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Boys track and field Athlete of the Year: Hebron's Robert Domanic claimed two medals to go along with cross country title
Hebron track coach Jason Grennier wasn't sure what to expect out of Robert Domanic four years ago.
Grennier saw potential in his new distance runner, but would it ever be fulfilled?
Domanic put those doubts to rest in a big way during his senior campaign, claiming gold medals in both the 3,200- and 1,600-meter races at the Class 5A UIL state track and field championships. Those medals followed his individual cross country title last fall.
"Not a whole lot of people have been able to win cross country, the 3,200 and the 1,600 in the same year," Grennier said. "It's pretty elite company."
In his first three years at Hebron, Domanic played second fiddle to teammate Kevyn Hoyos. Domanic finished fourth at last season's cross country meet, and Hoyos finished third.
After Hoyos graduated — and moved on to run for Syracuse — Domanic had his chance to own the spotlight. He ran season-bests in both the 3,200 and 1,600 at the state meet.
Domanic shaved nearly a minute off his time in the 3,200. He failed to qualify for state last year after running 9:49.83 at the 5A Region I meet. Two weeks ago he ran 8:57.95 to win state gold.
Domanic took eighth in the 1,600 at state last year and trimmed more than 10 seconds off his time this spring. He ran 4:07.49 this year to beat Southlake Carroll standout Trevor Gilley.
Domanic, who is signed with Ole Miss, added that he would have liked to have broken the state record of 8:52.34 in the 3,200, but running a season-best would have to do.
"My goal coming into the track season was to achieve the mile and two mile double up," Domanic said. "So I was really happy that I got that."
At state meet: Won the 3,200 meters (8:57.95) in the morning and the 1,600 (4:07.49) in the evening.
Notable: Domanic's 4:07.49 at the state meet ranks him fifth in the nation and No. 1 in Texas this year. His 8:57.95 at the state meet ranks 19th nationally.
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Jacob Reece Jenkins (1855-1933) and
Mollie Ida Jordan (1862-1928)
2. JACOB REECE JENKINS, son of Jesse Mercer1 and Rebecca (Reese) Jenkins, was born in Greenville, Greenville County, SC, 25 Jan 1855, and died in De Leon, Comanche County, Texas, 20 Jun 1933. He married, in Cotton Gin, Freestone County, Texas, 21 Dec 1882, MOLLIE IDA JORDAN, who was born in Cotton Gin, Freestone County, Texas, 10 Feb 1862, and died in Downing, Comanche County, Texas, 2 Jan 1928, daughter of John D. Jordan and Jane F. Mayo.
Jacob Reece Jenkins spent the first years of his life in the Fork Shoals area of Greenville County, South Carolina. His father was a farmer, and Jacob was a farmhand when he was enumerated with his parents in the 1870 census. A few years after that, about 1873, his sister Rebecca and brother-in-law Thomas Rice moved to Texas. Jacob followed them to Texas, and was enumerated in the 1880 census living with them in Navarro County, Texas. He lived with them six years, according to a story written by his niece, Rebecca Rice Kelton.
"In 1879, Father bought 80 acres in Navarro County (2 miles north of Frost, Texas) of the Haggerty Survey. He paid $2.50 per acre. Then he lived on a rented farm. They moved into the new home in 1881. Uncle Jake Jenkins was living with us then. He lived with us six years."
Mollie Ida Jordan was living in nearby Freestone County with her widowed mother when she and Jacob married. The marriage was performed by Brother (Rev.) Groves, in the home of the bride, in presence of Mrs. Jordan and friends.
They lived in Navarro County, Texas from their marriage until about 1900, their first ten children born in the town of Frost. They moved next to Goldthwaite, Texas, where the last two children, Gladys and Ruth were born. By 1911, they were living in Comanche County, their land in the river bottom area on Rush Creek, 8 miles south of De Leon, near Downing. The first house there was one room with a wood burning stove. They had pecan orchards.
Mollie Ida Jordan was a Baptist for 34 years. She was in poor health for the last twenty years of her life. She died of heart failure, her obituary printed in the De Leon Free Press. Jacob remained a widower until he followed her in death five years later.
James Holdridge, although too young to remember his grandmother Mollie Ida, has a clear memory of his grandfather Jacob and his car.
"My memories of our time in the house on Weatherford Street are few in number and very dim. One of the clear memories, however, is the sound of the feed mill at the family store grinding feed on a breezy summer afternoon. I remember Grandfather Jenkins visiting our house in his Model-T Ford Coupe one day just after having gone fishing. I found a small, dead perch in the luggage compartment which I wanted to keep, but was denied. This perch had not been dead very long, and I suppose I had not experienced at that time how badly a fish can smell after it has been dead for awhile."
Jacob Reece and Mollie Ida Jenkins are buried next to one another in DeLeon Cemetery, De Leon, Comanche County, Texas.
Children of Jacob Reece Jenkins and Mollie Ida Jordan:
- Edgar Reece Jenkins, b. in Navarro County, Texas, 12 Oct 1883; d. in Brownwood, Brown County, Texas; m. (1) Mittie Tollos, (2) Rowena Strother
- Effie Viola Jenkins, b. in Frost, Navarro County, Texas, 28 Feb 1885; d. in De Leon, Comanche County, Texas, 21 Jun 1956; m. Arthur Van Nort; children Roy Van Nort, Winnie May Van Nort, Gertrude Van Nort
- Thomas Homer Jenkins, b. in Navarro County, Texas, 28 Oct 1886; d. in De Leon, Comanche County, Texas; m. (1) Gertrude (2) Etta; child Thelma Jenkins
- Carl Mercer Jenkins, b. in Frost, Navarro County, Texas, 26 Aug 1888; d. in De Leon, Comanche County, Texas, 2 Oct 1934; m. Georgia Pearl Loudermilk, daughter of George Hardy Loudermilk and Susan T. Burford; children Peggy Jenkins, Raymond Jenkins, Norman Jenkins, Jack Hardy Jenkins, Bobby Carl Jenkins
- Willie Boyd Jenkins, b. in Navarro County, Texas, 1 Jul 1890; d. in Coleman, Coleman County, Texas, 23 Nov 1923; m. Vinnie Higgings
- Clyde Denton Jenkins, b. in Frost, Navarro County, Texas, 1 Jan 1892; d. in Brownwood, Brown County, Texas, 17 Feb 1981; m. in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 15 Mar 1918, Berta Millie Loudermilk daughter of George Hardy Loudermilk and Susan T. Burford: child Clyde Denton Jenkins, Jr.
- Franklin Clarence Jenkins, b. in Navarro County, Texas, 5 Dec 1893; d. in De Leon, Comanche County, Texas, 28 Sep 1961; m. Mattie Sanduskey; child Sybil Fay Jenkins
- Earl Haddon Jenkins, b. in Frost, Navarro County, Texas, 25 Oct 1895; d. in Frost, Navarro County, Texas, 2 Mar 1897
- Roy Dudley Jenkins, b. in Frost, Navarro County, Texas, 30 Aug 1897; d. in De Leon, Comanche County, Texas, 30 Nov 1976; m. in Panhandle, Texas, 22 Jun 1924, Dussie O'Keefe; child Roy Neal Jenkins
- Grace Claire Jenkins, b. in Frost, Navarro County, Texas, 22 Jun 1899; m. in Comanche, Comanche County, Texas, 24 Oct 1924, Joseph Hulsey; children Juanita Francis Hulsey and Virginia Grace Hulsey
- Nina Ruth Jenkins, b. in Goldthwaite, Mills County, Texas, 21 Apr 1902; d. in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, 29 Mar 1949; m. (1) P.W. Hancock (2) Unknown Blalock
- Gladys Lois3 Jenkins, b. in Goldthwaite, Mills County, Texas, 12 Mar 1905; d. in Comanche, Comanche County, Texas, 26 Sep 1993; m. in Comanche, Comanche County, Texas, 30 May 1926, James Marvin9 Holdridge, son of Horace Benton Holdridge and Mary Ophelia Morgan; three children


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I need to write a name using the font from these invitations (the part that says "Pierce's"). Without a Cricut Cake, how do I go about it? The letters I need aren't even on the invitation so I can't trace them & cut out of fondant. How can I color them like the ones shown? I don't think my edible ink pens will show up bright enough. Help! Thanks!
Google circus lettering and you will find lots of whole alphabets come up. You can copy and paste them into a word document and then resize to what you want. Then you can cut them out, lay them on rolled out fondant or mexican paste and cut round them.
To colour them I would use paste or powder food colouring and dilute with isopropyl alcohol and paint whatever pattern I wanted.
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The Big Picture
What it the Big Picture? From the point of view of climate change, the top level is
The world is getting warmer, we're causing it, and it will continue to get warmer in the future. This is pretty well universally agreed on now.
Going down a level, the point at issue is then the various palaeoclimatic reconstructions of the [[temperature record of the past thousand years]] (or, now, two thousand). Here the important point is ...the increase in temperature in the 20th century is likely to have been the largest of any century during the past 1,000 years... and so on: which you'll doubtless recognise as a quote from the TAR. But more than that, all the headline points that the TAR made about the MBH record it used are true of all the other reconstructions too. So all the nonsense about whether the fall of the Hockey Stick would disprove global warming or whatever is just nonsense. Because there is plenty of backup. The other point that the septics do their best to push is the idea that all the attribution of climate change arises from the palaeo reconstructions. That too is nonsense, & discussed at RC. Or just read the TAR.
Going another level down, we come to the various arguments about the details of the Hockey Stick. Thats the level of the recent RC post Hockey sticks: Round 27, where we discuss two recent GRL papers. This is interesting stuff - if you're keen on statistics. If you're not, and you're baffled by the claims and counter claims, then you have two options: hop back up a level, because you've got to a too specialised for your understanding; or improve your understanding. Don't misunderstand me: there is a lot of interesting work to be done at this level. There are, as shown by the graph, a whole pile of records that agree on the main points but disagree in detail. Resolving this is an active and valuable area of research. If you're interested in policy, though, you've gone too far down. Go back.
Some people think that that the debate over the so-called "hockey stick" temperature reconstruction is a distraction from the development and promulgation of climate policy. And I agree (though I would replace "policy" with "science" cos I'm more interested in the science). And this is what we've been saying in the recent comments at RC. So if anyone were, hypothetically, to enquire why *others* should continue to care about it... Why is this fight important to the rest of us? the answer is: you shouldn't. It isn't. There: that was easy.
Oops: I forgot something and blew my dramatic ending. Sigh. There is (yet another) odd inversion about: the idea that if we were to switch from, say, MBH (less variance) to Moberg (more) that would somehow imply a reduction in expected future warming. That is completely wrong. If the past temperatures varied more, it implies a *higher* sensitivity to forcing, and therefore a *higher* future change.
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How Can One Design a Chin Implant That is Similar to a Movie Star?
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Designing chin implant results
Digital imaging and morphing are useful tools in planning for chin augmentation. Experienced surgeons are usually able to get pretty close results to the imaging, though you have to keep in mind that there are healing variations that complicate getting everything exactly the same.
While you can certainly be inspired to have a particular look to your chin it is better to think about working with your appearance and what fits your face best rather than trying to mimic a movie star's face. Your chin may end up looking more out of place than anything if you're not careful.
Learn more: http://www.drlamperti.com/facial-plastic-surgery/chin-augmentation
Chin implant
The result is dependant on the patients anatomy, the operative plan and the experience of the surgeon. I think a computer simulation is reasonable because I will not discuss making a patient look like someone else, I will discuss what we can potentially do for them.
Learn more: http://www.plasticsurg.org/plastic-surgery-chicago.html
Chin Augmentation Goals and Expectations
How close one can change one's chin to any desired look depends on many factors, not the least of which may be the type of chin implant used. Whether an immediately available preformed chin implant can come close or whether one may need a custom-designed chin implant depends on careful consideration of the chin one has and the chin one wants. Depending on the anatomic features of your existing chin it may not be possible ro come close or it may be quite possible. A careful photographic analysis and computer imaging can help answer this question. It is almost never a good idea to be trying to achieve the specific facial look of another. The best that can usually be done is to make a better you not a new you.
Learn more: http://www.eppleychinaugmentation.com/
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How Do I Design a Chin Immplant Similat to a Movie Star
The biggest problem in designing a chin implant similar to a movie star is trying to decide which movie star; do you want to look lie Rosie O'Donnell or Angelina Jolie? There is tremendous variation in the design of implants and the materials used. During consultations look at pictures of each surgeon's patients to see if you like their results.
Chin Implant
Chin implants come in a very wide selection of shapes and sizes. Some can even be modified by carving. Your surgeon will take measurements of your face and should be able to show you actual implants, but it is doubtful he will have a sample of every kind. Some surgeons have software to give you some idea of post op results, although they will tell you that is just an estimate. But like Dr. Pousti wrote, most of us will be quite frank with you that surgery will make you look like you but with better proportiions, it will NOT moke you look like someone else. Realistic expectations of what can and CANNOT be achieved with surgery are necessary for satisfaction with the results.
Chin Augmentation like a Movie Star?
Thank you for the question.
If you are trying to look like another person and achieve the "right look" you stand a very high chance of being disappointed with the results of surgery. For this reason, I personally would not offer an operation to a patient whose goal is to look like another person.
You would be well advised to consider REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS heavily while contemplating any type of cosmetic procedure.
Best wishes.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/procedure_chinimplant.htm
Chin implants
There are different shapes and sizes, and vertical and horizantal dimensions of implants.
Computer imaging can be a means of giving you an idea of how it will look on you , Not exactly how it will look on you.
The choice of the implant is a matter of communications between you and the surgeon and what you want. This same process is considered whether you are you or the movie star.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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For insight into a foreign culture, look no further than the Broward-based, music-and-dance duo Harmonic Motion. The performers are Joe Zeytoonian on oud, cajita, and vocals, and dancer Myriam Eli on riqq, zills, and darbuka. The duo specializes in bringing together the string- and percussion-driven sounds found in Armenian, Turkish, and Arab folk standards.
"The oud is five double strings and a single bass string tuned in unison -- not tuned like a guitar in octaves," Zeytoonian explains. "It's the tuning that gives it a bigger, more throaty, cavernous sound, which is bigger than classical guitar."
The instruments Eli plays have special characteristics, too. The riqq, which is often shrugged off as a close cousin of the tambourine, is something entirely different. "The riqq is refined fishskin stretched across a beveled top," Zeytoonian says. "The beveling allows an ensemble of eight different sounds when striking the head."
The zills and darbuka are just as handy as the riqq, because Eli can play any of the three while she dances. Zills are brass finger-cymbals, and the darbuka is an hourglass-shaped hand drum.
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Harmonic Motion's latest CD, Southern Arrival, features five instrumental tracks, ranging in length from a standard two-and-a-half minutes ("Beach Debris") to almost eleven minutes ("Hovercraft #9"). Some songs were written beforehand, others improvised. And Eli and Zeytoonian had help putting the CD together. Kenny Millions plays clarinet and sax, and Abbey Rader plays ashikos, thumb piano, and other percussion instruments.
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A brief collection of immigration headlines from around the region and the country.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement has set up a hotline for detained immigrants who are U.S. citizens or who believe they have been a victim of a crime. Read it.
- In San Diego County, the tale of a family left without a father after Gerardo Rodriguez Corrales was taken into custody by ICE and deported. Rodriguez Corrales was not the man agents were looking for when they came to his in-law's Escondido apartment. Remaining in Escondido are his three children, all U.S. citizens, and a legal resident wife. The North County Times raises questions about how immigration agents look for and arrest illegal immigrants as the Obama administration tries to shift its enforcement priorities. Read It.
On the campaign trail:
- GOP candidate Mitt Romney pledges that he would not support the federal DREAM ACT, an effort to create a pathway to citizenship for qualified undocumented immigrants through higher education or military service. Watch and Read It.
At work:
- Ski resorts are relying less on H-2B visas this season than in previous years, reports the Vail Daily. Read It.
The U.S.-Mexico (southwest) border:
- This is an opinion piece in the Texas Observer, but it has new information about the armored gun boats set to begin patrolling the Rio Grande and Falcon Lake, where American David Hartley was allegedly murdered in 2010. These Texas Department of Public Safety boats are in addition to the ones already in operation by Border Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard. Read It.
- Playwright Katherine Chua explains to CNN the challenges of living undocumented. Her play "Undocumented" has been staged in and around New York. Watch It.
- Oscar Vasquez of Arizona arrived in the U.S. as an undocumented child. He married a legal resident, graduated from college and then returned to Mexico to try to re-enter the U.S. legally, chronicles the Arizona Republic. After the intervention of a U.S. senator, Vasquez was given permission to return to his family. When he did, he promptly enlisted in the U.S. Army and went away again -- this time to defend his country. Read It.


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Typically, a dog park does not actually earn revenue - it's typically a non-profit endeavor
where you would get grant money from various nonprofits or cities to maintain and keep up the properties
but you would not be charging a fee for people to actually use the dog par,
Could a sign asking for digital donations be used?
Yes, that could be used ... but donations are voluntary and there's no guarantee that you would get enough donations to keep the park maintained plus give yourself a good salary
A good salary is not necessary, however not having to bear the brunt of keeping up the park is.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Premise: Relationship expert and author Marin Frist knows what women should look for and what to avoid when trying to find the perfect man. But like most experts, she fails to follow her own advice. On the way to a speaking engagement in Alaska, Marin finds out that her fiance has been cheating on her. If that wasn't bad enough, she winds up stranded in a small town filled with what she doesn't need -- single men. With the support of her friends and publisher back home, Marin realizes she's been living with a blindfold on, never taking the moment to stop and breathe.


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Foraging carries with it the stigma of the 1970s whole-food movement. The image is clear: a "back-to-the-Earth" attitude, sandals, a disdain for technology and the omnipresent odor of patchouli oil. But with the resurgence of the farmers' market culture, foragers now have a viable business model. Local mushrooms, greens, edible flowers and herbs are brought in from the wild by knowing experts and served to food enthusiasts looking for both local and exotic flavor.
This treatment is deserved says Steve Brill, a naturalist who leads foraging tours in New York's Central Park, and throughout the greater New York region. "Almost all foraged varieties of plants deserve gourmet treatment. They are so hardy and unique," he says. (Below, daylily shoots by Steve Brill.)
So, over the course of this wild growing season we'll be scouting lands across the country to find the wildest and most delicate edibles (and avoid getting poisoned.) And we'll try to interpret the food value from the plant experts. Foraging books tend to be educational but not culinary, Brill says. "Botanists know plants really well, not food."
It's early for most foraging, with much of the land emerging from snow or covered in mud. The green of spring is still to come, but one hardy invasive species is already providing decent meals: the daylily. And it happens to be one of the easiest and most versatile plants to find (try a nursery for starters).
The daylily arrived in the U.S. through Chinese immigrants who brought the it to the U.S. last century for culinary and medicinal uses. "Americans realized it's a great flower, so its edible value was forgotten," Brill says. Though now, not only has its food worth diminished, but so too has its aesthetic value. Daylilies are sometimes classified as noxious weeds, easily able to choke out entire gardens with a tuber-like root system.
Luckily nearly every part of the plant is an edible delicacy, so weed control means good eating. This time of year Brill harvests the green shoots, which he'll sauté or stir fry with other greens.
After the greens come the buds. These elongated flower pods are the perfect late spring accoutrement for a stack of pancakes. Take the flower, lightly batter it in the same pancake mix and briefly fry it in canola oil.
When spring turns to summer the crown jewel emerges. It's the wide, multi-pronged orange flower, which is best in its simplest form: as a sweet and artistic addition atop a salad or added to the side of a grilled pork shoulder cut. Remember: unlike tomatoes or lettuce or other vegetables, the daylily has an element of exclusivity built into its DNA. The flower only blooms for a few hours.
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OAKLAND — Pediatricians in Oakland and 35 other sites across the nation rallied Tuesday in support of a childrens health insurance bill that President Bush has threatened to veto today.
The bill would expand the popular State Childrens Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, by $35 billion over five years to ensure that more children have access to medical care.
A 15-minute, lunchtime protest in front of Childrens Hospital Oakland drew more than 60 pediatric residents carrying signs reading Override the Veto and Dont Make Our Kids Suffer.
It mirrored events held at Stanford University School of Medicine and elsewhere.
For all of us who work so hard to take care of these children, this is very disturbing, said Dr. Gena Lewis, a pediatrician who helped organize the Oakland rally.
President Bush is making this into a political issueand he is leaving children behind, which is shameful, Lewis said.
In California, SCHIP funds the popular Healthy Families program.
Nationwide, it provides health insurance to 6.6 million children whose families are often referred to as the working poor. They earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to afford private insurance.
The bill in question would expand the program during the next five years to cover 10 million children.
The expansion would be financed by a 61 cents a pack increase in the cigarette tax.
Bush has argued that increasing the number of children in the program would broaden the role of government and move the nation toward socialized medicine.
He also has voiced concerns that it could entice people to abandon private coverage in favor of a government-run plan.
Those who demonstrated said they fear the federal program will be eliminated, leaving millions of children without insurance and causing many to do without medical care or to seek treatment in crowded emergency rooms.
The 10-year-old program expired Sept. 30, but funding has been extended through mid-November while federal leaders debate its fate.
Families could be forced to make decisions about whether they spend money on health care or food or clothes or fall behind on their rent, said Dr. Rachel Kreps-Falk, a pediatric resident at Childrens. This could impact the entire family.
Bush has said he prefers increasing spending in the program by a more modest $5 billion over five years.
Critics argue that this would not be enough to maintain existing coverage, much less bring in more children.
Childrens advocacy groups estimate that under the presidents plan, 200,000 to 400,000 children in California would lose coverage by 2008.
Californias SCHIP program, known as Healthy Families, is the nations largest, covering more than 830,000 children.
Lewis encouraged those at the rally to urge their congressional leaders to override a presidential veto. But she acknowledged it will be an uphill battle.
Many experts say a veto could be easily overridden in the Senate, but not the House.
If a veto is upheld, congressional leaders would attempt to compromise on another plan to save the program.
Im fairly surprised that he actually wants to veto this legislation, said Dr. Kishor Avasarala, a Childrens Hospital pediatric cardiologist who joined the Tuesday protest.
It would put a lot of kids into the hole where theyre not covered. Theyll have to struggle to find other resources, which are pretty meager right now.
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But now, Iraqi and U.S. officials say, the insurgent group has more than doubled in numbers from a year ago — from about 1,000 to 2,500 fighters. And it is carrying out an average of 140 attacks each week across Iraq, up from 75 attacks each week earlier this year, according to Pentagon data.
"AQI is coming back," U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, declared in an interview last month while visiting Baghdad.
The new growth of al-Qaida in Iraq, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq, is not entirely unexpected. Last November, the top U.S. military official in Iraq, Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, predicted "turbulence" ahead for Iraq's security forces. But he doubted Iraq would return to the days of widespread fighting between Shiite militias and Sunni insurgents, including al-Qaida, that brought the Islamic country to the brink of civil war.
While there's no sign of Iraq headed back toward sectarian warfare — mostly because Shiite militias are not retaliating to their deadly attacks — al-Qaida's revival is terrifying to ordinary Iraqis.


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A dozen high school seniors in Ventura County are sharing $50,000 in scholarships presented to them by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation in Simi Valley this week.
The Foundation gives out the scholarships annually to students it believes show leadership qualities, and strong character in high school.
The 12 students were from nine public, and private high schools in the county, and received scholarships in amounts ranging from $2,000, to $10,000.


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Miesha Tate, the former Strikeforce women's bantamweight champion is undeniably an amazing fighter, and unquestionably a beautiful woman. She has recently starred in a new bikini photoshoot for 'Fitness Gurls' Magazine, and we are here to show you the pictures. Continue to page 2 to see the rest (CLICK HERE). Sources: MMAMania.com and FitnessGurls.com


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4 thoughts on "Geithner: Europe Much More Grave Than US Fiscal Cliff"
Conax says:
Please! I can't watch these rats.
He looks like he hasn't taken a dump in a week or two.
He should resign and take some Ex-Lax.
NetRanger808 says:Legarde and Geithner are on the Dark Side…They Pay No Taxes and Lie with their brains. You put their two heads together and you get an ass. Two pigs fighting over a milk dud!
UglyDog says:Check out Geithner's blink rate.
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That guy is SO full of crap! He knows, probably better than most others in that cesspool called Capitol Hill, that the banknote scheme is doomed to catastrophic implosion sooner than later and all his mumbo-jumbo is tactical maneuvering to keep the rest of them them in the dark until Congress (and their equally brainwashed constituentcy) is forced to come begging for 'salvation'.
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The winner of BBC One's How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? is taking the rest on the advice of a doctor.
Ill health has caused the 23-year-old to miss several performances at the Palladium Theatre over recent months, including Monday evening's show.
Understudy Sophie Bould will fill the role of Maria until Fisher returns.
Bould usually plays the eldest Von Trapp child, Liesl, but has been acting as stand-in during Fisher's absence.
A spokesman for the production said: "Through a desire not to let the public down, Connie Fisher sang through a heavy cold which has caused a vocal injury.
"The vocal cords are a muscle like any other and, as in the sporting world, when injured they require complete rest to recover."
He added: "We are very lucky that, in Connie's absence, the role of Maria will be covered by Sophie Bould, who has been receiving standing ovations for her portrayal of Maria."
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The government is ruining Phrosties, you guys, but honestly, the below taste-test will remind all of us why that's probably a good thing, because #HORRIBLETASTE.
"This tastes like teenage regret." (A very accurate summation of the Phrosties experience made by my friend Alex.)
Let's rewind a minute to make sure everyone understands what is meant by "Phrosties"; you may have read this article, in which an office decided to take Phrosties (alcoholic deliverable slushies) for a test drive, and drunkenness ensued. A lot of people angrily commented on the review, because apparently Phrosties were like, some underground phenomenon that had (until now) been mostly on the DL. Well, to all of those angry commentators, I've got your back…I'm here to say that PHROSTIES PHUCKING SUCK, LEAVE THE PHROSTIES PHANS ALONE AND DO NOT HOP ON THE BANDWAGON.
In order to acquire a multicolored Phrosty, you have to call or text the number associated with their private Instagram account and tell them which flavors you want. Delivery time varies, but we (meaning my friends and I) were told it'd be an hour for the delivery to arrive at our West Village location. It took slightly longer than the hour long estimate, and we could barely sit still the entire time because we were SO OPTIMISTIC that Phrosties would be amazing, even if we somehow died from drinking them because QUESTIONABLE ORIGINS / LEGALITY.
As we impatiently waited, I imagined a boozy version of the Kool-Aid Man crashing through the door, tossing us all brightly colored, slightly hallucinogenic and/or poisonous frozen beverages, but that's unfortunately not what eventually ended up happening; a normal-looking-non-Kool-Aid-Man guy showed up with our order in the trunk of his car (we requested fourteen of them to split between seven humans, by the way, because obviously…), and he admitted he didn't have all of the flavors we'd asked for. He ended up giving us a few extras because he felt bad about it, which was nice, but (as we would soon find out) it was a completely unnecessary gesture as they were all fucking disgusting. But we'll get to that in a second.
We spread the plastic bottles out on the coffee table (only mildly ironically juxtaposed above a Martha Stewart Living book) and decided which we wanted first. I (being the patriotic motherfucker that I am) selected the red, white and blue AMERICA flavor, which is actually called HERO, but SO WHAT WHO CARES. Others in the group went for the volcano-something-or-other and tropical-this-or-that, and we all prepared to have our minds blown / risk blindness / death / etc. (ACTIVATE STRAWS, ACTIVATE SIPPING.)
And this is right about the part where I became Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia:
It was very, very not good. Actually, it might be good if you think this would be a solid idea: imagine placing cherry cough syrup, Popov vodka, a coconut air freshener and sadness into a blender with some ice. Does that sound good? If so, you will enjoy your Phrosty experience. If not, you will not enjoy your Phrosty experience, because it is exactly like that. And (as previously mentioned) has a robust aftertaste of teenage regret.
While the drinks are definitely booze-filled, nothing crazy happened to me. One of us (who shall remain unnamed),of course, ended up stealthily power-puking in the bathroom; upon returning to the living room, the blorcher in question informed me that it was a lime-green tinted experience, and I can only imagine that this is now the permanent color of my insides post-Phrosty extravaganza.
BUT, as far as everything else was concerned (minus a weird impromptu RENT singalong and some PG shedding of clothes), no one lost hearing or sight, there was no internal bleeding (that we know of), and no one tried to eat anyone's face. Not that I'd have wanted any of those things to happen in the first place, but if I'm going to be forced to drink something that tastes like gummy bears crawled out of Putin's ass on a cold day, I AT LEAST want it there to be a good story afterwards. Which is why (apart from the Instagram-able-ness of the bottles), Phrosties (at ten dollars a pop) are kind of the biggest ripoff in history. (Also, they were probably made in a dirty bathtub, let's be real.)
Bottom line: please don't order Phrosties. They are really dumb and they taste horrible, and you would be much better off using that ten dollars a bottle to buy other kinds of non-shitty alcohol that don't take over an hour to be delivered. (Or just like, buy shrooms or something, you know?)
(Until next Taste-Test, here's to teenage regret.)


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1) SF Government & Tech Networking Mixer & Free Drink
If the recent media coverage of drones has you wondering, "Can they use them to deliver pizza?", Wednesday night's SF Government & Tech Networking Mixer is for you. In addition to a cash bar, you'll find David Chiu (SF Board of Supervisors President), Jay Nath (SF's Chief Innovation Officer) and SF Tech Democrats talking about how the City is leveraging technology to help entrepreneurs, from mobile apps to pizza delivery drones. Speakers start at 6:30 at Marine's Memorial Club Fireplace Room (609 Sutter Street @ Mason), followed by an audience Q&A and a mixer. The event is free with RSVP, which includes a free drink, courtesy of Eventbrite.
2) Red Hots Burlesque at El Rio
The line-up of local burlesque stars is so long it won't fit into one night. Lucky for us, El Rio (3158 Mission @ Cesar Chavez) hosts two evenings of bump and grind each week. The tassel-spinning starts at 7 pm on Wednesdays and 7:30 pm on Fridays, with a sliding scale cover charge of $5 - 10. This Wednesday's show is hosted by Mary Van Note and features performances by Luci Fur, Alotta Boutte, and Cheekie La La. Friday's hostess, Ruby Vixen, will be joined by Balla Fire, Rizzo Rogue, and Lady Satan. El Rio is known for making mean margaritas at the cash-only bar, and for its sunny outdoor garden. Happy Hour stretches from 1 to 8 pm, Monday through Friday, with $3 well drinks and draft beer. Friday night's Burlesque show tends to sell out, so make a reservation or arrive early. Note to Pisces: Red Hots performers delight in making birthdays extra special.
3) San Francisco International Chocolate Salon
55,000 square feet of chocolate, wine and confections. What else do you need to know? The San Francisco International Chocolate Salon on Sunday, March 24 at Fort Mason Center features chocolate tasting, wine pairings, celebrity chef & author talks, plus new product launches and flavor combinations. Tickets for the 7th annual event are $20-25 online until March 22, or $30 at the door. Inside, you'll find more than 40 master chocolatiers, confectioners, and other culinary artisans including CocoTutti, Butterfly Brittle, Smitten Artisan Truffles, and Taza Chocolate. You'll also find Almanac's "Biere de Chocolat," ChocolatRouge wine, Raff Distillerie "Emperor Norton Absinthe", Wilson Creek Winery Almond Champagne, and Alquimia Tequila.
4) Rosamunde Trivia Night in the Mission
Tempted by the smell of bacon-wrapped hot dogs along Mission Street, but craving a craft beer? You can have both, plus trivia, every Monday night at Rosamunde Sausage Grill (2832 Mission @ 24th). Besides bacon-wrapped all beef sausages and $3 Racer 5 pints, this cash-only bar features more than a dozen craft beers on tap, with an emphasis on West Coast IPAs and Belgian-style sours. The menu includes 17 sausages ($6-6.50), including three vegan varieties. Monday night trivia begins at 8PM, but you'll want to arrive early to get a seat. Rosamunde gives away gift certificates for first place ($25), second place ($15) and Best Small Team ($10).
5) DOSA's Elegant Happy Hour
If you like a little luxury in your Happy Hour, drop by DOSA (1700 Fillmore @ Post) between 5 and 7 pm, Monday through Thursday. The warm, spacious dining area with high ceilings features a shimmering chandelier with equally elegant surroundings. The $6 Happy Hour menu includes a spicy Chile Margarita, a featured red and white wine, and four Indian-style appetizers. Our current favorite is the Vada Pav vegetarian slider: a spiced-potato patty with chutney, caramelized onions and "gunpowder," made from ground chiles & lentils. If you're willing to venture off the Happy Hour path, the Peony is worth the detour. This exotic concoction of gin, coconut milk, fresh lime juice, hibiscus syrup and bird's eye chili is the perfect combination of sweet, tart and spicy. We dare you to drink just one.


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Well just look at Roach the fighter, he wasn't some clever guy in the ring and he didn't have any real tricks.
With certain guys he does work well though, for a guy that is a go get'em type to me that is right in his wheel house, and guys that are good enough at what they do can really shine because he keeps it simple.
When things get tricky though Freddy is out of his depth, because he doesn't work on complex things only simple.
Still a lot of that comes down to what a fighter is capable of and really most fighters are better off with his approach as in most situations keeping it simple and playing to strength is a fine way to go, just when his guys run into guys that don't allow his guys to play to strength (or their strength just isn't good enough) there are issues but it isn't like that is an uncommon problem or something easy to pull off.
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Rosetta Stone Cuts Outlook, Public Offering
Aug 17 (Reuters) - Language training software maker Rosetta Stone Inc cut its third-quarter earnings outlook and scrapped a proposed public offering barely a week after announcing it, sending shares down 16 percent.
Rosetta Stone, which went public April this year, cut its third-quarter adjusted net income to 25 cents to 27 cents a share from its prior forecast of 33 cents to 35 cents a share.
The company, however, maintained its third-quarter revenue forecast of $64.5 million to $66.5 million. Analysts expect the company to earn 32 cents a share, before items, on revenue of $65.7 million, according to Reuters Estimates.
On Aug 10, the company had said certain stockholders would be selling about 4 million shares in a public offeringrepresenting a fifth of the company's public float.
Shares of Rosetta Stone were down $4.54 to $23.81 in trading before the bell. The stock, which has gained 28 percent in the past 3 months, had closed at $28.35 Friday on the New York Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Manasi Phadke in Bangalore; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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The Navy is moving forward with its plan to purchase more V-22 Osprey aircraft despite last week's deadly crash in Africa.
"The value of the [Osprey] requirement ... and the multiyear is a clear reason to go ahead with the plan," Marine Corps Col. Greg Masiello, V-22 joint program manager, said on Monday.
Masiello said the value of the Osprey to the service has not changed despite the accident Wednesday in Morocco that killed two U.S. troops and left another hospitalized. The crash occurred in the southern Moroccan province of Tan Tan during a joint training exercise of U.S. Marines and the Moroccan military.
The service did not suspend Osprey operations after the accident, and Masiello said the Marine expeditionary unit assigned to the exercise is still on active flights status.
Masiello declined to comment on the specifics of the investigation into the crash during his speech Monday at the Navy League's annual symposium. But he noted there was "no indication" that a suspension of the Osprey fleet was needed, based on preliminary inquiries.
"I don't think anyone takes safety lightly," he said, adding that Navy and Marine Corps officials remain "extremely confident" the V-22 is operationally sound.
He said that confidence would be reflected in the Navy's effort to lock in a multi-year procurement deal for the V-22 on Capitol Hill.
The Navy pursued a number of multiyear contracts in the fiscal 2013 budget proposal that was sent to Capitol Hill. Along with the V-22 Osprey, service leaders are pursuing multiyear deals for the Virginia-class submarine and the Arleigh-Burke class of destroyers.
The multi-year deals guarantee a contractor steady work and can help the Navy spread costs and generate savings.
The vote of confidence in the Osprey comes after the Navy indefinitely shelved the Fire Scout aerial drone following recent crashes in Africa and Afghanistan. All 14 of the helicopter-like drones, which are flown off the decks of U.S. warships, have been taken off duty while system performance and operational procedures are reviewed, the Navy said in a statement.
Masiello said the Osprey — which takes off and lands like a helicopter but flies like a plane — would soon have an important job off the battlefield, helping to transport VIPs to and from the White House.
Marine Corps Ospreys will begin carrying Secret Service agents, presidential staff and members of the White House press corps in the coming years. The Ospreys will fly alongside the president's Marine One helicopter in support of White House flight operations, according to Masiello.
The Osprey crash in Morocco last week marred the Marine Corps' recent record of incident-free flight operations.
The early days of the Osprey's development were plagued by mechanical failures and a slew of accidents. An Osprey crash in April 2000 killed 19 Marines when the aircraft rolled over sideways while landing during a training exercise.
Marine Corps investigators blamed the incident on pilot error, but advocates on Capitol Hill, led by Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), are leading a campaign to clear the names of the Marine Corps pilots involved. Jones claims the persistent mechanical failures in the early days of the Osprey program led to the accident, but Marine leaders say the matter is closed.


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Slide action vs. Revolving action PDW
So I just posted a thread about the most reliable carry weapon. Now I want yall opinions on what is better a revolver or a slide action. I am starting a debate. I like revolvers for their undying dependablity but I don't like the low number of rounds. I like slide action as well but I want a point counter point discussion in this because I am truly interested in know what more people will choose and why
I prefer revolvers myself, but I've been issued the M9, and intend to get a 1911 soon. I've shot many revolvers and semis, but
have never shot a 1911, so I'll weigh back in in a month or so. Hopefully I'll have something good to report on a new 1911.
I like GLOCKs, but there are more cons than pros for me, like with the M9. No since in having a gun I don't like.
Edit, it is the functionality of the GLOCK, along with the accuracy I can achieve with it. Absolutely HATE the grip angle and can't really stand to shoot it.
I will take a slide action auto. More firepower, in a smaller, lighter package. I think the argument that revolvers are more reliable than autos is over rated and not entire accurate. The argument has been tainted by various low quality, poor performing autos out there. Yes, a poorly made auto is going to perform poorly next to a revolver. But a high quality auto, in good repair, is every bit as reliable as a revolver.
You know I also agree. I have had semis that just sucked it up and I have had revolvers do the same. So let me ask a more focused question. Between the top ends of both world what would be your choice if you were do a survival trip for 2 weeks... Top end revolver or top end semi and why. And trust me I am asking for a good reason
However, in a survival situation, I wouldn't be overly enamored with the limited capacity of a revolver, yet I'd prob have to go with a .44 mag or 500 S&W. It will work for everything...hunting, defense, etc. (I wouldn't like it tho) :)
Hmmm I think you have a point. I am a Striker fire guy myself that's one reason I love GLOCK. But ya the revolver seems to have much smaller of a chance to break or malfunction. I'll go revolver I think but I'm going with 357 mag
1 caliber if i want to get a round that will stop a bear i can get one pretty easily and i feel that your pretty limited with the semi auto's that i have seen or ever delt with.
2. if it comes to close quarter shooting like contact close i dont want to have to worry about putting the barrel onto the body and putting the gun out of battery
3. Imho you can shoot farther with a revolver so if i got to tag dinner at a greater distance i got that option.
That being said i carry semi auto all day everyday and love my glock so its hard for me to say that.
For me the question of reliability comes back to me asking myself "What happens if I pull the trigger and it doesn't go bang?" Even a high quality semi auto can jam or misfire. When that happens you can't just pull the trigger and fire off another round. You have to clear your chamber and get another round into it before you can shoot again. With a revolver, if it doesn't go "bang" you just pull the trigger again. If one bullet misfires, there's nothing to clear, you just pull that trigger and let the cylinder rotate to the next bullet. I love both types of gun, but sometimes those few seconds can make all the difference.
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Jiminy Cricket! Last week's column certainly seems to have set a particularly belligerent cat amongst unprepared and unsuspecting pigeons.
Judging by some of the responses you'd have thought I'd been eulogizing King Herod at the AGM of the Mother's Union.
All I said was that I had decided not to vote on May 22.
The responses —and there were a lot of them —fell into seven distinct categories.
Some people told me that I should vote for unionists irrespective of what I thought of the parties: because if people like me didn't vote then it might allow Sinn Fein to become the largest party.
In other words, 'vote us to stop them.' I'm sorry, that's not an argument for good government, let alone change, that's an argument for perpetuating stalemate and the same-old, same-old.
I was told that I had no right to complain if I didn't vote and that my 'authority' as a commentator would be undermined. Everyone has a right to complain if government is failing to address their everyday needs and concerns. Indeed, most complaints come from people who voted and don't like the outcome.
Why should they be allowed to complain when they voted in the very people who are making a mess of policy and legislation?
Some people argued that it was my civic duty to vote and that I should simply hold my nose and vote for the least worst option. Hmm! But what happens if you reckon that the least worst option is still dithery, ineffective and wrong on key issues?
Why would you vote for anyone you regarded as generally incompetent just because it was, supposedly, your 'civic duty'?
Others dragged in the 'sacrifice argument': reminding me that people had given their lives in order that I had the freedom to vote. No —freedom is about the right to do something, or not do something. Freedom is about the right to make personal choices. Freedom is the right to say, "no, I don't want to vote and I choose not to vote".
I value that freedom and I am grateful to those who provided me with that freedom.
A lot of people tried to persuade me that, "if you don't vote then nothing changes". Well, I have voted in every NI election since 1998 and nothing has changed. Actually, that's not true: things have changed. We are more polarised than we were when the Good Friday Agreement was endorsed and further away from genuine power-sharing, a shared future and breaking down us-and-them barriers.
About 90 per cent of those who do vote, vote for polarity, veto and petition of concern. The middle-of-the-road Alliance prop up a dysfunctional Executive and I see no evidence (for the May 22 elections) of credible, game-changing post-conflict parties.
So, even if I did vote, it would not be in the expectation of change.
A few tried to convince me that not voting represents a danger to democracy.
Again, I'm not convinced. I would argue that a greater threat to democracy is allowing political parties to believe that the present institutions and politicians here, at Westminster and in the European Parliament are properly and effectively representing us and protecting democracy and freedom.
They are not: they are mostly stuffed with careerists who will say and do what is required of them to keep themselves in elective office, or in the pecking order for future selection.
They are whipped, herded and U-turned to serve the needs of their party rather than the demands of their conscience and too many of them remind of HMS Pinafore's Sir Joseph Porter:
"I always voted at my party's call
And I never thought of thinking for myself at all;
I thought so little they rewarded me
By making me the ruler of the Queen's navy"
There was a time —and I remember it —when politics was about ideological battles and passion and a desire to make a difference. Today it isn't. You'd be hard pushed to tell the difference between the Conservative, Labour and Lib-Dem parties.
The Euro Parliament is run by technocrats. Economies are run by non-elected financiers and banking officials. Worst of all, the parties don't care about falling turnout because it still allows them to play musical chairs.
And as long as turnout hovers above 50 per cent they will claim a hollow, spurious legitimacy for their 'authority'.
The one argument that did resonate with me was the 'spoil your vote' option.
Yet it strikes that there are two problems with that: spoiled votes count as part of the overall turnout (which suits the political parties) and, in the absence of a 'none of the above' box, it's hard to maximize their number or impact.
Maybe what is needed for the 2015/16 elections is an online campaign based on an agreed form of words to write on a ballot paper —'I am not endorsing any of these parties or candidates because….' That covers both bases: it encourages people to go to the polling booths and gives them a potentially very powerful way of sending a direct message to the politicians.
My decision not to vote on this occasion was a difficult one. I live and breathe politics. I am not disinterested, or apathetic, or switched off by politics. I have just reached the point at which I believe that my vote doesn't actually make a difference anymore. I see no evidence that it makes a difference and I see no evidence of parties who want to clean out the stables.
Yes, maybe I'm too idealistic or precious —but so what? What I choose to do with my vote is exactly that, my choice; and as much a part of the democratic process as those who do choose to vote.
If you believe that your vote matters, that it makes a difference, that voting represents a civic duty or that there is a party you are happy to endorse —then yes, go and vote. I'm not arguing that people shouldn't vote and I'm not pretending that my not voting will make the slightest difference to anyone anywhere.
My decision not to vote is my personal decision, my personal choice: no more than that and no less than that.


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The Thin Line
The heart of hip-hop is in Billings, Montana. Really. Right now, at this moment, that's exactly where it is. At a rest stop, to be precise, if you want to get technical. But don't go looking for it, because by the time you get there, it'll be long gone, back on the bus, on the way to Minneapolis and Milwaukee, only slightly more likely locales. Then on to Cleveland and Cincinnati. Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. And Dallas. If that sounds like a tour itinerary, it is. It's also pretty close to a Huey Lewis lyric, but that's not the point.
The heart of hip-hop is moving from stage to stage, city to city, state to state because Jurassic 5 is. By the time J5 gets to Phoenix (well, Scottsdale's Cajun House, actually), the group will have been out on the road almost two months. And that's just this trip: Jurassic 5's six members--MCs Akil, Chali 2na, Zaakir (a.k.a. Soup) and Marc 7, and DJs Cut Chemist and Nu-Mark--are always on the road, at home in Los Angeles long enough to record and pay taxes. They don't mind, since that's where hip-hop needs them most, on both coasts and all points between (even Montana), holding tent revivals and testifying, reminding the prodigal sons and daughters why they fell in love with hip-hop. And why they should love it again.
See, thing is, no matter how much Ja Rule hollas, no matter how hot Nelly is in "herre," it's not hip-hop. It's rap, and there is a difference. As KRS-One says on "Get Your Self Up," "Rap is something you do/Hip-hop is something you live." Ja Rule doesn't understand, and neither does Nelly. Neither do most of the MCs who record hit-pop for the Hamptons, nothing more than naughty nursery rhymes and FUBU fantasies. They treat the microphone like the Mac-10 they've probably never held before and write rhymes that sound more like prop orders for the next episode of The Sopranos. Fortunately, no one in Jurassic 5 is, to crib a title from one of their songs, "One of Them": "We're not ballin' or shot-callin'/We take it back to the days of yes y'allin'," four mikes say in unison on "What's Golden," the first single from their new album, Power in Numbers, another disc--like 2000's Quality Control--of beats, rhymes and life best heard out of a b-boy's boombox at the park.
Jurassic 5 with The Beatnuts
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The problem is, the real power is in a different set of numbers: album sales and radio spins. Since Jurassic 5 debuted in 1995 with the "Unified Rebelution" single (the six members of the group started in two separate crews, Rebels of Rhythm and Unity Committee, hence the title), the greedy grip of cash, cars and Cristal hasn't loosened, despite J5's best efforts, and those of fellow travelers such as Dilated Peoples, Mos Def, Talib Kweli and Blackalicious, among others. Two wrongs can't make a rhyme, but they can make a pile of cash.
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"I think it's about 30 times stronger," Nu-Mark says, on the phone from that rest stop in Billings. "Oh, yeah. I mean, there's no doubt about it. It's not even a debate, I don't think, I mean, unless you got something I don't know about. That's what's on the radio, and that's what people are buying. People wanna hear MCs talk shit about women and degrade 'em. Especially women. It's been proven that they buy most of the records. I don't know. I can't explain it. If I was a woman, I wouldn't wanna be called a bitch or a slut or a ho or whatever. This music is quirky like that. But all you gotta do is do what comes from your heart."
And though they do just that, part of the reason why they're everything hip-hop should be and rarely is, the members of J5 still have to explain themselves: "We're humble/But don't mistake us for some corny-ass crew," they say on "If You Only Knew." Because plenty of people have. Their success with white critics (what up!) wasn't exactly a victory; rock writers adopted Quality Control as their token hip-hop record, and all of a sudden, Jurassic 5 was Digable Planets. They were Arrested Development. (Power in Numbers might suffer the same fate, since it features genre-jumping Nelly Furtado on "Thin Line," which just happens to be one of the record's best songs; despite Furtado's presence, it bears no resemblance to the regrettable R&Beeyatch formula that tops the pops.) Their music used to be the rule, but their skills-over-bills stance made them the exception. They went through the looking glass, people: Eminem, a white kid from a trailer park, was hip-hop; J5, once the letter of the law, as true to the definition as shell-toe Adidas, was "alternative."
"We've never made a rock song," Nu-Mark says. "And, you know, that's what 'alternative' means in 2002. For us, it's, like, we think we're right dead-smack in the middle of hip-hop, we're the red bull's-eye, right in the middle. We think the people that talk about jewelry and things that have nothing to do with the origins of hip-hop are an alternative to it. So I guess it would be a little frustrating after a while."
Nu-Mark insists Power in Numbers wasn't created as a response to that feeling of disappointment, as a way of changing the group's reputation. If no one else seemed to, they definitely knew who they were. But, yeah, maybe some clarification was in order. "I wouldn't say that we'd go into it, you know, thinking, 'Hey, we need to make a more aggressive record,'" he says. "If we had one goal we wanted for this record, I think it was that we'd put a little more dynamics on the album. More hills and valleys. Different tempo changes and different moods and topics we've never touched on. The MCs revealing a little bit more of who they are."
Still, that frustration comes through on "If You Only Knew" and "What's Golden," and especially "One of Them," a baseball bat to the ribs of those "TV MCs" Chali 2na says "pretend to be harsh fellows/But be yellow and softer than marshmallows." Produced by The Beatnuts' Juju--who throws the hardest punch (line): "The only bitch that ever loved you gotta call you her son"--"One of Them" is ominous in sound and sentiment, darker than the days hip-hop is currently stuck in, when all that seems to matter is how the video looks: "Concerned with lookin' cute/Nails done, eyes plucked/Homey, what the fuck?" Marc 7 asks. "Damn, vain-ass, plain-ass, nothing-ass niggas/Get your punk ass out the goddamn mirror." And that, according to the song's tales of fake gang bangers playing at keeping it real and misogynistic MCs calling "sisters sluts," is just one of the reasons why hip-hop has lost its way over the years. "One of Them" doesn't offer a road map to where they're going, but it does point out an exit for everyone who feels like they do.
Of course, and even Nu-Mark and the band know this, talking about change doesn't matter unless something changes. While first-week sales of Power in Numbers were encouraging, and much better than Quality Control, that might not happen anytime soon. Nu-Mark knows that for hip-hop to enter a Jurassic age the group is going to need some help.
"I'd like it to reach more people, but I don't know if people are ready for new things," Nu-Mark says, his voice sounding as though he really does. "It seems like everybody wants to eat beans and rice for the rest of their life. Don't wanna try a T-bone steak or some salmon, maybe a nice salad and some vegetable. They just want the same ol' shit, it seems like. Until the people that follow J5 stand up and start requesting our shit at radio, things are just going to stay stagnant. Radio is king. That's been proven to me over the last year."
That said, last year wasn't all that bad for Jurassic 5 and Nu-Mark. Take, for example, when Nu-Mark found himself in the studio with Big Daddy Kane, who was there to drop a verse on Power in Numbers' "A Day at the Races," a track that, thanks to Kane's 100-yard-dash delivery, more than lives up to its title. (If you don't know Kane, you should: He's responsible for a handful of underground classics, including "Ain't No Half Steppin'," and his work with producer Marley Marl and the Juice Crew in the late 1980s and early '90s helped define the era. Also, he appeared in Madonna's Sex book. But then, so did Vanilla Ice. So it's hardly worth mentioning. Except I already did.)
"It was just an out-of-body experience," Nu-Mark says. "I was so happy that I had a headache. My favorite producer of all time, you know, for hip-hop, is probably Marley Marl, and so it made me feel that much closer to Marley Marl. And then, just, like, maybe two, three weeks ago, I met Marley Marl. I didn't get to talk to him very long. We were talking, and he was saying to us, 'I can't believe I'm standing here with you guys.' We're like, 'Are you kidding me?'
"This whole year has been amazing to me. Definitely a dream come true," he continues. "I've just had a lot of really cool experiences. Like, I heard that Dre was asking who did the 'What's Golden' beat. I mean, I met Marley Marl that night, and then about two hours from then, I heard he was asking my manager who did the 'What's Golden' beat. That was just, like, East Coast and West Coast love back to back. God, you know, two heroes. Because Dre is probably one of my favorite West Coast producers of all time, you know? I've been listening to him since Wreckin' Cru. I was in junior high listening to Dre."
With any luck, there's a junior high kid listening to Nu-Mark and J5's other DJ, Cut Chemist, right now, teaching himself how to chop up records the way they do, hoping that one day, one of them will ask about a beat he made. You have to believe it's true. If not, the heart of hip-hop may flatline. And every MC will be "One of Them."
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None of it would have been possible if not for the perfect portrayal of Archie Bunker by Carroll O'Connor, who plays off his loving, understanding wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), whose kindness and tolerance is a perfect contrast to Archie's ignorance and bigotry. The show was an instant lightning rod for controversy but went on to earn the comedy Emmy Award in its first year. By its second year, the show ran away with a whopping 7 Emmy Awards that included Outstanding Series. By the beginning of 1972, an estimated 50 million people a week were tuning in. Following in the footsteps of the The Complete First Season, Columbia has just released The Complete Second Season which arrives in a slipcovered 3-pane gatefold cardboard enclosure with 3 DVDs set in plastic hub housing. A total of 24 episodes are presented here, uncut. Inside the gatefold enclosure is a small paper booklet that contains a synopsis for each episode as well as credits for the writers and directors. Unfortunately, what we do not get is original air dates. It's surprising to note that the episodes presented here are not in order of original air date, but rather what seems to be production date. I sampled three episodes -- one from each disc (and all personal favorites) -- in order to judge the quality of this release. Gloria Poses In The Nude Mike's old friend Szabo (David Soul) comes to town for an art show. He's an artist whose talent is painting nudes. When Archie takes a look at some of his artwork, he isn't very appreciative of what he sees. He becomes even more unappreciative when he learns that Szabo wants to paint his daughter Gloria in the nude. Gloria excitedly agrees to model much to the initial support of her husband Mike. However, as time goes on, Mike begins to have second thoughts. Cousin Maude's Visit Everyone in the family is sick, that is, except Edith who is running around catering to everyone's demands. When the flu overruns the household, Edith calls on Cousin Maude to help out, much to the discouragement of Archie. When Maude finally arrives, the mudslinging begins in what has got to be one of the best set of angry verbal exchanges in the entire series. Sammy's Visit Archie is moonlighting at night as a cab driver and ends up giving a ride to none other than Sammy Davis Jr. When Sammy leaves his briefcase in the cab, Archie offers Sammy to stop by the house to pick it up. As usual, Archie displays his ignorance and bigotry, but Sammy plays along. Truly one of the best shows of the entire series! How is the transfer? Looking back on my review of The Complete First Season, I rated the overall transfer as being pretty lackluster. As a matter of fact, I went on to say, "this is one of the worst DVD television transfers I have seen to date." Well folks, things have significantly improved with The Complete Second Season. Picture looks much sharper with far better overall color stability (the FIRST SEASON had a lot of color bleeding). Colors still look rather dull here. Mind you, nothing is perfect here as picture is still rather soft and there appears to be a small amount of background shimmer in props and furniture. That green tinge is also still evident with a noticeable amount of background grain in many shots. All of this, of course, is the fault of the original videotape source. The mono sound still sounds harsh, but I never really sensed any over modulation. I did notice the introduction of hiss as I nudged the volume control higher, though it never became bothersome. Special Features There are none. Let me use this space to address the fact that Columbia has not introduced chapter stops in any of these episodes, a concern that was brought to their attention upon the release of The Complete First Season. 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Crude inventories climbed by 2.4 million barrels, or 0.7 percent, to 331.4 million barrels, which is 6.2 percent below year-ago levels, the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report.
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Recent developments include:
Tuscany Campus, which is located in a fully renovated, former 16th century convent on one of the nicest squares in the city of Prato, the second largest city in Tuscany.
Orange Campus, featuring the Bergami and Pompea Graduate Center
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts at the University of New Haven
Westside Hall, a state-of-the-art 110,000 square-foot residence which serves 350 students. It features classroom space, its own dining room and state-of-the-art technology.
Cyber Forensics Research and Education Laboratory, the first of its kind in CT, which features leading equipment and software that is being used by industry and governmental agencies.
Bartels Student Activity Center
Bucknall Theater
A new home for the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science in John and Leona Gehring Hall.
The Alexander W. Nicholson Jr. Health Center
North Hall, a 4,800-square foot academic building that houses two modern academic classrooms, Fire Science labs and the Math Zone a state-of-the-art computerized mathematics teaching lab.
The renovation and expansion of Bartels Hall and Maxcy Hall.
Celentano Hall (formerly Soundview Hall), a 402-bed LEED-certified "green" residence hall which features a solar power system which generates approximately 60 kilowatts of electricity – roughly enough to power 12 houses.
The David A. Beckerman Recreation Center.
The Samuel S. Bergami Jr. Learning Center for Finance and Technology and Bergami Hall (residence hall and office space).
Ralph F. DellaCamera Stadium, with its unique blue-and-gold synthetic turf field
The Laurel Vlock Center for Convergent Media
The Arcadio "Kayo" Rodriguez Jr. Field for soccer, lacrosse and student recreation
A new systems engineering laboratory
Support for the Annual Fund has helped make these projects a reality. The University needs your ongoing support as it continues to grow. Gifts of all amounts make these campus improvements possible.


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Good news and bad news on flood insurance this week. The good news: The House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program for five whole years. The bad news: It would bump the annual rate increase limit from 10 percent to 20 percent. House passage of the Flood Insurance Reform
First, the good news: The end-of-the-world predictions of an octogenarian minister did not come to pass last weekend. The bad news? The violent tornadoes that followed may mark the end of homeowners insurance rates as we know them. Property and casualty insurers were already bracing for record losses from the winter-spring double weather whammy when
At the risk of incurring the wrath of those who feel otherwise, let me politely suggest that we refrain from the use of personal fireworks this Fourth of July, both for the sake of our homeowners insurance rates and the safety of those around us. I know, I know: What about the rockets' red glare?
What's better than one health insurance policy? Why, dual coverage, of course, as typically happens when both spouses sign on for group coverage through their respective employers. In theory, dual coverage should eliminate most out-of-pocket expenses; the primary insurer would typically pick up 80 percent, the secondary insurer (the spouse's carrier) the remaining 20 percent. But
Here on Florida's Gulf Coast, we sit and wait and wonder: Will our homeowners insurance absorb some of the sticky, smelly loss should the BP oil spill soil our property? Floridians are used to dealing with a boatful of home insurance coverages that indemnify us against the perils of paradise: federal flood insurance, hurricane coverage,


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Amy Williams '05, Managing Attorney of Legal Services of Northern California's LSNC-Health, will be honored with the Western Center on Law & Poverty's "Rock Star" award at the Center's Fair Shake event in Los Angeles on June 26.
The annual event recognizes up-and-coming heroes who are working in conjunction with Western Center to fight for the rights of poor people in vital areas such as housing, health care and public benefits. Rock Stars are chosen for the talent and sensitivity they have demonstrated in combating the injustices suffered by disadvantaged people. Hundreds of attorneys, young professionals and advocates from throughout the region and the State come out to the Fair Shake event to celebrate the honorees and their work.
Williams began work with LSNC while still a student at King Hall, working as a summer law clerk in the Sacramento Office during 2003. During law school, she also worked for the Prison Law Clinic, Sacramento County Public Defender's Office and the Federal Public Defender's Office. After graduating, she returned to LSNC as a contract attorney specializing in Social Security advocacy. In 2006, Williams transitioned to a staff attorney in the Sacramento county office focusing on public benefits and health and in 2008 she became the Managing Attorney LSNC-Health (formerly Health Rights Hotline). She continues to manage LSNC-Health focusing on Health Reform and litigation affecting low-income individuals without access to health care, and is involved with several clinics that offer free legal assistance in the community, including the LGBT Legal Clinic at the Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center, Tommy Clinkenbeard Legal Clinic, and My Sister's House.
UC Davis School of Law has long had a close relationship with LSNC. Dean Kevin R. Johnson has been part of the LSNC Board of Directors since 1996, and since 2003 has served as President of the Board. Former King Hall Dean Rex Perschbacher was on the organization's Board of Directors from 1990-96. LSNC Executive Director Gary Smith has taught Public Interest Law and Public Benefits seminars at King Hall for more than 15 years. Numerous King Hall alumni work or have worked for LSNC, including Theo Cuison '11, Oliver Ehlinger '11, Margaret Engelhardt '03, Valerie Feldman '00, Emily Fisher '04, Deborah Gettleman '09, John Gianola '90, Jennifer Haffner '04, Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi '10, Arthur Lipscomb '02, David Lipschutz '99, Lynn Martinez '92, Rebecca Rabovsky '10, Gary Rhoades '93, Sarah Ropelato '07, Maryam Sayyed '10, Steliana Schmidel '08, Jennifer Smith '07, John Tan '10, Liza Thantranon '10, Wankanok Usaha '97, Rogelio Villagrana '02, Amy Williams '05, Kyanna Williams '06, Stacey Wittorf '05, and Tammi Wong '03.


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The clue: Born in 1984, this syndicated quiz show has won more than two dozen Daytime Emmy Awards, attracts about 9 million viewers a day and features a cool-as-a-cucumber host who hails from Canada. • The question: What is Jeopardy? • The 27th season of the game show began this week (7:30 weekdays on WFTS-Ch. 28) and will feature the milestone 6,000th episode before it's over. On Tuesday, a graduate student at the University of Delaware won $77,000, breaking a single-episode record. • To prep for this upcoming season, here's a little trivia about "America's Favorite Quiz Show." (Yep, it has that phrase trademarked.)
Here's your host: 70-year-old Alex Trebek and his former mustache (not trademarked) hail from Ontario, Canada. He's been the host of Jeopardy! since its syndicated start in 1984, but began his U.S. game-show hosting duties in 1973 for The Wizard of Odds. (His unflappable demeanor is often parodied, including in an uncanny performance by Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live.) The show's announcer is Johnny Gilbert, whose voicing duties go back to the 1950s, including stints on Beat the Odds and The Price Is Right.
Before syndication: Technically, Jeopardy! began before the Trebek era. Merv Griffin, right, conceived of the show, which first aired in 1964, as a solution to the game-show scandals of the '50s, when contestants were sometimes given the answers ahead of time. To put a spin on that, Griffin reportedly suggested giving them answers, then asking them to provide the questions. Art Fleming was the original host.
The clue is … : Sometimes, Trebek takes a rest and allows a celebrity to present the clue. Astronauts about the Space Shuttle Atlantis once had the honor while docked with the International Space Station. Other big names include: Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Jerry Seinfeld and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Defying the odds: In 2007, for the first time, the final question resulted in a three-way tie among the contestants. Each won $16,000 after correctly answering a question regarding women of the 1930s. The odds of a three-way tie? About 1 in 25 million.
Local ties: More than a dozen Tampa Bay residents have competed on the show over the years, including Largo's Gabby Dannunzio, left, who won $15,201 during the Kids Week in 2009.
Big winners: Roger Craig is the latest big winner, winning $77 grand on Tuesday's show. That breaks the 2004 record held by software engineer Ken Jennings, who went on to win $3 million in 74 appearances. (Jennings had $75,000 in one day.)
m Speaking of Ken: Ever wonder what happened to Ken Jennings, above, after his reign ended? He has his own quiz games now, of course. You can buy "Can You Beat Ken?" and "Quizzology" — and book Ken for personal appearances — on his official website, ken-jennings.com.
This report contains material from the Internet Movie Database and Jeopardy.com. Times researcher Natalie Watson contributed to this report.


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Jon: WELCOME BACK TO GRUDEN TALK, THE TALK SHOW WHERE WE DISCUSS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES OF THE DAY. BANDLEADER HERM EDWARDS, DID YOU FILL OUT YOUR TAXES YESTERDAY?
Herm: FILLED OUT MY FORM 4868 FOR AN EXTENSION AGAIN.
Jon: WELL YOU NEVER WERE GOOD AT CLOCK MANAGEMENT. ANYWAY WE GOT NOBEL LAUREATE PAUL KRUGMAN HERE TO TALK TAXES. PAUL, HOW YA DOIN'?
Paul: I'm doing well.
Jon: SO EVERYONE IN AMERICA'S GOTTA PAY THEIR TAXES YESTERDAY. THAT 1040 IS ALMOST AS LONG AS MY PLAYBOOK. IT'S NOT AS LONG AS ANY COACH'S PLAYBOOK. EXCEPT FOR BILL CALLAHAN'S OF COURSE BUT HE'S A DOPE.
Paul: Well the length of the tax code is due to the fact that it's essentially been hijacked by special interest groups to serve their own purposes.
Jon: LEMME TELL YA, SPECIAL TEAMS SHOULD NOT BE THAT POWERFUL. DON'T GET ME WRONG; A LOT OF GUNNERS ARE GRUDEN GRINDERS BUT YOU GOTTA TAKE CARE OF YOUR OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE STARTERS FIRST.
Herm: AIN'T NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE KICKER.
Paul: No, what I mean is that groups like realtors and religious organizations have lobbied to get preferential treatment from the tax code.
Jon: AND THAT'S A SHAME. IF PAT ROBERTSON WANTS TO LOBBY FOR REPUBLICANS HE SHOULD PAY TAXES LIKE A LOBBYIST.
Herm: TD JAKES SHOULD HAVE TO PAY 35%!
Paul: Right, and in the last elections you saw so many of these so-called nonprofit groups running ads against candidates and they didn't have to pay taxes like a normal business.
Jon: SPEAKING OF THOSE ADS, IS IT TAX DAY IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS TOO? BECAUSE THAT MITT ROMNEY ONLY PAID THEM THERE.
Herm: IF YOU DON'T HAVE FOOTBALL IN A COUNTRY YOU SHOULDN'T PAY TAXES THERE.
Paul: Again, it highlights the inequities of our tax system. Capital gains, carried interest exceptions and allowing people allocate income to countries with low marginal tax rates and secretive banking rules means that the ultra-wealthy can disproportionately take advantage of loopholes and enrich themselves while middle-class families have to pay higher rates.
Jon: THIS IS WHY I ALWAYS GIVE MY TAXES TO MY ACCOUNTANT. NOBODY FINDS DEDUCTIONS QUITE LIKE NORMAN EPSTEIN, CPA. THIS NORMAN, I CALL HIM MITT ROMNEY BECAUSE HE'S GREAT AT AVOIDING TAX LIABILITY.
Herm: I USE BARRY COOPERMAN OUT IN MONTEREY.
Jon: SO PAUL, DO YOU KNOW NORMAN EPSTEIN? MAYBE YOU WENT TO PASSOVER TOGETHER.
Paul: I'm afraid that I don't, but it's good that you're using an accountant. Though the fact that the average American has to use a professional to fill out his taxes doesn't speak well of the tax code.
Jon: I WON A SUPER BOWL AND SPEND 60 HOURS A WEEK WATCHING TAPE, I SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT MY TAXES ON MY OWN. PAUL, DO THEY HAVE A NOBEL PRIZE IN FOOTBALL? I THINK THAT I SHOULD GET ONE.
Paul: What?
Jon: YOU CAN GET A NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHEMISTRY, WHY NOT FOOTBALL? HOW MANY CHEMISTS CAN RUN A COUNTER Z SMASH? HOW MANY WRITERS CAN LEAD BRAD JOHNSON TO THE SUPER BOWL? WE GOTTA LET THOSE GODDAMN SWEDES KNOW WHO'S BOSS.
Herm: DON CORYELL SHOULD'VE WON A MACARTHUR GENIUS GRANT.
Paul: I have no idea what you're talking about.
Jon: THAT'S OK BECAUSE WE'RE OUT OF TIME ON GRUDEN TALK. PLAY US OFF BANDLEADER HERM EDWARDS.
Herm: LET'S RUN TAXMAN BY THE BEATLES OUT OF THE HERM EDWARDS 7 PLAYBOOK.