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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: 16-inch softball
Also considered: pro basketball, pro baseball, pro hockey
You wouldn't think the Land of Lincoln would be so tough to pin down, but Illinois is an Arkansas-esque conundrum. Everyone loves the Bulls, but would the state swoon over basketball if the Trail Blazers had drafted Michael Jordan instead of Sam Bowie? The Cubs, too are a local institution, not to mention that the White Sox are also a team that exists. But consider that, owing to the power of radio waves, large swaths of the state root for the St. Louis Cardinals, a fact that I find confusing and frankly disqualifying. And though the Blackhawks have been quite successful in recent years, the team ranked second-to-last in the NHL in attendance as recently as 2007. That leaves us with 16-inch softball, a pastime unique to Chicago. Also known as mushball or cabbageball, the gloveless game was the beloved sport of columnist Mike Royko. There is no better choice.
Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: high school basketball
Also considered: IndyCar racing
It's a two-sport race in the Hoosier State. You can make a very strong case for IndyCar racing, which includes a reference to Indianapolis in its name, for heaven's sake. But despite the enduring allure of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the IndyCar series as a whole is an afterthought even in Indiana. The only way high school basketball will be an afterthought here is if an asteroid obliterates the entire state, and even then I'm guessing some kid in French Lick will emerge from the crater and try to dribble what's left of the asteroid. This is the home of Damon Bailey and enormous high school gyms. And Hoosiers. Don't you dare forget Hoosiers.


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- 8.04 of the MLB rulebook states that "When the bases are unoccupied, the pitcher shall deliver the ball to the batter within 12 seconds after he receives the ball. Each time the pitcher delays the game by violating this rule, the umpire shall call "Ball." The 12-second timing starts when the pitcher is in possession of the ball and the batter is in the box, alert to the pitcher. The timing stops when the pitcher releases the ball."
Josh Beckett averages 22.6 seconds between pitch, as calculated by Fangraphs.com (the calculation is imperfect, but generally pretty accurate.) I'd calculate how long the cavalcade of pitchers the Rangers faced in the first game of the series took, but, I don't have that kind of time on my hands. Just once- just once- I'd like to see an ump enforce 8.04. I think you might actually see an AL East pitcher's brain ignite.
- Colby Lewis looks like he's from another planet out there right now. He's taken the league lead in strikeout to walk ratio with a beautiful 22:1. He's also 8th in the AL in innings pitched, and has allowed only 2 homers. Key for Colby (as much as it is for any pitcher) is limiting bases on balls and keeping the ball in the park- and if the season's first three starts are an indication, he's definitely worthy of the nominal #1 starter position he's held this year.
- I've always believed- as a matter of faith, rather than data-backed conclusion- you can't win a division in the first month of the season, but you can lose it. I'm not addressing this to any team in particular. Certainly not a team that signed a left-hander I had learned to love. Especially not a team with multiple locales in its name. Not a team with a manager who is a walking display of Keystone Light's bitter beer face ad campaign. Not a team that may be the first to ever have "too many good players" (as alluded to in a now-deleted Jon Heyman tweet). Just... you know... putting it out there, in general.
- As a team, the Rangers have accumulated 7.0 Wins Above Replacement, per Fangraphs. You'd generally expect a team of replacement level players to have 4 wins out of 12 games, so they're just slightly underperforming.
- That bit, above, is the part of each of these posts where I try to find what the team isn't doing well. Look, YOU go try to find something they're not doing well right now and get back to me about it. (Don't actually do that.)
- These are the good old days. Remember that Monday, as the Rangers retire Pudge.
- I'm still ok with Joe Nathan (in fact, I like him and what he could add to this bullpen throughout the year in terms of leardership, setting an example, and how to pitch) but the issue still stands that he's likely the third or fourth most talented pitcher in the Rangers relief corps. This isn't a slight to Nathan; Alexi Ogando and Mike Adams are just silly pitching alien-robots who we are not likely to understand, given our civilization's rudimentary collection of baseball facts.
I actually liked the dynamic of having them either in the 8th (Adams) or whenever the situation called for someone who can strike people out with only their Maoi-like visage (Ogando) and saving Nathan for the 9th. That Washington showed this week he's not afraid to deploy either of the single-inning demigods in the ninth inning when appropriate makes it close to perfect.
Let Nathan have the ninth, when the Ranger offense has likely had multiple innings to chew at the soft underbelly of the opponent's bullpen and developed/expanded a lead. Let Adams and Ogando keep the door shut until then.
- Yu and Harrison are swapping places in the rotation. I'll put this simply: not a big deal. If you want to make a big deal out of it, make a big deal out of the nuts-and-bolts of the move, not the motivation behind it. You'd have to be insane not to trust either pitcher, given their age, talent level, and to-date results.
- Check out what Roman Mendez is doing at High-A Mytrle Beach; 3 GS, 15.1 IP, 16 K, 1 BB. Mendez is a member of the 40 man roster and could move quickly if the team moved him from his starter role to the bullpen. He's still too promising of an arm as a starter to do that permanently, but he could also make an impact, either by addition to the team or trade, late this summer.
- Joe Nathan had to go and walk Cody Ross last night and double the bullpen's walk total this year. At least he got my boy Robbie Ross off the hook for the lone base on balls, though.
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The Wolves are said to be chasing Brandon Roy, who retired as a Blazer a year ago, and have a meeting set with Jordan Hill. What a successful Batum gambit would mean for the Wolves and second-year forward Derrick Williams is unclear; it might lock Batum in as a long-term reserve in Minnesota.
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Just fifteen minutes away from Miami international airport, this beautiful light and airy studio is located four houses west of Main Highway, in the lovely South Grove. It is on the second floor of the cottage of a 1924 Walter deGarmo estate. Walter deGarmo was one of Miami's earliest and most influential architects. He is best known for his interesting open air designs, central courtyards, and large loggias.
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Sheriff's deputies are asking for help identifying a suspect in a carjacking last week on Tucson's southwest side.
According the Pima County Sheriff's Department, the suspect is described as a Hispanic or Native American man, 5'7" with a medium build, 20 to 30 years old. He was wearing a dark possibly denim jacket and jeans. He was armed with a black semiautomatic handgun, possibly a Ruger.
Investigators say the man approached two people who were in a car at the gas pumps at the Circle K at 2840 West Los Reales Road at South Cardinal Avenue on Dec. 13.
He allegedly demanded their car at gunpoint, but allowed the woman to get her baby out of the back seat, according to a news release.
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11:00am Sunday 8th June 2014 in News
A 78-year-old is appalled that thieves are targeting shoppers in a Braintree supermarket and believes more CCTV is needed.
Norman Jennings used his card to pay for his shopping in Sainsbury's, put it back in his pocket, and was then approached in the car park by a man holding a map, who using broken English asked for directions to London.
Within the time it had taken for Mr Jennings to drive to Dunmow for an appointment, thieves had used his card to withdraw £500 from a cashpoint in Braintree.
Mr Jennings also discovered that £35 in cash had also been taken from his pocket.
He said: "This sort of theft is very disconcerting. It shouldn't be happening.
An Essex Police spokesman said: "The victim was fortunately reimbursed by their bank. There are no further lines of inquiry."
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We used to do it until only a few generations back. If anyone doesn't believe me just go on line a browse the records of the Old Bailey trials 1674 to 1813.
The prospect of such a draconian penalty might actually work as a real disincentive to some; and for those who weren't convinced it would be a fairly efficient means of preventing them re-offending.
These scum are just a canker within our society. They contribute nothing and they seize all. Destroy them and be done with it. Why should anyone have any compassion for them?
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RUSSELLVILLE – The Benton McClendon's Appliances hit into four double plays in a 3-0 loss to Russellville Post 20 at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville on Wednesday. The loss sets the McClendon's down to 7-12 on the year.
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And why in the world Dean do that? What does he gain by getting in front of a microphone and saying "Yes, I was snubbed." Whether that's what happened or not, it seems unlikely.
Dean's brother seems like a pretty solid choice to me, especially given their relationship.
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I read about this, too. Perle is so full of shit it's a wonder he can even move. How is that people think they can rewrite history like this? Is he not aware of the internets and that new-fangled invention, the boob tube? Did he really think that no one would bother to look up the lunatic comments from him and the rest of his neocon nutjob buddies?
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Either way, it isn't the end of the world, and mistakes are going to be made. Obama and Biden have both contacted Feinstein and apologized, and she's backing away from her harsh rhetoric. The transition team learned a valuable lesson, and now we can move on.
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RALEIGH — North Carolinas fracking commission is set to resume its work next week on creating a chemical disclosure standard everyone can live with, now that the state legislature appears have backed off from its recent attempt to seize control of the contentious issue.
On Friday the state Senate approved a bill that would give select members of the Mining and Energy Commission the authority to review any trade secret claim made by energy companies before the chemicals used in fracking are brought out to a drill site and pumped into the ground.
The legislative proposal came after James Womack, chairman of the Mining and Energy Commission, sent a strongly worded letter to lawmakers complaining about earlier efforts by a Senate committee to create a loophole for energy companies to avoid disclosure. The loophole would have allowed energy companies to use a trade secret claim if they didnt want to disclose chemicals they deemed to be sensitive or competitive.
The N.C. Mining and Energy Commission, which is writing 120-some rules to govern fracking, had vowed to write one of the nations strictest chemical disclosure standards: full disclosure of all chemicals used to frack in the state, providing maximum protection to the public and to the environment.
The resolution approved Friday is the result of a private meeting earlier this month between Womack, fellow Mining and Energy Commissioner Vikram Rao, Republican Sen. Bob Rucho of Mecklenburg County and Jeffrey Warren, a senior policy adviser for Sen. Phil Berger, the state Senates President Pro Tempore.
Still, the legislatures delicate solution shows just how thorny the subject remains. Under the legislative proposal, review of trade secrets would be strictly controlled. The corporate secrets wouldnt be accessible to the public, while Mining and Energy Commissioners would have access on a limited basis.
Chemical disclosure is one of the most important safety rules governing fracking, and usually the most controversial aspect of shale gas exploration. The dozens of chemicals used in fracking range from benign household cleansers and food additives to potent industrial solvents. They are diluted in the fracking fluid, typically in concentrations of 2 percent or less of the fluid.
About three dozen states allow shale gas exploration through horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. With regard to disclosing the highly competitive chemical recipes used in fracking, all those states have some sort of exemption for corporate trade secrets and proprietary intellectual property, Womack said.
Womack said the Senates move still leaves the commission with plenty of room to operate. The fracking provision is part of House Bill 74, an omnibus environmental package, with changes made during the process that will have to go back to the House for approval to become law.
Womack said the Mining and Energy Commissions authority to review a trade secrets is crucial. It grants the commission power to reject bogus trade secret claims, and to safeguard against unsafe chemicals.
Well have some affirmation of whats being put in the ground, Womack said. You can deny the trade secret status. You can deny the use of that material in North Carolina.
The Mining and Energy Commission, and its various committees, are scheduled to meet in Raleigh on Thursday and Friday. The full commission will discuss chemical disclosure and could vote on a proposed rule Friday, Womack said.
The legislation now says an energy company would have to disclose the chemical recipe it plans to use in fracking. But any trade secret claim would be subject to review by a committee of the Mining and Energy Commission.
That committee, comprising between two and six commission members, would meet in closed session, off-limits to all except lawyers, scientists and other experts needed to advise the committee members. All who enter the room would likely have to sign confidentiality forms, promising not to discuss the trade secrets they saw. The committee would vote behind closed doors, either approving or rejecting the secret chemicals for use in this state.
Those terms are too restrictive to fracking skeptics.
The Senate is still trying to preclude with the Mining and Energy Commissions intensive research and study on this matter, said Molly Diggins, director of the Sierra Clubs North Carolina operations.
The key protection for the industry is that the committee would not keep the trade secret information on file. The documents would be returned to the energy company and taken away. This precaution is designed to protect the state government from becoming a target of freedom-of-information lawsuits filed to pry loose intellectual property.
This is new ground were treading, acknowledged Rao of the Mining and Energy Commission.
The Mining and Energy Commission will also have to come up with an emergency plan to access the trade secrets in the event of an explosion, a spill, exposure, inhalation or some other accident. Womack said the data has to be accessed quickly, without having to go and hunt someone down.
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As you enter, you'll find another monkey in a cage. Bust it down to save it, then shoot the spiders down with the slingshot and climb up the vines.
In the next room (what we'll call the "main" room), a large spider will drop down from the center. Continue to slash it until it's down (spin attacks work best). Then head up to the center platform and light all four of the torches in the corners with the lantern, to open the path to the next room. The large chest next to the exit contains the dungeon map.
This "room" is an outdoor area with a big bridge in the middle and lots of rotating wind-powered bridges everywhere else. Unfortunately, as you come up to the big bridge, a mischievous baboon will cut it down. You'll be sent back to the main room.
The monkey with you will hop on the rope that leads to the right. Run to the edge to hop onto the monkey's arms and swing over to the door.
The next room is a wet one. Once you enter, run to the immediate right. Blow up the wall there with one of the bomb plants and destroy the pot that's moving, it contains an Ooccoo, who will help you escape the dungeon if need be. Continue hopping through here to the north and enter the next room, which is the other side of the bridge room.
Go straight along the rotating bridges and enter the cross-shaped room. A chest near the entrance has a small key. Get it and go back to the water room, and use the key on the locked door here.
Through the locked door is...hey, another trapped monkey! Run to the right along the small bridge (which ends up collapsing) and down to the ground. Knock the cage free by rolling into the totem pole three times.
Goblins will show up after that. Dispatch them to free the monkey, then head all the way back to the main room. In there, the monkeys will team up on the ropes and let you get to the east doorway this time. Burn the web in front of the door and enter.
In the next room you'll be threatened by carnivorous plants that can eat you if you fall down into them. Climb up the steps and approach the bomb-spider creatures. Z-target them to draw your shield, and when they leap at you, they'll shrivel into their bomb form without any extra effort from you. Grab their explosive bodies and turn to the nearest gap to drop them into the mouths of the corresponding plant creatures.The plant to the south is especially important, as it guards a Piece of Heart in a chest.
Move to the south of the room and climb the nearby vine wall to reach the door to the next room.
Another trapped monkey will be inside, and one of the plant creatures will swallow the key. It will send out an extra head to attack you. Beat it, then grab one of the bomb-spiders and toss it into the plant's mouth in the center. It will explode and you'll get the key to free the monkey.
Back in the previous room, move over to the east door. Grab the nearest bomb-spider and toss it over to the blocked door to blow the boulders away, then head inside.
The fourth monkey is at the end of the room. Run down and roll into the totem poles to get a rupee and the small key for the monkey's cell. In the middle is a tiled walkway with serpents that will shove you up and out of the way if you step on one. But not all of them are dangerous, and you can easily walk across the far right of the platform to avoid them (or swim up to the other side, climb onto the platform and run up). Light the torches in the center while avoiding the other serpents to raise the steps that lead to the monkey's cell. Also, in this room, if you unlight the torches with your Gale Boomerang, you will have access to the other Piece of Heart. Now that enough monkeys are back, return to the main room.
Once you're back, return to the north door to enter the bridge room. The monkeys will finally help you get across the chasm by swinging along the rope. Enter the door on the other side.FOREST TEMPLE MINI-BOSS: The Dancing Baboon
In here the baboon will return, dancing around on the totems. That and he'll send down some plant enemies to make life tough. Roll into the totem(s) that the baboon is on to knock it down to the ground, then start slashing it until it leaps back up. Keep an eye on the plants, making sure they don't slither up too close to you.
Knock down and slash the baboon three more times until he finally runs off. He'll leave the Gale Boomerang behind for you to pick up. Aim the boomerang at the windmill above the exit door -- press Z to lock onto it with a pink cursor and this successfully lift up the gate.
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It ought to be obvious what to do now. Head back to the bridge room. From the door, turn left and aim the boomerang at the rotating bridges until they align properly, and then cross. Take out the goblins and use the boomerang to cut down the monkey hanging by a cobweb. Enter the next door ahead to make your way back to the main room.
Now that you have the boomerang, you can cut down the chest in the middle of the room. The chest contains the compass. A weak patch of wall will be exposed below the north door. Use a bomb-spider to break it down and find a chest with 20 rupees. Head back west to the water room.
Move to the southwest corner. You'll find four windmills above the door. Look at the ground and trace the Z pattern by locking onto the windmills with the boomerang. Once they're hit in the right order, you'll find a chest on the other side of the door with the Big Key. Go north from here to cross the bridge room and into the cross-shaped room.
Use the boomerang to spin the bridge in here so that you can walk onto it, then spin it again while you're on it and enter the room to the east. In here are some random rupees and items you can get with the boomerang, along with a couple of big spiders. A hole in the middle leads underground to another one of the carnivorous plants and a sixth captured monkey. To get to the monkey, climb back up out of the hole and burn the web closest to the door. You'll drop down to the monkey. Set it free and get the heck out of there.
Return to the cross room and run north to enter the room just before the boss. Use the rotating bridges to move to the right and take out the enemies here. Then climb up the vines and into the next room.
Inside is another hungry plant and, on the opposite side, another bomb-spider. Throw the boomerang at the spider and you'll automatically grab it. Then immediately run over to the plant and toss the bomb in, or you can use the boomerang and target the spider then the plant to kill it too. Behind the plant is a chest with a key. Cross to the right towards the vines. Use the boomerang again and first target the spider w/ Z-button, then target the rock blocking your way. Throw the Boomerang and let it work it's magic. Climb the vines to the next level and take out the enemies. Aim the boomerang once more at the bomb at then throw it at the next door. Free the monkey inside and head back to the cross room.
Enter the door on the west of the cross room -- another room with tile serpents. But with the boomerang you can defeat them: toss it at the serpents to blow them out of their holes, leaving them open to attack. They block the entryway to the cave ahead, so you'll have to get rid of them. Inside the cave you'll fight more spiders. To free the monkey, activate the two windmills at the same time by double-locking-on to them with the boomerang. That should take care of the monkeys.
Turn around and walk around the hole you just climbed up through. Walk around a curve to the left, jump across a small gap, and you'll find a treasure chest with a red rupee (20). Now onto the boss
As you enter the final room, the monkeys will band together and let you swing across. Grab the hearts and fairy (if one appears) with an empty bottle before stepping into the boss room.
Diababa opens with small plant heads that will attack by swinging themselves over to you. Get rid of them by drawing bombs to them with the boomerang. After they're gone, Diababa's main head will emerge along with newly-formed heads.
Hang back for a minute and eventually the baboon will appear and swing across the room holding a bomb. Use the boomerang to lock onto the bomb it holds. Defeat the smaller heads first using the boomerang-bomb technique; once they're gone, you won't be attacked as often. (Just hit the middle head with a bomb flower once and he still collapse without getting the other smaller heads destroyed.)Then, send bombs to the center head. Diababa will collapse in front of you, where you should then slash at its exposed eye. Defeat the smaller heads the same way as before. Diababa will also shoot jets of poison, so dodge at the right moment to avoid it.
Strike at the eye twice to finally kill it, and get a Heart Container and Fused Shadow for your trouble. Then talk to Midna to exit. Your next objective is to locate the spirit Eldin. Enter Hyrule Field by walking up the path behind Coro's house in the woods.
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Aurora Christian's Cory Windle drives to the basket with Joliet Catholic's Keith Craig defending during the 2nd annual Burney Wilkie Classic on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. | Donnell Collins~For Sun-Times Media
First-year Aurora Christian coach Pat McNamara returns to familiar territory Friday when his Eagles travel to neighborhood rival Aurora Central, where he served as an assistant to Chargers coach Nate Drye the previous three seasons.
"Nate's a friend of mine. He's got a great sense of humor and he does a great job," McNamara said. "They graduated some good players last year, but they got out of the gate quick until they ran into Wheaton Academy last week."
McNamara knows that challenge. His 3-3 team got off to a fast start, winning three of four in its own Thanksgiving tournament before opening Suburban Christian Blue play against two-time defending champ Wheaton Academy and St. Francis, which is expected to challenge the Warriors for the crown. The results were 69-54 and 73-49 losses, respectively.
"Those teams are tough. They took us to the woodshed, but our guys are improving," said McNamara, who believes some of his players are still getting their basketball legs under them after their state championship run kept them on the football field until Nov. 23.
"I think we've got a ways to go, but we've had four days of practice this week and that's what we really needed," continued McNamara, who notes he's made more changes on the defensive end of the floor than on offense.
The Eagles are playing more man-to-man than in the past.
"That's a big change but we've got athletes who are hard-nosed kids who are competitive and they'll get better at it," he said.
Cory Windle averages a team-high 13.5 points per game and is one of three players in double figures. He's joined by Johnathan Harrell (12.3) and Ryan McQuade (10.7).
Harrell, a junior wing who did not play football, leads with 8.7 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2.3 steals.
Point guard is key
ACC is off to a 5-2 start — 1-1 in the league — paced by Sean Harreld (17.5 ppg through 5 games) and Shawn Soris (11.3), but McNamara points to senior point guard Anthony Andujar.
"He came up to the varsity down the stretch of his sophomore year and played well," McNamara said. "He's a hard guy to press. He's a one-man press breaker, he's so low to the ground it's hard to take it away from him. He's the key for them."
Andujar had a 9.5 scoring average with 5.3 assists for the Chargers through five games.
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West Aurora has been seeded third at the 16-team Pontiac Holiday Tournament, which will be played Dec. 27-29.
Simeon, ranked No. 1 in the state and seventh in the nation by USA Today, gets the nod at No. 1 as it shoots for its third straight tourney title in the 82nd edition of the oldest Christmas Tourney in the country.
Peoria Manual (7-0) is seeded second and 0-2 Curie grabbed the fourth seed.
"We've been going down there since 1970 or '71," West coach Gordie Kerkman said. "It's a great tournament. I like it because you get good competition and you get to face teams from different regions with Chicago, suburban and downstate schools.
"Some years it's the best (Christmas) tournament in the state. It used to be all the time but Proviso West probably has more good teams and it might take a backseat to Proviso this year."
Pontiac officials only seed four teams then place the others to fill out the bracket and said this year the next 12 teams are all pretty evenly matched. Kerkman's Blackhawks open the first day at 10:30 a.m. against Lockport, a team they will play later this year in a nonconference matchup.
"Usually they try to set the pairings so teams from the same conference or teams that may already be scheduled to play each other don't face each other until the later rounds, so I'm a little surprised to see Lockport in the first game," said Kerkman, whose team won the title in 1990 and has been runner-up four times (1972, '83, '95 and '96). Four times the Blackhawks have won the consolation title.
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East Aurora's game Saturday at Bartlett does tip off at 4:30 p.m. The girls teams from both schools are scheduled to play the late game, beginning at about 6 p.m.
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An anchorwoman wearing a hijab head covering appeared on Egyptian state television for the first time in its 50-year existence on Sunday, sparking fears the move represents a further shift towards Islamism under the newly-empowered Muslim Brotherhood.
Under deposed president Hosni Mubarak, women wearing Islamic head coverings were only permitted to work behind the camera; however, in January, an Egyptian court overturned the prohibition.
The newsreader in question, Fatma Nabil, who wore the headscarf of her own volition, made her appearance on a midday broadcast on Egypt's Channel 1; three other women wearing headscarves also are slated to begin working as anchors in the near future.
In the Muslim Brotherhood's daily newspaper, Freedom and Justice, Nabil welcomed the development, saying it was a sign that Egypt's revolution was successful.
In contrast, some analysts voiced concern that the move was an early sign that the Brotherhood was planning to impose Sharia law in Egypt.


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Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune invites us all to participate in Bill McKibben's People's Climate March on September 20-21. Video link below!
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This fall we are honored to have Bruce Hamilton, the Deputy Executive Director for the national Sierra Club as our speaker for our Night With Sierra Club fundraiser event. A Night For Sierra Club is a special evening, once every two years, where we can join together to celebrate the progress we have made and honor those who have made it possible. We encourage everyone to attend and to invite your friends and family so they can learn more about the Sierra Club and environmentalism in Oklahoma in a fun and special setting.
This year's Night With Sierra Club is September 27, 2014 in the evening. Once again, it will be held in the Eclipse Ballroom at Remington Park in Oklahoma City. Valet parking is complimentary and a full meal (with vegetarian option) will be served. Sponsorship opportunities with an exclusive VIP reception with our speaker are available.
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Washington, D.C. - The United States Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a plan to reduce health-harming haze air pollution in Oklahoma. The Court denied a request by Attorney General Scott Pruitt and Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E) asking for a review of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals prior decisions to uphold the United States Environmental Protection Agency's plan to cut haze pollution. For a third time, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's arguments have been rejected by the courts.
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on Nov 29, 2012 at 1:58 pm
This goes back to "Why are we building more housing?!"
This makes absolutely NO SENSE.
on Nov 29, 2012 at 4:24 pm
What would a moratorium on housing achieve, other than to artificially inflate housing prices.
Fact is, more people work here than live here, can afford to live here, and want to cut down their commute. There are also many immigrants here, and they are having more than two children, sometimes four or five. That tends to fill up schools without an increase in housing. In addition, the echo boom of the baby boom are now having children. We need more housing, we need more schools. It is called growth.
on Nov 30, 2012 at 8:08 am
Please do NOT alter school attendance boundaries in a nutty way; this means maintaining sensible routes such as the opportunity to walk down a street to the elementary school (a route that currently exists)rather than a bureaucratic re-setting involving a long trek, crossing a major street, to get to a newly opened school.