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Ft. Benning- The retreat ceremony is held every day on Army bases, but at Ft. Benning Tuesday, lowering the American flag was not an ordinary ritual.
The 3rd Brigade out of Ft. Benning was vital in the fall of Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom. But also on this day last year, two soldiers in the 3rd Brigade were killed during fire fights. The group lost two more before their job was done.
"We were conducting an attack through what you now know as the Sunni Triangle," said Lt. Col. Jeffrey Sanderson."We were in about a 60 hour continuous fire fight up there on the 6,7 and 8th of April."
"Those soldiers did not die in vain," he said. "They freed people that were beleaguered and oppressed and freeing those people will go down in history as one of the greatest things that a free country could do for another country."
Those four 3rd Brigade soldiers killed in Iraq will be honored again on the base later this week. This memorial will be unveiled Thursday.
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This post has been percolating around my head for a while. Prompted by a conversation I had a couple of weeks ago with an elite sports coach. During the conversation he mentioned how frustrated he remained over some results from last season, and this made me think about the emotion of 'frustration' and what effect […]
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ESPN has an interesting article http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5728653 that discusses a new study which suggests there is a substantial gap between what an athletic scholarship covers and the actual costs of school. In light of the discussion last week about paying college athletes, it seemed relevant.
I'm still not in favor of paying college athletes, but I do think that if they are offered a full ride, it should be a full ride. On the other hand, there are all sorts of inequities in athletic scholarships. For example, most baseball players only get a 1/3 scholarship. I imagine there are similar problems for other minor mens sports, like swimming, soccer and wrestling. Moreover, academic scholarships do not normally cover every cost either. They might cover tuition and room and board, but not fees, for example.


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I'm a PhD candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Madeira in Portugal under the supervision of Ian Oakley. I hold a Portuguese National Science Foundation (FCT) PhD Scholarship to investigate the application of social network analysis techniques for studying behavior in social network sites. I also collaborate with the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, under the Carnegie Mellon|Portugal partnership, and the Interactions Lab at UNIST. Prior to this, I was a member of the Information Systems Laboratory Research Group at the University of Athens in Greece, and worked as a freelance software developer and usability specialist. I hold a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Leicester in the UK and an MSc in Advanced Information Systems from the University of Athens.
Key topics in my PhD research include computational social science, social network analysis, privacy, usability, location sharing and computer-mediated communication. Areas that my research has focused in the past include human-centered design, locative media, universal design and web accessibility, business entrepreneurship and employability, teleworking and e-government services.
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- 12/2012: Our paper "Understanding Motivations for Facebook Use: Usage Metrics, Network Structure, and Privacy" has been accepted at CHI 2013! On a related note, I'm very happy to also SV for the conference! Update: Our experience report has also been accepted at the RepliCHI 2013 workshop at CHI 2013! Update 2: Unfortunately, I will miss the conference due to a not fully recovered broken leg. Bummer. Update 3: Our paper received a CHI 2013 RepliCHI award!
- 10/2012: Our paper "Uses & Gratifications of a Facebook Media Sharing Group" has been accepted at CSCW 2013!
- 08/2012: We are running a new study on Facebook friendships. Click here to go to the study description page. Update: This survey is now closed. Thanks to everyone who participated.
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- 09/2011: I'm a student volunteer at ECSCW '11 in Aarhus, Denmark. If you're around, don't forget to say Hi!
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- 14 ounces Evaporated Milk (1 can)
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- Whisk together evaporated milk and nutella until smooth. Then add the cinnamon.
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deuscide says: Amazing. What came first, "Memento" or this - it made you think, beg for more, and demand a sequel. The mind of genius.
deuscide says: Balance in a 4x game like I have never seen before. Connect with your friends, and spouses, it promotes skill and feels amazingly familiar to any Star Trek fan/
deuscide says: A simulation with more personality than many more games to come; be there or not, life happens in sectors, just hope you've ease dropped on the right person at the right time - else, there is always next time.
deuscide says: It was amazing then, it is nostalgia now. It also bred sequels and spin offs that fueled many popular scifi flicks.
deuscide says: Amazing voice acting. Though the game can be difficult, expect to visit a walk through, this game has brought sweat dream fantasies, and the random, "Have you ever heard of capris san cors?"
deuscide says: These are the games that kept me programming. These are the games that inspired me. These are the stories, even simple in their environment, that made me believe in other worlds.
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Steven Weber is a professor at the School of Information and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds an M.D. and a Ph.D in political science from Stanford University.
He is the author of several books about international politics and economics. He is also the editor of Globalization and the European Political Economy (Columbia University Press, 2000). Perhaps his most well-known book is The Success of Open Source, on the economy and motivations behind open source and free software. There he proposes the concept of anti-rival goods.
He has advanced the hypothesis that the concept of the "nation state" is an inadvertent product of 15th-century advances in map-making technologies.[1][2]
- ^ "How Maps Made the World". Wilson Quarterly. Summer 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2011. "Source: 'Mapping the Sovereign State: Technology, Authority, and Systemic Change' by Jordan Branch, in International Organization, Volume 65, Issue 1, Winter 2011"
- ^ Branch, Jordan Nathaniel; advisor, Steven Weber (2011). "Mapping the Sovereign State: Cartographic Technology, Political Authority, and Systemic Change" (Ph.D.). Publication Number 3469226. University of California, Berkeley. pp. 1–36. doi:10.1017/S0020818310000299. Retrieved March 5, 2012. "Abstract: How did modern territorial states come to replace earlier forms of organization, defined by a wide variety of territorial and non-territorial forms of authority? Answering this question can help to explain both where our international political system came from and where it might be going...."
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Coming off a memorable FOTN war with Joe Lauzon at UFC 155, New Jersey's own Jim Miller will be fighting in his home state yet again, this time welcoming Pat Healy back into the UFC.
Also on for #UFC159 - Jersey's own @jimmiller_155 vs Pat @bambamhealy— UFC (@ufc) January 30, 2013
The UFC has held 3 shows in New Jersey since 2010, and Miller has fought on all of them. He defeated Mark Bocek, TKOed Kamal Shalarous, and lastly in 2012 was submitted by Nate Diaz in a #1 contender matchup. Miller sports an impressive 11-3 UFC record and has never lost consecutive fights in his MMA career.
Healy is actually returning to the UFC after a 7 year absence. He fought Anthony Torres on a UFC Fight Night back in 2006, losing by rear-naked choke. "Bam Bam" has competed under the Strikeforce banner since 2010, compiling a 7-1 record along the way. Before Strikeforce ceased operations, Healy was scheduled to fight Gilbert Melendez for the LW title both in September and in January, but Melendez pulled out due to injury both times.
UFC 159 is April 27th in Newark, New Jersey, where Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen will fight in the main event for Jones' light-heavyweight belt.
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A little girl was reunited with her pony on Thursday.Dianna Casa was heartbroken after her pony, Princess, went missing last Thursday. The pony was a Christmas present. Jose Casa, Dianna's father, says Princess got out of their barn when strong winds blew the doors open last week. For days, the family says they searched the rural country side, but found cows and farmland – no Princess.Volunteer fireman Mickee Smith said he retrieved Princess from Herman C. Michael Park after the sheriff's office received a call about a loose horse. "They called me because I have horses and wanted to know did I have a horse missing and I didn't," Smith said.The Casa finally reunited with Princess after contacting the Oconee County Sheriff's Office. The family says they'll return to the Smiths' house on Friday with a horse trailer to retrieve Princess and take her back home.
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Lynchburg - The Hillcats earned a doubleheader split with Carolina Tuesday night by taking game two at City Stadium. The Mudcats won the completion of Monday night's suspended game 5-2.
Lynchburg bounced back to take game two by that same 5-2 score. The Hillcats scored three runs in the first and never trailed. Carolina did score single runs in the second and third to pull within one, but Lynchburg tacked on insurance runs in the fifth and sixth for the 5-2 final. Lynchburg's J.R. Graham pitched a complete game 4-hitter and struck out 6 to pick up the victory, he improves to 3-and-0 on the season.


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The Interstate 595 Express Project is nearing completion.
Construction on the project began almost four years ago. It's scheduled to open in March.
"It'll be a huge improvement for the commuters, especially those making a long commute, say coming from Weston or Pembroke Pines [and] trying to get to Miami or downtown Fort Lauderdale," said construction manager Paul Lampley.
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Coming to you from the Great Library of Dreams at Hypnogoria Towers, Mr Jim Moon invites you to take a comfy armchair by the fireside to talk of all things weird and wonderful. Alternating between discussions of strange cinema, television, comics and literature, and readings of classic genre fiction,Hypnobobs brings you all you need to keep your imagination well nourished…
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HYPNOBOBS 09 - The Redsin Tower
Mr Jim Moon takes a look at an underground horror flick from the infamous Toetag Pictures. So ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats for a tour of The Redsin Tower (2006).
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NEW YORK – On Wednesday, it was reported that The Ultimate Fighter 18 women's bantamweight winner Julianna Pena had suffered a knee injury while training for her upcoming fight against Jessica Andrade at UFC 171.
Not only would she be forced from the bout with Andrade, which was to take place on March 15 in Dallas, but there was a tone of egregiousness that came out of the news. Dana White tweeted "What happened to @VenzuelanVixen is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard. Ranked #10 and out 2 years. #leavethatgymnow."
Though the extent of the injury was portrayed as devastating -- a torn ACL, MCL, LCL and meniscus -- it was still unknown what had actually happened at Sik-Jitsu Fighting Systems, where Pena trains in Spokane, Wash. On Thursday, White was asked about the nature of the injury, and how it occurred, during the scrum on UFC 169 media day.
"It's the worst injury I've ever heard of, ever, in this sport, and you hear about those types of injuries in football," he said. "Apparently, when she came into the gym -- and again, she was hysterical when I talked to her, crying -- she was training in her gym and one of her training partners, a guy, was saying to her, 'oh, you're wearing your Ultimate Fighter shirt, we're real scared.' He says that and was talking smack to her and then basically attacked her.
"He jumped on her back, started cranking her neck, and the way she fell her knee blew out. The most disgusting thing I've ever heard in my life. A year-and-a-half to two years she'll be out, and I told her to leave that disgusting gym and go somewhere else with new coaches, new training partners, whatever. And that's all I know."
White said he wasn't sure if it was a fighter who injured Pena, but it was a man, and from what he heard it sounded like assault.
"It sounds like assault to me, but how do you consider it assault in a gym? You know what I mean?"
When told that this version of the story differed from that of her coach, Rick Little's version of what happened -- which was that Pena, in her over-eagerness, didn't do the proper warm up and was training with some guys before he had arrived to oversee it -- White said that wasn't what he was told.
"That's so far from the story she told me right after she was completely hysterical and crying, completely opposite," he said. "Completely different story from what she told me. Somewhere in the middle lies the truth."
Pena is set to undergo surgery to repair her knee next week in Los Angeles.


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The White House says 14 more nations have signed on to a statement blaming Syrian President Bashar Assad's government for a chemical weapons attack and calling for a strong international response. That means the list has grown to 25 from the 11 -- including the U.S. -- who initially signed on. The statement was unveiled Friday at the Group of 20 economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. Among the new nations announcing support are Germany, Denmark, Morocco, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Honduras, Romania, Latvia, Albania and Lithuania are also listed. The statement doesn't explicitly call for military action against Syria, as President Barack Obama is advocating. But administration officials say it's an implicit endorsement because the U.S. is publicly discussing a potential military strike.
Meanwhile, Syria's foreign minister says his country welcomes Russia's proposal for it to place its chemical weapons under international control and then dismantle them quickly to avert U.S. strikes. The statement from Walid al-Moallem came a few hours after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Syrian President Bashar Assad could resolve the crisis surrounding the alleged use of chemical weapons by his forces by surrendering control of "every single bit" of his arsenal to the international community by the end of the week. Hours after Kerry's statement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would urge Syria to quickly put its chemical weapons under international control, then dismantle them. Lavrov, who held talks with al-Moallem in Moscow earlier in the day, said he expected a quick positive answer from Damascus. Al-Moallem, however, wouldn't give any further details in his brief statement and didn't take any questions. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging Syria to immediately agree to transfer chemical weapons and chemical precursors to a safe place within the country for international destruction. Ban said Monday he will also propose to the Security Council that it unite and demand an immediate chemical weapons transfer should U.N. inspectors conclude that such weapons were used in an attack Aug. 21 in a suburb of Damascus. He said he is also considering asking the council to demand accountability for an alleged chemical weapons attack. Ban spoke shortly after Moscow's surprise announcement that it was pressing its ally Syria on a similar proposal -- to move its chemical weapons to areas under international control to avoid a U.S. military strike. The White House is dismissing the comments from Syrian President Bashar Assad, in which he denies that his government was responsible for last month's chemical weapons attack. National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan says it's no surprise that someone who would kill hundreds of children with poison gas would also lie about it. In the interview aired on CBS' "This Morning," Assad warned there will be retaliation against the U. S. for any military strike launched in response to a chemical weapons attack. Asked by interviewer Charlie Rose to elaborate, Assad says, "You should expect everything. Not necessarily from the government." He said the U.S. would "pay the price if you are not wise with dealing with terrorists." President Barack Obama is seeking an authorization from Congress to punish Assad for an Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack that the administration maintains Assad ordered. (AP)
Statement on Additional Countries in Support of September 6 Joint Statement on Syria
On September 6, the United States and 10 other countries issued a joint statement on Syria, condemning in the strongest terms the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons on August 21 in the suburbs of Damascus and calling for a strong international response. The statement explicitly supports the efforts undertaken by the United States and other countries to reinforce the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
Since the issuance of that statement, additional countries (marked by an asterisk) have signed on to the statement and publicly support its content. The countries now formally supporting this statement are: Albania*AustraliaCanadaCroatia*Denmark*Estonia*FranceGermany*Honduras*Hungary*ItalyJapanRepublic of KoreaKosovo*Latvia*Lithuania*Morocco*Qatar*Romania*Saudi ArabiaSpainTurkeyUnited Arab Emirates*United KingdomUnited States
We welcome additional countries expressing their support for this statement and our continued efforts to hold the Assad regime accountable and enforce the international norm against the use of chemical weapons. The statement will continue to be updated and can be found at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/foreign-policy/syria.
Text of Joint Statement on Syria:
The international norm against the use of chemical weapons is longstanding and universal. The use of chemical weapons anywhere diminishes the security of people everywhere. Left unchallenged, it increases the risk of further use and proliferation of these weapons.
We condemn in the strongest terms the horrific chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21st that claimed the lives of so many men, women, and children. The evidence clearly points to the Syrian government being responsible for the attack, which is part of a pattern of chemical weapons use by the regime.
We call for a strong international response to this grave violation of the world's rules and conscience that will send a clear message that this kind of atrocity can never be repeated. Those who perpetrated these crimes must be held accountable.
Signatories have consistently supported a strong UN Security Council Resolution, given the Security Council's responsibilities to lead the international response, but recognize that the Council remains paralyzed as it has been for two and a half years. The world cannot wait for endless failed processes that can only lead to increased suffering in Syria and regional instability. We support efforts undertaken by the United States and other countries to reinforce the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
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On March 14, Laetare Sunday, Reverend Raymond M. Thu CMC, was installed as the first official Chaplain of the Vietnamese Catholic Community at St. Joseph Church in Raleigh. Fr. Thanh Nguyen, Pastor of Good Shepherd Church in Hope Mills, NC, celebrated Mass with Reverend Monsignor David D. Brockman, Vicar General of the Diocese, concelebrating and presiding at the Liturgy of Installation.
Fr. Thu ministers to the Vietnamese Catholic Community in the Triangle, which includes members from Wilson and Rocky Mount. The Vietnamese Community has been organized in the Raleigh area for some thirty years. They had been previously ministered to by Reverend Monsignor John M. David from the Diocese of Charlotte, who has since retired.
Fr. Thu belongs to the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix (CMC), which was founded in Vietnam in 1953. In 1975, after the fall of Saigon, he fled Vietnam by boat with 170 members of the CMC to the United States and settled in Southwest Missouri. He earned his BA in Philosophy at Conception Seminary College in Conception, Missouri, and his MA in Theology at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was ordained as priest of the CMC on August 6, 1987. Until now, his ministry has been in Missouri. He served as Director of the CMC Candidacy and as Chief Editor of a Vietnamese Catholic magazine named, Trai Tim Duc Me.
Since Fr. Thu came to the Diocese of Raleigh four months ago, Mass is celebrated at St Joseph in Vietnamese two times a week, serving 350-400 people. "I am very happy here in the Diocese of Raleigh," he says, "especially among the faithful, celebrating liturgies, preparing the community for the Sacraments and visiting families in their homes. I am very happy here." In Fr. Thu's four short months, he has already visited 50-60 families to offer support and ascertain the community's needs.
St. Joseph Church was one of three parishes created in the Diocese of Raleigh in 1968. It was formed to be a bi-racial community, with a mandate to care for the African American parishioners of St. Monica's Church, which was being closed. Today, 40 years later, the parish is one of the most culturally diverse in the Diocese, with members including English- and French-speaking Africans, Montagnards from Southeast Asia, Vietnamese, Hispanic and Polish.
Vietnamese Mass is celebrated every Thursday evening at 7:30pm and Sunday at 5:00pm. For more information go to http://www.stjosephsraleigh.org/.
Above: Fr. Raymond M. Thu, CMC, at his Installation Mass as Chaplain to Vietnamese Catholic Community in the Triangle. The Mass was celebrated by Fr. Thanh Nguyen with Fr. Raymond Thu and Msgr. David D. Brockman concelebrating.
Below: Members of Triangle Vietnamese Catholic Community at Installation Mass for Father Raymond M. Thu.


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A Ferguson man faces criminal charges for stealing a employee's van and then stealing eight tires from Dobbs Tire and Auto.
Christopher Williams, 41, of the 3600 block of Pershall Road in Ferguson, was charged Aug. 29 with stealing a vehicle, second-degree burglary and felony stealing.
said Williams stole a 1994 GMC conversion van from the Johnny Londoff Chevrolet lot between 9 p.m. July 29 and 10 a.m. Aug. 1. The van belonged to an employee at the car dealership.
Police said Williams also broke into Dobbs Tire and Auto, 2775 North Highway 67, between 2 and 2:58 a.m. and stole eight tires valued at $1,593.
Williams was identified through surveillance tapes at Dobbs and at a Quik Trip gas station where he bought gas for the van, according to court documents.
Bond was set at $50,000 for Williams.
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Obama's Teleprompter is permanently stuck on bright neon "Newtown!!" Flashing, but he "cannot" comment on the #Gosnell trial..—
El SOOPer!! (@SooperMexican) April 15, 2013
President Obama always seems to have something to say. But when it comes to the ongoing trial of alleged baby murderer Kermit Gosnell, he's suddenly gone silent.
Obama has commented on everything, from NCAA brackets to Five Guys to Trayvon Martin. But he can't be bothered about infanticide. #Gosnell—
Kevin Eder (@keder) April 15, 2013
That's Press Secretary Jay Carney's story, anyway, and he's sticking to it. When Fox News' Ed Henry asked if the president has been following the story and has any comments, Carney had this to say:
"The president does not and cannot take a position on an ongoing trial."
Typical weaselly response from a typical weasel. What a perfect Obama spokesman.
Saying he can't comment on #Gosnell isn't the worst thing Obama has done, but it might be the most transparently hypocritical.—
Landon (@OrwellForce) April 15, 2013
Video of the exchange, via LifeNews:
According to Carney, "the president's position on choice is very clear." That part's true, at least. As a state senator, Obama voted against Born Alive bills four times.
Evidently,"Obama has no position on the Gosnell trial"..because he supports the killing of infants before & after birth!! Sick! #tcot #ccot—
Jeff Dunagan (@jdun1989) April 15, 2013
Barack Obama can't comment on #Gosnell because the trail would lead back to his own votes in the Illinois senate.—
CorrComm (aka C2) (@corrcomm) April 15, 2013
Carney also insisted that the president believes in "the basic principle that … abortions ought to be safe, legal, and rare." If that's really true, Obama should have no issue weighing in on the Gosnell case. What allegedly took place in Gosnell's house of horrors was neither safe nor legal.
Why can't the president comment, Jay? Is the case too local or something?
When Obama can cash in politically on a trial in progress, he can't run to the press fast enough.. but not for children murdered by #Gosnell—
El SOOPer!! (@SooperMexican) April 15, 2013
"I cannot comment on an ongoing murder case." – Obama, handing the keys to his teleprompter to Newtown families. #Gosnell—
Cuffé (@CuffyMeh) April 15, 2013
So Obama won't comment on the #Gosnell trial because it's ongoing…because that's how he rolls…consistently. #NotReally—
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Obama spent more time on his NCAA bracket than on #Gosnell. If the doc was #TeaParty member there would be a daily WH briefing on the trial—
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You'd think Obama could at least try to spin #Gosnell as a failure of regulation and oversight, but nope, then it's acknowledged. @DLoesch—
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Maybe commenting on the #Gosnell trial is just above Obama's paygrade.—
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@SooperMexican Obama uses the grieving parents, but who grieves for the millions of babies murdered by #Gosnell and other murderous doctors?—
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The Aurora shooting trial is going on right now and Obama talks about it all the time. No comment on #Gosnell? WTF??? #tcot—
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Newtown shooter is dead so no trial but Aurora CO has an ongoing case & Obama comments on that all the time, but he won't on #Gosnell—
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Ask the imprisoned YouTube video guy about Obama not being able to take a position on legal matters. #Gosnell—
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If Obama had a son, I guess he wouldn't look like the thousands of African-American babies aborted every year? Hypocrite!
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So if Treyvon Martin was killed by Kermit #Gosnell, Obama would've kept his vengeful racist mouth shut?—
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WHAT THE HELL?Jay Carney says OBAMA is aware of the Gosnell Trial and is not allowed to make a comment on an ongoing trial. TRAYVON MARTIN??—
Kathleen E. Curley (@kecurley22265) April 15, 2013
Obama was willing to talk about how his son might look like Trayvon but he doesn't comment on the sons who died at Gosnell's hands.—
Breeanne Howe (@breeannehowe) April 15, 2013
Please pray for the victims Obama stampeded on his way to the podium after Trayvon. #Gosnell—
Cuffé (@CuffyMeh) April 15, 2013
@PressSec says Obama can't comment on ongoing #Gosnell trial. Guess none of Gosnell's victims looked like him.—
S.M (@redsteeze) April 15, 2013
@jtLOL @PressSec The baby beheader acted stupidly.—
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And so has this pathetic, shameful excuse for an administration. What a disgrace.
Obama ignores Gosnell horrors with media's aid: Pesky babies didn't 'just come out limp and dead'


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A 31-year-old Ohio man is facing a life prison sentence after he was convicted of causing injuries to his infant son that led the child's death 10 months later.
Johnnie Crockett III will get the mandatory sentence of life in prison with no parole possibility for 15 years following his convictions of murder and child endangering Tuesday.
Prosecutors said he caused severe injuries to 8-month-old Iszaac Crockett in February 2012. He was the only one home with the baby and other children when he called the baby's mother to say he wasn't breathing. Paramedics restored the child's heartbeat, but he died in December 2012.
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Some old Waikato Days' (transcription), Father John Golden, tells of his time in the Waikato very well.
Some of the church histories which I have seen don't mention the parishioners, but Fr Golden tells us a lot about them and it seemed he loved them greatly. Besides the parishioners, he tells about the building of churches and how he travelled around the place.
The copy I have is worn and it was an inexpensive type of book to begin with. Soft cover of a cardboard type of paper, 57 pages, no pictures or maps and it was published in 1922 by the NZ Tablet Printing and Publishing Company. The foreword is by James Liston, Bishop of Auckland. It has an introduction but no table of contents, index or bibliography.
The book begins in the 1870's when parishioners were few and money was scarce, and takes a reader through to just before WW1. Fr. Golden died in 1922. The Catholic archivist in Auckland kindly gave me permission to publish the book on the internet.


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text: This loss to the Broncos is one thats going to hurt for a while . The Steelers suffered a rediculous number of injuries leading up to the game with Roethlisberger , Pouncey and Mendenhall . Not to mention the fact they lost Brett Kiesel and Casey Hampton before halftime and neither returned . This team was no where near full strength against the Broncos and before anyone says , youre making excuses , I say no , Im simply stating the facts . The Broncos won and for that you have to give them credit . However , at the end of the day , one has to wonder if this Steeler team had not lost all these key players to injury , could the outcome have been different ? For that we have a whole off season to sit back and ponder that thought . On another note , Ike Taylor probably played the worst game of his career against the Broncos . At times he looked totally confused to the point he didnt know where he was on the field . Thats unacceptable for a veteran corner whos played in as many games as he has . This is more proof that this Steeler team needs to upgrade its secondary before next season . Ike isnt getting any younger and after him , you have barely average at best . At the end of the day , there needs to be some blame laid at the feet of Dick LeBeau . Dick should have a had a better game plan going into this game to slow down Tebow and while I dont blame him completely for the defenses collapse , he has to share in the blame . Now we can all sit back and wonder , what if ?


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A Colorado woman was impaled by a light pole after she crashed because she was texting and driving.
An 84-year-old man was killed in a crash Thursday afternoon in Turtlecreek Township.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSP) says Harold McCain, 84, of Lebanon, was driving a Chevrolet Colorado southbound on S.R. 123 about half of a mile south of Lebanon. Edward Dotson III, 32, of Blanchester was headed northbound in a Ford F-150.
According to OSP, McCain pulled in front of Dotson's truck while attempting to turn left into a driveway.
He was hit by the F-150 and taken to Atrium Hospital. From there, McCain was flown to Miami Valley Hospital where he died from his injuries.
Dotson and another passenger received only minor injuries from the crash and were not taken to the hospital.
Authorities say McCain was not wearing his seatbelt.
The crash remains under investigation.
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The Stanford University Libraries and the School of Engineering hosted the 2014 STELLA (Science, Technology and Engineering Library Leaders in Action) Unconference on April 25-26 in the Mackenzie Room of the Huang Engineering Center. Sixty-five librarians from the US and Canada participated in this third STELLA Unconference.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
SFGate published a slideshow and review of Robert Dawson's The Public Library: A Photographic Essay (Princeton Architectural Press, 2014). Dawson, an instructor of photography at San Jose State and Stanford, wrote, "In a culture that is increasingly privatized, libraries are among the last free spaces we have left. Public libraries are worth fighting for, and this book is my way of fighting."
See the slideshow and read the review, 'The Public Library': a photo gallery.
Sameer Ali (Stanford University), "Ethics and Philosophy in the Nuzhat-nama-i 'Ala'i of Shahmardan b. Abi al-Khayr al-Razi"
Abstract: This presentation seeks to examine the ethical precepts and practical philosophy in the Nuzhat-nama, which was written in the late 11th century in Iran under the patronage of the Kaykuyid prince Abu Kalijar Garshasp. The author, Shahmardan b. Abi al-Khayr al-Razi, borrows the title from Ibn Sina's work, the Danish Nama Alayi and circulates the latter's explanation of cosmology and philosophy. Al-Razi also includes a tract from Ibn Miskaywah on ethical behavior and domestics. In addition, this presentation seeks to investigate the descriptive aspects of the manuscript and articulate methodologies for studying and comparing manuscripts.
Victoria Reich and David S. H. Rosenthal have been named the winners of the 2014 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. The award recognizes outstanding individuals or institutions for their long-term contributions in the area of Library and Information Science technology and its application.


text: Just saw that the ACC voted to invite Louisville over UConn or Cinci... i guess "Atlantic" is officially out the door now. While I hated this move originally, I agree with SVP that the memories i cling to and the nostalgia i feel for the ACC and the ACC tourney all ended about 10yrs ago. The league has officially jumped the shark. I wish the rest of the original members well and hope that UVa and UNC join us in the B1G and that NC St finds a good home in either the SEC or the Big 12.


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So there's been a lot of moaning and groaning about the Nats of late, mixed with the occasional cheer or VOTE FOR ZIM call. When we lose, people talk like we're doing '09 and '08 all over again. When we win, people either cheer briefly, or pessimistically predict another losing streak, both groups hoping not to jinx the Cinderella comeback we all want but really don't expect.
Guys. It's not that bad. Going into this season we were hoping to finish over .400 for a change, as opposed to the .364 of last year and the .366 the year before. The fact that for the first couple of months we were over .500 almost the entire time shouldn't -- and doesn't -- change that.
Let's look at the hard numbers. As it stands right now, after 84 games, we're 37-47. Not so great, I admit. But you know what? We're on pace to go 71-91 for the season, or .438. So no, we're not having the breakout amazing year we thought we were back at the end of April or the middle of May. But we are meeting our goals for the year. We're teaching Strasburg and Storen how to be big leaguers (and Atilano in the process for a bonus). We're letting Ian Desmond get his rookie Year of teh Errarz out of his system. We're working out the kinks in the teamwork.
In essence, we're not trying to contend this year. We're doing a test run this year so that we can fix it up and be contenders next year and maybe even successful contenders the year after that. So stop moaning that we're as bad as last year. We aren't. We're not bad at all. We're just not good yet.


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Oh come on guys I went to the link and can't even sign up.. This is so much a sign of the times with MS.. I don't have a registered email client on my computer so your quicky one click email does not work.. So I tried to copy the email address but I am sure that you need the specific worded subject cause you prolly wrote a program to process them..
I tried to view the source to get it but of course it's substituted with crap cause it's in HTML... so 10 minutes later I gave up.. Wrote this comment and moved on..
So sad...
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The Pittsburgh Steelers have started out 6-2 in all five seasons under Head Coach Mike Tomlin, but in each of the past four years, the team has opened up the second half of the season with a pretty tough loss at Heinz Field.
There was that game against Indianapolis back in '08, where Dominic Rhodes beat Troy Polamalu (of all people) on a late touchdown pass out of the backfield in a 24-20 loss to Peyton Manning and the Colts.
There was that game against Cincinnati in 2009, where an early kickoff return for a touchdown by the Bengals was ultimately the difference in an ugly 18-12 loss for the Steelers.
Then, of course, there was the infamous passing seminar that Tom Brady and the Patriots offense put on last season, where the Steelers defenders seemed to be mere spectators in a 39-26 loss to New England on Sunday Night Football.
As tough as those last three week nine losses were, none of them may even approach the heartbreaking last-second defeat at the hands of Joe Flacco and the arch-rival Baltimore Ravens this past Sunday evening at Heinz Field.
With the win, the Ravens swept the season series over Pittsburgh and captured the most important division tiebreaker.
The question, now, of course, is how do the Steelers respond?
Well, it may be pretty encouraging to know that in two of past three seasons, the Steelers responded by winning six of their last seven games to finish with a 12-4 record and went on to appear in the Super Bowl.
The lone exception, obviously, was the miserable second-half that the Steelers experienced in 2009 following the loss to Cincinnati. And just like with Baltimore's win this past Sunday, the Bengals swept the season series over Pittsburgh with that 18-12 win.
But I'm not too worried about the Steelers falling into a similar funk this season. I believe the team is still on the right track.
As bitter as that loss was to the Ravens on Sunday, it was one hell of a game between two of the best teams in football, and had one or two plays gone the other way, the Steelers probably would have won.
In '09, despite their 6-2 start, something seemed to be a little off with the Super Bowl Champion Steelers. Everytime they had a team on the ropes, they seemed to let them back in the game with a costly turnover, a penalty at an inopportune moment, or a special teams mistake. Pittsburgh sports personality Stan Savran even cautioned his listeners about the team's apparent lack of focus during the first half of the year, and he proved to be a prophet, as the mistakes continued in the second half of the year and became too numerous to overcome. The Steelers lost five-straight games down-the-stretch and missed the playoffs.
Even though the Steelers started the 2011 season with a very shaky 2-2 record, they began to hit their stride in week five against Tennessee and, with the exception of the second-half against Jacksonville, have been playing at a very high-level over the last five games.
The Steelers may be sort of on the outside looking in as it pertains to the AFC North, but at 6-3, they have the second-best record in the AFC and still have a very clear shot at the postseason.
Of course, that could all change if the Steelers don't go into Cincinnati and take care of business this Sunday. Yes, I know, the Bengals are a surprising 6-2, but the Steelers are certainly the more talented and battle-tested football team, and very good teams go on the road and win games like the one coming up against the Bengals.
If the Steelers win, at 7-3, they would not only have the inside track on at least a wildcard berth, but we could all still hold-out hope for a division title. If they lose, well, not only would Pittsburgh's chances at the AFC North be all but up in smoke--no way would a 3-3 record be good enough to win the AFC North this year, and that would be the best Pittsburgh could hope for if they start out 0-3 in the division--but at 6-4, the Steelers would find themselves in an absolute dog-fight with at least a handful of other teams for the last two playoff spots in the AFC.
No, the Steelers need to win this Sunday. It might be a little too early to call it a must-win, but it's certainly their most pivotal regular season match-up since the game in Baltimore last December.
I have faith that the Steelers will win in Cincy and set themselves up for a great finish.
Will the Steelers win the division and get that coveted first round bye in the playoffs? Who knows? Of course, that would all be nice, but as much as I make fun of the Ravens for always screwing up in the regular season and having to enter the playoffs as a wildcard--and let's face it, a division title for the Baltimore Ravens would be the exception and not the rule--a wildcard playoff berth is better than no playoffs at all. The Steelers failed to make the playoffs in each of their last two seasons following a Super Bowl appearance, and I certainly don't want to see that happen again.
Besides, if recent history is any indication, how a team is playing down the stretch may be more important for their Super Bowl aspirations than their seeding at the start of the postseason.
Four of the past six Super Bowl winners had to start the playoffs in the wildcard round. And five of the last six Super Bowls had participants that needed to win three playoff games just to get there.
Steelers fans should know this better than anyone. Pittsburgh advanced to and won Super Bowl XL despite making the playoffs as the 6th seed in the AFC in 2005. And just last season, the Steelers lost Super Bowl XLV to a Green Bay Packers team that made the playoffs as the 6th seed in the NFC.
As a fan, my first wish is for my favorite team to at least make the playoffs, and even though Pittsburgh's AFC North prospects are a bit precarious at this point, their playoff goals are still very much in-sight.
And making it to the playoffs could mean another shot at the Baltimore Ravens.
Watching the Ravens celebrate their victory Sunday night on Pittsburgh's turf reminded me so much of when the Cincinnati Bengals came into Heinz Field in December of '05 and walked away with a strangle-hold on the AFC North. And you talk about precarious? Forget the division title, the Steelers chances at even getting a wildcard berth were slim and none, and none was in the Bengals' locker room joining in on the "Who Dey!" celebration.
That night, as I watched Carson Palmer celebrate like the elite quarterback that he thought he was, as I witnessed TJ Houshmandzadeh shine his shoes with the Terrible Towel, and as I pondered the long-shot that was the Steelers' playoff chances, I knew at that moment that I wanted one more crack at the Cincinnati Bengals. In-fact, I remember saying to someone that if the Steelers could play the Bengals in the playoffs and defeat them in-front of their fans, anything they achieved after that would be gravy. The Steelers did get another crack at the Bengals, and they showed them who the true kings of the AFC North really were. Oh, and that gravy was pretty tasty, too.
I pretty much feel the same way right now about the Baltimore Ravens. I want them one more time. And if Pittsburgh has to go the wildcard route to get them, it'll be fine with me.
There would be nothing that would please me more than to see the Steelers go to Baltimore and beat the Ravens in the playoffs. It could be the Wild Card round, Divisional playoffs, or AFC Championship game; it doesn't matter.
Seeing Ray Lewis and company walk off the field in disbelief after the Steelers, once again, win the only game that really matters would be almost as sweet as seeing Pittsburgh make it to another Super Bowl.....almost.
Anyway, I believe it all starts this Sunday in Cincinnati.
Go Steelers!


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Raw Food Roundup
Ok, I officially LOVE raw food. I started eating raw about five weeks ago, and have been 99% raw since (my trespasses? a tiny brownie, a few sprouted grain english muffins, and a stupid eggplant pizza). Let's do the math on this baby :
First I ate 100% of whatever I wanted. I loved fried foods, desserts, and pizza. Thanks to miraculous metabolism, I never gained too much weight. Then I read Fantastic Voyage : Live Long Enough to Live Forever, hacked away at my diet, and cut out probably 70% of the foods I used to eat. Later I researched more and cut out 90% of those foods, leaving me eating about 7% of what I initially ate. I wrote a book called The Skinny Snob about that. Going raw eliminated at least 70% of those foods, so now I'm down to about 2-3% of the foods I ate a year ago. Based on my daily diet I would consider that wholly accurate.
Now... that is a wild change. Especially coming from me. I would constantly mock anyone trying to go on a diet and explain that you should just eat whatever you wanted. No amount of logic would get me to change. What did get me to change was my inclination to try things for 7 or 30 days, and the accompanying drastic results.
Try it!
Despite it being a huge interruption to normal life, I would HIGHLY reccomend that everyone try going raw for at least a week. Most changes need 30 days to full experience them, but honestly you will notice the difference with raw food in only a week. If you're an Austinite, then just go to the downtown Whole Foods and buy 7 days worth of meals. The people who work there are cool and can help you work around the short shelf lives of some of the foods. Hell, if there are enough people here I would even host a week long raw food extravaganza.
The biggest noticeable change is that I look a lot healthier. My eyes are brighter, my skin is more vibrant, and maybe my hair is better. I have a lot more energy and I feel like my mood is even higher on average than it used to be. I need less sleep, and I feel MUCH better after every meal.
Eating meals is a complete joy because not only is the food delicious, but I can imagine how much my body loves it and how it puts every ingredient to good use. Even after eating the largest meal, I my stomach feels fine and my energy isn't sapped.
But what do Raw Foodists actually eat?
I think there's the perception that all we eat is salad all day, but that's not true at all. Here are some of my favorite things to eat :
- Raw granola
- Apples, Oranges, Bananas, Kiwis, Mangoes, or other fruits
- Cinnamon Date Mana Bread (raw bread that tastes sorta like a muffin)
- Oatmeal (I've been too lazy to make this so far, because it takes 5 days)
- Raw ice cream
Lunch or Dinner
- Asian vegetable salad
- Raw meatloaf
- Nut burgers (these things are SO good)
- Sashimi and seaweed salad
- Tostadas (my FAVORITE thing at Whole Foods Austin)
- Regular "boring" salad with greens, avocadoes, peppers, olive oil and lemons
- Raw Lasagna
- Almonds
- Rosemary crackers
- Flax seed crackers and guacamole
- Fruit
- Larabars (these things are also like dessert) or Organic Food Bars
- Cucumbers or Carrots in hummus
- Key Lime Pie (this is better than ANY cooked Key lime pie I've ever had - including the one I had in Key West)
- Raw Cheesecake (I don't even like real cheesecake, but this is ridiculously good)
- Raw cookies
- Raw ice cream
Obviously there are a million more great things to eat, but these are some of my staples that I really enjoy. In that Raw Food/Real World book there are 100 recipes, and I've only done 1 of them so far.
Luckily, I just got my dehydrator. It is the mack daddy of all dehydrators, the Excalibur 2900. I'm pretty sure that all raw food restaurants use this particular workhorse (Whole Foods has 10 of them), as do most serious Raw Foodists. I just got it two days ago and so far all I've made was raw popcorn which was really gross. Next up is raw onion rings, and after that I'm going to start making normal stuff like flax seed crackers and the recipes from Raw Food/Real World. They have some little tacos that look particularly tasty as well as coconut almond macaroons.
Cooked Food is Gross
This will seem weird, but cooked food seems really gross to me now. Maybe I've brainwashed myself - I don't know. But when I see someone cooking over a stove I just think "wow... that is really gross. I can't believe people eat that". The more you eat raw the more you realize that it is logically (and practically) the best diet possible. No animals eat cooked food. Our bodies could not POSSIBLY evolve fast enough to be designed for cooked food. Cooking destroys nutrients and alters the original balance of the food. It makes so much sense that I can't imagine how I never tried this before. I guess I just had too much of a closed mind. Really even after hearing about it I was highly skeptical until I tried it myself for a week.
The Transition
Believe it or not, is has been EASY to transition to raw food. This is totally counterintuitive and unexpected.
A couple months ago I tried going Vegan for a couple weeks and I found it to be awful. It felt restrictive and I didn't feel any better than when I was eating my Skinny Snob diet, which is much more permissive. Within two weeks I gave up on the diet.
Raw food has a different feel. You WANT to do it because you feel great after every meal. Instead of feeling like you're restricting your diet, you feel like you've uncovered a whole new world of great foods that you never knew existed. Ironically, being Raw is vegan (although I still eat raw fish on occasion), but much more restrictive. It just doesn't feel that way.
I've never once craved any sort of meat (which previously was a major staple of my diet) or really any other food. Occasionally when I'm really hungry and it's late at night and I have no food left I will crave the CONVENIENCE of normal food, but never the actual foods themselves.
I'm normally not preachy, but I believe so strongly that everyone has got to at least try this. The problem is that most raw foodists seem to be total nutcases with bizarre theories involving the life force of food and stuff like that which really puts me off. The best reason to go raw is because it is what your body wants and because you will feel and look better within days. If I get around to it, I'm going to write an ebook helping people make the transition without any annoying hippie speak.


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With enrollment in the higher than anticipated, the Cobb Board of Education voted Wednesday to hire 30 additional teachers to ease large class sizes in some schools.
The 7-0 vote at the board's monthly work session came after a brief discussion, with comments stressing the urgency of getting the new teachers in place as soon as possible.
"They're extremely necessary," said Post 1 board member Lynnda Eagle, who represents west and north Cobb.
The cost for the new positions is $2.2 million, with the money to come from the district's fund balance.
The district's actual enrollment is 105,757, a total of 1,364 more students than the projected 104,393. The class size issue is most acute at the middle school level, where more than half of the 25 Cobb middle schools have classes with far more students than the district's recommended student-teacher ratio of 32-1.
"We have completely exhausted our contingency allotment," said Dr. Cheryl Hungerford, the district's deputy superintendent for leadership and learning.
The specifics of where the new teachers will be assigned are to be announced; Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said the enrollment growth has occurred across the county.
"This is the right thing to do," he said, "despite the disruptions it is causing."
Furlough talks to continue
Also on Wednesday, the board agreed to continue to its Sept. 27 business meeting discussions on a proposed reduction in staff furlough days from three to two.
Hinojosa is recommending the cut as "a good gesture to send to our employees," but at least two board members, Tim Stultz and Alison Bartlett, don't support the move, which would cost an estimated $3 million.
"It's too early in the [school] year," Bartlett said. "We don't know how the budget is going to shake out.
Getting the book thrown at them
The school board also received a heaving binder of material with detailed project lists and requests for a possible SPLOST IV referendum that may take place in March 2013 (see attached PDF document).
The one-cent sales tax, if approved by voters, would be collected from 2014 to 2018 and would net an estimated $717 million for school construction and maintenance projects.
The "SPLOST IV notebook" was prepared by Marietta-based Education Planners, founded by former Cobb school administrator James Wilson.
The board is tentatively planning for public hearings later this fall to gauge public reaction before making any decision on calling for a referendum.
Patch will have more coverage of this topic on Thursday.