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The following list of toys has been identified by our customers as the top toy and game choices for women. Rather than relying upon vague manufacturer supplied age recommendations, we ask every customer for whom the end user of the toy will be. Using these responses we've been able to build highly accurate age ratings for most of our toys and games. We hope you find this list of the
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Kinetic Sand - 2.2 lb
It's like nothing you've ever touched before. Remarkably, Kinetic Sand moves by itself as you work with it. It continually rearranges itself. Squeeze it, shape it, visibly it quick-melts, and the movement is fascinating! Great for stress relief and relaxation.
Retail Price: $17.00
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Mexican Train to Go Domino Game
NEW! 91 Double 12 Fun Size Number Dominoes, 8 Glitter Train Markers and a Mini-Centerpiece make up this greatest version of Mexican Train ever! The tiles are smaller, but stand up and handle like larger dominoes, take up less table room and have huge numbers for easy visibility and scoring. They are in a great new zipper case for easy storage and carrying. Small is actually better. You'll love this size, their playability and price.
Retail Price: $19.00
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Metal Works
You'll enjoy the challenge of Metal Works designs. Once on display, you'll love the way they look! Construct works of art with delicate metal filigree. Monuments and famous vehicles become more 3D and realistic with every bend.
Retail Price: $14.00
Our Price: $13.95
Boogie Board LCD Writing Tablets
Say Goodbye to Paper, And Hello to A Greener World! Write and erase your image with the touch of a button – and a friendly flash from the liquid crystal display – COOL! An impressive alternative to memo pads, sticky notes, and scrap paper.
Retail Price: $37.00
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Kinetic Sand - 11 lb
For creativity, relaxation, and sensory fun - this BIG helping of Kinetic Sand will move you. Kinetic Sand moves as you work with it. It continually rearranges itself. Squeeze it, shape it, visibly it quick-melts, and the movement is fascinating!
Retail Price: $46.00
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Suction Construction! Squigz to build, bounce and stick to almost any surface - even windows! Super flexible Squigz can be assembled to create an impressive array of vehicles, robots, jewelry and more. Just as fun to POP apart! They're fun little suckers.
Price: $49.95
The Original Spirograph Design Set
The classic way for aspiring artists to create millions of amazing designs is back -better than ever! Kids and adults love to create symmetrical, detailed and impressive Spirograph® displays of brilliant color.
Retail Price: $15.00
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The Original Spirograph Deluxe Set
Beautiful, intricate designs from the motion of wheels around gears – the mathematics and art of it are awe-inspiring. The Original Classic Spirograph made Deluxe! Without taking from the original integrity of the toy, little improvements make a big difference!
Retail Price: $29.00
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Playable Art - Ball
Specially designed connectors enable you to twist, bend, expand, contract, and manipulate every-which-way, the beautiful, vibrant wooden beads. It's the child's toy, desk toy, coffee table toy that seldom is ever left alone. On the rare occasions it gets to rest, no matter how it's configured - it STILL looks spectacular!
Retail Price: $32.00
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Perplexus - Epic
125 barriers within new Perplexus Epic give you a spectacularly solid challenge. 8.5 inch diameter puzzle maze filled with twists & turns, intricate ins & outs, mind-straining mental stimulus. Guide the metal ball through the 3D maze puzzle. It's a mentally stimulating experience you won't forget!
Retail Price: $30.00
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Ivan's Hinge
Ivan's Hinge. Fold, loop, bend, twist, turn- find a solution! Patterned challenge cards invite curiosity, logic & determination, visual spatial skills, brain stimulation & relaxation. Created by famed puzzle creator Ivan Moscovich. 1 Ivan's Hinge Puzzle, 56 Challenge Cards.
Price: $12.95
Find It - Original Edition
This is a contained adventure in earth tones. It contains 47 hidden items for you to find, conveniently listed on the top of the game. The items found in this sealed container have adults in mind. The items are typically smaller than that of the Kid's version and more difficult to find. SPIN IT, TWIST IT, SHAKE IT! Be the first to find the hidden penny, staple, fishing hook, popcorn, or …? This mesmerizing game is enjoyed by all ages
Retail Price: $20.00
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Ultra Stomp Rocket®
Every family should have a Stomp Rocket. Excitement & fun for all ages! Jump on the stomp pad and a giant blast of air propels the stomp rocket skyward up to 200 ft! No batteries or fuel required--it's powered by you! The race is on, everyone wants a turn! Ages 8+
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Boogie Board Protective Sleeve
Protects your Boogie Board 8.5 LCD tablet and eliminates unwanted screen marks. Includes sewn-in stylus holder.
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Steppers have long been a great toy for kids to improve balance and coordination.
Retail Price: $11.50
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Scrabble Deluxe Edition
The Scrabble Deluxe Edition can be left out and displayed with its beautiful solid wood cabinetry that has a mahogany finish. The game board rotates and the grid is raised to eliminate the stress of sliding letters. The letter tiles are made of solid wood and stamped with golf-foil.
Retail Price: $99.99
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Bring pleasant surprise & charming garden style to living or working spaces. The precious, little Eggling looks & feels like an extra large egg, but crack its top & discover a garden ready for sowing! Extremely popular in Japan, the Eggling is made of white porous ceramic. Available in 8 delightful, easy to grow plant & flower varieties. Ages 7+
Retail Price: $11.00
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Tangle Therapy
Relax and twist by using the powers of the mind. Use Tangle Therapy for hand and mind wellness. Tangle Therapy relieves minor stress, improves range of hand motion, restores motion of joints, strengthens finger muscles, and rehabilitates hand muscles and joints. Complete instructions are included. Tangle Therapy fits in your hand for single handed manipulation.
Retail Price: $12.00
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Perplexus - Rookie
Rookie Perplexus is a 3D brainteaser that captures the interest of everyone within view. 75 barriers to your success draw you into the action. This puzzle maze twists and turns, takes you in and out, down dips and around winding spirals. Guide the metal ball toward the maze finish.
Retail Price: $23.00
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Neuschwanstein Castle 3D Puzzle
Absolutely phenomenal. Incredibly detailed. Neuschwanstein Castle 3D Puzzle is a sight to behold! 890 pieces of pure magnificence. Your mind will be challenged and your hands in constant motion as incredible architecture rises in their wake.
Retail Price: $39.00
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Touch & Feel Cards
Touch, feel & learn flash cards! Small children look wide-eyed, grin happily, reach longingly for cute, bright, textured cards. Teacher & kid tested! Brilliant attractive graphics. Wide variety of textures delight. Counting & language tools. Many interactive activities for parent & child. Well-designed, Highly durable. Includes storage box.
Retail Price: $15.00
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The anagram game that will drive you BANANAS!
Retail Price: $15.00
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Dinosaur Cookie Cutters
Make 3D Cookie Dinosaurs! Cut out the body parts from the cookie dough, bake them in the oven until they're nice and crispy, slot them together so they stand tall on your plate, and then devour them to extinction!
Retail Price: $12.00
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Players randomly "slot" ten cards on their rack. The race then begins to draw and discard until one player positions ten cards in numerical sequence.
Retail Price: $12.00
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Personalized Name Puzzle
Personalized Name Puzzle! A custom name puzzle just for your child! Unusual names & spellings -no problem! Encourage logic, fine motor skills, name recognition & spelling, self esteem. In primary colors or pastel colors. 2 x 3 inch pieces, ideal for small hands. High quality compressed wood construction.
Retail Price: $24.99
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As seen on the Today Show. BikeBrightz radiate style and safety at the same time! They're the latest thing in bike accessories. BrikeBrightz add bright beams of light to your bike. Riding is a whole new experience with beautiful radiant light.
Price: $14.99
Tripoley Diamond Edition
Tripoley combines the strategy and skill involved in hearts, poker, and Michigan rummy.
Retail Price: $26.00
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3-D Home Kit
Build a detailed, three-dimensional scale model of your own home, addition or remodeling project the way architects do. The 3-D Home Kit provides complete materials to design plans & construct a model of almost any home - up to four stories high & 6,200 square feet. Plan & visualize your own home project before you build to improve communications, save time & avoid costly mistakes. Fun & easy to use.
Retail Price: $29.00
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A new type of word puzzle - YOTTSUGO leaves the challenge level up to you! YOTTSUGO contains everything you've ever wanted in a puzzling word game. A genius vocabulary isn't needed to play. YOTTSUGO is more fun than you can shake a stick at.
Price: $26.95
Find It Glitz & Glamour
A Find It adventure in feminine tones! 40+ hidden girly items to find, call adorable, and test your visual skills. 40+ hidden girly items to find, call adorable, and test your visual skills. Within a solidly encased, bead-filled capsule
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Find It - The Beach
The Find It® At the Beach hidden object game debuted in June of 2006. It features ocean blue end caps and over 40 unique items with a beach theme in soothing blues, greens and coral colored pellets.
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3D Crystal Puzzle - Apple
Innovative 3-D puzzles. Tease your brain and delight your eyes with these fun 3 dimensional puzzles.
Retail Price: $12.00
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Both boys and girls can find virtually unlimited ways to play with Bilibos - from rocking, spinning, and sitting to hiding under, carrying with, and peeking through. At home, at the park, at the beach, in the water, and even in the snow, Bilibo provides hours of open-ended play. Ages 2+
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Over The Hill-Opoly
Preface: Sense of humor required. Roll the dice and scoot along with your dentures to take on all the trials and tribulations of the gray and the grumpy with the Over-The-Hill-Opoly!
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See & Spell
See & Spell Puzzle. First, "feel" the alphabet, "see" the alphabet. Next, associate letters with objects! Puzzle-playing children marvel in using puzzle-solving skills to spell words. A great, confidence-building, teaching resource for beginning readers. Teaches pre-reading concepts, phonics, literacy development! 16 puzzle pictures & 50+ vibrant letters. Ages 4+
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Perplexus 3D puzzle maze is the coolest maze you'll ever hope to solve! Clearly enticing, mentally stimulating, and often wrestled over - Perplexus is a brainteaser like few others. Turn, angle, and balance the entire puzzle ball to keep the metal sphere rolling on track.
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Five Crowns
Five Crowns is a card game for the whole family. It has original game play, but uses skills that you have obtained from playing your old favorites like hearts, spades and rummy.
Retail Price: $13.00
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Pass The Pigs Pig Party Edition
Now up to 4 players can play ALL at once!
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Tile Lock Super Scrabble
This classic favorite is equipped with the innovative Tile "Lock" to hold your tiles in places. You won't need to try to figure out where each piece was when they start slip, slidding around. In addition, you can roatate the board and angle it to get the best view for each player.
Retail Price: $40.00
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Carnivorous Creations Dome Terrarium Kit
Grow over ten varieties of meat-eating plants! Informative booklet explains how each plant devours their prey! Learn about and watch these fascinating plants grow from seed. Deluxe mixture includes the Cobra Plant, Venus Fly Trap, Pitcher Plant, Trumpet Plant and more.
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Tropical Jungle LED Light Cube
China doll trees, great blue lobelia, and pink polka dot plants flourish! Powered by the included USB cable - this Tropical Jungle Cube enables growers to use red lights to see flowers bloom, blue for foliage to flourish, or both to make this jungle really grow!
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Acuity is the clever matching game of quick visual perception where players race against each other to discover and match hidden patterns. Acuity - The Game of Sharp Vision & Keen Thought!
Price: $19.95
Tobbles Neo
Tobbles Neo. Innovative creative play and modern design. Six vibrant, weighted pieces for delightful experimentation. Dual-color, unique grippable texture, playful curves enliven tactile experiences. Dynamic play potential - stack, topple, spin, balance, wobble, tilt, wiggle, roll!
Price: $26.95
Separation Anxiety
Visual detanglement will send your brain scrambling to make a connection! Your eyes and brain must work together to separate three stacked words, then find the association. Separation Anxiety is brain-twisting, eye-crossing fun like you've never seen before!
Price: $21.95
Classic Etch a Sketch
The Classic Etch a Sketch by Ohio Art - over 100 million sold! Etch a Sketch inspires playful kids & adults. Classic red border, 9 ½ inch slate gray screen, 2 twist drawing knobs. Draw, doodle, erase & do it again!
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5 Second Rule
Just 5 seconds to name 3 dog breeds or 3 Olympic cities. Are you up for the challege? Sounds easy until you include a timer and other players which can make for some interesting answers.
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Rush Hour
Winner of 19 Prestigious Awards!
Your desire to do anything else comes to a screeching halt when you attempt to unsnarl the traffic challenges in Rush Hour and make your "full speed ahead" escape. A mind puzzle with bumper to bumper excitement that's jam-packed with challenge. Your speedy red sports car stuck in the gridlock. 16 Vehicles, Highway Grid Playing Board, 40 Challenge Cards (Beginner to Expert). Ages 8+
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Hanayama Coaster Puzzle - Level 4
A great puzzle that when together, it indeed works as a coaster. Remember, taking it apart is only half the fun. The true test of your genius lies in putting it back together again!
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Moon in My Room
Shining moonlight just like the real moon! Dreamy moonscape is authentically sculpted & detailed. Creates interest in our galaxy. Eases night time fears. Conversations start in surprise & fascination. Includes an audio CD to learn exciting facts about the moon, auto shut-off to preserve battery life & infrared remote control. Requires 4 "AA" batteries for moon & 2 AAA batteries for remote control (not included). Ages 6+
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Twistables Colored Pencils - 30 ct
Twistables Colored Pencils put a new spin on creativity! Just turn the ends to twist up 30 vibrant colors. See the colored leads twist inside the clear plastic barrels to see how much color is left. There is no sharpening needed, just twist and you're ready to create!
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I can tell you what the WORST tasting supplement is. Cycle Support (chocolate flavor). I just started on my stash the other day, and good gravy, that stuff is nasty.
Best smelling supplement: DCP (mmmm... raspberries)
Best tasting: Optimum Nutrition's Rocky Road 100% Whey.
No one else had chimed in yet with the smart a** answer of food so I got it out of the way...
Beverly UMP Vanilla - tastes like cake batter and passes my ultimate test which is whether my kids like it. This is the only protein they both like and ask for from time to time.
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Green magnitude - tastes like an apple jolly rancher, not my usual creatine but they really did do a good job with the flavor on this. I can eat it dry out of the can like candy.
Not counting protein shakes I would have to say may favorite is Lemonade Vasocharge from scivation. I don't know why I like it so much, but something about it is just really appealing to me.
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Ergopharm's GF Pro Dutch Chocolate for protein flavors.
I gotta agree on Vasocharge.. Never tried Lemonade but i have tried the berry version, and i hate berry flavored anything, but LOVED it.
Blue Ras or w/e no explode I could drink ALL day. Also grape Xtend was great.
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Muscle Milk n oats - not really a supp but damn good!
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I watched Dance Moms one night just out of curiosity and I have to say, the show has pulled me in. Not your best TV but entertaining just the same. Any one else watching?
I know, love the crazies too. It should be called "Drama Moms". Really wish someone would knock that Cathy out.
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Yes! Whenever its on and dh is outside (lol) I watch it. Although, dh watched a whole episode with me tonight, laughing at the crazies on there!
I want to see someone knock the arch nemesis out as well. Her sickly sweet personality drives me nuts. At least abby is upfront on how she feels about things.
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We need to ban all hatchets and cars, cause they kill or harm people. Hitchhikers need to register in every county they enter, and OSHA needs to develop ways to better protect utility workers. And as far as innocent bystanders are concerned, they should be fined for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. See, problem solved.
Thanks Smudge, I enjoyed this vid.
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As we submit our lives to God and become his servants, we find an amazing new freedom. We are no longer the slaves of sin – instead, we are free to do good. As Jesus said: "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full" (John 10:10). We start to live out the life of what Jesus called "the kingdom of God." In simple terms, this means accepting that God rules us as our King. Jesus spoke about this way of life in his famous 'Sermon on the Mount,' which you can find in Matthew chapters 5 to 7. It also means keeping to the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:1-17.
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COUNTRY CLUB VILLAGE, Mo. — The Northeastern State women's golf team slipped to third after Monday's second round of the 2013 NCAA Central Super Regional Championship at the par-72, 5,921-yard St. Joseph Country Club.
The top three teams and the top three individuals not from an advancing team will earn berths to the 2013 NCAA Division II Women's Golf Championship May 15-18 at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla.
No. 17 Central Oklahoma improved from third to first after carding a 318 in the second round. UCO leads the way at 65-over-par 641. No. 22 Augustana College is three strokes behind the Bronchos at 68-over 644. The RiverHawks shot 330 Monday and sits at 76-over 652.
Arkansas Tech is 12 strokes behind NSU in fourth.
Freshman McCandren Lewis fired the low round of the day for NSU of 80. She sits in solo 25th at 22-over 166. Senior Kelsey Kirkpatrick shot 82 in the second round and is tied for eighth at 17-over 161.
NSU will begin teeing off in the final round at 10:30 a.m. today.
RiverHawks open NCAA Regional in 6th
KENOSHA, Wisc. — The Northeastern State men's golf team finds itself in sixth place after Monday's first round of the 2013 NCAA Division II Central/Midwest Super Regional on the par-72, 6,964-yard The Club at Strawberry Creek.
The RiverHawks opened with a 2-over-par 290 and trail leader Missouri-St. Louis by seven strokes. Bellarmine (-3), Nebraska-Kearney (-1) and Central Missouri (-1) also shot under par as a team in the first round.
Freshman Jackson Hess fired a 4-under 68 to lead NSU, and he is tied for fourth in the individual standings. UCM's Robby Hughey is the tournament leader after opening with a 7-under 65.
Senior Kyle Fouts shot 1-over 73 and is tied for 26th. Junior Zach Tucker is tied for 35th at 2-over 74, senior Jacob Bartel is tied for 53rd at 3-over 75 and sophomore Josh Strimple is tied for 63rd at 4-over 76.
Northeastern State will begin teeing off in the second of three rounds at 12:50 p.m. today.
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Fresh off a sophomore year where he helped his team win a state championship, Nashville (Tenn.) Christ Presbyterian Academy's Jalen Lindsey currently holds seven offers and should see that increase this summer playing with the Georgia Stars AAU travel team.
Lindsey recently scored his seventh scholarship offer from Louisville.
He talked about what type of season he had and what he is working on to improve upon during AAU.
"Really, I was just trying to do anything to help my team win," Lindsey said. "Whether it was scoring or rebounding, I just did what was needed in order to win. The next step is for me to improve my leadership and help my teammates."
Rated as one of the top 20 players in the class of 2014, Lindsey already holds offers from several schools around the southeast. Several high profile programs are also keeping a close eye.
"I have six offers right now from Vanderbilt, North Carolina State, Memphis, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida," said Lindsey, who has since scored an offer from Louisville. "Those are all great schools so I am blessed to have those already and then Kentucky and North Carolina have been in touch as well."
Currently there is no leader for Lindsey, but one school has made a little more of an impact with their consistent recruiting approach.
"I probably hear from Vanderbilt the most right now," he said. "We have a good relationship because they are in town and have been recruiting me since eighth grade."
Lindsey had the chance to visit Vanderbilt, Tennessee and Alabama this past season. He broke down what stood out about his trip to Knoxville.
"It was great overall," he said. "They have some a nice facilities. A lot of their stuff is new so it was a great visit overall."
He also discussed his trip to see Alabama and what they have to offer.
"I went down there for a camp day they have every year last summer," Lindsey said. "I got to hang around and visit afterward. We checked out the facilities like the locker room and arena, just things like that so it was a good visit."
With all teams equal right now, Lindsey is in no rush to make a decision but he did admit that if he finds the right fit he could pull the trigger.
"If something feels right I will make a decision," he said. "But right now I am really trying to see what other schools offer and what other options are out there and probably wait until my senior year."
Will Gunter is a national basketball recruiting analyst for 247Sports
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During his Monday morning press conference with reporters, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo was asked about Minnesota's decision today to fire Tubby Smith as the Golden Gophers head basketball coach. Watch Izzo's reaction and answer in this video clip. The Michigan State coach takes a sip of water and then takes a long pause before answering. "Tubby's a good friend of mine," Izzo said. "So that does hit me a little bit harder."
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It's hard to believe that summer is over for county schoolchildren. While autumn doesn't officially arrive until next month, tomorrow morning thousands of Lancaster County students will say goodbye to the carefree days of summer and return to the classrooms.
Last week, teachers began getting their rooms ready for their new students. Their planning and preparation will pay off as they welcome the students back. Many students will be sporting new clothes and shoes and carrying new lunch boxes and backpacks full of new school supplies.
When I turned on the TV and saw our beautiful county courthouse on fire, I thought I was watching Detroit burn like we've seen in the past when people get angry at the justice system or law enforcement. But I never thought I'd see that here. The arsonist cannot be from here. Our community has too much pride and love for our town and community.
I would like to respond to Nancy Jones' letter "Book sense great, but experience gets job done" in the Aug. 17 edition of The Lancaster News. Jones was referring to a letter written by Shemika Caldwell. Caldwell said education was more important than work experience and cited the city's administrator position as an example.
In that same edition was a picture of my graduating class from the Annie Mae Dream Center program. There were students and instructors in the class. The instructors were identified as students. Caldwell was one of my instructors.
Lancaster County Courthouse holds a lot of memories for a lot of people. But if someone could get in there that easy, what would have kept a terrorist from entering and putting a bomb in there and blowing it up during court and killing a lot of people. Someone had a lot of nerve.
Security should have been better, even a guard could have been posted.
A lot of lives could have been lost if a terrorist had gotten in and planted a bomb.
I just returned from out-of-town, to learn that Jack Harper passed away Saturday night.
So much of Lancaster's commercial district has disappeared and unfortunately, those who were so vital, are now passing from the scene also.
Jack was a life long friend who, at one time, operated a shoe store at Lancaster Square.
Prior to that, he was with Bailey-Rowell on Main Street. Jack outfitted many children and probably dyed more wedding shoes than anyone else. He was a fixture in the uptown business community.
In his letter to the editor he spewed accolades about the mayoral candidate he was supporting. It was an impressive letter – neatly typed, well-written and punctuated correctly.
And while there have been so many advancements in the field of genetics I had a problem believing the 6-month-old had written the letter. Not that I doubted his intelligence, it's just that I had a problem visualizing his little fingers pounding away at a computer's keyboard.
Yes, campaigning for the previous election was in full swing.
Several weeks ago, a great man who loved his Lord and Savior was taken too quickly from his family and friends. Life as well as death must come eventually to all. It is what we do during those gaps in time that matter the most. I would like to share some things about Donnie Threatt that I will always remember. I want to also share some things that I learned about Donnie after his passing.
I would like to respond to Shemika Caldwell's letter "Writer: Education more important than work experience," in the Aug. 13 edition of The Lancaster News.
Let me say from someone with both education and work experience, I simply don't agree. Miss Caldwell's perspective has nothing to do with education or experience. Her letter itself and in her own words reveal her views are from a discriminating mindset and of personal bias.


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Know That He Is Near: Congregation for the Clergy On the Thirty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
When you see these things happening, know that He is near, at the gates
Therefore, Christ says to us that, "when you see these things happening know that He is near " in order to call us to observe reality and to invite us to read the certain signs of His return.
VATICAN CITY (Catholic Online) - We present the reflection on Sundays Readings from The vatican Congregation for the Clergy Below:
"In the same way, when you see these things happening, know that He is near, at the gates." (Mk 13:29) Today, the Church's Liturgy seems as it is propelling our hearts and gaze towards the Last Day, towards He who is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End of all things. Today's Liturgy is leading us towards He who's Universal Kingship we will celebrate next week: Jesus Christ, God.
Everything will be recapitulated in Him, the entire cosmos and history are tending towards Him. All creation is, as St Paul would say, "groaning in labor pains" (Rm 8:22) and we too are also travelling on that same continuum, we are also living that sweet wait!
"When you see these things happening, know that He is near, at the gates." Christ loves us so much that His heart burns with love and desire for each one of us. In the anticipation of what will happen on the Last Days, He offered Himself on the Cross. It is right that the awaiting anticipation of the return of the beloved is aroused in the one who truly loves.
The lover awaits and desires the beloved's return and is motivated to prepare for that return with all those acts of love that the heart proposes so that the beloved is welcomed in a way that demonstrates that love.
"When you see these things happening, know that He is near, at the gates." When the heart is full of the anticipation of the beloved's arrival, everything that surrounds us is almost "transfigured" before our eyes and so becomes an occasion or a way of loving. It is even more this way with Christ! When our hears are enflamed and renewed with love and desire for Him, everything acquires its true sense - everything!
Every meeting, every circumstance, every joy or sorrow, every piece of work is given a new taste because Christ, as our Creator and Redeemer, gives light and consistency to the things that we do and so, in Him, they find their true significance.
"When you see these things happening, know that He is near, at the gates." However, in talking about the Last Days, the Lord doesn't indicate a precise timescale. In fact, He says, "But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." (Mk 13:32)
Therefore, Christ says to us that, "when you see these things happening know that He is near " in order to call us to observe reality and to invite us to read the certain signs of His return.
In fact, we do not have a somewhat introspective and subjective religiosity in which we can take refuge; one that is incapable of withstanding life's difficulties and of obeying reality to prepare us for the Last Day. Rather, we must await Him with great security in reality, entrusting ourselves to Him who made and Redeemed us.
We must entrust ourselves to the signs of the Mysteries that will become ever more numerous. Christ, the Reality, is the true Master of the journey towards heaven because, as the Apostle says: "the reality belongs to Christ." (Col 2:17)
"When you see these things happening, know that He is near, at the gates." However, our awaiting, understood in the Christian sense, isn't only directed to a certain, but yet distant, future. The future Day towards which we are travelling, that Last Day in which all will be brought back, is already Present!
It has already come, because this Day is Christ, the Only Son of God who came to visit us from heaven like the "daybreak from on high." (Lk 1:78) We are living this sorrowful wait.
However, we live this wait in the joy of His Presence that we meet inside the Church and, in a special way, through the Sacraments and the Proclamation of His Word. It is a Presence that is given to us and so we experience that communion with our brothers which is a gift of the Spirit.
His Presence shines in an eminent way on the Altar where Christ, Himself, our Future enters our present to draw us to Himself, to draw us into His very heart, so that we can go through Him to the Father.
"When you see these things happening, know that He is near, at the gates." Let us hold in our hearts that desire for His Presence that will make us able to give Him that attentive love that recognizes Christ in every brother and that will enclose us in that Day that has no end.
May Most Holy Mary, Woman of that silent waiting and unsurpassable Model of love, prepare our hearts for that meeting with Her Son, "now and at the hour of our death. Amen."
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Da 12,1-3: www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/9abr1ql.htm
He 10,11-14.18: www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/9arbi0j.htm
Mk 13,24-32: www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/9bfegpm.htm
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Pope Francis Prayer Intentions for March 2014
Respect for Women: That all cultures may respect the rights and dignity of women.
Vocations: That many young people may accept the Lord's invitation to consecrate their lives to proclaiming the Gospel.
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David Axelrod Just Saying That Jon Huntsman Loves Everything About Barack Obama
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When Loyola and the other volunteers helped launch the La Raza workers' rights program three years ago, they managed to recoup $79,000. As word spread among workers that they can push for recompense from deadbeat employers, the agency's client list has swelled to a point where it is already on target to improve on 2007's $300,000 in recovered wages and damages. And word on the street is circulating that bilking day laborers might not be a risk-free crime.
Ronen, who graduated from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law in 2003, received a two-year fellowship to help day laborers and domestic workers. "I created a popular education course to train the workers in the laws," she says. "As part of that course, they agreed to work in the legal clinic to put to work what they learned in the class, to help their peers."
Volunteers phone employers accused of shortchanging workers to persuade them to pay up. Failing that, Ronen may file complaints with the California Labor Commissioner's office and place more calls to the employer. For cases where the project has obtained judgments but can't get employers to pay, a collection agency is sometimes called in.
The case of Serralta, the allegedly cheated housekeeper, is a large, dramatic exception to smaller cases that make up much of the Workers' Advocacy Project's caseload. Rather than dealing with millionaires who may have held an elderly immigrant in a modern version of servitude, many of the group's cases consist of half-broke contractors who cut corners by underpaying day laborers.
When I spoke with Ronen last week, she had just tracked down a contractor who owed several thousand dollars to three workers who'd done painting and construction work. He had promised to give her a check for $1,000, a possible, partial success after months of effort by Ronen and her volunteers.
"He stopped picking up the phone," Ronen said. "We filed a Labor Commission complaint. He didn't show up to the [California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement case] conference. We went to his house. He admitted to owing wages, but made some excuse about why he couldn't pay. He said he didn't get paid for the job. A neighbor called the police because we were chanting.
"He told the police to tell me to call him. I called him five or six times, but he never answers," she continued, adding that if the employer doesn't come through with his promised partial payment, she will turn his case over to a collection agency.
For the record, the contractor did not respond to my phone calls, putting him on the Workers' Advocacy Project's list of deadbeat contractors. "They know they're judgment-proof because they're broke with no credit," Ronen says. "So they know they can ignore it." She recounts the story of one San Francisco contractor who disappeared without a trace in lieu of paying a few thousand dollars' judgment. The woman whose house he'd been working on, who'd already paid the contractor in full, felt sorry for the workers and helped make up their wages.
But for every permanent deadbeat, there are employers who eventually cave after phone calls from Workers' Advocacy Project advocates, judgments from the labor commissioner, public protests, or calls from a collection agency. Loyola says the group's success so far has created a virtuous circle where the group becomes more effective with experience, and more workers become aware of that successful work and bring their complaints. Meanwhile, employers, who've learned through the grapevine or through news reports of cases such as that of fugitive contractor Abozaid, become less determined to avoid payment.
Key to the group's gains has been the same sort of interplay between different personalities and legal strategists that you might see in scenes from TV shows such as Boston Legal — if the show were cast from the ranks of San Francisco immigrant housekeepers and laborers. They contact employers and draft demand letters. In situations where such letters require perfect English skills, they draft the points a letter must touch on, so it can be prepared by a staff attorney. These sessions have come to resemble the case strategy sessions one might see in an ordinary law firm. "They meet here until 8:30 or 9 each night, working on these case," Loyola says.
A powerful weapon in the group's arsenal is social pressure — in the form of actual pickets at an employer's office or home, or, more typically, as cajoling, schmoozing, and negotiation between employers and La Raza volunteers.
"For me, it's been witnessing something that's transformative," Loyola says. "It's not just skills building. The role [the volunteers] are playing, it's never something they ever get over. They'll never go back to how they were prior to playing that role."
Lazarte has become the toughest negotiator of the three. She calls accused rip-off artists and lets them know they can either pay or expect to hear from a collection agency. Esteva is the radical ideologue, deft with a megaphone, whose fervency reminds her colleagues of a higher purpose to their work. Peña is the back office whiz — "very efficient, very smart, and very by-the-book and responsible," Ronen says.


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Belonging to Each Other in Our Darkness: I Am Lawrence Brewer, I Am Troy Davis
by Sarah Stockton Howell, guest contributor
"Love" by Christopher Brown (Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Wednesday night at 11:08, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis, a man widely believed to be innocent. A last-minute delay went to the Supreme Court, where a stay of execution was denied.
Meanwhile in Texas, another man was executed. There was no widespread outcry for the life of Lawrence Brewer. His horrific crime was one of which he boasted, one in which there was no doubt of his guilt. He "deserved" to die.
I was troubled by the preoccupation with the "too much doubt" that characterized the Troy Davis case. Not because I disagree with the emphasis; the fact that our government would sentence an innocent man to death — and, by the way, "since 1973, 138 people in 26 states have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence," according to the Death Penalty Information Center — and then follow through on that sentence amid mounting doubt is appalling. A crime was committed in Georgia Wednesday night. One friend commented that the only physical evidence or weapon connected to the Troy Davis case was that used in the execution. That should make us shudder.
However, I found myself forced to wonder why we were comfortable executing Lawrence Brewer on the same night. The answer is obvious: Brewer committed and reveled in an unimaginably cruel hate crime, the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. I didn't want to know about his crime, but when the phrase "I am Troy Davis" was splashed across various social media outlets, I felt like I had to add "I am Lawrence Brewer," and I needed to know what I was really saying. Reading more about Brewer, I found a part of myself glad that he is no longer on this Earth. According to an article in The Huffington Post comparing the two death penalty cases, Brewer wrote a letter with these chilling words while in jail for Byrd's murder: "Well, I did it. And no longer am I a virgin. It was a rush, and I'm still licking my lips for more."
No one in their right mind wants this man on the streets. But it seems to me that part of the desire to shut away and then kill someone like Brewer is not only that we want to maintain public safety — it's that we are afraid to acknowledge what we have in common with him. We do not want someone like Brewer to be human because we do not want to see ourselves in him. I do not want to identify myself with a white supremacist whose racism led him to torture and murder a black man. It is easy for me to say that I would never commit such a crime, but what really separates me from Brewer?
"It Is Finished" by Christopher Brown (Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Mother Teresa once said, "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." This quote gets used a lot of the time to highlight the nice things about human community and relationships, the ways in which we can and should build one another up and take care of one another. That is absolutely right, but it seems to me that in this broken world, if there is ever going to be healing and reconciliation, we must admit that we belong to each other not only in our goodness but also in our darkness.
The reason that history continues to go through cycles of violence, even genocide, is that we continuously (and with good reason!) distance ourselves from the perpetrators of horror, so much so that we fail to recognize those same impulses in our own hearts. We condemn German citizens who did nothing while Jews were rounded up and murdered in their midst, and yet we allow men to be killed by the state, systemic injustice to deny basic healthcare to the poor, suspected terrorists to be held and tortured with no evidence but their ethnicity or nationality in the name of homeland security, and unjust wars to be waged abroad by soldiers with no resources to deal with the repercussions of taking a human life.
Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun and anti-death penalty activist (and the character portrayed by Susan Sarandon in the movie Dead Man Walking) said, "The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" I am reminded of John 8:7, where Jesus challenges the men accusing a woman of adultery: "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
I am not advocating lawlessness and disorder. But, innocent or guilty, no human being should have their life taken by the state. We need to acknowledge the inhumanity of the death penalty as being the very thing we are trying not to see in ourselves when we wash our hands of the humanity of someone like Lawrence Brewer.
I have to point out the reactions of each victim's family to these two executions. The family of James Byrd, Jr., whose body was mercilessly mutilated by Lawrence Brewer, who was unrepentant to the last, begged the courts not to kill him. But the family of Mark MacPhail, whom Troy Davis is accused of killing, welcomed his death, feeling that justice had been served.
I was 14 years old on 9/11. I watched our country's sense of security crumble with those towers. I still cry almost anytime someone talks about 9/11. And yet, I have never feared terrorists. I do not worry about my safety when I travel. I have caught myself looking at Middle Eastern people with curiosity that borders on suspicion, but I have never really been concerned that he or she is a terrorist or would harm me in any way. What I do fear is that darkness that lies in the human soul, in my own soul, that darkness that leads people like the MacPhails to see death as a victory, that causes crowd members at a GOP rally to cheer when Rick Perry is asked about the record number of executions that have taken place in Texas during his term as governor. I do not fear people like Brewer. I fear the part of me that wants to cheer at Brewer's death.
As a Christian, I believe that there is only one death in all of history that constituted a victory. If we celebrate any other human death — even the death of Osama bin Laden — we have, indeed, forgotten that we belong to each other, and until our memory is restored, we will have no peace.
I am Troy Davis. I am Lawrence Brewer. May God have mercy on my soul.
Sarah Stockton Howell is a student at Duke Divinity School and regularly blogs at The Fast I Choose.
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The Vanishing Ego in Painting: An Interview with Painter Joan Watts
by Kim Russo, guest contributor
On a gloriously sunny Memorial Day in 2008, I arrived at the Santa Fe studio of painter Joan Watts. I was there to interview her for a review in a local newspaper. She led me into her impressive studio where her newest paintings, in cool gradations of blue, purple, and gray, lined the warm, white walls. As we talked, a friendship based on our mutual experiences in the studio and on the meditation cushion began.
When she moved to Santa Fe from New York in 1986, the New Mexico landscape became the influence critics and curators referenced when discussing her reductive paintings. Writers used words like "ephemeral" to describe the luminosity of her paint, or "meditative" to describe her subtle formal choices — all outcomes, they suggested, of her examination of the southwestern landscape. I wondered if, instead, the New Mexico landscape gave Watts — a practitioner of Zen since 1989 — the vehicle for relating the spiritual experiences she had on the meditation cushion and in her daily life.
So which is it Joan? Are these landscape paintings that are about meditation, or meditative paintings that are about the landscape?
(laughing) Well, the light of New Mexico has certainly been a penetrating vehicle enveloping my spiritual path, but it is also true that my spiritual path propels me to somehow discover the means to evoke light and space through painting. It's true that after beginning my Zen meditation practice the process of making a painting also became a form of meditation for me.
Can you describe that?
Now when I begin a painting, I get started in the process and then let go. The painting takes over, and I disappear. But the moment before the ego drops is pure fear. It is the same experience in sitting meditation, when the ego drops away.
Do you think your paintings describe that experience of the ego disappearing?
Can a painting embody or transmit Buddhist experience? I don't know. Can you convey something of your experiential state to the audience? I don't know. It depends on the viewer.
How so?
Transmission between (Buddhist) teacher and (Buddhist) student is about both of them, but both of them becoming one. With art we have an object. Is there anything embodied in that object through which some transmission happens for the viewer? I don't know. But the same things get in the way of the transmission between viewer and art object as Buddhist teacher and student: ego, assumptions, intellectual understanding, education.
That reminds me of when I saw the Rothko Chapel for the first time. When I entered and saw the huge black canvases, I didn't understand why anyone would present black paintings of nothing to represent a spiritual space. I grew up in a Presbyterian church full of stained glass and light. I didn't understand Rothko's chapel at all. I sat there for a long time really looking at the work. Then I saw it: the paintings weren't black — they were purple, blue, green, red — and they slowly revealed themselves to me. It was an experience that changed as my position in the room changed. I thought: Wow, this is what spiritual realization is like: slow, changing, and constantly transforming. Spiritual life is an experience, not a concept. Rothko had created an experience for me rather than showing me a picture. That was life-changing for me.
I visited that chapel several times after my mastectomy and also had a powerful experience with the work. Seeing the Rothko Chapel was healing for me, and it was the beginning of my meditation practice, although I didn't know it at the time. It is interesting how you entered the chapel with an attitude and you got very conceptual and mental — What is going on? Why black in a church? — all assumptions based on previous experiences, and then the present moment went CLUNK!
Do you have the same experience while you are painting?
Yes. I think in the creative process itself, when it goes really well, the artist is gone during the process — and later the artist can reflect. But the reflection is not the experience. It's a memory, which is not the actual making.
So you are moving in and out of a kind of meditative state.
You can experience life as a coming into and out of the ego-self, or you can be only in the ego-self, which is like the Xerox copy — this is what I want and this is what I expect. The ego-self is conceptual. In-the-moment, non-conceptual experience can be scary. Non-conceptual experience is never a Xerox copy of anything else you have experienced.
I want to talk a little bit about how your meditation practice has changed how you function within the art market.
I don't have to worry about supporting myself financially. But for me there was an interesting relationship with my ego because I felt I had to make a big presence in the art world. That is why I made a business plan, I set up exhibitions, and I made the monograph of my work, which took three years. But getting the work out in the world is ego-based. I can't work in both places at once, the art world and the studio.
Is it possible, really, to completely detach from the ego? Or is it only possible to keep it in check?
Some day I'd like to get free of the business and just work — but there is an ego base that creeps back in. My mom played gorgeous piano every day by herself because she just enjoyed it, and she composed music. She didn't try to put it in the world. When I was a kid, I thought that if I was in her shoes I'd get it out there in the world. Now I really admire what she did.
I had a conversation with the Santa Fe photographer Herb Lotz after his recent retrospective exhibition. I asked him if he thought it was successful. He said he was really glad he had the opportunity to do it and now he doesn't ever have to do it again. I remember being blown away by his answer. It was filled with gratitude — and no attachment.
About the images: The paintings featured above are part of Joan Watts' One series, 24 x 24 inches, oil on canvas, 2008. (photos: Herb Lotz)
Kim Russo is an artist, writer, and Head of Fine Arts at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. She has written for the Journal Santa Fe and Pasatiempo, and is currently working on a book, funded by the Frederick P. Lenz Foundation, about how Buddhist practice can help contemporary artists negotiate the ego-traps of the studio and the art market.
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St. Joseph Regional HS adopts grammar school in Belleville, wins Jefferson Award
July 02, 2012, 4:34PM
St. Joseph Regional HS, Montvale "adopted" St. Peter's School in Belleville and over the course of the school year provided much needed service to the school and its students. Projects included painting the school and classrooms, providing a Halloween party for students, reorganizing the school's music room and others. St. Joseph's received the Jefferson Award in the Community Service... Full story »
St Peter's Students honored for Veteran's Day celebration
June 28, 2012, 7:46PM
Students from Saint Peter School, Pt. Pleasant Beach, were honored in the Citizenship Category at the NJ Youth Service Awards for their Veterans Day Celebration. For five years, Saint Peter School has invited local and Saint Peter School family veterans to a celebration and remembrance assembly for Veteran's Day. This project helps the children understand the significance of this... Full story »
Elizabeth Rosa receives Jefferson Award for relief efforts
June 25, 2012, 4:23PM
Elizabeth Rosa of West Caldwell, NJ received a Jefferson Award for youth service at a recent event at The Newark Museum for her efforts in providing relief to Haiti and the Dominican Republic one year after the earthquake. She arranged drives to provide much needed hygiene items, school supplies and shoes for children. She also raised funds to purchase... Full story »
First Grade Students win Jefferson Youth Service Award
June 20, 2012, 3:54PM
First Grade students from St. James the Apostle school in Springfield, NJ initiated a collaborative project to make "knot blankets" for young patients at Trinitas Hospital. They engaged students from Hillside Avenue School in Cranford, boy scouts and girl scouts as well as students from other grades at St. James that resulted in 50 blankets. proving you're never too young... Full story »
Benedictine Academy Students "Deliver Happiness"
June 14, 2012, 4:14PM
For their efforts in creating 17 different service projects, students at Benedictine Academy in Elizabeth received Jefferson Youth Service Awards recently at a celebration event at The Newark Museum. Team members worked to engage all clubs and engage other schools in the area in joint service projects over the course of the school year. Presenting the award, L: Rowena... Full story »
Jennifer Baum honored for engaging youth in "Fighting Hunger" following Hurricane Irene
June 13, 2012, 7:28PM
Jennifer Baum of Monroe was honored in the Easing Hunger Category of the NJ Youth Service Awards for her "Fighting Hunger" program. Jennifer instituted a food drive challenge among her summer camp charges, instilling a sense of community in young children, who collected over 400 lbs of food, which was then distributed between local food pantries throughout the Monroe... Full story »
Singing duo honored for sharing the gift of song with the infirmed
June 08, 2012, 7:21PM
Sharnice A. Jones and Kayla Hampton were honored in the Citizenship Category of the Jefferson Youth Awards for Public Service at an awards event held on May 5, 2012. The duo has been volunteering their time at nursing homes, assisted living centers, and several community sponsored events sharing the gift of their voices. SKi (Sharnice and Kayla Incorporated) was... Full story »
Howell High School students honored for their work with the homeless in Lakewood, NJ
June 04, 2012, 7:13PM
Thomas Mullens and Drew Kinghorn from Howell High School were honored in the Community Improvement Category of the NJ Youth Service Awards. They led a group of student athletes from Howelll HS in a number of service projects to benefit Lakewood's Tent City. The students installed tents and fire extinguishers, and provided meals and winter coats. Full story »
Middletown HS North students honored for "Fleece for Friends" project
June 01, 2012, 7:35PM
Students from Middletown High School North have were honored in the Service to Youth Category at the NJ Youth Service Awards, May 5, 2012. Their "Fleece for Friends" program has raised money through sponsorships from local businesses and school clubs to buy the supplies needed to make 150 fleece blankets for children in local hospitals. The team engaged 185... Full story »
"King James Buddies" honored at Jefferson Youth Awards
May 29, 2012, 7:41PM
Students from Mother Teresa Regional School have received recognition in the Health and Wellness Category. Through the "King James Buddies" program, the students have been working together to bring some light and companionship to the senior citizens at King James Nursing Home. Students also communicate by writing letters back and forth with the senior citizens. Full story »
Camden students honored for work to transform dangerous park into playground for children
May 28, 2012, 6:58PM
Students from St. Anthony of Padua school have were recognized at the NJ Youth Service Awards event on May 5, 2012 at the NJ State Museum. The group met with city officials to coordinate their project, entitled "Von Nieda Park Task Force" and led the way to transform Von Nieda Park in downtown Camden into a usable, new playground... Full story »
Pinelands Eco Scienteers honored at youth service awards May 5, 2012
May 24, 2012, 6:51PM
Pinelands Eco Scienteers have received recognition in the Environment Category. This dedicated group of eight and ninth grade students have designed an efficient way to build press that uses biomass waste products to make briquettes that can be used for heat in developing nations. The students receiving the award certificate and Jefferson Awards pin were: Michael Cofone, Anthony Ricci,... Full story »
Gateway Regional HS students honored at youth service awards
May 20, 2012, 6:41PM
Students from Gateway Regional High School received recognition in the Service to Youth Category, for their project titled "Respect Education Community Service". The project influenced 130 elementary school students from all ages to participate in a series of volunteer service initiatives. Students receiving the award certificate and Jefferson Awards pin were: Alexandra McNally, Rachel Mezis, Brett Scull, Olivia Lombardo,... Full story »
Brielle Elementary School students honored at NJ Youth Service Awards for Easing Hunger project
May 17, 2012, 6:34PM
Students from Brielle Elementary School were honored in the Easing Hunger Category, for their project titled "IC Hope". IC HOPE (Integrated Curriculum Helping Our People Eat) developed a series of fundraisers to raise money for the Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Students receiving the award certificate and Jefferson Awards pin were: Patrick Pearce, Brianne Lauria, Sophie Smith,... Full story »
"Paws to Care" pet food drive recognized in New Jersey Jefferson Youth Awards
May 14, 2012, 2:52PM
Kimberly A. Pepenella received recognition in the Citizenship Category of the Jefferson Youth Service Awards on May 5, 2012 at the NJ State Museum. Her "Paws to Care" program has collected over 1,000 lbs of food for needy families with pets. Kimberly has sold dog biscuits, held food drives at her school, and even organized pet pictures with Santa... Full story »
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Veteran musician Nile Rodgers is celebrating after his collaboration with Daft Punk passed the one million sales mark in just 69 days of release in the U.K.
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Okay, using the Wolfram link (which I was technically aware of before asking the question) and Misnomer's cue to look at equation 14, I have derived the following solution in Java using the variables I listed and the distance between the centers (which can trivially be derived from the variables I listed):
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You might want to check out this analytical solution and apply the formula with your input values. Another Formula given here -
I know this is an old question, but in case it helps anyone else out, here is a Javascript function that does exactly what Chris was after:
However, this method will return NaN if one circle is completely inside the other, or they are not touching at all. A slightly different version that doesn't fail in these conditions is as follows:
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I'll admit I thought about this when Reche was on our team. Caldwell JR was playing in a national championship and reche was Brady's best target.
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Coming into Week 2 against the Dolphins, the Colts' running back situation is still somewhat of a question mark for the offense. Vick Ballard saw the majority of the carries last week with Ahmad Bradshaw still a little rusty from not playing this preseason due to his foot injury. This week we should expect to see more of the same, with Bradshaw slowly building up his carries until he is fully healthy. Ballard is more than capable of handling the bulk of the carries and taking some pressure off of Andrew Luck and the passing game. With the Dolphins aggressive pass rushers Cameron Wake and Dion Jordan, Ballard will also be counted on in screens and draws and chipping. While Bradshaw is the more experienced pass protector, Ballard is coming into his own in this important part of the game. Last week head coach Chuck Pagano described Ballard as "unbelievable" in pass protection, a great sign for just a second year player.
This could be a tough week for the running game however, with Miami giving up just 47 yards to Browns' running back Trent Richardson. The Colts' offensive line will have to do a better job this week than the Browns' line, led by perennial Pro Bowler Joe Thomas, did last week. While there were flashes of improvement from the unit during last week's game against the Raiders, this is a step up in competition if the stats from Week 1 are more than just an aberration. The front seven in Miami has plenty of talent in the aforementioned Wake and Jordan along with new addition Dannell Ellerbe, former Colt Phillip Wheeler, and run-stuffers Paul Soliai and Randy Starks.While Ballard and Bradshaw have the ability to break tackles and make people miss, the offensive line will need to find a way to open holes for anyone running the ball if the Colts expect to have a balanced offensive attack.
With Ballard's ability to catch the ball out of the backfield, expect to see him get the most snaps this week with Bradshaw and even Donald Brown getting snaps here and there. Wake and Jordan's unrelenting pass rushing call for quick passes from Andrew Luck and Ballard is the best option from the running back position in this facet of the game and the improvements Ballard has made in pass blocking give the coaching staff plenty of trust leaving him in all three downs. Overall, Ballard will see around 60-70 percent of the playing time behind Luck, with Bradshaw at 20-25 and Donald Brown possibly filling out the rest of the time, leading to 15-20 carries and 3-5 receptions for Ballard, 8-10 carries for Bradshaw and around 5 for Brown.
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This is incredible, and reading your description and then seeing the rather sad smile on the panda's face makes me want to cry!! I am very sorry about your brother. This picture is a very very great present to give to anyone.
This is a really sweet drawing. You must he been through alot, but i have also lost a brother aged 21, dear to me so i know how you feel, and a few days ago i drew something to remember him by just like this. 10/10
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naruto is far away from being an genius. he mastered sage chakra and rasengan only because of his clones. and that was kakshi's idea, who indeed is a genius.
and of course neji was not in the darkness like sasuke or pain were. but he was the first one to be convinced by naruto to change his mind and way of thinking. neji was bad-tempered and insulting. after the fight with anruto he
totally changed and became a kind guy.
so you can totally see him as one in the long row of being rescued from darkness and brought to light by naruto.
furthermore i, too, think that the byakugan has to play an important part. remember pain's attack. the hyuuga that was with hinata. he said that her parents weren't in town at that time. why did kishi do that? may her parents have been powerfull enough to hold back against pain? so i think this was to prepare some big fight in which we see the tremendous powers of the byakugan. maybe at least


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'Lost': Men of science AND faith
Given the scope of Lost as it stands now, it's very easy to remember just how small of a show this once was. Whereas we're now in the middle of a war spanning continents, millennia, and the space-time continuum, it's almost a shock to the system to go back to Season 1 and watch episodes centered around small things such as finding food and water.
Just as the show's gotten larger, so too have the mythological implications. We've come a long, long way from "there be a monster in that there jungle" in terms of overall weirdness. By the time Ben Linus turned the donkey wheel, we were in full-on freak mode. Now I love me some full-on freak mode, don't get me wrong, but it leads people as myself to come up with ever-increasingly complex theories to match the mind-blowing nature of what the show throws at us week to week.
So I'm trying to reduce things to an emotional, not sci-fi, level today. I'm taking the lead of "The Constant," in which the science of Des' travels takes a back seat to the emotional journey taken by him in that episode. After all, consciousness-shifting is fine and dandy, but if not tethered to something to which we as an audience can connect, then it's all sound and fury signifying nothing. So I'm taking that and applying it to the Island. I'm going to ask a question of it that would could ask of any well-written character, and it's a question I'm not sure I've ever asked myself:
What does the Island want?
Now, that question is implicit in much of my analysis, because what we see on and off it ties in with the Island's desire at some level. But I've never sat around and directly confronted the Island's end goal. I've gone on and on about the Army of the Light and the Army of the Dark, but these are just ever-shifting entities constantly at war over the Island. But more and more, I'm convinced the Island doesn't want a victor.
It simply wants balance.
So, taking that premise, and applying a less complicated, more emotionally resonant analysis, I've decided that what the Island needs is for Jack Shephard and John Locke to finally, truly work together.
This isn't a mind-blowingly original concept. But it's easy to get seduced into the sexy that is Ben Linus and time travel and all the crazy cool stuff introduced into the show to forget that what this show once was is still what it is: a struggle between Jack and Locke to realize they are not opposites but in fact possessing qualities the other lacks. In short: the man of science needs to somehow incorporate the man of faith. (And vice versa, naturally.)
These are the two men that can actually end the interminable war waged by the two Armies over the decades/centuries/eons. And yet, both are fundamentally unable to do so, even by the time Jack leaves Locke at the Orchid. Jack's desire to leave is as ill-advised as Locke's inflated sense of self. The turning point? A scene we'll undoubtedly see in Season 5: Jeremy Bentham visiting Jack Shephard one month before his "suicide."
In some ways, Jack had already started to heed Locke's advice, through creating the lie perpetuated by the Oceanic 6. But he nevertheless does not heed the Island's call to return until Locke's death. Remember: active, honest will is the key to performing acts that the Island can augment/affect. It's absolutely NO coincidence that Ben showed up when he did, mere hours after Jack passionately told Kate they had to go back. All his doubt, all his grief, all his guilt spilled over in that one minute and turned to desperate purpose. And Ben knows all too well how to exploit that.
As for Locke, think back to the "Drawing of the Three" scene during "Cabin Fever," when Richard Alpert asked John to name three objects he already owned. In picking the knife over the Book of Laws, Locke is picking against the Island's natural instinct against conflict. The Island's more like Mr. Miyagi than Rambo: it acts in self-defense only, and doesn't want Locke crane kicking his way to Island Leader in the future. It wants a leader schooled in moral law, not martial law.
Yet, even with Locke nominally dead, I have a sneaking suspicion that we'll see he and Jack working together again on the Island. Exactly how is as much a mystery as exactly when: as Faraday would remind you, "when" is quite relative. But just remember to keep your eyes on these two men, even as the show prepares to go to even weirder, stranger, and more convoluted places. They will be your constant, as well as the Island's ultimate saviors.
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so Locke's only mostly dead?
:-) couldn't resist, sorry.
i await Locke/Bentham/Jack scenes with baited breath.
As do I. I wonder if we'll get to see all of Bentham's meetings with the O6.
I love Ben something fierce, but I absolutely agree that the show always comes back to Jack and Locke.
Yeah, the chocolate coating makes it go down easier..and don't go swimming...for at least a half hour.
Thank you for finally asking that question. I like the conspiracy and Armies talk, but the fundamental question of the show is what does the Island want with these people?
And I think as we get to the end of this season, the characters themselves will finally be asking that question on the show. Season 6 will most likely be about the characters figuring out what their destiny is and how to fulfil it.
I agree that Jack and Locke are the key to the fulfilment of the Island's purpose. I do fervently believe, however, that it is the intrinsic nature of the Island to either not exist at all, or to become something greater altogether.
I truly think that by the end of the show, the Island won't be an Island anymore. Whether it sinks into the sea in fire and ash, or transforms into something amazing will probably only be answered in the last hour of the series.
For a show that dives headfirst into metaphysical beliefs, most of what we've seen so far from Indian culture, I find myself thinking of Yin/Yang. Because that symbol is pretty much what is going on right now in Lost: one side Light, one side Dark, each with a neutral creamy center, moving in sync with one another, connected to form a circle.
I agree that ultimately, the Island wants balance. But it also wants to be free (and wants its servants to be free to make their own choices), and the problem is that each side in the conflict wants to control the Island. Until each side stops trying to prove they are "right" and the other is "wrong", the conflict cannot end and the mere mortals continue to be dragged into the game.
And like Hurley said: "Australia is the key to the whole thing." Which means the power has always been in the hands of the mortals, like Jack and Locke, who have to come together in unity for the game to ever end.
Could Ben and Widmore have been a previous generations man of faith and man of science? If so that didn't work out so well. :-)