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I shared the emotion of most Americans when the breaking news echoed into my Kings Park kitchen last night– jubilation. I was thrilled to hear that the architect of the murderous hate-filled rampage that forever changed this great nation was dead. The notorious Islamic terrorist Osama Bin Laden was dead at last.
This was a seminal moment in our country's history, glued to my television, I watched Americans celebrating at Ground Zero, in Shanksville Pennsylvania, on college campuses, in our nation's capital and the epicenter of the world - Times Square. Crowds were gathering around the country and they were chanting "U.S.A.", some were singing our national anthem and others America the Beautiful. Americans were celebrating the death of a Hitler'esque demon who exposed the depth of hatred Muslim extremists have for America, our people and our way of life.
However, today elicits a different emotion, soft quiet tears have been my constant companion all day – you see today I am not thinking like a journalist or an American citizen – today I am just Aunt Moe and my heart is with my nephew and my niece, my precious Jake and Julia. Their dad Timmy was a New York City firefighter and like 342 of his brothers, Timmy did not return from work on 9/11. Jake was only 3 and Julia was only about 34 days old when their father gave his life that hellish day.
Jake and Julia didn't come into our very large and loving Irish family until they were six and three, when my younger brother fell in love with their beautiful mother and with them. Since that time, the kids have made several pilgrimages a year to Kings Park for overnight visits and some type of great adventure. Mornings always consist of chocolate chip pancakes and long walks at the Bluff where they collect countless shells and rocks for me. I keep them all.
Jake is 13 now and all boy, a great athlete like his late father, he is introspective, does well at school and has a contagious smile. He loves music, has an artsy side to him and he is the easiest child to love, he is enormously loving and gives the best hugs. However, a bit of a daredevil, Jake makes his Aunt Moe very nervous when he swings wildly behind our boat as he tubes off Short Beach in the summer.
Julia is nine going on 19; she's into fashion, hip-hop dancing and is one mean softball player. She's never taken a bad picture, not one in her whole life. Extremely articulate and confident, we are all convinced she will run a giant corporation someday. Collectively and jokingly, we pity her future boyfriends and any and all who will work for her. She is presently tirelessly lobbying her parents for a cell phone! An old soul – our little Julia is simply precious.
My sister-in-law used to keep the kids out of school on 9/11 and take them to a hotel so they would not be exposed to the pervasive national sadness depicted in the media and they could mourn privately as a family. But Jake and Julia are older now and last year they visited their father's Maspeth firehouse on 9/11 and played with other children just like them – the children of 9/11.
All day my heart ached as I thought of my Jake and Julia sitting in a classroom –eating lunch with their friends or walking in the hallway of their school – are the kids and teachers talking about it? How does Osama Bin Laden's death make them feel? Are they sad – are they confused – are they thinking of Timmy?
I wish Mammaroneck was closer to Kings Park – I would pick them up – I would make them chocolate chip pancakes and we could go down to the Bluff and find cool rocks. I want to hold them and I want to kiss their beautiful faces and tell them everything is going to be OK but it's not going to be OK – Osama Bin Laden's death is not the end of this madness.


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A Great Day in Harlem rocks uptown
8/1/2013, 11:24 a.m. | Updated on 8/1/2013, 11:24 a.m.
A Great Day in Harlem rocked uptown this past Sunday. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, folk enjoyed the various activities. While the rain prevented the Stevie Wonder "Songs in the Key of Life" tribute, the cultural showcase and "Fashion Fusion" kept folks entertained.

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A 25-year-old woman died in a house fire Saturday after flames ripped through her home on Crane St. on Detroit's east side. Police say the fire appears to have been caused by a space heater.
Click on the video player to watch Ryan Ermanni's live report.
Police say the fire started just before 9:30am. A 48-year old man was critically injured; he jumped from a window to escape the flames. Family members tell Fox 2 the victim is Jennifer Edwards, 25, a mother of two.
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According to multiple sources, Metta World Peace has agreed in principle to a two-year deal with the New York Knicks. The former Los Angeles Lakers forward was waived last week by way of the leagues amnesty clause in order to save cap space.
World Peace will still be paid the $7.7 million dollars owed to him by the Lakers, on top of the $1.6 million he is expected to earn as a Knick.
Landing with the Knicks will be a homecoming for Metta,as he played his college basketball for St. Johns University and grew up in the famed Queensbridge projects.
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Police content after far-right march and counter demonstration in Middlesbrough result in just two arrests (From Darlington and Stockton Times)
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Fireworks let off and bottles thrown in EDL march
Updated 8:58pm Saturday 28th June 2014 in News By Julia Breen
TWO men have been arrested following a demonstration by the far-right English Defence League on the streets of Middlesbrough today (Saturday).
About 400 people travelled from as far afield as London and Scotland to take part in the march, and more than 300 police officers were involved in the operation to keep the streets safe.
Bottles were thrown and some fireworks set off but otherwise the march passed without major incident.
A counter demonstration by the Teesside Solidarity Movement, with about 150 people involved, and music and drumming, took place this morning ahead of the EDL march at 2pm this afternoon.
The anti-EDL demonstration marched down Linthorpe Road and finished with speeches in the town centre.
EDL's protest march started outside the Pig Iron pub on Corporation Road and went down Albert Road and Borough Road before speeches were made in front of the lake outside Teesside Combined Court Centre and the Bottle of Notes.
The march was temporarily halted due to a firework exploding.
One man was arrested in the morning on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon, and another during the march on suspicion of assaulting a police officer. Both remained in custody this afternoon.
Acting Assistant Chief Constable Ciaron Irvine said: "The role of Cleveland Police today has been to facilitate a peaceful protest and fortunately this has been the case, although there have been two arrests.
"Clearly there has been some disruption in Middlesbrough town centre to allow these demonstrations to take place, and we are grateful to local residents and businesses for their co-operation."
Police and Crime Commissioner Barry Coppinger said: "I attended one of the briefings to police officers this morning and have been out around the town centre observing activities. The whole operation has been well planned and in consultation with our local communities and businesses.
"Clearly the priority for the police today has been to facilitate each demonstration while ensuring the safety of the public and I am pleased that the day has passed off peacefully."
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7:11pm Sat 28 Jun 14
behonest says...
I wonder what the truth is here? Has someone really just assaulted a police officer for no reason, or has there been some provocation or 'winding up' by a cop? I don't know, was anybody there and witness it?
10:09pm Sat 28 Jun 14
Longbowman666 says...
All 400 of them...wow, such an amazing amount of knuckle-draggers in one place. What happened to the rest of them? Ah yes, too busy getting boozed up and watching re-runs of the World Cup before going home to beat up the missus 'cos England lost out.
And if you put all 400 together, I bet you still wouldn't be able to light a 1 watt light bulb,
10:13pm Sat 28 Jun 14
Robert_ says...
2:24am Sun 29 Jun 14
darloboss says...
Robert_ wrote:stop it the ace reporter was at darlington carnival blindfolded and writing from a script
Do I detect the Northern Echo is a bit disappointed by only 2 arrests? Have a feeling you had all your 'ace' reporters on the scene... what a waste..
9:25am Sun 29 Jun 14
johnny_p says...
You have to pay for a copy of Viz- the Echo website is free.
3:17pm Sun 29 Jun 14
LUSTARD says...
Longbowman666 wrote:or hit a wand from 10 foot
Once again the mighty masses of the EDL were mustered for this march, and they came from so far and wide across the length and breadth of the country.
All 400 of them...wow, such an amazing amount of knuckle-draggers in one place. What happened to the rest of them? Ah yes, too busy getting boozed up and watching re-runs of the World Cup before going home to beat up the missus 'cos England lost out.
And if you put all 400 together, I bet you still wouldn't be able to light a 1 watt light bulb,
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And why should he?
It is perplexing when athletes take pay cuts and ironic when fans get angry at the choice. Many fans long for idealized athletes who only care about winning. The theory goes that nothing brings money like winning.
The only thing fans leave out of that equation is they will only be happy when it is their athletes taking pay cuts to stay with their teams.
As sports writer Dave Zirin is famous for noting, sports can turn the most ardent capitalists into socialists.


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Registrations of public designs in Korea reached a new record level: according to the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the total number of registrations rose by 20% from 1,615 in 2010 to 1,925 in 2011. Around two thirds of all registrations were related either to lighting facilities (such as e.g. street lights) or recreational facilities.
For further information, please refer to KIPO news of 6 July 2012 (in English).


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sound patrol 1-6-05
Cool Beans keeps it jumpin'
Shock City Maverick
Two years after the demise of his trio Antipop Consortium, hip-hop iconoclast Beans is keeping busy. In 2003, the New York-based MC and producer released his first solo album, Tomorrow Right Now, and an EP, Now, Soon, Someday. In late 2004, after attention-getting stints touring with such underground-rock hotshots as Tortoise and the Rapture, he dropped his second full-length, Shock City Maverick. Kanye West and his fellow chart hogs probably aren't sweating the competition, though. Although the pocket-protector set hangs on his every syllable, Beans has yet to seduce the hoi polloi. Maybe it's because he scorns the usual hitmaking tricks - sing-along R&B hooks, celebrity cameos, cheesy horn samples, the seemingly obligatory "comedy" skits -- or because he's signed to Warp, a UK label that specializes in undanceable dance music; whatever the reasons for his obscurity, one suspects that Beans doesn't care whether he ever makes the cover of Vibe.
Calling himself the Ornette Coleman of rap, "the link between Suicide, Sun Ra, and Bambaatta," Beans clearly has ambitions of another type: not the Cristalle wishes and Hennessy dreams of his mainstream counterparts but the desire to overturn the conventions of his genre, to spearhead a revolution in sound. Let lesser MCs traffic in infantile consumerist fantasies, the opiates of the bling-addled, bootycentric masses; Beans just wants to make it new. His sound is a fractured fusion of American hip-hop and tetchy European glitch: Lockstep techno beats bump up against knock-kneed cellos; sci-fi synths collide in a cacophony of chirps and bleats. Whereas most producers privilege hooks and choruses, the shiny ProTooled trappings demanded by today's party people and their Clear Channel masters, Beans makes dystopian funk for postapocalyptic robots.
As a lyricist, Beans is no less challenging, spitting out run-on sentences and random images with a violent precision, his flow seemingly unencumbered by the constraints of syntax or human lung capacity. Elegant and nasty, cerebral and visceral, his bizarre vernacular brings to mind a hip-hop William Burroughs. Even when Beans resorts to standard boasting, he does so in a decidedly unconventional way: "Trailblazer instigator insubordinator devastating radiating golden phonetic pyrotechnic author of your obituary, adversary of the arbitrary," he rants on "Papercut," a Dadaist battle rap of sorts that sounds like the soundtrack to a 22nd-century spaghetti Western. On "Shards of Glass," he dismisses his detractors with a sneer: "Moth-ridden minds of nonbelievers say he ain't ill, he's incoherent." Maybe, but at the beginning of the previous century, people said the same thing about Gertrude Stein.
Handsome Boy Modeling School
White People
In 1999, "Prince" Paul Huston and Dan "the Automator" Nakamura formed Handsome Boy Modeling School, a vehicle for their delusional playboy alter egos Chest Rockwell and Nathaniel Merriweather. Their genre-busting debut, So . . . How's Your Girl?, immediately became an underground-rap classic, a guaranteed party-starter for fin-de-si├©cle college students and irony addicts. Named after a skit from Chris Elliot's short-lived sitcom Get a Life, the project had all the hallmarks of a one-off novelty: a grab-bag of guest-stars, genres, esoteric samples, and comedic turns from such iconic has-beens as Father Guido Sarducci.
Well, Sarducci is back for HBMS's sophomore outing, along with Saturday Night Live comedian Tim Meadows and a motley assortment of guest musicians ranging from Chan Marshall (Cat Power) to John Oates (Hall and Oates). The results are sometimes delectable -- given the prodigious production skills of Prince Paul and Dan the Automator, how could they not be? -- but the joke, alas, has worn thin. Amusing as it might seem to team up David Lynch chanteuse Julee Cruise with Neptunes brainiac Pharrell Williams, or gangsta-freak RZA with prog screamers the Mars Volta, the tracks themselves often seem subordinate to the concept, dilettantish exercises in whoa-dude mixology.


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D-League Teams Lacking Personality in Uniforms
I posted this fanshot over at Ridiculous Upside and thought I'd share. Its just a quick article about how uninspired the uniforms in the D-League are, and how much better they could, should, and deserve to be. Head on over to Ridiculous Upside by clicking the link to check it out and drop a comment or two if you feel the same way.


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Know Your Baccarat Banque
Baccarat Banque has now become a really popular game thanks to the availability of numerous online casinos. It has been introduced first in France through Italy in the fifteenth century. The game is quite simple as there are only three possibilities being the 'Tie', the Banker' and the 'player'. Even though you might think that the terms are related, in the game they have different meaning. In Baccarat Banque, these three terms are just options for betting on. There are mainly 3 types of Baccarat games and one of them is the Baccarat Banque. The other two are the Punto Banco and the Baccarat Chemin de Fer. In punto Banco, an interested individual is not required to have special card playing skills where as in the other two, skill is needed.
Baccarat Banque is a casino game. It is kind of like Chemin de Fer except for the role of the house. Where as in Chemin de Fer there is a separate house and a separate bank, in Baccarat Banque, The role of bank is played by the house. Another interesting fact is that the one who plays as the banker of the bank has a fixed position and the role is not rotated among the players. However, slightly different version of this can be found in the European online casinos.
The oval table of Baccarat Banque can hold a maximum of 10 players at a time. However, those players who could not take a seat have other options. There are only three decks in the shoe however; there can also be 2 or even 4 cards in the pack. The one who puts the biggest bank can own the bank and the very first person to sit in the baccarat table can have the choice of having the bank 1st. The dealer in a Baccarat banque always performs the role of a dealer this is why the players who become the banker by placing the biggest bet have advantages.
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NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) — If you love New York City like we love New York City then tag along with Toni On! We uncover hidden city secrets, show you the coolest stuff to do and hunt down the best treats because we love to eat! If you're looking for a good …read more
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Kid's Knits
p/hop for your kids!
p/hop is an official knitting fundraiser for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)/ Doctors Without Borders.
Generous designers have been donating patterns to p/hop since November 2008, and are available for your knitting pleasure. In return we ask that you make a donation to p/hop when you download your pattern (you can do it here in pounds or here in dollars). p/hop is based on an honesty box system and the amount you donate is completely up to you! A tremendous amount has already been raised in support of MSF's life-saving work.
We currently have four p/hop kids pattern available for you to download. Please click on the pattern picture for more details and the pattern pdf link.
Stripey Beanie by WoollyWormhead
Stina by Åsa Tricosa.
Socks for Little Witches by Ann Kingstone
Socks for Little Wizards by Ann Kingstone
Happy knitting!
There are more p/hop patterns on the way…to keep uptodate with the latest p/hop news you can follow us on twitter, join the p/hop Ravelry group or keep an eye on the p/hop blog.
It's easy to make your donation for your p/hop pattern, just go here… Thank you!
Knitalong… online!
Looking for some online help with your new pattern? You can join or start up a knitalong on Ravelry. What on earth is a knitalong? Click here to find out more.
The Flowers in the Rain knitalong is already in full swing. You can get involved here (if your not an existing member you will need to sign up. It's free and lots of fun!)
Design / donate patterns
We are always looking for more patterns. You can find our submission guidelines here as well as information on how to donate a pattern to p/hop. Please get in touch with Clare or Pete if you have any queries.


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Cal State San Marcos, which draws a large portion of its student population from the Inland Empire, has applied for membership in NCAA Division II and the California Collegiate Athletic Association,the school has announced.
The Cougars currently compete as an NAIA independent in 13 sports, with six men's programs (baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer and track) and seven women's teams (basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, track and volleyball).
The school made its application on Feb. 1 and will learn of the NCAA's decision in mid-July. If accepted, Cal State San Marcos would make a three-year transition to Division II status. San Marcos would become the 13th member of the CCAA, which currently includes 11 Cal State campuses and UC San Diego.
The school's release on the application, as well as the video on facilities included in its membership application, is available here.


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Beside these powerhouse models are their supportive husbands and boyfriends. Many were in attendance when the company taped the fashion show this week.
The models' boyfriends have diverse backgrounds and professions.
Karlie Kloss just started dating a tech investor who is friends with Ashton Kutcher. Meanwhile, Alessandra Ambrosio's fiance is a millionaire businessman and Adriana Lima's husband is an athlete.
One things these men share in common is that they are dating some of the most beautiful women in the world.


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News: UPDATE: Lil Scrappy's Still Stuck In Jail, More Details Unveiled
Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012 4:05PM
Atlanta rapper Lil Scrappy is reportedly still behind bars after getting busted on a probation violation Monday (October 1), however, more details surrounding his arrest have surfaced online.
According to reports, Scrappy's arrest actually stems from missing a scheduled probation appointment.
Lil Scrappy is STILL behind bars following his arrest in ATL yesterday ... and it's all because he failed to check in with his probation officer ... TMZ has learned. We broke the story, Scrappy was locked up in Georgia yesterday for violating his probation stemming from a 2008 marijuana possession case. But nearly 2 weeks before he was arrested, Scrappy filed documents with the DeKalb County Superior Court, begging the judge to recall the warrant for his arrest. In the docs, Scrappy admits he failed to check in with his probation officer on August 9, 2012 ... but says it was an honest mistake because he had been on non-reporting status for 1.5 years and didn't know a check-in date had been scheduled. (TMZ)
The rapper has since refuted the accusations and suggested he did nothing wrong on his end.
Scrappy insists he has otherwise been a model probationer and wants his arrest warrant recalled ASAP. The judge hadn't ruled on Scrappy's request by the time the rapper had a run-in with police yesterday, which is why he was arrested and taken to jail. Scrappy is expected to go in front of a judge sometime in the near future ... but for now, he remains behind bars. Scrappy's rep tells TMZ the rapper's lawyer is trying to resolve the legal matters and get Scrappy out of jail. (TMZ)
Details on his arrest hit the Internet Monday evening.
Rapper Lil Scrappy was arrested and booked at the DeKalb County Jail on Monday. According to the DeKalb County Jail Tracking System, the 28-year-old rapper also known as Darryl Raynard Richardson is still in custody. The rapper has been charged with a felony probation violation. It is unclear why he was detained. No further information was immediately released. (11 Alive)
Recently, the Southern rapper talked to SOHH about surviving a near-fatal asthma attack last spring.
"Oh yeah, everything's better, man," Scrappy told SOHH when asked about his current health condition. "Like I told people, it was one of those times where I should have been had my asthma checked on. But I ain't ever go until my granny died and I went and drunk myself to a pulp. You dig? They say the liquor helps bring on asthma. ... I think it's something I had to take care of. I don't think it's about being more mature. What I've realized is don't no man like to go to the hospital unless there's something seriously wrong." (SOHH)
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Nexus 7 and Galaxy Note 10.1 commercials debut online
Commercials for Google's Nexus 7 and Samsung's 10.1-inch Galaxy Note have appeared online in the last day. And as you might have already guessed, both take different approaches on how to convince you to buy their tablet.
The commercial for the still unreleased Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is aimed squarely at the business crowd. Boasting ... Read More »


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News: Beyonce Gets $100,000,000 TV Offer, "It Would Be The Highest TV Salary Ever"
Saturday, Feb 4, 2012 10:07AM
Grammy-winning singer Beyonce Knowles-Carter is reportedly getting sought after for $100 million to take her talents to the small screen and become a judge on reality music competition television show, "The X-Factor."
According to reports, the million dollar gig would be for a full-time role.
Simon Cowell is offering Beyonce an annual salary of $100 million to be a full-time judge on The X-Factor, according to reports online. It would be the highest TV salary ever, and could be the perfect job for Beyonce, 30, who gave birth to daughter Blue Ivy, her first child with husband Jay-Z, last month. The X-Factor gig could allow the Grammy winning singer to stay in the public eye during her baby's first years without having to tour. (Winnipeg Press)
The opportunity comes in light of vacancies by former judges.
Is Beyonce the next X Factor judge? The New York Post is reporting that the new mom and pop diva is being offered $100 million a year by Simon Cowell to jon the show after the exit of Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger. The report also claims she's like to stop touring and stay in one place for her daughter Blue Ivy for the next few years. Mariah Carey has also been mentioned as a possible candidate for the panel with holdover L.A. Reid. (HITS Daily Double)
No stranger to the show, Beyonce previously appeared on "The X-Factor" four years ago.
Beyonce, who has been said to be looking for a job that would keep her closer to home, appeared on the British version of "X Factor" in 2008. While this might qualify as being closer to home, no word on whether $100 million was within her expected salary range. (Mercury News)
Last year, Young Money star Nicki Minaj met with Cowell to reportedly speak on having a role on "X-Factor."
"I can't talk about that, but I love Simon very dearly," the Lil Wayne protégé answered in a British accent. "He's such an amazing man. I had the pleasure of meeting him and my life will never be the same, darling. I told him that. I was absolutely in love with him prior to meeting him. And now that I've met him, it's like I dream about him every night." (MTV)
Check out some recent Beyonce Knowles-Carter footage below:


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Brian Price traded from Bucs to Bears
Chicago traded a late-round pick to the Buccaneers for DT Brian Price, per sources.— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 26, 2012
I know he's had some troubles recently between his injuries, his sister's death, and an alleged altercation with another Bucs player, so hopefully the change of surroundings gets him back on track. And being a Bear is the next best thing to being a Bruin. Good luck Brian!


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(02/06/12) - A Mid-Michigan church is hoping to recover thousands of dollars in stolen equipment. Thieves broke into Kingdom Life Ministries International Church on South Jefferson street in Saginaw, sometime between Sunday night and early Monday morning. They took everything from dish detergent and food, to cameras and sound equipment. The church estimates about $10,000 in equipment was stolen. The ministry does have insurance. Pastor Alvernis Johnson believes he knows who might be responsible, someone who often received help from the ministry. "We believe it was somebody who used to attend here and was also one of our maintenance people. He knew this building up and down." He forgives the person, and says he just wants the stolen items back. "If that person came back today and repented and wanted help, we'd help them again, we just want to recover our lost and stolen things." The church was in the process of starting a television program to spotlight positive people in Saginaw. It would air on the local Christian channel, but they'll need their cameras. A police report has been filed. Anyone with any information is asked to contact police or the church.
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What a masterpiece. These guys..It just blows me away how good they are…I mean this and among the living were basically late 80's albums, yet the music is not "dated" like so many albums of that time now are (Slaughter, Tesla, etc. etc.)
What Anthrax does is mix some driving thrash with coherent lyrics. What Anthrax does is cover themes from Stephen King to World Government (instead of the usual midevil themes of witchs, knights, dragons etc.) This is music that to me is pure genius, and I actually enjoy it more now than ever before!
Songs like "TIME" and "Keep it in the family" have driving beats. The fast bass-heavy guitar song "Got the time" is fun and "In my world" and "Belly of the Beast" have the darker feel to them that will definitley shake you up. If you have not listened to Anthrax I suggest checking out this album along with "Among the Living"…millions of fans and 20 years of their music being sold can't be wrong!
NOTE: From my headline…this was lead singer Joey Belladonna's last album with the band. Check out all of thier stuff with Joey before forming an opinion on the later stuff with other lead singer/s.
1. Time
2. Blood
3. Keep It in the Family
4. In My World
5. Gridlock
6. Intro to Reality
7. Belly of the Beast
8. Got the Time
9. H8 Red
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Without electricity the world would be a very different place. Air conditioning,
television sets, radios, modern medicine and modern surgery- all of these would be
impossible without the power of electricity. Household chores would also be much
more difficult. Your dishwasher, laundry washer and dryer, and microwaves all
require electricity to run.
History of Electromagnetism
With a life changing development as huge as electricity it becomes important
to know how such a development originally came about. The first known observation
of electromagnetism was by the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus in 600 BC when
he noticed iron's attraction to a magnetic "lodestone." Not knowing
the science behind the phenomena he attributed the magnetism to the lodestone's
soul. As scientific knowledge and exploration grew so too did the understanding
of the forces behind magnetism and electricity. The first concrete observation
of the relationship between electricity and magnetism took place in 1820 when
it was discovered that a current carrying wire wrapped around an iron bar created
a magnetic field- this was the first electromagnet. In 1865 James Maxwell
published A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, tying together
equations describing electricity and magnetism into a unified field of
electromagnetism. Albert Einstein, in 1905, took Maxwell's equations a step
further and used them to show that light moves at a constant speed
(300,000 km/sec) regardless of the observer's velocity, overturning classical
Newtonian physics and forever changing the way we understand the universe. Below
are some of the major developments, in chronological order, in the search to
understand electromagnetism.
Lodestones: The history of magnetic lodestones, one of the first recorded references to magnetism.
The Baghdad Batteries: A description of the Baghdad Batteries, created in 300 BC.
The First Electromagnet: A picture essay describing the first electromagnet.
Maxwell's Equations: A description of first laws describing the relationship between electric and magnetic fields.
Special Relativity: An explanation of Albert Einstein's special relativity which clarified a paradox between Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell's equations.
Researchers of Electricity
Without the scientists who have tirelessly studied the phenomenon of
electromagnetism we would have no idea how electricity works. Indeed, we have
come a very long way since the days where magnetism was explained through animism
and lightning was a weapon of the gods. Michael Faraday, in 1831, learned that
by passing a magnet through a coil of wires he could generate an electric current,
creating the first electric generator. Thomas Edison was able to manipulate an
electric current to create a long-lasting light source by running it through a
filament in a vacuum tube, in the process discovering the phenomena of thermionic
emission, otherwise known as "the Edison effect." Nikola Tesla, in 1894,
is able to light up an electric lamp without the use of wires, building upon the work
of previous researchers. In 1897 J.J Thomson turned the world of science on its
head when he proved that cathode rays were a stream of particles, which we now call
electrons, disproving the common belief that the atom was the smallest unit of matter.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, a Dutch physicist, proved in 1911 that electrical conductivity
increases at lower and lower temperatures, allowing more information and energy to be
passed along a conductor, paving the way the use of supercomputers today. Below are
some more details on these influential researchers.
Michael Faraday: A link describing Faraday's discovery of the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction, including an interactive experiment.
Thomas Edison: A biography of Thomas Edison, the inventor of the first commercial light bulb.
Nikola Tesla: A collection of links about Nikola Tesla, the inventor of wireless energy.
J.J. Thomson: A collection of links about J.J. Thomson, discoverer of the electron.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes: A biography of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who discovered superconductivity.
Making Electricity Work
It is very important to understand how electricity works, but that's not enough to change the way people live. In order for the research into electricity to make a difference in people's lives one must create an infrastructure to make electricity accessible. Over the past 150 years the size and power of our electrical grid has grown. The first widespread electric-wire system was utilized by the telegraph (which, after the installation of the transcontinental telegraph system, in 1866, put the Pony Express out of business). Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla battled one-another over whose method of energy distribution should be used as the American standard; in 1893 Niagara Falls Power Company awarded Westinghouse, who sponsored Tesla and his AC method of power distribution, a major contract, placing AC as the American standard. Now, more than ever before, we have many different options for how we acquire and distribute electricity, from coal to nuclear to renewable energy sources. Below are several links describing the history of power distribution and power sources.
The Telegraph System: A description of the beginning of electric America: the telegraph system. Includes information on how to make a working telegraph.
War of the Currents: The history of AC and DC currents and the clash between Tesla and Edison. Includes information on how AC and DC currents work.
Coal Power Plants: An explanation on how coal power plants work. Includes pictorial diagrams.
Nuclear Power Plants: An FAQ on what nuclear power is and how it works.
Renewable Energy: A description of different types of renewable energy sources-- includes links with more information.
Technological Discoveries and Researchers
There have been thousands upon thousands of inventions which use electricity to function. The inventors of these technologies have made a concrete impact in the evolution of mankind, allowing people to live longer, with greater ease, in greater comfort. One of the first major inventions, the first powerful chemical battery, was created by Alessandro Volta in 1799, making available a constant form of electricity which could be manipulated for scientific research. The creation of the electromagnet allowed for more powerful currents, as well as opening the door for the creation of power plants and the widespread distribution of electricity. The telegraph allowed, for the first time, near-instantaneous communication between far-away places; no longer would people have to wait weeks or months to hear news from across the country. The lightbulb brought light to dark places and paved the way for inventions such as movie projectors, redefining media. And without lasers we wouldn't be able to perform accurate measurements, watch DVDs, or scan groceries. Below is more information on some of the most important inventions since electricity has been harnessed.
The Chemical Battery: Information on the first powerful chemical battery, created by Alessandro Volta.
The Electromagnet: Instructions on how to build an electromagnet-- includes an explanation on how the electromagnet works.
The Telegraph: Information on the history and the impact of the telegraph.
The Light Bulb: A multiple page walk through on the invention and perfection of the light bulb.
The Laser: A definition of how a laser works-- includes an interactive demonstration.
The Future of Electricity
Currently the main source of electricity across the world is from the burning of fossil fuels or from nuclear fission. These process create byproducts that cannot be used for any other purpose. These byproducts are dangerous for both the people who work with them, as well as the environment as a whole. This is why many scientists are working towards clean energies that do not produce pollutants. Wind turbines which, like windmills, use air power to move turbines and store energy. Solar power work by using the heat of the sun to either create steam to power generators, or by using solar cells which convert sunlight into electricity. Fuel cells work by separating an electron from a hydrogen atom which then powers an electrical circuit; the only byproduct from this process comes from the hydrogen atom bonding with an oxygen atom, creating H20- water! Nuclear fusion is the process by which the sun creates energy. One of the holy grails in energy, nuclear fusion, has been achieved by scientists, but currently it takes more energy to achieve fusion than is created by the process.
Wind Turbines: An explanation of the mechanics behind wind turbines. Includes diagrams and common terms.
Solar Power: Information on the history of solar power and how it works.
Tidal Power: Descriptions of different ways to get energy from the movement of the tides.
Fuel Cells: Information on how fuel cells use hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity-- includes diagrams.
Nuclear Fusion: An explanation of the science and math behind possible nuclear fusion reactors.
Additional Facts and Information
Electricity as a natural force affects just about everything we do. Every day we use hundreds of objects that work with electricity. Even our brain uses electricity to send signals to different parts of our body! Below is some additional information on how we use electricity every day, from the science behind electric motors and computer circuits to an explanation on how EMPs (electromagnetic pulses) are able to disrupt electronics.
Electricity in the Body: A description on how electricity functions in the body.
The Electric Motor: A diagram explaining the mechanics behind an electric motor.
Computer Circuits: An explanation on how computer circuits work.
EMPs: A Q&A on the science behind, and the effects of, electromagnetic pulses.
Electronics Timeline: A timeline listing the dates of different electronic advancements.


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Create your own Stepping Stone, Garden Gazing Ball, Garden Lantern, Birdhouse, Toad house.
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The Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority is holding a job fair on Wednesday, February 20 from 4 to 6 p.m.
They are looking for drivers with a commercial driver's license and also for maintenance workers and a mechanic.
You must be 21 years old, have a safe driving record (less than 2 points) and a high school diploma or GED.
The jobs pay between $10 and $20 per hour.
You can apply at the TARPS Paratransit Facility at 130 Knapp Street in Toledo.
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While reading all the pundits and what pundits have to pundit about, I've begun to grow an idea. This Idea is why I feel so confident about this weekends game. With all the talk surrounding TJ Yates and his ability to lead this club, I believe the fact that a quarterback that has played in a Super Bowl is waiting to take the reigns. Gives the Houston Texans a huge advantage at the QB postion, over the Cincinnati Bengals
Lets see my reasoning after the Jump
Facts are Jake Delhomme doesn't have the same quarterbacking ability that he possessed when his Panthers came to Reliant and just barely lost. He has been bounced from the Browns, and has only played in one game as a Texan. Yet I am starting to believe, that if need be. He could step in and provide the Texans with maybe that vetrean leadership needed at the Quarterback postion.
He has been on this team for quite a few weeks now, and should be starting to really come to grips with the playbook. As he was able to show case in the Southern Kentucky game, he has a good pocket awareness and was able to connect on some Texans roll out staples.
Am I saying that If Yates doesn't show up this weekend he should be canned early, no, but I am floating the idea that If the team really comes out flat and needs a spark. Perhaps Delhomme could be inserted for some vetrean presence, that all the players will be looking at if the shit hits the fan
The things that will be invaluable are this week during practice, Yates has a reliable staff of quarterbacks to lend his ear too. QB coach Knapp, Jeff Garcia, Jake Delhomme, Matt Schaub. I mean Yates has some hell-a-good teachers to learn this postion from. One can only hope that Knapp has been pushing the rookie during film sessions, and practices to get the best out of him.
When asked why I am so confident in a Texans victory this weekend, I reply with El Matadero Estadio, along with the Pamplona Offense, not to mention our Bulls on Parade(Whitest Front Seven in Football). When asked if Yates will be able to shoulder enough of the load to free up our Bulls charging down the lanes. Now I know where my subconscious answer is emanating from.
Which brings up the last part of this now becoming conundrum in my mind, Would Kubiak pull the rookie, if when he looked into his eyes. He saw, nothing there. Would he then pull the plug on the TJ Yates bandwagon, and insert Delhomme? Many of us would argue Kareem Jackson, meaning of course Kubiak stays with Yates. Pundits would argue to throw out Jake and see what he has left in the tank.
I am in the camp to be hoping and praying TJ Yates has a performance simliar to the last Cincinnati game. One where if need be he will come out and show he has what it takes to free up the other stars at the skill postions. One that will be placing all my hopes on the rookie succeeding. I hope that I never see Jake Delhomme play a meaningful snap in a Texans uniform. Yet if it were to happen, I believe that he would be able to handle himself and lead this team to destiny.
So what do you think, Does having Jake Delhomme as the back up give you more of a confidence booster then you might not of noticed?


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Women Creating
olivian anarchofeminist Maria Galindo is
one of the founding members of Mujeres Creando (Women Creating).
Mujeres Creando operates a café, library, press, and community
center in the Sopocachi district of La Paz, Bolivia.
JODI DARBY: How did Mujeres Creando begin and what was the political
climate in Bolivia at that time?
MARIA GALINDO: Mujeras Creando began in the 1990s, at a time of
great neoliberal power in Bolivia. It was also a time when the left
in Bolivia didn't understand what was going on in the country.
We began as three women, and we all came from the left. We saw in
our political parties that women's participation was similar
to children's participation; nobody took women seriously. Women's
ideas didn't have any value. Therefore, we realized that we
didn't want to have a place in a preexisting political party,
to have a little part in a masculine organization. We formed our
own organization because no other organization was going to hear
a woman's voice.
We knew that we had to have our own place, our own power of decision,
and the left didn't understand this concept. The left didn't
understand how neoliberalization was working in their organizations.
For a long time Mujeres Creando was not ready. We waited and waited
and then one day we decided that we were ready.
We were three urban women, two lesbians, and one heterosexual woman.
We had no money and very little time, but we had a lot of passion.
We were a force. We would make a decision and we would go to the
streets and we would start. When we first began it was difficult
for us because the left treated us as enemies and the right treated
us as enemies. We didn't belong anywhere because we were doing
something that was not acceptable. I think it is still difficult,
but in a different way.
How is it difficult now?
Bolivia is in a very special moment in history. Neoliberalism is
weak in Bolivia now, or at least people here think that it is weak.
With the election of Evo Morales, there is a new indigenous fervor
and this indigenism comes to the people here as a solution, a hope.
So if you bring into question this kind of indigenism, you are questioning
the only hope that Bolivia has had in a long time.
Indigenism reclaims the origin and we think that the question of
origin is a fascist question; it sides legitimate against illegitimate.
You cannot say there is an origin and there is nonorigin. Indigenous
Bolivians say that they are original and they are the owners of
this country. This is a fascist way of thinking. I'm not saying
indigenism is fascism, but there is a risk.
We see an indigenism where there is widespread machismo, where there
is silence among the women, women with no voice, women who have
to do a lot of hard manual work, provide for the family, but have
no direct political representation. When we see this we are able
to put this kind of indigenism into question.
Mujeres Creando consists of middle and upperclass educated women,
campesinas, indigenous and nonindigenous, queer, straight—all
struggling together. In the U.S., organized groups are much less
It is also a strategy of neoliberalism to say that everyone needs
to fight in their own groups—campesinos must fight among other
campesinos, young people must fight among other young people, old
people must fight among other old people, and your group has some
rights and those rights have nothing to do with the rights of your
neighbor. That is the logic of Bolivian political organization.
For example, in El Alto, if you are a female member of La Federacion
de Juntas de Vecinos [neighborhood association] and you want to
speak, nobody is going to hear you.
I spent five years in Italy where I saw a kind of academic feminism,
a feminism of white young women, educated women, and women that
had money. It was very homogenous. The women involved in this feminism
couldn't think outside the idea of white, young women. As strangers,
as women in exile, as lesbians, this caused us a lot of unhappiness.
We saw this as feminism without creativity, so when we came back
to Bolivia we sought to make a different feminism with another way
of thinking. If you want to be a subversive movement, you cannot
assume the logic of the system, you have to come up with another
way of thinking.
This is not easy. For example, for lesbians and adult Aymara women
to work together—and I'm not saying that among Aymara
women there are no lesbians—but it creates a sort of panic,
the word lesbian, which makes it difficult. It takes years and years
of patience, of explanation, of being there and saying, "Okay,
we are taking your fight on as a wonderful and important fight and
now you can take on our fight as a wonderful and important fight."
Mujeres Creando is small, but our social impact is great because
we are doing what is prohibited within the logic of the system.
It is not prohibited, for example, for lesbians to work among lesbians.
I know that the system is homophobic, but homosexuals in a liberal
political system are allowed to work among other homosexuals. What
is prohibited is to be sisters among difference—and that is
the biggest and deepest point of our fight and of our impact.
Which will ultimately make the movement stronger.
Stronger yes, but not massive. Mujeres Creando has been working
publicly and using creativity to build our own voice, but it is
not a mass movement and I don't think it is going to be.
What services does Mujeres Creando provide the community out
of your building, la Virgen de los Deseos?
Through our building we want to grow and remember that social movements
have to know something in the way of administrating things, in making
dreams come true. This house is a dream come true for us. When we
got this house we realized that we had this place where we could
be political, but we had to ask ourselves, "What is being political?"
Being political for us is offering an open door, which means that
anyone who comes here can find something they need. For example,
anywhere you go, health care, education, food, and shelter are needed.
This is a house where concrete services can be offered and it is
all run by volunteers. This house gives us a lot of force and tells
the community that we have a concrete existence, a daytoday life.
It is important to tell the community this.
Frequently we see movements that have to wait and wait before they
will see their struggle come to fruition, for their dreams to come
true. What would happen if somebody were to come to them and say,
"I don't have anywhere to sleep tonight" or "I
don't have food to eat today" and the movement tells them,
"Sorry, but we don't have anything for you." We are
not trying to be mothers, but we want to have answers to people's
questions today. If somebody needs work, they need it today. If
somebody needs food or a place to sleep, they need it today, not
ten years from now.
All of your graffiti is signed Mujeres Creando. Can you talk
about your decision to not be anonymous and how that decision has
strengthened your message?
decision to sign our graffiti was very conscious from the first
day because we wanted to tell women that our voice comes from a
point. We are telling society that besides the graffiti there is
also a political practice. These are not just words on the street,
they are words that come from a larger movement. Our graffiti is
a form of mass media because we have made a place for ourselves
in the mass media. The mass media talks about us quite often today.
They say, "See those women? Look at how ugly they are."
They try to distort our work, but I don't think they have succeeded
in doing this because people have their own hearts and their own
minds. Our graffiti comes from 15 years of writing in the streets
of four cities—La Paz, Oruro, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz. Many
times I have gone to little towns in the country and found our graffiti
signed Mujeres Creando and I know that we were not the ones who
did them, so I know that we are inspiring women everywhere.
I made a documentary film in Spain last year in a town that had
many Bolivian women living there and I saw lots of graffiti signed
Mujeres Creando. I know that the words that we are using are a force.
They are not just words. It is a voice of being a rebel, of being
different, of having our own point of view. It is very important
for women to have a point of view because if you do not have a point
of view then you are not a subject, you are an object of the point
of view of someone else.
How much access to information do students have about women who
have impacted Bolivia's history?
I would have to say that we don't know enough about our history
because our movement is one that has had to make its own space for
politics. We don't have a lot of academic women in our movement
who have the time to go to an archive and study history from a feminist
point of view. The university in La Paz is a patriarchal university
where feminist thinking is avoided. I have been there and I have
been thrown out of the classroom and into the street in a sociology
class for bringing up that point.
So children in Bolivian schools aren't going to learn about
women who played a part in the history of their country?
No, they are going to learn something in the streets, but little
girls are not going to read anything about their own history.
People are very excited about Morales. Do you think that there
has been enough analysis, enough hard questions asked?
Well, Evo Morales has been a god for many years among cocaleras
in Chapare and nobody is willing to question him. The truth is that
Morales is very positive for the Bolivian society and we are in
the process of creating something that is very positive. For this,
the people of Bolivia are very happy. But it is not simply about
Evo. It is a social process, an historical process, and it is a
process against racism, against colonialism, against imperialism.
We are all working within the context of this process, this historical
process, but we are not going to allow this process to happen in
private between Evo Morales and Alvaro Garcia Linera.
We are conscious of how very important it is to have our own voice
because the left did not have a voice during the rise of neoliberalism
in Bolivia. The left went home, they went to the academy, they went
to their NGOs—and they were very peaceful and happy in those
years. It was the people who put out Sachez de Lozada, not the left.
It is very important that women have a voice during this Evo Moralesism,
so we don't just say, "Oh, with Evo Morales everything
is so great, nobody has to say anything. We are going to see what
the Administration is doing, what the government is going to do,
and we are going to collaborate." No. Now, Mujeres Creando
has new graffiti. You can go out onto the streets and see it everywhere.
Darby is a radio producer in Portland, Oregon at KBOO, a community
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It's a cool, rainy day in early August at URJ's Joseph Eisner Camp in the verdant Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, so the evening's Shabbat service is taking place in the Beit Am, instead of the outdoor sanctuary. The auditorium is packed with campers, counselors, staff, and, as honored guests, more than 200 people here for a camp Alumni Shabbat weekend. The youngest campers, Bonim (builders), are taking their turn on the bimah, leading services with a skit, a dance, and ample song, accompanied by the folksy guitar strumming of the camp songleaders and the voices of preteens and teens joining wholeheartedly in singing the prayers. The atmosphere is relaxed: Counselors aren't shushing campers (except during the Shema) and the campers feel free to have a whispered conversation, get up to greet a friend, even peruse a comic book. After everyone joins in singing Birkat Shalom, Rabbi Howard Jaffe of Temple Isaiah in Lexington, Massachusetts, a visiting rabbi who is officiating this evening, comes up to the microphone. "Look around at the other campers," he says to them, "and think, there might be someone here that you might end up marrying." The room fills with giggles, and he adds, "I said might."
And now comes the highlight of the evening: Jaffe, himself a former Eisner camper, calls to the bimah twenty of the alumni couples who had met at camp to reconsecrate their wedding vows. Several rabbis and prominent Jewish leaders, including then URJ Board chairman Robert M. Heller and Union Vice President Rabbi Daniel Freelander, are among the group. So are Paula and Rabbi Herman Blumberg. Paula, Rabbi Jaffe tells the crowd, was here at camp in 1958, the year Eisner opened; the couple met the following summer. Later their son Jonathan attended; this summer he's back as a camp doctor. And Jonathan's son, 11-year-old Joseph, is Eisner's first alumni grandchild.
The alumni couples exchange vows, the Bonim campers sing a love song to the group, some preteen boys collapse into paroxysms of nervous laughter, but in the row in front of them, an older boy puts his arm around the girl next to him, who leans into his shoulder. Once again, camp is working its magic.
"Camp magic" is a phrase that comes up all the time when talking to former campers and camp staff about Jewish overnight (or resident) camps. And it's a phrase that, increasingly, educators and philanthropists are banking on to ensure that the Jewish communities of North America groom future generations of engaged Jews.
When American Jews established the earliest Jewish camps in the early 1900s, their primary goal was to help recent immigrants assimilate into their new society. By the early 1950s, when the Union founded its first two camps, Olin-Sang-Ruby and Swig, visionary Jewish leaders had realized that summer camp could also be a valuable tool in solidifying kids' Jewish identities. This realization has now become the subject of great interest among Jewish sociologists and philanthropists. Foundations, academics, researchers, and consultants have been demonstrating through new studies what until now had been largely intuitive and anecdotal: that Jewish camping is among the best ways to keep young Jews Jewishly engaged, and one of the key tools in inspiring them to live intentional Jewish lives. Specifically, young people who attend Jewish camps are more likely to become practicing Jews, more likely to affiliate with a synagogue, more likely to choose a career as a Jewish professional (rabbi, cantor, educator), and less likely to marry outside the faith.
For example, consider "Limud [Learning] by the Lake," a 2002 study by researchers at Brandeis University's Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, later expanded into the 2004 book, How Goodly Are Thy Tents: Summer Camps as Jewish Socializing Experiences. Brandeis sociologists Leonard Saxe and Amy L. Sales, along with a team of researchers, spent three years studying camps across the country to pinpoint "how camps educate Jewish children and how their potential to do so can be maximized." Camps, they learned, have a powerful opportunity to shape a young person's emerging sense of identity because they are intense, focused experiences, away from the safety net of home, revolving around youth culture, and normalizing the practice of Judaism. Most of all, camps are fun. One mom, quoted in a 2006 marketing study for the Union's four Northeast Region camps, says at camp her kids "view Judaism as something you get to do rather than something you have to do. It's not broccoli; it's ice cream!" When Jewish education comes wrapped up in something as fun, normal, and kid-centric as summer camp, it goes down easy. Another parent likened her kids' Jewish education at camp to "hiding the peas in the mashed potatoes." (Count on parents to sum up things succinctly with food analogies.)
Campers might "live a completely kosher life for two months, and they won't even give it a second thought," Sales observes. Or, at a Havdalah service at the close of Shabbat, they might spend an hour singing Hebrew songs, "effortlessly." While she cautions that "the world [should not] think [camp] is the be all and end all—it's a piece," when Jewish camps are done well, she says, "you have this isolated, enclosed, total community in which you induce these behaviors that you can't get back home."
"It's cool to be Jewish" at camp, where "Jewish teachable moments" are integrated into the fun, says former URJ camper Rabbi Robert H. Loewy of Congregation Gates of Prayer in Metairie, Louisiana. This past summer he went mountain biking with a group of kids at URJ Henry S. Jacobs Camp. When they reached a steep hill it was suggested that the rabbi go first. He did, and after he reached the bottom he said to the kids, "I was the korban, the sacrificial offering." Then he expounded upon his comment during a rest break. "They didn't realize they were learning about the Book of Leviticus while they were mountain biking."
In 2007, nearly 150 nonprofit Jewish resident camps in the U.S. and Canada served approximately 65,000 campers. The URJ operates a dozen of those camps in the U.S. and Canada, as well as an active Israel trip program for teens that builds on the camp experience. In 2007, just over 8,500 children attended the twelve URJ camps, and nearly 8,100 (about 95%) came from the pool of 112,000 students enrolled in religious school at 600 of the Reform Movement's 900 synagogues. Still, only between four and seven percent of kids from URJ congregations are attending Union camps. "We'd like to see the number of campers grow to ten percent," says URJ Director of Camping and Israel Programs Paul Reichenbach. Such growth will necessitate a multi-pronged approach—including opening new camps, adding beds at existing camps, and enlisting Reform rabbis, cantors, religious school directors, and other temple leaders to promote the value of camping.
At a number of Reform congregations, Reichenbach explains, going to the regional Union camp is part of the culture. That's especially true for congregations in areas less densely populated with Jews.
When you visit the home page of Temple Beth-El in San Antonio, Texas, for example, a prominently featured link takes you to "Temple Beth-El at Greene Family Camp." Roughly fifty of the congregation's nearly 400 religious school students spend summers at Greene, says Rabbi Barry H. Block. "We view Greene Family Camp as an extension of our congregation, and as a partner to our congregation in Jewish education and Jewish continuity." One barrier to higher rates of attendance, he believes, is the misperception that Jewish camps do not provide "the full balance of the camp experience." Boys, especially, may be more drawn to camps that emphasize sports; they may not realize that Greene's recreational offerings are "outstanding," including a ropes challenge course with an alpine climbing tower and zip line.
Congregation Etz Chaim in the Chicago suburb of Lombard also actively promotes camp, specifically the Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Last summer the congregation sent seventy-eight religious school students to OSRUI, the largest number ever, and provided more than $10,000 of temple funds in camp grants to member families. Education director Anne Stein explains that "we don't feel we can really give kids their Jewish identities in typically two-and-a-half hours on Sundays, or longer for those who also attend Hebrew classes."
Rabbi Josh Zweiback, senior educator at Congregation Beth Am in the San Francisco Bay area, which also provides camping grants to member families, says that there's a discernible difference in the temple kids who attend camp. "Kids that have a Jewish camping experience are more likely to be involved in our youth groups," he says. "Going to camp sparks a passion for Jewish life."
"Precisely because our camps have succeeded in giving Jewish life compelling power, " adds Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, "we need more ambitious goals and a far grander vision. This is one of the few Jewish ships on which our kids love to travel, so let's be certain that we have enough ships. The time has come for the Reform Movement to say to parents in our congregations: If you want your children to live, know, and understand our Jewish heritage, camps are an absolutely essential part of their experience. And this requires that we make a place available to every child who wants one, and that scholarships are provided for every child who needs one."
Sheryl Lechner, a freelance writer, is co-author of Voices of Protest: Documents of Courage and Dissent.
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Camp: URJ Joseph Eisner Camp, Great Barrington, Massachusetts Events: A weekend-long celebration (involving upwards of 1,000 people) featuring music, dance, Shabbat, and tikkun olam. Plus regional anniversary celebrations in alumni homes leading up to the weekend. Date: July 25–27, 2008 Contact: Camp director Louis Bordman or development director Corey Cutler, 201-804-9700 (winter office) or 413-528-1652 (summer office), email@example.com, or visit their website.
Camp: URJ Myron S. Goldman Union Camp-Institute (GUCI), Zionsville, Indiana Events: An alumni Shabbat gathering (of up to 500 people) featuring a concert/song session led by former camp songleaders (to be recorded and possibly turned into a CD); a book highlighting camp memories; and a possible groundbreaking ceremony for the camp's new state-of-the-art performing arts center. Date: Labor Day weekend, August 29–31, 2008 Contact: Camp director Rabbi Ron Klotz, 317-873-3361, email@example.com, or visit their website.
Camp: URJ Camp Harlam, Kunkletown, Pennsylvania Events: A fundraising gala at Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park to help complete renovation on Harlam's twenty-five camper cabins. A celebratory Alumni Day at camp with Saturday morning services, lunch, and a song session. Plus mini-reunions in synagogues and homes of alums. Dates: May 3, 2008 for the fundraising gala; August 2, 2008 for Alumni Day Contact: Camp director Rabbi Frank DeWoskin, 215-563-8184 (winter office) or 570-629-1390 (summer office), email@example.com, or visit their website.
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pottymonsterMember since March 9, 2011
Habs fan since: birth
Favorite current player: Carey Price
All-time favorite player: Pierre Turgeon
Recent Comments
- Comment on About last night … (2013-10-16 17:11:03)
I assume you're coming in on the 20 heading to downtown. If so, there's an exit called Atwater. You get off there and take your first available left, you'll see Lionel Groulx on your right side shortly thereafter.
- Comment on Nilan insists Boston mobster didn't get his Stanley Cup ring (2013-08-13 16:39:04)
but one can continue to dream... from the article: In the SovSport interview, Vladimir Malkin added that Evgeni told him, "if there was ever the case where I have to leave the Penguins, I would rather choose the New York Rangers or the Montreal Canadiens."
- Comment on Rimouski defenceman Morin could be a good fit for Habs at draft (2013-05-23 12:39:10)
Hypocrites Inside/Out? Some of you guys have it right and have been consistent: if the hit on Eller was a problem, then the hit by Thrower is a problem. Some of you other guys though... I'd say that 10 years ago those were both just hockey hits, now it's different. Both hits are illegal. If you want to argue that point, you need to realize that the hit on Eller was also legit. You can't absolve one and then crucify another. Both hits are to the head.
- Comment on Liveblog: Game 4 – Canadiens blow 2-0 lead, lose in OT (2013-05-07 23:26:50)
Now that I've taken some time to calm down, I'll just say the following few things... 1) Reffing was bad. I still don't think the first goal was good. I can sort of understand why they would allow it, but it is still EXTREMELY questionable. If I had the time and knew where to look, I would like to see if that type of goal is regularly allowed or disallowed. That said... 2) They invited disaster upon themselves by playing too defensively in the third. They stopped pushing and started chasing. All game long they had trouble clearing the zone, and it caught up with them in the end. 3) People on here clamoring for us to trade Pacioretty... I don't understand how short your memories are. He's had 3 very good to excellent seasons for us now. Has he been up to potential in this series? No, but he is apparently hurt. Also, bare in mind that with what we now know about Desharnais, Max was carrying him and now is being held back by him. He needs to go to the net and use his body, but he's not done. He's clearly very capable of scoring 30 goals a season for years to come and I don't see how you could want to ditch that. 4) I guess some of you will get your wish and see what Budaj is capable of... I don't expect it to go to game 6. Not that I hate him and love Carey, but the team is just too beat up and tired for either of them to be able to make a difference. You'd need a Plante/Dryden/Roy hybrid to steal this series.
- Comment on Liveblog: Game 4 – Canadiens blow 2-0 lead, lose in OT (2013-05-07 16:13:29)
The habs need to realize that they can't be retaliating against Neal or looking for payback from Gryba. If the sens hit Gallagher, the habs need to turn around and hit Alfredsson. If they hit Subban, we hit Karlsson. If they hit Markov, we hit Gonchar... so on and so forth. Neal goes out on the ice, it's Therriens job to get the fourth line out there. Neal leaves the ice, Therrien needs to send out the skilled guys. It's called matchups, and on sunday night we didn't get any of them. Therrien got out-coached.
- Comment on About last night … (2013-05-06 15:23:08)
Marc Antoine Godin @MAGodin 33m Therrien: "Desharnais est très conscient qu'il doit contribuer davantage aux succès de l'équipe."
- Comment on About last night … (2013-05-06 14:55:53)
Marc Antoine Godin @MAGodin 2m Reporter: Should Budaj get a shot ? Therrien: Are you serious? So everyone, please stop discussing it.
- Comment on Liveblog: Canadiens win 3-1, tie series (2013-05-03 12:02:31)
Fun times here. Everybody either panicking or hating. Price needs to be better, yes. 3 of those 4 goals were stoppable. Can he bounce back? 2011 playoffs: .934%, 2011 season: .923%, 2012 season: .916%. I think he can bounce back. Let's also remember he played very well in the first two periods despite the first goal being stoppable. That said, when you take 50 shots and the other goalie stops 48 of them, clearly there is something else at work besides your goalie letting you down. The shots we took were low percentage. The initial shots weren't going to go in because they came from the perimeter, so what we need to look at it is the rebounds. Plenty of them popped out in the slot or far side of the net where easy goals could be scored but we didn't collect a single one of the rebounds. Last night was a percentage game, and we wound up on the wrong end of the percentages. If the two teams play that way again, we win the game. If Carey saves the perimeter shots that wound up going in (goals 2 and 4), we win the game. I'm confident we leave town 1-1.
- Comment on Liveblog: Senators draw first blood … literally (2013-05-02 22:41:48)
Today I got a kick out of reading the pension plan puppets website comments and seeing all the Leafs fans losing their minds about how their team had just lost and the sky was falling. Now I'm seeing the same thing happen here. It's comedic gold.
- Comment on Liveblog: Canadiens at Devils (2013-04-23 20:25:59)
For once I am at a loss for words. How does a team play so well for 40 games, and then wet the bed for the rest of the season? Carey playing poorly, the forwards getting pushed to the perimeter, the defence missing their only physical threat... I don't understand how it all happened, but it's happened. Can they turn it around in time for the playoffs? I don't know... but I've got tickets for home game 2, which at this point looks like it will be game 4 and our elimination night. That said, I still think they can turn it around. Carey Price didn't become the worst goalie in the league overnight, he just suddenly hit a bad patch which makes him look like the worst goalie in the league. The forwards will still be small, but they managed to get through that all year. The D will still be soft, but they can still pass. Who knows?


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Eau Claire (WQOW)- Wisconsin's Secretary of Revenue Rick Chandler was in the area Thursday to talk about the governor's budget and plans to cut taxes for Wisconsinites across the board.
Chandler says the state's budget is in a much better place than it was before Governor Walker took office, turning a $3.6 billion deficit into a $400 million surplus. He also says the governor wants to issue another tax cut.
"It's designed so that everybody will see some income tax reduction, but people in the middle-class, roughly from $35,000 to $100,000 of income will see the greatest reduction," Chandler explains.
The Department of Revenue says a family with a yearly income of around $80,000 will see about a $212 tax cut over a two-year period.


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Don't you just love having the same conversation over and over? Yes? Good, read on.
A little bit ago we were again discussing how things work around the dishevelled domicile, in terms of who is in charge. Somehow the topic came up in chat a day or two ago with a pal and in that conversation I finally landed on what I think is a reasonably good analogy.
My man is the head of state but it is a puppet government. I'm delighted to leave him all the policy issues, diplomatic responsibilities, and parliamentary procedures as well as the effort that goes into maintaining a government. Rather him than me!
His decisions can fall anywhere within my fairly permissive (nearly Sinatra Doctrine) policies— and there is pax domina.


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By JERRY RILES
Hang on here for a second. Back in April Bears GM Jerry Angelo said he didn't have a problem with his star quarterback Jay Cutler going out on the town. Really?
Is this the same guy who got rid of his big defensive stud Tank Johnson and prized running back Cedric Benson after they had run-ins with alcohol and the law?
Cutler has been seen around town, at many late night establishments along with tightend Greg Olsen, carousing with the bar folks. Drink in hand, sometimes not, but still out partying like he's on a college campus.
The point is, that's when trouble can and usually happens. At the club, late at night , when alcohol, women, and loud music are involved.
All you need is for one guy to have a bit too much liquid courage and the next thing you know your star player's mug shot is on the front page of the morning paper and all over the television news programs.
I thought Jerry would have learned his lesson from the Johnson incident in which the tackle's longtime childhood friend was gunned down inside a near north side bar a couple of years ago.
Benson was on his boat down in Texas when he got belligerent with the coast guard and was physically forced off, handcuffed, and hauled away to jail. According to reports he was allegedly inebriated.
What could Angelo be thinking now? What could the Bears organization be thinking at this point? This is the classic case of an accident waiting to happen.
Former NBA star and current TNT NBA analyst Charles Barkley knows firsthand how some bar patrons can get out of hand after a few cocktails. His solution is to just promptly ask the person repeatedly to go about their business. Then, if the request is ignored, simply toss the intoxicated individual out of the nearest window.
I don't think Cutler and Angelo are interested in finding out if the QB can bench-press an actual human being while hanging out on Rush Street.
My advice to them is to chill out on the late night parties. Go to Gibson's, Hugo's Frog Bar, or Ditka's for a nice meal. Enjoy a few libations and call it an evening.
Sure, I know he needs to get to know the city and let the fan base begin to find out what type of guy he is off the field, but pushing the envelope to the wee hours of the morning is not good.
If the Bears organization didn't tolerate it from Johnson and Benson, why look the other way and say there's no problem with hanging out and partying when it's the star quarterback?
That's taking a real chance. All you need is for Cutler to get into an altercation with a drunken maniac, smack him in the face, and end up breaking his throwing hand. Now he's out for the next game if not for the season.
I know Cutler and Olsen have handlers and bodyguards are on these premises, but all it takes is for one envious guy to take one swipe at good old number 6 and that could be all she wrote.
Jerry I think it's time to reel Jay in, remember Bourbonnais is just around the corner and I would hate to hear you say there was no problem with the quarterback going out after learning through the media he put his fist in some stupefied person's mouth.
You don't need another late night incident. Believe me neither does Coach Lovie Smith.


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The Missouri Department of Transportation will close all lanes on eastbound Interstate 64 downtown from Jefferson to the Poplar Street Bridge November 8 - 12.
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Crews will be working on the section of the double deck just over I-55 and the depressed lanes of I-70 downtown. While crews are working on the roadway above, drivers on I-55 heading to I-70 may be detoured onto Memorial Drive and back to the interstate for safety.
The ramps from Forest Park Avenue and Pine Street to eastbound I-64 are closed around the clock through November.
Motorists should be aware of the following on-going closures:
- I-70, (westbound section of the Interstate 70 Blanchette bridge over the Missouri River) will remain closed fall 2013. The eastbound I-70 bridge will be used to carry three lanes of traffic in each direction.
- I-64, St. Louis City, the ramps from Forest Park Avenue and Pine Street to eastbound I-64 is closed around the clock through November.
- I-70, St. Louis City, the exit ramp from westbound I-70 to Madison is closed until mid-December.
- I-70, St. Louis City, the express lanes into downtown is closed until mid-November.
- Wellington, St. Louis City, the Wellington bridge closed over the River Des Peres until late 2012. Detour to Jamieson Avenue bridge.
- I-55, Jefferson County, the ramp from northbound I-55 to Route M is closed until spring 2013.


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For 25 years, DSM's not-for-profit nutrition think tank Sight and Life has been championing the battle against micronutrient deficiencies (hidden hunger) among the world's poorest and most vulnerable populations.
To mark the quarter-centenary of its foundation, Sight and Life is publishing a book entitled Micronutrients, Macro Impact: The story of vitamins and a hungry world.
The publication of this book coincides with the 100th anniversary of the creation of the word 'vitamine' by Casimir Funk and the accompanying recognition of the vital role that vitamins play in human health and development.
Micronutrients, Macro Impact recounts the first quarter-century of Sight and Life's existence. Drawing on documentary evidence as well as recent interviews with leading thinkers in the micronutrient arena, it explains the vital importance of micronutrients and makes a powerful plea for using these vital substances to help build healthier, more prosperous, and more sustainable societies.
On 10 February, Micronutrients, Macro Impact will be officially launched at the global Headquarters of DSM Nutritional Products in Kaiseraugst, Switzerland. The text was developed by The Corporate Story from 2008-11 under the direction of Klaus Kraemer, Director, Sight and Life, and is a publication of Sight and Life Press.
Jonathan Steffen will be chairing a panel discussion at the launch, whose speakers will include Stephan Tanda, Managing Board member with responsibility for DSM's Nutrition activities: Martin Bloem, Chief of Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, UN World Food Programme; Keith West, George G. Graham Professor of Infant and Child Nutrition at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Klaus Kraemer, Director, Sight and Life.
Jacoline van Blokland, Head Global HR, DSM will introduce the event and Jane Badham, Managing Director, JB Consultancy, will launch the 'Two Dollars a Day' diet campaign.
Manfred Eggersdorfer, SVP Nutrition Science and Advocacy, DSM will conclude the event by launching 2012 as the Year of Vitamins.
The book launch will be followed by a mini-symposium on Micronutrients: From the Past to the Future with participants from Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Groupe de Recherche et d'Echange Technologique (GRET), the Universities of Hohenheim, Newcastle & Ulster, and Vitamin Angels, as well as DSM, Sight and Life and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
For more information, please visit www.sightandlife.org


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aka RGLCL
Any chance he gets the nod this upcoming season as the starter? He's a big guy, strong arm, seems like a "veteran" (even though he hasn't really played much). I like Nassib dont get me wrong, but I do not LOVE him. I always hear that Loeb is #2 in line, but have yet to see Marrone give the kid a real chance to show us what he's got.
I would be excited to see Loeb lead the team and mix things up a little.


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The right-most, and most-varied of the 3 bolted routes in this spot. The crux is moving up and left below the obvious bush. Nice moves above lead to a steep finish. This may have previously been known as "Wide Cracks" before the bolts went in.
Just right of "Muffin Top", about 130' left of "Aspen Leaf"
7 or 8 bolts to a chain anchor. We agonized putting bolts in the bottom but chose to "Pogue-ize" it for the benefit of the faint-hearted.


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I probably don't need to go into a lot of detail about Chris Sale. We all know he has been filthy since our last update. Let's take a look at where Sale ranks compared to other starting pitchers.
-As of today, Chris Sale is fourth behind Justin Verlander, R.A. Dickey, and Jake Peavy for the most WAR of any pitcher in baseball at 3.1.
-He is third in the AL in ERA just behind C.J. Wilson and Jered Weaver with an ERA of 2.46. Just behind Sale in the fourth and fifth place spots for AL ERA leaders are Brandon McCarthy and Justin Verlander, who are clearly some pretty good company.
-Sale is one of four AL starting pitchers with a WHIP less than 1.000. He currently sits 4th at 0.996. The pitchers ahead of him at, in descending order, Weaver, Peavy, and Verlander.
-Sale leads the AL in ERA+ at 172 where league average is 100.
-Sale has given up more than 3 earned runs in only 1 of his 12 starts this season.
Basically what I am trying to say is that Sale has been as dominant as some of the best starting pitchers in the AL in his first year in the rotation. The only concern will be how his elbow holds up over the course of the season. With a medical staff led by Herm Schneider and with pitching coach Don Cooper, I am confident that they will closely monitor Sale's health and keep him in as good of shape as possible over the remainder of the season. If the Sox are in contention, as is expected, come September, Ventura and Cooper will have a tough decision on their hands as they have said that there would be an innings limit on Sale this year.
Daniel Bard has not been so successful since our last update. He was actually demoted to Boston's Triple-A affiliate to work on his control, which was his biggest issue in his short stint as a big league starter. In 7 starts since the beginning of May until his demotion at the beginning of June, Bard walked 27 batters. Over the course of the season so far he had already walked a total of 37 batters compared to striking out only 34 in 55 innings of work. This is why he gave up at least 4 runs in 5 of his 10 starts and only lasted more than 5.1 innings in 4 of his outings. Bard is struggling in Triple-A as well. Over 7.1 innings over 5 games, which included 1 start, Bard has given up 6 runs. He has decreased his walks though having only given a free pass to 2 batters. He has also struck out 10 batters.
It's difficult to get a read on how he is doing given that the majority of his appearances in Triple-A have come in relief. It also seems as though his performances have been kind of up and down so far. Last week he pitched two scoreless innings in relief, but just yesterday he threw two wild pitches and blew the save for in the ninth. Additionally, it is an extremely small sample size. However, at this point I think we can safely say that this has been a failed experiment given that Bard is not even pitching in the majors at this point.
Neftali Feliz is another pitcher on this list who is not currently pitching for his major league ball club. However, he is not pitching due to a stint on the disabled list, unlike Bard. Feliz was put on the disabled list at the end of May after pitching his worst start of the season, in terms of command, where he walked 5 batters. He complained of elbow soreness after his 4.2 innings of work in this game and was put on the DL after MRIs confirmed that he had a UCL sprain. He was only supposed to be shut down for about a month but it's looking like he is going be out for the entire first half and maybe more.
Given the addition of Roy Oswalt, who makes his first start for Texas tomorrow against Colorado, it is unclear what role Feliz will fill upon his return. Up until he was put on the disabled list, he was pitching pretty well. Like Bard, he did have is own problems with control. In only one start did nobody walk. In every outing he walked at least 2 batters and even walked 6 in one 5 inning outing against Toronto at the beginning of May.
There is a lot of uncertainty regarding Feliz's healthy and role for the remainder of the season. It seems unlikely that he will return to the rotation once he is reactivated making this another failed conversion experiment, at least for this season.
Finally we reach another pitcher who is actually still starting. Samardzija has started 13 games thus far and has given up 3 or less runs in 10 of them. He has also walked 2 or less in 10 starts. He strikes out a bunch of batters as well (9.0 per 9 IP). Samardzija has been right around league average for 78 innings thus far, which is more than more of the other Cubs starters can say. I don't really have much else to say about the pitcher that hit The King in the eye with a wild splitter.
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I pulled this from Jesse Spector's blog.
It's an excellent post-practice interview with Torts as he talks personnel and new challenges for the team. What is most important about the video is that one can tell Tortorella is more comfortable dealing with the press, and isn't hesitant to show some of his cards. Jump to see what I mean.....
In the video Tortorella speaks pretty candidly about how the team operates as a unit, and reveals some things about his philosophy on coaching. From the video Tortorella appears to subscribe to a less mechanistic view of coaching. For example, that chemistry among players, with an interest in the overall development of the team, is more important than the way players fulfill their "roles." I think you'd find that some of the working-class heroes on the Rangers like Prust and Boyle would agree that if they were treated as strictly role-players we'd not be seeing either, especially Prust, doing what we now expect them to do every night.
Torts alludes to this issue when Spector asks about the time constraints on older players' careers as the young-uns mature; and the way in which the team has to adapt without Cally but with MZA. We hear a lot about coaches in other sports excelling because they have to manage the egos of top flight talent while orchestrating who surrounds them. From this interview, we come to see that Torts doesn't view the Rangers in a plug-and-play or mold as-you-go manner.The players as persons are as important and changeable as the roles they are expected to fulfill. I don't mean this in terms of turning Michael Sauer into Drew Doughty, but that he coaches to let players grow into expanded roles.
From this interview the fans and the press get a real explanation as to why the lines change so much. It's not because he's looking for instant "jam," it's that he has a larger perspective on what a team is (and what this team is) that he hasn't let on to us until he put this out there. All the WTFs and pulled out hair from last year's line ups were not for naught.
on the other hand, i could be just plain wrong. My apologies if my argument is less than clear.


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Expired: 5.26% 36-Month CD at an Illinois Credit Union (Scott)
Update 2/2/08: The CD rates have fallen. Please check the credit union's website for the latest rates.
Scott Credit Union is offering very high yields on its 36-month share certificate. The yields include 5.10% APY for a $1,000 minimum, 5.26% APY for a $50K minimum and 5.31% APY for a $100K minimum. I called the credit union today, and I was told that these rates are still valid. New rates are usually posted on Wednesdays.
This credit union also has a high yield reward checking account. I first posted on this reward checking account in September 2007. The reward checking account yield has remained at 6.05% APY for balances up to $25K.
Membership is open to anyone living or working in Monroe, Madison, St. Clair, Randolph, Perry, Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Clinton, Marion and Bond counties in Illinois. Please see their eligibility page for more details. Membership requires a $50 minimum deposit into the savings account.
Branches are located in several cities of southwest Illinois including Fairview Heights, Collinsville, O'Fallon, Waterloo and Highland. The credit union is federally insured by the NCUA (Charter # 66370). It has $382.3 million in assets and 58,544 members.


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iPhone user has 'out-of-phone experience' in-between operating systems
iPhone dependent Michael Potter has spoken of a bizarre 'human-like experience' today, when a delay in his download of iOS 7 to his iPhone 5 left him perilously exposed to the real world, with no operating system, for nearly 24-hours.
'Normally I just stare at a wall from two-inches away with a blank expression in-between operating systems, but this time something different happened', explained the now half-man, half-phone. 'I discovered a world free of digital assistance, where friends are a physical reality. Although it turns out I don't have nearly as many as my Facebook app suggests. I also discovered my mum passed away a couple of years ago. If only I had my bereavement app'.
Professor Robert Winston, who has based his latest studies around the dependency modern humans have on technology, said: 'Out-of-phone experiences are very rare and can be extremely distressing and confusing. To find yourself in a tangible, 3D environment with no widgets available for assistance can be daunting, but, as in Michael's case, it can sometimes prove quite enlightening'.
'I feel free. Isn't this sunset just beautiful?', added Michael, who went for a long, inspiring walk along the seafront with a dog he didn't realise he owned. 'I don't need an app to tell me when I need a shit anymore, I can just go whenever and wherever I want; like right now, if I want to. I don't want my friends and family to worry; I'm adapting really well. Now, can anybody tell me how I charge this dog up?'Click to send this story to a friend
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