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Happy New Year Stars Fans! Hope you guys had as much fun as I did!
I was originally going to post the magic number updates Saturday morning, but due to the large volume of games last night, I decided to wait an extra day. Boy, am I glad I did. That was quite a win by Dallas, and, as you'll see below, they still remain in good shape for the playoff race, despite going 1-2 this week.
Overall, it's been a pretty interesting week. The rankings are a bit more shuffled compared to the last time we took a look at them. Personally, I think makes it that much more fun. But there has also been some stability in the bottom of the conference, which helps us narrow down the field a bit on who is really still involved in the playoff race.
For some in depth analysis on the Stars' magic number, as well as the rest of the Western conference, take a look after the jump.
Before I get started, if you haven't read my first post, or you aren't sure of what the magic number is or how it works, you can read last week's post here. It should tell you everything you need to know.
(Remember, the "Seed" column is how they are currently ranked according to NHL.com. The rank in parentheses is where they were on our charts last week.)
The Blues, who had the biggest change in position, had a busy 4 game week, only earning 3 out of a possible 8 points. This might be their first real "rough patch" since Hitch has taken over. Their projected points has decreased from 106 to 101.
Other than that, most teams really only moved a single spot, if they moved at all. One thing that is interesting to note, however, is the position of the Sharks and the Kings. According to the current NHL standings, the Sharks are ranked 10th, but they have also played 6 games fewer than some of the others. SIX! (Note to NHL schedulers -- WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU?) They are going to have a busy 2012 schedule in order to catch up on games played, that's for sure. That's something that could definitely hurt them in the playoff race if injuries start to mount.
Despite the fact that they lead our division in the NHL standings, you'll notice this week that the Kings are now in 9th place, having replaced the Coyotes as the first of the worst. That means that our magic number is now based off of how well the Kings do.
You can thank the Nucks for not doing us any favors on New Year's Eve by losing to the Kings. Had they managed to win in regulation, The Kings' total possible points would have dropped to 128 -- Thereby dropping our magic number to 86. Even without that help, though, the Stars have not lost much ground this week.
Last time we looked, the magic number was at 93. Dropping 5 points (especially when only 2 of those came from us) is pretty good for the miserable week we've had. Even if we lost another game in regulation, we would still be in control of our own destiny. The Stars even moved UP a position in possible points remaining. They held their ground this week with the rest of the conference. So for anyone who was all doom and gloom after the loss to Columbus, take a breath and relax... the Stars are no worse off now than they were before. (Of course, if they HAD beaten the Jackets, they'd be in even better position, but I digress...)
Now that we know what it takes to guarantee a playoff spot, let's take a look at the projected rankings, and see what we think we need in order to get there, as well as who we are competing with:
The chart above is organized by projected points. Again, L.A. remains the 9th place team, so our focus is to beat them. According to their current record, it will take a total of 94 points to make the playoffs. That's 2 more than last week. This is probably much closer to the norm than what we had seen before. So, in order to get to 94 points, we need an additional 51 -- or a record of 25-19-1. A tough record, but something that can definitely be accomplished by the Stars. (Personally, I will really begin to relax about the Stars' playoff chances when our record required hits .500. But that will require a few good winning streaks to make that possible.)
Based on the current projections, it's a 12 team race at this point. I also think you can break the standings into three groups at this point: The playoff race, the teams losing ground, and the teams who are out.
Any team currently out of a playoff spot needs 96 points to make the playoffs (since they would have to beat Nashville for 8th place), and the bottom three teams in the conference just have too much ground to make up. Edmonton would have to finish the season at a blistering 33-12 in order to make it to 8th place, and that's just not going to happen.
Above them, you have the next group of three -- Phoenix, Colorado, and Calgary. The gap between the playoff race and these teams is beginning to widen. While I'm not going to rule them out of the race, they have more ground to cover than the rest of us. Phoenix has to finish 27-16 to make the playoffs. After getting only 3 of 8 points this week, they certainly didn't do themselves any favors.
The top 9 teams are the ones that will be jockeying for position for the rest of the season. And, when April rolls around, one teams feelings are going to be hurt. (Dear Hockey gods, please don't let that be us. Again.)
In the end, the important thing to take away from this is that the Stars did not shoot themselves in the foot this week. A 1-2 record is not ideal, but it had almost no effect on their playoff chances, due to the fact that almost every team around them in the standings had a rough week as well. All teams go through rough patches, and sometimes they will lose games they shouldn't lose. This is nothing unique to the Stars. A 1-2 week is nothing to panic over. But we also need to bear in mind that a 3-0 week does not give us any room to relax, or assume we're guaranteed a playoff spot.
Next week we'll take a look at the divisional standings. The Stars have some division games coming up in the second week of January, so it will be good to establish the importance of the "4 point game." But with such a disparity in games played between San Jose, The Stars, and the Kings, I didn't want to mess with it this week.
As always, if you have any questions on this, just let me know, and I'll do my best to answer!


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One of the great changes in American society in the last 40 years has been the increased importance placed on education, and especially on higher education. From 1955 to 1995 (projected), college enrollment grew from 2.6 million to 14.9 million.1 This increase did not merely reflect an increase in the population, but also represented an increase in the proportion of high school graduates attending college: among those individuals ages 16 to 24 who graduated from high school during the preceding 12 months, the percentage enrolled in college increased from 45 percent in 1960 to 63 percent in 1993.2 These changes have important implications. It is commonly accepted that higher education is important both nationally, to ensure the Nation's productivity and economic competitiveness, and individually, with respect to a person's lifetime earnings: it is estimated that a 1992 high school graduate who completed college would earn $600,000 more over a lifetime than one with only a high school education.3
Yet the opportunity to attend college is not distributed equally throughout the population. For example, while 86 percent of unmarried 18- to 24-year-old high school graduates in the top family income quartile were either currently enrolled in college or had previously been enrolled, only 52 percent had been enrolled among those in the bottom income quartile.4 In fact, while college attendance overall is growing, the differences in college completion rates by age 24 based on family income are actually increasing and are "wider than they have ever been in the twenty-three years of available data."5 Many potential students face one or more economic or educational disadvantages: they may lack role models (especially in their own families) to demonstrate the importance of attending college, they may lack the financial resources required for higher education, and they may lack the academic knowledge and skills required for success in college.
The desire to see these prospective students have equal access to postsecondary education has led to a variety of programs that are designed to encourage disadvantaged students to attend college and to help them obtain the resources and academic skills they will need to be successful. Among the oldest are the TRIO programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education; now a group of six programs -- Upward Bound, Talent Search, Student Support Services, Educational Opportunity Centers, Training Program for Special Services Staff and Leadership Personnel, and the Ronald McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program -- they exist to help economically disadvantaged students by facilitating high school completion, entry, retention, and completion of postsecondary education, and entry into graduate study. Upward Bound, the largest of these programs in terms of funding, is directed at 13- to 19-years-old high school students whose family income is under 150 percent of the poverty level, and/or who are potential first-generation college students (with neither parent having a college degree).6 The Upward Bound program has grown in size from $28 million in 1967 to $162.5 million in 1994, and now serves roughly 42,000 precollegiate students. Upward Bound programs generally provide an intensive 6-week summer residential or nonresidential program at a college campus, along with continued academic and support services during the school year, typically on weekends or after school. All Upward Bound projects must provide instruction in mathematics, laboratory science, foreign language, English, and composition; additionally, they typically provide instruction in study skills, academic or personal counseling, exposure to cultural events, tutorial services, information on student financial assistance, and exposure to a range of career options.
A number of other precollegiate programs are like Upward Bound in the sense of being run by higher education institutions in partnership with schools or school districts, though they may differ in their funding, goals, and operations.7 Some of these programs receive outside support (e.g., through foundations), while others are internally funded; in either case, they may depend heavily on in-kind support. While Upward Bound has mandates that are specified in the federal legislation, these programs might be considered to have more flexibility (depending on the sponsor) and thus more diversity across programs. They often depend, at least initially, on the vision of one individual who first organizes the program, and their continued operation may depend either on that individual's continued work or on the ability of program staff to acquire a stable administrative and funding base within the institution.
Still other precollegiate programs also exist, including state scholarship programs and private programs. A privately sponsored program that has received great attention is the "I Have a Dream" program founded by Eugene Lang. It started in 1986 when Lang promised college educations to an entire class of Harlem sixth-graders, and since has expanded to more than 160 programs with 12,000 students.8 This program seeks to increase the motivation of selected groups of students by providing an early promise of financial support for attending college, while also providing support to these students as they prepare for college. Because these programs are not organized by higher education institutions, they can often differ greatly in their characteristics; for example, they may not be able to make use of the physical and personnel resources available in higher education institutions and may need to seek other strategies (such as operating in local schools or community organizations).
The purpose of this study is to provide a general description of precollegiate programs, noting those features that the programs tend to hold in common and those features where there is great diversity. Also, in coordination with a separate U.S. Department of Education evaluation of Upward Bound, a secondary purpose is to place Upward Bound programs within a larger context, to learn whether and how Upward Bound programs differed from other precollegiate programs, and to determine whether Upward Bound staff had something to learn from other programs.
If all precollegiate programs were included in this study, the diversity might be too great to allow meaningful comparisons. Instead, this study was intentionally focused in two ways. First, because of the longstanding federal concern with providing educational access for educationally or economically disadvantaged groups, those programs directed toward motivating such students to attend college and developing their academic skills to succeed in high school and prepare for college were examined. The disadvantaged students could start their participation either in elementary or secondary school . These programs remain highly diverse despite this focus. The programs may be sponsored by national or state governments, by individual colleges, by individual faculty or departments within a college, or by private individuals or foundations. They may take place during the academic year, during the summer, or both; they may be located close to the students, in their schools or neighborhoods, or they may involve bringing the students to college campuses; and they may focus on individual subject areas (such as mathematics and science), general academic skills, or even more general traits such as self-esteem.
Second, this study concentrated on precollegiate programs that are operated by higher education institutions, although the sponsor of the program might be outside the institution (such as the federal government or a private foundation); this focus helps to increase the comparability across programs, as well as the usefulness of study findings for making comparisons with Upward Bound. The data were collected by asking each school in a sample of higher education institutions to complete a three-page questionnaire about its largest precollegiate program.
Therefore, this study is not intended to describe the universe of all precollegiate programs at higher education institutions; rather, the focus on precollegiate programs for the disadvantaged is intended to result in more meaningful comparisons than would a study of programs with more dissimilar goals. The decision to focus on only the largest precollegiate program at each institution--defined in terms of the level of funding -- was made to simplify the task of higher education institutions in responding to the survey; in the pretest for the survey it was found that institutions have difficulty in identifying and comparing all their programs.
Except for these two focuses, the definition of precollegiate programs was made intentionally broad in order to capture the diversity of such programs. The programs might or might not include college-level instruction, but all are intended to prepare and motivate disadvantaged students for college. Programs such as those targeted exclusively toward minorities or women, adult literacy programs, or programs allowing high school students to enroll in college courses were excluded from the definition unless they were designed to increase college-enrollment rates among educationally or economically disadvantaged students, as were programs that were simply one-time events (such as attending a high school's college day or bringing students to a campus for a college weekend). Additional information about the sample and the implications for this study is provided in the section on the frequency of precollegiate programs and the section on survey methodology.
The following institutional characteristics were used as independent variables for analyzing the survey data:
Northeast: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Southeast: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Central: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
West: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Additionally, because one of the purposes of the study was to compare the U.S. Department of Education's Upward Bound program with other precollegiate programs, the study frequently differentiates between the largest precollegiate programs in both those categories.10 The survey was conducted in fall 1994 by the National Center for Education Statistics using the Postsecondary Education Quick Information System (PEQIS). PEQIS is designed to quickly collect limited amounts of policy-relevant information from a previously recruited, nationally representative sample of postsecondary institutions. PEQIS surveys are generally limited to two to three pages of questions with a response burden of 30 minutes per respondent.11 The survey was mailed to the PEQIS survey coordinators at 852 2-year and 4-year higher education institutions.12 Coordinators were told that the survey was designed to be completed by the person or office that had the most information about the institution's largest precollegiate program. The unweighted survey response rate is 96 percent (the weighted survey response rate is 97 percent). Data were adjusted for questionnaire nonresponse and weighted to provide national estimates. The section of this report on survey methodology and data reliability provides a more detailed discussion of the sample and survey methodology. The survey questionnaire is reproduced in appendix B.
All specific statements of comparison made in this report have been tested for statistical significance through chi-square tests and t-tests adjusted for multiple comparisons using the Bonferroni adjustment and are significant at the 95 percent confidence level or better. However, not all statistically different comparisons have been presented, since some were not of substantive importance.
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of
the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States 1994
(Washington, DC: 1993), 152.
2 U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics 1994 (Washington, DC: 1994), 188.
3 U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Educational Attainment in the U.S.: 1993 & 1992.
4 Thomas G. Mortenson. "Family Income Backgrounds Continue to Determine Chances for Baccalaureate Degree in 1992." Postsecondary Education Opportunity 16 (Sept. 1993),
5 Ibid., 7.
6 Two-thirds of the students in each project must be both low income and first generation.
7 Detailed descriptions of many such programs are provided in Reaching for College, a two-volume report prepared by Westat, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Education, December 1992.
8 Washington Post, June 25, 1995, p. A16.
9 Definitions for level are from the data file documentation for the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Institutional Characteristics file, U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.
10 Upward Bound programs were identified through an item on the questionnaire where institutions wrote the name of the largest precollegiate programs.
11 Additional information about PEQIS is presented in the methodology section of this report.
12 Higher education institutions are institutions accredited at the college level by an agency recognized by the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, and are a subset of all postsecondary education institutions. Other postsecondary institutions were excluded from the sample because the focus of precollegiate programs is to increase students' access to higher education. Postsecondary education is the provision of a formal instructional program whose curriculum is designed primarily for students beyond the compulsory age for high school. This includes programs whose purpose is academic, vocational, and continuing professional education, and excludes avocational and adult basic education. (U.S Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, S. Broyles, and P. Vanderhorst. Integrated Postsecondary Data System Glossary (Washington, DC: 1992). NCES 92-081.)

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Clifton gone, WR promoted from Practice Squad
We've made some changes. I guess Mangini decided he was either happy with Haden and Stucky returning kicks/punts or Cribbs is healthy again. And we promoted Norwood from the practice squad. I don't know anything about the new guys on the practice squad but its good to see a new WR target on the roster.


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In funding the Palestinian Authority, the US contravenes its own laws; most aid to the PA has has gone to propping up Fayyad.
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No, he was not buying uranium from Iran. His purported crime was purchasing wood products from an Israeli community located beyond the 1949 armistice lines.
Denied bail by the US-funded PA magistrate's court in Bethlehem, he has been remanded to custody pending the conclusion of his trial.
This man's arrest is part of what the unelected, US-supported Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has touted as his "National Honor Fund." The goal of this project is to ban all economic contact between Palestinians and Jews who live and work beyond the 1949 armistice lines. As far as the supposedly moderate Fayyad is concerned, those Jews and Israel generally comprise the "hostile state," that the Palestinians under Fayyad's leadership are being compelled to boycott.
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, Palestinian Labor Minister Ahmed Majdalani said the PA hopes that by the end of the year all the thousands of Palestinians who are employed in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria will quit their jobs. What he didn't mention is that if they don't quit, they will be arrested.
According to PA Economics Minister Hassan Abu Libdeh, since the start of Fayyad's campaign, the PA has confiscated $1 million worth of Israeli products including foods, cosmetics and hardware from Palestinian stores.
Fayyad's measures come on top of previously enacted PA measures like imposing the death penalty on Palestinians who sell land to Jews. Less than two months ago, the PA reaffirmed that it will continue to execute any Palestinian who commits this "crime."
There is no way to credibly claim that these actions advance either the cause of peaceful coexistence or Palestinian economic prosperity. Yet it is precisely in the hope of advancing these goals that the US government funds the PA.
DESPITE HIS campaign to boycott Israel and punish Palestinians with economic ties to the Jewish state, Fayyad is the US's favorite Palestinian. Since PA President Mahmoud Abbas appointed Fayyad to lead the rump Fatah government in Judea and Samaria after Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, US aid to the PA has increased by more than 700 percent. Most of this aid has gone to propping up Fayyad.
The US directly finances his budget. It funds and trains a Palestinian military. And it subsidizes his programs to build governmental institutions that loyally carry out his anti-Israel policies.
Last Wednesday, during a joint press conference with Fayyad, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the US will give the PA an additional $150 million in aid to supplement the $400 million in financial assistance that President Barack Obama pledged in June. This supplement comes in response to Fayyad's claim that he needs $500 million to close his budget shortfall.
According to the Congressional Research Service, the PA is the largest recipient of foreign assistance in the world. According to Bloomberg, it received $1.2 billion in 2009 and will receive $1.8 billion by the end of the year.
The US provided the PA with $500.9 million in 2009 and, before Clinton's announcement, was scheduled to provide it with $550 million in 2011. This assistance does not include US financial support for UNRWA, an agency devoted exclusively to providing welfare benefits to Palestinians while subordinating itself to a Palestinian political agenda. The US is the single largest donor to UNRWA. Last year the $268 million US taxpayers gave the UN agency constituted 27 percent of UNRWA's budget.
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who is expected to become the chairwoman of the House Foreign Relations Committee in the next Congress, responded negatively to Clinton's announced expansion of US aid to the PA. In a statement released by her office last Thursday, Ros-Lehtinen derided the assistance as a "bailout."
She further commented, "It is deeply disturbing that the administration is continuing to bail out the Palestinian leadership when they continue to fail to meet their commitments, under international agreements and requirements outlined in US law, including dismantling the Palestinian terrorist infrastructure, combating corruption, stopping anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement and recognizing Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state."
Ros-Lehtinen authored the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006, which conditioned US assistance to the PA on, among other things, "publicly acknowledge[ing] the Jewish state of Israel's right to exist."
While on the mark, Ros-Lehtinen's statement only scratches the surface of how contrary to US law and the goals of Palestinian economic development and peace US financial assistance to the Palestinians truly is.
Take US security assistance to the Palestinians. The US responded to the Hamas takeover in Gaza by massively increasing its military assistance to Fatah. According to the CRS, between 2007 and August 2010, US assistance to the PA security services totaled $400 million. They received $100 million in 2010 and are set to receive $150 million in 2011. This assistance has paid for the training and outfitting of 400 Presidential Guards and 2,700 soldiers in the National Security Forces. The US plans to train five additional 500-man NSF battalions.
The CRS report acknowledged these forces have improved the law and order situation in Judea and Samaria. But it also asserted that "uncertainty remains over the durability of these improvements and their connection with broader Palestinian economic and civil society development and with progress on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as well as over the willingness and ability of the forces to incapacitate militants."
Indeed, there is little reason to believe that these US-trained forces will not join forces with Hamas and turn their guns on Israel in the future. Since 1996, PA security services have taken a leading role in the terror war against Israel.
Concerned about the threat these forces pose, particularly in light of Fayyad's rejection of Israel's right to exist, earlier this year OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi warned that these US-trained forces constitute a qualitative jump in the Palestinians' war fighting capabilities against Israel.
As he put it, "This is a well trained force, better equipped than its predecessors and trained by the US. The significance of this is that at the start of a new battle [with the Palestinians] the price that we will pay will be higher. A force like this one can shut down a built-up area with four snipers. This is deadly. These aren't the fighters we faced in Jenin [in 2002]. This is an infantry force that will be fighting us and we need to take this into account. They have offensive capabilities and we aren't expecting them to give up."
Then there is the US direct assistance to the PA's operating budget. The US has provided $350 million in direct budgetary assistance to the PA in the past two years. There are three problems with this aid.
First, it is far from clear that the PA needs this assistance. According to the International Monetary Fund and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2009 real GDP in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip grew by 6.8 percent, (8.5% in Judea and Samaria). The report also claimed that unemployment declined. So if things are going so well, why is it necessary for foreign donor countries to increase their direct assistance to Fayyad's budget?
Second, given Fayyad's rejection of free trade principles, particularly as they relate to Israel, the PA's largest trading partner, it is hard to see how his economic leadership is credible. As the failed stimulus packages in the US have shown clearly, government bureaucracies do not create jobs. That is the work of the private sector. And yet, Fayyad is barring Palestinians from having trade ties with their most important business partners and commercial market. This is not the behavior of a leader who is interested in facilitating sustainable economic growth.
Finally, the simple truth is that it is impossible to prevent US budgetary assistance to the PA from financing Hamas, in contravention of US law. Each month Fayyad transfers funds to Hamas-controlled Gaza to pay the salaries of PA employees there. Fayyad has argued that this assistance cannot be considered material aid to Hamas, since the employees are employed by the PA. But this is nonsense.
These employees serve at the pleasure of Hamas. Paying their salaries contravenes US law as well as international law, which prohibits states from providing any assistance whatsoever to areas controlled by terrorists. This is true even if the actual money he transfers to Gaza comes from other income sources. Without the direct US budgetary assistance, he wouldn't be able to funnel money to Gaza.
PROVIDING DIRECT budgetary assistance to Fayyad isn't the only way the US finances Hamas. It also contributes to Hamas by funding UNRWA. US assistance to UNRWA has doubled in the last four years, largely as a way of avoiding providing direct aid to Hamas. Yet the CRS report notes, "In Gaza, most observers acknowledge that the role of UNRWA in providing basic services (i.e., food, health care, education) takes much of the governing burden off Hamas."
In defending its assistance to UNRWA, the State Department told Congress that the aid "directly contributes to the US strategic interest of meeting the humanitarian needs of the Palestinians, while promoting their self-sufficiency. UNRWA plays a stabilizing role in the Middle East through its assistance programs, serving as an important counterweight to extremists."
But the fact of the matter is that UNRWA employees are Hamas members and sympathizers. And despite the State Department's claim that it has adopted safeguards to ensure that US assistance is not transferred to individuals and groups with links to Hamas and other terror groups, UNRWA's checks against terrorism are restricted to checking a UN list of banned terror groups that includes only al-Qaida and the Taliban. As the CRS report noted, UNRWA's terror screening list "does not include Hamas, Hizbullah or most other militant groups that operate in UNRWA's surroundings." In other words, UNRWA continues to employ terrorists, and its current procedures do nothing to prevent that.
A Framework of Cooperation agreement signed this year between UNRWA and the US sets out 15 steps for UNRWA to expand its terror screening. But the agreement is nonbinding. Moreover, its provisions in no way block terror-linked individuals or groups from receiving aid from UNRWA.
In truth, given the PA's refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist or take sustained, decisive action against terrorism, there is really no way for the US to continue funding it without breaking its own laws. But acknowledging this state of affairs would involve admitting that the peace process is a lie and that any Palestinian state that is formed today will be a terrorist state at war with Israel.
The incoming Congress might want to consider these basic truths before it approves further aid to Fayyad and his moderate government.
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June 24, 2007, dawned overcast and chilly, nice weather to cover 3.1 miles on foot. "Runners' weather," Sherialyn Byrdsong, Ricky's widow, says. Make that 2,200 runners' weather. A record turnout made suburban Chicago's eighth annual Race Against Hate the most successful yet. Ricky Byrdsong may not be with us, but his vision lives on.
Even if Smith's odious act hadn't been committed, there's a good chance the Race Against Hate would have been born. At least its spirit would have been felt in the Byrdsong family's work. Once Ricky left coaching, he became a one-man community relations dynamo, trying to imbue the Chicagoland area with his vision. Had he lived, that message would no doubt have stretched much further. It had no choice. With an engine like Ricky powering it, the word would have been heard. Count on that.
"Once he was fired, Ricky's thing was to see how he could impact young men's lives," Sherialyn says. "Everything happens for a reason. With God controlling his circumstances, Ricky knew he had been given an opportunity from God to do something more than he had been doing with his life."
She's not saying coaching isn't a noble profession. It is. But Ricky's giant personality shouldn't have been confined to 15 players on a Big Ten hoops team. So, in 1998, when he got a chance to work for Aon as VP of community affairs, he pounced. It was almost too good to be true. He would speak in schools, develop programs to help people work their way out of trouble. He could run basketball camps to impact hundreds. And he would write his book, Coaching Kids in the Game of Life. Could there be a sweeter deal for someone like him? "Being fired from Northwestern was a blessing in disguise," Sherialyn says.
Byrdsong was on fire from the moment he began at Aon. His reach extended to large groups. Small families. Single individuals. James Saunders was a man who maneuvered his wheelchair into position on the corner of Wacker Drive and Monroe Street in Chicago every day and asked for money. He had lost his legs to infection after being stabbed in the back. Every day, Byrdsong passed Saunders on the way to work. One day, after giving Saunders five dollars, Byrdsong started a dialogue that eventually led to Saunders' asking for a job. So, Byrdsong arranged for Saunders to get a job in Aon's mailroom. Imagine that, going from panhandler to paid employee. That was amazing. That was Byrdsong.
"I don't think he would have coached again," Sherialyn says. "[When he was shot], he had finished one book and had ideas for two more. He wanted to be a community servant and an advocate for young kids. He wanted to be a role model for African-American kids."
Done, done and done. Byrdsong's life may have ended prematurely, but his legacy is clearly a beacon for hope in Chicago. This year's Race Against Hate raised $70,000 for the YWCA, thanks to the record turnout and contributions of more than 40 sponsors. The money goes to the Y's anti-bias curriculum, which teaches elementary school students how to work through stereotypes and prejudices that have become part of our society.
Sherialyn sounded the horn this year to begin the race. She and her family took part. The three Byrdsong children are a tribute to her strength and faith, as well as the rock-solid DNA and lifelong example of hope provided by their father. Two—Sabrina and
Kelley—are in college, while the third, Ricky, Jr., is heading into his third year of high school. They are forever impacted by the horrific crime, but they won't let that define them. Every day, they move ahead, just as Ricky would have wanted them to do.
As for Sherialyn, she is a successful entrepreneur and pillar of her church. And she is trying to forgive. "Forgiveness is a process. The first step is to do it as a mental thing," she says. "You say it. You pray it. That's a major step. Then, as time goes on, it becomes more of a reality in your heart. That's what happened with me. I knew I had to forgive, and I did that. It's in God's hands. Over time, I have had more and more of a sense of peace. I trust in God's sovereignty."
And we trust that people will get the message. Ricky Byrdsong was larger than life. He's even larger in death. We need to see that, so we can carry on his mission.


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Chöd was originated in the 12th century by Machig Labdron (1062-1153 C.E.), a highly realized female lama. The purpose of the practice was to develop wisdom and compassion; to heal the sick, remove obstacles, and purify an environment of negative forces using peaceful means.
Chöd takes a nonviolent yet radical approach to healing by welcoming negative mental states and harmful forces. These are referred to in the tradition as internal and external "demons (bdud)," that might normally give rise to fear and reactivity. Instead of fighting against them, we nourish them, offering our own bodies. This allows them to become allies. Through this process we uncover the truth of our indestructible nature.
The Gelugpa (dGe lugs pa) has transmitted two Chöd lineages. The first is the Ganden Oral Lineage (dGa' ldan snyan brgyud). It is also called the Ensa Oral Lineage (dBen sa snyan brgyud), named after Gyelwa Ensapa (Gyal ba dBen sa pa, 1505-1566). This renuncient lama popularized the Gelug Chöd lineage two centuries after Tsongkhapa (Tsong kha pa, 1357-1419), the founder of the Gelugpa.
This lineage is primarily carried out through practicing Gyulü Tsogsu Ngowa: Dedicating the Illusionary Body as Tsog Offerings (sGyu lus tshogs su sngo ba).
The other Chöd lineage is the Dakini Oral Lineage (mKha' 'gro snyan brgyud). The Dakini Oral Lineage is also called both the E lama's Chöd (E bla ma'i gcod) after E Lama Geleg Pelsang (E bla ma dGe legs dpal bzang, 1385-1428), and the Geleg Oral Lineage (dGe legs snyan brgyud) after Geleg Ngagwang Puntsog (dGe legs dNgag dbang phung tshogs). Both masters, E Lama Geleg Pelsang and Geleg Ngagwang Puntsog, contributed to the development of the lineage.
1.Dakini Oral Lineage
The major text of this lineage is known as Shiwa Lamsab (zhi ba lam zab): the Profound Path of Peaceful Machig Labdrön, composed by E Lama Geleg Pelsang. It's actual title is The Treatise Easily Carrying the Yoga of the Continuity of the Profound Path According to the Machig Dakini Oral Lineage (Ma gcig mkha gro snyan rgyud lam zab rgyun kyi rnal byor khyer bde bkod pa). He also composed the extensive sadhana (sgrub thabs) of the Five Dakinis of Tröma Nagmo (khros nag sde lnga). This text is included in The Three Rituals, Self-, Front-Generation and Accomplishing the [Wish-fulfilling] Vase Together with the Initiation Ritual of the Black Wrathful Ma gcig called "The Treasure Accomplishing Siddhis Which Fulfill Wishes" (Ma cig khros nag sde lnga'i bdag 'dun bum gsum dang dbang cho ga dang bces pa bsam phel dbang rgyal dngos grub pa'i gter mdzod).
E Lama Geleg Pelsang was was the reincarnation of Gyelwa Dröndrub (rGyal ba don grub), a lineage holder and the son of the founder, Machig Labdrön. He was born in a part of southern Tibet in a place called E, after which he was named, near the birthplace of Machig.
Geleg Ngawang Pungtsog composed the important uncommon initiation text, Opening the Door to the Sky for Providing the Initiation of Peaceful Ma gcig called "The Clear Light Benefiting Others" (Ma gcig zhi ba'i dbang bskur cho ga nam mkha' sgo 'byed gzhan phan 'od ser).
The guru yoga according to the Dakini Oral Lineage is practiced based on the root text Shiwa Lamsab: The Profound Path of the Peaceful One. The concise daily practice of this root text is practice in an abridged form called The Practitioner of Chöd called Pervading Space (gCod mkha khyab ma nyams su len pai gang zag mKha khyab ma) or more commonly known Kakyabma (mkha khyab ma) written by renuncient Chozeling Lama Rinpoche Jadrelwa Lobsang Yeshe (Chos zed ling lha ma rin po che Bya dral ba bLo bzang ye shes), a disciple of E Lama.
There are two major streams in the Dakini Oral Lineage.
2.The Distant Lineage (Ring brgyud) of the Dakini Oral Lineage
The Distant Lineage up to Vasubandhu is the same as the Ganden Oral Lineage:
(Prajñâpâramitâ-->Tara-->Sukhasiddhi (Mother lineage)/ Shakyamuni Buddha-->Manjusri-->Aryadeva (Father lineage: profound view) /
Shakyamuni Buddha-->Maitreya-->Asangha-->Vasubhandu (Father Lineage: vast practice).
According to the root text of the Dakini Oral Lineage, The Profound Path of the Peaceful Machig (Zhi ba lam zab), the rest of the Distant Lineage is as follows:
•Phadampa Sanggye (Pha dam pa sangs rgyas) (died in 1117)
•Sönam Lama (bSod ames bla ma)
•Machig Labdrön (Ma cig lab sgron) (1055-1154)
•Gyelwa Döndrub (rGyal ba don grub)
•Khambu Yagleg (Kham bu yag leg)
•Thönyön Latön (Thod smyon la ston)
•Khugom Chöseng (Khu sgom chos senge)
•Dölwa Sangthel (Dol pa zang thal)
•Gyanag Cherbu (rGya nag gcer bu)
•Sanggye Rabtön (Sangs rgyas rab ston)
•Sanggye Gelong (Sangs rgyas dge slong)
•Sanggye Tönpa (Sangs rgyas ston pa)
•Chöje Rinchen Bum (Chos rje rin chen bum)
•Zoki Repa (Dzo ki ras pa)
•Arig Gopa (A rig sgo pa)
•Künga Sangpo (Kun dga bzang po)
•Drogön Zenying (Gro mgon mdzes snying)
•Sönam Rinchen (bSod ames rin chen)
•Lodrö Rabne (bLo gros rab gnas)
•Machig Köncham (Ma cig dkon lcams)
•Jangchub Rinchen (Byang chub rin chen)
•Jetsün Pelsang (rJe btsun dpal bzang)
•Sönam Wangchug (bSod ames dbang phyug)
•Ngagchang Kuche (sNgags chang sku byed)
•Dorje Gyeltsen (rDo rje rgyal mtshan)
3.The Near Lineage (Nye brgyud) of the Dakini Oral Lineage
The Near Lineage (Nye brgyud) of the Dakini Oral Lineage starts from Chöying Rangdröl (Chos dbyings rang grol) or Chönyi Rangdröl (Chos nyid rang grol) (1604-1669). He was the teacher of the Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngagwang Lobsang Gyatso (dNgag dbang bLo bzang rgya mtsho, 1617-1682). Chöying Rangdröl received Chöd transmission from the teachers of the Kagyüpa (dKa rgyud pa), one of the four major schools in Tibetan Buddhism. This Chöd transmission of Chöying Rangdröl reveals the close relationship between the Dakini lineage in Gelug and in Kagyü. In fact, some Kagyü teachers are also earlier Dakini lineage teachers. Some of the more prominent influences in the Dakini Oral Lineage from Kagyü are reflected in melodies and methods of beating a Chöd drum (damaru).
The Near Lineage is as follows:
•Chöying Rangdröl (Chos dbying rang grol)(Chos nyid rang grol) (1604-1669)*
•Lodrö Rabne (bLo gros rab gnas)
•Machig Köncham (Ma cig dkon lcam)
•Sönam Wangchug (bSod ames dbang phyug)*
•Ngagchang Kumche (sNgags chang sku mched)
•Dorje Gyeltsen (rDo rje rgyal mtshan)
•Sanggye Sangpo (Sangs rgyas bzang po)
•Sanggye Lodrö (Sangs rgyas blo gros)
•Sönam Lhündrub (bSod ames lhun grub)
•Damchö Tsomo (Dam chos mtsho mo)
•Karma Dargye (Karma dar rgyas)
•Lhawang Rigzing (Lha dbang rig dzing)
•Ngagwang Phungtsog (Ngag dbang phung tshogs)*
•Kelsang Tsognyi (sKal bzang tshogs gnyis)
•Kelsang Chöwang (sKal bzang chos dbang)
•Chöden Kelsang (Chos ldan skal bzang)
•Lobsang Rabten (bLo bzang rab brtan)
•Geleg Pelsang, E Lama (dGe legs dpal bzang, E bLa ma) (1385-1428)*
•Lobsang Yeshe, Chözeling Lama Rinpoche Chadrelwa (bLo bzang ye she, Chos zed ling lama rin po che Bya dral ba)
•Gendün Gyeltsen (De dun rgyal mtshan)
•Geleg Rabgye, Lhatsün Rinpoche (dGe legs rab rgyas, Lha btsun rin po che)
•Jigme Gyeltsen (Jig med rgyal mtshan)
•Jampel Namdröl, Khalkha Jetsüun Dampa Rinpoche (Jam dpal rnam grol, Khal kha rJe tsun dam pa Rinpoche) (1932- )
According to Khalkha Rinpoche, the Dakini Oral lineage was once very popular and many practitioners, attracted by its beautiful melodies, appeared in Lhasa. The chanting melodies of The Profound Path of the Peaceful Machig (Zhi ba lam zab) were heard in every corner of Lhasa. Sangri Khangmar (Zangs ri khang dmar or Zangs ri mkhar dmar), on the side of the Brahmaputra River in the southern part of Tibet, is the place where Machig Labdrön spent the last half of her life. There are several temples and monasteries where it is said that the sadhanas of The Profound Path of the Peaceful Machig and The Tröma Nagmo (khros ma nag mo) in the Dakini Oral Lineage were practiced. Near Machig Labdröns birthplace, Lab, in the area called E, there was the monastery of Machigs son, Gyelwa Döndrub, called Tashi Langlhün (lang lhun). In addition to Tibet, it is said that the Chöd teaching of E Lama, the Dakini Oral Lineage, was spread throughout Mongolia. Most of the E Lama disciples who have received the teachings and initiations and have performed retreats according to the Dakini Oral Lineage were Mongolians.
At present the main lineage holder of the Dakini Oral Lineage are the Ninth Jetsun Dampa, Khalkha Rinpoche who has his temple in Dharamsala and currently resides in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Khalkha Rinpoche mentioned one example that illustrates that holding this lineage has not been easy. When this lineage was declining in the early 20th century, Kyabje Lhatsün (Lha btsun) Rinpoche, who was the teacher of Khalkha Rinpoche, went from Tibet all the way to Inner Mongolia to receive the transmission of E Lamas teachings and practices according to the Dakini Oral Lineage. At that time, Chöd practices, including the practice of The Seven-Evening Wilderness Retreat (gNyan khrod zhag bdun), were popular in Inner Mongolia. Lhatsün Rinpoche brought the tradition of the Dakini Oral Lineage from Mongolia back to Tibet after thousands of miles of traveling.
The Dakini Oral Lineage has also had some difficulty in transmission because traditionally these special initiations and teachings were kept very secret (bka kyab ma) and were not easily given to the public. In contrast to the Ganden Oral Lineage, the Dakini Lineage is still unknown to most Buddhists and scholars since no strong institutional connection has been made, as is the case with the Ganden Oral Lineage. As of today 2011, there is seen a revival of the Chod of the Dakini Lineage in Mongolia under the guidance of Khalkha Jetsun Dampa Rinpoche and his lineage holder, Osel Rinpoche.
In 1995 for the first time Khalkha Rinpoche visited the west and gave some students the appropriate initiations, qualifying them to practice the Dakini Oral Lineage and leading them in the Seven-Night retreat. In 2003 Khalkha Rinpoche also gave the initiations and instructions on practicing this lineage to those sincerely seeking to practice Chöd, when they came to his residence in Dharamsala, Takten House. Most of the latter students are Mongolian and Russian. Rinpoche lead the Troma Nagmo retreat called the 108-Spring Wandering retreat twice in Himarchal Pradesh, India, and twice in Mongolia. Currntly Osel Rinpoche from the Sera-me monastery is supervising Mongolian Chod students in Mongolia.
In 2009 Zasep Tulku Rinpoche bestowed the same chöd uncommon initiation to a group of students and led the Seven-night Wildness retreat, the training retreat for the Tröma Nagmo practice.
The Ninth Jetsun Dampa (Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa Khutukhtu) Jampel Namdrol is a Buddhist spiritual leader in Outer Mongolia. The 1st Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa Khutukhtu was the incarnation of Tarantha who was the Dharma king of Jonang sect. When the 8th Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa Khutukhtu was passed away in Mongolia in 1924, the People Revolution Government of Mongolia declared that they were not going to find his incarnation. This diplomatically terminated the incarnation of Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa in Mongolia at that time. The identification of incarnations had been in fact conducting confidently by the 13th Dalai Lama in Tibet. Eventually the 9th Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa was identified in 1936. His existence was kept a secret all the time for safety reason. He left Tibet with H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama in 1959.
H.H. Dalai Lama declared the existence of the 9th Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa in 1991. H.H. Dalai Lama invited Khalkha Rinpoche to build his temple Takten House in Dhalamsala. In 2011 Khalkha Rinpoche was officially enthroned as a spiritual leader of Mongolians by H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama in Mongolia.


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I was in high school once.
I did stupid things. Embarrassing things. Things I knew I shouldn't have done. Not only do I remember these events: I have proof. I've been reading through all of my high school diaries, and they're truly mortifying.
Like many of my peers, I had hormones racing through my body, which often led to feelings of confusion and, occasionally, actions that seemed almost beyond my control.
As a teenager, I believed I was invincible. Didn't you?
Unfortunately, last week, an Evanston Township High School student allegedly believed himself invisible while engaging in a sexual encounter in a stairwell during school hours, only to be caught by an ETHS security employee.
When news first broke about the incident, it sounded like a 14-year-old boy had forced a 15-year-old girl into a sexual act against her will. As a soon-to-be high school parent, my gut reaction was, "If the school's so big that a girl can get yanked into a dark corner and forced against her will into a situation like that, well…" It was the stuff of parental nightmares. I gather that enough parents and community members felt the same way, since ETHS quickly issued a public statement about the incident not having been a random act.
The wording was so vague: Not a random act. What exactly does that mean? Does it mean the boy picked someone intentionally – perhaps someone he knew – and forced her into an unwanted sexual situation? Does it suggest they knew each other and it was consentual?
I've heard it suggested that when the students were caught in that compromising position, the girl blamed the boy, merely claiming she was "forced," perhaps out of shame or embarrassment at being discovered.
Last week I asked a few people what they thought about the situation. One woman said she didn't understand why some people were blaming the security team for this; as she pointed out, "They were caught in the act by a security guard, weren't they?" A little late into the process, perhaps, but caught nonetheless.
I wondered aloud if anyone thought this sort of incident might have happened before. One woman (who pointed out she'd attended an all-girls' Catholic high school), said, "Of course it has!" The first woman then added, "When you send your kids there, just tell them not to touch the handrails..."
The fact is, Evanston Township High School is the country's largest high school. At 65 acres, there's literally no way every single corner of property can be monitored at every single moment. While kids will be kids, and they'll often take risks, some risks will be more stupid and dangerous than others. It's a high school, and these are kids.
That said, when something like this happens, we want to know why. If this was some angry boy out to do what he pleased, regardless of the consequences, who or what is to "blame"? His parents? His educational system? His decision-making skills? Why on earth would a 14-year-old do something like this to anyone, let alone in a public place during school hours?
Does something like this make ETHS a "bad school"? Is nearby Stevenson High School a "bad school" because one of its administrators was recently caught texting inappropriate messages to a student? Is one situation worse than the other?
I've been inside Evanston Township High School recently to drop off forms for my incoming freshman, and I had to stop in the Security Office before going anywhere else. From what I observed, there's a system in place that tracks students' whereabouts non-stop. Kids are not permitted out of their classrooms without specific permission and an intended destination. And so, how did this incident happen in the first place?
I don't know the kids involved in the ETHS incident, but I wonder how they're doing. The boy was allegedly arrested and the girl is presumed to be a victim. I cannot imagine what either one is going through. I also wonder if and how the school can assure a community that something like this – no matter what transpired, be it assault, misconduct, etc. – will never happen again.
As mentioned, I was a high schooler once, but my indiscretions were never the subject of columns in the local online news sources and beyond … thank goodness. No matter how much old dirt I dig up in my childhood diaries, the incident at ETHS, no matter what happened, strikes me as truly mortifiying.


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DropBox DropBox
I have two DropBox accounts: one I use for my personal files and another for a small business. I recently found a need to have access to both accounts at all times. Seeing that I had already configured my MacBook with my personal DropBox account, I used the web browser to access the business account.
Very quickly, this became tedious. I wanted a way to access both from my desktop and have the files sync depending on where I dropped the files.
Here is how I did it:
1. Launch Terminal
2. Type "bash" to run Bash (if you aren't already using Bash).
3. Type "bash HOME=$HOME/.dropbox-alt /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox &"
4. The previous step will spit out a number at you. Type "disown" and then the number you get from step 3.
5. Set up your "other" DropBox account.
Nifty trick! Now you can have two cloudsinstead of just one!


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Scrabble word: INKSTAND
In which Scrabble dictionary does INKSTAND exist?
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Definitions of INKSTAND in dictionaries:
- noun - a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped
- noun - a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink
- A tray or rack for pens and bottles of ink.
- See inkwell.
- noun - a small container for ink
There are 8 letters in INKSTAND: A D I K N N S T
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Bayern Munich have already secured a place in the Champions League Round of 16, but a win over third-place CSKA Moscow would clinch the top spot for Pep Guardiola's side.
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Despite having to travel to Moscow and deal with all the usual weather and pitch condition issues of Moscow in late November, there's little reason to believe that Bayern won't be able to get the three points they need. CSKA Moscow have only managed one win so far in the group stages, and they are tied with fellow group bottom dweller Viktoria Plzen for the most goals allowed in the tournament with 12.
Bayern will have to deal with a few injury issues though including the loss of Mario Mandžukić to a calf injury, but there depth should be sufficient to see them through with Thomas Müller likely to start up front.
CSKA Moscow injuries and suspensions
Out: Alan Dzagoev (hamstring), Aleksandrs Cauna (toe). In Doubt: Seydou Doumbia (knock).
Bayern Munich injuries and suspensions
Out: Franck Ribéry (fractured rib), Bastian Schweinsteiger (ankle), Xherdan Shaqiri (hamstring) Claudio Pizarro (thigh), Mario Mandžukić (calf).
Mario Mandžukić is the latest Bayern injury casualty as the striker continues to struggle with a calf injury. CSKA Moscow hope to have striker Seydou Doumbia available but head coach Leonid Slutski was noncommittal about his status in his press conference.
Projected lineups
CSKA Moscow: Igor Akinfeev, Mário Fernandes, Vasil Berezutski, Sergei Ignashevich, Georgi Schennikov, Pontus Wernbloom, Zoran Tošić, Keisuke Honda, Georgi Milanov, Seydou Doumbia.
Bayern Munich: Manuel Neuer, Rafinha, Jérome Boateng, Dante, David Alaba, Javi Martínez, Mario Götze, Philipp Lahm, Toni Kroos, Arjen Robben, Thomas Müller.
Match Date/Time: 9 p.m. local, 12:00 p.m. ET
Venue: Arena Khimki, Moscow, Russia
TV: Fox Deportes (U.S.), Sky Sports 4 (U.K.), Sportsnet (Canada)
Online: Fox Soccer 2Go (U.S.), Sky Go (U.K.), Sportsnet World Online (Canada)


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Regional ski resorts got the bullwheels rolling last week and got skiers and riders lapping up groomers.This weekend take a break from the groomed and try advanced, ungroomed terrain at our neighboring Silverton Mountain ski area. Opening day is Saturday and is followed by Silverton Mountain and Venture Snowboard's famous kickoff party at the Grand Imperial in Silverton. They're hosting live music, door prizes and a raffle for Venture's limited edition Ska Brewing Euphoria board.
Silverton Mountain plans to open 30 of its advanced runs with a 30-40 inch base already in place. Word is the north shots are skiing really well.


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Greenville police said they have signed arrest warrants for the woman accused of shoplifting from Dillard's then hitting an employee with her car who tried to stop her from getting away.
Police said 32-year-old Rosa Aguilera, of Gaffney, is wanted on attempted murder and armed robbery charges in connection with Sunday's shoplifting incident.
According to her arrest warrants, a Dillard's employee saw Aguilera put the clothes in a Belk's bag then leave without paying. The employee ran after her into the parking garage and when he spotted Aguilera, he waved at her to stop but she accelerated towards him, hitting the employee in the leg with her car, the warrants stated.
Police said the victim was thrown onto the hood of the car and Aguilera was able to get away.
Because of the circumstances, Johnathan Bragg with the Greenville Police Department said the shoplifting charge was upgraded to armed robbery.
Aguilera is believed to be driving a black 2000 Volkswagen Beetle with tag JAQ888, Bragg said.
Anyone with information about Aguilera's whereabouts is asked to call Greenville police or Crime Stoppers at 864-23-CRIME.
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Actress Jennifer Aniston revealed on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that she had a chance meeting with celebrity blogger Perez Hilton and helped convinced him to tone down his "mean" content.
Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, is a celebrity blogger who was known for his particularly harsh brand of writing, including developing nicknames for actors like Jennifer Aniston, whom he used to refer to as "Maniston." Aniston sued Hilton in 2007 over scans from a French magazine that showed the actress topless from a censored scene of "The Break-Up."
"I ran into Perez Hilton in a garage. One of those moments you just never expect to happen," Aniston told DeGeneres during her February 3 appearance. "I had finished dinner with a girlfriend and we were driving out and I saw this tall, long, lean person and I say, 'Who is that?' And she says, 'I think that's Perez Hilton.' I said, 'No. I have to say something to him. I have to.'"
"So I pulled up and we were sort of scoping each other out as I was pulling the car up. I just rolled down the window and I was like, 'Hi.' And he went, 'Hi.' We stood there like two deer in headlights. And I just said, 'Come here. Just talk to me for a second,' the actress added.
Aniston continued, "It was one of those great moments. It was a lovely meeting and I was just like, 'Why are you so mean?' There's something really great about putting a human being in front of another human being and then the reality that those words, even if it's for humor or effect or whatever, there's a human being behind all of that. ... And he's kept it up too, which is good. ... I say good for him and keep it up."
Hilton confirmed the meeting to the Los Angeles Times saying, "I had not talked about meeting Jennifer Aniston out of respect for her and respect for the situation. It was actually a very powerful moment, I think for both of us."
Aniston, who was on the talk show to promote her upcoming film "Just Go With It" co-starring Adam Sandler, was egged on by DeGeneres to try on a "vibrating bra" she got from Japan. Check out Aniston's appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" below.


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Coming soon: episode of 21Days with Adriano De Souza and Nat Young. Are you ready for the next chapter? It's really starting to get warm in here.
Last episode, we saw Adriano head home to brazil for a brief window after winning the Rip Curl Pro, Bells Beach, for some training and precious family time. Nat, on the other hand, after placing runner up to Adriano at Bells (in what was only his second world tour event as a rookie competitor), headed for his home in Santa Cruz, California.
Now, as the clock hand moves a little closer to the Billabong Pro, Rio, both men continue their own styles of preparation. For Adriano, this means a solid stint in Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, practicing as much as he can before returning to his home country. For Nat, it means taking in all the hometown support he can, and surfing as much as he can. Soon, both men will fly to Rio De Janeiro for stop number three on the ASP World Tour.
Then comes the exciting part.


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Supervisor Mike Wasserman, a Los Gatos resident and former mayor and council member, cast the dissenting vote.
The board needs to give secondary approval to the measure at a meeting on Aug. 7 before it could go on the ballot, according to Supervisor Ken Yeager's office.
If county supes have their way, local residents will see the sales tax go up once again from 8.37 percent to 8.5 percent.
"We, at the County, particularly the employees, have cut and sacrificed much creating a much leaner operation now," said Supervisor Dave Cortese who's supporting the measure.
Cortese said the 1/8-cent sales tax will allow the county to be more sustainable in the next 10 years. The revenue is needed to give Santa Clara Valley Medical Center about $50 million to operate annually. "We never want to be in a position to have to shut down an emergency room or deny people care," Cortese said. "An eighth cent is reasonable to ask people to make that contribution over 10 years ... given what we've done to rein in spending."
The funds generated by the tax increase would be used for a variety of countywide services, including public safety, health programs for low-income children, housing for the homeless, and programs aimed at helping students stay in school.
Since being elected in 2008 to the Board of Supervisors, Cortese said the body has made three quarters of a million in reductions, with county employees giving $75 million in recurring wage concessions. "We've asked everyone to do everything they can internally and now it's just a matter of the last piece of the puzzle to ask taxpayers to invest an eighth cent and put our programs on real firm footing for the next 10 years."
If the tax increase is allowed by voters, revenues collected would total an estimated $500 million over 10 years, according to a press release issued by the county. The tax would go into effect April 1, 2013, and sunset in 10 years.
Wednesday's vote took place at a 4 p.m. special meeting in the Board of Supervisors chambers at 70 W. Hedding St. in San Jose.
—Bay City News Service contributed to this report


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The right church wedding decoration will transform the interior of the church into an enchanting setting for your wedding ceremony. Here, two large arrangements abound with Casablanca lilies, agapanthus, snapdragons, dendrobium orchids, and accordion leaves. The decorations stand to each side of the altar, with the happy couple united in between.
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Frater, Foresythe beaten by Ryan Bailey in Zagreb
KINGSTON, Jamaica — WORLD sprint relay record-holder Michael Frater was well-beaten by American Ryan Bailey in today's World Challenge meet in Zagreb.
Frater tied with American Darvis Patton for fourth in 10.31 while the Bailey took the event in 10.02. Bailey finished ahead of former World champion Kim Collins (10.14) of St Kitts and Nevis while another Jamaican, Mario Forsythe, took third.
Aileen Bailey, who earlier took third in the 100m, returned to claim second in the women's 200m. The event went to Olympic champion and world leader Allyson Felix who ran 22.35, a new meet record.
Third went to Felix's countrywoman Charonda Williams (22.96).