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What's more surprising than the news Camilo could return to the Whitecaps this summer?
How about the apparent capacity of Caps fans to forgive, or at least forget?
That stomach-churning shot of Camilo wearing a Queretaro FC shirt in January, defying his contract? Water under the bridge for many — as long as the Brazilian forward were to come back contrite and with his scoring boots on, and perhaps with a new agent.
In a Province online poll, more than 65 per cent of Caps fans said they'd welcome Camilo back.
The responses seemed even more positive on Twitter, home to so much vitriol in January when Camilo and his agent forced a transfer to the Mexican club.
Imagine what fans would think after a goal or two.
Now, before anyone gets carried away, this is far from a done deal. More like 50/50, according to Province sources. But there's no question that Camilo is among the targets as Caps coach Carl Robinson goes looking for a proven goal scorer in the transfer window, which opens July 9.
Peter Schaad, the Caps play-by-play voice for TEAM Radio who also does work for TSN, broke the news on TSN.ca Thursday night, writing that Camilo "desperately wants to come back and the Whitecaps would love to have his Golden Boot-winning abilities."
If Camilo was concerned about the reception he'd receive in Vancouver after playing the villain, he'll surely have gained some perspective since Friday.
And Caps' management might have also learned something about the mood of their fan base, although this would still have to be carefully planned and executed, with everyone striking the perfect tone.
The fact the club remains open to Camilo's return shouldn't be such a shock, despite the bitterness over his departure.
Since February, Caps president Bobby Lenarduzzi has offered some version of "never say never" when asked about Camilo, and there's likely a simple business explanation there.
Sure, the Caps claimed a "multi-million-dollar" transfer fee in mid-January for the league's leading scorer, but who really knows what portion of the fee was paid before things went haywire at Queretaro?
In late February, it emerged that Queretaro wasn't paying its players, then the Mexican government seized control of the club as part of a fraud investigation into its owner.
The club's now nearing the end of an extended deadline to find a buyer. It could be kicked out of Mexico's top flight, Liga MX.
That's what Camilo left Vancouver for, and he's since become a father for the first time with wife Jessica.
If Camilo wants to move again and the Caps weren't properly compensated, of course they'll want him back. And even if the Caps did receive part of the payment, or all of it, how galling would it be to see Camilo in other MLS team's shirt, scoring goals against them?
No doubt some fans have pondered that scenario, which, by the way, would be a nightmare for the league, given how soft they were on defending the option clause in Camilo's contract.
By MLS rules, if the Caps received and spent part of the transfer fee then they'll have lost Camilo's MLS rights and the player would have to go through allocation to return to MLS.
In a fun twist, Toronto holds the top allocation ranking.
But as MLS proves year after year, there's all sorts of exceptions to the rules — some, seemingly, made up on the spot — and it's impossible to imagine the league not backing Vancouver if there's a potential deal for Camilo out there.
He has three goals in eight league games for Queretaro.
Salary-wise, you'd have to imagine Camilo would want double or triple the $247,500 he was on the books for during his 22-goal season that ended with a stunning hat trick at B.C. Place to win the Golden Boot.
The Caps have the flexibility. Kenny Miller's departure frees up cap room, a designated player spot, and an international roster spot. It also removes an awkward salary comparison that was among the sore spots during Camilo's time here. Miller was making over $1 million per season.
Pedro Morales, the Caps' Chilean designated player, earns $1.4 million, a club record, but here's betting Camilo won't mind that. If anything, it's a big selling point.
Imagine that combination? Morales's ideas, vision, and passing mixed with Camilo's ruthlessness around goal?
"We've got a lot of players who can score goals, but have we got a goal scorer?" Robinson said recently when asked about replacing Miller.
It was a point hammered home in the past week — a 1-0 win in Columbus that should have been far simpler, and a penalty kicks loss to Toronto in the Canadian final despite 25 shots.
So the Caps need a finisher, and Camilo knows the league and the club and would presumably settle quickly. But some obvious concerns remain.
Things are going well. The Caps are 4-2-4 and have a nice chemistry. The club has new stars to market, like Morales.
Darren Mattocks, before the hamstring pull, was starting to establish himself up front, and the kids are coming on.
Do you risk ruining a good thing?
And the portion of the fan base who don't want Camilo back really don't want Camilo back.
On moral grounds, you'd alienate some loyal followers.
Players want to win, so fans shouldn't underestimate the locker-room's capacity for forgiveness.
And if anyone can put this crazy puzzle back together, it's Robinson, who could surely find less stressful ways to bolster his squad but had a great relationship with Camilo the last two seasons and seems to have a knack for handling tricky situations with a deft touch.
The involvement of Camilo's apparent army of agents is bound to be the biggest issue here.
Camilo ostensibly held out to get a raise after his first season. And given how his last two negotiations went down in Vancouver, it's impossible to see the Caps wanting to do business the same way a third time.
March 17, 2011
Signs with the Whitecaps to little fanfare after stints in Malta, South Korea and Brazil, and an uneventful pre-season under Teitur Thordarson.
April 2, 2011
Begins to build a cult following with two stoppage-time goals in a 3-3 comeback tie against Kansas City at Empire Field. Vancouver band Said the Whale writes a song about him (OK, not quite true).
Oct. 22, 2011
Finishes his first MLS season with a team-high 12 goals in 32 games and amid rumours that teams in the Middle East and Japan are after him.
Dec. 9, 2011
The following appears on Camilo's Twitter feed: "I'm sad because I do not feel valued for what I did last season."
Jan. 26, 2012
Returns to training camp three days late, apparently for family reasons, and with a new contract imminent. Club renegotiates his $133,545 deal to $237,500. President Bobby Lenarduzzi says: "There was nothing to be resolved. We wanted to reward him."
Oct. 3, 2012
Scores his fifth and final goal of an up-and-down second season at home to Chivas USA. Added seven assists in 28 games under Martin Rennie but made just 19 starts, 10 fewer than in 2011.
May 18, 2013
Starts the season with two goals in nine games on left wing. Plays centre forward at home to Portland and scores and sets up a goal in a 2-2 tie. Up front, he scores 11 goals in next 10 games.
July 13, 2013
An MLS all-star for the first time, Camilo talks about one day playing for the Canadian national team.
Oct. 27, 2013
Wins the MLS Golden Boot on the final day of the season, netting a hat trick in a 3-0 home win over Colorado. His 22 goals are one more than Chicago's Mike Magee.
Nov. 28, 2013
Caps pick up 11 contract options, including Camilo's.
Dec. 5, 2013
Camilo's scissor-kick strike against Portland from October is crowned the MLS goal of the year.
Dec. 6, 2013
Reports in Norway claim that Rosenborg has made a near-$2-million bid for Camilo.
Dec. 16, 2013
After a six-week search, Caps hire former assistant coach Carl Robinson to replace Martin Rennie.
Jan. 2, 2014
Mexican reports say Camilo will sign with Queretaro FC and that Camilo's agent has insisted the player is "free." The Caps talk about FIFA's "bulletproof" transfer rules and reiterate that Camilo's under contract.
Jan. 6, 2014
A smiling Camilo, giving the thumbs up, is pictured in Mexico, in Queretaro FC colours. Caps fans reach for the vomit bags. Caps' brass (presumably) smash stuff in the office. Media search for Queretaro on Google Maps and Wikipedia.
Jan. 17, 2014
After the requisite bluster, and a last-ditch visit from Robinson, the Caps transfer Camilo to Queretaro and announce a "record multi-million dollar transfer fee." Commentators for ESPN, the league's TV rights holders, claim $2.2 million as the figure.
Feb. 28, 2014
Filed under "Karma's a B," reports out of Mexico reveal that Queretaro players aren't getting paid. The Mexican government seizes control of the Liga MX club as part of a fraud investigation into its owner, Amado Yáñez.
March 3, 2014
An MLS official tells the Province that Camilo would have to go through the allocation ranking if he ever returns to the league. For an MLS team to lose a player's rights following a transfer, some or all of the fee has to have been received and spent. Even if allocation comes into play, Vancouver could trade up from their fifth spot.
May 4, 2014
The Caps mutually terminate forward Kenny Miller's deal, freeing up cap room, an international spot and a designated player spot. Asked about adding a forward, Robinson says: "We've got a lot of players who can score goals, but have we got a goal scorer?"
May 14, 2014
For the second straight game, the Whitecaps win (PK loss notwithstanding) but fail to capitalize on 176 scoring chances (slight exaggeration).
May 15, 2014
On his TSN.ca blog, Peter Schaad, the Caps' play-by-play man for TEAM Radio, writes that Camilo "desperately wants to come back and the Whitecaps would love to have his Golden Boot-winning abilities." He cites two "ironclad sources."


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Volume 9 ••• Winter 2011
Amalgamated Bank Reviews the Basics about Consumer Borrowing
Knowing the basics of borrowing money from a bank is an important step for hardworking men and women who are looking to finance major purchases like a home or a new car, college tuition, or to refinance existing higher cost debt.
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Amalgamated provides a full range of personal and installment loans as well as lines of credit, and the Bank also just announced a home equity line of credit with a six-month introductory rate of 2.75 percent.
"Typically, individuals and families use the funds to pay for large purchases over time or to handle such emergency expenses as a costly car repair or necessary home improvement," said Ms. Piccard. "Consolidation of higher interest debt is also a smart money management strategy, especially with interest rates at historically low levels."
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Amalgamated's goal is to ensure that prospective applicants are well grounded in the responsible use of credit. Ms. Piccard stated that using the "Four Cs of Credit," as a guideline gives the Bank a better view of a person's credit worthiness.
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Seventy-two years ago this Sunday, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, on April 26th, 1937, the Basque town of Guernica was carpet bombed by Fascist Italian and Nazi German forces. Three-quarters of
Mari Carmen Egurrola Totorica, Survivor of Guernica bombing in 1937. She's lived in
Patty Miller, Executive Director of the
JUAN GONZALEZ: Seventy-two years ago this Sunday, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, on April 26th, 1937, the Basque town of Guernica was carpet bombed by Fascist Italian and Nazi German forces. Three-quarters of
Franco, who ruled
AMY GOODMAN: Well,
I'm joined now by two guests. Mari Carmen Egurrola Totorica is seventy-seven years old. She was a member—she is a member of the Basque community here and a survivor of the
We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Mari Carmen—
MARI CARMEN EGURROLA TOTORICA: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: What happened in 1937? You were how old at the time?
MARI CARMEN EGURROLA TOTORICA: Five years old.
AMY GOODMAN: What do you remember?
MARI CARMEN EGURROLA TOTORICA: I remember being—earlier in the afternoon, I hear the bell rings. I mean, the church bell rings. And I say to my mother, "What's going on? This is not a holiday, you know?" But, "No, no, it's OK. It's OK." And the next thing I know, it was herself telling me, "Let's go, let's go, let's go. We have to get out of the house."
And so, my mother and my eleven-month-old brother, we just run from the house, and we just went through—there is a church,
And then the planes start coming. And they were, you know, just really close to us, very close to us. And I was kind of scared. Then they started throwing things, and I realized they were—the most scary thing that, I mean, I never forgot this one thing, that I saw people coming towards where we were, like a group of people, and they throw some bombs, and there was a big explosion. You know, I mean, dust and—I say to my mother, "What happened? What happened?" She said, "Don't worry. Don't worry." But, of course, people die right there. And then, the next three hours, we know that I have to be sit and not moving, because they were throwing bombs, you know, really close to us. And that's the way we were for three hours.
Then after that, we can't go back to Guernica, because—we can't go because it was on fire. So we went from there to a little farmhouse. I mean, the closest one, it was like about a mile, this farmhouse, that my mother know the lady because she was delivering us milk every day from that place to my home town. But in the meantime, between time, I mean, when we were going there, walking, there was one body on the floor, another body. And I said, "What's the matter with them? What happened?" And she said, "Don't—don't think about it. Just let's go. Ignore it." You know what I mean? But I was five years old, and I see like that. It was dead people.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to talk about the significance then of Pablo Picasso's capturing of the horror in Guernica with his famous painting by that title, Guernica. When you saw it, how did you feel?
MARI CARMEN EGURROLA TOTORICA: I don't know. Kind of scared, confused. I said, "Oh, I don't know, what is this?" You know, I mean, I couldn't understand from the picture. Now I know a little bit, but not quite.
AMY GOODMAN: Patty Miller, you're the head of the museum here. The significance of Guernica, what happened and the painting? Because I remember back in 2003, in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, the incredible moment—you know, there is a replica of the painting in the United Nations, and the US had the painting draped, because that is the backdrop to the US politicians speaking out on the war. And, well, they saw the power of it. They actually had it draped, because it's the image of the horror on not only people's faces, on animals' faces. Maybe a lot more truth was said there than what was being uttered into the microphone.
PATTY MILLER: That's possible. I mean, you know, to bomb a civilian population, and it was on a market day. And so, Picasso tried to capture just the chaos in that town. You know, it was just everyday market. People were down from the hills. And I think that he did capture the horror of war.
JUAN GONZALEZ: I'd like to ask Mari Carmen Egurrola, your reaction over the years, as you were growing up, to the Franco government denying that this event had even taken place?
MARI CARMEN EGURROLA TOTORICA: Do you mean—I supposed to tell you how I feel?
JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes. Well, how you felt when you—you obviously must have heard that he was denying that it had even taken place.
MARI CARMEN EGURROLA TOTORICA: Yeah. Well, it was very hard, very hard, you know. It's not that I enjoy now saying these things, but I think everybody should know when something like that happened. And what people had to go through is very hard.
You know, for one day that I was very happy five year old, you know. Then everything changed. My life. We lose every single thing we had in the house. We had a little store and everything. And then we became—you know, just no house, no place to go. We can't even go to Guernica. We went to Bilbao to a concentration—I mean, not concentration camp, but, you know, like a place that refugees go, refugees camp, yeah, and we stayed there for a week or so, and then, from there, still can't go to Guernica. And we then—you know, we went to another place. And we've been living for about three years out of Guernica.
It was maybe, yeah, mostly because there were—most of the houses destroyed, but not quite. It was also political things, too. It was an apartment, and my father asked this guy, "Can we use your apartment?" I mean, "Can we rent it?" And he says, "No, you are not Franco's friend." "How do you know I'm not Franco's friend?" Whatever, he didn't rent it. So he had to live in another little town, which my father coming back to Guernica. He was a mailman, so he had to go back and forth by the bus. And my mother, even to buy groceries, had to go for about three miles whatever she wants to go—I mean, buy.
AMY GOODMAN: Mari Carmen, I wanted to ask you—
MARI CARMEN EGURROLA TOTORICA: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: —about this excerpt from a film about the Spanish Civil War. It's called Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War. It's directed by Julia Newman. In this clip, Virginia Cowles, a correspondent for the New York Times, who was shown around Guernica soon after the bombing, describes what had happened to the place. Her words are read by an actor.
VIRGINIA COWLES: [read by an actor] When I arrived, a press officer asked if I had been subjected to the Guernica propaganda, declaring that everyone knew that Guernica was not bombed by the whites, but burned by the reds.
Guernica was a lonely chaos of timber and brick. One old man was inside an apartment house that had four sides to it, but an interior that was only a sea of bricks. I asked him if he had been in Guernica during the destruction. He nodded his head and declared that the sky had been black with planes. "Aviones," he said, "italianos y alemanes." The press officer turned pale. "Guernica was burned," he contradicted. The old man stuck to his point, insisting that after a four-hour bombardment, there was little left to burn. The press officer moved me away. "He's a red," he said.
When later in the day we ran into two staff officers, he brought the subject up. "Guernica is full of reds," he said. "They all try to tell us it was bombed, not burned." "Of course, it was bombed," said one of the officers. "We bombed it and bombed it and bombed it. And bueno, why not?" The press officer never mentioned Guernica again.
AMY GOODMAN: Your response to this, Mari Carmen?
MARI CARMEN EGURROLA TOTORICA: It was bombed. I did see bombing. It was from where the little hill that we were, and it was across—it was another hill. And that's where they were stationed. And from there, they were throwing things, I saw, just going, going, because the town, it was right, you know, like a half mile from where we were. It was the whole town. And it was in a little bit deeper, lower. You know, we were higher, so it was lower.
And I was remembering all these fires and everything. My mother recognized—she told me, "Well, the house is burning." Of course, you know, I mean, I didn't think too much, because I was five years old and didn't know what this is. But it was bombing. And we—I mean, how's that be burned without throwing bombs or anything like that?
Of course, there were a lot of planes going off, you know, a lot of them. Some of them really, really low, too. That's why we were not even moving. I don't think we were even talking to the next little tree. In the bottom of the little tree, there were more people on the other side in all the—but my mother was not even talking to them, because we—looks like we thought they might hear from up above. You know, so we were really, really scared and shaking.
JUAN GONZALEZ: I would like to ask Patty Miller—you're the executive director of the Basque Museum and Cultural Center in Boise. How did so many Basque end up in Idaho? And how do—do they continue to follow the continuing problems of the autonomy movement in Spain by the Basque people?
PATTY MILLER: Yeah. Most Basque came this way for economic reasons. The family home would go to one child, and for that reason, many of them would leave and go to South America, North America, Australia, looking for work. And a job opportunity that was here in the American West was herding sheep. And so, they started coming out as usually individual men. Some were married when they came, left their families to come and work. Others found jobs as young men out here. And then, as they were able to, some went back and were married or brought their wives. And a boarding house system was established, and that brought a lot of women over to this area as well.
There is a lot of contact between the two areas, here in Idaho and the Basque region, contact with the Basque government. Many people stay very—are in, you know, great connection with politics and issues. Most of the groups that were formed in the West, though, were formed for cultural purposes. And so, that's the primary focus of our groups here, but there is still a connection. And I would say that most people that I'm in touch with, they don't advocate terrorism as a means of gaining self-determination or independence. Rather, they advocate, you know, a democratic form of government and having the right to choose their own direction.
JUAN GONZALEZ: And your sense of why, for instance, within Spain the conflicts have continued for so long between the Basque people and the Spanish government?
PATTY MILLER: Well, it's because, although the oppression isn't as great now as it was during the Franco time period, there are still some issues that—even in Spanish law, it says that prisoners are supposed to be allowed to be in prisons near their families. And that's one law that is not even being followed and one thing that the Basque have asked for.
There is, you know, a radical political group, the ETA, that I would say that most Basque in the Basque country do not condone, but that faction is there. And although they've signed truces over the years, then, you know, there's a bombing, and there have been bombings even this year, so that faction keeps things going and makes it difficult for agreements between the autonomous Basque government and for the Spanish government to even listen to them or recognize them because of that.
AMY GOODMAN: Finally, Patty Miller, I was just talking to Bethine Church as she was leaving. When she heard the Basques will be on, she said, "My husband always was there for the Basques and speaking out staunchly against the fascist Franco," the Idaho senator, Frank Church. But the latest elections—we just have about ten seconds—but the latest elections, March 1st, and the significance of this coalition of socialists and conservatives in power in Basque country?
PATTY MILLER: I was just at a meeting last Saturday in Salt Lake City, and the Minister of Culture was there, and she's been told that she doesn't have a job in two more weeks. And there is a great concern as to what is going to happen with this next political party. The Partido Nacional Basco, that has been in power since the autonomous Basque government was formed, was very pro-Basque and helping the Basque outside of the Basque country, both with cultural activities and also, like in South America, keeping their buildings open. So we don't know what's going to happen with this party.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you both for being with us, Patty Miller, executive director of the Basque Museum and Cultural Center here in Boise, Idaho, and Mari Carmen Egurrola Totorica, survivor of the Guernica bombing by the fascist dictator Franco.


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Herb Garden Kits a Fast, Easy, and Foolproof Way to Jump into Herb Gardening
Almost everyone has experienced walking through a gardening area and seeing the herb garden kits. Being an avid herb gardener I am always drawn to them. Most gardeners both new and experienced take a peek as its always fun to see if they may have something new in them.
Herb garden kits, whether ready made found at store or ones you put together, make great gifts throughout the year! You can still make your own kit to use or give even if you've never used one. Take a look at what the ready-made kits contain and use it as a starting point. Let's discuss the ready-made kits first.
Herb garden kits take the guesswork out of growing herbs for the gardener that hasn't grown herbs before. When, making the decision to try growing herbs several questions come to mind just like writing a story, what, where, when, and how. Using an herb garden kit answers these questions:
- Which herbs can be started with seeds?
- What kind of soil should be used?
- What are the watering requirements?
- Where should I start them?
- When can I start them?
- How warm does it need to be?
The herb gardening kits answer all of these questions plus they have the ease of convenience.
The dilemma that pops up is which kit to use as there are so many different selections. This will be a matter of personal preference depending upon your requirements or use. There is a vast selection of herb garden kits and they can be categorized into the following:
- Culinary herbs
- German herbs
- Herbal tea herbs
- International herbs
- Italian herbs
- Medicinal herbs
- Salsa herbs
- Different catnip herbs
- Many, many more
The herb kits will contain different herbs otherwise they basically all contain similar items:
- Herb seeds
- Planter with Plastic cover or dome, which provides a consistent temperature and humidity for the herb plants to thrive and grow a healthy root system.
- Peat pellets or pots with soil to plant the seeds in. Some may have the seeds already planted in them.
- An easy to follow guide with the steps to ensure success with your herbs.
- Recipes or directions on how to harvest and use your herbs.
- Newsletters to sign up for that contain other useful information, suggestions, and tips.
There are many benefits for growing herbs indoors using an indoor garden kit. The biggest benefit is that it doesn't get any easier than growing herbs in a kit and your herbs are right there when you want to use them. Another plus is that they are nice and clean, no insect or slug bites, droppings, or soil washs on them like when they are outside. You are able to visually keep an eye on them without running out to the garden, which enables you to harvest and freeze or dry them at the optimum time. This also means the growing conditions remain stable and you don't have to worry about winterizing your herb plants. As a rule herb garden kits are usually small and compact which makes them perfect for small spaces or apartments. These kits make growing herbs almost fail-safe; follow the directions and your success with growing these herbs in almost guaranteed.
Ok, you've decided you can't find just the right herb gardening kit and want to make your own, no problem. You can use a variety of different containers to start with like the plastic containers found in the produce section of the grocery store that are deep and have a lid on them, or use a Styrofoam container or bowl with a large plastic cover over them such as a plastic dome found at the grocery store. Do put a few holes in the bottom or a few pebbles for drainage.
If giving as a gift, make a kit with peat pellets, herb seeds, container to hold the peat pellets, and you may want to include a set of mini gardening tools made for indoor gardening, as well as recipes.
As a beginner who wants to grow herbs, using an herb garden kit is a great way to start and learn. Being a successful herb gardener has a learning curve and does take some work, however using herb gardening kits gives you what you need to grow your herbs, greatly reducing the learning curve, and putting you on the path to becoming an herb gardening expert!
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If you're one of the Star Wars fans who cried out in pain when Disney axed "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" after their acquisition of the property from the clutches of George Lucas, here's some good news for ya. The studio is planning a new Star Wars animated series set for 2014 called "Star Wars Rebels".
Set in the two decades between "Episode III" and "Episode IV," the series will follow the adventures of the Rebel Alliance as they attempt to evade the growing might of the Empire.
Simon Kinberg, who is working on the new trilogy of Star Wars films for director J.J. Abrams and Disney, will executive produce the new show. "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" vets Greg Weisman and Dave Filoni will also be producing.
Lucasfilm Animation, who did "The Clone Wars" will also be doing the honors on "Rebels". One of the show's potential plotlines involve Ahsoka, Anakin Skywalker's Jedi apprentice from "The Clone Wars".
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its has come to my attention that BSU has many trophies in the Hall of Fame. The coveted Fiesta Trophies, The Weber State wooden trophy, the College of Idaho victory bell, The governors Trophy from the vandal bronco game (thats collecting dust because it has not been moved in years) and the Fresno State Milk Can, But as I walked around I noticed one thing. There is no Reno/BSU trophy that's passed around year after year. I think Reno has proven to give us the best game.
Since there is no trophy I thought we could have fun with this one. Suggestions include simply, funny, and bizzare ones.
Normal trophy:
Or how about a golden Field Goal post (too soon?).
I am trying to think of how rivalries start trophies maybe it has to do with an element from both parties like a golden slot machine with potatoes?
What ever the case Nuggies it can't be worse then this trophy right?
Or this trophy............its just crap (literally)
I really do think we should have a trophy passed around. If you dont agree with Nevada being the school to do it who should we have a new Trophy with? Houston? SMU? the bear cats? Lewisville?
Maybe we can have a golden SMU trophy of CJ's expression
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A woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Harrison County early Saturday morning.
Harrison County 911 said it happened on Gregory Run Road, near Isaac's Creek, around 3:20 a.m.
The Harrison County Sheriff's Department said Joann Langford, 76, Lumberport lost control of her vehicle and crashed in to a tree.
Gregory Run Road was shut down, but has since re-opened, according to 911 officials.
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Hamilton football a model of consistency in D-I
Head coach Steve Belles learned that the moment he stepped on campus.
"When I had an interview with (principal) Fred (DePrez) one-one-one," Belles said this week, "he goes 'I don't care if you lose in the regular season, just win your last game.' And I was like, 'All right, that's kind of a tall task.'"
Belles has lost his last game only twice in the six years since he took over in 2006, including last year when Hamilton got upset 45-19 by Desert Vista in the 2011 AIA Division I State Football Championship at University of Phoenix Stadium.
The defeat ended Hamilton's 53-game winning streak which had resulted in three straight state championships (2008-'10).
A year later, the Huskies find themselves back in the state finals for the 10th time in 12 years.
"Consistency in terms of coaches, administration; and not just talking about putting into (the program), they actually do it," Belles, who has coached Hamilton to four of its six state titles, said in explaining the school's success in football.
"I don't think we're ever content with where we are."
Saturday, Hamilton (11-2) will play Mountain Pointe (12-1) at University of Phoenix Stadium. The game kicks off at noon and will be broadcast on Arizona Sports 620.
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Portsmouth bridge battle could cost entire state
As Maine and New Hampshire battle over who will pay for replacing the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, a recently released economic impact study shows how important a role the bridge plays in maritime commerce. (GRETYL MACALASTER PHOTO)
Five of the seven terminals that call the Port of Portsmouth home sit upriver of the angled "middle" bridge, including National Gypsum/Irving Oil, Public Service of New Hampshire, Tyco Wire & Cable, Sprague, Avery Lane/Sea-3 Newington, and Sprague, River Road. Granite State Minerals and the Market Street state pier sit downriver.
The position of the bridge reduces the 200-foot opening to a mere 106 feet. As marine vessels continue to widen, it puts the upriver terminals at economic risk.
The 2012 study recently released by the Piscataqua River Economic Development Committee concluded that the total regional impact of port-related activities in 2011 totaled $275 million and provided 2,350 jobs.
The vast majority of that impact is felt in New Hampshire. Of the 987 jobs provided directly by the 16 terminals, only 20 percent of the workforce comes from Maine.
The terminals provided over $25 million in state and local taxes in 2011, with more than $20 million of that coming into New Hampshire.
In 2011, 3.1 million tons of cargo worth $1.7 billion was loaded or discharged at the terminals along the river, an increase of 2 percent compared with 2010, but a decrease of about 13 percent compared to the last economic impact study conducted in 1998.
A significant portion of the region's energy comes in through the port, including oil, propane and coal, accounting for nearly $1 billion in cargo value, or about 20 percent of New Hampshire's energy use.
$1.4 billion at risk
According to the report, $8 out of every $10 of cargo activity on the river passes under the Sarah Mildred Long bridge, including all energy shipments.
In 2011, 132 vessels passed under the bridge; 1 out of 5 of those was at maximum width.
The report concludes that up to $1.4 billion in commerce could be at risk over the coming years if the maritime industry cannot serve the upriver locations at competitive levels due to the constraints caused by the Sarah Mildred Long bridge.
As the dimensions of the pool of global merchant ships increase, nearby ports are already making infrastructure improvements, including Chelsea Harbor in Massachusetts and in Portland, Maine, making the Sarah Mildred Long bridge the narrowest horizontal clearance of the major northern New England ports.
The report said there is a fear of the Piscataqua River becoming as outdated as the famed cross-country Route 66 for waterborne commerce in the area if the bridge is not replaced with a wider span.
States disagree
New Hampshire and Maine share responsibility for the three bridges that connect Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine. The Memorial Bridge is currently under construction and expected to open in July, making replacement of the middle bridge the next top priority.
The bridge is now New Hampshire's No. 1 red-listed bridge, meaning it is the bridge most in need of repair.
The Maine Department of Transportation is leading the way on a design and build plan for the bridge, but last session the Maine Legislature indicated the state will not pay substantially more for a new bridge than it would have paid for rehabilitation of the old bridge.
At the same time, the New Hampshire Legislature has said it will only agree to a new bridge.
Mike Skelton, is a spokesman for PSNH, which operates both Schiller Station and Newington Station upriver from the bridge. He said the study confirms the significant impact the port has on New Hampshire's economy and also identifies some of the challenges facing the port.
"As identified in the study, the narrow opening under the Sarah Long ... Bridge is a challenge going forward as the trend in shipping is moving toward wider ships," Skelton said. "Long-term, the trend could not only impact PSNH as a shipping customer, but the overall economic benefits the port brings."
Skelton said he hopes the study will ensure upgrades to the bridge are in line with the trends of the shipping industry.
The report was written by Matt Magnusson and Ross Gittell of the University of New Hampshire and Charles Colgan of the University of Southern Maine.
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SAN LUIS, Ariz. (AP) - A Yuma woman is in custody for allegedly trying to smuggle $598,000 worth of cocaine into southern Arizona.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Monday that 30-year-old Patricia Contreras was referred for additional inspection of her car at the San Luis port.
After a narcotics detection canine alerted to the presence of drugs, officers reported finding 25 packages of cocaine weighing nearly 66 pounds.
The drugs and vehicle were seized and Contreras was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
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Are you a parent who wants to stay updated about your child's learning graph, attendance and grades on the go? Then there's an app for you. In a trend that shows how digital advanced society is becoming, schools and colleges are now adapting new and innovative ways to keep parents in the loop when it comes to their child's education.
Joining the force is Oakridge International school that recently launched the Oak app. Available for parents all across, the app lets one check up on their wards activities in school, both academic and extra curricular.
"The app is already being used in the Oakridge schools in Bengaluru and Delhi and we are hoping that the app will receive a similar response here as well," shares Pawan Kumar, spokesperson, Oakridge International school. The app is free for download from the App Store and runs on both Apple and Android operating systems.
"Parents of Oakridge's students can log in with a personalised user ID and password to access internal information while others can log in as guest to benefit from features like Ask Your Kid and Progress Tracker," explains Pawan.
Through the Oak app, parents can stay updated about their child's attendance, progress, learning, events happening at the school, access the school's diaries, transport system, fee and holiday alerts to name a few. Other features include ask your kid, feedback, polls wherein parents and guests can give their opinions and suggestions towards the betterment of a course, check on events schedules taking place in the school, etc. The app can also be used for parents looking for campus directions, keeping track of the school directory and so on.
Another unique feature of the app is the Hour Glass tool which allows parents to set goals, short and long term priorities for their child and track them on a daily basis.
"Unlike others who may be more concerned with the attendance aspect, I want to know how well my child is learning what is being taught in class. With the new app I will be able to track my daughter's progress. It's very nice to be included in the program and be able to give suggestions in addition to the usual parent-teacher meet," feels Padmaja Ambaty, parent of a class one student, Newton Campus, Gachibowli.
For parents, the app has become empowering as it doesn't require them to set aside time separately from their schedules and can instead multi-task with their phones to keep an eye on their children. Parent-teacher meets also become easier as the conversation has already been initiated through the suggestions forum.
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Labor Day is a federal holiday and a time to honor and celebrate the economic and social contributions of workers. Check out some of these Labor Day themed books from your hometown library!
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
As the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, Labor Day is a poignant story of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery.


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SEVIERVILLE (WATE) - A Georgia man was arrested at a Sevier County restaurant after witnesses reported a possible case of child abuse to police.
The incident happened at Johnny Rockets on Sunday just before 4 p.m.
An employee said he heard commotion, pounding on the wall and the child crying.
When the boy came out of the bathroom, he was crying, shaking, had a bright red face and a large bruise on the right side of his cheek.
He came out of the bathroom with Leon Paul Woody, 26, of Grovetown, Ga.
Woody was arrested and under questioning admitted to spanking the child on his bottom.
The boy told police Woody kicked him and showed authorities a fresh mark in his groin area that was consistent with a shoe impression.
Woody was arrested and charged with child abuse. His bond was set at $10,000.
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When Nora Lindell goes missing one Halloween night, the mystery of what happened to her, and why, becomes the obsession of the boys of the neighborhood. Narrated collectively by those boys, The Fates Will Find Their Way is a haunting examination of what we leave behind when we enter adulthood and all the lost aspects of childhood we want so badly to experience again. A bold and innovative debut from a fine, new literary talent. -- Dave Mallmann, Next Chapter Bookshop, Mequon, WI
Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the neighborhood boys she's left behind are caught forever in the heady current of her absence.
As the days and years pile up, the mystery of her disappearance grows kaleidoscopically. A collection of rumors, divergent suspicions, and tantalizing what-ifs, Nora Lindell's story is a shadowy projection of teenage lust, friendship, reverence, and regret, captured magically in the disembodied plural voice of the boys who still long for her.
n haunting, percussive prose, Hannah Pittard's beautifully crafted novel tracks the emotional progress of the sister Nora left behind, the other families in their leafy suburban enclave, and the individual fates of the boys in her thrall. Far more eager to imagine Nora's fate than to scrutinize their own, the boys sleepwalk into an adulthood of jobs, marriages, families, homes, and daughters of their own, all the while pining for a girl—and a life—that no longer exists, except in the imagination.
A masterful literary debut that shines a light into the dream-filled space between childhood and all that follows, The Fates Will Find Their Way is a story about the stories we tell ourselves—of who we once were and may someday become.
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"A wistful novel about how little we know of one another, but how eager we are to tape together a collage of rumors, assumptions and fantasies to answer questions we're too young, too cowardly or too polite to ask…. Chilling and touching…harrowingly wise about the melancholy process of growing up."
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"A stunning novel about making up stories as we go along…[a] mesmerizing debut…with every carefully chosen word—and in this short, intense novel, each one counts—Pittard brilliantly draws us into the maturing consciousness of a group of neighborhood boys."
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"A dreamlike cross between THE VIRGIN SUICIDES and THE LOVELY BONES."
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"THE FATES WILL FIND THEIR WAY is about a disappearance, but it's also about the difficulty of growing up, of moving into adulthood and letting go. It's a brilliant and beautifully written work."
-The Millions
"Engaging and vigorously told…I heard all sorts of echoes from other books, from Alice Sebold's THE LOVELY BONES and some of Joyce Carol Oates' stories and novels…Pittard's excellent first novel satisfies this demand in spades."
-Chicago Tribune
"A meditation on the mysteries of life and fate."
"[Pittard] spurs rumination on the moments in which we witness the tragedies of others and somehow manage to wrap events around ourselves."
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
"This novel uncovers creepy male sexuality in every form and facet by recounting the way a local girl's disappearance traumatized a group of suburban men and revealing their morbid fantasies about her ultimate fate…THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, but without the virgins."
"It's a tour de force for a young woman to follow the attitudes and changes and expectations of these several men as they grow older. ... I would recommend it to anyone."
-Christopher Tilghman, author of Mason's Retreat
"An exceptional first novel…of "what ifs" [and] a beautifully crafted portrait of men slipping almost imperceptibly from childhood to middle-age.... It's hard to imagine a better debut this year."
-Financial Times
"[The] narrator is a collective "we"... gathering the received anti-wisdom of a group of neighborhood boys in a suburban town. But the way the story plays out, covering conjecture with the sheen of fact and writing myth into stone, Pittard ropes the reader in as well."
-Time Out Chicago
"Some of you will be familiar with Ms. Pittard's particular magic.... This is a stunning first novel told in the first person plural with devastating results."
"An emotionally taut and elegantly written novel."
-Los Angeles Times
"A bracing debut… Ripe with a sense of danger to the last page, th stories woven among the boys who remembered Nora Lindell create a captivating tale of lives unlived."
-The Onion AV Club
"An eerie, arresting novel…a bold, imaginative, deeply psychological debut novel, a mystery in the finest sense of the word."
-Minneapolis Star Tribune
"THE FATES WILL FIND THEIR WAY is concerned with searching questions rather than the relief of resolution. What might have been a frustrating approach in a lesser novel proves compelling in this one."
-Boston Globe
"A debut novel sure to linger with readers...Though relatively brief, the novel has great depth, enhanced by Pittard's precision of language. The result is a stimulating examination of loss, memory, history, and perception and how the past never leaves -- indeed is the main factor in the present."
-Publishers Weekly, Galley Talk
"Gracefully written by the winner of the 2006 Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, this elegiac portrait of an upscale community offers an interesting take on modern manhood."
"A dark story of adolescence gone awry…In playing out each of the theories about [character] Nora's disappearance, Pittard perfectly illustrates the hysteria surrounding any such disaster, and the ways in which very detail can be twisted and elevated to create endings to a story that fundamentally has none."
"The tension builds throughout the book, keeping the reader eager to find out what happened... This debut from McSweeney's award winner Pittard is smart, eerie, and suspenseful and will appeal to fans of novels combining those elements."
-Library Journal
"Pittard does an amazing job with setting up middle American suburbia in the latter half of the 20th century.... The story doesn't shy away from heavy subjects... but it doesn't use them as emotional gimmicks either.... A very solid debut, worth picking up."
-Sacramento Book Review
"The architecture of the narrative is cemented in the solipsism of the boys/men…As readers work their way through the novel, they might try guessing what could have happened to Nora, but the ending is a surprise."
"THE FATES WILL FIND THEIR WAY is...about the way our imaginations can carry us from a dispiriting selfishness to a nascent empathy, and the way we continue to inflict—or even just observe—pain until that empathy arrives."
-Jim Shepard
"Pittard gives the secret wink to the reader, because a story is only a story, but at the same time more than a story, and that's why we love to invent and why we love to listen and to be taken in. At our peril."
-Ann Beattie, author of WALKS WITH MEN
"THE FATES WILL FIND THEIR WAY is a bold, wise, magical, and authentic novel about youthful infatuation and its legacy. Hannah Pittard's beautifully confident prose is sure to make readers look back on their own teenage years with fresh wonder."
-Vendela Vida, author of THE LOVERS
"THE FATES WILL FIND THEIR WAY is simply tremendous—a beautiful, roving, restless and relentless exploration of a crime. It would be almost too sad to bear the implications of this story if it weren't for the warmth, hope, and kindness of its haunting prose."
-Patrick Somerville, author of THE CRADLE


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Written by The Informed Aussie
Published on Monday, April 30th, 2012
Globalist Report
The notion of the new world order is nothing new and has been around for almost 100 years. Recently, the first blueprints for world governmentwere revealed and other evidence of world government and the new world order is emerging every day.
In Australia, the new world order is still a relatively new concept and subsequently many Australians are reluctant to even discuss it. However, what many Australians don't know is that the concept of the New World Order has been well-known within Australia's political circles for many years.
The earliest record of the concept of the new world order in Australia was identified from a plaque that was posted at the "Cole Book Arcade" in Melbourne in 1883 (see image below).
To gain an appreciation of how much Australia's political leaders feared the new world order and how they thought Nazi Germany may have been the conduit for the New World Order, the Globalist Report has found an article written by Thomas Bavin that demonstrates their fear.
Thomas Bavin, Born in Kaiapoi New Zealand, was a lawyer who emigrated to Australia and became Premier and Treasurer of New South Wales on 18 October 1927.
To briefly summarize, this article is about how Thomas Bavin and the Australia's politicians feared the prospect of a New World Order under the auspices of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler.
What's interesting about the article below is how Australian politicians had begun to prepare for a New World Order in 1940.
After reading the article, the question I would like you to think about is, what's the difference between what Australian politicians feared in 1940 and what we have to fear from the Globalist threat today? Remember, Nazi Germany was 5,000km away Australia and the threat from Japan was more real than the threat from Germany.
The reality is that although Nazi Germany was 5,000km from Australia, if they had won the war, Australia's freedoms and liberties would be non-existent.
Therefore, the threat to Australia from Germany in world war two is the exact same threat we all face from the Globalists. For many, the Globalists appeared to be distant and irrelevant, however the truth is that the threat from the Globalists we face is real and closer than you think.
The Globalists want to destroy your freedoms, the Globalists want to poison you and your children by medicating your water supplies, the Globalists want to create global government, steal your money and reduce the population by 80%. The Globalists want you to submit, bow down and allow them to be the ruler of you, your family and your country.
Last year, in my presidential address, I concluded with the hope that our next annual meeting could be held under conditions happier than those in which we then found ourselves that the shadows of impending war would have disappeared, and that the nations of Europe would have found some means of settling their differences other than those of the savage or the wild beast.
Those hopes have unhappily proved baseless, and we meet tonight under the shadow of what threatens to be the greatest tragedy in human history. It is not merely that millions of lives may be lost in all the horrors of modern warfare: that the economic foundations of the modern world are crumbling: that starvation and famine loom darkly over tens of millions of innocent people: that all the roads leading to material progress and comfort are being closed: and that practically the whole of the material resources of Europe, over and above what are necessary for bare subsistence, are being devoted to the insane purposes of remorseless and indiscriminate slaughter.
These are the probable material consequences of the struggle in which we, even in this remote and hitherto unthreatened corner of the world, are more closely and directly involved than we have ever hitherto been and God knows, they are bad enough. But the purpose for which the world has been plunged into this terrible plight, the aims of those who have thus deliberately shut the gates of mercy on mankind, makes the prospect even darker than any threat of mere material ruin could make it.
That purpose, openly expressed, is to establish, at any rate in Europe, a new set of moral values, and to destroy, as a basis for civilized life, the simple virtues of honesty, of charity, of toleration, of good faith, and to substitute for them a mechanical and soulless efficiency which regards weakness as the only sin, and brute strength as the only virtue which worships the State as the sole and final form of human organization, which allows no place for the free spirit of man, which tolerates no independence of thought or judgment, which recognizes no art, nor culture, nor science, nor religion except what contribute to the strength and stability of the all embracing State.
The declared purpose of those who are responsible for plunging Europe, and millions outside Europe, into all the misery which darkens the world to-day, is to set up a New Order (New World Order) not merely a new political order, based on political frontiers different from those set up by
the Treaty of Versailles, not merely a new economic order, based on different methods of producing, exchanging, and distributing material goods between communities, not merely a new social order, based on different relationships of classes within the community: but a new moral order, based on a new conception of the relation of individuals to the State, and a new idea of the relations between man and man.
Never before, I believe, in all human history, and here I speak with diffidence in the presence of students who are better qualified to offer an opinion than I am, have different sections of the human race been involved in a struggle in which the issues are so fundamental, so far reaching in their results on the future of mankind.
Of course the suggestion that we can usefully occupy our time by discussing problems of post-war reconstruction and shaping the world after the war, according to our own hopes and ideas, assumes that we are going to win, or at least, that we shall be in such a position after the war that Germany will not be able to set up what her spokes men are pleased to call a "New World Order" without consulting us. It is pretty clear, that if we are defeated or if, at any stage in the future Germany, with the acquiescence of Russia, is strong enough to maintain her hold on those portions of Europe she has overrun, without our being able to affect the position, that our discussions about the post-war world will be merely interesting academic exercises. We shall not be consulted in the matter.
But in spite of the bombast to which we are becoming accustomed, in spite of Germany's undoubted capacity to inflict the gravest in and disaster on the people of Britain, it seems to me to become in singly clear that an ending of the war that will leave Germany free to impose her own will, without let or hindrance from Great Britain, the whole of Eastern Europe, is more and more unlikely. I do not se to go into the reasons for this view. I state it, because it is foundation of my belief that, in discussing, and formulating our ideas about the problems that must arise when the war is over, about the ends at which we should aim, and the form which the post-war organization of Europe should take we are not merely beating the air.
I go further than that, and express my belief that it is vitally important that, as part of our war propaganda, we free peoples of the Empire should formulate, and publish to the world our ideas at least as to the principles upon which what Hitler calls the new order in Europe should be founded. It is clear that we cannot go on fighting merely to restore the "old order" in the sense of the state of things, the political boundaries, the economic relationships, the precarious balance of power politics that existed before the war. That would simply mean a restoration of the conditions that have brought about the present war, and the continuance on an ever more burdensome scale, of the crushing weight of military and naval preparation. We must find some more positive, more constructive aim than that, and we should let not only the communities that are now cowering under the brutal tyranny of Germany, but the whole world, know what it is. Even our absorption in the business of winning the war should not be allowed to prevent us from thinking about these things, because in a sense, they are part of the business of winning the war.
Hitler, as you know, has exploited the admitted defects and weaknesses of the pre-war world to the full. His exculpatory propaganda for months past has stressed the political disorder of Europe for the last twenty years, the economic and social inequalities of Britain and France, the chronic unemployment, the anomalies of our monetary system, as his justification for his efforts to create a new and better Europe.
This propaganda, as we know, has contained a liberal admixture of the most grotesque falsehood. But it has enough truth in it to call for some reply from us. "Preoccupied though it is by the needs of defence and offence," wrote the London Times the other day, "the British Government should not allow Hitler's challenge to go by default. Much harm may be done to our cause, both in Europe, and overseas, by the insinuation that we stand for the old order, and that our only aim is to restore the status quo in Europe, and maintain it at home. This charge should be emphatically and authoritatively refuted."
So that, in suggesting that we should apply our minds to these problems, I am not suggesting that we should merely wander in a mist of academic unrealities.
Germany, of course, has her plan for the new world order, as she conceives it. We know, approximately, what it is. It is based first of all, so far as Western and Central Europe are concerned, on the supremacy of the German race. It excludes any liberty of speech, of thought, of religion. It envisages, of course, the destruction of any semblance of democratic government in any of the countries it covers. It proposes a new economic organization of Western Europe which would de-industrialize all the countries that are at present under Germany's heel, including France, and make them merely the suppliers of agricultural produce, and raw materials, for their German over lords.
It promises a new monetary system, which would bind these countries irrevocably to the financial chariot wheels of Germany. It plans a sort of Monroe doctrine for Europe, under which, of course, Germany will settle all European problems, without interference by outsiders. It plans in short, to isolate Western and Central Europe entirely from the rest of the world. What part Russia is to play in this grandiose scheme is not quite clear. Presumably, she is to be a voluntary partner if agreeable, with a sphere of influence of her own in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Or, if not agreeable, a Germany freed from the threat of interference from any other quarter and with all the resources of Western and Southern Europe at her command, will be strong enough to settle the question in her own way. A Germany so fortified, would soon be strong enough in sea and air power to wrest the command of the sea from Great Britain so that, even if the attempted invasion of England fails the British Empire, its component parts isolated from one another, and shut out from any participation in the markets of Europe, falls into poverty stricken pieces. I do not know how the United States of America fits into this modest plan, but presumably it would not be left indefinitely outside the sphere of such beneficent ambitions.
It is hardly necessary to say much about this new world order which to us, sounds like the dreams of a paranoiac. The fact that the German plan seems to us fantastic, and certain to break down under its own weight, to say nothing of the weight of sullen but bitter hostility it arouses in tens of millions of victims, who do not share the German view of the supreme beneficence of German rule does not render it less necessary, or less useful, for us to point our own way to a better ordered world.
In some matters which are of the essence of the German plan, we have no difficulty. We are under no childish and unhistorical delusions about our own, or anyone else's race supremacy. We do not propose to build a new and better world, on the suppression of the free spirit of man, or on the denial of his right to act, to think, to speak, to worship freely, within the limits imposed by law.
We do not intend to enthrone the spirit of brute force, or to trample under foot those gentler virtues of toleration, of charity, of mercy, of justice, of truth, that in every age have alone given dignity and beauty to human life. Nor, coming down to a more material plane, do we wish to divide the world into watertight compartments, but to open to the widest extent possible, the channels of cultural and commercial intercourse. We have, I say, no difficulty about these things. But we can hardly, if we are going to offer the world a practical policy of post-war reconstruction content ourselves with these general statements of ethical principle. There are political, economic and social problems of the greatest difficulty to which a solution must be found, if we are to lay the foundations of any durable system.
I can do no more tonight than indicate some of these as possible topics of discussion for us during the year's discussion which may help towards the end which all our discussions should keep in view the formation of a sound and well-informed public opinion. There is, first, the question which provided the Peace Conference of 1919 with so many difficult problems, the question what should be the boundaries of the States which constitute the new Europe.
Are we to adhere to the boundaries fixed by the Treaty of Versailles, or do those boundaries require readjustment? Then, assuming Europe again to be a collection of independent national States, how are they to be organized, for the purpose of avoiding future conflicts? Obviously, if they are all to retain their full independence and sovereignty without any limitation imposed either by some agreement to which all, or nearly all, are parties, or by some form of federal organization, the world will be faced again with all the evils of power politics the diplomatic intrigues, the rivalry in armaments which brought us to the pass in which we find ourselves to-day. Are we to meet these dangers by a revival, in some form of the League of Nations, or by the establishment of some kind of federal system? And if a federal system, what are to be the conditions of entry into it, and what is to be the form of its constitution? I leave the answers to these questions to you.
Then there is the extremely difficult problem of what is called "peaceful change." The difficulty of bringing about change, in any given state of international relationships, has always been one of the most fruitful causes of international conflict. And yet in a dynamic and changing world, changes in political boundaries, or in the rights and obligations of States, must be made. It was one of the chief criticisms of the League of Nations Covenant that although in theory it provided for change, in actual practice, change was difficult, if not impossible under it, and that therefore it had become merely a buttress for the status quo.
As soon, however, as you begin to consider this question, you find yourselves confronted with another set of problems, which are closely bound up with it, as they are with nearly every question of international relationships. These are the problems which arise out of the ideal of national self-sufficiency. They are mainly of course, economic. The difficulties which have arisen out of the pursuit of this ideal are, I believe, at the bottom of many of the worst troubles which afflicted Europe after the last war, and until we can devise a Europe in which the tariff and currency and quota barriers obstructing international trade and intercourse are thrown down, the restrictions on the free supply of raw materials removed, the obstacles to the free movement of population reduced, I can see no hope of getting rid of those troubles. If this freedom can be achieved, if increasing populations in densely populated countries can support themselves by the proceeds of foreign trade, or can find living room in other countries, the questions of political boundaries, or of the distribution of colonies, would lose much of their importance.
There are many other practical problems connected with the organization of Europe after the war which will suggest themselves to you. There are all the special problems connected with our own position in the Pacific, and our relations with our neighbours. We have all the material we want for study and discussion during the coming year, and I hope you will agree with me that the effort to use it for the purpose of helping to form Australian public opinion has, or should have, some practical value. It is as much beyond my purpose, as it is beyond my capacity, to offer cut and dried solutions of the problems I have mentioned. I shall be satisfied if I have indicated useful and practical fields of inquiry and discussion.
There are of course, even on the assumption with which I began, that we shall at the end of the war be in a position to make our influence felt, still some elements of uncertainty that must make any efforts at post-war planning more or less tentative. We do not know, for instance, what kind of Germany we shall have to deal with. All we do know is that it cannot be Hitler's Germany. Obviously any idea of reasonable arrangements with any authority inspired by the spirit and following the policy of the Nazis is impossibility. Any plans we can imagine must be based on the assumption that there is a sane, reasonable, honest Germany and that it is that Germany with which we shall have to negotiate.
Then, unfortunately, we do not know at present the disposition of France. It is a tragedy for us and for France that it should be so, but there is the fact. We hope and believe that a free France will align herself with ourselves and with the other democratic peoples of Europe; and we hope and believe that by our efforts France will again herself and be free. Our plans for a new Europe must be based on this assumption.
There is the uncertainty as to the position of Russia. No plans for a reconstructed Europe can leave her out of account. All one can say is that there seems to be nothing in the recent history of Russia which makes it impossible to hope that she would take her part in a Europe reconstructed on reasonable lines.
Finally, there is the uncertainty as to the part the United States of America is prepared to play, and the share she is prepared to take if any, in an organization or a policy, directed to the maintenance of world peace. It would be out of place for me to say more than this, that we know at least that her ideals are the same as ours, and that whether or not she lends her positive aid to our efforts to establish a better ordered world, she will place no obstacle in our way.
Men have always dreamed of a golden age or a millennium in which, if we cannot achieve immunity from all the consequences of human weakness and folly, we can at any rate secure peace among men, security for our lives and our possessions, and a fuller opportunity for the millions of ordinary men and women to realize in their own experience, something more of the happiness and self-fulfilment which human life offers, but which hitherto has been the monopoly of a favoured few.
Up to the present these dreams have been disappointed. Even the tragic experiences of the last war seem to have taught us little, except the cynical conclusion that the only lesson we learn from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. If, with the know ledge available to us of the meaning of modern warfare, from all we have experienced and shall experience in this conflict if, with all the control over natural forces we have gained with the progress of scientific research if, with all our experience of the disaster that follows the pursuit of merely material and selfish ends we once more prove unequal to the task of translating our dreams of a better world into a living reality, the outlook for humanity seems dark indeed. Our chances of doing so will not indefinitely recur.


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From the article: Pet-Friendly Colleges
The list of pet-friendly colleges is by no means exhaustive. If you know of other colleges that allow animals such as cats and dogs, please share the details with other readers. Share Your Knowledge
Grinnell College
- Grinnell has a really lax pet policy. The only animals that are forbidden in dorms are dogs, cats, ferrets, and poisonous reptiles. Everything else is game: birds, fish, amphibians, rodents, etc. Many people have rabbits, hedgehogs, hamsters, and snakes. All dorms have the same pet policy: there are no pet-free dorms on campus. Additionally, the college's student project houses are allowed to have one cat per house.
- —Guest Ren
Lees-McRae College - Banner Elk, NC
- Lees-McRae has a pet friendly dorm and has even set up dog clean-up stations outside. LMC is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, so if you enjoy hiking or swimming with your dog there's no better place. The full pet policy can be read at www.lmc.edu/student_life/residence_life/files/Pet_Friendly_Policy.pdf
- —Guest David
They Can Come With You
- California Institute of the Arts (calarts) has a great pet policy, I don't even think they have a weight/breed limit on the dogs, hope you find a good place for your pet to be with you
- —Guest College Looker
Alfred University- Alfred, NY
- You may not be able to bring Fluffy to Alfred University, but you can bring a horse! AU dorms don't allow pets other than fish, but students can board their horses at the Bromeley-Daggett Equestrian Center a few minutes away from campus. There are a number of stalls available every year for student horse owners, and it's a full-care facility with a heated barn and indoor riding arena as well as two outdoor arenas. You can visit www.alfred.edu/equestrian for more information.
- —Guest Eileen


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Advocates for exploited women and girls are
urging the community to look for signs of human trafficking.
The Huntsville Madison County Human
Trafficking task force said it's a major problem in the valley.
The group said the victims are being brought
to Alabama.
At a meeting, Tajuan McCarty spoke about her
being forced into prostitution. Today, she rescues victims and raises the alarm
for the women, girls, homeless and illegal aliens who end up as sex slaves.
She said the problem isn't going away.
"25 years after being
trafficked to Birmingham, I was rescued off of the same front porch I was
trafficked to. Somebody else? Somebody else?
Same situation you'd been in?
Same situation. Same house! 25 years later. This is a problem. We have to do something about it."
The task force said
Alabama has good human trafficking laws, but the group said repeated episodes,
like a bust last month at a motel in Madison, show the urgent need for more
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Sir Ben Ainslie on the brink of one of the biggest come-backs in sporting history
It's called the America's Cup but it all started off the Isle of Wight in 1851 when an a crew from America beat a crew from Hampshire to win what is now the oldest trophy in sport - the Auld Mug.
ORACLE TEAM USA scored its sixth consecutive win in Race 17 of the 34th America's Cup and lies within one point of Emirates Team New Zealand. The Kiwis have needed just one win to capture the America's Cup after moving opening a lead of 8-1 last Wednesday, and now lead the series 8-7.
Skipper Jimmy Spithill insists his Oracle Team USA are still the underdogs despite recording their sixth and seventh straight wins to take the America's Cup to a decider against Emirates Team New Zealand.
Spithill's team, with Sir Ben Ainslie as the tactician, have battled back magnificently and won race 17 by 27 seconds and race 18 by 54 seconds to set up a winner-take-all finale on Wednesday evening.
Only twice before in the 162-year history of the competition has there been a winner-take-all race, in 1920 and 1983 respectively