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Great sign hanging in a local business. instagr.am/p/R6GjiyL5GI/—
Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) November 11, 2012
Breitbart.com's Dana Loesch tweeted a picture of a sign hanging inside a local business last night. And it's beautiful.
Of course, a wilfully ignorant Twitter user had to trot out the "but … but … roads!!" nonsense.
@DLoesch who built the road that business is on?—
Seth Davis (@SethDavisHoops) November 11, 2012
He was swiftly given the business.
@SethDavisHoops @DLoesch Ummm … that would be all of us who pay taxes. Are you under the impression that the government has its own money?—
Nancy J. McManus (@NancyJeanMc) November 12, 2012
@SethDavisHoops @dloesch businesses/commerce do not exist because government does – gov exists because businesses and commerce do—
Matt Henderson (@MattHenderson66) November 12, 2012
. @SethDavisHoops Roads are in enumerated powers and state agencies. Next time learn how gov't works so my friends don't have to teach you.—
Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) November 12, 2012
Zing! Teachable moments are hard.
Kudos, Wood family! We wish you continued success. You built that.


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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Christmas Remembered
You simply must not miss this touching story told by Matthew Gallatin!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
The Eucharist Is . . .
Listen to a poem compiled by Fr. John Finley based on the writings of Fr. Alexander Schmemann on the 25th anniversary of his departure from this world.
The Soul As Mystery
Fr. Stephen looks at the human soul and what it means that it is a mystery - known to God - but not fully known to us.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Falling Asleep
Father Thomas Hopko remembers the last days of Fr. Alexander Schmemann on the 25th anniversary of his falling asleep in our Lord Jesus Christ. May his memory be eternal.
Listen to a brief preview:
Prosperity and the Gospel
Kevin Allen and his guest, Orthodox journalist Glen Chancy, discuss the "Prosperity Gospel" and the implications of a "Gospel message" tied to material prosperity, especially in light of a failing economy.

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Korres • 3-in-1 Milk Proteins Emulsion • Cleansers
(62 reviews)
|Average Rating.
|Would buy this product again.
*TOP REVIEWER* annos on 8/8/2013 7:27:00 AM more reviews by annos
Age: 30-35 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine Eyes: Green
This has become one of my favourite cleansers and I keep returning to it again and again. I have combo skin that is partially oily and partially sensitive and dry. This cleanser does the job of making my skin feel clean but does not dry it out. It has a milky, runny texture, a very mild scent and can be used both with and without water. I use it with water and pair it with a very mild floral toner. This combo removes all makeup but never leave my skin feeling tight or irritated.
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fechenwiesen on 7/28/2013 7:32:00 AM more reviews by fechenwiesen
Age: 44-55 Skin: Acne-prone Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
I should have checked with Make Up Alley Reviews before buying this. I saw a buy one get one package and was pulled in. I was looking for an all in one product to take on vacation. I paid just over 20 Euros for two bottles, but normally that would have been the price for one.
I used this for three days and then began to develop painful pimples on my cheeks ( never usually have problems there) and on my jawline. I wouldn´t buy this product again. I have started using ti to shave my legs just to make us of it. The scent is ok.
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*TOP REVIEWER* danai on 11/2/2012 5:22:00 PM more reviews by danai
Age: 25-29 Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium Hair: Blond, Wavy, Fine Eyes: Hazel
Unfortunately, I'm not impressed. Truth be told I'm quite lazy when it comes to cleansing and makeup removal, so, while I never ever skip it, I do like products that do the trick easily and thoroughly without needing me to rub aggressively. My skin can also be quite sensitive, so all the more reason to look for products that require minimal pressure on the skin and eyes to work.
This lotion is not it. It takes a ton of cotton buds and effort and rubbing and I'm just not up for that. Also, no matter how much I try, traces of makeup always seem to stay behind. Last but not least, I suspect it contributes to clogged pores for me.
I don't see why pick this over tons of other similar products out there, many of which are cheaper as well.
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sayshal on 10/24/2012 2:37:00 PM more reviews by sayshal
Age: 19-24 Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Warm Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
I use this as a makeup remover before I use my Dark Angels Cleanser and I really like it. I would never use it alone as a cleanser since it doesn't clean my skin, but it removes makeup amazingly well which my dark angels cannot do. I only use it at night or when I need to take my makeup off. I really like it, works better than any other makeup remover I have tried and it does NOT break me out.
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*TOP REVIEWER* franzvonstuck on 8/24/2012 1:11:00 PM more reviews by franzvonstuck
Age: 36-43 Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine Eyes: Hazel
In the search for a new cleanser, I was eyeing this Korres cleanser for a long time.
Although I couldn´t tolerate the wild rose cream from Korres, my face just loves the yoghurt sunscreen.
So, it was a risk to buy this cleanser, but I found it for 40 % off as it was going out of stock. I paid 14 Euros for it.
My skin is super-hyper-sensitive and I need the most gentle cleansers available. I used Cetaphil for years and am now changing my cleanser, because the SLS dries out my skin. The Eucerin re-balance I recently discovered and fell in love with is good for washing the face in the morning, but in the evening, I would like to have oils in my cleanser to break down the sunscreen.
The cleanser is a milky cleanser, white and semi-liquid. Mine didn´t smell like there was perfume in it.
I normally wear sunscreen spf 50 and a light foundation.
My usual routine is first getting most of the make-up off with thermal water and a cotton pad (my eyes are cleansed separately with Bioderma), then applying the cleanser on my face and massage it in. I rinse it with water, because I prefer it this way.
It leaves my face supersoft, moisturized and protected, which might give the impression, that the skin is not clean.
Anyone who likes squeaky-clean skin will not love this cleanser.
But for my skin, I definitely love the clean and at the same time soft feeling.
Having tried tons of cleansers for dry and sensitive skin from high-end and pharmay brands, this is one of the best I found over the years.
The oils in it are not comedogenic, so don´t be afraid if you are acne-prone.
I give this 4 lippies, for the Eucerin is even more gentle and more protecting, but I still recommend this for dry skin, sensitive skin or anyone who likes gentle cleansers, that don´t strip the skin.
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kiki005us on 1/24/2012 10:17:00 AM more reviews by kiki005us
Age: 30-35 Skin: Very Dry, Fair Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium Eyes: Hazel
This product is so gentle on my dry skin; after using this to get my makeup off, my face does not dry out immediatley like it does with other cleasers. Also this product smells good too, but not heavily fragranced at all. I definatley recommend for those with dry skin!
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stuffystephy on 1/18/2012 2:22:00 AM more reviews by stuffystephy
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral Hair: Black, Straight Eyes: Hazel
This is a very gentle milk cleanser. I've been using this for years (maybe 4 or 5). It doesn't dry my skin out or disturb the natural balance of my skin. I'd describe my skin as normal to dry on my cheeks and normal to oily in my T-zone.
This will not fully remove your makeup. I used to only wear tinted moisturizer, and this did the trick for that. But if I'm wearing foundation, I first remove it with a cleansing water, then use this after to cleanse my skin and remove any last traces of makeup. I rinse it off with water, but it can also be tissued off.
It's fairly reasonably priced - in the UK I believe it's £12-14 retail. I use it quite liberally on my face and neck, and one bottle lasts me about 6-7 months (I do only use it at night though, I only splash my face with water in the morning).
I like that it's unscented, and I like the ingredients.
The only thing I don't like about it is the lid. It's a screw top with a narrow base. But the rest of the packaging is good - there's a little pinhole in the top, and you squeeze out the amount you want. You can control how much comes out.
Just a note - if you're used to cleaning your face with soap and getting that "squeaky clean" feeling, this won't give you that, as it uses vegetable oils to clean your face ("like dissolves like"). Don't worry though, it has done it's cleansing job, and left your natural skin barriers intact.
Bottom line: good, gentle, non-irritating skin cleanser - does it's job, good ingredients
Update: It seems to have been reformulated. Performs about the same. Differences: has a strong smell to it now, stings my eyes now.
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*TOP REVIEWER* signsoflife on 8/2/2011 2:44:00 PM more reviews by signsoflife
Age: 36-43 Skin: Sensitive, Fair Hair: Other Eyes: Brown
I love how this smells, but it doesn't really take all of my makeup off (especially when the Sephora consultant said it would take *everything* off, including my mineral makeup) and seems to clog my pores. I still have to use an oil cleanser beforehand and it doesn't seem better than anything else I've tried, so after I finish my sample, I will continue using my Mario Badescu Enzyme Cleansing Gel.
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Alyssaunplugged on 6/26/2011 12:48:00 PM more reviews by Alyssaunplugged
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Red Eyes: Brown
HORRIBLE. I do not have sensitive skin but this product made my face turn blotchy red within minutes of using it. Also, I left my face feeling like there is a film on it...gross! I absolutely hate this product.
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jas4956 on 6/13/2011 9:59:00 PM more reviews by jas4956
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Medium Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
I hated this cleanser...and will not repurchase this again. I had a horrible allergic reaction to this cleanser... as I later found out that it had a nut oil in it.
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Wondering if someone can answer this question for me. How are the play-off organized? I ask because I occasionally pop over to check out "The Absurdly Premature Playoff Picture" blog post at Yahoo Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/The-absurdly-premature-playoff-picture-Week-10?urn=nfl,203407) and a few weeks back they had the Packers making the Playoffs but they were on the other side of the NFC playoff bracket branches (so to speak) - after this past week's win, they've been moved to a position where we'd have to play them BEFORE getting to the NFC Championship game (assuming that we hold true to form here and win the Division as it looks like we might).
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KFIX Rock News: Kinks Guitarist's New Album Streaming Online
Founding Kinks guitarist Dave Davies' new album, I Will Be Me, won't be released until June 4, but the legendary rocker is giving fans the chance to preview the collection online now.
All of the album's 13 tracks currently are streaming at Cleopatra Records' SoundCloud page.
I Will Be Me features guest appearances by an eclectic group of musicians, including veteran U.K. guitarist Chris Spedding, alt-country band The Jayhawks, punk group Anti-Flag, young stoner band Dead Meadow, Australian rock act The Art and British blues man Oli Brown.
Davies will be selling copies of the album during his upcoming U.S. tour, which kicks off with a three-night stand, May 27-29, at the City Winery in New York City.
He'll also be playing a free June 4 show at the same venue as part of the fifth annual Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival.
Here are all of Dave Davies' stateside tour dates:
5/27 — New York, NY, City Winery
5/28 — New York, NY, City Winery
5/29 — New York, NY, City Winery
5/30 — Shirley, MA, The Bull Run
5/31 — Norfolk, CT, Infinity Hall
6/1 — Bethlehem, PA, Musikfest Café
6/2 — Fall River, MA, Narrows Center for the Arts
6/4 — New York, NY, City Winery – Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival (free show)
6/6 — Hermosa Beach, CA, Sainte Rock
6/7 — San Juan Capistrano, CA, The Coach House
6/9 — Agoura Hills, CA, The Canyon
6/11 — Del Mar, CA, San Diego County Fair
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All about the Economy Today
On this week's podcast, Doug Goldstein meets Timothy Taylor, author of The Instant Economist: Everything you need to know about how the economy works and managing editor of The Journal of Economic Perspectives. Find out about the state of the world's economy and how it affects ordinary people.
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ESPN is reporting that the Arizona Diamondbacks have fired manager Bob Melvin. The Diamondbacks will replace Melvin with 34 year old former Oakland A's catcher A.J. Hinch. Hinch was the V.P. of player development for the Diamondbacks prior to his promotion which is due to be announced by the team in Friday.
At least the former friend, and maybe current friend, of former AL Rookie of the year Ben Grieve is doing well for himself in baseball, unlike Ben Grieve. I am glad to see that A.J. is doing well for himself. I was just looking through the story and man, it sure seems like Arizona is having some offensive problems that would rival ours. Eric Byrnes is hitting .139.
Onto the A's, I keep hearing the famous tag line, maybe this will be the day that gets us going. How many games do we play where we hear this and it never materializes, but hey here's to hoping that today is the one that gets us going. Let's Go A's!!


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2 scoops chocolate casein
2 scoops vanilla whey
1 scoop Superfood
4 oz water
blend with electric mixer until mix expands ("fluffs")
Topped with cool whip free and some coconut. 100g of protein and not much else. Delicious.
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Posts: 20064
^ and a diet coke?
I fucking <3 diet coke.
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Location: Florida, USA
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Made a pretty good PWO shake today. 2 cups of milk, 1 cup of greek yogurt, 2 scoops of vanilla whey, 2 tbsp olive oil, and 4 tbspn of organic peanut butter.
came out to being almost 900 cals.
102g of protein
I had made the mistake of purchasing vanilla protein, Very bad taste to me, the greek yogurt and peanut butter made the taste amazing plus added decent cals and protein.
not anywhere near the high content level of H4Ms shake but working on it!
Hey guys, been trying out the different meal ideas posted. I came up with a modified version of H4M's Puppy Shit. Being that im still getting rid of my vanilla whey i needed some tweaks for the snack.
Mine ends up being more of Puppy Diarrhea
2 scoops of whey protein isolate
50g protein, 230 cals (5 from fat) 7g carb
1/2 cup athenos greek yogurt (helps spread the protein so its not as pasty)
11.5g protein 70 cals (0 from fat) 5g carb
4 tbsp of Organic peanut butter (creamy)
14g protein 420 cals (300 from fat) 12g carb
Gives you 720 cals 75.5g of protein and 22g of carbs
and yeah, puppy diarrhea because the greek yogurt definitely makes it smoother. Thanks for the idea H4M
Join date: May 2009
Location: Missouri, USA
Posts: 261
Don't know how healthy this is, but this is my protein shake every night
4 scoops Blue Bunny chocolate ice cream
1 cup Vitamn D whole Milk
2 Scoops Syntha-6 Protein
1 teaspoon Creatine Monohydrate
Couple of squirts of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup
Around 50-55g protein. That's all I care about really besides the serving of creatine
Join date: Mar 2009
Posts: 4626
Unnecessarily lean high protein breakfast w/ tuna:
4 slices of turkey bacon
20g protein and 4g fat
can of tuna
30ish g protein
2 cups Egg whites
50g protein
=100g protein and 4-5g fat
1. fry bacon and tuna together so tuna tastes bacony
2. add egg whites
3. ?????
4. Profit
Have used whole eggs and made it more fatty but this is what I made tonight exactly so I thought I'd throw it up. Turkey bacon's been on sale here, usually I use sliced ham and it ends up about the same nutritional value.
The only different thing is probably the tuna, it's really good fried up with bacon/ham and eggs and adds 25-30g protein cheaper than egg whites do. Makes it easier to eat it because tuna is hard to get down by itself sometimes.
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Posts: 619
This is not my own recipes, but I cook it so much I call it my own lol. It's really awesome chili, it'll make a bunch, good to last a few days.
3lb extra lean ground beef
2 large sweet onions (optional - personally I don't like onions)
5 Large tomatoes
3 Italian tomatoes - optional, they aren't always available here
2 cans of red kidney beans
3 large carrots
1/2 clove of garlic
1 large red bell pepper
2-3 jalapenos
2 tbsp spoons cumin
2 tbsp crushed chili peppers
4 tbsp chili powder
2 tbsp smoked paprika
1 tbsp crushed black pepper
2 cans of tomato paste
1 large can of tomatoes sauce
3 squares of 85% dark chocolate
Bag of cheese
You might want to get started on the tomatoes early.. having a sous chef helps lol
Cut up all the peppers, and start sauteing them in a pan with some olive oil
Throw in the ground beef after a minute or two
Start cutting the carrots, and drain the beans at this time
When the beef is done, drain it. Add all the spices to the beef
Add carrots and beans, stir well
Now add the can of tomato sauce, followed by the tomato paste
Add all 5 tomatoes, chopped and diced
Stir well - depending on how thick you like it, you can add some water. I usually add about 2 cups.
Now add your 3 squares of dark chocolate, mix it in nicely.
Now cover, and let it simmer on low for about 2-3 hours. When the carrots are soft you know it's done
Add cheese, enjoy!
Note: Depending on how diet friendly you want this to be, you can add other meats. Turkey meatballs work great, as well as hot links.
In the pic above I added ham cubes, bacon, and a package of hot links.
Easy beef stew
So easy, a cave man can...
4lbs of beef chuck
1 back mixed veggies
2 cans of beans
2 packets of beef stew seasoning mix
^you can also use other packets, there's one I like better than beef stew but it wasn't on sale lol
Throw beef in slow cooker, throw seasoning in. Add beans (drained) on top, followed by the bag of veggies.
Let it cook on high for 6 hours, then cook it on low for 4 hours.
This is how you fuckers make a meal.
1 1/4 lb sirloin, lean only
12 oz polenta
smothered in maple chipotle bbq sauce.
Also got my zinc, b6, and circumin in the picture.
Join date: Sep 2008
Posts: 3359
Chicken Marsala
1 lb chicken
as many mushrooms as you want
3 oz Marsala Wine
2-3 tbsp butter
8 oz chicken broth
a little flour to thicken sauce
as much fresh garlic as you like
1 cup of uncooked rice (makes 2 cups when it's done)
The picture is blurry because it was steaming when I took it. The meal has about 1,100 calories over 100 grams of protein, 70 carbs and about 30 grams of fat.
1)Cover the tenders in flour, shake excess flour off. Toss the floured tenders in a bowl of beaten eggs. Mix it thoroughly.
2)Cook the tenders in oil until browned but not completely cooked.Season them with salt an pepper. Take them off the heat and stack them on a plate for later.
3) In the same pan, add a little butter and throw the mushrooms in. Season them with salt an pepper. After a minute throw the garlic in. After another minute , throw the Marsala wine in. Reduce wine by half while mixing it with the goodness in the pan (1-3 minutes depending on heat and size of pan.)
4) Put a little flour in the chicken stock and mix it with a fork. This will make the sauce thicker, you don't need to do this unless you want a thick sauce. Dump broth in pan. Add butter for more flavor.
5) Once it looks like it's going to boil over, add the chicken. Reduce the heat a little and the dish will be done in 3-5 minutes.
Serve over rice or with potatoes.
Join date: May 2011
Location: Louisiana, USA
Posts: 246
Spicy Thai shrimp I threw together at like 11pm last night.
1 lb shrimp, peeled, tailed, and deveined
1 can bean sprouts
3 tbsp soy sauce
2 tsp peanut wonder (defatted pb)
2 tsp sriacha chili sauce
1/2 tbsp garlic powder
3/4 tbsp ev coconut oil
melt the oil in a skillet, get it hot, through everything in and stir and mix until it's well done and looks like brains. About 85g protein, 8g fat, 12g carbs.
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Join date: Jun 2010
Location: California, USA
Posts: 2356
No pics sorry but pre training meal today:
1 cup oats
2 scoops whey
1/2 tbsp VCO (virgin coconut oil)
big spoon PB
mix it all up, throw some splenda in that bitch, and WOAH it's great
Join date: Jun 2010
Location: Denmark
Posts: 1111
I made some puppy shit of my own today, so I figured that could revive this thread.
PB: 50g
Protein Powder: 100g
Added some coffee and cinnamon until it had the desired consistency.
720 kcal
Macros are
P: 95g
C: 15g
F: 31g
Next time I might try to add some honey or eat a banana with it.
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Join date: Nov 2007
Location: North Carolina, USA
Posts: 6723
Nothing super fancy, just a snack I've been eating lately....
Ritz crackers, smooth peanut butter, Reese's Pieces, and Milk. PB on the crackers, put a couple Reese's Pieces on each cracker, drink milk with them. It's easy to eat a whole sleeve of crackers in a single sitting like this, while going through a bunch of milk. Definitely doesn't fall under "clean bulking" category though lol.
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Location: England
Posts: 1244


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The simple interpretation is that average people don't have clear, fixed, opinions about what rules to make about abortion. They do know they don't want to deal with them. They are wary about making rules for other people on the matter.
Here's what happens when the serious political question is posed, i.e. do you want Roe v Wade (and the rules it set) overturned.
http://www.pollster.com/blogs/us_nationa l_survey_cnn51415.php
I think the polling shifts on subjective questions according to the sense of the political atmosphere.
Serious events do shift numbers in a strong way. Polling on Roe went from 46/44 (with 10% Undecideds that were known to lean to upholding) to 56/35 in under a week when Sandra Day O'Connor announced her intention to resign in August 2005. (There was a sense prior to that that a good chunk of the anti-Roe support by moderates was unsolid.)
I wasn't able to find good polling after the Alito confirmation and what happened to numbers after the Carhart majority verdict. But during the past year or two there has been a a sense of doom setting in on the 'pro-life' side. The Tiller shooting has really reinforced the fatalism. There was a lot of upset and ultimately resignation about the University of Notre Dame being able to resist the orthodox Catholic pressure against giving Obama a platform.
My sense of the numbers and trends and political blocs is that in ten years, there won't be much of an organized 'pro-life' movement left.


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In Tensta Konsthall Front created an environment that changes with time. The interior design is inspired by the fact that most designs change with time; the surfaces get old and scratched, things are moved around or some of the objects get replaced. We saw this as an opportunity and created an interior with a built in change.
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Revenue Down But Profits Up at Stevens & Lee
Gross revenue declined to $108.6 million at Stevens & Lee in 2009, a 1 percent decrease from the $109.7 million the firm took in in 2008. According to the Legal Intelligencer, profits per equity partner managed a 4.6 percent increase last year to $905,000 from $865,000 in '08.
The report cited a decrease in the firm's "core corporate practices" as the catalyst for the dip in gross revenue. Revenue per lawyer also fell nearly 6 percent in '09 to $635,000 from $675,000 the previous year, which was thanks in large part to the firm continuing to bring on lateral hires.
According to the Legal Intelligencer, Stevens & Lee had 171 lawyers in '09, including 62 equity partners.
Firm President Ernie Choquette said in the report that the firm is looking to expand this year.
"What we are seeing is the large buyers of legal services are now understanding that a lot of the midsized firms…can provide the same quality of service that the top 100 (firms) can provide (but) at a better value metric," Choquette said.
Stevens & Lee was founded in 1928 and has 13 offices throughout the mid-Atlantic region.Revenue Down But Profits Up at Stevens & Lee by joshua
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Remembering Ruth Schonthal
I met Ruth Schonthal in 1992 at a musical retreat held by Goliard Concerts at rural Warwick, New York . She was guest composer on the series that Fall, and I was to appear in a similar capacity the following year.
In 1994, after listening to several of her pieces, we chose to program her wonderful solo piano work The Canticles of Hieronymus , as performed excellently by her frequent performer-collaborator Margaret Mills on the Composers Concordance concert series at the Kosciuszko Foundation. That piece was based upon the famous painting of Hieronymus Bosch, "The Garden of Earthly Delights," and had all the colorful imaginings of the painting translated into a musical expression.
My wife and I had the good fortune to be invited to Ruth's beautiful home in New Rochelle for several summers of cook-outs during long Labor Day weekends. Other artists were present, including the inventive and amusing Alton S. Tobey, who was a noted artist and illustrator as well as raconteur. At such gatherings, Ruth showed her fascinating ability to create ersatz versions of classical works at the piano. She could mimic Beethoven, Chopin and Schumann with astonishing accuracy so that even pianists familiar with the literature sometimes believed she had stumbled upon some "long lost masterwork" when, essentially, they were hearing an improvisation of genius.
But, in her own work, Ruth was uncompromising and inventive. She would include Viennese waltzes in certain sections of her work, knowing full well that some scholars of "new music" would find them out of place. She was no stranger, though, to avant-garde techniques. Although she copied many of her pieces with computer calligraphy, she would also l! eave areas blank where she could draw more "aleatoric" effects and graphs that could not easily be notated by computer. She was also no stranger to the "prepared piano." In several of her pieces, such as the Bells of Sarajevo, performed at a concert of the Composers Concordance on May 25, 2006, shortly before her death, she included small plastic and metal objects in the body of the grand piano to "rattle around" and create a "prepared" effect (See page 20). She was also a great believer in using small increments of time between other duties for composing. She didn't need or have the luxury of long, unoccupied hours.
One of the themes that interested Ruth was that of "destroyed beauty," or anything beautiful that was experiencing decay or destruction. Perhaps this fascination related to her early years, where she escaped Nazi Germany and saw destruction and oppression first hand. Of late she was rather critical of the imperiousness of her adopted home, the U.S., citing what she perceived as arrogant "shock and awe" techniques of international persuasion.
Ruth Schonthal left a sizable footprint, particularly in reference works published in Germany where the Akademie der Künst in Berlin housed and purchased her complete archives in celebration of her 75th birthday. Her work also became readily available, with Furore Verlag in Kassel, Germany publishing it entire. Her recorded work can be found on the Leonard, Cambria, Capstone, Koch, Albany and Academy labels. In recent years, Ruth also took to the Internet as a means to promote her music, and even had score and recording purchasing capabilities on her website. Although she lived to the age of 82, it's little consolation, since we remember her vibrant enthusiasm for life and new plans for the coming year.


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Should the Texas Rainy Day Fund be used for education?
The Dallas district could be ground zero for the budget blast hitting public schools.
In the worst-case scenario, Dallas would lose $253 million in state funds, and that could result in nearly 4,000 jobs lost.
One way to ease the pain would be to tap the state's Rainy Day Fund for public education.
But as schools across Texas brace for the pain of unprecedented budget cuts, Gov. Rick Perry's office told News 8 his stance remains the same: The Rainy Day Fund should go untouched.
Perry outlined his philosophy in the State of the State address on February 8. "That approach would not only postpone tough necessary decisions, but also leave us ill-equipped to handle bigger emergencies in the future," he said.
But is that a firm belief or political bluster? Perry struck a softer tone when he appeared on "Inside Texas Politics" during his last reelection campaign.
"You could use some of that, and the legislature will have that discussion," Perry said last year. "But remember: One time. I highly recommend to the legislature don't use Rainy Day money for continuing expenses."
The state constitution says nothing about the parameters of spending money from that fund except that it can be used when there's a deficiency in general revenue and lawmakers agree.
The legislature has tapped the Rainy Day Fund four times in the past, with Perry signing the budgets in 2003 and 2005.
Teachers say it's time he do it again in the name of education.
"Quality education cannot take place if you've got 35 or 36 students in one classroom," said Rena Honea of the Dallas Alliance/AFT teachers union.
Some Senate Democrats say the fund can help, but only to a point.
"The cuts are very, very real if there are no new taxes and we can't tap into the Rainy Day Fund for more than $3 or $4 billion," said State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte (D-San Antonio). "I think the schools need to expect some cuts."
Even in the conservative House, some Republicans say the fund should be spent.
Without saying Rainy Day money should specifically go to education, Rep. Jim Pitts (R-Waxahachie) — chairman of the powerful appropriations committee — told the Texas Tribune that the fund could close the $4 billion gap in this year's budget.
Instead of worrying about recurring expenses covered by the Rainy Day Fund, some critics think Gov. Perry and lawmakers should solve the recurring budget gap from the 2006 school property tax swap that leaves the education balance sheet billions short every year.
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Initial results of Eva's autopsy were "inconclusive," the Mail reported, although police believe drugs were responsible for her death.
The couple's addiction problems have been public for some time: they met in a rehab clinic 25 years ago. In 2008, Eva was busted for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs into an event at an embassy.
Her husband is being questioned in her death. For now, he's in the hospital recovering from an undisclosed illness for several days, according to the Mail.
Eva worked with Kate Middleton on the Action on Addiction charity, the Mail reported. She was also a close personal friend of Prince Charles.
The prince had argued that Eva should be "given a second chance" after she was allegedly caught with drugs several years ago.


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Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on Saturday evening attacked Bayit Yehudi (Jewish home) as a "house for goyim" that religious Jews should not vote for, Israel Radio reported.
Speaking during his weekly sermon, Yosef said that Bayit Yehudi wanted to "uproot the Torah, have civil marriages and public transportation on Shabbat. What kind of religious are these. They should not be called religious and they should not be voted for."
In the run up to the election, Shas has campaigned strongly for "preserving the Jewish character of the state" and has insisted on maintaining stringencies imposed by the haredi establishment on the state conversion system while denouncing the notion of civil unions in lieu of marriage.
The spiritual leader of the Shas movement, suffered a mild stroke last Saturday during the morning prayer service.
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It's amazing what "flashy" moves like this one and this one can do for your mixed martial arts (MMA) career.
Just ask Ultimate Fighter (TUF) season 17 runner up Uriah Hall, who burst into the spotlight following his spectacular spinning wheel kick knockout (KO) of Adam Cella in the first round of their quarterfinal fight, causing his TUF coach Chael Sonnen to say he might be able to challenge former pound-for-pound great Anderson Silva.
Hall went on to earn a spot in the The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale against Kelvin Gastelum with wins over Andy Enz, the aforementioned Cella, Bubba McDaniel and Dylan Andrews. But, according to his UFC Fight Night 26 opponent, John Howard, wins over names like that aren't anything to drool over because TUF contests aren't "legit fighters."
Quite frankly, Hall is simply "overrated," as "Doomsday" recently expressed to WAAF 97.7/107.3 FM Boston's Rock Station:
"Fighting Uriah Hall, I think he's good. A little overrated. He knocked out some guys with some flashy stuff. That's good, it's impressive, but my thing is who did he fight? He fought Ultimate Fighter fighters. What people have to understand is these guys are not legit UFC fighters, they're guys who are trying to be a UFC fighter. Lets switch sides, let me be Uriah Hall, put me in the house. What do you think would happen? Not only do I have knockouts in the UFC I have knockouts throughout my career. I have more knockouts than him. And the people I knocked out were more creditable."
"Prime Time" went on to lose in the finals to Kelvin Gastelum via unanimous decision. Prior to his run in the TUF house and in Ring of Combat, Hall also suffered a two-fight losing streak to current UFC Middleweight champion Chris Weidman and Constantinos Philippou.
Howard, meanwhile, has gone on a tear since being released by UFC two years ago, winning six of his last seven fights on the regional circuit.
"Doomsday" will find out firsthand if his overrated comment rings true when the two scrappy 185 pounder's lock horns at the TD Garden in Boston. Mass., on Aug, 17, 2013.
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A new football program could be started at East Tennessee State University and a new fine and performing arts center could be built in a few years, according to the school's president.
Beginning the process of starting a football team, establishing a dental school and creating an arts initiative for a new fine and performing arts center were among the many recommendations for ETSU made Wednesday by committees tasked with looking into the century-old school's future.
These recommendations were made by task forces created by the Committee for 125 and announced Wednesday at the Millennium Centre by ETSU President Brian Noland, who emphasized that there will be no football at the university next fall, just that the establishment of a football team has been recommended.
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Upon arrival at Facial Spa and Body, stress immediately begins to melt away when a cup of tea or coffee is placed in your hands and you gaze at the robin's-egg-blue walls while waiting for facials, body wraps, and cellulite treatments. The aesthetician then leads you into a private room stocked with products from top skincare brands such as SkinCeuticals, Obagi, and La Roche-Posay. In addition to these brands, Facial Spa and Body also sells Colombian Fajas Salome shaping girdles, which contour waistlines, improve posture, and protect midsections from sucker punches.
The experienced stylists at Extension Dreams Salon & Spa specialize in enhancing natural hair with extensions. They use a number of methods to affix faux strands, including sewing, taping, clipping, ultrasonic waves, tiny copper micro-rings, and motivational speeches. The team also offers cuts, color services, makeup application, and nailcare with products such as Essie and CND Shellac polish.
Stepping through the door of 1160 Hair is like tiptoeing into another dimension. Pink cherry blossoms hang from the ceiling in defiance of the physics of the real world, and a big-eyed girl and the Mad Hatter peer from swirling paintings on the wall.
Owner Wendy Kahn envisioned her salon as a fairytale-like experience, a whimsical place where aesthetic fantasies become reality with hair care, facials, and mani-pedis. Today, she presides over a salon that indeed looks plucked straight from Alice in Wonderland or a Tim Burton film. Depending on what room guests are in, they'll experience a different aesthetic. In the manicure area, pink velvet seats slide up to black-and-gold tables. In the shampoo room, with artificial-turf floors, a plastic trophy moose head watches from the wall above chairs that are the bright red of a fire truck discovering a "kick me" note on its back. In the salon area, clients sit in white leather chairs in front of gilded antique mirrors, donning leather-print smocks to protect their clothing from errant hairs.
Dr. Maria Patricia Restrepo began the journey toward founding MPR Institute when she was diagnosed with diabetes at 14. The diagnosis brought on bouts of obesity and depression, but Dr. Restrepo didn't give up—instead, she began to research. "What I understood when I started reading was that if I lost weight, my body [would] cope much better with [diabetes]," she says. But losing weight was just the beginning in her quest toward holistic health. She ended up studying medicine, and through her research she learned about the impact of certain foods on health.
Now, Dr. Restrepo and a team of doctors and therapists customize detoxification plans, facials, and ayurvedic healing services according to each patient's needs. "The solution for one person is not the solution for everybody," she says. Staff members take lab tests and hold in-depth consultations with their clients to determine appropriate detoxification or dieting programs. Common treatment targets include hormonal changes, liver detoxification, and colon cleansing.
Inspired by conversations with women from across the globe, the founders of Vitalis created complete wellness programs that help clients with limited free time to meet and maintain weight goals, find balance, and feel healthy. They realized that women juggling motherhood, careers, and bowling pins didn't have hours to devote to exercise and dieting, so they gathered a team of nutritional experts and fitness specialists to assist these women in finding time-effective exercise and diet plans, such as using a vibrating power plate to speed up weight loss. The team combines these plans with advanced equipment to slim bodies, banish cellulite, or detoxify systems and move patrons further along the path to confidence and health.
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Are Vick's best days ahead of him ?
Do we have yet to see Vick at his pinnacle or has he peaked ? It all depends on if he's willing to evolve, as this article with Steve Young's perspective points out. What do you think, while Foles develops even further for the next 2 to 3 years, can Vick take his game to that next level to become an elite QB ?


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HOKAH, Minnesota (WXOW) – A six-year old battling leukemia got some help Saturday from friends, family and even a few strangers.
Caleb Greb, of Hokah, was diagnosed with Leukemia in August.
Saturday, members of the community gathered for food, games and a silent auction in support of his fight.
Money raised will now help Caleb's family pay for medical care as well as home schooling.
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"DIVORCE Lamar now…Get rid of that no-good loser!"
That's the explosive demand sources say Kris Jenner made to daughter Khloe Kardashian – insisting she immediately end her 3 1/2-year marriage to Lamar Odom.
Now sources say that the 28-year-old reality star is planning to slam-dunk the pro basketball player, fearing he's destroying her career and happiness.
"Khloe's ready to pull the plug on her marriage to Lamar," revealed an insider. "Kris has given her the names of a few high-powered Beverly Hills divorce lawyers and told her to start socking away her money."
Khloe already seems to be preparing for the single life. She's dropped 25 pounds and has been rumored to be romantically linked with hard-bodied rapper The Game. And she was off in Greece instead of staying home to cheer on Lamar in the NBA playoffs.
Insiders confide she is desperate to escape a dead-end union that has been filled with heartbreak and disappointment.
"She's an emotional wreck over their failed attempts to conceive a child, and her self-esteem has been shattered by rumors that Lamar is cheating on her," said the source.
Lamar's hard partying, excessive boozing and roving eye became a major issue for the couple. He reportedly guzzled vodka and has flirted up a storm with beautiful women at Greystone Manor nightclub in Los Angeles, where he became a regular Sunday night patron. He's also allegedly taken women back to hotel rooms when he's on the road.
The final blow to the union came after Lamar, 33, was embroiled in a widely reported scandal involving his cancer charity, Cathy's Kids, which has allegedly given no money to cancer-related causes. When Khloe was subsequently canned as host of "The X Factor," the source says she felt the charity scandal contributed to her getting the boot.
Making matters worse, the source adds, Lamar called Khloe's firing "a blessing in disguise."
"He said her place as his wife is at home doing everything in her power to get pregnant. When Khloe went to her mom crying about Lamar's insensitivity, that's when Kris told her to divorce him.
"She blasted Lamar, telling Khloe, 'You can't have a baby if you're married to one!'"
The ENQUIRER revealed last October that the couple was headed for a marital crisis after Khloe took the "X Factor" gig. Lamar accused her of going back on her promise to dedicate a year to starting a family.
APPARENTLY, IT WASN'T ENOUGH that she put the planned third season of their reality show "Khloe & Lamar" on hold to undergo grueling in vitro fertilization treatments in a bid to conceive.
"Now, Khloe finally wants to cut ties with Lamar and get on with her life," said the source. "The official divorce filing is a matter of when – not if."
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Monday's storms caught some people off guard. That's because what looked like a tornado twisted through parts of Lubbock. NewsChannel 11 caught images of what is called a landspout around 5 p.m. Monday afternoon. Those Landspouts prompted the National Weather Service in Lubbock to issue a tornado warning for Lubbock and Lynn counties.
A Landspout is a tornado, but basically it doesn't pack quite the punch. Landspouts differ from tornados, one, because they are generally weaker, and two, they form differently. Where a tornado forms in the clouds and then touches down, with Landspouts, "The formation actually starts from the ground and goes up to the base of the clouds," says Brian LaMarre the Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
Monday's spout did not cause much damage, but they can. Lamarre says the weather service has reports of Landspouts reaching F1 strength. "Which is about 50 to 100 miles per hour," LaMarre said. The spouts also come quick. NewsChannel 11 Chief Meteorologist John Robison saw two in just a few moments. "The one I initially saw was developing, and then it dissipated as I watched it, and then a few minutes later, another one developed a little further to the east, so it was in a matter of minutes."
"The Landspouts are a little bit more challenging for us to actually see on the radar because, again, they from the ground up. So, what we rely heavily on is our Sky Warn Storm Spotters, the media storm spotters, and just members of the general public, because during the warning process the reports that we receive from you and the general public are going to help use make a decision on whether or not to issue a warning," LaMarre says.
While Landspouts are neat to look at, both LaMarre and Robison say people need to take cover when one is in their area, because again, they can pack strong winds and cause a lot of damage. LaMarre tells us Landspouts are common in our area. He says that this season the weather service has seen quite a few Landspouts. One of the more recent ones happened in southeast Floyd County earlier this month. Luckily no one was hurt, and there were no reports of any significant damage from that.
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So of course my Brett Myers vigil ends at the end of a week when I've been insanely busy at work. But here it is, as predicted. 1 year, $5MM, and I presume, now that he's South of the Border where he belongs, all the Confederate-lovin' swag he can get. Go wish our pals well over at the Crawfish Boxes and regale them with your memorable Brett Myers moments, lest they worry too much that we're eating our hearts out.
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Congress must act to safe lives: Reauthorize VAWA
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Domestic violence is one of the most common forms of violence endured by women. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that one-fourth of U.S. women will endure an abusive relationship, while some 1,300 people are killed each year by intimate partners. Thankfully, we have come a long way since the 1970s, when laws did not directly prohibit domestic violence, police often failed to respond, and few resources were available to victims. Yet we stand at the brink of losing much of that progress if Congress does not act now to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.
First enacted in 1994, VAWA was the first federal legislation to acknowledge domestic violence and sexual assault as crimes. It provides federal resources to encourage community-coordinated responses to address these issues, including support for victim services and training of law enforcement. In 2000, VAWA was reauthorized and included several new provisions, including legal assistance for victims, expansion of the definition of the crimes to cover dating violence and stalking, attention on trafficking of persons and assistance to trafficking victims.
Another reauthorization occurred in 2005, which added new provisions specifically aimed at helping immigrant victims. It allows undocumented immigrant victims who have endured abuse at the hands of an intimate partner to self-petition for residency status. This critical provision was incorporated because many times abusers bring victims to the U.S. and promise to complete the required paperwork yet instead use their victim's status as yet another tool of power and control. These victims often remain in dangerous situations out of fear of deportation or loss of child custody. The self-petition provision of VAWA lets these victims obtain documentation that allows them to legally drive and work. Given that many victims stay with abusers because they cannot financially support themselves, the ability to drive and work means these women and men can be independent.
Despite its name, the provisions of VAWA help men, women and children. Administered by the Office of Violence Against Women (OVW), an estimated 250,000 victims are served annually through VAWA.
VAWA works, according to advocates in the field. The White House notes that the National Domestic Violence Hotline, which was established through the VAWA, has received over three million calls, with more than 22,000 each month. For 92% of callers, it is the first time they have called anyone for help. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, between 1994 and 2010, rates of intimate partner violence decreased 64 percent.
I am board chair for No More Tears, a nonprofit organization that provides individualized assistance to victims of domestic violence. Based in South Florida, No More Tears has, since its inception in 2006, helped 254 survivors and more than 600 children escape from abuse. The organization offers numerous supports for victims and their children as they seek to remain safe and independent. One of the most important resources that No More Tears' victims have utilized is VAWA.
No More Tears' staff and board members have seen first-hand the impact of VAWA. Several victims the organization assisted who received the benefits of VAWA have pursued educational opportunities and are working in careers of their choice. They are financially stable, and, most importantly, they and their children are safe. Other organizations have noted the same impact of VAWA, which is why hundreds of organizations across the nation are encouraging Congress to reauthorize VAWA.
The time is now. Congress is debating VAWA and despite widespread support some still oppose it. Opposition rests largely on the fact that VAWA provides assistance to undocumented immigrants and to Native Americans and LGBT persons.
This partisan squabbling is appalling in so many ways, not least of which is the fact that failing to reauthorize VAWA is a huge step back, a return to times when victims had little choice but to endure their partner's violence.
This is an opportunity for Congress to promote justice-for victims and for communities. Please don't let Senate Republicans stand in the way of safety and a better life for those who have been harmed by the very people who are supposed to love them.
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What is the role of agency in learning the gospel?
PREPARE YOURSELF SPIRITUALLY - Think about something you learned recently.
What did you do to learn it? How did you feel? What are some different ways youth can be
involved in learning the gospel? Who in your class seems to be actively involved in learning?
Who is not? How can you work with other teachers to encourage the youth to actively
participate in learning, in class and on their own?
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Agency: The Gift of Choices by Elder Spencer J. Condie
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(Idea by Amber Isenhour / ga01052011) In preparing for this lesson I was thinking about how if we make the right decisions with our Agency that our path in life will be a lot smoother. I started to think about how I could get this across to 13 year old boys and girls, and what better way than with candy. I am going to use a Rocky Road candy bar and this little poem I came up with. Hopefully when the time come for them to choose a path they will remember "Rocky Road" and choose to go another way. [Click here for handout of poem]
Before we came down to earth, you and me
we were given the gift of our agency.
A gift that would help us return back to Him,
but we need to be good and try never to sin.
We could make any choice we wanted to make
Some would be hard… some as easy as cake.
What choice will you make with your agency?
Will you pick the smooth path or a Road that's Rocky?
Forks in the road - There are some good ideas to think about and perhaps share in your lesson
Give class members pens or pencils and paper. Ask them to think of the choices they have made so far today and list as many as they can in one minute. At the end of a minute, invite them to share some of the choices on their lists. Then ask: "Which of your choices today do you think was the most important?" Have class members circle this item on their list. Invite a few volunteers to tell which choice they circled and why they feel it was most important. "Where did you get your ability to choose?" Have a class member read aloud Moses 7:32. Suggest that those who are using their own scriptures mark this verse. Explain that Heavenly Father has given us agency—the power to choose between good and evil. But agency is more than just the ability to do what we want; agency is one of the most basic and important of all gospel laws. [Source]
(Shared by Margarida) In todays lesson about "the role of agency in learning the gospel" I used 3 things to illustrate and discuss agency:
#1 A maze - I drew a maze on the board and asked a blindfolded student to help another student find the path through the maze. The conclusion was that if you can't see the "big picture" you can't help! We referred to the big drawing of the plan of salvation as the "big picture". We concluded that we should not get advice from people who don't know the big picture.
#2 The video "Moral Agency" based on D. Todd Christofferson's talk on October 2009. I made a summary on the board including the words choice, knowledge and freedom and other associated discussed in the video/talk.
#3 The video "WE can find happiness" which tell the story of 3 people who found happiness in Christ and his gospel. This video was the example of the role that choices play in real life.
Jenny Hatch
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Testify that each of us possesses the gift of agency, the freedom to choose between good and evil. We exercised our agency wisely to earn the right to come to earth. Now, in this life, we are responsible for each choice we make. Making righteous decisions puts us on the path toward eternal exaltation. [Source]
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"God gave you moral agency and the opportunity to learn while on earth, and He has a work for you to do. To accomplish this work, you have an individual responsibility to seek learning. The key to your future … can be found in the new For the Strength of Youth booklet under the standard of education and in the Young Women value of knowledge." - Mary N. Cook, first counselor in the Young Women general presidency.
In the October 2011 General Conference, Matthew O. Richardson explained that teaching by the Spirit involves giving your students opportunities to use their agency: "Those who teach after the manner of the Spirit help others by inviting, encouraging, and providing them opportunities to use their agency . . . . Rather than asking, 'What can I do for my children, class members, or others?' they ask, 'How do I invite and help those around me to learn for themselves?' . . . . The Holy Ghost is unrestrained as individuals exercise their agency appropriately" ("Teaching After the Manner of the Spirit," LDS General Conference, October 2011). Discuss this quote with your class and why we learn best when we are invited to exercise our agency and to learn for ourselves.
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Firstly a confession. When I read the initial reports, I believed this terrorist attack in Norway was a jihadi-Islamist atrocity. I began talking with my Egyptian friends that night about problems of integration in Scandinavia, where tightly regulated labour markets create widescale unemployment and benefit dependency in immigrant communities.
As it turned out, the very same kneejerk Islamophobia that discoloured initial news reports inspired this unspeakable crime itself. It is a peculiarity of the times we live in that the so-called defence experts that fill our TV screens and newspapers and research houses must outnumber core Al Qaeda members by at least one hundred to one. And now, the man that used to be a "terrorist" becomes a "lone gunman" or a "right-wing extremist" or a "madman".
So my own prejudices were wrong. But they were still relevant. Belief in "these foreigners coming over here, stealing our benefits", is always at the root of white anger. But it is directed less at the immigrants and more at the liberal political elite for their perceived betrayal.
This anger, coupled with the practical-minded rationality of monomaniac obsession and narcissistic self-image of a freedom fighter, and the familiar tragedy has returned – the sight of crying children, smoking ruins and a brief minute in the spotlight for the narcissist monster, whose name and picture will be mentioned again and again and again, giving him and his pathetic ego all the attention it craves.
Reading his 'manifesto', a disturbing 1,500 page treatise against the "Marxist/multiculturalist" agenda to enable the Islamisation of Europe, is in fact a nice reminder of the veracity of my liberal, pacifist worldview, which, needless to say, is firmly in favour of multiculturalism and against killing children.
He deludes himself into thinking that his conservatism is a lack of ideology – common sense, even. But of course, deconstructing his worldview (a concept that he would despise) shows the influence of a contemporary discourse of anti-liberal and far-right cultural supremacism. It is a confused form of pan-European neo-nationalism, a "Resistance Movement" against "the EUSSR of Political Correctness" he writes. Interestingly, or, well, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Daily Mail hasn't mentioned this to their faithful readers, presumably afraid they may agree with the terrorist.
He describes the 1950s as a glorious time of white prosperity and demure morality. But, according to him, the European world has fallen back from these bygone days. To quote him, the "story would be of a nation that had decayed and degenerated at a fantastic pace, moving in less than half a century from the greatest countries on earth to Third World nations, overrun by crime, noise, drugs and dirt. The fall of Rome was graceful by comparison."
It is worrying perhaps, looking to the future, that this articulator of the paranoiac Islamophobia of the far-right writes in near-perfect English, with relatively strong historical erudition (ironically, in vastly superior English to that of our own English Defence League) and was, according to him, able to spend 300,000 Euros on the project. He ties together a narrative of Marx's stranglehold on modern thought via Critical Theory and Political Correctness. As he puts it, "many a college campus is a small, ivy-covered North Korea."
Bizarrely, surely he must have recognised the postmodern irony of his terrorism. To use the language of the security experts, his attacks bore all the hallmarks of Al Qaeda: simultaneous attacks against multiple targets, with the intention of spectacular blood and death reaching the world's eyes in time for the evening news. He even talks about "embracing martyrdom" (which, naturally, the Daily Mail puts in its headline).
Why is his atrocity not labelled terrorism? The Sun describes "Horror Attacks", rather than terrorism. Of course, if the attacker had a beard and brown skin, the language would be different. But to admit that the pan-European current of conservative anti-multiculturalism has contributed to these acts would be a step too far.
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GATE program is an excellent program. My daughter has been in Emory since 3rd grade through 6th grade and is going to graduate this year.she tells me she doesn't want to leave.If you are given the choice to your student to go there it is a very good choice.the principal has a great leadership she has done a lot of inprovment. Emory is the best school ever
My children are in 1st and 4th grade and have not enjoyed Emory at all. We are moving mainly because of how unhappy our girls are. They have been called terrible names, physically harrassed and yelled at by intolerant teachers. My 10 yr old actually said "that school has no control over the kids". The office staff is very friendly and principal seems nice enough but the bullying and inattention to it bothers me greatly.
All my children have attended Emory. Although there are some teachers that could use improvement, most teachers are very helpful. There is a new principal this year and she is very involved in every detail. She has been nothing but a positive addition to this already great school.
Excellent GATE program. Very satisfied with said curriculum. Lots of educational field trips. Kudos to the dedicated and hardworking teachers who have made learning fun and challenging to our 'gifted' children.
There is no effort made to accomodate a working parent with early meetings or later in the afternoon. I was so frustrated with the lack of caring for my children that I moved to a new neighborhood in order to change schools.
I don't feel like my son is getting the help he needs. The teachers say he doesn't need special help, but I know for a fact that he does.
the teachers are not accommodating to the parent's . it is difficlt to schedule a visit or a conferance at the school. the is no accountability on the part of the principal to keep parents up-dated on the status of teachers returing from illness. my child had al least 5 differnt subs at least twice a month for several times a month during the last school. this was a poor way to start kindergarten.
Emory Elementry has been a great school,the whole staff there are very in tuned with all the needs of the children and parents and if there was more money avaible to their school I know that they would indeed have more extracurricular activities,my daughter has more help and understanding there than when she went to mendosa elementry,I feel the staff is and school is wonderful
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ATK Helps Launch National Security Payload for the National Reconnaissance Office
ATK Contributions to the Launch of the NROL-25 Payload Include Propulsion, Composite, and Propulsion Component Technologies
ARLINGTON, Va., April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ATK (NYSE: ATK) composite and propulsion technologies supported the successful launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket carrying a national security payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.
ATK's two 70-foot long, 60-inch-diameter Graphite Epoxy Motors (GEM) ignited at liftoff, burned for 90 seconds, and provided 560,000 pounds of thrust to help deliver the payload to orbit.
ATK designed and produced the nozzle for the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne-built RS-68 first stage engine – the largest hydrogen-powered engine in the world – as well as the nozzle's thermal protection material, which is capable of shielding it from the extreme heat of launch when external temperatures can exceed 4,000 F. The nozzle is manufactured at ATK's Promontory, Utah, facility.
ATK supplied nine key composite structures for the Delta IV Medium plus (5,2) launch vehicle including the interstage, centerbody, thermal shield and an LO2 skirt. The payload is encapsulated by a composite payload fairing, along with required hardware for payload integration.
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Europe is generally agreed to be the birthplace of western culture, including such legendary innovations as the democratic nation-state, football and tomato sauce.
The word Europe comes from the Greek goddess Europa, who was kidnapped by Zeus and plunked down on the island of Crete. Europa gradually changed from referring to mainland Greece until it extended finally to include Norway and Russia.
Don't be confused that Europe is called a continent without looking like an island, the way the other continents do. It's okay. The Ural mountains have steadily been there to divide Europe from Asia for the last 250 million years. Russia technically inhabits "Eurasia".
Europe is presently uniting into one political and economic zone with a common currency called the Euro. The European Union originated in 1993 and is now composed of 27 member states. Its headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium.
Do not confuse the EU with the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states and dates to 1949. These two bodies share the same flag, national anthem, and mission of integrating Europe. The headquarters of the Council are located in Strasbourg, France, and it is most famous for its European Court of Human Rights.
In spite of these two bodies, there is still no single Constitution or set of laws applying to all the countries of Europe. Debate rages over the role of the EU in regards to national sovereignty. As of January 2009, the Lisbon Treaty is the closest thing to a European Constitution, yet it has not been approved by all the EU states.
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The tendency of countries to accumulate public debt has been rationalized in models of political disagreement and lack of commitment. We analyze in a benchmark model how the evolution of public debt is affected by lack of commitment per se. While commitment introduces indeterminacy in the level of debt, lack of commitment creates incentives for debt to converge to specific levels. One of the levels that debt often converges to implies no debt accumulation at all. In a simple example we prove analytically that debt converges to zero, and we analyze numerically more complex models. We also show in an imperfect credibility setting that a small deviation from fullcommitment is enough to obtain these results.
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Monetary policy objectives and targets are not necessarily constant over time. The regime-switching literature has typically analyzed and interpreted changes in policymakers' behavior through simple interest rate rules. This paper analyzes policy regime-switches by explicitly modeling policymakers' behavior and objectives. We show that changes in the parameters of simple rules do not necessarily correspond to changes in policymakers' preferences. In fact, capturing and interpreting regime changes in preferences through interest rate rules can lead to misleading results.
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This paper proposes a method and a toolkit for solving optimal policy with imperfect commitment in linear quadratic models. As opposed to the existing literature, our method can be employed in medium- and large-scale models typically used in monetary policy. We apply our method to the Smets and Wouters (2007) model, where we show that imperfect commitment has relevant implications for the interest rate setting, the sources of business cycle fluctuations, and welfare.
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Due to time-inconsistency or political turnover, policymakers' promises are not always fulfilled. We analyze an optimal fiscal policy problem where the plans made by the benevolent government are periodically revised. In this loose commitment setting, the properties of labor and capital income taxes are significantly different than under the full-commitment and no-commitment assumptions. Because of the occasional reoptimizations, the average capital income tax is positive even in the long-run. Also, the autocorrelation of taxes is lower, their volatility with respect to output increases and the correlation between capital income taxes and output changes sign. Our method can be used to analyze the plausibility and the importance of commitment in a wide-class of dynamic problems.
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The paper analyzes the determinants of four fiscal trends, observed in many developed countries over the past 40 years: a decline in the corporate tax rate and public investment offset by an increase in the labour income tax and government consumption. Within a simple neoclassical growth model with a public sector, we illustrate the interdependency between the two government problems of how to spread the tax burden and how to allocate the spending. We find that investment-specific technological changes account for one third of the change in the composition of taxes and two thirds of the change of the composition on spending
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"What can I take to reduce my libido? I have a lovely wife who for the last seven years has not been interested. She is the only person in my life. Your input on this would help keep me from driving myself nuts as well as her. I'm currently taking lithium, sertraline, lorazepam and trazodone. After the ridicule both doctors put me through, I certainly hope you can help."
Your physicians should not be giving you any grief, especially since the combination of medicines you are taking could be hazardous. What's more, trazodone may be aggravating your situation.
Ask a urologist or a specialist in sexual medicine whether a medication for prostate enlargement might be safe for you. Drugs such as Avodart or Proscar can sometimes lower libido as a side effect. That is because they block the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT).
Progesterone is another hormonal treatment that may be useful in suppressing sexual interest. This drug does have numerous side effects, however, so you will need to discuss it in detail with your physician. The herb Vitex appears to have a mild, progesterone-like effect and may be safer.
Counseling is essential, regardless of drug treatment. Although your wife is not interested, physical intimacy is usually part of a wholesome relationship. Invite your wife to join you in therapy with an expert who specializes in human sexuality.
We would like to send you a CD of a recent hour-long radio show interview we did with one of the country's leading experts in sexual medicine. Irwin Goldstein, MD, is Director of Sexual Medicine at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. During the interview, he addressed problems of both high and low libido as well as erectile dysfunction and other sexual problems.
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