remain a secret until Halloween.
If there is one thing I�ve learned after all these years, it�s to have fun with the things you love. I�m grateful to have a talented mother who is willing to give up her time and money to make my favorite holiday special year after year.
So, if you�re thinking about dressing up as something that seems outrageous this year, remember there�s nothing wrong with having a little fun.
Happy Halloween!
Hannah Gordon is a senior at Immaculata Academy.


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Mens Basketball Falls to Miami, 64-52
MUNCIE, Ind. -- Miami University handed the Ball State men's basketball team a 64-52 loss Saturday in Mid-American Conference men's basketball action at Worthen Arena.
Zavier Turner scored a career-high 24 points, but the Cardinals struggled against Miami's full-court press and trapping defense. Ball State (3-12, 0-4 MAC) turned the ball over 22 times, leading directly to 28 points for the RedHawks (6-9, 2-2 MAC).
Chris Bond scored 14 points to give Ball State two in double figures, while Majok Majok added eight and grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds. Will Felder led Miami with 19 points, followed by Jaryd Eustace with 13 and Willie Moore with 12.
"This was a hard game for us, and we knew it would be," Ball State head coach James Whitford said. "Handling pressure has been a challenge for us from day one. To Miami's credit, they're a very good pressing team. I thought they played a very good game and their pressure really bothered us."
Ball State had trouble from the outset, turning the ball over 14 times in the first half. The Cardinals also struggled when they found open shots, hitting just 26.3 percent over the first 20 minutes, and went into the break trailing 35-17.
Miami pushed its lead to as many as 26 points at 54-28 near the midway point of the second half before Ball State went on a run to close the gap. Walk-on guard Kindon Crowder sparked the Cardinals with 14 minutes off the bench, and Ball State outscored the RedHawks 22-8 down the stretch. A Quinten Payne 3-pointer in the last minute cut the final deficit to 12.
"We kept competing through the second half," Whitford said. "I thought Kindon gave us some good energy, which was great to see. But the turnovers in the first half became overwhelming and the deficit became hard to overcome."
Ball State finished the day shooting 33.3 percent from the floor, while Miami connected on 51.9 percent. Transition lay-ins and drives to the basket led to 42 points in the paint for the RedHawks.
Ball State struggled to get the ball inside against the defensive pressure and scored just 12 points in the paint. Majok managed only four field goal attempts.
When the Cardinals did break the pressure, Turner was able to find some open looks. The freshman point guard hit 4 of 7 attempts from 3-point range and also got to the free throw line where he made 10 of 12.
Ball State will be back in action Thursday, hosting Buffalo for an 8 p.m. tipoff at Worthen Arena. The game will air as part of the MAC television package on Time Warner Cable Sports Channel and ESPN3.


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Years before Alice Boland pulled a loaded handgun on an Ashley Hall administrator outside the school in February, she was treated for her mental illness by medical professionals.
By the numbers
100,000Patients suffering from mental illness that the S.C. Department of Mental Health treats every year. $90 millionAmount cut from the Department of Mental Health's budget from 2008 to 2012. 1,784Inpatient hospital beds in South Carolina designated to treat psychiatric patients.$30 millionAverage funding MUSC's Department of Psychiatry receives from the federal government each year for research.2,938Inmates designated mentally ill by the S.C. Department of Corrections, out of an approximate 22,000-inmate population.Source: State agencies
So was Newtown, Conn., shooter Adam Lanza.
More violent?
People suffering from mental illness are capable of committing atrocious crimes — Adam Lanza in Newtown, Conn.; James Holmes in Aurora, Colo.; Seung-Hui Cho in Blacksburg, Va.But the mentally ill are not necessarily predisposed to violence, and, in fact, are much more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators of it, said Dr. Thomas Uhde, chairman of MUSC's Department of Psychiatry."We do need increased funding to provide comprehensive treatment and conduct research in these areas, but that should not be understood that people that suffer from brain disorders are much more likely to be out there committing these acts," Uhde said. "That is not the same statement and they often get confused."A 2006 study by researchers at Northwestern University determined that people suffering from severe mental illness are 11 times more likely to be victims of a violent crime than the general population."We have people with mental illness who come in here and we have to treat because they themselves have been the victims of hostility," Uhde said. "Part of that is the stigmatization of the illness itself."
In each case, there were tests, diagnoses, intervention. Yet the mental health care system still failed them both. Even worse, the system failed the public.
Lawmakers in Columbia and Washington realize something's not working. They are considering new gun-reform laws and registries to track the mentally ill in light of these recent cases. Dr. Thomas Uhde, chairman of the Medical University of South Carolina's Institute of Psychiatry, concedes a solution is complex, but the crux of the crisis is money — there's not enough of it.
"We have a national problem in terms of our ability to provide mental health care to those that are in need," Uhde said. "We've decreased the number of beds throughout the country. We're treating more people for mental illness in the prison system and in shelters than we are in the hospital system. ... It's an outrage."
Looming federal sequestration cuts piled on top of dramatic reductions at the state level threaten to make a bad situation even worse, he said.
"We've been able to continue to conduct pioneering research during very, very difficult times, but there are real challenges to our being able to continue that path," he said. "The sequestration — or castration, depending on your perspective — is an example of that."
MUSC's Institute of Psychiatry — "the other IOP" as university insiders call it — is more than just group therapy and Prozac prescriptions. It accommodates 83 psychiatric patients at its hospital, which is only 4 percent of state hospitals' total capacity for psychiatric patients, but is considered one of the leading psychiatry departments in the country for research.
Doctors and scientists there are studying a range of psychiatric illnesses, including post-traumatic stress disorder. They also are testing cutting-edge new therapies, such as magnetic brain stimulation and how it affects someone's compulsion to commit suicide.
The psychiatry department uses a little more than half of its annual $70 million operating budget for this research. Some of this money trickles down from the S.C. Department of Mental Health, but less and less in recent years.
Bill Lindsey, executive director of the South Carolina chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, said $90 million was cut from the mental health department's budget between 2008 and 2012.
"That was just a huge chunk of money that went away," Lindsey said.
Gov. Nikki Haley restored about $17 million to the Mental Health Department's budget during the current fiscal year and has proposed to return another $11 million to its operating budget next year. Even so, Lindsey said the department is still cash-strapped, and South Carolina's 100,000 mentally ill who seek treatment at the state's mental health clinics each year are suffering because of it.
"The Department of Mental Health has only been able to treat the sickest of the sick," Lindsey said. "We're happy to see some money coming back in, but it doesn't add to all that money that's been lost. That's the hard part."
Although MUSC's psychiatry research efforts are mainly sustained by federal, not state, money, that may be in jeopardy now, too.
MUSC's Institute of Psychiatry ranks eighth among all psychiatry departments in the U.S. for the amount of funding it received from the National Institutes of Health in 2012. It also receives millions from other federal agencies, including the Department of Defense.
Each of these agencies will be forced to make significant spending cuts if Congress and President Barack Obama cannot agree on a plan to avert sequestration. Although the deadline to make a deal technically passed on March 1, a compromise still could be reached.
"If you have Department of Defense reductions, the question becomes where are they going to target their reductions?" Uhde asked. "Don't know, but could be in the area of research."
The bottom line is that MUSC's psychiatry department and other academic research centers like it could suffer, he said.
"Our overall research portfolio approaches $40 million a year and $27 to $30 million of that is from the federal government," he said. "The problem in the mental health field and in research is that we've already sustained cuts after cuts after cuts."
Reach Lauren Sausser at 937-5598.
Dr. Mark George, director of the Brain Stimulation Laboratory at the MUSC Institute of Psychiatry, prepares a patient to receive therapy using the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy System. The non-invasive therapy is for treatment-resistant major depression disorder, in which medications and other conventional talk therapy has failed.×


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on January 24, 2013 - 11:06 PM
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A Buffalo woman died Thursday evening after she apparently suffered a heart attack and crashed her vehicle in the 600 block of Humboldt Parkway.
Mary Pugh, 47, of Roma Avenue, suffered a seizure about 6:30 p.m. as she was driving north on Humboldt, police said. Her car struck another vehicle and then a utility pole, police said,
She was taken to Erie County Medical Center, where she later died.