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The sale of a historic golf course in West Virginia has fallen through for a second time.
Oakhurst Links owner Lewis Keller Sr. says the winning bidder from a recent auction couldn't secure the financing for the $410,000 transaction. He says it's possible that a bank will foreclose on the property in White Sulphur Springs. The course was built in 1884 and bought by Keller in 1959.
Keller had struggled for years to find a buyer. Last year a Richmond, Va.-based group had planned to take over the course but couldn't raise the cash to close the deal.
Keller says the course has significant historical value. Players use old-style clubs and golf balls the way it was done more than a century ago.
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ATLANTA, Georgia, February 8. THE Lambert High School girls team claimed its second consecutive title at the Georgia 6A High School Swimming and Diving Championships February 7-8. The meet was swum in short course yards in Atlanta. On the boys side, the Litherland trio from Chattahoochee put on quite a show. However, the Cougars fell just short of a championship, coming in second to Walton, 224.5-218.
The Lady Longhorns' 279 points earned them the team title, with Johns Creek taking second (246.5), Brookwood third (206), Walton fourth (185) and Lassiter fifth (176).
Three seniors finished within 12-hundredths of each other in the 100 back. Etowah's Megan Young, swimming in her future home pool at Georgia Tech, nosed out Lambert's Megan Beator (undecided) by 1-hundredth for the win, 55.21-55.22. Katie Grover from Milton, heading west to UCLA in the fall, finished third in 55.33. Grover posted a winning 52.90 in the 100 fly.
Two other seniors closed out their high school careers with victories. Archer's Alexi Smith, who has committed to Florida State, finished the 50 free in 22.83. Johns Creek's Kaitlin Kitchens, who will be at Indiana in the fall, earned first-place points in the 100 free (51.03).
Brookwood received 20 points each from its three event champions: junior Anna Jahns in the 500 free (4:49.94), sophomore Erin Scott in the 100 breast (1:04.17) and freshman Devan Sweeney in the 200 IM (2:03.59).
Lauren Case, a Woodstock sophomore, put together a winning 1:48.81 in the 200 free. Etowah junior Madison DuVall won the diving event with 504.40 points.
Lambert triumphed in the 200 free relay with the team of senior Megan Beator, sophomore Emma Fish, senior Aubrey Jones and sophomore Katherine Aikins. Walton's 400 free relay of freshmen Emma Cole and Gabbie Gaunet, with junior Mary Beckwith and senior Kira De Bruyn, finished off the meet with a 3:28.75.
The story of the night on the boys side was the Litherland triplets. Mick, Jay and Kevin--all three of whom will be swimming on the University of Georgia team next fall--put together five individual and two relay victories, setting three state marks in the process.
The trio got things started in the very first event--the 200 medley relay. With junior Jacob Rubin, the Cougars posted a state record 1:32.78 in the 200 medley relay. The quartet ended the meet the same way--a state standard in the 400 free relay of 3:04.08. In between Jay rewrote the record book in the 100 breast (55.84) and took the 100 back in 48.38. Kevin picked up victories in the 200 and 500 free (1:37.36 and 4:22.91). Mick was tops in the 100 fly with his 49.40, but settled for a close second in the 200 IM (1:48.79) to Brookwood sophomore Alex Taylor's 1:48.50.
Taylor led the Broncos' winning 200 free relay (1:25.21) with sophomore Jacob Rees, senior Austin Harmel and freshman Andrew Huenniger.
Tomas Peribonio, a senior from North Gwinnett, finished first in the 100 free (45.82). He will be competing for South Carolina next season. Marietta junior Tyler Harper touched out Lassiter freshman Colin Riley for first in the 50 free, 21.03-21.04. Norcross sophomore Griffin Ramsey's 449.50 points gave him the diving title.
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April 5, 2012 | Vol. 39, No. 14
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Students and city officials participated in a statewide Choose Respect rally on Thursday, March 29. A march downtown on Nordic was followed by refreshments and speakers at the Sons of Norway Hall.
Schools students and public officials participated in a statewide Choose Respect event – with a march downtown and a rally at the Sons of Norway hall.
Choose Respect is a campaign sponsored by Governor Sean Parnell to raise awareness of domestic violence, sexual assault, child sexual assault and bullying.
The students marched on Nordic downtown and then gathered for snacks and to share thoughts and comments on what 'Choose Respect' means to them.
"Sometimes we're a little too polite when we see things we don't like and we hold it in," said Chief Jim Agner. "Well, domestic violence is never correct. The whole concept of Choose Respect is to give people respect so they can live their lives. And I think we all agree that it's intolerable to hurt people we love. And I think we come to the realization that's it not impolite if you see somebody hurting someone they care for, you can say 'What you're doing is wrong. I don't agree with it.'"
District Attorney David Brower echoed a similar sentiment to the crowd about stopping abuse before it happens. He also commended the crowd just for showing up and getting involved.
"I think this is a good turnout. And having the members of the band on the side of the road, showing support – it's a good thing," Brower said.
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The members of the middle school's National Junior Honor Society proudly display their banner for the Choose Respect march.
"Respect starts really small, and it can come in many forms," Superintendent of Schools Rob Thomason said. "It's not okay to hurt people physically, or emotionally, or verbally," he said.
At the rally, a special recognition went out to Petersburg High School sophomore Diane Murph, whose winning poster design was chosen by the Governor to represent the Choose Respect campaign.
Petersburg was just one of about 120 communities throughout Alaska that participated in Choose Respect rallies. The Governor launched the campaign in response to the high number of domestic violence cases that are reported in the state each year.
"Conversations about respect are ongoing with students," said Jo Ann Day, event coordinator. "I think this event brought awareness to them about what is a statewide problem. Students aren't the only ones participating today, and it's good for them to get out and participate in these events with community members."
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from R.C. Sproul Jul 25, 2014 Category: ArticlesSoli Deo gloria is the motto that grew out of the Protestant Reformation and was used on every composition by Johann Sebastian Bach. He affixed the initials SDG at the bottom of each manuscript to communicate the idea that it is God and God alone who is to receive the ... Keep Reading
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A Passion for Preaching: An Interview with Steven J. Lawson
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tis the season to be growing!
the coming week is really active astrologically speaking and i wanted to give you all a heads up :) check out the weekly astrology forecast for an in-depth explanation on the individual aspects as well as the weekly horoscopes for how they pertain to your sign. here is an overview:
this week we have the winter solstice (summer solstice in the south), a new moon in capricorn on christmas eve (12/24), and jupiter stationing direct on christmas day (12/25). this is an influx of A LOT of new energy- a new season, a new lunar cycle, a new start. but because the sun is moving into capricorn we have the uranus/pluto square featured in both the solstice chart AND the new moon chart. over the next week and a half the sun will trine jupiter, square uranus, sextile chiron and cojoin pluto (in that order). the jupiter/chiron aspects support growth, healing, and awareness. the uranus/pluto aspects support radical change, death and rebirth and transformation.
the uranus/pluto square isn't even exact yet! the first exact aspect between these two occurs next year on june 24th. they will make 7 aspects over the next 3 years due to their slower movement and retrograde stations. we haven't even experienced the first exact aspect and yet we are definitely experiencing the change, awakening, death/rebirth and transformation! with the new moon chart and the solstice chart both featuring the dynamic square between these two planets- we are given insight that their energies are going to be very present over the next month as well as the next season. we really are kicking of 2012 with a BANG!
although these two facing off have a lot of intensity to them- they also have a lot of positivity and potential. things need to change here on planet earth. the way things have been going collectively, globally, politically, financially, even personally- they are not working. not only are they not working- they are destructive, toxic and detrimental to the health and wellbeing of humanity. so uranus and pluto are engaging with each other to active our innate drive for evolution, change and commitment to seeing and living Truth. we can see this happening all over the planet- and if we are honest with ourselves we can see this playing out in our personal lives as well.
wherever your life is out of integrity or whevever there are destructive patterns playing out (in finances, relationships, beliefs, health, whatever)- you can bet your bottom dollar is it coming up right now. the more we work with the energies coming in to change and transform- the better off we will be come 2012. the more we resist change and transformation- the harder life is going to become and the more karma we will be accruing.
this is it! tis the season to be GROWING! it's time to wake up and get on board the Self-mastery train. 2012-2015 are going to be intense- and you want to be centered in yourSelf and on the right path so you can be the change you wish to see in the world :)
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The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's 2010-11 Orchestral Series is filled with good stuff. From Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann and Mendelssohn classics to intriguing contemporary works from the likes of Osvaldo Golijov, Daniel Kellogg and composer-in-residence Derek Bermel, this season has it all. But maybe your schedule or your wallet can't accommodate it all. We have a subscription for you, too.
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More on a new brewery coming to Knoxville
Patrick Beeson: UPDATE: Adam e-mailed me to say that Marble City Brewing will indeed make use of the former New Knoxville equipment and building. But he is not the Adam Palmer of Pike Brewing in Seattle as rumored in the RateBeer forum post.
Knoxville is not what most craft-beer lovers would refer to as a brewing mecca. That distinction belongs to our neighbors to the east in Asheville, NC.
But with two decent operations, Downtown Grill and Brewery and Smoky Mountain Brewery, Knoxville does have sources for fresh, quality beer.
Now it looks like Knoxvillians will have a new choice in Marble City Brewing.
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Faced with lawsuits and bad publicity in their home country, U.S. private prison corporations are lobbying to enter Canada -- and the Canadian government is considering allowing them, news reports indicate.
According to federal government documents obtained by Bloomberg News, the Correctional Service of Canada "may consider" contracting out certain prison services, such as cleaning and food preparation.
CSC officials last May urged Public Safety Minister Vic Toews to discuss Canada's "interest in considering the privatization of penitentiary services on a limited basis," according to a memo Bloomberg obtained under a freedom of information request.
The Guardian reports that among the companies lobbying Ottawa for a piece of the prison action is Geo Group, a Florida-based corporation whose lobbyist met with Toews last year.
The company is the target of a class-action lawsuit alleging that one of its youth facilities in Louisiana was plagued by sexual abuse. The suit alleges that guards engaged in sex with inmates -- who at that facility range in age from 13 to 22 -- and smuggled drugs into the prison. The facility allegedly denied health care and education services to inmates as well. A federal judge described the Geo Group prison as "a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts."
A Geo Group prison in Indiana was also the site of a full-scale riot in 2007.
The other prison company confirmed by The Guardian to be lobbying Ottawa is Management and Training Corporation (MTC), which has had its own share of controversies. Following the escape of two convicted murderers from a Kingman, Arizona MTC facility, the the state of Arizona found the facility's alarms were not functioning properly, and the company hadn't carried out maintenance on them in more than a year.
MTC's marketing director, Mike Murphy, confirmed to the Guardian the company is interested in Canada.
"When the Conservative government came into play we saw some headlines that they may be looking at PPPs [private-public partnerships] and talking about doing some stuff with the private sector through their [corrections] infrastructure renewal," he told the Guardian.
With budgets under strain in recent years, many U.S. states have shelved plans for new prisons, cut the number of prisoners in custody, and even closed some facilities. That has prompted prison companies to look elsewhere for new expansion opportunities.
Some prison corporations have responded with more aggressive business strategies. Corrections Corporation of America, the U.S.'s largest private prison operator, recently sent a letter to 48 U.S. state governments offering to buy up their prisons -- in exchange for keeping them at least 90-per-cent full.
It's this sort of tension between prison profits and the criminal justice system that has many critics of prison privatization worried. In a recent investigative report, the New Orleans Times-Picayune asserted that the profit motive in Louisiana's prison system was behind its harsh criminal sentences, and contributed to the state apparently having the highest incarceration rate of any jurisdiction in the developed world.
Canada's experience with private prisons so far has been limited and underwhelming. The country's only existing private prison -- the Central North Correctional Centre in Penetanguishene, Ontario -- had been set up by the province's Conservative government in the 1990s, and was taken over by the province under the Liberals in 2006. A performance review of the facility found that public prisons of the same size had better security, health care and recidivism rates than the MTC facility.
For its part, Geo Group built the Miramichi Youth Detention Facility in New Brunswick, but had its contract for the facility taken away in the 1990s after public protests against the incarceration of youth for profit. The company still has a maintenance contract for the prison.
The Conservative government in Ottawa has passed a slate of tough-on-crime laws since coming into power in 2006, the most notable being the omnibus crime bill that passed through Parliament in March of this year. Critics fear the mandatory minimum sentences in the new laws could increase the prison population and prompt the construction of new prisons.
But the federal government does not see it this way, and has taken steps to shut down some prisons, including historic Kingston Penitentiary.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said earlier this month that, so far, the prison population has not seen a spike as a result of the new laws. (However, it's worth noting that the omnibus crime bill hasn't been law long enough to make much of an impact on prison population statistics.)
"We have no appetite to pursue fully privatised prisons," Julie Carmichael, a spokeswoman for Toews, told Bloomberg in an email. The government "has no intention of building new prisons, nor have we built a single new prison to date."
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The 9 Key Changes In The Tory Crime Bill
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9. Bringing Prisoners Home
Provides the government, through the minister of Public Safety, more discretion to decide if a Canadian imprisoned abroad can transfer home to serve his or her sentence. (Getty)
8. Rights For Terror Victims
Introduces new measures to allow victims of terrorist acts to sue responsible individuals, groups or state sponsors in Canadian courts. (Alamy)
7. Denying Work Permits
Gives the Immigration minister new powers to deny work permits to foreigners based on the rationale they may be exploited. (Alamy)
6. Victims Get More Say In Parole
Provides victims of crime more say in parole decisions under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act. Increases size of parole board by 25 per cent. (Alamy)
5. Fewer Conditional Sentences
Reduces sharply the use of conditional sentences, such as house arrest, for a variety of property and other offences. (Jupiter Images)
4. Pardons Harder To Get
Changes the pardons system and makes certain ex-convicts, such as some sex offenders and repeat offenders, ineligible for life. Essentially doubles the waiting period for pardon eligibility to five years for summary offences and 10 years for indictable offences. Replaces the term "pardon" by "record suspension." (Alamy)
3. Harsher Sentences For Young Offenders
Sets tougher penalties for young offenders, including mandatory consideration of adult sentences and possible publication ban removal for violent crimes. Expands the definition of violent crime to include reckless acts that don't actually cause harm. (Alamy)
2. Mandatory Minimums For Sex Crimes
Establishes new mandatory minimum sentences and longer maximums for sex crimes against minors, including the addition of two new offences related to grooming or luring minors. (Alamy)
1. Mandatory Minimums For Drug Crimes
Provides new mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences related to production and distribution, including mandatory sentences for growing as few as six pot plants. Doubles maximum sentences to 14 years from seven. Offers potential exemptions for those entering drug treatment programs. (Getty)


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Artificial Turf – Advantages of Synthetic Turf for Landscaping12/01/2009
In a society where time is increasingly of a premium, more and more homeowners are utilising artificial turf for their landscaping needs around the home. There are many advantages that emerge from the use of Synthetic turf in gardens.
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This glance at survival in the projects as a family fights with the demons of incarceration, drug addiction and death is one of the most powerful coming-of-age stories I've read.
Abraham is born on the bathroom floor of his grandmother's apartment to a 13 year old girl in the Ever Park project. As he grows older, he dreams of living like the Huxtables, with a father like Bill Cosby. But, his reality is a mother turned crack addict and an uncle sent to prison. His grandmother does everything she can to keep the family together, but when Abraham's cousin Donnel also goes to prison he's ready to give up.
His girlfriend, Kaya, is determined to go to college and get out of the projects, but until Abraham is contacted by a recruiter from Brandeis he doesn't think that possibility is open to him. Hoping for a scholarship, he's encouraged and stays in school, successfully graduating. Check catalog for availability.
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What is Digg?Digg is a user-driven social bookmarking website; all the content on Digg is submitted and moderated by Digg users.
How does Digg work?Here's the short version of how Digg works, from the About Digg page:
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- Include Digg in your site: a couple of fun ways to include Digg into your site or blog.
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Agenda includes student case competition, two keynotes and panel discussions.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Robyn Meredith, senior editor of Forbes Magazine, Asia, will deliver the opening keynote address at the 16th annual Asia Business Conference (ABC) at 5 p.m. Jan. 20 in Hale Auditorium at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Meredith, who will speak about the implications of the rise of India and China, joined Forbes as Detroit bureau manager in 2000. Prior to Forbes, she was the Detroit correspondent for The New York Times. She also was a business reporter for USA Today and the Washington bureau of the American Banker newspaper. She received her BA degree, cum laude, from Boston University in 1990 and was a journalism fellow at the University in 1999.
Jong Nam Oh, executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will deliver the closing keynote, "Regional and International Financial Issues Facing Asia," at 3:45 p.m. Jan. 21 in Hale Auditorium. Oh is the first Korean to serve in his position and represents 14 countries. Prior to joining the IMF, he served in the Korean government for 29 years, working with the Economic Planning Board and the Ministry of Finance and Economy.
Oh earned his bachelor's degree in law at Seoul National University, Korea, and his MBA and PhD in economics from Southern Methodist University.
Conference attendees will participate in nine panels, including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Greater China, Japan, Indian Subcontinent, Korea, healthcare, women in business, finance and development.
The first Asia Business Conference Case Competition, held by the Emerging Markets Club, will take place from Jan. 15�21. Presentations on six Asian countries, sponsored by the Student Government Association and Exxon Mobile Corporation, will be presented by students as part of the International Education Series Asia Pacific event held Jan. 17-19.
Conference sponsors include Northwest Airlines, Mitsui Life Financial Research Center, Center for International Business Education, Center for Japanese Studies, Executive Education at the Ross School, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Center for South Asian Studies and Center for Chinese Studies.
The ABC provides members of the business school community with the opportunity to learn about Asia from people who are directly involved in shaping the economic future of the region. The conference is open to all University of Michigan students, alumni, faculty and staff, as well as students from other business schools.
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Several Pittsburgh businesses are part of "Bon Appetit Appalachia."
Madrid offers old Castilian architecture and traditions with a modern twist, enjoyed best with a side of paella and a pitcher of sangria.
The Gorges du Verdon, near Provence, has outdoor challenges for all experience levels.
On-time performance of Southwest Airlines, the nation's largest domestic carrier has deteriorated over the past year,
The Homestead in Hot Springs, Va., established in 1766, has refreshed guests since before the Revolutionary War.
Our quest was emblazoned on the T-shirts we were given before we left for Alaska: "8 men, 4 highways, 5 days, 865 miles." On motorcycles.
BALTIMORE -- The pierogi at Sophia's Place sure are yummy. As good as my mother ever made. And the golabki? Mmm-mm
A number of new, creative tools are aiming to help you rattle off phrases such "table for two" in an unfamiliar language in no time.
The so-called Sept. 11 security fee that was intended to fund the Transportation Security Administration is about to increase.
Proper planning and creative thinking are the key to packing, experts say.
Pilsen, which has for years welcomed Mexican residents, is experiencing the effects of gentrification.
Santa Claus is always in residence at Colorado's North Pole: Home of Santa's Workshop, a children's amusement park at the base of Pike's
Those three are just a taste of this year's 12-play festival.
Couples take wedding vows to another level in Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.
Information: Lake of the Ozarks: wwwFunLake.com.
Starting Friday, a new tour eats its way from Market Square to the Strip and back.
Find out who these so-called ambassadors are, the ones selling our city and presenting the information that shape the views of visitors.
An emerging system portends sweeping change in our lives, from riding taxis to renting rooms and still more.
Running tours give residents and tourists alike a different vantage point to see Pittsburgh sights.
Local tour guide fits the bill as a part-time wise quacker.
Louise Sturgess' love of Pittsburgh history shines during her walking tours given to the public.
When cab driver Earl Farrell picks up a fare, part of the journey can include a history of the city.
Jamie Blatter, a former flight attendant turned Realtor, is now at home guiding visitors through Pittsburgh's Clayton.
Two North Side siblings lead Segway tours along the city's sidewalks to show people from around the world all their hometown has to offer.
Darryl Cann isn't a tour guide, although he often acts like one.
PNC Park's popular hot dog vendor delights the Pittsburgh crowds with his dance moves.
Melissa Balkovec of 'Burgh Bits and Bites Tour is an ambassador for Pittsburgh natives and tourists alike.
Being a successful guide for Haunted Pittsburgh takes more than an eerie voice, ominous grin and black attire.
The entrance to the Grand Central Terminal is now named for the woman who worked to save the facility -- Jackie Kennedy.
Tour guide 'brews' interest in Pittsburgh's breweries near and far.
The CEO of VisitPittsburgh delights in promoting the city he loves.
U.S. airline passengers who travel with their pets will be getting access to more information about a carrier's animal-safety record.
Water safety of popular beach vacation destinations is rated in the 2014 annual report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Oaxaca offers ancient sites, beautiful crafts and good food.
Here's a surprise: Most air travelers wouldn't mind paying more in fees — if it helped cut lines at airports.
With more than 130,000 graduates behind it, Offshore Sailing School promotes the green alternative to power boating.
Hundreds will gather in the Allegheny National Forest near Tionesta next weekend to see synchronous and other fireflies.
Welcoming the community into The Frick has been a hallmark of Mr. Bodine's leadership. "He has made it a beautiful oasis for everyone."
The Karabots Pavilion has been designed to facilitate the Franklin Institute's contact with the outside world.
Ernest Hemingway's island homes in Key West and Havana were only 90 miles apart but wives away.
Two decades of peace along the Adriatic coast provide a tranquil destination amid Greek to Renaissance history.
Travel experts from The Washington Post answer questions by readers on a wide range of vacation issues.
Much of what's interesting about Death Valley is difficult to access. The best way to see it is on a dual-sport motorcycle,
The National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, is a great place to land.
This spring this Washington Post writer tested out a few dog-specific bike trailers for use on trails, boardwalks and pavement.
Three of 19 lighthouses on Lake Erie in Ohio are open to the public with tours this summer.
Chic design and sophisticated art rejuvenate the frontier spirit of Fargo. N.D.
A chocolate lover's paradise featuring a giant, Hershey bar replica of the Empire State Building is now open on the Las Vegas Strip.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter expands to a second Orlando theme park with this month's opening of Diagon Alley at Universal Studios.
Vacation promotion industry's efforts raised red flags, including the lure of a $1,400 trip and a lifetime of cheap vacations.


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Progress staff reports
Jacksonville Daily Progress
RUSK — Rusk led 1-0 after two complete, but Athens exploded for six runs in the top of third, which proved too large of deficit for Rusk (16-14) to overcome.
Jadarian Skinner had three hits to pace Rusk, with Drew Walley collecting a pair of hits and an RBI.
Reece Goldsberry pitched in two safeties for the Eagles.
Both Rusk and Athens have first round byes in the state playoffs after winning their respective districts.
The Eagles and the Hornets will open Class 3A, Region III Area play against opponents to be determined late next week.


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stood behind thick glass in a blue jumpsuit and entered a "not guilty" plea Friday morning in the of his longtime girlfriend Pamela Schmidt.
Parisio was standing before Superior Court Judge Joan Robinson Gross in his first court appearance since being charged Monday night with first-degree homicide in Schmidt's death. She was found in the basement of Parisio's parents' Greaves Place home. Investigators called the cause of death "severe trauma."
A dissheveled Parisio shuffled upstairs without handcuffs or leg irons as he was escorted by court deputies into the prisoner's holding area in the courtroom, which is separated by safety glass. His 6'2", 220-pound frame was covered in an oversized jumpsuit, with "Inmate U.C. Jail" printed across the back and "INMATE" down his right leg.
Parisio's public defender, Elizabeth Ramsey, entered a not guilty plea and waived a reading of the charges. The hearing, which lasted no more than five minutes, was delayed by a "code blue" incident at the jail, which precluded all prisoners from being moved within the Union County Jail, where Parisio is being held on $400,000 bail.
"There is to be no contact with the family and the family must be notified when he is released," said Robinson Gross. Ramsey didn't publicly say whether she was seeking a bail reduction. She had no comment after the hearing.
As Parisio slumped down onto the bench in the holding area, he looked as news reporters and photographers before half-heartedly trying to hide his face. He appeared to not have shaved or bathed and moved lethargically.
Parisio's only comments were simple "yes, ma'am" when asked about his address, and whether his listed residence was a house. His parents, Joseph and Dianne, were not present at the hearing. Aside from members of the media, only one other person attended the hearing. The woman, who didn't want to be identified, is an employee of the county jail and said she was attending the hearing because "I have a daughter who is going to college next year and I want to be aware of what is going on on campuses."
No future court dates were arranged at the hearing, so Parisio will continue to be held in the county jail until his next appearance. Parisio, whom witnesses say was taken out of his family's home Sunday afternoon in restraints on a gurney and transported to Overlook Hospital in Summit for observation.
Friends and neighbors have labeled the accused killer, who until this semester had been on schedule to graduated from Rutgers University, as a gentle but troubled young man. In published reports, his mother said that Parisio had been on the drug, bath salts, earlier this year and was released from a Florida drug rehabilitation facilty two weeks prior to his arrest. She also said that he was scheduled to enter a Monmouth County facility on Monday. Parisio has been battling bipolar disorder for several years.
have gained popularity in the United States in the last six months and can be purchased in smoke shops and convenience stores. The drug provides a euphoric high to users, including such effects as staying up for up to 36 hours, behaving frantically, having a high concentration levels and sexual stimulation. The name is a nickname due to the drug's similar appearance to the bath product. A bill has been introduced in the New Jersey legislature to outlaw the active ingredient, MDVP, in the state. MDVP has already been outlawed in Louisiana, Florida, Alabama and Idaho.
On Wednesday his mother Diane Parisio told Courier News that she did not intend to assist in his legal defense and that he could never come back to the family house because of his decision to take bath salts.
Schmidt's funeral is scheduled for Satuday morning at Higgins Funeral Home in Watchung. Schmidt and Parisio had dated for six years, after meeting through mutual friends. The pair, who were both Rutgers students, also interned together at Sirius Radio. Schmidt worked in the station's human resources department, while Parisio worked on Howard Stern's show.
Schmidt was widely regarded as a "go-getter" who was enrolled in a five-year dual bachelor's and master's degree program in human-resources management. She was sticking with Parisio despite his continuing battle with substance abuse.
Parisio on Tuesday also expressed deep sympathy for the Schmidt family — members of which have not returned a phone call seeking comment — and said she has no intentions of becoming involved with her son's legal defense. William on Monday night was being held in Union County Jail on $400,000 bail.


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There's been a rumor going around for some time. One that we here at 90 Seconds thought if we ignored, it would just go away. "Why," we said to ourselves and no one else in particular, " would anyone ever think this falls within the realm of reality?" Still, we now have thought aloud to ourselves and absolutely no one else in particular, it's a persistent rumor. Still let's adress it now.
We do not film in front of a green screen. It's not a blue screen either. There is no elaborate tracking to keep a persistent illusion that the host is in a studio when in fact he's in a tiny box with a pastel-colored drape behind him. That's just silly — holodecks are way easier for production.
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Kathryn Olson was named Chief Executive Officer of the Women's Sports Foundation in April 2010. She is the former SVP, Chief Marketing Officer for Shutterfly, the leading internet-based social expression and personal publishing service. At Shutterfly, Ms. Olson was responsible for developing Shutterfly into a premium brand and driving record levels of revenue through results-driven integrated marketing, merchandising and customer experience. She oversaw the innovation of award-wining products and services, customer marketing, ecommerce, brand strategy and consumer marketing. Kathryn was recently named one of the Most Influential Women in Business by the SF Business Times.
Prior to her time at Shutterfly, Kathryn was the Chief Marketing Officer for LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc., a developer of innovative, technology-based learning products and related proprietary content dedicated to making learning effective and engaging at home and in schools. At LeapFrog, Ms. Olson oversaw the worldwide marketing efforts for the expanding global education enterprise. Prior to LeapFrog, she was Vice President of Consumer Marketing for the US business of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, representing about a third of the company's sales. Prior to that she was Executive Vice President of Marketing for Nordstrom.com, and a member of the team that launched the highly regarded Internet apparel site. She spent a decade at The Quaker Oats Company, during which she advanced through a series of progressively more responsible management positions, including two years as Director of Marketing, Gatorade Europe.
A Women's Sports Foundation Trustee since 2005, Olson served as chair of the Governance Committee. Additionally, she previously served on the board of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), an industry association dedicated to marketing and brand building, representing more than 300 companies that collectively spend over $100 billion in marketing communications and advertising. While in Chicago, she was on the board of Chicago Communities in Schools (CCIS), an organization dedicated to meeting the social, emotional and health needs of public school students by connecting existing social services with the students and their parents. She also served on the Women's Board Executive Council of the Joffrey Ballet.
Ms. Olson is on the Advisory Board of Regen Living, a creator of personal and home electronics powered by light.
Olson graduated from the University of Illinois College of Commerce with a BS in Marketing and earned her MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
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The Shamrock Farms Tour takes place at the farm in Stanfield. For those people living in Chandler, or Ahwatukee, or other locations near I-10 south of Phoenix, it will take an hour or so to get there. For those of you living in Surprise and Fountain Hills, it might be considered a day trip!
To get to the farm, take I-10 to Queen Creek Rd. exit. Turn right onto Maricopa Road (Route 347) and continue south for 15.5 miles. (If you are coming from south of Queen Creek Road, you can take Riggs Road out to Maricopa Road, Route 347, and then make a left.)
In Maricopa, turn left onto Maricopa/Casa Grande Highway. There will be a blue Napa Auto Parts store on your left. If you go over the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. If you get to Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino, you've really gone too far! Continue east on the Maricopa/Casa Grande Highway for 3.5 miles. Turn right onto White & Parker Road (there's a big sign reading "Pinal Feeding Co."), cross over the railroad tracks, and continue south for about 9 miles. Turn right onto Clayton Road at the Shamrock Farms entrance sign.
However long you decide it will take to get there, add at least another 15 minutes! You don't want to miss your tour, and there's plenty to read and learn while you are waiting. I estimate that from I-10 and Queen Creek Rd. it takes about 45 minutes.
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Tuesday is Valentine's Day, and for some celebrating the holiday, that means a candlelight dinner. For some of those out there dining by candlelight Tuesday, dinner just might include waffles or other breakfast items.
Waffle House restaurants across the country are taking reservations for their fifth-annual Valentine's Dinner, featuring dinner (or breakfast food) by candlelight and white tablecloth service. If that's the set-up for your perfect date, you're in luck—the at 20 Hosiery Mill Road in Dallas is one of about two dozen locations in Georgia holding the special event, which will run from 5 to 9 p.m. Reservations at the New Hope restaurant can be made by calling 770-443-8961.
If you can't make it to the local Waffle House or any of the other participating Georgia locations, other participating states are Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. A complete list of participating restaurants is attached to this article.


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Mineral Wells-based Cobham Commercial Systems announced Tuesday it will begin working with Carson Helicopters to retrofit certain Sikorsky aircraft with upgraded avionics.
In a press release, Cobham officials said the company will supply "a highly integrated flight deck that features large-format synthetic vision flight displays, advanced flight management capability, integrated hazard alerting (terrain, traffic, and weather), dual audio/radio control units, dual VHF navigation and communication radios, dual automatic direction finding systems, a distance measuring system, an integrated audio/radio management unit, an aft-cabin audio control system, and an optional mission computer and display system."
The helicopter models scheduled for the retrofits are the Sikorski S-61, S-76 and UH-60, according to the press release.
Cobham and Carson officials said they are looking forward to working with each other on this project.
Roger Smith, general manager of Cobham's Mineral Wells facility, said, "Cobham is delighted to join Carson Helicopters in bringing this capability to the market," adding the company's experience "is a perfect match for the wide variety of roles and operating environments of heavy-lift helicopters."
Carson Helicopters Owner Frank Carson said that "adding Cobham's advanced avionics dramatically reduces pilot workload, increases safety, and provides for future growth."
The new avionics suite will first be certified on the S-61 model, according to the press release, to be followed by the S-76 and UH-60.


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The Sharpton-Jackson Watch, Day One
April 12, 2007
This is the first day of the Sharpton-Jackson watch.
We're waiting to see how fast Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will demand the cancellation of recording contracts and removal from the public stage of the most foul mouthed, racist and bigoted rap artists. Reverends Sharpton and Jackson, we're waiting.
If any of out readers can come up with an appropriate graphic for the Sharpton-Jackson watch, we would be most grateful.What follows are a few rap lyric that that Reverends Sharpton and Jackson need to address. A new selection of lyrics will appear regularly.
I kill a devil right now. . . . I say kill whitey all
nightey long. . . .I stabbed a fucking Jew with a steeple. . . . I
would kill a cracker for nothing, just for the fuck of it. . . .
Menace Clan kill a cracker; jack 'em even quicker. . . . catch that
devil slipping; blow his fucking brains out"; "Fuck a Record Deal";
– Menace Clan, Da Hood, 1995, Rap-A-Lot Records, Noo Trybe Records,
subsidiaries of Thorn EMI; called The EMI Group since 1997, United
"To all my Universal Soldier's: stay at attention while
I strategize an invasion; the mission be assassination, snipers
hitting Caucasians with semi-automatic shots heard around the world;
my plot is to control the globe and hold the world hostage. . . .
see, I got a war plan more deadlier than Hitler. . . . lyrical
specialist, underworld terrorist. . . . keep the unity thick like
mud. . . . I pulling out gats , launching deadly attacks"; –"Blood
for Blood"; Killarmy, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, 1997, Wu-Tang
Records, Priority Records, The EMI Group, United Kingdom.
Kill the white people; we gonna make them hurt; kill the white
people; but buy my record first; ha, ha, ha";
–Apache, Apache Ain't Shit, 1993, Tommy Boy Music, Time Warner, USA.
"Niggas in the church say: kill whitey all night long. .
. the white man is the devil. . . . the CRIPS and Bloods are
soldiers I'm recruiting with no dispute; drive-by shooting on this
white genetic mutant. . . . let's go and kill some rednecks. . . .
Menace Clan ain't afraid. . . . I got the .380; the homies think I'm
crazy because I shot a white baby; I said; I said; I said: kill
whitey all night long. . . . a nigga dumping on your white ass; fuck
this rap shit, nigga, I'm gonna blast. . . . I beat a white boy to
the motherfucking ground"; "Kill Whitey"; –Menace Clan, Da Hood,
1995, Rap-A-Lot Records, Noo Trybe Records, subsidiaries of what was
called Thorn EMI and now is called The EMI Group, United Kingdom.
"Devils fear this brand new shit. . . . I bleed them
next time I see them. . . . I prey on these devils. . . . look what
it has come to; who you gonna run to when we get to mobbing. . . .
filling his body up with lead, yah; cracker in my way; slitting, slit
his throat; watch his body shake; watch his body shake; that's how we
do it in the motherfucking [San Francisco] Bay. . . . Sitting on the
dock of the dirty with my AK"; "Heat-featuring Jet and Spice1″; –
Paris, Unleashed, 1998, Unleashed Records, Whirling Records.
"These devils make me sick; I love to fill them full of
holes; kill them all in the daytime, broad motherfucking daylight; 12
o'clock, grab the Glock; why wait for night"; "Sweatin Bullets"; –
Brand Nubian, Everything Is Everything, 1994, Elektra Entertainment,
Warner Communications, Time Warner, USA.
"A fight, a fight, a nigger and a white, if the nigger
don't win then we all jump in. . . . smoking all [of] America's white
boys"; –"A Fight"; Apache, Apache Ain't Shit, 1993, Tommy Boy Music,
Time Warner, USA.
"He preys on old white ladies [who] drive the Mercedes
with the windows cracked. . . . you should've heard the bitch
screaming. . . . sticking guns in crackers' mouths. . . . the cops
can't stop it. . . . remember 4-29-92, come on; Florence and Normandy
coming to a corner near you, cracker; we've been through your area,
mass hysteria; led by your motherfucking Menace Clan"; –"Mad Nigga";
Menace Clan, Da Hood, 1995, Rap-A-Lot Records, Noo Trybe Records,
Time Warner, USA.
"We're having thoughts of overthrowing the government. .
. the brothers and sisters threw their fists in the air. . . . it's
open season on crackers, you know; the morgue will be full of
Caucasian John Doe's. . . . I make the Riot shit look like a fairy
tale. . . . oh my god, Allah, have mercy; I'm killing them devils
because they're not worthy to walk the earth with the original black
man; they must be forgetting; it's time for Armageddon, and I won't
rest until they're all dead"; –"Goin Bananas"; Da Lench Mob, Planet
of da Apes, 1994, Priority Records, Thorn EMI; now called The EMI
Group, United Kingdom.
The Wednesday Weekly Whacky Award Goes To
April 12, 2007
A day late but not a a dollar short, The SC&A Academy of Extremely Peculiar Pathologies, is pleased to announce the winners of the Weekly Wednesday Whackjob Awards, commonly referred to as the 'Whacky's.'
First, some fine print: nominations will open each week until 10:00 PM, EST (After the broadcast of House, M.D.).
That's it for the fine print.
The Judging Committee at the SC&A Institute are pleased to announce that this week's ship of fools are particularly amusing and well anchored in their psycho-pathological obsession.
OK, on with this week's show, broadcast from seclusion room at Bedlam Hospital, the world's oldest psychiatric facility. The staff and curators of Bedlam are proud to note that many of the original treatments, restraints, therapists and patients can be found on site today.
A 'Whacky' has been been awarded this week in each of the following categories:
The Thorazine Shuffle and Dance Award, each week to the politician who dances and shuffles without actually addressing reality or answering a question. For an unprecedented third week in a row, the award is presented to presented to House Leader Nancy Pelosi, whose Middle East wet dreams were characterized by no less than the Washington Post as those of an idiot, now wants to turn her limitless supply of stupidity loose on the Iranians.
As many have noted, Pelosi and others (yes Harry, were talking about you) have refused to meet, accommodate or even show the least bit of decorum and civility to the President of the United States, but they are more than willing to meet with racist, bigoted and dysfunctional leaders anywhere they might be and give them credibility and status (further discussion here).
It is interesting to note how many Democrats have demanded that Don Imus be fired for his racially crude remarks and how Democrats can hardly wait to have a signed, 8×10 glossy signed by racist and bigoted tyrants that have been responsible for the deaths of so many who share different ideas, religions and politics than their own.
The Thomas Szasz Psychotherapy Award, presented each week to the biggest idiot therapist we can find, was unearthed by Dr Helen, (who is related to a mildly successful blogger). She notes:
Yesterday, I thumbed through the April 2007 edition of the The Monitor on Psychology to catch up on what is going on in the field and I learned that the psychologists who profess to be knowledgeable about telling others how to change their cognitive distortions have yet to change their own. They continue to believe they are omnipotent, capable of interfering in political issues that have nothing to do with psychology or stress political correctness and a creeping socialism ahead of an actual knowledge base.
In this most recent issue, I learned from the front cover that America is "toxic" and if you read the article entitled, "Toxic America," you will learn why. Apparently, if you are too wealthy in our society, you will turn into an American who is unhappy and lives a short and lonely existence. The article implies that working long hours and having money is toxic:
Marmot believes the psychic smog that's making Americans sick could be composed of two factors. One is that Americans' long work hours leave us more stressed and less healthy. The other is that Americans may feel friendless and isolated due to social stressors created by our country's widening income gap. In turn, that societal divisiveness may be bad for our health—not just poor people's health, but everyone's, he speculates.
What is the answer then, according to the psychological soothesayers? Why socialism, of course!
"We're almost like a nomadic society on this treadmill, hoping that we'll either strike it rich with the lottery, or that if we work hard enough, somehow we'll become Google millionaires," he comments…
Stupidity abounds of course. Dr Helen concludes (far too gently) that
Yep, we greedy capitalists just need to become more like England and the European Union and we will be all be happy, healthy and non-toxic. Is that science or politics talking?
We would like to add a remark we've made before-
If you think health care is expensive now, wait till it's free.
The Valium Award, presented to the dullard of the week goes to the 'Mr Excitement' lawyer Paul Brennan, who has found a way to make money off of boring lawyers, by convincing them that they need not be boring (follow along, you can manage).
BEING AN accomplished lawyer isn't enough to get your mug on television or at the top of a newspaper column because, well, let's face it: most people think lawyers are boring.
But there's help at hand for lawyers chasing their 15 minutes of fame, and it comes in the form of a new e-book on the art of self-promotion.
Lawyer Paul Brennan launched his e-book, titled We have the time if you have the money: the nine promotional competencies to raise your practice profile, last week at a Queensland Law Society breakfast.The e-book tells lawyers in a practical way how they can utilise the "Nine Promotional Competencies", which include how to write a book, how to deliver a humorous speech, and how to be interviewed by a journalist.
Just what we need- more lawyers with 'self esteem.' The book title alone is exciting, don't you think?
"This stuff is not easy to do, and I've followed a lot of paths which have been wrong. So this book is full of useful practical information," Brennan said.
Get your copy soon. The book is a page turner that belongs in every library.
The Trojan Award is presented each week to the person we wish had never been born. This week's winner, is the guy who came with the idea for the Great Expectations Theme Park,
…Dickens World, a 62 million pound ($115 mln) complex built in the naval dockyard where his father once worked as a clerk, is confidently predicting 300,000 visitors a year to this new attraction dedicated to the Victorian author.
"We are not Disneyfying Dickens," insists manager Ross Hutchins as he dons hard hat and fluorescent jacket to tour the site, a hive of activity as the Fagin's den playground and Newgate Prison's grimy walls are given their finishing touches.
We can see the peasant dress, Birkenstalk clad, home schooling by candle, anti technology crowds now, accompanied by their overall wearing, organic gardening, Birkenstalk clad, moon tide influenced, life mates.
"There is a lot to fear here," The New York Times said.
"There is the prospect that characters from Dickens' novels — Mr Pecksniff and the Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick and Uriah Heep — will wander through Dickens World the way Goofy and Mickey walk the streets of Disneyland," the paper said.
Hutchins retorted: "If we were Disneyfying Dickens we wouldn't be talking to people like the Dickens Fellowship to ensure the correct historical facts."
We can only imagine the legions of heretofore hidden away old maids that blush furiously at the word 'flush,' picketing and demanding accuracy in the form of period smells, diseases, hygiene facilities and child punishment.
Sounds like just the kind of place every 8 year old dreams of.
The NutriSystem "I'm Not So disgusting to My Spouse Anymore" Award, given to the biggest loser of the week, goes to Li Xianfeng.
A self-taught Chinese amateur pilot, dubbed the "birdman" by Chinese media, has landed in a hospital with a broken chin and leg after taking his homemade airplane for a test flight, Chinese media reported on Wednesday.
Li Xianfeng, 30, hovered about 150 feet above the ground for two minutes with his microlight-style aircraft, then plowed into fields on the outskirts of Beijing Monday, the Xinhua news agency said.
Li, who taught himself about aviation by reading books, declared his flight "partly successful," according to the report, which said he would stay in the hospital for at least a month.
His next project is neurosurgery. He has procured a 1958 copy of Gray's Anatomy.
The Haldol Honor, awarded each week to the person or persons most out of touch with reality, either on or off medication goes to Russel Parsons, who is most concerened- some might say 'obsessed'- with his own postmortem experience.
Retired pipefitter, army veteran and cancer survivor Russell Parsons says he's not afraid to die – and he's got the tattoo to prove it.
Inside the yellow and orange flaming tattoo on his right arm are instructions to the funeral home where he has a prepaid cremation: "Barlow Bonsall cook 1700-1800 for 2 to 3 hours."
"It's a recipe," says Parsons, 67, a widower from Hurricane, W.Va. "It's a recipe for cremation."
Barlow Bonsall Funeral Home and Crematorium manager Linda Wilson said she thought Parsons was joking several weeks ago when he said he was going to have his final wishes tattooed on his arm.
"I never thought he would actually do it," she said Tuesday.
She wasn't the only one.
Parsons said the tattoo artist who gave him his first and only tattoo said his request was among the craziest he'd ever received in 22 years.
"I told him, 'Well, take a look because I'm one of a kind."
Ain't that the truth.
The Methamphetamine Medal, awarded each week to the most hyper, histrionic, hysterical, spaced out documented behavior goes to one Karl Stepen, paid a fine of $335.00 in pennies.
…Bob Wilson, who won a small claims court case last month, will donate the pennies to the Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency, which has helped him with heating bills. Wilson was given the pennies by Karl Stepen, owner of NSK Motorsports in Fowlerville, after a judge ruled in Wilson's favour and awarded him $335…
District Judge Theresa Brennan, who handled the appeal for Wilson's claim, said she's never heard of someone paying the court in pennies in her 22 years of practising law.
Still, she said, it's legal: "We don't dictate the form of payment."
Word on the street is that next time, Parsons intends on paying future fines with 1 cent stamps, redeemable at the post office.
The Viagra Statuette, awarded to the wimpiest metro sexuals, goes (sadly) to fellow Englishmen and Iranian hostages who managed to be a great source of entertainment to their hosts and a great source of embarrassment to England.
The British sailors and marines held captive for nearly two weeks in Iran were blindfolded, bound and faced constant psychological pressure, a Royal Navy lieutenant said Friday.
We smell a lawsuit. Those poor soul have had their self esteem bruised.
Lt. Felix Carman said the crew faced harsh interrogation by their Iranian captors and slept in stone cells on piles of blankets…
Carman had been pictured on Iranian television apologizing for straying into Iranian waters. At Friday's news conference, he retracted that apology…
He sure screwed those Iranians. Yesiree, one tough dude.
The ECT Battery Award, presented to the most shocking news story of the week, goes to restaurant owner Rui Daniel Faria Velosa, for managing to blow up a female patron- with a sausage. Paging Dr Freud, paging Dr Jung, paging Dr Adler…
An exploding sausage dish left a woman diner with horrific burns… A friend told how the dish looked like 'a big ball of fire'…
Setting fire to chorizo sausage is a popular practice in many Portuguese restaurants, using high-alcohol spirits such as brandy, grappa and rum.
A waiter at the Sporting Clube de Londres in West London had just poured extra rum over the meal, which had already come covered in alcohol.
Needless to say, Portugal is under represented in the Nobel Prize awarded category.
Finally, The HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) Prize awarded weekly to the loudest and most inconsequential feminist drivel the SC&A jury can find. This week's hands down winner is the author of Pinko Feminist, for this spectacular mindless drivel.
I am pro-choice (including the right to have a child). In my own case, I'm pro-abortion. Being a White woman, this is a horrible thing for some people. I've been informed by some folks that I'm wicked and selfish for not having children. That it's my duty to have children. That I'm unnatural for not having them. And I want to say, What business is it of yours, anyway? It's my life and my choice.
But the idea of choice, like it's the Pepsi Generation, just sets my teeth on edge.
For women who are expected to have children (thankfully, my parents are not among those folks who dog me about this), we see choice as the right to have children or not. White, middle-class women from "good" families, whose babies are adoptable, whose wombs are public property unless they're married–then it's property of the husbands. We want another choice, and it's a "choice," with the scare quotes around it. Because even as White women, we've got double-standards (sexual, work, and family), violence, and economic inequality to contend with.
Yet this is nothing compared to what women of color and poor women face. It's not that you make seventy cents for every dollar a man makes, it's that you may not even get an interview, or even have the opportunity to go to a decent high school or get into college. You are more likely to be poor, and thus not have the opportunities that other people have. You have more violence to contend with–state-sponsored violence against you and your loved ones. You are blamed for crime. You are blamed for unemployment. You are despised as a welfare queen if you have children and need food stamps. You are hypersexualized in the media, pilloried for this stereotype, and exhorted to show some self-respect. You are the perfect scapegoat for White people…
When we have punitive laws aimed at poor women, the rhetoric of choice rings hollow. When we have a history of pushing sterilization, Norplant, and Depo on mainly poor women of color (and damn the ensuing health problems), the rhetoric of choice rings hollow. When we hail lower birthrates among the poor as what will save the poor, and ignore things like economic justice, the rhetoric of choice rings hollow. When we insist on punishing addicted women for not magically kicking the habit while pregnant and simultaneously turn them away when they seek help (since, you know, we have better things to fund with our tax dollars, like the Iraq war), the rhetoric of choice rings hollow. When we threaten to take away the children of poor women (many of whom are women of color) because of circumstances beyond their control, the rhetoric of choice rings hollow. When welfare-to-work policies are coupled with expensive daycare and the demonization of poor mothers as "welfare queens," the rhetoric of choice rings hollow.
This is pseudo-choice. You can choose between these crappy options, and the people in power can choose to use and abuse you. And that's crap.
We are in complete agreement with her parents- we too, will not 'dog' the author of Pinko Feminist into parenthood.
Some genes are best not passed on.
Now while we're on the topic of crazy, be sure to visit Dr Sanity's Carnival Of The Insanities for more bizarre, arcane, insane and incredible examples of what can be found in the whackosphere, blogosphere, MSM and NASA.
Nancy Goes To Wallyworld
April 12, 2007
The latest Sanity Squad podcast is up.
With the predictability of Big Ben and fiber, Nancy Pelosi and company have been reduced to pretending they are very important. The Middle East road trip to the Middle East by ostensibly 'important' Democrats, has come to resemble the Chevy Chase version of 'Vacation.'
In this 'progressive,' version of the film, Nancy Pelosi has assumed the role of Clark Griswold, that most sincere of all idiots. In yet another example of life imitating art, Nancy, like Clark Griswald is unable to ever get anything right, author of ruin for everyone around them and doggedly goes on to plow the fields of stupidity and mediocrity that ruins every aspect of the holiday.
No matter that things go awry. Like Clark, she means well and that is enough for the Griswold clan, which is fine if you are a Griswald. If you aren't a Griswald and your life has been upended, well, too bad. Nancy meant well and that is more than enough.
In the Middle East that is Nancy's Walleyworld, a good 'talking too' by a Democrat ought to be enough to turn things around.
As Dr Sanity once shrewdly noted, there is a new 'religion' of narcissistic self serving selflessness.
It doesn't matter that she approached the leader of one of the most repressive regimes in the world and lied about her 'mission.'
It doesn't matter her visit to the leader of Syria gave him a kind of credibility that imprisoned Syrian reformists, exiled freedom minded Syrians patriots and other progressive Syrians will perceive as a 'green light' to their continued persecution.
It doesn't matter that editorials back home finally referred to her for the idiot she really is.
She means well, and that is all that matters. In fact, she is so well meaning, she wants to go to Iran, so she can embrace that nation's leader in 'peace.' She, and the morons who applaud her 'well meaning' visit are sure that after much conversation and talk, they will influence and change the ways of Mahmoud Ahmadenijad.
If Nancy Pelosi and company are so sure they can influence reprehensible Ahmadenijad, one has to ask why she and they haven't used her formidable powers of persuasion in meetings with David Duke, the Black Panthers, those who advocate a return of Texas and California to Mexico, or bigots and racists in general.
Nancy well meaning efforts ought to be focused here, in this country first, right? Or are Americans so despicable that they are unworthy and undeserving of Nancy's love?
Tom Lantos is in the spotlight and he couldn't be happier. Like Mikey in the breakfast cereal commercial, he'll say anything. The Holocaust survivor has been very pleased with himself. He now has a photo of himself with noted antisemite Bashar Assad (who had no trouble maligning Jews as an embarrassed John Paul II stood at his side) and can hardly wait to get his very own 8×10 glossy with the Holocaust denying Mahmoud Ahmadenijad.
Lantos believes that because he is a Holocaust survivor, he is somehow in a position of moral authority, much in the same way Cindy Sheehan believes that she is in a position ogf moral authrority because she lost her son in Iraq.
It matters little to Lantos that the vast majority of Holocaust survivors find beliefs, actions and words despicable. His behavior isn't about America, Israel or anything else. His behavior is self serving and nothing else.
That kind of behavior is nothing new .
There is a phenomena of the self hating Jew, an individual who denies his or her own identity, culture and faith, and seeks to identify and support those who make no secret of their own pathological agendas, directed against Jews…
After the horrors of the Second World War were made clear, there were a whole sub culture of Jews, even the children of Holocaust survivors that migrated to the self hating brigades. Why? Because those Jews believed that if they could be unlike the Jews (and more like their oppressors), then no one would come for them. They would be safe and secure. Surely the oppressors would see there were 'good Jews' too, noted just evil and hated Jews.
The same is true today of leftists (Jews included) who believe that siding with the racist, bigoted and dysfunctional oppressors might save them from the destiny of those their new friends promise. They are the Kapos of this generation, willing to sacrifice their own so as to save themselves.
Prewar German Jews could at least hope against hope that there would be no Holocaust. Leftists of today cannot argue ignorance.
Tom Lantos is not a noble or high minded individual. He is a pathetic figure. Any psychiatrist or therapist will tell you that there is something very wrong with the individual that wants to sit down at a table and embrace the murderers of his family, those that have already done the deed or those that anticipate doing the deed and make no attempt to hide their intentions. That has nothing to do with forgiveness. What Lantos and company are talking about is a whole other kind of pathology.
This week's podcast also discusses the use of language in our time. Neo noted that she wasn't even sure that the language of of World War II would be acceptable today. She is more than likely right- there are those who might believe that the term 'World War' might be offensive to nations like Switzerland, Spain and others because they remained out of the war. In using the term 'World War,' they might feel excluded and have their 'feelings' hurt.
This is not only the death of language, but language that defends terrorism and terrorists; language and concepts that enable terrorists to continue their attacks, and language that makes it easy for the terrorists to gradually escalate and improve their killing methodology. Here the bloodless language of murder gradually, seamlessly becomes respectable.
…in true Stalin-speak, downgraded, rendered as "just a crude rocket" launched by "militants." Note that according to the N.Y. Times and their fellow liberal/progressive there are no terrorists any longer on planet earth.
In Paris, they are distilled into "angry youths." In Pakistan, those who behead are reimaged as, at worst, "shadowy militants." In Israel, most often, terrorists are defanged into "security forces," or "angry, unemployed militants." Indeed, the Palestinians, who invented and perfected modern state Arab terrorism, have been given the gift of Orwellian double-speak on a truly colossal scale.
Here we have language that is complicit in the murder of innocent men, women and children.
Avrech is right on the money. No doubt Nancy Pelosi, Tom Lantos, et al, have just the right words to make the dysfunctional despots they are so keen to be seen with, change their minds.
What Griswald's of the Congress have forgotten is that is is good to be hated by evil and oppressive people. It is good to be despised by despots and dysfunctional leaders. We are not just like them and we do not share their values that openly embrace hate, bigotry and violence.
We have negotiated with evil for decades. While the substance of the negotiations have changed with each administration here and change in government in Europe, one thing is irrefutable- negotiations with these dysfunctional, tyrannical and oppressive regimes does not work.
Join Shrinkwrapped, Neo, Dr Sanity and ourselves as we discuss these and other issues.
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When in Rome, do as the Romans do. And when in Ireland avoid doing all those things that the Irish commonly associate with the more unwelcome tourists - those belittling Ireland, those glorifying violence and those suffering from a bad case of "foot-in-mouth disease". Or those which seem to have left common sense at home.
Here is my list of the top "Don'ts" in Ireland - things to avoid. In order to really enjoy your vacation. And be welcome back at any time.


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I can also confirm that Primus is the worst company I've ever dealt with.....details would take forever to type....
I can confirm...worst company ever.
- Successfully moved 5 people (+ myself) from Robbers.
What did you expect, its a low end reseller.
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Phones:Samsung Galaxy S II LTE I727R, Sony Ericsson Xperia ARC LT15a, BB Torch, HTC Desire Z - Dream - Diamond, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a and X10, Omnia II US, BB Bold 9000, Nokia N97 N95-3, K790a, W810i, W600i, S710a, Z600i, V3 RAZR, Nokia 3100b, Simens M55, MOTOROLA DPC 550 (Analogue), AudioBox CDM-4000 and 4500 (Ghey), Nokia 3390
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Wow, one thread in this whole forum for this carrier and it's about how bad they are. Nice.
Telephonically NEVER satisfied.
Yeah really, *some* info might be nice
It isn't one thread in the entire forum about this carrier. You are just filtering the threads based on the last 30 days. If you extend the date, you will see many more threads. As of the date/time that I'm posting this, there are approximately 15 threads and 1 stickie on the Primus Canada subforum.Originally Posted by TheRupp
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T-Mobile (US prepaid): unlocked Fido iPhone 3GS 32GB or "Fido" Samsung Nexus-S
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Two new packs of downloadable content arrive today for EA Sports' snowboarding revival SSX.
Both packs are filled with content themed from the original SSX Tricky. The first is the Mt Eddie pack which features nine new drops including a nine minute peak to base run and three classic music tracks.
The second pack is a character pack featuring Elise, Kaori, Zoe, Eddie, Mac, Psymon and Moby from SSX 3 and SSX Tricky. This includes a full selection of colour combinations for their outfits and seven character-specific snowboards.
The Mt Eddie Pack and the Character Pack are available individually for 3.99 GBP on PSN or 480 MS Points on Xbox Live or as a pair for 6.49 GBP or 640 MS Points.