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It's surprising that this route hasn't been added to MP until now, since it's one of the best routes on Blair III. Start by climbing a nice, hand crack that angles right to a sloping ledge. From the ledge, pull the first of two cruxes up a steep and strenuous crack/face. The next crux is a challenging offwidth that leans left and offers some good grunting.
This route is located on the northwest face of Blair III towards the southwest end. Look for a triangular inset of rock about 20' off the ground to find the start.
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Even more remarkable was that I hadn't even known this woman — and would probably never see her again — and yet she'd spent her entire ride trying to get to know me. It wasn't an exchange that would have had any benefit for her, yet she'd sat there absorbing my answers as if they were the most important things in the world. I felt almost guilty, as if her attention was a privilege I didn't deserve.
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Blueberries are a fruit, so you know they're healthy. But now scientists at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center have discovered they may guard against diabetes.
According to researchers, the results found in the study were dramatic. They found there was an improvement in insulin sensitivity.
It would have been tough to consume the number of blueberries necessary for the study, so researchers made their smoothies with blueberry extract powder.
Pre-diabetes who drank two a day were nearly 24 percent less likely to develop full blown diabetes.
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Many people just like to eat blueberries, but now that they may help prevent disease, that's just an added bonus.
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Source: Thinkstock 1 / 10 Avoid Peak Times What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gyms are crowded in January. To ensure a good workout, avoid peak times like right before work, lunchtime, and immediately after office hours. Midmorning and midafternoon are great times to hit the gym. If you can hold off until after 7 p.m., the crowd will have diminished — just be sure to have a healthy, fueling snack around 5:30 p.m. Source: Thinkstock 2 / 10 Don't Trust the Calorie Counts What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cardio machines are a great way to get your heart rate up, but they are notorious for overestimating calories burned. The most accurate way to measure your caloric output is to wear a heart rate monitor, which calculates based on your heart rate rather than averages based on the speed of the machine. While we're on the subject of cardio machines, don't hold on to the handles of the treadmill, since it truly undermines your workout and compromises your posture. 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This helps you engage your core to prevent you from swaying into your heels, which is cheating and could set you up for a lower-back injury. Think: "Inhale to prepare." Stretching: Slow, steady breathing is preferable when stretching and will help you relax. Try to focus on breathing from your diaphragm, which will make your belly move out on the inhale and not your chest and shoulders. Source: Thinkstock 6 / 10 Don't Fear the Free Weights What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Working out with weights is essential to achieve toned, strong muscles. Lifting weights can also decrease overall body fat by three percent in 10 weeks if you lift twice a week. Weight machines are fine, but they tend to work just one muscle at a time. You get more bang for your buck working with free weights since you can work multiple body parts in one exercise. 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The first time I came across a picture rail was in a magazine article. I loved it right away. No nails! If you have tons of photos randomly hanged or staged all over your place and who doesn't really, you might like it too.
All it took was an extra molding, molding hooks and a rope. If you choose a rope that is the same color as a wall color, it will become virtually invisible.
The picture rail makes it easy to add on pictures as your gallery grows. Just an idea….
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It's Amy Coose's week and our challenge is: "In what way(s) do you indulge yourself?"
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(WMC-TV) - Many of the finest restaurants in the Mid-South teamed up Sunday to raise money for Youth Villages.
The event was the annual Soup Sunday Fundraiser, and for several hours it turned the FedEx Forum into a food paradise.
The event hit a high note with Mid-Southerners looking to enjoy some good food along with good music.
More than 50 restaurants put out some of their best food for this event, and that includes desserts by Chef Phillip Rix.
"It's a morello cherry caramel, and a peanut butter milk chocolate ganache," said Rix describing the dessert.
Just down the hall, managers from Jim's Place restaurant were describing their special gouda dish.
"We use 100 percent smoked gouda with our russet potatoes," said James Tara from Jim's Place.
Over the years Soup Sunday has raised more than a million dollars for Youth Villages programs that helps foster kids.
"So we have a program to help those young people transition out successfully, find a place to live, continue their education, find a job, (and) have transportation," said Youth Villages CEO Patrick Lawler.
Sunday's event marks the 24th year for Soup Sunday. Fans of the event are already looking forward to next year.
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OK-- If you weren't already a big fan, you have to be one now. This was Kyle Long's Twitter Update. Lovin' me som Kyle Long. Good Stuff Rookie.
The Bears talked smack before the Packers game, and got crushed. Now, they talk about getting a "wakeup call" from the 49ers' debacle. But is it too late to fix this ship?
To revisit Dave Gilbert's article from last week: Jay has moved up into a tie for 14th place for number of touchdowns (5). He moved down to a tie for 5th place for number of interceptions (6). He moved up to 22nd for yards per game (229.3). He moved up to 25th place for completion percentage (57.3%). He moved up to 20th place for passing yards (917). He is tied for 3rd-most number of sacks (13).
Cutler's 'Night Blindness' Diabetic retinopathy (the most common visual issue in diabetics), which can cause night vision issues, takes years of consistently high blood sugar to start to cause problem. It come from slowly developing vascular changes in the retina in response to chronically elevated sugar levels. There are sometimes acute visual problems if your blood sugar spikes and causes increased pressure in the eye (glaucoma), but that causes blurry vision and is reversible. Cuter has type I diabetes (autoimmune destruction of of his insulin-producing cells), not type II (insulin resistance from too much fat tissue), even though it was first diagnosed as an adult. He also has amazing care and control of his sugar levels (he can afford the best medical care available). It has been reported that he gets his blood sugar checked during that game itself, sometimes as often as after every series, with correcting action taken if necessary (drink some juice if low, take a shot of insulin if high). His sugar levels may even be more regulated than us non-diabetics due to the frequency of monitoring he goes through. As long as Cutler and his team doctors are vigilant (and there's no reason to believe they aren't), diabetes will never be a problem for him during his playing career. It was before it was diagnosed, and it may 20 years after he retires (if he's not careful about controlling his sugar), but not now.via AKN, WCG's resident Doctor
There's no better time to extend Jay Cutler than right now. Here's the why and how you do it.
The controversial "Right to Work" bill has been in the news here in Indiana and several NFL players have spoke out against it, including former Bear Rex Grossman and Cutler. Depending on your politics this could be another behind the scenes thing that shows Jay isn't a bad dude. Or if you're on the other side of the spectrum he's another liberal crackpot.
Chicago Bears to interview Greg Olson for passing game coordinator / QB coach this week.
Oh, more good news for the O-line. Congrats guys, you just OFFICIALLY gave up the worst O-line performance of the season.
Says Cutler is totally immature and labels his defenders the "excuse patrol". Hey Greg, up yours.
And he's not making fun of the Bears either. The whole story is a fun read, and he takes a shot at the "knee watchers", too. Hilarious!
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I'm still tracking the remnants of former Tropical Storm Dorian.
An Air Force reconnaissance aircraft has finished investigating the system and was unable to find a closed circulation. The recon mission also reported that the system is poorly organized with the lowest surface pressure well-removed from the deep convection. Therefore, I will call the Dorian remnant a tropical wave.
The axis of the tropical wave extends northeastward a few hundred miles from Puerto Rico along 24N63W to 17N66W. The wave is moving toward the west-northwest at 15-20 mph. Upper level winds are not favorable for the system to regenerate into a tropical cyclone as the Dorian remnant will face 20-30 knots of shear over the next two days. None of our reliable computer models forecast re-development during the next several days.
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Like many schools Winthrop University is constantly looking for ways to keep students safe and unwanted visitors away.
Bright eyed freshmen were moving on campus at Winthrop University Friday morning, getting ID cards for the fall.
Carmen Trull from Charleston is getting her eyes scanned for a new kind of student ID, the university's new iris identification system.
"You don't have to have anything on you. You don't even have to have a bag with you. It's just your eyes. Your eyes are always with you," said Trull.
"The goal is to take away ID cards in places like the Wes center where you might go to swim. You don't want to carry your ID card, you just get your eyes scanned and go right in," said Winthrop University IT Manager TJ Carney.
Carney says the eye scan is a high resolution picture of the students' iris, not a laser. The picture is saved as an algorithm or code and is matched up every time the scanner is used.
"At first I was a little critical of it. I didn't know what it meant. It's kind of scary. Is it expensive? But I learned more about it and learned to accept it and realize it will make our campus safer," said freshman Sarah Cohen
"Winthrop University is leading the way in the nation with it, taking the technology and applying it in the educational setting. It's used in the department of defense, real high secure areas are using this technology," said Carney.
Winthrop will pilot the iris scan technology at the university's Macfeat nursery school starting this fall. Parents or guardians will now have to scan their eyes when picking up their children.
Depending on its success there, the system will be implemented in other campus buildings.
The eye scan is optional for students.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Levi Randolph scored a career-high 18 points and Alabama welcomed JaMychal Green back from suspension with a dominant second half in Saturday's 67-50 win over reeling Mississippi State.
The Crimson Tide (19-9, 8-6 Southeastern Conference) has won six of eight games and weathered a storm of off-the-court troubles. Green, one of four players to serve a suspension the past couple of weeks, returned after four games to score nine points.
The Bulldogs (19-10, 6-8) have lost five straight and are left trying to salvage their NCAA tournament hopes.
This one was tied at halftime before Alabama dominated the second half 42-25. The Tide shot 64 percent (16 of 25) after the half and made 5 of 7 3-pointers (71.4 percent).
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Biomass, greenhouse project promises 300 jobsBy Lucia Suarez
Staff Writer | February 26,2013FAIR HAVEN – An agreement between the developer of a proposed biomass and pellet manufacturing facility and a local hydroponic vegetable producer promises to bring more than 300 jobs to Rutland County.
Beaver Wood Energy and Vermont Hydroponics announced today they will be adding a 10-acre greenhouse complex and wholesale Grower's Hub warehouse adjacent to the proposed Fair Haven Biomass Energy Center.
Tom Emero, a principal with Beaver Wood, said the agreement has been in discussion on and off for more than a year before coming into fruition several weeks ago.
"We've got a whole other component (now)," he said. "The power plant has tremendous efficiency. With the greenhouses we gain additional efficiency."
Emero said the greenhouses and the warehouse will use recycled water and heat from the biomass plant. This will allow them to have year-round growing.
The food grown in the greenhouses along with food from local farmers will be sold and distributed throughout New England from the Grower's Hub.
"It is a way to utilize the made in Vermont moniker," Emero said. "It will be a distribution point."
According to Emero, the 300 permanent jobs created by the project include 25 jobs at the biomass plant, 25 jobs at the pellet manufacturing facility, 100 jobs at the greenhouses and another 150 jobs in the forest industry.
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This morning I heard the awful news that Bill Thurston died last night. Many of us knew that Bill was very ill, but we all hoped (or imagined?) that he would still be with us for a while yet, and the suddenness of this is very harsh. As Sarah Koch put it in an email to me, "Although this was not unexpected, it is still shocking." On the other hand, I am glad to hear that he was surrounded by family, and died peacefully.
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This amazing feeder is available in medium, large and extra large, so you'll be able to find just the right size for the four legged friend in your life. Plus, the removable legs allow you to grow the feeder with your dog, so the Bergan Stormcloud Elevated Feeder is an investment that will always be with your dog. And each size comes with easy to clean, removable, stainless steel bowls; one for food and one for water.
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Flat gasket material comes cemented to the bottom of the adaptor to form a seal. The straight insert adaptor is placed into the rectangular opening on the top of your fireplace insert. Metal tabs on the adaptor bend out to hold it in place.
Then, any of the three insert adaptor transition pieces or 45° insert adaptor elbow simply slide right into the top of the insert adaptor.
The transition piece you choose is not fastened in place in the insert adaptor. It should be allowed to "slip" freely by at least 2". This gives you even more flexibility during your installation. And if you don't need an insert adaptor that's the full 8" high, just trim it down with your sheet metal shears. If you encounter an insert whose exhaust vent doesn't mate to the 3 1/4" X 13 3/4" opening on either the straight or offset insert adaptor, use the insert adaptor boot to get the job done.
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Here we go again, spring is in the air, and Social Ink has released its newest plugin, yContributors.
yContributors creates a one-step author or contributors archive page that enables you to show any number of recent posts by each author, along with profile information pulled from each user's wordpress user profile. This plugin shows all your members, either in table or descending form, with a jQuery searchable autocomplete-style (type and find) way to get to members. Options include excluding certain members, showing latest posts and author statistics. Also, works with User Photos Plugin (unrelated to this) to display profile photos.
Please follow the rabbit down the hole to our shop to download yContributors!
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Useful plug-in, but I have two feature requests.
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Is there anything I can adjust to get things back in order?
Is there a way to make it show ALL authors, even those without posts? Currently mine only shows users WITH posts
Great looking plugin. However, when activating the plugin I get the following error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/ycontributors/ycontributors.php on line 359
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SAT and ACT Mean Nothing?
Education Sector's Mr. Aldeman, one of the prolific writers on The Quick and the Ed, has declared dead the usefulness of the SAT/ACT. It wasn't his idea; he read it in Crossing the Finish Line:
Crossing the Finish Line has things to say about virtually every important factor in college life, but by far the most important thing is this:
The SAT and ACT do not matter in predicting college success.
I have been an unequivocal supporter of using the SAT/ACT* in making college admissions decisions (see here and here), but this sample of students and the rigor of this study are impossible to ignore.
No one should ignore what's in Crossing, but I'm not about to gobble it hook, line and sinker.
The conclusions are based on a ton of data:
"Crossing the Finish Line, an important new book by former Princeton president William Bowen, former Macalaster College president Michael McPherson, and Matthew Chingos, relied on two massive databases on the entering class of 1999–one on 96,000 first-time freshmen and 30,000 entering transfer students at 21 flagship universities and the other on 108,000 freshmen and 42,000 transfers at less selective state colleges and universities in four states (Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia)–to compile a wide-ranging book of empirical research on topics impacting American higher education."
Aldeman details his position-reversal on the value of these tests:
I have been an unequivocal supporter of using the SAT/ACT* in making college admissions decisions (see here and here), but this sample of students and the rigor of this study are impossible to ignore. Here's what the authors found:
- Taken separately, high school GPA is a better predictor of college graduation rates than SAT/ACT score. This findings holds true across institution type, and gets stronger the less selective an institution is. High school GPA is three to five times more important in predicting college graduation than SAT/ ACT score.
- SAT and ACT scores are proxies for high school quality. When the authors factored in which high schools students attended (i.e. high school quality), the predictive power of high school GPA went up, and the predictive power of SAT/ ACT scores fell below zero.
- High school quality mattered, but not nearly as much as the student's GPA. Other research, most notably on Texas' ten percent admission rule, has proven this before. It's somewhat counter-intuitive, but it shows that a student's initiative to succeed, complete their work, and jump any hurdles that come up matters more than the quality of their high school.
Then he asks, "What should various actors do with this information?"
Time out.
As I wrote on the Quick's blog entry, here's why:
"Keep in mind that Alderman's entire argument – and the authors' – rests on the definition of "college success" being "graduation" or "obtaining a degree/certification."
In theory, that's sufficient. I'd prefer to talk about reality.
In reality, some degrees are watered-down and border on useless. At some institutions, the majority of programs fall into this category. If we pretend for a second that the degrees they award are little more than certificates of attendance and good standing with the Bursar's Office, we do higher education reform a disservice.
Bowen, McPherson and Chingos, in a roundabout way, may have just proven not that SAT/ACT scores indicate nothing, but that high school GPA-as-harbinger means higher education is increasingly mimicking the weakness of the average American public high school."
Mr. Aldeman et al.: Get serious about what a degree means – and what it doesn't – and then we'll get to work on the value of the ACT/SAT. Until then, I'm not about to worship at the altar of Crossing along with the EdSectorites.
Come to think of it, Education Sector could profit a bit from ACTA's What Will They Learn?
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I'm no expert on this, but the prospect of using "high school quality" and GPA makes me nervous. My understanding is that the idea of a national test was developed exactly to give kids from lousy high schools a chance to compete against kids from Dalton and Choate. An admissions officer might discount the 3.9 average of the kid from Podunk HS in Virginia and take the kid with the 3.0 from Groton.
Matthew, you're right that we can't measure "college success" much better than "obtaining a degree." That's unfortunate, but you have to remember that almost all previous studies have defined "success" as "first-year college grades" or "one-year retention rate." Surely you'd agree that success is closer to graduation than it is to those interim measures.
Dan, one of the original purposes of the SAT was to find talented students from unknown high schools to attend Ivy League schools. But now it's used as a giant sorting mechanism to dole out college placements. That should be enough to make anyone nervous, especially now that we have really good evidence that it's not predicting what it says it does.
There's also the fact that by the time students arrive at college, they have already been partially sorted by means of ACT/SAT scores. The high-scoring ones have tended to be accepted by selective institutions, middle-scoring ones by less-selective ones, and low-scoring ones by open-admission colleges and unversities. So it might be accurate to say that within a specified range of test scores, high school grades are more predictive of college graduation, but I sure hope the author isn't saying that students who score below 19 on the ACT are likely to graduate from Cal Tech if they have good grades from that Podunk HS.
I've always been confused about what SAT/ACT is supposed to predict. I had read long ago that it correlated highly with grades achieved in freshman year–not whether the student graduated. I found this study (http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/pdf/RR%2088-11.PDF)
on the College Board's website done in 1988 looking at whether high school GPA or SAT scores were better predictors of "college success". Reading through the report, "college success" appeared to be freshman grades.
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Gaetano Porcasi is a Sicilian artist and school art teacher. His paintings are considered unique not only for their social and political commitment but also for the technique and choice of typical Mediterranean colours from which a strong and deep Sicilitudine (Sicilian mood) emerges. The 2003 itinerant exhibition Portella della Ginestra Massacre is a good example: in 1947 a group of Sicilian farmers was shot and killed in Portella by the outlaw Salvatore Giuliano and his men under orders from the local Mafia mobsters and big landowners in order to stop the farmers' attempts to occupy and plant uncultivated local land. His historical paintings which denounce the violence and oppression of the Mafia find their counterpart in his paintings which depict sunny Sicilian landscapes rich in lemon, orange and olive trees, in prickly pear, agave and broom plants. They show the wealth of a land that has been kissed by God but downtrodden by man. In painting the sky of his native Sicily Gaetano uses several different hues of blue and it's from this sky that his pictorial journey starts. In his paintings the history of Sicily, which has always been marked by its farmers' sweat and blood and by their struggles for freedom and democracy, finds its pictorial expression in the fusion of the red flags of the workers with the Italian flag in a sort of Italian and Mediterranean epopea. The red flags and the Italian flag stand out against the blue sky that changes its hues according to the events, the seasons, the deeds and the moods that are painted on the canvas. The luxuriant nature of Sicily with its beautiful, sunny, Mediterranean landscapes seems to remain the silent, unchangeable and unchanged witness to events and the passing of time. Here people are only accidenti, they aren't makers of their own life. Thus Gaetano makes a clear-cut metaphysical distinction between a benign, merciful nature and Man who breaks the natural harmony to satisfy his wild, unbridled ambition and selfishness and who becomes the perpetrator of violence and crime. Gaetano is also an active environmentalist and his fight against all forms of pollution has already cost him a lot of aggravation.
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I believe the disruptive innovation in the Educational industry will occur when we start implementing a Quality Assurance System.
Education, as any other continuous process industry, needs to implement a quality control system; a Total Quality Assurance. There is a big difference between having a QC system, and measuring the quality of a given education. While the second choice provides metrics after the process has been completed, the first choice offers the managers (the teachers) the possibility to act according to the responses and make the necessary changes to achieve the desired quality. A QC system requires metrics in real time; a continuous evaluation.
The other thing that the Education industry needs is a "measurement" system. Not a set of standardized tests. A QC system uses standard units to measure the different steps of a process. The concept of Learning Objects, used in the e-learning industry as standard of content, can easily be adopted by the Educational industry to measure the courses. Instead of using "credits" or "units", LOs could be used to quantitatively and qualitatively measure the syllabus contained in a curriculum. Correlating content between institutions would be just a matter of matching the LOs of the desired curriculum. LOs also could be used for internationalization of career titles or certificates.
This Virtual platform will potentiate teachers' capacities to become "teaching managers". I would like to paraphrase Deming: Teachers who will work ON the system, monitoring study performance data of individuals, and correcting their weaknesses on-time, will achieve the desired knowledge (quality).
Hi Mr. Tabor,
My name is Kristen Phelps and I'm currently in Dr. Stanges' EDM310 class at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. I've been assigned to comment on your blog! I've actually heard several debates, in school this year, regarding the SAT/ACT's usefulness. Personally, I think that both have advantages but in terms of measuring what your success in college is going to be, I'm not so sure. Overall, this was a very interesting post! Thanks for sharing!
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The Denver Art Museum (DAM) will host the exhibition Matisse and Friends: Selected Masterworks from the National Gallery of Art, October 12, 2014 through February 8, 2015. Matisse and Friends will showcase fourteen paintings from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., by artists Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Georges Braque and Kees Van Dongen.
"Matisse and Friends is a perfect complement to the dazzle of Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century on view upstairs," said Christoph Heinrich, Director of the Denver Art Museum. "The DAM has created an in-gallery oasis for our visitors to bask in the visual delight of these vibrant paintings."
The artists featured in Matisse and Friends shocked the art world with their raw approach and triggered a succession of innovative movements in modern art. Working in and around Paris at the turn of the 20th century, these artists were part of a creative community that sought to redefine painting, favoring an expressive style that emphasized loose brushwork and bold colors.
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Alabama Department of Veterans' Affairs officials are reassuring veterans and their families that services provided by the state agency will continue despite the federal government shutdown.
"Although the shutdown will affect some services provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the state VA remains fully operational to meet the needs of our Veterans and their families," said W. Clyde Marsh, commissioner of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs.
Today the federal VA released a list of services that will not be affected by the shutdown.
All VA medical facilities and clinics will remain fully operational, including inpatient and outpatient care, and other special care services. Veteran claims processing and payments in the compensation, pension, education, and vocational rehabilitation programs will also continue through late October.
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TERREBONNE PARISH, La. — It will soon be illegal to wear saggy pants in Terrebonne Parish.
The Parish Council passed an ordinance Wednesday night that will impose fines for anyone who wears pants below the waist in public that expose underwear or what police and the courts determine to be too much skin.
Council members voted 8-1 to send the ban to Parish President Michel Claudet, who is expected to sign it into law.
Under the law, violators would face these fines:
- $50 for the first offense.
- $100 for the second offense.
- $100 and 16 hours of community service for a third offense and subsequent offenses.
- "Appearing in public view while exposing one's skin or undergarments below the waist is contrary to safety, health, peace and good order of the parish and the general welfare," the ordinance says.
Violating the law does not give police the authority to arrest violators or do a "full search," the ordinance says.
In a public hearing before the vote, the council heard arguments from residents for and against.
Jerome Boykin, president of the Terrebonne NAACP, expressed his support for the law.
"There is nothing positive about people wearing saggy pants," Boykin said. "This is not a black issue, this is not a white issue, this is a people issue."
Wearing saggy pants comes from a prison mentality, Boykin said.
"Young men who were in prison who wanted to have sex with other men would send a signal to another man with his pants below his waist," he said.
Diana Collins, NAACP youth director, brought her youth group to the council meeting. She said a message must be sent to the public that wearing saggy clothes is inappropriate and will not be tolerated.
"We (are) here tonight to try and put a stop to this thing and let these boys and girls look decent," she told the council while about a dozen youths were standing behind her.
Montegut resident Ida Moore said baggy pants look "foolish, unattractive and unbecoming" but shouldn't be illegal. A style trend among young is dressing in layers, Moore said, and it's common for boxer shorts to be worn over underwear as a fashion statement. For the most part, she said, flesh is not visible by dressing this way, so it can't be categorized as indecent exposure.
"It's certainly not the first time elders complained about the social mores and dress habits of young people," Moore said. "But to make laws of governing social differences is a slippery slope to the level of government that we do not allow."
Houma resident Lucretia McBride said it's not the government's place to legislate morality.
"Legislating an ordinance is not necessary," she said. "It's overreaching and it's simply not going to work."
Chairwoman Beryl Amedee was the only member who voted against the ordinance, claiming it violates Americans' constitutional right to free expression.
Some council members argued during committee meetings last month that the law is constitutional because it mimics a 6-year-old ordinance in place in Shreveport, where it remains unchallenged.
Just because other cities have these laws doesn't make them constitutional, Amedee countered.
Council Vice Chairman Russell Hornsby said the law sends a message that deviant behavior will not be tolerated. Hornsby also noted that Houma Police Chief Todd Duplantis and Terrebonne Sheriff Jerry Larpenter agree with the ordinance.
Hornsby proposed that the council follow up on the ordinance in a year to see if it has made an impact; however, no motion was made to do so.
"If it's not doing any good then we'll get rid of it," he said.
Councilman John Navy said the law addresses concerns expressed by a majority of residents.
"We have to represent the needs of the people and the majority of people don't want it," he said.The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana sent a letter to the council explaining that the ordinance is unconstitutional and urging them not to pass it.
"To ban a particular clothing style would violate a liberty interest guaranteed under the 14th Amendment," the letter says. "The government does not belong in the business of telling people what to wear. Nor does it have the right to use clothing as a pretext to engage in otherwise unlawful stops of innocent people."
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Russian politicians are considering a complete ban on duty-free alcohol on flights after a spate of brawls involving drunken passengers.PT1M30S http://www.watoday.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-2dvuu 620 349 February 5, 2013
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Russia may soon crackdown to stop boozy flights after a spate of brawls involving drunken passengers.
State television on Monday broadcast amateur footage of several drink-soaked punch-ups after a plane made a forced landing in Uzbekistan on the way to Thailand on Sunday because a Russian had attacked other passengers.
The footage included shots of a man butting a steward during one flight and a fight among passengers queuing for the toilet during another. In a third incident, a man was tied to his seat and his mouth taped shut after passengers got fed up with him.
Several videos have been posted online of drunken passengers fighting on board flights in Russia.
A senior member of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, said the assembly could soon draw up legislation to ban duty-free liquor and cigarettes being brought on board planes, even in sealed bags.
"We would like to prepare it (the legislation) before the end of this session," Interfax news agency quoted Vitaly Yefimov, the first deputy chairman of the Duma's transport committee, as saying.
"Changes are needed to end such uproar on planes. It's a direct threat to flight security," he said, without giving any other details of the Duma's plans.
Russian television said that only in one recent case had a Russian passenger faced criminal charges for violent behaviour on board a plane. Several others had been fined, it said.
Flights on Russian airlines are generally much more comfortable these days than in Soviet times, when passengers often had to fight their way to the front or back of the plane through thick cigarette smoke.
But alcohol consumption per capita in Russia is the fourth highest in the world, according to World Health organisation figures for 2011, and passengers often enjoy an onboard tipple.


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Armory Week has arrived in New York and our thoughts have turned to art fairs. Ever wondered what the most popular art fair is, as judged by visitor numbers? Our first guess: TEFAF, which runs for 10 days each year in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Though it's probably the most prestigious, we were wrong. Art Basel? For contemporary art it's the fanciest, but again no. Read More


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CHESHIRE Police has launched its latest Special Constabulary recruitment campaign − by calling on people to take on a new challenge this year and become a volunteer police officer.
The New Year heralds new challenges and if you have made a new year's resolution to give something back and help others, and according to the force becoming a Special Constable might be exactly what you are looking for.
The Special Constabulary is a force of trained volunteers who play a role in fighting crime and making the streets safer.
They work in partnership with regular officers to assist in solving local policing problems, perform policing duties at events and provide public reassurance in towns and villages across Cheshire.
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Special Constables are not paid for their time but they do receive agreed travelling and out of pocket expenses.
Cheshire Constabulary will be holding three Special Constabulary awareness seminars to provide those interested in joining with more information on the role.
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Sack the professionals in the army and expect a flood if volunteers for the TA's to bridge the gap.
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The Mikkelson and Ruiz families met for the first time yesterday at the Capitol --- where they were asking North Dakota legislators to crack down on DUI laws --- even on the first offense.
Juan and Sandy Ruiz lost their two sons Cyris and Alaries when drunk driver - Juan Acosta drove over their tent at Lake Metagoshe in July of 2012.
Ruiz says their presense at the legislature was well received.
He says the two bills on the table reguarding drunk drivers both have pros and cons.
Ultimately, Ruiz says he's looking for increased awareness.
(Juan Ruiz, Boys killed by Drunk Driver) "I just want to see change happen. It doesn't matter what law goes into effect. I just want to see a comprehensive reform. I have to do this. The only alternative is doing nothing. I can't sit with that."
Juan Acosta, the drunk driver in the case, was granted a $250,000 bond.


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These are plants for the border, where they can be arranged in groups for height and colour among other tall plants. They are also ideal for cutting, lasting well in water and appreciated for their long stems, as well as the range of colours of their single dahlia-like blooms, 8cm (3in) or more across. They are undemanding plants, originally from Mexico and flourishing in warm sun and poor soils. The 'Sonata Series' is an award- winning strain, producing compact plants with large red, rose, pink and white flowers, available as a mixture or in single colours. The Royal Horticultural Society has given it their prestigious Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
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Hardiness: Half hardy
Skill level: Beginner
Height: 60cm
Spread: 38cm
Time to plant seeds: March to May
Flowering period: July to September
Leo wake2
i grow these in my garden last sumer the grow to about 6ft as i was feeding them with tomato food excellentt flowere
Flower bird
I love cosmos. I only starting growing them last year and found them very easy to grow from seed,There is something beautiful and wildflowerish about them. I think they are a glorious flower. Barbara
I was advised that these plant will still grow indoors during thee winter as a new b can anyone tell me more if this would be correct stunning plant,Dougu