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Dyskeratosis congenita is caused by a mutated gene, DKC1, located on the X (female) chromosome, and in most cases is inherited as an X-linked recessive disorder. Males have one X and one Y chromosome and females have two X chromosomes. If a male inherits the DKC1 genetic defect on his single X chromosome, he will have dyskeratosis congenita. However, a female would need to inherit two defective X chromosomes in order to have the disorder. Because of this inheritance pattern, the ratio of men to women affected by the disorder is approximately 10:1.
About 180 individuals with dyskeratosis congenita have been reported in the worldwide medical literature. They have come from many different countries and ethnic backgrounds.
SymptomsThe typical symptoms of dyskeratosis congenita involve the skin, nails, and mucous membranes, as well as bone marrow failure.
- Skin - patches of darker skin in a spotted (mottled) or network (reticulated) pattern, usually on the upper trunk, neck, and face
- Nails - ridges and fissures in the nails, with weakening, thinning, and distortion of the fingernails, then the toenails
- Mucous membranes - white patches (leukoplakia) on the insides of the cheeks, tongue, and upper throat; these patches may become cancerous later on
- Bone marrow failure - inability of the bone marrow to produce enough white blood cells (needed for immunity), red blood cells (needed to carry oxygen and iron), and platelets (needed for clotting)
DiagnosisIn the known individuals with dyskeratosis congenita, the skin and mucous membrane symptoms typically developed between ages 5 and 15. Symptoms of bone marrow failure began in childhood as well. The typical symptoms will point to the diagnosis of dyskeratosis congenita, as well as having a family history of the disorder. Genetic testing can identify the DKC1 gene mutation.
The individual with dyskeratosis congenita should be tested for bone marrow failure and other serious complications such as cancerous lesions in the mouth and lung disease.
TreatmentThe most serious aspect of dyskeratosis congenita, bone marrow failure, is treated with Epogen (epoetin alfa), a medication that stimulates the production of red blood cells, and Neupogen (filgrastim), a medication that stimulates the production of white blood cells. The only long-term cure is bone marrow transplant from a healthy person, often a family member. However, if an individual with dyskeratosis congenita has lung disease, he or she may not be a good candidate for a bone marrow transplant.
Genetic testingSince the DKC1 gene mutation has been associated with dyskeratosis congenita, individuals in the family of a person affected by the disorder can have genetic testing, and females who are carriers of the defective gene can be identified. An infant at risk for inheriting the disorder can be tested prenatally or after birth, allowing for early diagnosis and treatment.
ResearchResearchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have been studying dyskeratosis congenita. They developed mice with a condition almost identical to the disorder to learn about how the lack of the protein telomerase (implicated in dyskeratosis congenita) contributes to the aging process and stem cell death. Stem cells in the bone marrow replenish the body's blood cells, including white cells for the immune system.
The researchers found that mice with just half the normal amount of telomerase had problems with stem cell growth and proliferation. The lack of telomerase caused the ends of chromosomes (telomeres) to shorten and stem cells to die early. The researchers are studying the affected stem cells to find out exactly how the short telomeres cause cell death. The research was reported in the December 16, 2005, issue of Cell.
Hao, et al. "Short telomeres, even in the presence of telomerase, limit tissue renewal capacity." Cell 123(2005): 1121-1131.
"Dyskeratosis Congenita." Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes. National Cancer Institute. Jan 2006.
Hao, et al. "Short telomeres, even in the presence of telomerase, limit tissue renewal capacity." Cell 123(2005): 1121-1131.
"Dyskeratosis Congenita." Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes. National Cancer Institute. Jan 2006.


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The island of Iceland is one of the stepping-stones of land between the North American and European continents. It is located just south of the Arctic Circle about 180 miles (290 kilometers) southeast of Greenland, 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) west of Norway, and 500 miles (800 kilometers) northwest of Scotland. Over 80 percent of the island is unpopulated because the land is covered either with permanent snow and ice fields (glaciers) or has a volcanic surface, which has poor soils that are not suited to crop growing, sheep grazing, or other agricultural activities. Most of the people live in or near the capital city of Reykjavik in the extreme southwestern portion of the island. It is located on major shipping and air lanes of the North Atlantic Ocean, and it occupies a unique position in the world as one of the first independent, democratic republics. Area 39,777 square miles (103,022 square kilometers). Population (2013 est.) 323,000.

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(10/12/12) - What is on your iPod? Your answer could have a big impact on your health, believe it or not! From Dr. Dre to Mozart, new research shows the tunes you love could not only impact your health, but how well you get things done.
Music can relieve anxiety, increase memory, ease pain, relieve depression and fight addiction, says Dr. Galina Mindlin, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. "Music can influence your behavior, your thinking, your emotions."
The authors of "Your Playlist Can Change Your Life" say science shows that, as is sex, drugs or great food, music causes the brain to release chemicals like dopamine that are key to addiction and motivation.
"It's affecting your brain waves and your blood chemistry," says on of those authors, Joseph Cardillo, PhD.
To build your own healthy playlist, start by picking your favorite songs. Then figure out how many beats they have per minute. Next, figure out which beats work best in different situations. Then make task-oriented playlists. Hint: fewer beats are good for driving, more beats can help you while you exercise or work.
"The psychological principle behind this is if you do it over and over again, your mind will automatically bring up that mindset for that particular task," Cardillo adds.
Kevin Hall uses a special song to help him beat insomnia that has plagued him since teens, "just stared at my ceiling."
He learned to focus on his music five minutes a day and, after three weeks, he was sleeping eight hours a night. "It's to the point where I don't need the song anymore. I have it recorded in my brain now."
As for improving memory- choose a song from your distant past. It will put your brain into remembering mode and prepare your mind to begin memorizing your notes or presentation. When you need to recall what you learned, play the song beforehand and you'll be able to remember it more quickly.
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Oh yes. ITV released the full trailer for series 3 of Downton Abbey late Wednesday night, and now we're left with only one question. Is it September 16* yet? While you're busy being marveled by GIFs, the rest of us are watching this and desperately trying to guess what's going to happen this season. This trailer has everything: appropriate relationships; inappropriate relationships; happy head nodding; solemn head nodding; opulence; grimy alley ways; tearful reunions; tearful goodbyes; dancing; spying (and cross-dressing?!); people making eye contact; people avoiding eye contact; people getting choked; and people running in the rain. It's literally all here, you guys! It is going to be the best season of
The Aristocrats Downton, ever. Watch the trailer here:
*It should be noted that the shows doesn't debut in the U.S. until sometime in January 2013, but it airs on ITV in the next two weeks. So it will be out there, somewhere, and there will be recaps. I'm sure of it.


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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Yoga in the Orangerie: Summer Sun Salutations
at Bartow Pell Mansion, Bronx
7:00 a.m.–8:15 a.m.
Summer is the perfect time for yoga: de-stress, get strong and flexible, and have fun! This intermediate-level class is also suitable for those who want to deepen their practice in a…
Category: Fitness
12x12 Project
at Queens Botanical Garden, Queens
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
12x12 is a model display of a sustainably-built, off-grid tiny house. The house is a simple modular space with a rainwater-collecting butterfly roof, and wall panels…
Category: Arts & Crafts, Education, Nature, Art, Kids
NYC Eco-House
at Queens Botanical Garden, Queens
8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Take a look through the walls of the EcoHouse and learn how your house really works.
Category: Education, Art, Kids, Tours
Art Exhibit: Invasive Pigments
at Queens Botanical Garden, Queens
8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Invasive Pigments is a series of watercolor-like paintings which explores the migration and proliferation of weeds and other "unintentional" plants in tandem with human…
Category: Education, Nature, Art
Yoga in the Park
at Garibaldi Plaza (in Washington Square Park), Manhattan
8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
All levels welcome to this open level flow class.
Category: Fitness, Outdoor Fitness
Land Art Generator Initiative: Freshkills Park
at Arsenal (in Central Park), Manhattan
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Land Art Generator Initiative: Freshkills Park is an exhibition of the top 25 designs, selected from around the globe, for a public art piece that has the ability to harness energy.
Category: Art
Summer Program at HSBC Children's Garden at Queens Botanical Garden
at Queens Botanical Garden, Queens
9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
The HSBC Children's Garden at Queens Botanical Garden offers children in our diverse metropolitan area a rare opportunity to learn about science and nature through practical,hands-on experiences in an outdoor environment.
Category: Arts & Crafts, Birding, Education, Nature, Games, Kids
RIPA/Nike Lacrosse Camp
at Randall's Island Park, Manhattan
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Randall's Island Park Alliance joins Nike once again for the second-annual free RIPA/Nike Lacrosse Camp.
Category: Fitness, Sports, Outdoor Fitness
Women In Comics Exhibition
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Women In Comics exhibition displaying the works of female artists in the comic book industry, througout the month of July, with numerous activities each Saturday.
Category: Art
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Occasional Outrage: GameStop sells games to brilliant people and women!
Posted at 8:30 AM Feb 26, 2009
By Andrea Grimes
Sometimes, we come across something that's sexist, but it needs a little explaining. Or something that's patriarchal, but perhaps not readily apparent. And then sometimes we come across this GameStop internal instructional video for employees that brags about how they sell games to the most enthusiastic, knowledgeable people on earth ... but now they're also ready to sell to women!
Oh. My. God.
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"The Worst Dinner Ever," as it will be always known, was so unpleasant that it seems permanently etched in my memory. The images from it are tough to shake, like those from a traumatic event -- two over-turned glasses, a screaming baby Miles, a tearful, hungry, but refusing-to-eat-what-was-in-front-of-him 7-year-old Henry, and a hysterical red-faced 9-year-old Julia, who had slipped onto the floor, limbs splayed every which way. Later that night, Dave could barely utter, "We've got to..." before his words trailed off and his eyes glazed over. I know what he meant to say. It takes moments like this for me to wake up and realize that we might have to make some changes. (Ya think?) Read more.
Blue Plate Special
Dinner had always been a hectic time at our house. Most evenings, when the five of us sat down to eat, everyone seemed to be clamoring to be the first to talk about their day or future plans. Somehow, we'd gotten in the bad habit of talking over each other rather than talking to each other. My head would spin from trying to listen to three different conversations at the same time. We needed to slow down and listen to each other rather than compete for center stage. So I came up with a plan for managing the flow of conversation. Read more.
Mom's Menu
"What's for dinner?" The question came at 4:30 p.m. I had 60 minutes to have my answer on the table. Options were limited. Most meats I had on hand were frozen -- no time to thaw and cook. I thumbed through my favorite recipes, quickly realizing that I was missing at least one key ingredient for each. My stock of frozen leftovers was depleted, as were the funds necessary for takeout. Thanks to a dozen eggs, the evening was saved, and we had breakfast for dinner. That night I announced that I wanted more variety in our dinners, and in some cases, I wanted more nutrition. But what I wanted most of all was a plan. Read more.
Turning the Tables on Dinnertime
Gathering the five of us for dinner is priority, but Talie's manners -- or lack thereof -- were turning our time to reconnect and relax into nothing of the sort. When she wasn't annoucing there was "yucky stuff" on her plate (and repeating it like a stubborn parrot), she was forever finding reasons to pop out of her chair with annoying frequency. Caitlin and Ellie began to refuse to sit near her. Matt was about to insist on separate meals for kids and grown-ups, when a friend let me in on a promising tactic that had just turned the tables for her daughter. Read more.


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River Detours and Closures at the Thomas Buford Pugh Memorial Bridge
The WV Department of Highways and the Federal Highways Administration is replacing the Thomas Buford Pugh Memorial Bridge on Route 41 in the town of Prince. Construction will require temporary full river traffic closures and long term river detours. More »
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Safety tips:
Always keep a clean camp.
Never leave food lying out.
Never dump food scraps or other smelly stuff near your camping area.
Never bring food in your tent.
Lock food, trash, and scented items in a vehicle when not in use.
If you are backpacking or boating and do not have a vehicle, food should be hung in a tree out of reach of animals and away from your tent.
Use designated camping areas.
Keep your sleeping area, tent and sleeping bag free of food and odors.
Dispose of trash in bear resistant trash cans.
Keep a safe distance from all wildlife.
Never feed wild animals! It is dangerous to both you and the animal.
Always keep pets on a leash.
Black bears are occasionally encountered in the park, so be aware. You are most likely to run into raccoons or skunks trying to get your food or making a lot of noise trying to get into a trash can.
If you see a bear:
Remain calm. Do not run.
Enjoy the sighting. Most visitors never get the chance to see a bear.
Keep a safe distance (100 yards or more).
If the bear approaches, scare it away with loud shouting or by throwing rocks or sticks towards it.
Report sightings to a park ranger.
Did You Know?
The New River Gorge was logged extensively thoughout the past century. The landscape is now recovering, with the park ecosystem returning to its more natural state, but there are still plenty of signs of the past activities.


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Two art-world luminaries discuss creativity with the President of CalArts.
Michael Chow, Jeffrey Deitch and Steven D. LavineREDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA) Map it $10
CalArts President Steven D. Lavine's ongoing investigation of the role of creativity in contemporary culture continues with this lively discussion exploring the intersections of art and entrepreneurship. For this evening, Lavine is joined by two visionary and influential figures in the world of contemporary art: Michael Chow and Jeffrey Deitch. After studying architecture and painting, Michael Chow became a central figure in the London art scene in the 1960s, went on to build a international profile at the intersection of art, fashion and business, and today concentrates on painting. Jeffrey Deitch is the founder of Deitch Projects, and has served as a gallerist, curator and as the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). This discussion explores the application of creative work in a variety of sectors, an approach reflected in each of the speaker's wide-range of successful endeavors.- http://www.redcat.org


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Mississippi's Six Electoral Votes Go To Romney/RyanBy Jeffrey Hess | Published 17 Dec 2012 04:55pm |
Mississippi's 6 electoral college votes have now been cast for the GOP ticket. Its been more than a month since the presidential election, and as M-P-B's Jeffrey Hess reports, some are calling for an end to the electoral college system.
Secretary of state Delbert Hoseman counts out Mississippi's six electoral college votes at a voting ceremony in Jackson yesterday.
All six electors were were nominated by the state Republican party and all six cast their electoral votes for the Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
The GOP ticket lost the election but carried Mississippi.
Jan Hillegas, a green-party elector is upset that all the votes go to Mitt Romney.
"The direct vote is obviously the way people vote. And to have a state barrier in the way is not the right way to go. Clearly the six white men who are voting today do not reflect the whole state of Mississippi," Hillegas said.
Hillegis argues a direct popular election would be better for the country as a whole.
Republican Elector William Mounger says the electoral college actually benefits smaller states like Mississippi because it takes fewer votes to equal one electoral college vote.
"We would be crazy in Mississippi rather Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian, whatever to give that up. We are more powerful in Mississippi through the electoral college than we would ever be on the popular vote," Mounger said.
It takes roughly 370-thousand votes in Mississippi to equal one electoral vote, giving the state the 21st highest voting power.
Secretary of state Delbert Hosemann, who supports the electoral college, says a national popular vote for president could require voting regulations to be standardized nationally.
"The people of the state of Mississippi through the legislature have devised their voting system the way they believe it should be. I am not for changing ours to be the same as Ohio's California's or anywhere else's," Hosemann said.
No matter which party selects them, Mississippi's electors are not bound by law to support their party's candidate or the candidate that won the majority of Mississippi votes.
UPDATE: Jan Hilegas' name has been corrected from the orginal. Also she replied with a more complete explaination of the Green Party platform: "Unlike the current winner-take-all Electoral College system, having all the votes count -- as in all other elections -- would directly reflect the wishes of U.S. voters.The Green Party of the US Platform calls for abolishing the Electoral College and providing for the direct national election of the president by Instant Runoff Voting."
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Based on patient records and surveys, The California Office of the Patient Advocate rates Rancho Springs and Inland Valley medical centers average at best and poor at worst on various aspects of patient care.
According to the rankings, released Wednesday, our two hospitals have significant room for improvement in relating to their patients.
(Links to score cards down below)
The rankings are no surprise; Southwest Healthcare System, which runs the two hospitals in Murrieta and Wildomar, was on the brink of losing its joint operating license for the two hospitals. In a Hail Mary move, the healthcare provider also dodged the financial deathblow of losing its federal Medicare and Medicaid funding.
After emerging from the dust, Southwest Healthcare made significant strides toward improvement, including finally opening a neonatal intensive care unit and a new women's center, as well as opening its doors to Rady Children's Hospital physicians.
Still, to this day, The Press-Enterprise regularly receives first-hand accounts of hospital stays gone wrong.
It begs the question, is Southwest Riverside County benefiting from these two hospitals or are patients still better off driving out of the area for care?
Another important question: is the public still kicking these hospitals for past errors and not giving the hospitals the chance to prove themselves?
These are the specific rankings for Rancho Springs Medical Center, Murrieta, and Inland Valley Medical Center, Wildomar.
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Friday, May 28, 2010
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DULUTH -- The founder of Operation One Voice recently traveled to Florida to meet with members of the U.S. Special Operations Command's Care Coalition, family readiness groups and wounded warriors.
Duluth Police Lt. Bill Stevens, who founded the nonprofit organization that supports the families of fallen and wounded Special Operations forces, and Eagle Rock Distributing Co.'s Laird Canby, the director of Operation One Voice, went to Fort Walton Beach and Hurlburt Field. Operation One Voice was one of several nonprofits that made presentations to military officials, according to a news release.
In addition, officials with the nonprofits listened to panels comprised of wounded Special Operations forces and Army Ranger, Navy SEAL, Marine and Air Force para-rescue personnel.
"During one of the panels, we listened to nine wounded warriors, (and) six had received financial support from our organization," Stevens said.
During the three-day visit, the group received several briefings and participated in several discussions. On the final day of the conference, Air Force Special Operations Command conducted a capabilities exercise.
"The AFSOC capabilities exercise was very impressive," Stevens said. "We witnessed firsthand how Special Operations teams composed of doctors and highly trained medical teams work hand in hand with other Special Operations Forces -- it was a kind of doctors with guns."
More like this story
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Something that's been on my mind lately (me without any research experience) has been: Why do some researchers end up with craploads of a published papers under their belt whereas others only have a few?
Does it all boil down to work ethic or is there something else involved?
I'm basing this on the very naive notion that the work on see on their institutional web page constitutes as what they've done. However, I'm sure some opt out of listing their papers. Or perhaps they only list the important ones. Regardless, I still find lots of profs that have only a handful via Google Scholar while others have a lot more.
What do you think makes the difference?
Age, mathematical ability, inherent difficulty of the questions they answer/subjects they study, other duties within the department (are they also an academic advisor? a department head? etc.), other duties in their personal life (some professors may be single and others might be married with 4 kids) can all be a factor. The exact answer is a function of the individual professor being considered.


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I'd always wanted to go into finance, but was unsure which route to take, when a family friend who has a senior role in finance suggested LCH.Clearnet was a very good place to get experience and knowledge. I took his advice and I've just finished a year on their Industrial Placement Programme.
Compared with some larger organisations, the size and nature of LCH.Clearnet meant I got a lot more experience here, and I was always treated as a real employee, rather than an undergraduate. I did a lot of training because they're very keen for you to gain as much knowledge as possible. They don't molly coddle you, but you always feel looked after – and that includes the very good benefit scheme.
My official role was Project Support in ForexClear, a new project for LCH. I was originally working on cost and planning forecasting and reporting, and I was able to attend many of the Risk, Operations, IT, Legal and Business Development meetings with members, often helping by taking the minutes. I also worked closely with ForexClear's CEO, CIO and COO – an undergraduate wouldn't normally get exposure to this kind of seniority.
After around eight months I was interested in moving towards the sales and client relationship side. I approached senior management in this area and asked if I could come to some of their meetings. That was when I realised this was the area I wanted to go into. I really enjoyed going out to meet the clients, seeing how they worked and having to constantly be on the ball to answer their questions. I've now been accepted onto the new graduate programme with ForexClear, mainly within the Sales and Client Relationship area.


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MALONE — A state of emergency was declared Friday on Lower Park Street as a 4,000-foot ice jam continued to force the Salmon River over its banks.
A steady flow of water was still running through back yards along the shore, across the street and into the front lawns of homes on the east side of Lower Park houses that had been evacuated earlier in the week.
Assemblywoman Janet Duprey (R-Peru) postponed several appointments in Plattsburgh to visit Malone and see the flooding first-hand.
"I'm a visual person, and I can better understand what's going on when I can see it for myself," she said.
"We can't do a whole lot until we have an estimate of the damage. Then we'll be able to decide the next step."
Duprey, bundled in a thick coat, scarf, gloves and boots against the 10-degree weather and sharp breeze, was already scheduled to meet with Sen. Betty Little (R-Queensbury) later Friday and said she would also speak with Congressman Bill Owens (D-Plattsurgh) about what she saw and learned from the town and Franklin County officials who accompanied her.
"My heart breaks for the people who have had to leave their homes," she said. "I'm not going to make any false promises, but I will be meeting with the congressman and senator and see what kind of help can be offered."
Duprey praised the volunteers and employees who have helped the displaced families and worked to minimize the damages.
"They're working with the short term, and we'll have to look at the long term to see what can be done," the assemblywoman said.
"It's important for people to see what's going on."
Malone Town Highway Department crews used a front-end loader to taxi personnel into impacted homes in the 300 block of the street to retrieve items for owners forced out by the ice and flooding, said County Emergency Services Director Ricky Provost.


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Student leaders from 21 high schools, including Penncrest, Harriton, Lower Merion and Conestoga, gathered at on Wednesday to pump up for a massive food fight that could win them $10,000 for their schools.
The Great Food Fight, , is a canned food drive competition benefiting Philabundance. Last year, 21 schools raised more than 64 tons of food for Philabundance over a two-week period, and this year, Shire is setting its sights even higher. The company is aiming to collect 100 tons of canned goods in this year's competition, which runs from Feb. 15 to March 2.
Being crowned the winner of the 21-school competition is good incentive to participate, but there's a bigger prize at stake: the school that collects the most pounds of food per student will win $10,000 for their school.
And there are some pretty good runners-up prizes as well: the school that collects the most food overall will win $5,000, and five $1,000 prizes will be awarded to the school in each participating county (Bucks, Chester, Montgomery, Delaware and Philadelphia) that collects the most food.
Wednesday's pep rally at Penncrest included performances by the Penncrest dance team, marching band and , and several speeches that encouraged student leaders to motivate and mobilize their peers.
"Reach out, recruit, motivate, and most of all, lead by example. This is our responsibility," Penncrest senior Jacki Turet told students.
Penncrest, which won last year's competition after collecting 24 tons of food, utilized some creative methods to gather donations, Turet said. One method was a Stop The Bop program that blasted annoying songs, like Hanson's "Mmbop" and Rebecca Black's "Friday," over the loudspeakers between classes. The noise pollution only stopped once the school collected enough cans to meet its goal.
"In retrospect, I think the teachers donated the most, because they were most irritated by [the songs]," Turet said.
Other schools will also be motivating students in creative ways. Lower Merion High School student Hannah O'Neill said LMHS will host a competition between the grade levels, with incentives for the grades that collect the most canned goods, like a pizza party at the end of the competition. And perhaps even more motivating, LMHS Principal Sean Hughes has offered to shave his head if the school wins the top prize, O'Neill said.
Any prize money won by LMHS will go toward the high school's chapter of buildOn, which is raising money to finance and construct a schoolhouse in Haiti this May.
Conestoga High School will hold an interclub competition in hopes of motivating donations, said student Caroline Donahue, who last year formed the club Stogabundance to support and run the food drive at her high school.
"The $10,000 for the winning school—yeah, that was definitely a big incentive," Donahue said. "Philabundance is awesome, because not only does it alleviate hunger, it's also a local effort. They … help kids right in our school district, so [supporting them] helps your fellow students and the community."
The prizes are a motivation, but for these students, the competition is much more than that.
"Not only are we putting food on the table for the Greater Philadelphia area, we are also inspired to become lifelong leaders and volunteers ourselves," Turet said. "We are becoming internally motivated to give back. Once you see the need of the people in your community, you cannot unsee it.
"While its fun to get caught up in the competition, remember that when it comes down to it, we're all on the same team, working toward the common mission of stamping out hunger. To those who say 'What can they do? They're just kids.' —prove them wrong. …Think of what we can do this year. Change starts with you."
Check out the photo gallery above, which includes images of the pep rally's school mascot dance off.


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Porbandar: Gangs and musclemen could play a dominant role in elections in some assembly constituencies of Bhavnagar, Porbandar, the birthplace of apostle of non-violence Mahatma Gandhi, and Rajkot districts of Saurashtra region of Gujarat.
Porbandar has been a hotbed of criminal activities in recent times where late Santokben Jadeja had emerged as `Godmother'. Ganglords of Porbandar are once again are in electoral fray. Another constituency where political power has been shaped by violent means is Gondal in Rajkot district.
And Gujarat minister of state for Fisheries Purshottam Solanki, who is contesting from Bhavnagar rural seat, has courted controversy for his alleged links with the underworld. Solanki, a dominant leader of Koli community and an accused in 1993 Mumbai communal riots, is known as 'bhai' among his followers. Recently, he was alleged to be involved in a Rs400-crore fishing contract scam, for which the state Governor has given sanctions for his prosecution.
However, he has a different take on this. "Since the time you have been electing me, are you not feeling safe and free? Do you face any kind of threat or harassment from anyone?" Solanki had said when he addressed his first election rally at Haatab village after filing his nomination papers.
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So I asked a few other people this question because I want to get every view point because I'm honestly so confused but what the hell is going on in Syria?? Assad and the fsa and the arab army or whatever and now ISIS?? Can you help? It's been 3 years and I'm still confused
okay first of all, it hasn't been 3 years— it's been 48 years. we must acknowledge that what we see today is a result of a 48-year-old dictatorship, not a 3-year-old revolution.
brief and basic history:
the ba'ath party staged its first military coup in syria in 1963. In 1966, hafez al-assad participated in the second military coup, which brought salah jadid to power. from 1950-1970, hafez al-assad was the lieutenant in the syrian air force, the head commander of the syrian air force, and the minister of defense. then in 1970, hafez al-assad led the third military coup to topple salah jadid, finally forcing himself into power. hafez al-assad actively used sectarianism as a method of consolidating and maintaining his power - he greatly increased alawite dominance in the regime's security and intelligence branches, though his elite class was of all sects. the core of the assad regime, however, consists of assad family members/relatives who control everything from the army to the economy (ex. rami makhlouf, bashar al-assad's cousin, controls 60% of syria's economy).
so to begin, there has been an emergency law in syria since the ba'ath party came into power. basically, an emergency law suspends all constitutional rights of civilians. this emergency law has been in place since 1963 and was only lifted in 2011 (in actuality, it was never lifted and was only said to be lifted to silence the people's demands - you cannot simultaneously lift an emergency law -and- shoot peaceful demonstrators, but i'll get to this later).
besides not having basic human rights (freedom of speech, freedom of protest, freedom of assembly, freedom of choice, etc. etc.), hafez al-assad and his forces committed many civilian massacres, many of which were sectarian by nature. one of the biggest massacres in syria's history took place in the city of hama. in the first hama massacre, 400 men were accused of anti-regime sentiments and executed. a year later, the hama massacre of 1982 was committed by the syrian army. in only a couple weeks (feb. 2nd - feb. 28th), assad's forces (under the command of hafez al-assad and his brother rifa'at al-assad) massacred 20,000-40,000 syrian civilians (the number varies greatly because there were limited resources for documentation and because, immediately after the massacre, the army buried the martyrs in mass graves and built governmental parks/structures over them). many of my friends still don't know what happened to their family members who disappeared that day - there was no closure, no bodies, no nothing.
(hama, syria after the massacre of 1982)
the massacre was committed as a fear tactic, as hama was known throughout the country as a city of dissent. the regime commonly used imprisonment and torture as additional fear tactics. any individual who was suspected of being anti-regime was detained for years and years.
two of my uncles were detained and tortured more than a decade under hafez al-assad's rule, but other dissidents are still detained to this day. those imprisoned were usually charged for being in the muslim brotherhood (not to be confused with egypt's muslim brotherhood); however, with that said, there are many accounts of non-muslims who were charged for being in the muslim brotherhood as well. besides that, many communists were imprisoned, as well as -any- individual who was suspected of anti-regime sentiments. torture methods were indescribable - sexual abuse as a form of torture is one of the most common methods used by assad forces, both then and now. it was common for the regime to kill detainees in cold blood - in 1980, the tadmor prison massacre took place, in which 1,000 prisoners were executed and buried in a mass grave under the command of hafez al-assad and his army officials.
the assad regime, during both hafez al-assad's rule and bashar al-assad's rule, silenced and threatened poets, writers, intellectuals, and journalists. because the regime controlled syrian cultural production, it was able to suppress syrian literature and revolutionary thought. tal al-malouhi (now 23 years old) was a syrian blogger from homs. in december 2009, she was taken from her home by security officers due to her poems about palestine and her social commentary online. she was accused of being a US spy and has not been heard of since. this is not uncommon today, as many young people are detained for their anti-regime sentiments on social media. anti-regime syrians living directly under the brutal rule of the assad regime are constantly at risk; however, non-syrians are also threatened and violently attacked if they criticize the regime in any way. one example is salim al-lawzi, a lebanese journalist, who was executed by the regime's intelligence agency for critiquing the regime and its politics in his articles. he was found shot and tortured to death - his right arm dislocated, his fingers blackened from acid substances, and his abdomen and intestines stabbed with pens.
while hafez al-assad was revered for being one of the "protectors of palestine" and a "protector of minorities", nothing could be farther from the truth. besides the ill treatment of palestinian and syrian-palestinian refugees in syria, the regime remains passive in regards to israel and the occupation of the golan heights. the syrian golan heights is a region that has been occupied by israel since 1981. both hafez al-assad's regime and bashar al-assad's regime have negotiated with israel and traded the land for political benefits. in regards to minorities, the dom people in syria are greatly discriminated against, both structurally and socially. they live in extreme poverty and are denied work, education, and housing. their total population is nearly 40,000 people, yet the assad regime has done absolutely nothing to aid these groups of people. in addition injustices against the dom people, hafez al-assad's regime has committed some of the biggest atrocities against the kurdish people. 120,000 kurds were stripped of their syrian citizenship; the kurdish language, the kurdish flag, kurdish culture, kurdish businesses, and kurdish names were banned - children with kurdish names were rejected from school enrollment. kurdish people were denied employment and healthcare. in march 1986, a couple thousand kurds - dressed in kurdish clothing - gathered in damascus to celebrate newroz, until regime forces interrupted the gathering and threatened that kurdish dress is illegal under the state. what began as a celebration, ended with the police firing on the crowd and killing one person. it wasn't until the syrian revolution that the kurdish flag began to be held and flown during revolutionary protests.
in 2000, hafez al-assad died of natural causes (unfortunately) and his son, bashar al-assad, inherited power. although the syrian constitution stated that a president needed to be at least 40 years old, it was amended within hours to the age of 34 and the 34-year-old bashar al-assad was *~lawfully~* able to inherit the seat.
bashar promised many reforms to make syria ~less~ of an authoritarian state. because he was an ophthalmologist and not a military man like his father, people assumed that his rule would be different - so, immediately after bashar assumed power in 2000, there was a period known as the damascus spring where individuals and groups began organizing towards a more democratic country, demanding the removal of the emergency law (among other very important things).
"On January 1, 2001, a group of Syrian lawyers demanded a complete reform of the constitution, the lifting of emergency laws, and the concession of full civil liberties. Shortly thereafter, a group of activists published the founding charter of their civil society committee—better known as the "Declaration of the 1,000." The following day, the Jamal Atassi Forum for Democratic Dialogue was established with the participation of communists, Nasserites, socialists and Baathist critics of the regime, and on March 7, authorization was given to create independent organizations for the defense of human rights as well as cultural and social associations made up of moderate Muslims.
In just a few months, two hundred discussion clubs and forums were created. Reacting to the proliferation of spaces where the future of Syria was being freely debated, the regime pushed back, fearful it might lose its monopoly on power. Invoking a need to maintain national unity in the face of external threats, beginning in September 2001, the regime arrested deputies Riad Saif and Mamoun al-Homsi, economist Arif Dalila, lawyer Anwar al-Bunni, and Atassi Forum spokesman Habib Issa, followed in short order by Kamal al-Labwani and Haitham al-Malih.[4]All were sentenced to between three and twelve years in jail on charges of "weakening national sentiment" and "inciting sectarian strife." Other important figures were forbidden to leave the country including Radwan Ziyyade, director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, and Suhair Atassi, director of the Jamal Atassi Forum."
the emergency law remained and nothing changed as far as human rights went - if you were suspected of being anti-regime, your family was put in danger and you were immediately intimidated and threatened and at risk of being killed or detained, regardless of age, gender, or sect.
syrian revolution
the syrian revolution began after 9-15 year old kids were inspired by the uprisings in the MENA. the first protests began in dara'a, syria - several children graffitied anti-government slogans on their school wall and were taken by assad's forces, interrogated, and tortured (they were severely beaten and their nails were removed). on march 15th, the children's families and the community responded by protesting for the children to be returned; however, not all the children were released. this sparked the beginning of the revolution.
(the walls of the school in dara'a today)
on friday march 18th, cities throughout syria collectively united in solidarity with dara'a, but security forces immediately responded by firing bullets on the peaceful demonstrations, killing 6 people on the very first day. after march 18th, syrians went out to protest every day (the ba'ath flag was used by demonstrators for nearly a year and a half before the independence flag that we see today was fully adopted). it's important to note that at first the revolution's demand was for mere reforms, but after experiencing the regime's hostile and vicious response, the people demanded the downfall of the regime in its entirety.
(the largest anti-regime demonstration in hama, syria)
("in syria, there are two sects: the sect of freedom and the sect of the regime. we demand a democratic, civilian state" - zabadani, syria)
the revolution remained completely peaceful for the next 8 months. syrian activists began organizing themselves into local councils and a revolutionary collective identity was formed. the revolution is not a sunni revolution and it is not a sectarian revolution. anti-sectarian revolutionary groups and committees, such as the nab'd coalition, were vital to protect collective unity in revolutionary spaces. most of the peaceful demonstrations ended with massacres and thus most massacres were named after demonstrations. despite the non-violent protests, the assad regime would fire on the peaceful crowds using bullets, tanks, warplanes, barrel bombs, and more. assad forces would also use chlorine bombs, SCUD missiles, chemical weapons, and indiscriminate shelling in areas known for revolutionary dissent. those injured during shelling or during the massacres were unable to go to state hospitals in fear of torture and imprisonment, so revolutionaries established field hospitals to care for those injured and those on the brink of death; however, field hospitals are extremely understaffed and under-equipped, at times operating with no power and with nothing more than pain killers.
(a field hospital in aleppo, syria after assad forces attacked the neighborhood)
immediately after the uprisings, the regime swept revolutionary cities and detained thousands and thousands of men and women who showed even the slightest bit of dissent. in detainment, the regime uses unthinkable methods of torture, violently assaulting and sexually abusing both men and women in countless ways. assad forces commonly use rape and molestation as a weapon against to incite fear and terror in dissidents, their families, and their communities. thousands of documented political detainees have been tortured to death at the hands of assad forces. recently, a defected regime photographer, who goes by the pseudonym "caesar", leaked 55,000 images of over 11,000 tortured civilian detainees. many peaceful revolutionaries, such as the civil activist giyath matar and the palestinian activist and filmmaker hassan hassan, have been tortured to death in syrian prisons. revolutionary artists, such as ali ferzat (an anti-regime alawite political cartoonist), are also abused, detained, and tortured for their anti-regime activist work. a renowned protest singer from hama, ibrahim qashoush, was kidnapped by regime thugs and found near a river with his throat cut open and his vocal cords pulled out - these types of draconian torture tactics serve as a chilling message from the regime to revolutionaries regarding their voice of dissent. torture as a weapon did not emerge after the revolution began - on the contrary, it has been continuously used by the assad regimes, both under hafez al-assad and bashar al-assad.
(ali ferzat hospitalized after the assad regime severely beat him for his political cartoons / ali ferzat's powerful (and witty) response to the regime)
the regime's brutality against innocent civilians was unprecedented. as i mentioned earlier, the emergency law was lifted in april as an attempt to silence protesters - but what good is passing an empty bill to lift a draconian law, if the regime itself is authoritarian and ruthless? since the beginning of the revolution, the regime continues to massacre innocent civilians, execute dissidents, shell protests, bombard residential neighborhoods, torture detainees, and more. the regime commonly detains young children (which is no surprise as the revolution began due to the detainment of young boys). in may of 2011, hamza al-khateeb was detained by assad forces during a protest. his body was tortured and delivered to his family with burn marks, gunshot wounds, and severed genitals.
(hamza al-khatib, 13 years old)
along with the regime's display of individual tortured bodies as a fear tactic for others, the assad regime collectively punishes entire neighborhoods and cities for demonstrations and dissent through indiscriminate airstrikes, shelling, sieges, and starvation campaigns. this method of punishment has been used since the very beginning of the revolution. countless cities, such as al-houla, al-moadamiyeh, and the yarmouk palestinian refugee camp, among other areas, are experiencing suffocating sieges that continue to lead to deaths due to starvation and malnutrition.
(yarmouk refugee camp, in line for food under a regime siege)
(yabroud, damascus after an assad airstrike)
bashar al-assad and his regime continue to implement collective punishments. a few of the largest massacres that the regime committed (before and after the arming of the revolution) include: the houla massacre, in which 116 civilians were killed, many slaughtered with knives (including 49 children and 34 women); the darayya massacre, in which 700 civilians were killed (and 1,755 civilians detained) within 5 days; the jdeidet al-fadl massacre, in which 450 civilians were killed (including 85 who were summarily executed); the bayda and banias massacres, in which nearly 700 civilians were killed (including children and women who were slaughtered with knives); the helfaya massacre, in which 94 civilians were killed after assad warplanes deliberately targeted a breadline; and the ghouta chemical weapons massacre, in which the regime attacked the city with sarin gass - 1,429 civilians suffocated to death (this took place exactly a year ago from today).
after 8 months of peaceful protests, many groups in the revolution decided that it was necessary to protect the protests and respond to the regime's brutality with an armed resistance - and so, the free syrian army was established. it consisted mainly of syrian regime army members who defected (many defected with their weaponry), but also men (and women) who chose to defend the demonstrations from regime attacks. it was not until later on that the free syrian army began its operations.
it's important to always acknowledge that despite the existence of FSA, peaceful activism remains alive in syria today. peaceful resistance is the core of the syrian revolution, and while the media chooses to highlight armed resistance, peaceful activism is what keeps revolutionary ideology alive. in my opinion, armed resistance is necessary in the face of a brutal, authoritarian state who is clearly capable of the most unthinkable of atrocities, but it's important to remember that anti-FSA sentiments and pro-revolution stances are not mutually exclusive. unlike the assad regime (and its supporters) who refuse any form of critique or dissent, the revolution allows for criticism and opinions of any group (including the FSA). the revolution is diverse in its resistance groups, yet all are working towards the same goal: the downfall of the regime. it is also important to differentiate between islamists and islamist extremists in the revolution's opposition. there are many different types of brigades in the FSA (kurdish brigades, all-woman brigades, chrisitian brigades, alawite brigades, etc.), although the most common brigade is a mix of all syrians of different ethnicities and sects. the FSA is not well-organized and severely underfunded - in fact, many FSA factions are independent of one another and this leads to many inevitable mistakes that may not always represent the ideals of the revolution. critiques of the FSA are common in revolutionary spaces - it is important to acknowledge that the FSA is not the revolution.
now, when discussing foreign fighters and jihadists in syria, we must acknowledge that the regime played a large role in paving the way for islamic fundamentalism. in 2011, assad released around 1,000 political prisoners - many anti-regime groups assumed that this was some kind of concession; however, it was not until later that we discovered that most of the detainees who were released were actually salafist activists who were imprisoned during the time of the iraq war. so while peaceful civil activists remained in assad's prisons indefinitely, armed salafist activists roamed free. some of the most prominent salafist commanders released by the regime included: abu muhammad al-joulani (founder of jabhat al-nusra), muhammad haydar zammar (a top AQ recruiter), zahran alloush (the leader of the army of islam), hassan aboud (leader of ahrar al-sham), and abu eesa (the leader of suqour il sham). releasing these salafi activists allowed assad to 1. legitimize his claim that the peaceful demonstrators who began the revolution are in fact "islamic terrorists and infiltrators" and 2. assert that the islamic fundamentalists we see in syria today are the only alternative to him, thus causing the international community to dismiss peaceful syrian revolutionaries who began the syrian revolution for freedom and autonomy. in addition, many jihadist groups openly collaborate with the regime. jabhat al-nusra, for instance, sells oil to the syrian government and is fairly open about it. so, it is clear that the release of these extremist was a tactical move by the regime and that the regime itself benefits from the presence of these groups.
(the revolutionary city of kafranbel, idlib during a anti-regime and anti-IS protest)
IS (ISIS) is now considered the second enemy of the syrian revolution. besides anti-ISIS and anti-regime protests that take place across syria, revolutionary groups continue to publish statements against the IS. in fact, in a recent statement, the FSA has declared it is now fighting two fronts: the assad regime and IS. kurdish YPG factions are also fighting alongside the FSA against IS. IS is counterrevolutionary, as are any jihadist group on the grounds of syria. they do not represent our revolution. IS continues to detain the same activists that were detained by the regime during the revolution - IS also continues to occupy the liberated cities of northern syria. while some cities were able to organize and force IS out, other cities are in a more difficult situation. for instance, the city of raqqa remains occupied by IS, and while the regime continues to shell and strike areas and neighborhoods, it has not once attacked the IS headquarters in raqqa (a large, recognizable building). again, this is not a coincidence - it's clear that the regime is more threatened by peaceful activists and revolutionary neighborhoods and cities, than it is by fundamentalists.
(the aftermath of a SCUD missile attack in aleppo, syria)
the regime is primarily supported by russia, iran, and hezbollah, both materially and physically. russia supplies the regime with heavy weaponry, planes, and SCUD missiles, which are then used to kill innocent syrian civilians and destroy entire neighborhoods. hezbollah and iranian religious fundamentalist militias enter syrian cities and ethnically cleanse neighborhoods (we saw this in homs, yabroud, banias, etc.). as "leftists" and self-proclaimed "anti-imperialists" denounce the revolution in "hands off syria" protests, one wonders where they were in the beginning of the revolution? where were the protests against hezbollah, russia, and iran, and their direct involvement in syria? imperialism is not limited to the US. our demands regarding international support for the revolution mary vary in different revolutionary spaces; however, i stand by these demands wholeheartedly:
- No to all forms of imperialist intervention, whether by the US or Russia!
- No to all forms of reactionary sectarian interventions, whether by Iran or the Gulf countries!
- No to the intervention of Hezbollah, which warrants the maximum of condemnation!
- Down with all illusions about the imminent US military strike!
- Break open the arms depots for the Syrian people to struggle for freedom, dignity, and social justice!
- Victory to a free democratic Syria and down with the Assad dictatorship and all dictatorships forever!
- Long live the Syrian people's revolution!
(a neighborhood in homs, syria after regime airstrikes and bombardments)
the assad regime in syria has forced mass displacements of its own population. today there are 2.5+ million (documented) refugees according to UNHCR, and 9 million internally displaced civilians (half of which are children). their situations are unbearable. those who live in refugee camps in syria and in different countries live in makeshift tents (and use makeshift bathrooms). they are forced to eat, at the most, two meals a day and share meals with at least one other individual. many children in the refugee camps have died from hypothermia during the winter. civilians who struggle from certain sicknesses and diseases are unable to receive proper medical care - they are at risk of dying due to the lack of medical supplies and medical attention in the camps. the conditions of the refugee camps are extremely unsanitary and unbearable. these are not the conditions of living! those who desperately escape conditions in neighboring countries and try traveling abroad on boat are forced to risk the common danger of drowning (this has occurred several times). groups that are able to afford living abroad experience racism, discrimination, a severe lack of work, and countless unthinkable struggles.
(atmeh refugee camp - idlib, syria)
the bottom line is that what we see today in syria is a direct result of assad's refusal to step down from his presidency. that's the absolute bottom line. the revolution is not a conspiracy - it is a popular uprising against a 48-year-old junta. the assad regime has killed 140,000 civilians, has displaced half of the population, has tortured innocent people through violence and sexual abuse, has caused young syrian students (elementary, middle, high school and college students) to abandon their education in state schools, and more… assad has destroyed homes, mosques, churches, historical sites, and livelihoods for power. he has left orphaned thousands of syrian children, leaving them with no families and no homes. any individual who supports such a ruthless regime (through neutrality or direct support) is undeserving of an opinion until they have lived through torture in assad prisons, bombardments and airstrikes in revolutionary neighborhoods, and starvation in areas under siege.
it is necessary to keep our humanitarian stances above our political stances. these are real people suffering real horrors.
i have left so much out of this post - HR reports, articles, videos, short films, interviews, personal accounts, artworks, revolutionary cultural productions, solidarity actions, donation sites, etc. if you'd like to explore the syrian revolution and learn more, visit the syrian revolution archive: http://muqawameh.wordpress.com/archive/.
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when you wear an outfit that you don't realize is awful until you're out in public but are in no position to change it so you just have to pray your confidence can carry the outfit off until you can steal some clothes from an unsuspecting stranger
i gotta reblog this shit again because i'm crying
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lowkey waiting for obama's post-presidency public nigga moment
highkey waiting for it.
i dont see it happenin at all..
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I had to go in search of something to hold onto in this ugly 'hour of need' after this most horrendous of losses:
I found the following... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT6KiQO3C8Q
yeah, it's ok to live in the past for a little bit... it IS early in the season too (not that I have any faith left in Dorrell), and a small part of me still has faith in this team (20 seniors after all)... I blame this horrible egg on the coaches, and not necessarily the players though any decent football team has to lack some type of pride to play the way this team did tonight.
This team needs to dig deep down for its soul in the next week because if they don't know it or feel it yet, there IS indeed a sense of urgency. They have to beat Washington at the RB next week. If not, this season is pretty much done.
I for one, say put in Pat Cowan once he returns. At least he knows how to beat SC and has a winning streak over two games under his belt (which Olson lacks).
Anyway, watch this youtube extract... esp. the ending...it'll still send chills up your spine as a diehard Bruin...
'you can hear, from far and near, the MIGHTY BRUIN ROAR!'
Go Bruins!


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""He said it's his opinion that the city also needs to reserve money to extend Airline Road east to property that has been offered for a destination university. He said that university could bring 5,000 to 10,000 students to the city.
"This could be a university town in 10 years,""October 14, 2010 at 1:28 p.m.
Why are we worrying about this road to nowhere now? No one has accepted the land. No one has plans to accept this land now. Or does someone's buddy want a road to development his land?
ROFL @ having a loop with stop lights....EPIC FAILOctober 14, 2010 at 12:25 p.m.
Really, Loop 463? I agree a loop has no stops, just exits! Call it what it is. A street. An unsafe one at that!October 14, 2010 at 1:01 a.m.
5,000 - 10,000 students?? Are you serious??? Doing all you can to push that Airline expansion huh? I think the city has alot more pressing issues at hand that you should fix first - streets(repair what you have), cleaning up the city(in more ways than one), lame marketing campain(boots?? how about gateway to fishing or the history of the area or even nothing), and lowering property taxes / appraisals.
Advocate - how about an article on the main players pushing university expansion and extension of airline to the "free" land and their relationships with all parties. You know, like that article on a political canidate and his major donor you did a while back right before the election.October 13, 2010 at 11:18 p.m.
This comment was removed by the site staff for violation of the usage agreement.October 13, 2010 at 9:38 p.m.
We need these overpasses and we need to pay for them.
And that means we need a tax to fund these over passes.
And we need to stop calling this piece of pavement a loop.October 13, 2010 at 8:30 p.m.
Loops circle cities, have no stops and don't go under overpasses.
if it could happen, an expanded uh-v would be the biggest economic boom to hit this town.
since the overpasses have been nuked, how about lowering the speed limit and adding more lights ?October 13, 2010 at 7:44 p.m.
I could say so many things but everyone else has already covered the big issues. The only thing I have left to say is - If I wanted to live in a university town (aka - party town) I would move to College Station, Huntsville, Waco, Austin...you get the point.October 13, 2010 at 6:46 p.m.
Humble - I can totally understand your concern with crossing the loop. I may have a solution. Instead of trying to cross all of the lanes at once, take a little detour. Take Mockingbird to the light and turn left(protected) then you can make an easy right on to Salem. When coming back into town on Salem, turn right towards Stockbauer and Navarro. Sure it's going to add a couple of minutes and 1/4 of a mile to your drive, but it's a whole lot safer.October 13, 2010 at 12:30 p.m.
On January 28th of this year Armstong was quoted as saying while referring to the city funding the building of the overpass:
"I think it's an investment in public safety that's absolutely paramount," Mayor Will Armstrong said of the funding decision. "This is a long-range project that will pay for itself many times over."
Today he is quoted as saying "Everything has changed," Mayor Will Armstrong said. "Our priorities have changed drastically since we went to Austin."
In January the issue of the city financing the building of the overpass was superior to all other issues according to Armstrong. He and others played the "safety" trump card to justify to taxpayers this was the thing to do.
Have the priorities of the city council changed to the point that the public safety issue is not paramount? If public safety was truly the determining factor for spending more tax dollars what has changed over the last 9 months? Has that stretch of highway suddenly become safer or is the real truth the fact that there are other projects to spend this money on that, in the eyes of some, will leave a bigger "legacy" associated with his/their names?October 13, 2010 at 12:14 p.m.
Some folks have asked, "What will the CAT plant really cost the citizens?"
Others have questioned the lack of intergovernmental cooperation that yielded the urgent "unforeseen" need for overpasses.
Well, there's something here for everyone.October 13, 2010 at 12:09 p.m.
Isn't anyone bothered that the Mayor seems to be willing to trade citizen safety for the road to his legacy? At least he's honest about it.October 13, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.
This is just super. Now we are stuck with the new lights that turn red ansd stop traffic on the loop for no reason. I mean, come on highway dept., can't you figure out how to control these lights. Probably not, seeing as a kid was able to hack your 'highly sophisticated' sign that was out there. I am getting sick and tired of having to stop when there are no cars even waiting at the Mockingbird light.October 13, 2010 at 10:20 a.m.
Why would hundreds of trucks a day use Stockbauer for Caterpillar? The business park has direct access to the loop no? Use the loop as the main way in and out of the business park.
Stockbauer between business 59 and hwy 59 isn't that busy of a street...that money should go to fix Sam Houston or any of the other HEAVILY traveled streets that are in disrepair.October 13, 2010 at 10:15 a.m.
And even better question is why the overpass(es) weren't put in when the Loop was widened to a divided four lane just a few short years ago?
Can you say "Waste Taxpayers Money", or "Lack of Foresight and Planning", or "My brother-in-law is in the paving business"?October 13, 2010 at 9:56 a.m.
I live off of Salem Rd and I have to cross Loop 463 every day, several times a day. It is a very dangerous intersection. I have lived out here for 12 years and it just gets worse and worse. I have only had one car accident in my life, and it was at the intersection of Salem and 463 and my car was totaled. I had my 5yr old son in the car with me, Thank God we were not seriously injured. (FYI: the other person involved in the wreck was at fault and did get a ticket) But I have seen several other accidents at the intersection and they were bad. One accident killed a 17 year old boy! I am fortunate to have made it thru 2 teenage children of mine driving without any accidents there, and they both have graduated high school now and live on their own. Now I have a child that turned 15 this month and is ready for his permit. I am scared to death of him driving across the loop, and then I have one more to go thru after him, but he's in kindergarten so he won't drive for a while! What I don't understand is, Why can't the city build one overpass at a time? Why do they have to put 2 in the plans at all? There has not been a high amount of accidents at Mockingbird. That would cut the cost in half to only building one overpass at Salem. Also, out of all of the roads on this part of the loop, Salem is the only one that goes straight across. The other roads end at 463. I would think that would make Salem a priority. I could not handle loosing one of my children in a car accident, that an overpass could possibly prevent, just so the city can make other roads pretty to impress a big company. It has been 10yrs since my accident but I still think about it EVERY time I am sitting at the stop sign waiting for traffic clear so I can safely cross, and I usally have to wait for a while. Especially since school started. WE REALLY NEED THAT OVERPASS! Our safety, and the safety of our children depend on it!October 13, 2010 at 9:49 a.m.
Sorry, HookEm, but we already have plans to built the "Will Armstrong Lane" when Airline is extended to the huisache patch out to the east.
Forget an overpass at Salem, build it at Airline when the "Good Ole Boys" get their new "Harvard-in-the-Brush" pushed through. TTUV? TAMUV? UTV? Which will it be?October 13, 2010 at 4:47 a.m.
'Never look a gift horse in the mouth' ...October 13, 2010 at 4:21 a.m.
Now, the money that was allocated to these overpasses (by the city government and the county government) can be used as intended. There is no shortage of streets that need repair in this town. Pick a bad one and start working on it.


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Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- The head of the Las Vegas Township Constable's office has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
The Nevada Highway Patrol said Constable John Bonadventura was arrested Tuesday night, after a caller reported a constable vehicle driving erratically on U.S. 95 near Boulder Highway.
Bondventura was pulled over for speeding, and then given a field sobriety test, which he failed.
He was booked into the Clark County Detention Center under charges of DUI.
Clark County commissioners are set to propose abolishing Bonadventura's office, which has about two dozen deputies and performs tasks such as serving paperwork and carrying out evictions.
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Newly Emphasized Gold And Silver Price Suppression Tactic Unleashed
By Patrick A. Heller
Commentary on Precious Metals Prepared for CoinWeek.com
There are a wide variety of tactics whereby gold and silver prices could be suppressed. Perhaps the most frequently used method over the years has been for central banks to dump their physical gold reserves onto the market through the use of leases. By doing so, it appeared to increase the availability of physical supplies while the central banks continued to report the entire amount of gold as still being in reserves.
The second of the two most common tactics is to sell paper contracts for future delivery of gold or silver. These sales in many instances are made by parties that simply do not have the physical metals to make delivery upon maturity of the contracts. Once again, this tactic makes it appear that there is more physical metal available than there really is.
In the past week, there have been some significant moves by those holding short physical positions to buy back their positions. When short sellers cover, they anticipate that future prices will be higher than current prices. Such moves squeeze available physical supplies. However, there are always more gloomy economic reports being released where even the spin-meisters cannot fully hide the truth.
In addition to this current strong demand for physical precious metals to cover shorts, there continues to be strong demand coming from the Middle East and Far East. As a consequence, gold and silver prices have enjoyed some strength over the past two weeks.
However, the US government has a multi-faceted bag of tricks that it could use to help hold down precious metals prices. Apparently, since some of the standard tactics weren't working well last week, it expanded the repertoire. Multiple cooperating so-called precious metals experts, including Jon Nadler from Kitco and Jeffrey Christian from CPM Group, wrote more strident negative articles or gave interviews about future precious metals prices than they have in the past.
For example, last Friday, Jon Nadler wrote in his daily commentary, "Spot prices drew closer to the $1,600 psychological support level, falling for the first time in four days, with an initial decline of nearly $10 and a bid-side quote at $1,602.50 per ounce. VTB Capital analyst Andrey Kryuchenkov writes that 'Bullion continues to grade with the single currency with little physical interest' . . . ." Unfortunately for Nadler, this information is incomplete. After gold dipped to that low last Friday, it quickly recovered to close $17 higher than the bottom in US markets. Further, there several potential seven-figure buyers of physical gold who were simply unable to execute their orders because there was almost no physical metal to be had.
In general, the nature of the attacks on gold and silver were mostly name-calling against those who have the audacity to report what is actually going on in the physical markets. By using terms like "conspiracy theorists" and calling people equivalent to "birthers," the attackers cast aspersions without having to discuss the facts.
Now it is true that gold and silver broke down below psychological trading points earlier this week. But prices did not drop because of the misleading information from Nadler, Christian, and others.
What you have to realize is that when there are a greater number and more extreme kinds of gold and silver price suppression tactics being used, that is a sign of near-term possibilities that prices could shoot upward. After all, if it was likely that prices really were destined to decline, it wouldn't be necessary to artificially suppress them.
Patrick A. Heller was honored with the American Numismatic Association 2012 Harry J. Forman Numismatic Dealer of the Year Award. He owns Liberty Coin Service in Lansing, Michigan and writes Liberty's Outlook, a monthly newsletter on rare coins and precious metals subjects. Past newsletter issues can be viewed at http://www.libertycoinservice.com. Other commentaries are available at Numismaster (under "News & Articles) . His award-winning radio show "Things You 'Know' That Just Aren't So, And Important News You Need To Know" can be heard at 8:45 AM Wednesday and Friday mornings on 1320-AM WILS in Lansing (which streams live and becomes part of the audio and text archives posted at http://www.1320wils.com.
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LOL! Oh jeez Patrick. Who didn't know that paper contracts don't really have physical assets behind them? Remember the mortgage derivatives? There was more paper out there than houses to cover them. At one point, there were more "mortgage backed securities" out there than could be covered by paving over and building houses on the entire land mass of not only Earth, but every planet and moon that is likely to exist within 100 light years of here.
Derivative paper (something leveraging a physical asset) is a "betting slip", nothing more. I thought everyone knew that for 50 years now.
I guess one man's shocking scandal is another man's basic knowledge refresher course, huh?
This element in control of the Federal Government, that forces synthetic currency on the nation and has dollarized the world, for sure they'd steal corn from a blind chicken! Precious metals prices are suppressed to protect this synthetic dollar. But it can't go on, all frauds fail, even those devised by planners atop star high seats of power. In 1923 Germany during its terrible inflation, in which wheelbarrows carting that "money" were taken from owners after dumping the currency, the populace recoiled in horror and insisted corrective measures be initiated. See the New York Times feature, "Judicial Movement Started to Prevent Payment of Debts in Worthless Paper Currency," July 29, 1923, section II, page 12. For sure we're edging closer to a repeat, various States are weighing bills in their legislatures to employ gold and silver as sounder medium than the paper and digital dollar.
The wisdom of the ages SCREAMS that we use the correct substance for money— in Merchants Magazine & Commercial Review, February 1851, page 266 we read ("The Scarcity Of Silver Coin")—
"The probability of silver becoming scarce in the United States will have a serious tendency to enhance its value."
And as the same source said the following month (page 277)—
"All persons will gain whose property consists of silver." We're 161 and a half years out from that time; silver has been in underground and above ground draw down for generations, and its true worth, determined by scarcity, industrial utility indispensable to modern life, and demand as restored monetary medium, will, with gold, become an angry unstoppable giant revenging himself on synthetic currency peddlers who've foisted their vitiating garbage on civilization. Poverty and lowered standards of living are Siamese twins of inconvertible currency. Yes, I'm acquiring more metal in the AM, using Federal Reserve Prosperity Coupons! And snickering about Eastman Kodak's fate, as they tossed so many bearish darts at the silver price over the years.


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By: Mikeman444, 5:36 AM GMT on August 01, 2014
July was nearly 3C warmer than normal and many areas with some close to 6C above avg. Many areas are dealing with severe drought conditions and fires are being sparked by the dozens.
Areas such as Edmonton have net seen even a modest thunderstorm in nearly 4 weeks.
It may also be the latest Edmonton has received a severe warned storms since environment Canada first issued weather warnings.
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By: Mikeman444, 11:13 PM GMT on July 06, 2014
Here is your Forecast for July and look back at June
June finished slightly wetter than normal with Temperatures near to below normal.
11 thunderstorms were recorded in my area, non of then were severe(a first for June having no severe)
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July 2014 Forecast for Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba
Issued July 6 2014 5:02pm
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By: Mikeman444, 11:57 PM GMT on June 22, 2014
Here is the Summer 2014 forecast.
After a miserable spring, or maybe call it 2nd winter lol. As of June 22 there still has not been a 30C+ day and the colder weather seems to be dragging on into the summer. It has been a solid 5 months since we have been seasonal or above so the region could really use some hot weather. Will it come?
The summer forecast this year will doubly as the thunderstorm forecast as well.
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First look back at May 2014. Overall the month was around 2C cooler than normal with near normal precipitation.
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By: Mikeman444, 10:47 PM GMT on May 02, 2014
Looking Back at April the forecast came along fairly well. Temperatures were below to well below normal over of the region with the exception of near normal in extreme southern Alberta. Precipitation was near to above in most areas.
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Casey Larocca had 36 assists in her final home match.
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BOCA RATON, FL - Spurred by a pregame ceremony recognizing its two seniors, the Florida Atlantic University volleyball team pushed Middle Tennessee State University to four sets, but ultimately fell (14-25, 25-23, 21-25, 13-25) on Saturday night.
The Owls (12-16, 5-11 Sun Belt) got into an early hole against MTSU in the first set and never recovered losing the set 25-14. FAU also fell behind early in the second set, but rallied to tie it at 15. Several points later, the match was tied at 20 when Casey LaRocca assisted on three of the next four FAU points and combined with Krystena Castro on the clinching block to tie the match at one set apiece.
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