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News: Riff Raff Clears Air On Soulja Boy Feud, "You Weren't Even Mad When Lil B Stopped Repping SODMG"
Wednesday, Jun 20, 2012 10:09AM
Former Stacks On Deck Money Gang (SODMG) affiliate Riff Raff has stepped forward to explain publicly clashing with Soulja Boy Tell Em and what sparked their Twitter tirade.
According to Riff, things soured after he moved past Soujla Boy's SODMG crew to explore new ventures.
"I was in Vegas just a few days ago and we talked on the phone late at night. Riff Raff explained. "He was telling me, 'I thought you were still loyal to SODMG' and [I] told him it wasn't like that. I still wanted to do an album together and all the other shit we had planned. ... Then [yesterday] all of a sudden people started hitting me up asking about this Soulja Boy thing and I had no idea what people were talking about. Then I saw the tweets. I'm not even tripping over it because I'm doing bigger things now anyway, but it's kind of like you had a LeBron James on your team, and now he no longer plays on the Cleveland Cavaliers, so he's upset. But how are you so mad? You weren't even mad when Lil B stopped repping SODMG, so I don't even get it." (XXL Mag)
Raff also said getting a first-hand look at SODMG's operations pushed him away from wanting to join Soulja Boy's team.
"I wanted to be with SODMG at first, but once I got over there, I saw he wasn't gonna push me or promote me in the way I needed, so obviously I had to move around to where the money was at. It's a job. You're gonna wanna go where you're treated properly and where there's more money, he added. "At the end of the day it's business. If he comes back tomorrow and says he wants to do the Riff Raff Soulja Boy album, I'd still do it because I think people would like to hear it. I'm not mad. You never gave nothing to me and I gave nothing to you" (XXL Mag)
Tensions flared when Soulja Boy went at Riff's head on Twitter this week.
"riff raff is not in sodmg," Soulja Boy tweeted June 18th.
"No i didnt that sh*t was fake RT @TateDelFresco: @souljaboy riff raff is in sodmg u gave him a chain"
"We need a new member to take cuz spot #sodmg" (Soulja Boy's Twitter)
Defending himself, the rapper fired back at Soulja Boy's claims.
"iM NOT BEEFiNG WiTH @SOULJABOY ... i JUST DONT KNOW WHY HE iS UPSET ... WHAT WOULD U DO iF THE CEO WASNT PAYiNG U ??," he tweeted back.
"iM STiLL A FAN OF @SouljaBoy EVEN iF HE iS UPSET iTS COOL HE JUST SHOULD HAVE PROMOTED & PAiD ME MORE .. BUT i AiNT MAD"
"i KNOW HOW @SouljaBoy FEELS THO .. iTS LiKE WHEN LEBRON JAMES LEFT CLEVELAND CAVS LOL" (Riff Raff's Twitter)
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Journey's End: Wim Wenders in TexasIn "I Watch Slacker to Read Austin in the Original," Enrique Ramirez described how Richard Linklater's indie classic captured the city of Austin at a pivotal moment in its cultural history. Here, in the second of an occasional series on Texas and cinema, he focuses on Wim Wenders and the making of Paris, Texas, and the ways in which the 1984 film catches the elusive essence — the mirage-like quality — of Houston.
On the Road HomeWhat is the meaning of home? Here William Fox reviews The Prehistory of Home, by anthropologist Jerry Moore, which searches for answers "from Turkey's Anatolia to Lancaster, California, from Aaron Spelling's mansion in Beverly Hills to the Kalahari windbreaks erected by the !Kung San." And which, as Fox notes, is artful in connecting past and present — for instance, in linking the early transition from nomadism to settlement with the contemporary American phenomenon of big houses, overfilled with stuff.
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NPR's Political Junkie Ken Rudin recaps the week in politics and reflects on some of the significant political moments of the year. He also faces off in a trivia battle with burgeoning political junkie Gabe Fleisher, a fifth grader who drafts a political newsletter everyday before school.
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Alcestis 'Cooky' Oberg lost her father-in-law unexpectedly on Christmas Day in 1982. For the first few years, it meant that Christmas was a somber time. Oberg, a contributor to USA Today, talks about how the mood of the holidays evolved for her family over time.
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In a recent video today, done by a youtube user CoffeeWithPolitics, there video is one of Ron Paul [Unlink] favorites on Youtube. It shows a 48 second skit on Jon Huntsman [Unlink] out of his own mouth said he would have signed the "NDAA bill", which now millions of people are against. The bill states it would now detain American citizens who are expected of terrorist activity or a starting a movement of protest against the US Government. Which it repeals the 5th Amendment(protects against abuse of government authority in a legal procedure).
Suppose your son or your daughter met a charming person who talked them into handling money or carrying a bag, and that charming person turned out to be a terrorist? How would we feel if our children disappeared into some foreign prison, never to be seen again, because an overzealous NSA agent fancied himself the second coming of Rambo? Wouldn't it be much better if our children's rights were protected by American judges versed in the Constitution and American law?
How about Jon Huntsman commenting on the TARP bills or "rescue package" which Huntsman calls it in the video. On a interview he said bluntly that he as President would have signed the $700 billion bailout package. But in the GOP debates he make his self seem as a person who has a real economic plan that would balance the budget, but the curtains are now open on Jon Huntsman? In my opinion Huntsman is just another big government spender.
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On a day when offense proved to be at a premium, the Ashford University softball team suffered a pair of defeats Tuesday at the Tucson Invitational Games.
The Saints fell 4-1 to No. 12 Olivet Nazarene in the opener before suffering a walk-off, 3-2 defeat to Calumet College of St. Joseph.
Freshman Brianna De La Rosa led the Saints (8-7) with two runs driven in, while sophomore Kalyn Ohle-meyer had three hits.
The big blow in the opener came in the top of the third inning, when ONU's Hannah Gardner came through with a bases-loaded triple to right-center field off Ashford starter Nicole Schmidt.
AU plated its lone run in the bottom of the sixth when freshman Heidi Riley picked up her fifth RBI with a double to the left-center gap, scoring Kara Christensen.
De La Rosa's two-run double put the Saints ahead 2-0 in the first inning of Game 2, but Calumet took advantage of a pair of Ashford errors to even things up at 2 in the third. Lauren Johnson singled in the winning run to end it in the seventh.
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SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — For the second consecutive day, the Ashford baseball team was halted by tough opposing pitching in a 10-1 loss to The Master's College on Tuesday afternoon.
The Saints (5-6) had just three hits against five Mustangs pitchers.
With the Mustangs (18-7) leading 1-0 in the top of the second inning, AU lit the scoreboard with a run when designated hitter Ryan Fraley led off with a solo home run to left field.
However, the home squad regained the lead with three runs in the third before notching a run in the sixth, two in the seventh and three more in the eighth.
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Life doesn't always go according to plan...Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything — his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert DeNiro) after spending eight months in a state institution on a plea bargain. Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife, despite the challenging circumstances of their separation. All Pat's parents want is for him to get back on his feet - and to share their family's obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles football team.
When Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get complicated. Tiffany offers to help Pat reconnect with his wife, but only if he'll do something very important for her in return. As their deal plays out, an unexpected bond begins to form between them, and silver linings appear in both of their lives.
The Weinstein Company presents SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, a family drama, comedy and love story based on the bestselling novel by Matthew Quick, written and directed by David O. Russell (THE FIGHTER, FLIRTING WITH DISASTER). Starring Bradley Cooper (HANGOVER, LIMITLESS), Jennifer Lawrence (THE HUNGER GAMES, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS), Robert De Niro (LIMITLESS, MEET THE PARENTS) Jacki Weaver (ANIMAL KINGDOM), Anupam Kher (BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM), and Chris Tucker (RUSH HOUR, JACKIE BROWN). Rounding out the cast are Julia Stiles, John Ortiz, Shea Whigham and Dash Mihok. Masanobu Takayanagi is the director of photography, Judy Becker is the production designer. Mark Bridges is the costume designer and Jay Cassidy is the editor. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is produced by Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon. Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, George Para, Michelle Raimo and Bradley Cooper are the Executive Producers.
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The week in Liverpool comedy (May 3 - 9)
It's that time of year again as the Liverpool Comedy Festival gets underway
We've all the usual bills at the regular clubs this week - Rawhide, Baby Blue, and Laughterhouse, but also the first of the regular Sunday night events for Waterhouse Comedy at Envi on Fleet Street (May 9), and Muck Comedy at the Cat and Fiddle, Stanley precinct in Bootle. (Thursday May 6).
As part of the comedy festival, we've got one-hour shows this week from Chris Cairns (The A-Z of B Movies, The Slaughterhouse, Thursday May 6), Keith Carter as Nige (The Nige Soundtrack, The Slaughterhouse, Thursday May 6), Sam Avery (The Art of the Scouse Insult, Baa Bar, Myrtle St, Friday May 7), Patrick Monahan (Stories and Fables for Kids who Like Sitting at Tables, downstairs at the Royal Court, Sunday May 9), and Gary Delaney previews his debut Edinburgh show (Purist, Baby Blue, Sunday, May 9)
At the arena, homecoming king John Bishop has sold out his now stadium show, Elvis Has Left the Building, for his biggest gig ever. Catch him if you can on Thursday (May 6)
At the theatre, saucy farce Fistful of Collars continues its run at the Royal Court all this week. Jimmy Carr is a festival staple at the Empire next Sunday (May 9), and Daniel Kitson (pictured above) brings his (extremely) acclaimed show 66a Church Road - A Lament Made of Memories and Kept in Suitcases to the Everyman for three nights, from Thursday to Saturday.
Aside from the festival, it's not exclusively a comedy but Canary, now on at the Liverpool Playhouse, is the best piece of new work I've seen at the theatre in years. Written by Corrie and Gimme Gimme Gimme writer Jonathan Harvey, it has all the laughs, tears and risks of any well-written soap and much more besides, and will stick in the memory of those who see it for a very long time. But don't just take my word for it:
From this week, the blog will be bringing you all the reviews, news and interviews from the festival we possibly can. And another great thing is that all the city's comedy promoters are included in this year's programme, so the festival really does feel like an all inclusive affair. So keep reading and as ever, if anything is getting missed out give me a shout at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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So what are to make of the last few days in Auburn?
Four former Auburn football players appeared on HBOs Real Sports earlier this week to say they had been paid by boosters either during the recruiting process or after games. One player went as far as to say he was paid by an assistant coach to stay at Auburn when he was thinking about transferring.
Then as word leaked out as to who would be included in the TV show, other former Auburn players came out to say the four were lying. The players not on the show went on to say they had not been paid.
So what are we to believe?
There are plenty of reasons to wonder about what the four former players said.
One player, Chaz Ramsey, filed suit against the school and a trainer after injuring his back. He claimed he was mistreated during the rehabilitation process. That suit was dismissed earlier this year.
He was asked if he was mad the school. He said during the show, Im not out to get anybody.
Another player, Raven Gray, left after being injured before he could play a game.
Stanley McClover reportedly struck a deal for HBO to film a segment on his charity.
Reddick said he was going to transfer before being given a sum of money to stay at the school by an assistant coach.
The easy thing to say is that all four were either disgruntled or had some reason to make up those stories.
And what about all the players such as Heath Evans, Lee Ziemba, etc., who have said those four were lying.
Ziemba told the Ledger-Enquirers Andy Bitter: I started 52 games, walked out the same locker room doors after games, were recruited by the same men, met the same people a lot together and I never saw a dime.
Are they telling the truth or are they lying because they dont want to get their school in trouble?
It is unlikely we will ever know the answer to any of those questions.
All of the transactions the four players described on Real Sports were done in cash, either large sums of money in bags or smaller sums transferred to the players in money handshakes, so it is highly unlikely there is any sort of paper trail, i.e., proof.
But that might not matter.
Certainly, Auburns reputation does not help it. Going all the way back to 1956 -- Auburn won its first national championship the following season -- the NCAA has found Auburn committed major rules violations seven times, third most of any NCAA Division I program.
No doubt, the NCAA will be knocking on Auburns door very soon, if it is not there already. It will also want to talk to the four players from the Real Sports piece. There was already a published report Friday that the NCAA had contacted Ramsey.
Coming on the heels of the Cam Newton fiasco -- when many people criticized the NCAA for not punishing Cam for the actions of his father, the NCAA may decide that it needs to do something to the Tigers.
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STILLWATER — The Oklahoma State defense did it again — and again, and again, and again, and again.
With the OSU offense unable to do much of anything in the second half of Saturday's game against Kansas State, the Cowboy defense took it upon themselves to give their offensive counterparts every chance possible to get the win.
Glenn Spencer's defense forced five second-half takeaways — two of which came inside Kansas State's 25-yard line — to set up the offense and effectively cap a 33-29 victory.
"That's just players making plays. ... We had some guys finish some great plays and it all started out by them playing hard and having the assignment right and the right technique to make those plays," said Spencer, Oklahoma State's first-year defensive coordinator. "It's not like we didn't try to get them in the first half, but sometimes they're there and sometimes they're not."
Oklahoma State needed every last one of the takeaways with the offense unable to move the ball. Through the first 20 minutes of the second half, the Cowboy offense hadn't even collected a first down — let alone a touchdown.
With the OSU defense setting them up for success on at least two occasions with the ball at K-State's 22-yard line and 6-yard line on back-to-back drives, Oklahoma State's offense managed a combined five yards. Instead, OSU settled for field goals from freshman kicker Ben Grogan — who overcame last week's debacle in West Virginia where he missed two field goals to go 4 for 5 on field goal attempts.
"I think that showed some maturity on his part to bounce back like that and kick the ball the way he kicked today," Cowboy quarterback J.W. Walsh said of the rookie kicker, who had his other kick blocked, due to poor blocking, and returned for a touchdown. "He was huge for us and a huge weapon. He was a big part of our win and I'm just really proud of him to bounce back like he did."
The Cowboys (4-1, 1-1 in Big 12) had the momentum, as little as it was, heading into halftime with a 17-14 lead after a Walsh 3-yard touchdown run in the final minute of the second quarter.
However, the Kansas State offense took the opening drive of the second half 79 yards on 11 plays, eating up just under seven minutes of the clock, to reclaim the lead.
Oklahoma State's offense put their defensive counterparts in a bind on the ensuing drive when Walsh fumbled on a designed run that gave the Wildcats the ball at the OSU 23-yard line.
That's when the OSU defense went into ballhawk mode.
Linebacker Caleb Lavey forced a fumble of KSU quarterback Daniel Sams on the second play, and defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah pounced on it.
The senior linebacker from Celina, Texas, then ended Kansas State's next drive with an acrobatic interception on a rollout by Sams that put the ball at the KSU 22-yard line.
"We ended up with five (takeaways) and that's our goal," Lavey said. "We're always glad to get more, but it was good for our defense to get those turnovers. It gives our offense more opportunities, so it was good momentum changers."
The Oklahoma State defense made it three straight drives with a takeaway when Tyler Johnson sacked backup quarterback Jake Waters, forcing the ball loose with middle linebacker Shaun Lewis recovering at the 6-yard line of the Wildcats.
Kansas State (2-3, 0-2 in Big 12) got back on track in the middle of the fourth quarter, putting together an 11-play, 57-yard drive to go ahead 29-23 with 6:09 remaining in the game.
But just as it had done the previous times Kansas State scored, the OSU offense answered with its own scoring drive — going 75 yards in six plays and taking just 1:56 off the clock. Walsh connected with Charlie Moore for a 6-yard touchdown as the redshirt sophomore quarterback went 4 for 5 with 59 yards passing on the drive to creep ahead 30-29.
The Cowboy defense would then end Kansas State's final two comeback attempts with Lewis — who also forced a fumble that was recovered by Kansas State in an earlier drive — and safety Daytawion Lowe each picking off a pass from Sams to seal the win.
Oklahoma State will get two weeks to prepare for its next opponent, which will be Texas Christian University in the homecoming game on Oct. 19 at Boone Pickens Stadium.
No. 21 OKLAHOMA ST. 33, KANSAS ST. 29
Kansas St. 7 7 7 8 — 29
Oklahoma St. 7 10 6 10 — 33
First Quarter
KSt—Gronkowski 67 pass from Sams (Cantele kick), 1:47.
OkSt—J.Smith 2 run (Grogan kick), 1:06.
Second Quarter
OkSt—FG Grogan 30, 12:04.
KSt—Daily 65 blocked field goal return (Cantele kick), 2:45.
OkSt—Walsh 3 run (Grogan kick), :50.
Third Quarter
KSt—Miller 17 pass from Sams (Cantele kick), 8:20.
OkSt—FG Grogan 34, 4:40.
OkSt—FG Grogan 23, 2:44.
Fourth Quarter
KSt—Sams 3 run (Miller pass from Sams), 6:09.
OkSt—C.Moore 6 pass from Walsh (Grogan kick), 4:13.
OkSt—FG Grogan 28, 2:24.
KSt OkSt
First downs 19 19
Rushes-yards 38-144 25-85
Passing 192 245
Comp-Att-Int 18-28-3 24-40-0
Return Yards (-1) 97
Punts-Avg. 4-43.5 4-39.5
Fumbles-Lost 3-2 1-1
Penalties-Yards 12-92 1-7
Time of Possession 35:32 24:28
RUSHING—Kansas St., Sams 27-118, Hubert 7-30, Lockett 1-6, Team 2-(minus 4), Waters 1-(minus 6). Oklahoma St., J.Smith 11-56, Walsh 11-31, Roland 2-1, Team 1-(minus 3).
PASSING—Kansas St., Sams 15-21-3-181, Waters 3-7-0-11. Oklahoma St., Walsh 24-38-0-245, Chelf 0-2-0-0.
RECEIVING—Kansas St., Cu.Sexton 6-43, Miller 4-35, Klein 3-34, Hubert 2-7, Lockett 2-6, Gronkowski 1-67. Oklahoma St., T.Moore 6-52, Seales 4-87, Sheperd 3-28, Stewart 2-20, Goodlett 2-14, Ateman 2-10, Seaton 2-9, Glidden 1-14, C.Moore 1-6, J.Smith 1-5.


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How to Design Programs, Second Edition
© 2004–2013 Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi; comments to: matthias at ccs.neu.edu
Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi
Do you notice the italics? Italicized words refer to technical terms. Here they refer to books on programming currently in bookstores.
Good programming requires thought, but everyone can do it and everyone can experience the satisfaction that comes with it. The price is worth paying for the sheer joy of the discovery process, the elegance of the result, and the commercial benefits of a systematic program design process.
The goal of our book is to introduce readers of all ages and backgrounds to the craft of designing programs systematically. We assume few prerequisites: arithmetic, a tiny bit of middle school algebra, and the willingness to think through issues. We promise that the travails will pay off not just for future programmers but for anyone who has to follow a process or create one for others.
We are grateful to Ada Brunstein, our editor at MIT Press, who gave us permission to develop this second edition of "How to Design Programs" on-line.
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Note: this document is the current release of HtDP/2e. It is updated in conjunction with PLT software releases, roughly in sync with semester spans. It is thus well-suited for courses. In contrast, the current draft changes on a frequent basis; it should be consulted when people discover problems and/or errors in this document. If such flaws exist in both documents, please report them to the first author.
Acknowledgments: We thank Ennas Abdussalam, Saad Bashir, Steven Belknap, Stephen Bloch, Rodolfo Carvalho, Nelson Chiu, Richard Cleis, John Clements, Christopher Felleisen, Sebastian Felleisen, Ryan Golbeck, Josh Grams, Jack Gitelson, Scott Greene, Kyle Gillette, Nadeem Abdul Hamid, Wayne Iba, , Jordan Johnson, Blake Johnson, Gregor Kiczales, Eugene Kohlbecker, Jackson Lawler, Jay McCarthy, Mike McHugh, Wade McReynolds, Ann E. Moskol, Scott Newson, Paul Ojanen, Prof. Robert Ordóñez, Klaus Ostermann, Nick Pleatsikas, Luis Sanjuán, Lisa Scheuing, Willi Schiegel, Vinit Shah, Nick Shelley, Stephen Siegel, Joe Snikeris, Vincent St-Amour, Marc Smith, Dave Smylie, Kevin Sullivan, Yuwang Yin, David Van Horn, Mitchell Wand, Michael Wijaya, Ewan Whittaker-Walker, and Roelof Wobben for comments on previous drafts of this second edition.
Differences: This second edition of "How to Design Programs" continues to present an introduction to systematic program design and problem solving. Here are some important differences:
The recipes are applied in two different, typical settings: interactive graphical programs and so-called "batch" programs. The former mode of interaction is typical for games, the latter for data processing in business centers. Both kinds of programs are still created with our design recipes.
While testing has always been a part of the "How to Design Programs" philosophy, the software started supporting it properly only in 2002, just after we had released the first edition. This new edition heavily relies on this testing support now.
This edition of the book drops the design of imperative programs. The old chapters remain available on-line. The material will flow into the next volume of the book, "How to Design Components."
The book and its programs employ new libraries, also known as teachpacks. The preferred style is to link in these libraries via so-called require specifications, but it is still possible to add teachpacks via a menu in DrRacket.
- Finally, we decided to use a slightly different terminology:


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"I predict that Senator Obama will win and win pretty handily," he [Bill Clinton] said."
And as the old song goes,
"Don't Mess With Bill".Â
The news report went on to say,
"Obama interjected: "You can take it from the president of the United States. He knows a little something about politics."
Bill Clinton does indeed know "a little something about politics". In an interview on Larry King Live, in April 2007, I recall when asked about Barack Obama, President Clinton smiled, and with seeming reluctance, conceded, and described Obama asÂ
"a brilliant politician"; what a tribute to someone who had only declared his nomination 2 months prior, and who didn't -- according to the polls, and pundits back then -- stand a chance of winning the Democratic nomination for President. But that was then, and now?Â
Now, he faces a far less challenging opponent in the McCain/Palin ticket, or not?
Now, he faces these things:
- fear and fearmongers
- lies, innuendo and rumors
or . . .
- an American people who shall rise above the first two
The "wheres" and the "hows" that cause Senator Barack Obama to continues to arise each morning with this undying faith in the American people is far beyond me, but he does. He seems to think so highly of the American people, and that their "journeys", their problems, and issues are his. He sees in them the lives of his mother, his grandparents, and even the futures of his children and all the Little Ones, and the Young Ones. That is what his words,
"yes WE can"
are all about, for those of you who didn't know.Â
He keeps saying that his candidacy has not been about him, nor has it ever been about him. How many of you really think that a Harvard Law School Graduate, + all his other credentials, shall really have any worries in life, especially financial worries?  How many of you REALLY think that he really needs to be doing this, if he weren't trying to make a difference for America?
Obama is far above the curve, and does NOT need to deal with -- or expose his family to -- all the foolishness that people have doled out, but again . . .
He has an "unyielding and abiding faith in the American people."
[sigh] My editorial comment.
For your approval (or disapproval), the article about Bill Clinton's prediction:
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By KEVIN HARRIS
One match down for the Floyd Central girls' tennis team, two victories away from the program's first-ever state championship.
With the score tied at two, freshman Alex Jamison pulled out a clutch three-set victory at No. 3 singles to give the No. 6 Highlanders a 3-2 win over No. 25 Greenwood (17-6) in the quarterfinals of the IHSAA State Finals on Friday at the Indianapolis Racquet Club. The match was moved to the indoor facility after rain fell at the Fishers High School courts.
Floyd Central (21-4) will take on No. 4 Penn (21-0) in the semifinals of the state finals at 10 a.m. today at North Central High School in Indianapolis. The other semi will pit second-ranked and defending state champion Evansville Memorial (22-0) against No. 1 Carmel (14-0). The championship match will be at 2 p.m. today at North Central.
Despite competing in the formidable Final Four today, Floyd Central coach Rick Miller says his team remains focused on winning the coveted state title.
"We're just happy to be in the next round, but we're not satisfied," Miller said. "If you're satisfied, you're not going to win your next round. You've got to be more hungry for the next round, the next round and the next round.
"We didn't come up here to be fifth, sixth or seventh. We came up here to win this thing."
Jamison showed a lot of poise for a freshman in defeating Greenwood junior Makenzie Estrem at three singles.
Jamison needed to win a 9-7 tiebreaker to take the first set, 7-6. Estrem forced the third and decisive set by claiming Set 2, 6-3.
Jamison took an early 3-1 lead in the third set, but Estrem answered by prevailing in two of the next three games to pull within 4-3.
The eighth game of the set was the most critical of the match. The game went to deuce at least three times before Jamison gained the advantage for good and broke Estrem's serve to go up 5-3.
Jamison pulled out to a 30-0 lead in the ninth game. Following two straight points by Estrem to deadlock the game at 30, Jamison captured the final two points for a 6-3 win to secure Floyd Central's spot in the semifinals. Jamison improved her singles record to 22-5.
"We didn't want the match to come down to a freshman like that. It's not what we really intended. We thought we were going to probably win 3-2 or 4-1," Miller said. "But Alex is just an athlete. You saw her run some balls down and that's what it was all about was athleticism. I think our girl was probably just a little bit better athlete than the Greenwood girl and it showed right there."
The Highlanders swept the doubles matches with relative ease.
At No. 1 doubles, senior Whitney Batliner and junior Dana Frank knocked off the Woodmen tandem of Taylor Hudnall and Brittany Toney, 6-1, 6-0. Batliner and Frank upped their season mark to 23-3.
The Floyd Central duo of senior Katherine Dauby and sophomore Erin Patterson beat Greenwood seniors Claire Gallman and Morgan Stunick, 6-0, 6-3.
"Our doubles teams are so balanced. We've got four athletes right down there playing," Miller said. "Our one doubles is so polished and so smart. They have no fear now. They don't care who they play now. Our two doubles is kind of like that now, too. Both our doubles are really confident right now."
The Highlanders had no answer for Woodmen twin sisters Jackie and Jade Kawamoto as the siblings each kept their undefeated records intact in singles action.
Jade Kawamoto defeated Floyd Central sophomore Alexis Applegate at No. 2 singles, 6-0, 6-1. Jade Kawamoto improved her record to 18-0, while Applegate dropped to 17-10.
"She was just nervous," Miller said about Applegate. "She's our least-experienced player of all our girls. She's got great strokes, but she never loosened up. She's just got to relax and play her game."
The most-anticipated individual matchup in the match happened at No. 1 singles between Jackie Kawamoto and Floyd Central senior standout Olivia Boesing.
Boesing won the first set, 6-3. But Jackie Kawamoto bounced back to win the final two sets by 6-4 scores. The Greenwood star's victory tied the overall match at two as she upped her record to 25-0. Boesing, who finished third in last year's IHSAA individual singles tournament, fell to 26-2.
"[Jackie Kawamoto] is a real consistent player," Miller said. "She's a baseliner and we knew that. We got a scouting report on her from two different coaches. They said, 'Don't get in a rally with her because she won't lose the rally. You have to serve and volley and get to the net some,' and we didn't do enough of that. It was a great match.
"It was just a shame that Olivia had to go down today. But maybe it takes a little pressure off her when you stop and think about it. Now, she can go out and swing."
Floyd Central did not play Penn in a dual match this season. But four Highlanders faced four Kingsmen in individual matches during the Crawfordsville Invitational on April 20, winning three of those matchups.
Penn, which topped 11th-ranked Park Tudor 4-1 in its quarterfinal on Friday, has three singles players with only one loss apiece this season. The Kingsmen's No. 2 doubles team of Amanda Ahmed and Cameron Moore has a 23-0 mark this year. Penn's No. 1 doubles duo of Haley Meekhof and Lauren McCarthy is 21-2.
"We know that all of their three singles players are awesome. We're going to be hard-pressed to beat them," Miller said.


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Here's a new page I finished.
I used the Down by the Creek pattern collection. The papers are from Cosmo Cricket Summer Love collection. It's probably an older collection because I found it at Tuesday Morning. I'm wishing I would have purchased two of them because it's a fun collection to work with.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Paper Piecings for Sale
I just listed a lot of my paper piecings for sale on my FB page. They are all listed at a discounted price :)
Friday, July 26, 2013
Great Prize at Bella Blvd
Just found a great prize give away going on at Bella Blvd! It's a great prize & worth checking out :)
Bella Blvd Blog
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Finally Home Again!
My hubby & I have been traveling since May! We are finally home & have no plans to go anywhere anytime soon. I'm sure going to miss seeing our grands but it's so nice to be home.
I plan on getting back to blogging!
So, to start things off I will share a few layouts I've recently posted on our fanpage.
I plan on getting back to blogging!
So, to start things off I will share a few layouts I've recently posted on our fanpage.
Friday, June 14, 2013
The long drive home...
My hubby & I have been gone for 3 weeks spending time with our daughter & her family. They welcomed a new baby girl into their family on May 29th. It was so great to be able to spend time with the new little one & her big sister.
We finally came home this week. Big sister surprised us & came home with us. We had a very long drive home!
Here's how the trip went...
We finally came home this week. Big sister surprised us & came home with us. We had a very long drive home!
Here's how the trip went...
We got all packed up and found a little space for Doodlebug & we were off.
Doodlebug helped us find the way with her very own map!
It's a very long drive home! Doodlebug tells us that she has lots of "up downs" near her house & that she always knows when she is almost to Grandpa & Grandma's because there are no more "up downs"
We knew it would have to happen! What would a summer road trip
be without road construction?
Time for a nap :)
Here's where the fun starts! I got online & checked the roads before we headed home. I saw that the road was now open so we decided on this route home. It's a beautiful drive along the river. From here our drive should be about 30 minutes, lol! Just last week there was flood water all around this area.
There are still sandbags across the road and lots of water pumping but the road was open, lol!
A little ways down the road we started seeing lots more water and flooded houses but the road was still open, lol.
Detour #1 of many!
Yet another detour but we still thought we might make it home.
Uh'oh, now it's getting really serious! We ended up on a back road up & over the river bluff. Yep, the road was closed!
Oh'no, another detour! So close to home but so far away. No way we were making it through this road. Now is when the fun starts. We now had to drive on tiny blacktop road and then a gravel road. Did I mention we have been driving for over and hour now from when I said we are 30 minutes from home?
Finally after another 1 1/2 hours and about a
100 deer running out of in front of us, we made it home!
Our newest grandbaby! She was born on May 29th & weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces, she is absolutely perfect!
I'll be referring to this one as Jellybean when I'm posting online.
I'll be referring to this one as Jellybean when I'm posting online.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Design Team Monday
It's Monday again & that means a new challenge at Little Scraps of Heaven Designs. This week we are having a sketch challenge. Here's the sketch for this week...
Here's my inspiration page..
For this page I used Picture Day & Elements.
I hope you will join in the fun & try our challenge this week!
Monday, May 13, 2013
Look what's new!
Tricia just released this adorable vinyl family!
You can find them in the store :)
Design Team Monday
It's Monday again! This week our challenge at Little Scraps of Heaven Designs
is to scraplift one of our Design Team layouts.
Here's my page that I made this week.
For this page I used the Got Sprinkles pattern. I just made the cup a little longer so it would look more like a cone.
Monday also means it's time for a new freebie pattern & this weeks is adorable!! You can find it right here.
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Homecoming Parade Registration
You can sign up online or complete the printable application. You will receive confirmation information about your entry on Wednesday, September 25 by 4:00 pm with your entry number and other important line up information. Please include an up-todate email to receive your confirmation information.
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Homecoming Parade Policies and Regulations
All participants will comply with the following policies and regulations.
- Equestrian Units must be accompanied by their own clean-up crews.
- Any person operating a motor vehicle in the parade shall be a licensed driver. All applicable seat belt and/or helmet laws must be obeyed by all participants.
- We encourage entries to reflect the theme of the parade in their decorations, dress, etc.
- If your entry has animals, you are responsible for the immediate clean-up of any mess that they may make along the parade route or staging area.
- All parade entries/floats must display their parade entry # on each side of their entry with signage that is 8˝" by 11".
- All entries must report at their designated times.
- For safety reasons, participants are asked not to throw candy or similar items from moving vehicles. Participants walking alongside their entries may hand out items to people along the parade route.
- No water of any kind can be shot from any parade float/unit.
- No open flames are permitted on floats or towing vehicles.
- Individuals riding on the float are situated in a secure location.
- Safety chains are affixed to the float.
- NO SMOKING is permitted on the parade route or in the staging area, before or during the parade. Entries with participants smoking on the floats or in the staging area may be disqualified from the parade and/or future Homecoming activities.
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Weight Loss for Women
For a woman to lose weight, she has to do the same thing a man does -- burn more calories than she eats. That sounds simple, but it takes some work to change your lifestyle and commit to those changes day after day. Before you get started, take some time to learn about the basics of weight loss and what it really takes to see results.
- Secrets to Successful Weight Loss: You can do four things to increase your chances of success in keeping the weight off. Do you know what they are?
- Giving Up the Weight Loss Obsession: It may surprise you, but putting weight loss aside and focusing on other goals may actually help you lose more weight.
- Weight Loss Survival Skills: The road to weight loss is a long one, but you can make the process easier and enjoyable.
- Staying Motivated: The most important ingredient in any weight loss program is motivation, but how do you keep it going day after day? This article explains how.
Exercise for Weight Loss
Exercise is one of the most important tools you have for weight loss and setting up a balanced program with cardio and strength training is your first step to reaching your goals. Below you'll find everything you need to set up a balanced program and create effective workouts.
Cardio Exercise
I usually don't have to convince my female clients to do cardio exercise to reach their weight loss goals. They know that cardio burns calories, but they don't always know how to maximize their workout time.
Many women making the same mistakes, including:
- Doing too much cardio: Women tend to like cardio more than strength training and sometimes do so much, they risk injury, overtraining and weight loss plateaus.
- Working at a low intensity: Some women have too many workouts in their 'fat-burning zone', but adding higher intensity workouts will actually burn more calories.
- Neglecting other parts of their programs: Many women skip strength training and flexibility to focus on cardio, but a balanced program is the best way to reach those weight loss goals.
The resources below will help you learn more about how to find balance with your cardio workouts and make them work for you.
Get the Most Out of Cardio
- Cardio for Weight Loss: Learn about the best cardio exercises, how to burn more calories and how often you really need to exercise.
- How to Burn More Fat with Cardio: If you've been working in your 'fat-burning zone' you may be surprised to learn the real way to burn more fat.
- Cardio 101: Go back to basics to learn how to choose activities and how long, how hard and how often you should exercise.
- How to Monitor Your Intensity: Working at the right intensity can make your cardio workouts much more effective. Learn different ways to monitor how hard you're working.
More Cardio Resources
- Cardio Machine Workouts: You'll find a variety of ideas for cardio workouts that will challenge you without the boredom.
- Home Cardio Workouts: You won't need any equipment to get a great cardio workout at home with these workouts.
- Interval Workouts: Interval training is one of the best ways to burn fat and calories. Here you'll find sample workouts you can try on your own.


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Rowe brings her A game to scholar-athlete equation
Senior featured in MTSU's Innovations MagazineOctober 22, 2013 · Drew Ruble/University Publications
Middle Tennessee Women's Basketball senior Ebony Rowe was recently featured in MTSU's Innovations Magazine. The magazine is exclusive to the Basic and Applied Sciences Magazine. Below is the full article in its' entirety as written by University Magazine Editor Drew Ruble.
Lady Raider Ebony Rowe averaged 19.7 points and 11.2 rebounds in 33 games as a junior last year. In three seasons, she's totaled 1,719 points—ninth most in school history—and is already the program's leading rebounder. And she still has her senior season ahead of her. Her athletic prowess garnered Rowe Honorable Mention All-American status by both the Associated Press and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association. She was also a top-30 finalist for the Naismith Award, given annually to the nation's best high school and college basketball players and coaches.
Off the court, Rowe has racked up an equally impressive portfolio of statistics in the form of academic and personal awards. Notably, she was named to the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Women's Basketball First Team as announced by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. A true student-athlete, Rowe has earned a 3.58 cumulative GPA as a physics major, which includes a perfect 4.0 last fall.
In all likelihood, Rowe will have the opportunity to play women's professional basketball, following in the footsteps of Lady Raider alums like Alysha Clark and Amber Holt. However, Rowe isn't yet committing to a plan to play professional ball. She's as interested, she says, in beginning pursuit of a postgraduate degree or beginning her career in mechanical engineering.
"At this point, I'm just trying to keep all my doors and options open," she says. "Whether that's playing professionally here or overseas or going straight into getting my master's degree in engineering, I'm still undecided."
A Dual Threat
With her high GPA, passionate interest in her studies, and wait-and-see approach to playing pro sports, Rowe bursts the stereotype of the academically disinterested student-athlete. And what makes her even more intriguing is that her major is science-related—a field of study far more dense than the proverbial "basket weaving" coursework the public tends to think about when it paints student-athletes
with a broad brush.
Rowe describes perceptions of student-athletes as "dumb" and science majors as "nerds" as "a sad mentality that's just developed and is taken as truth now."
"A lot of people told me you can't be a basketball player and an engineer. But it can be done," she says. "I like to be different and unique, not just for myself but also for generations behind me. More people need to start showing the younger generation that competing in high-level athletics and excelling in the classroom can be done."
As a physics major, Rowe takes classes such as Classical Mechanics, Strength of Materials, and Electricity and Magnetism. Among her recent research projects was a study of the physics of free throw shooting in basketball. It's an ironic topic for Rowe to tackle given her highly-publicized troubles at the free throw line in competition. Even her coach has been publicly critical of Rowe's free throw shooting percentage in years past, which for a time hovered below the 50 percent mark. Rowe has, however, improved dramatically over the past year and is now one of the best free throw shooters on the Lady Raider squad.
One might think that a shot called a "free throw," when no one is guarding you and you simply step up to a line and take a wide-open shot, would be an easy exercise. But according to Rowe, it's much more complicated than that. Rowe's description of a free throw from a physicist's perspective sounds so dizzyingly difficult that it might even cause a coach to take it easy on an athlete for a fair-to-middling
Rowe begins her explanation by pointing out that there are an infinite number of speed/angle combinations that can lead to a successful free-throw shot (or an unsuccessful one), but the chances of success are greatly improved by increasing the arc on the shot so that the ball is falling straight down, increasing the relative size of the hoop, as compared to a shot with a flatter trajectory.
"Beyond that, there's so many little mechanics that go into a free throw," Rowe explains, citing release point, launch angle, ball velocity, shape of path, optimum speed, varying force, and distance, among other variables. "So when you start to break it down piece by piece, if any one of those measurements is off by a certain degree, it can cause you to miss your free throw."
In her research, Rowe used a simulation program to shoot 10,000 free throws, altering all of these little measurements incrementally to reveal proper and improper mechanics—and outcomes.
"These small calculations applied to a free throw can throw off the whole shot based on the smallest of technicalities," she says, referencing concepts including forward spin, frictional force, and horizontal motion. Lady Raider fans can no doubt imagine Coach Rick Insell groaning at such an explanation.
So is Rowe's classroom exercise to be credited for her improvement from the free throw line? She says no.
"It's so funny, a lot of people asked me, 'Well, your free throw percentage got a lot better now that you broke it down,'" she says. "And I say, 'No, I just practice.'"
From the free-throw shot to other staples of the sport including dribbling and hang time, physics permeates the game of basketball. Perhaps the All-American Rowe's fascination with the two isn't such an unusual set of interests after all.
The Next Step
In addition to excelling on the court and in the classroom, Rowe is also already making waves in the professional world. For the second straight summer, Rowe spent her academic break working as an intern with the Fortune 500 software firm Lexmark in her hometown of Lexington, Ky. She worked alongside an electrical hardware engineer and had access to robotics and other types of machinery and testing on what she describes as a "real world product" in "early stages of development."
Rowe's sister is a chemical engineer at Lexmark. Her dad earned a degree in civil engineering and works in the corporate world. Rowe says math and science was "just something that ran in the family and, I guess, came easier than other subjects. So it's definitely just been a passion." (Even as a junior in high school, Rowe conducted research at the University of Kentucky in the Engineering Department, where she built a bilinear spring-mass system that replicated the support system of a NASA project.)
Such interest and involvement in a science discipline is statistically unusual for a woman. A 2010 report by the American Association of University Women found that the number of women in science and engineering is growing, yet men continue to outnumber women, especially at the upper levels of the professions. It doesn't bode well for research and discovery when half of the human race—for whatever reason—remains outside the arena of science. Nor does it help America fill the STEM jobs increasingly available in this country.
"I think it's something that's definitely gotten better, but it's a little discouraging," Rowe says. "I mean, I've never thought of myself as intimidated in any aspect, but it might be a little intimidating when you walk into a room in a business setting and it's all men sitting there. They all just look at you like, 'Are you in the right place?' So I would definitely say it's gotten better, and more women are realizing that we do have a lot of brain power and a lot to offer to different fields in science."
Rowe is only too happy to use the power of her celebrity as a high-profile athlete to encourage more girls and young women to pursue science studies and careers.
"That's what is so good, especially about being an athlete, because you get to reach out to so many different people," she says. "So whether it's young females who are playing sports or whether it's young African Americans or young African American girls. There also aren't a lot of African Americans who are choosing the sciences and engineering and physics. I think it's just the more people start to do it, the more that it's going to be expected, and it's not going to be, 'Oh, you're a female or an African American in sciences.' It's just going to become normal. So I think we just have to take it a step at a time. It's gotten better, but [we still have] a long way to go."
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More Women's Basketball NewsJul 11, 2014: Shalon Pillow joins Blue Raider coaching staff
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Aardvark was a quirky little social answering service that Google purchased in 2010 for $50 million. The company was a small start-up founded in 2007 and launched to the public in 2009. Users registered for an account and indicated areas of expertise, with the intent of mainly answering quick questions off the top of their heads. All users could then ask each other (or rather the "hivemind") questions which would be fielded to people who theoretically had some expertise in the area. Aardvark relied mainly on instant messaging and used email as a secondary contact method. This contrasted with other question answering services, like Yahoo! Answers and Answerbag, which are website based.
Aardvark also allowed you to use your social connections for the fielding of questions, so your Facebook, Gmail, and other contacts would be imported and prioritized for answers, but only in areas where they had expertise. This routing of questions to experts was also fairly innovative for the product.
Google's previous attempt at a question and answer service, Google Answers, was one of the early Google initiatives to get the axe. Unlike Google Answers, which paid people to research and answer questions, Aardvark relied on unpaid experts and their social willingness to answer each others' questions. Aardvark also could instant message users with new questions or answers or email them to try to engage them with the service.
Google has been struggling to create good social services for a while, and this was one of many failed experiments down that path, though one could argue that acquiring the people behind the product may have served them better than the product itself.
Why It Failed
Officially, Google just said that they were shutting down a lot of smaller projects in order to simplify the Google user experience. It joins a very long list of products that were shut down at the same time or had their features collapsed into features of other, more popular Google projects.
The Aardvark team was mostly moved to Google+, and that's probably a good fit for their skill set as well as a better use of Google resources.
Meanwhile, I can tell you what I hated about Aardvark, and why I think it was bound to fail, sooner or later. It wasn't that the idea was bad. It was just a product that shrank on you instead of growing. It was an annoying time-suck.
I registered for an Aardvark account as soon as the service was acquired by Google. For a while, I'd answer quick questions a couple times a day just to get a feel for it. Then I'd get constant instant messages telling me I had a new question. Occasionally I'd get emails. I didn't really have any questions I wanted to ask. I had a search engine as my go-to for that, but I'd get a steady stream of questions asked in my direction. You didn't have to answer every question you were asked, but it still takes a lot of time to parse through a steady stream of questions and decide if it was something that could be answered quickly. Hence, it was a time-suck.
I don't know if my experience was typical, but I doubt it was all that atypical. I'm betting that people tended to be either askers or answerers, and after a while that can really feel like a parasite-host relationship instead of a social experience. Add a plucky aardvark that auto messages you until you figure out how to turn that service off, and it's a recipe for annoyance.
Eventually Aardvark may have figured out a social reward system that made engagement fun, but the service was plunked into Google Labs upon acquisition, and it died at the same time as many other Google Labs projects.


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When Republican consultant Jay Townsend, a spokesperson for the Congressional campaign of incumbent Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-NY), casually suggested an acid attack against female Democratic senators in an online discussion group, he couldn't have known the hot water he was getting himself into...along with his client.
Since the story broke on Friday, June 1, calls for Townsend's resignation (under the hashtag #firejay) have reverberated across the Twittersphere and both bloggers and mainstream media have reported on the controversy. Full details from the ABC News website:
Townsend's comments (which have since been removed) were posted Thursday on a local Facebook discussion forum for New York's 19th congressional district. Townsend was responding to comments made by a commenter named "Tom" during an online debate over gas prices. Townsend wrote:
"Listen to Tom. What a little bee he has in his bonnet. Buzz Buzz. My question today ... when is Tommy boy going to weigh in on all the Lilly Ledbetter hypocrites who claim to be fighting the War on Women? Let's hurl some acid at those female democratic Senators who won't abide the mandates they want to impose on the private sector."
Townsend's comment referenced those female senators who have been in support of a Senate bill mandating equal pay for women but who allegedly don't compensate their female and male staffers equally.
Rep. Hayworth's response has been slow to non-existent. Taking a page from the disastrous playbook of the Susan G. Komen Foundation on how not to use social media to your advantage, her campaign manager Bruce Harvie issued a statement that was posted on Hayworth's Facebook page on Friday:
This is a manufactured controversy by a campaign operation that has, for months, hurled offensive rhetoric and imagery at Nan Hayworth on various Facebook pages....Only now have the media chosen to pay attention to this particular battlefield in the war against a woman who has the temerity to be a Republican Member of Congress.
The comment receiving the attention was not made on behalf of the Congresswoman or her campaign and was clearly not meant to be taken literally.
In response to this statement, Hayworth's Facebook page was flooded with hundreds of comments asking her to take action and, at the very least, reprimand Townsend; most of the opposing voices insisted she fire him. Within hours, all negative comments were removed.
Hayworth's reluctance to get in front of the controversy and publicly reprimand Townsend is surprising on several levels, especially with regard to the nature of the implied violence in his comment.
Acid attacks are a particularly heinous form of crime perpetrated against females of every age who oppose "traditional order" and work towards or speak out on women's issues. One of the most vicious attacks in recent years targeted teenage girls and teachers headed to school -- a cruel attempt to thwart the education of women. Acid attacks -- along with other threats of violence against women -- are commonplace in Afghanistan where the The Guardian reports that not even female politicians are immune.
The Afghan MP Shukria Barakzai receives regular death threats for speaking out on women's issues....In parliament, she says, she is often greeted with screams of "kill her" when she stands up to speak, and she has had no shortage of personal threats from fellow MPs.
As a female member of Congress, Hayworth is in the distinct minority. On average, only 16% of Congress in any given year is female. Many have regarded Hayworth's continued silence as particularly damaging in that it condones violence against women in an election year that has painted the GOP as waging a war on women. The freshman congresswoman's prior background in the medical field also makes her vulnerable to criticism; as a practicing opthalmologist for many years, she would be well aware that one of the unfortunate side effects of acid attacks is permanent blindness.
On Sunday, June 3, Townsend issued an apology on his own Facebook page which the Huffington Post reposted:
When the apology did little to stem the tide of criticism against Hayworth and Townsend, he stepped down from his role as spokesperson on Monday, June 4. Hayworth's campaign team issued the following terse announcement that afternoon:
On May 26, I posted a stupid, thoughtless, and insensitive comment on a facebook page. It was stupid because my words were easily misconstrued...and insensitive because some have interpreted the comment as advocating a violent act.
To friends, associates, and clients I have offered my apology for the embarrassment I have caused, and do hereby offer it to the many who rightly found fault with my incendiary choice of words.
Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.A constituent posting as Theresa hor complained online:
Are you kidding me? Do you think you can possibly get away with oh, he's resigned so everything is back to "let's get on with life as it was?"The conservative political blog RedState also piled on with a commentary entited, "Today is the day Nan Hayworth lost NY-19 for us."
Neither her supporters nor detractors were satisfied with Hayworth's handling of what some have labeled Acidgate, and many believe this to be the death knell of her re-election campaign.
Rep. Hayworth has yet to speak directly to the issue in her own words.
Sources:Bazzo, Anthony J. "Statement from Nan Hayworth." Pennysaver Community Town of Poughkeepsie, psctpok.com. 4 June 2012.
Chassay, Clancy. "Acid attacks and rape: growing threat to women who oppose traditional order." Guardian.co.uk. 21 November 2008
Freedlander, David. "Hayworth Doubles Down On 'Acid Hurling' Attack; Becker, Right Wing Blogs Pounce."Politicker.com. 1 June 2012.
Jeltsen, Melissa. "Jay Townsend, GOP Spokesman, Apologizes For Controversial Facebook Comment." Huffingtonpost.com. 3 June 2012.
Pfeiffer, Eric. "Republican spokesman: 'Let's hurl some acid' at female Democratic senators." Yahoo! News at ABCnews.go.com. 1 June 2012.


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SAN ANTONIO — When Rick Perry became governor of Texas, Bill Clinton was still in the White House, LeBron James hadn't yet gotten his driver's license and it wasn't uncommon to see electronic equipment stamped "Y2K compliant."
In the nearly 13 years since, the devout Christian and fierce conservative — now the longest-serving governor in Texas history and dean of all current U.S. governors — has made an indelible mark on the state.
Perry announced Monday that he won't seek a fourth full term in office next year, but notably didn't say whether another run for the White House in 2016 could be next.
"The time has come to pass on the mantle of leadership. Today I'm announcing I will not seek re-election as governor of Texas," Perry said Monday. "I will spend the next 18 months working to create more jobs, opportunity and innovation. I will actively lead this great state. And I'll also pray and reflect and work to determine my own future."
Sheer longevity has seen Perry fill every major appointed office with his allies, dictate the direction of the Texas Republican Party and wield more power from a traditionally weak governorship than anyone else since Reconstruction. But undoubtedly his biggest influence has come in the policy arena, where he helped ban gay marriage, imposed some of the nation's strictest limits on abortion, and constantly railed against "federal overreach" on gun control and other issues.
Perry has battled Environmental Protection Agency rules at every turn, refused to let his state expand Medicaid coverage as directed by the White House-backed health care reform law, and even barred Texas from competing for the grants under the Obama administration's signature education initiative.
"He's cast a long shadow for a long time," said Bill Miller, a veteran Austin lobbyist who has worked for both Perry and some of his past political opponents.
Now that the governor has chosen to forgo seeking a fourth full term, one of America's reddest states should stay that way — at least through a 2014 election cycle that will be Perry-less.
Miller said that while Texas' political world without Perry "will definitely be different," it won't be radically so — just feature a different group of leaders.
"The tried and true, that seems to work with the electorate here," he said of top Republicans who will rush to fill Perry's void. "Whatever office they are running for, they are going to sound a lot like their predecessor on the stump."
But Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said the candidate who succeeds Perry will quickly try to distance from his policies.
"He's alienated so many core groups from Hispanics to African-Americans to women, but he's also upset the business community by focusing so much on social issues that it's distracted from getting our fiscal house in order," Hinojosa said.
He added that Perry created major, long-term deficits in state spending on key transportation and water infrastructure projects, as well as public schools, to score short-term victories with his conservative base.
"Social issues won't help clean up the mess he's made in all other areas," Hinojosa said.
Still, Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, a political science professor at the University of North Texas, said Perry has become such a champion of national Republican causes because, unlike other firebrands in Congress or on the radio or television airwaves, he can take conservative stands singlehandedly, simply by setting state policy.
"He echoes the concerns of conservative Republicans, but he's also been in a position to actually carry them out and do something about them like opposing the expansion of Medicaid," Eshbaugh-Soha said. "It's the second-largest state, and he's using it to make ideological choices."
On one notable issue, however, Perry has departed from the far-right: immigration. The governor has instead adopted a far softer stance, denouncing as unnecessary and ineffective a fence stretching the length of the U.S.-Mexico border, while defending the current policy of offering in-state tuition at Texas public universities to the children of illegal immigrants.
Perry will soon be giving up the power to dictate Texas policy, but his efforts won't soon be forgotten.
"Regardless of what he does now," Eshbaugh-Soha said, "I think his legacy is secure."
That's because, at least economically, they've been very successful. Under Perry's watch, Texas created nearly half of all America's new jobs in the two years following the official end of the national recession in June 2009, and officials said this June that 226,000 jobs were generated statewide just in the past year alone.
Perry says it's because he's helped promote a pro-business climate by relaxing regulations and limiting lawsuits. His critics note, though, those policies have severe downsides such as the deadly April explosion of a lightly regulated fertilizer plant in the town of West. Meanwhile, the governor has also enraged small-government activists by administering a pair of recruitment funds offering cash incentives to entice job-creating firms to move to Texas.
Even if the state's core politics won't change, however, Perry's departure will break a logjam among top Texas Republican leadership.
Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican popular with both the party mainstream and the tea party grassroots, has been in his post since 2002 and has used it to solidify his conservative grassroots base, suing the Obama administration on Texas' behalf dozens of times and ferociously defending gun and religious rights in court.
Abbott hasn't said he's officially running for governor but has a formidable $18 million-plus in his war chest and plans to launch a statewide tour in a matter of days.
At least two top Republicans plan to compete for Abbott's job, while the land commissioner and agricultural commissioner also want to win higher posts. All of that encompasses just the Republicans, but a Democrat hasn't won a statewide office in Texas since 1994.
And, while her one-woman filibuster to help stop the Texas Legislature's approval of strict new abortion rights last month has made Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis a political sensation and left many urging her to make a gubernatorial run, Abbott still outpolls her.
Perry, meanwhile, hasn't ruled out another run for the White House after his 2011 bid flamed out spectacularly in his "oops" moment during a Republican candidate debate, when he forgot the third of three federal departments he promised to shutter if elected.
Plans to quit his day job will give Perry the chance to rehabilitate his national image, and he can still call himself a proven job-creator — even if he no longer oversees the state creating all those jobs.


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When it comes to discipline, parenting experts focus on the things that change for parents when their child begins adolescence. This is because teens start to form their identities and need more independence. Therefore, a parent's job changes from being the person in charge all of the time to being more of a monitor and advisor much of the time.
As you notice your parenting job changing, it may seem like your rights and responsibilities as a parent also change. It's true, some rights and responsibilities do shift over to your teen, so that they can have more freedom to make their own decisions and be more independent. But, there are some that will remain consistent throughout your child's adolescence. Here I have put together a list of ten parenting rights and responsibilities as they pertain to parenting teenagers:
- Parents, along with everyone else in the family, have the right to be treated with respect. This includes not only parents and teens, but also siblings and extended family members who may be living in the home.
- Parents have the right to set rules and limit privileges when rules are not followed. This includes house and family rules that are followed out of respect for everyone who lives in the home. Some examples are rules about chores, guests, curfews and illegal substances or activities within the home. Parents can say no, even when they just think something is wrong. Trust is a big issue between parents and teens. While teens are allow to make mistakes - and parents should give their teens the ability to earn back their trust - that does not take away the responsibility of a parent to keep their minor child from hurting themselves by setting rules and saying 'no' when needed.
- Parents have the right to ask questions and expect that they will be answered truthfully. Parents should be aware of a teenager's growing need for privacy when invoking this right. Also, remember to ask questions when emotions are not running high to avoid arguing with an angry teen, as that will only add to the problem instead of solve it.
- Parents have the right to know where their teenagers are, who they are with and generally what they are doing. While teens do not have to go into detail about private matters, like their thoughts about the person they are dating for instance, they do have to let parents know things like the location of the party they will be attending and who is chaperoning the party.
- Parents have the right to talk with anyone who is involved in their teen's life. This includes, but is not limited to: teachers, doctors, coaches, mentors, friends and the parents of friends. Parents should also expect that they will get truthful answers to their questions when talking to these people. I, myself, find it hard to deal with parents of my teen's friends when I know that they have a habit of lying for their own teenager. What is to keep them from lying to me about mine if they feel it will help my teen 'stay out of trouble'? Nothing. Knowing how that makes other parents feel is the reason why I am always honest when asked questions about my teen's friends by their parents. I encourage you to do the same.
- Parents have the right to encourage family unity. They can expect all members of the family to take part in family traditions, family vacations, family meetings and other activities that build strong family bonds.
- Parents have the right to monitor their children's access to the outside world. This is true whether that access comes from physically going somewhere or it is through the technology of a cellphone or the internet.
- Parents have the right to encourage and monitor a teen's view of their future. While teens are given the ultimate choices of what they want to do with their future lives, parents can influence using encouraging methods, but not through discipline. For example, encourage your teen to like science by sending them to space camp, but don't take away privileges because they didn't read the book on the solar system that you gave them.
- Parents have the right to make mistakes and change their minds. Mistakes happen, learning to fix a mistake and apologizing is important. Parent can learn more about this in our article: Learn to Fall Back and Regroup.
- Parents have the right to let their teen know they love them and care about them. While giving your teen a huge hug in front of their friends when you drop them off somewhere may not be the time, letting your teen know daily you care is important enough to mention, text, email, etc. A simple message works best, being careful not to embarrass them around their peers.
You'll note that if you go back through this list and exchange the phrase 'Parents have the responsibility' for the phrase 'Parents have the right', you will see that it also fits. As a parent, I feel it is important to remember that what gives us the right to parent is also what expects us to take on the responsibility of parenting. Taking a minute to remember your parenting rights as responsibilities will humble you any time you ever begin to feel authoritarian when you discipline. Give it a try.
Source: Adapted from the Parents Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, Tri-City Substance Abuse Coalition.


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Welcome to the
Town of
Brookfield, Massachusetts 01535
Worcester County, central Massachusetts, bordered by West Brookfield on the
west, New Braintree and Oakham on the north, Brookfield and East Brookfield on
the south. Approximately 25 miles from Worcester, approximately 55 miles
from Boston.
2012 Census figure: 4626
State Route 9 runs
east and west adjacent to North Brookfield, and State Route 67 and 148 run north
and south through the center of town.
The Worcester
Municipal Airport is easily accessible to the east.
Both Interstate 90
(Massachusetts Turnpike) and Interstate 84 are accessible in Sturbridge,
approximately 15 miles to the south.
here to view a map of North Brookfield from
21.1 square miles, 12,303 acres, 70.35 miles of paved road and 12 miles of dirt
Open Town Meeting with a three member Board of Selectmen.
Must be 18 years of age, American born or a fully naturalized citizen, and a
resident of North Brookfield. Register in Town Clerk's office at the Town House,
before elections and town meetings on dates announced by the
Town Clerk.
Absentee Voting for all elections.
The Annual Town Election is held on the first
Monday In May of each year and the Annual Town Meeting is held the first Friday
following the first Monday in May of each year.
The Town of North Brookfield, situated in Worcester County, has a very varied
history with many distinguished residents. The town had rich agricultural lands
which were profitably farmed by early settlers, but developed a vigorous
industrial economy as well, primarily in the shoe manufacturing and rubber
products industries.
Rufus Putnam, one of George Washington's chief
engineers during the Revolution, served his
apprenticeship in the town as a millwright at the Matthews Fulling Mills from
1754 to 1757. The Matthews Mills were themselves a tribute to 18th century
engineering, since they included several canals and tunnels which made the
natural glacial kettle holes in the area part of a mill ponding complex for the
fulling mill.
The town avoided the deadly smallpox epidemics of
the 1770's by inoculating over 200 people with weakened smallpox virus. People
came from as far away as Worcester to receive the inoculations of the
experimental vaccine from North Attleborough physicians, Dr. Thomas and Dr.
Kittridge, and then to convalesce through a mild form of the disease in small
hospitals the town built on the outskirts of the community.
Along with its neighboring town, North Brookfield
sent 150 Minutemen to the Battle of Lexington and Concord. But they also
demonstrated against the government they had helped create when
residents of North Brookfield were involved in Shays Rebellion in 1780, holding
meetings in town and hiding their weapons at Ayre's Tavern, one of the oldest
buildings in town.
Nineteenth century American poet William
Cullen Bryant, lived in North Brookfield when
he prepared for college with his uncle, the minister in town for 64 years. Bates
Observatory was given to the town in the 1890's and on a clear day, townspeople
say, you can see all the way to Boston. George M. Cohan, actor, producer and
playwright, was a frequent visitor to town when he came to stay with his
grandparents. In the summer of 1934 both Cohan and
Connie Mack, another former resident, were honored by the town. The stage of the
present Town House was the site of a performance of "Ah, Wilderness," with the
original New York cast directed by Cohan, and the Philadelphia Athletics played
an exhibition baseball game in town with the Quabaug Rubber company team, who
defeated them, townspeople are quick
to note.
Approximately 500 children in grades K-6 attend North Brookfield Elementary
School and about 300 students in 7th - 12th grades attend North
Brookfield High School. Please visit the schools page
for detailed information.
The Haston Free Public Library is on Main Street. Please visit the
library page for more details.
Brookfield and East Brookfield share the town beach at Lake Lashaway. Activities
at the lake include fishing, boating, swimming, picnicking, skating and hockey.
Horse Pond and Doane Pond are places for fishing, nature observing, and walking.
The Five Mile River travels north and south along the eastern part of North
Brookfield. It has been cited by the Massachusetts Watershed Coalition as a good
example of how wetlands provide natural flood protection. The Town Common has
areas for the public to use the swing sets, and to play baseball and basketball.
information can be found at the Parks And Recreation
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