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Our convictions and claims concerning life and marriage are not outdated notions of a past era but provide the path to the future. Nor is our position simply religious. We insist upon the existence of a Natural Moral Law which can be known by all men and women through the exercise of reason. This is not only a Christian position. It is the ground upon which every great civilization has been built.
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1/16/2013 (1 year ago)
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Keywords: Marriage, gay marriage, Defense of Marriage, Marriage equality, homosexual marriage, defend marriage, true marriage, French marriage, culture, social justice, deacon Keith Fournier
PARIS, France (Catholic Online) - In his Christmas address to the Roman Curia, Pope Benedict XVI pulled no punches. Many of the reports on the address in the main stream media were not only inaccurate, they were not journalism. Rather, they were propaganda. His entire address should be read by all Catholics, other Christians, other people of faith and all people of good will.
After recalling with fondness the gathering on the family held in Milan in 2011, the Pope asked some important questions: "the question of the family is not just about a particular social construct, but about man himself - about what he is and what it takes to be authentically human. The challenges involved are manifold. First of all there is the question of the human capacity to make a commitment or to avoid commitment.
"Can one bind oneself for a lifetime? Does this correspond to man's nature? Does it not contradict his freedom and the scope of his self-realization? Does man become himself by living for himself alone and only entering into relationships with others when he can break them off again at any time? Is lifelong commitment antithetical to freedom? Is commitment also worth suffering for?"
"Man's refusal to make any commitment - which is becoming increasingly widespread as a result of a false understanding of freedom and self-realization as well as the desire to escape suffering - means that man remains closed in on himself and keeps his "I" ultimately for himself, without really rising above it."
" Yet only in self-giving does man find himself, and only by opening himself to the other, to others, to children, to the family, only by letting himself be changed through suffering, does he discover the breadth of his humanity. When such commitment is repudiated, the key figures of human existence likewise vanish: father, mother, child - essential elements of the experience of being human are lost."
The struggle we face in a declining western culture growing increasingly hostile toward the Church is about a clash of worldviews, personal and corporate, and competing definitions of human freedom, human dignity, and human flourishing. It is a contest over the very foundations of a truly human and just social order. We insist that true marriage and family have been inscribed by the Divine Architect into the order of the universe. That is because they have. Truth does not change, people and cultures do; sometimes for good and sometimes for evil.
Marriage is the first society into which children are to be born, learn to be fully human, grow in virtue, flourish and take their role in families and communities. We must not be afraid to make the claim that children have a right to a mother and a father. They do. Of course we care about the single parent family and the many broken homes. However, their existence does not change the norm necessary for a stable and healthy society. In tact marriages and families are the glue of a healthy and happy social order. We need to be a visible, palpable reflection of this truth about marriage and family in our own lives. To live a faithful marriage is now countercultural.
Our convictions and claims concerning life and marriage are not outdated notions of a past era but provide the path to the future. Nor is our position simply religious. We insist upon the existence of a Natural Moral Law which can be known by all men and women through the exercise of reason. This is not only a Christian position. It is the ground upon which every great civilization has been built. It is the source for every great and authentic human and civil rights movement. The Natural Law gives us the moral norms we need to build societies and govern ourselves. It should also inform our positive law or we will become lawless and devolve into anarchy.
There is a growing intolerance spreading across the Nations of the West against our rights to free expression, association and participation. This is reflected in a brazen effort to censor any speech which questions the cultural slide into the abyss of relativism. Efforts to prevent our vocal and public defense of the objective truth about marriage and the family are multiplying. However, they are not succeeding. That was evident this past weekend in the streets of Paris, France where hundreds of thousands gathered to defend marriage and the family and society founded upon them.
The Guardian reported on the march on Sunday, "Several hundred thousand people massed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday to protest against President Fran�ois Hollande's plan to legalise gay marriage and adoption by June. Three columns of protesters, waving pink and blue flags showing a father, mother and two children, converged on the landmark from different meeting points in Paris. Many came after long train and bus rides from the provinces.
"Hollande has pledged to push through the law with his Socialists' parliamentary majority but the opponents' campaign has dented public support and forced deputies to put off a plan to allow lesbian couples access to artificial insemination. Champ de Mars park at the Eiffel Tower was packed, but turnout estimates varied widely. Organisers claimed 800,000 had protested, while police put the number at 340,000."
"Nobody expected this two or three months ago," said Frigide Barjot, a flamboyant comedian leading the "demo for all". At the rally, she read out a letter to Hollande asking him to withdraw the draft bill and hold an extended public debate on the issue. Strongly backed by the Catholic church hierarchy, Barjot and groups working with her mobilised church-going families and political conservatives as well as some Muslims, evangelicals and even gay people opposed to same-sex marriage. Hollande's office said the turnout was substantial but would not change his determination to pass the reform.Slogans on the posters and banners approved by the organizers included "marriagophile, not homophobe," "all born of a father and mother" and "paternity, maternity, equality"."
Notice the Orwellian newspeak used in the camp of those who oppose true marriage. They are attempting to frame the public struggle by calling those of us who defend marriage as somehow "anti-marriage". We must resist this propaganda and stay clear in our message and cultural mission. Homosexual partnerships are incapable of being marriages.We are the ones defending marriage, and the family and society founded upon it. Marriage is what it is, to use a popular expression.
To limit marriage to heterosexual couples is not discriminatory now, nor has it ever been. Homosexual couples cannot bring into existence what marriage intends by its very definition. To insist with the police power of the State that we pretend otherwise does not serve the common good. To confer by governmental fiat the benefits that have been conferred in the past only to stable married couples and families to homosexual paramours is bad public policy. To state this is not to be "anti-gay". It is to defend marriage and the family. It is to serve the common good.
As for the position of the catholic Church, it is crystal clear. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Catholic Church explained in 2003."The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognized as such by all the major cultures of the world. Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings. It was established by the Creator with its own nature, essential properties and purpose."
"No ideology can erase from the human spirit the certainty that marriage exists solely between a man and a woman, who by mutual personal gift, proper and exclusive to themselves, tend toward the communion of their persons. In this way, they mutually perfect each other, in order to cooperate with God in the procreation and upbringing of new human lives."
Civil institutions do not create marriage nor can they create a new "right" to marry for those who are incapable of marriage. Government has long regulated marriage for the common good. For example, the ban on polygamy and age requirements were enforced in order to ensure that there was a mature decision at the basis of the Marriage contract. Heterosexual marriage, procreation, and the nurturing of children form the foundation for the family, and the family forms the foundation of civil society.
What occurred in Paris this weekend is the beginning of a resistance movement which is spreading. We must all take our place within its ranks.
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Google Blog Search Quality Factors
Posted 18 March 2007 - 12:22 AM
I wrote a long post detailing these at: Positive and Negative Quality Ranking Factors from Googles Blog Search (Patent Application)
The patent application is:
Ranking blog documents
The positive factors include:
How many RSS subscriptions there are to the blog,
How often people click on a link to the post in search results,
How many blogrolls the blog is in,
How many "high quality" blogrolls the blog is in,
If the blog offers visitors the chance to tag posts, whether people are tagging them,
References to the blog by sources other than blogs,
Pagerank, and;
The negative factors include :
If new posts appear in short bursts or at predictable intervals,
If the content of the posts doesn't match the content of feeds from the posts,
If the content includes a lot of spam related keywords,
If a lot of content is duplicated in multiple posts from a blog,
Whether posts are the same size, or roughly the same size,
Link distribution of the blog,
If posts primarily link to one page or site, and;
What do you think of the results at Google Blog Search?
Do you think they are using any of these quality scores?
Posted 18 March 2007 - 12:48 AM
So you can check documents in the last month, by relevancy. Sometimes if you rank "by Date" you don't get relevant documents, but if you rank by relevancy and restrict the time frame, it provides for great results.
Recently Google has also added this to their news search.
Edited by kulpreet_singh, 18 March 2007 - 12:50 AM.
Posted 18 March 2007 - 01:09 AM
I guess part of the reason why that works is because blog posts have time stamps associated with them, and news articles often have associated dates of publication, too.
The timestamps also help in determining the frequency of new posts, which can be used as a negative quality factor when there's some statistically significant aspect to it, such as posts being published every 3 hours and 35 minutes at the same blog.
Posted 18 March 2007 - 02:41 AM
- if G can't judge the amount of RSS readers for a blog, the data shouldn't be counted. Otherwise, the data is skewed towards those blogs, who show such data
- if you say tagging is a positive sign for Google, it bears no relevance to the quality of the blog. I offer no visitor tagging (though I sometimes tag posts myself), so it doesn't mean my blog is of less quality
- moreover, if I post once a week, on Tuesdays (which I try to do), I may be punished. What for? Sure, off the schedule posts save my blog Google reputation, but I don't think it is that necessary
All in all, I think age matters a lot, as I wasn't able to find any posts through blog search, though some of them are of superb quality and have a number of links from other blogs (and internal linking).
Edited by A.N.Onym, 18 March 2007 - 03:02 AM.
Posted 18 March 2007 - 06:50 AM
As mentioned in another thread, it's not clear that WordPress blogs will correctly ping the omnibus pingers such as Pingoat. That's still something I'm looking into.
Posted 18 March 2007 - 07:09 AM
Posted 18 March 2007 - 07:27 AM
Edited by kulpreet_singh, 18 March 2007 - 07:30 AM.
Posted 18 March 2007 - 09:29 AM
Posted 19 March 2007 - 10:28 AM
would not surprise me if they are already
incorporating some of those factors mentioned
in the patent. (Though I can not point to any
evidence of this)
Google already has a pretty
good overview of blog subscriber numbers
from the market share that Google Reader
has and it would seem obvious that feed
subscriber numbers and the rate of change (positive or
negative) in subscriber numbers is a signal that they could use
to determine quality.
Posted 19 March 2007 - 11:52 AM
Interesting. I wonder what criteria they would use for RSS subscriptions. Would Google know about, say, Bloglines subscriptions, or would this be skewed toward Google Reader subscribers?
Posted 19 March 2007 - 01:17 PM
Welcome to the forums, TheBiz
I think that Google Blog search is improving, too. I'd actually like to see it as one of the tabs above the Google search box. Don't know if that would happen, but it would be nice.
I offer no visitor tagging (though I sometimes tag posts myself), so it doesn't mean my blog is of less quality
I don't know of a lot of blogs that offer visitor tagging. This does seem like a strange criteria. Interesting that they would include this, and not something about comments.
Posted 19 March 2007 - 01:36 PM
Back in May last year, I suggested Google might just replace the [I'm Feeling Lucky] button on the regular search with a button labeled [Search Blogs]. In other words the regular search would use the same buttons as Google Blogsearch but in the reverse order.
I think that Google Blog search is improving, too. I'd actually like to see it as one of the tabs above the Google search box.
I'm sure that [I'm Feeling Lucky] button doesn't earn its keep. Given the simplicity of the search web page, that's expensive real estate.
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How much do you care about phone's appearance ?
Generally whenever I asked anyone which phone to get , Answer is obvious , iPhone 5 or One (around 4 months back)
When I ask "why ?" , The usual reply typically consists of describing appearance and how "cool" it feels in hand etc.
Being a Galaxy S4 Owner (and also ex-Lumia 820 owner) , some of the things take me into surprising state (btw , I always use a case for my device)
For example , I see shattered or dented phones once in a while , un-surprising they are either iPhone 4's or 4S's.
However I never saw iPhone 5's or One's with dents or shatters but whenever I look at these devices under sunlight , I see so many scratches on back as well as on side.
I see One's with gap issues (camera pink tints or some defects) while black iPhone 5's have their edges chipped little bit (when carefully observed) , silver iPhone 5's under bright light have full of scratches on back.
People care so much about appearance of these devices and buy them for the awesome designs but yet most of them are with so many horrible scratches/dents , Isn't it ironic ?
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Form over function? Is perception a B-word?!
Had some time:
So, I was going to post a long rant about Apple's marketing versus what I considered a true work computer, especially at the price. However, I decided to just post the specs a beast of a machine that uses the "form follows function" philosophy, and is similar to what people in my field use on a day to day. Feel free to debate or discuss. I just find all of the Apple fanaticism interesting.
It's the Lenovo W520 and it beats the Macbook, and even the iMac, in every category from screen to scalability. It's also competitively priced. It only lacks in overall aesthetic.
System components
-Intel Core i7-2860QM
Processor (2.50GHz, 8M Cache with Turbo Boost up to 3.60GHz)
-Genuine Windows 7 Professional (64 bit)
-Windows 7 XP Mode - English
-15.6" FHD (1920x1080) LED Backlit AntiGlare display
-NVIDIA Quadro 2000M Optimus Graphics technology (2GB)
-Colour sensor
-8 GB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM)
-Keyboard - US English
-UltraNav (TrackPoint and TouchPad) Fingerprint Reader, Smart Card Reader
-720p HD Camera with Microphone
-Internal RAID - Not Enabled
-Intel 160GB Solid State Drive, -Serial ATA
-Lithium Ion 9-cell Battery
-170W Slim AC Adapter - -North America, Latin America (2pin)
-Bluetooth 3.0 wireless
-Intel Centrino Advanced–N + WiMAX 6250
Services and software
-3YR Onsite NBD + 3YR Priority Support + 3YR TPP
-3Yr Battery
Price: $2880 (w/ $200 warranty/support, so $2680)- However, we tend to get a 20% discount when ordering from Windows OEMs. This is just what they'd sell it to you for online. I'm pretty sure if you call, you can also haggle with them. I've heard of non-business oriented people doing this. I built/priced it this way purposefully, so it'd be in between the $2200 Macbook & the $2800 Macbook.
As you can see the W520 absolutely destroys all Apple products in every category besides the Mac Pro, which is easily beaten by a customized Windows desktop. This computer is also Semi-Rugged and ISV certified (graphics card is either a FirePro or Quadro). Also, keep in mind that this laptop is made by an OEM that cares out enterprise/power user support. Compare the Lenovo warranty to the more expensive AppleCare and you'll see what I mean.
Screen: Resolution is is only a small worry for us. We, like many other industries, rely on color reproduction. The screen sports a 95% gamut score and has built in Pantone color calibration. Here are a few links on color reproduction - Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4.
Some reviews I found: storage review, ZDNet, notebook review, Laptop Mag, techradar.
Here are a couple reviews for other mobile work stations: HP Elitebook and Dell Precision
I'd also like to briefly point out that Windows PCs are fully supported by high end/standard software companies - Autodesk, ESRI, Dassault Systems (Solidworks &CATIA), ANSYS, and many more. And, Boot Camp & Parallels just aren't an option because you won't get the same performance, especially when not using an ISV certified workstation. The PCMarks in the reviews easily show this. And, since it's not supported you have to deal with hiccups and problems in the Boot Camp and Parallels.
I'd also like to point out that the Mac version of AutoCad 2013 is severely gimped. Here's the link comparing it to the the Windows version - Comparison Chart.


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Regenerative medicine (stem cells) and other emerging chronic pain management techniques (Proceedings)
Accurate measurement of pain perception in individual non-human patients is impossible. However, management of pain requires objective measures of effectiveness of the applied treatment. This paradox of pain management underlies much of the frustration associated with clinical management of pain and creates the opportunity for ineffective treatments to be supported by "scientific" studies. As a veterinary care provider treating patients likely experiencing differing intensities of pain, it is important to understand the pros and cons of pain assessment methods and utilize a critical anthropomorphic evaluation and treatment of postoperative pain.
Critical anthropomorphic evaluation of pain
Animal behaviour differs between species, between individuals of the same species, and even within the same individual over time and with different environmental influences. Creating a rapid and simple method for evaluation of pain perception is unlikely. However many clinicians advocate the use of pain scoring to measure treatment effectiveness to prevent the unnecessary suffering of feline patients. The most useful approach to clinical treatment incorporates some of our own human experiences and feelings (anthropomorphic) but modifying those expected feelings based on knowledge of feline behaviour and physiology. While not scientifically rigorous, this critical anthropomorphic approach incorporates our knowledge of pain in humans with our understanding of how we expect animals to react to noxious stimulation to clinically guide our treatment of pain.Pain physiology
An important conceptual breakthrough in understanding pain physiology is the recognition that pain following most types of noxious stimulation is usually protective and quite distinct from pain resulting from overt damage to tissues or nerves. It plays an integral adaptive role as part of the body's normal defense mechanisms, warning of contact with potentially damaging environmental insults and initiating behavioral and reflex avoidance strategies. It is also often referred to as nociceptive pain because it is only elicited when intense noxious stimuli threaten to injure tissue. It is characterized by a high stimulus threshold, is well localized and transient, and demonstrates a stimulus-response relationship similar to the other somatosensations. This protective mechanism is facilitated by a highly specialized network of nociceptors and primary sensory neurons which encode the intensity, duration and quality of noxious stimuli and, by virtue of their topographically organized projections to the spinal cord, its location.


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WASHINGTON (WKOW) -- The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to the lowest level in five years, evidence that employers are cutting fewer jobs.
The Labor Department says weekly unemployment benefit applications dropped 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 330,000, the fewest since January 2008. The four-week average is also the lowest in nearly five years.
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A new lawsuit has been filed in the hepatitis C scare. This time, the case is not about the doctors involved in the scare. Now lawyers are going after the patient's own insurance company.
Alynne Griffiths says she was forced to go to the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada. Her insurance company would only cover her two procedures if she went to a doctor at that center. She says going there gave her hepatitis C.
Griffiths looks and acts like a typical grandmother. Now 71-years-old, she retired from her art store business in early 2005 and moved to Las Vegas from Sacramento.
"California is really expensive and my daughter lives in Las Vegas, so I came to Las Vegas," she said.
She had two procedures at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada -- one in 2005 and another in 2006. After that, everything changed, "I am used to being a real active person. I like to garden and do physical things. I go out now. I go out and in a few minutes, I got to go back in and sit down for a while."
Griffiths had no idea why she felt tired until March of 2008 when the health district sent out a letter to 63,000 people saying they may have been exposed to hepatitis C at two endoscopy centers. Griffiths tested positive.
"This should be the best time of my life -- retired and do what I want, when I want it. Now all of the energy is gone," she said.
She says not only would PacifiCare of Nevada only cover the procedures at the endoscopy center, for hepatitis C treatment, the insurance company will now only refer her to the very doctor who performed the procedures who she says gave her hepatitis C.
"I am not going to go back to him. Because why would I?" she said.
"They are sending her back to providers who were providing services at that clinic at the time all of this came down," said Attorney Gerald Gillock. He filed the lawsuit on behalf of Griffiths.
He says the insurance company had a responsibility to look out for the benefit of the patient. He thinks they failed miserably with Griffiths.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday morning, but a hearing date has not yet been set. Lawyers tried to sue the insurance company of the doctors who own the endoscopy center. A judge threw that out saying the company did not have the obligation of inspecting the doctor's office.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has rolled out a bipartisan proposal to fight gun trafficking. The bill, backed by big-city mayors and sponsored by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), is also supported by two Senate Republicans: Susan Collins of Maine and Iowa's Chuck Grassley.
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His policy, Biden said, "is to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Period. Period. End of discussion," Biden told attendees at the American-Israel Public Affairs Council conference in Washington. "Prevent. Not contain — prevent," Biden added.
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Seguin, one of the major cities in the state of Texas, receives more than its fair share of tropical storms. These storms cause the nearby Guadalupe River to overflow, eventually flooding the city. Because flooding causes millions of dollars in damages, local government officials have encouraged residents to take certain precautions to protect their home and their valuables. Unfortunately, preparations are not enough to protect yourself completely against water damages caused by an overwhelming natural disaster.
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Junior competition:
In 2004 Pearson was third in the 100, fourth in the 100 hurdles and competed on Australia's fifth-place 4 x 100-meter relay team at the World Junior championships in Grosseto, Italy.
Versatile sprinter:
Major competitions:
In 2008, Pearson – then still using the name McLellan – was part of a tight group that crossed the finish line a tenth of a second behind 100 hurdles gold medalist Dawn Harper. It took a photo finish to sort out the remaining medalists, after which Pearson was awarded the silver and Priscilla Lopes-Schliep the bronze, with both runners clocked in 12.64 seconds.
Pearson has also competed in two Commonwealth Games. She earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 relay in 2006, then struck gold by winning the 100-meter hurdles in 2010. She also, surprisingly, ran on Australia's fourth-place 4 x 400-meter relay team.
Pearson would've won the 2011 Diamond League 100 hurdles championship with a victory in the final race, in Brussels, but she struck and hurdle and Danielle Carruthers gained the title.
2011 World Championships:
"I knew that I had this time in me, definitely, after the semifinal," Pearson said. "I knew I could get out there and do something special. I knew my body was in good shape. I tend to let my body do the talking and it told me I could run fast. During the race, I knew that I was going very fast, but I couldn't even image what I just achieved."
Pearson also ran the anchor leg on Australia's the 4 x 100-meter relay team, which didn't reach the final.
- Height: 5-5
- Weight: 130 pounds
- Birth date: Sept. 19, 1986
- Hometown: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
- Personal best: 12.28 seconds (100-meter hurdles); 11.14 (100 meters); 23.02 (200 meters)


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Grass energy research, technology, and innovation offers a local energy option that preserves Vermont's working landscape.
With support from VSJF, several Vermont businesses and research teams are now developing equipment and processes that could contribute to algal biodiesel production in the Northeast and elsewhere.
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From on-farm field days where agronomists, innovators and farmers share their research results and experiences, to technology-specific conferences; these events provide educational and networking opportunities and are at the core of the VSJF market development model.
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Soil Testing for Home Lawns and Gardens
Soil testing is a useful procedure to determine how much phosphorus and potassium you have in your soil. The test will also report your soil pH and organic matter content. A recommendation for nitrogen application will be given based on the crop specified at the time of sample submission. Lime application directions are provided if necessary (which usually IS NOT necessary in our Rock County soils).
For a soil test to be useful an appropriate sample must be collected and submitted. This means at least 6 cores (or small shovel fulls) from different parts of the same garden area. Mix these together and from that composite submit at least one cup of soil in a clean container or plastic bag.
The results of the basic test are limited to the nutrient, soil pH, and organic matter anaylisis previously mentioned. If you are concerned about heavy metals, pesticide residues, or other issues pertaining to plant health and soil composition you may need to conduct a special test, if that test is available at all.
The links below explains how to properly collect a sample, pricing, and expected results. If you have a concern regarding possible soil contamination, in Rock County please make an appointment with either the Crops and Soils Educator or the Horticulture Educator (staff directory) to discuss your situation.
In Rock County, samples may be submitted to the Rock County UW-Extension office, Rock County Courthouse, Janesville. The cost for home lawn and garden tests is $15 per sample + $5 for postage (check made payable to Rock Co. UWEX).
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WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- With Hilary White combining a career-high 25 points and 10 rebounds for her first collegiate double-double, Whitman College outlasted Northwest University 77-73 Friday night at the Kim Evanger Raney Memorial Classic in Sherwood Center.
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Whitman, which also got 12 points each from Michelle Krall, Jenele Peterson and Jessica Brice, ran its early season record to 3-0. Rachel Mitchell poured in 21 points to pace Northwest, which dropped to 2-4 on the season.
After jumping in front 4-0 to start the game, Whitman missed its next seven shots and committed four turnovers as Northwest scored 10 unanswered points. The Eagles led 19-13 before Whitman found its shooting touch, knotting the game at 21-21 on an Anna Forge jumper and taking a 25-22 lead on a Jessica Brice 3-pointer. The Missionaries led 31-26 at the break after an opening 20 minutes that saw both teams shoot about 32 percent from the floor.
The second half was a different story as Whitman quickly threatened to blow the game open, twice stretching its lead to 15 points. White's 3-pointer at the 16-minute mark capped an 18-8 run that had the home team in front 49-34. Northwest clawed its way back, getting back-to-back buckets from Mitchell, one of them a trey, to close its deficit to 56-52 with 10:45 left.
White nailed her fourth 3-pointer of the night with 6:13 remaining to push Whitman's lead back into double digits at 66-55.
The Eagles made a final run, pulling to within 71-68 on Carleigh Newman's bucket with 1:39 on the clock. The visitors had a chance to catch Whitman with 60 seconds left, but Krall blocked a 3-point try from the right corner and Peterson converted two free throws at the other end to put Whitman back up by five.
Mitchell's 3-pointer with 18 seconds remaining kept Northwest close at 75-73, but Peterson swished two more free throws with 13 ticks left on the clock to complete the scoring.
White scored 20 of her points in the second half, making seven of nine shots from the floor. As a team, Whitman shot 56.7 percent in the second half and won the battle of the backboards by a 43-33 margin.
With the Missionary offense struggling in the first half, Brice came off the bench to score 10 of her 12 points prior to intermission. Forge also gave sluggish Whitman a boost in the opening half, grabbing all eight of her rebounds in the first 20 minutes.
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Jessalyn Jackson notched a double-double for Northwest with 13 points and 10 rebounds. The Eagles also got 11 points from Colleen Woods.
Earlier on Friday, Lewis-Clark State opened Whitman's tournament with an 84-76 victory over Corban College. The tournament concludes Saturday with games at 4 p.m. (Lewis-Clark State vs. Northwest) and 6 p.m. (Whitman vs. Corban).
The tournament honors the late Kim Evanger Raney, a graduate of Issaquah (Wash.) High School who also played basketball at Whitman, graduating in 2002 with a degree in pyschology. She died in a cycling accident in March of 2007.
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The Seattle Seahawks could go 7-9 and make the NFL playoffs, while the Tampa Bay Buccaneers could go 9-7 and miss out. And the Bucs just beat Seattle by 23 points, outgaining them by 265 yards. Are we sure doing this the BCS way wouldn't be less unfair than giving the NFC West an automatic bye?
The Seahawks jumped out to a 7-0 lead on the wheels of Matt Hasselbeck, but Tampa poured on 31 straight points on four touchdown passes by Josh Freeman, two each to Kellen Winslow and Mike Williams. Freeman added a fifth in the fourth quarter.
Hasselbeck injured himself on that touchdown trot, giving Charlie Whitehurst significant action in his second straight week. Whitehurst threw for 66 yards on 18 attempts.
Legarrette Blount is this game's fantasy MVP, running for 164 yards and peeling off a 53-yard carry that featured a hurdled Seahawks defender.
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Goal is to remind drivers, bikers and pedestrians how to be safe on campus
Ohio State students, faculty and staff who are outdoors on campus between 1 and 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 14, will see a concentrated educational effort aimed at improving traffic safety.
Recent tragic traffic incidents in the campus area have heightened awareness of the need to reinforce safe behavior among drivers, bikers and pedestrians.
Volunteers will be stationed at high-traffic areas on campus to hand out information materials and help spread important traffic safety messages. The messages will include reminders that pedestrians should only cross at sidewalks, drivers should yield to pedestrians and bikers should ride with traffic.
In a message last week, President E. Gordon Gee said all members of the campus community share the responsibility to ensure that we walk, drive or bike safely. Gee will be stationed between Bricker and Derby Halls on 17th Ave. from 1 to 1:30 p.m. to provide informational materials.
In addition to students and staff, volunteers will include Ohio State University Police and local law enforcement agencies.
WHAT: Ohio State holds campus-wide traffic safety event to raise awareness of safe behaviors.
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Looks like Duane isn't ready to "Bang" after all.
That's because Mr. Ludwig suffered an injured sternum in training and has been forced to pull out of his bout against Amir Sadollah at UFC Fight Night 24 in Seattle on March 26.
Stepping in to replace him will be James Wilks, according to UFC.com. Company President Dana White had this to say about the switch:
"Bang Ludwig is out with an injured sternum but James Wilks has verbally agreed to step up against Amir Sadollah for UFC Fight Night March 26. TUF 7 winner VS TUF 9 winner. Should be fun."
Fun indeed, as is typically the case with anything related to Sadollah. The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) season seven winner most recently defeated Peter Sobotta in Germany at UFC 122 to get back in the win column.
That's exactly what his counterpart will be trying to do against him.
Wilks dominated the favorite to win season nine, DaMarques Johnson, at the Finale to win the glass trophy and the six-figure contract with the UFC.
Unfortunately, he hasn't exactly lit the world on fire since then, losing two of his three fights with the lone win coming against the same man Sadollah just defeated in Sobotta.
Old Pete is now gone from the organization and Wilks and Sadollah will battle it out in what could prove to be a must win for the former, what with the short leash everyone appears to be on after the merger with the WEC.
UFC Fight Night 24 is all set to go down on March 26 at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington, and will feature a main event of Phil Davis stepping in for the injured Tito Ortiz to take on Antonio Rogerio Nogueira.
Dan Hardy will return to action as well, when he "Rumbles" with Anthony Johnson in the co-main event of the evening.
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OSHKOSH (WKOW) -- An Oshkosh woman celebrated Halloween by turning 107 years old.
Erna Cartwright celebrated at the house where she was born, and where she still lives today.
Friends visited Erna and a local flower shop sent her a bouquet of roses, one for each year she's been alive.
"I just can't comprehend that I'm 107 years old and I try to figure out how this happened," she said.
It may be that she kept herself busy; Erna worked as a bookkeeper for Oshkosh b'Gosh and then Oshkosh City Cab until she retired at age 102.


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As a Gerontologist who studies and promotes the successful aging of human beings, I want to see all of us becoming more mindful of our decisions and activities as we age. Gerontology is a social science that specifically addresses aging after 60, but I am a firm believer that positive aging begun early makes good sense. Paying attention to your future today, no matter what your age, is just the right thing to do (thank you, Quaker Oats and Wilford Brimley)!
Aging well--success in aging--is that activity we do that is birthed in our attitudes and spreads to our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual selves. In 1984, Drs. Kahn and Rowe defined "successful aging" and listed its three determining factors:
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You can guess which one of those I am going to talk about today! I address the third element and define "success in aging" as:
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There are so many variables in choices for positive aging; it is the good choices we make today that help us have better tomorrows. Being actively engaged with the things we can control--sound nutritional choices, good exercise habits, mental strengthening through new activities, dancing, laughter, volunteering, practicing friendship, and positive attitudes, to name a few--has been proven to make us more able to cope with the challenges that aging can and does bring.
Actively engaging with your aging process--choosing how you want to age--means working within one's personal parameters--I can, I can't; I will, I won't--and those choices must begin immediately. Having a plan and working the plan-- physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and financially--is the best use of your time from now on.
The importance of recognizing your own preferences is foundational in making good decisions. Preferences are all about our quality of life in old age, so be sure to let those who will care for you later know your personal likes and dislikes. It will make a tremendously positive difference in your aging experience. The truth is: "No one WANTS to age, but EVERYBODY wants to age well!©" When we improve quality of life for ourselves, those we influence, and those who love us, we really do achieve success in aging.
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There are so many choices for dinner in Chicago on Saturday night, but I was eager to visit L20 and taste Laurent Gras's cooking again. I first came across him in New York, a decade ago, when he was executive chef of Peacock Alley in the Waldorf-Astoria, his first kitchen after 13 years as Alain Ducasse's right-hand man, gathering three Michelin stars in Monte Carlo and Paris. His food then was extraordinary, ethereal, meticulous, deconstructed to such a degree that elements of the same dish were brought separately to the table. A shellfish composition, for example, featured a juicy, stir-fried lobster tail on an emulsion made from its coral, alongside tiny, soft, flavourful quenelles of crab mousseline. Sweet crab crisps, fragile as tissue, had their own napkin-wrapped vessel while a third bowl held samphire and slivers of geoduck in a clear, golden lime-and-clam consommé. It sounds precious, but the flavours were vivid and true, their relationships irrefutably valid.
The next time I tasted Gras's food was here in Toronto in 2004 when he was a guest chef at Susur, swapping courses with Susur Lee and generally astonishing the room. By then, he was based in San Francisco, wowing the critics at Fifth Floor. He started building L20 in 2007 as a collaboration with restaurateur Richard Melman – and now here we are, three years later, opening the heavy dark-wood door in the lobby of the Belden Stratford hotel in posh Lincoln Park, eager to be amazed.
We are on time but the restaurant is not ready for us so we are guided into the bar. The décor is all very chic in its carefully shadow-barred glow – a forest of ebony columns and white leather chairs, high-tension steel wire and pale natural wood, frosted glass panels and caramel-coloured sofas – timeless, elegant and as instantly forgettable as the murmuring non-music that teases our ears. I order a glass of bone-dry, ascetically mineral Assyrtiko from Santorini as a telling comment on the chilly welcome but the gesture goes unnoticed.
To table – and our first glimpse of the menu. Chef Gras has become bewitched by Japan, it seems. L20 is a restaurant with a decidedly Japanese sensibility and an infatuation with the sea, a thousand miles from Chicago. A folded card lists the day's fresh fish – even American flounder and Australian Yellowtail are translated into Japanese – though the menu names only the ingredients in each dish, not how they are prepared or any hint of their relationship. There is a 12-course seasonal tasting menu and a 10-course "luxury ingredient" menu featuring Italian ossetra caviar, wild hamo, Rangers Valley wagyu beef, etcetera… The waiter tells us that Chef "allows" two people to have different tasting menus if they wish – that "allows" immediately raises our hackles. But I remember Gras advising me to order à la carte all those years ago in New York, so that's how we go…
I'm so tempted to cut to the chase. Instead, let me describe some of what we ate, choosing the dishes because they exemplify what was best and what was bizarre about our meal. As you can see from the picture, the appetizer entitled "eighteen flavours of summer" is a technically dazzling tour de force of tiny, overwrought vegetable jewels. Some items are brilliant – tempura avocado, for instance, or a super-intense apple-jalapeño sorbet; others are merely finicky or over too quickly to leave much impression. Do I sound like a bumpkin if I suggest that five or six flavours of summer might have been more impressive?
Pan-seared foie gras is another disappointment. The waiter sets down the dish then goes into realtor mode, spending so long describing its salient features that the liver is cold by the time we broach its perfect but now-congealed surface. And its delicately lipoidal flavour is lost beneath the flamboyant courtiers that crowd around it – steamed scallions, balsamic dots, fresh raspberries with tatsoi greens, guanaca chocolate goo, cylinders of caramelized phyllo, a raspberry foam turned to semifreddo by long tableside whisking in a tumbler of liquid nitrogen. The waiter seems slightly disappointed that we have seen the trick before.
Lamb tartare layered with raw shrimp is salted to the point of bitterness, its purslane garland decorated with edible gold leaf like some Bollywood dessert. By the time our main courses come we are wishing we had gone to Schwa instead.
I admit it – I chose my main course because it had an actual verb in the verbiage – "Tai snapper – green curry deconstructed." It reminded me of Peacock Alley. The snapper itself was magnificent – a perfect, plump, heavy, moist, juicy fillet of flaky white fish with more flavour than one usually finds in members of the snapper clan. Around it were brussels sprout leaves, coconut turned to silken powder and rice turned to foam, a very sweet coriander tuile with a crudely chewy texture, green dots of chili, brown dots of ginger, another bit of fun with liquid nitrogen, this time turning cilantro foam into a sort of petrified effervescent macaroon… So many magical silver bells and gilded whistles – but it was the fish that proved the highlight of the evening.
After that came the pre-desserts and the desserts, the molecular tricks suddenly seeming far more acceptable and normal. After all, we have been used to such games from confectioners since Escoffier was a lad. Best of the lot was a pre-dessert of frozen meyer lemon and ginger marshmallow in an egg cup. I could have eaten a tub of it.
Zooming back to the Drake hotel in a cab, we dissected the evening. L20 is three years old but it seems much older. This sort of cooking is very dated now – as is the style of service, so tight-lipped, precious and admonitory. The descriptions of the dishes had been learned by rote (the waiter knew the foam was cilantro, but not that cilantro and coriander are one and the same) and there was a sense they had also been cooked by rote, with extraordinary discipline and precision but very little joy. Laurent Gras seems to be urging his customers towards some kind of classic kaiseki experience, but it isn't working. Japanese cooking constantly seeks to reveal the essence (actual, sensual, metaphorical and spiritual) of a particular ingredient. Everything the chef does is dedicated to that end. Tonight seemed much more about the worship of technique – even to the point of camouflage. It reminded me of a performance of a Shakespeare play where the actors become so involved in perfectly delivering the verse that they forget about the plot altogether.
Next up, Alinea – another temple of technique.
L2O is located at 2300 Lincoln Park West (at Belden Avenue) in the Belden Stratford and serves dinner six nights a week: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6:00PM-10:00PM, Friday 6:00PM-11:00PM, Saturday from 5:00PM-11:00PM and Sunday from 6:00PM-9:00PM. Heaven help you if you're hungry at 9:05PM on the Sabbath. For reservations call 773-868-0002.


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Area Guide – Quabbin Gates 34-35
Quabbin Gates 34-35
Old North Dana Rd., New Salem, MA
A gate leading to a terrific path along the shores of the Quabbin Reservoir.Description:
A short walk of about ½ mile down the dirt road from Gate 35 leads through an oak-pine woods to the Quabbin Reservoir and a terrific path south along the shore. Keep watch on your return for a trail to the left where the dirt road arrives at the shore; this is Dike Trail, which crosses an earthen dam and connects with a paved road that returns to Gate 35. For a longer hike, take a side trip up a dirt road that heads north from this paved road. At the intersection just past Bassett Pond on the right, the road to the left leads to the fishing area at Gate 31; straight ahead is Gate 33; and the road to the right leads to Gate 34, near Old North Dana Road, about ½ mile east of where you parked at Gate 35.Directions:
From Rte. 2, take Exit 16 and go south on Rte. 202. Turn left on Rte. 122 and go about 3 miles to Old North Dana Rd. Turn right and proceed 1 mile to Gate 35.Contact:
Quabbin Administration Bldg.
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847 Area Code 847 Prefixes
847 Area Code 847 Map And Stats
The 847 Area Code (or Area Code 847) is located in the state of Illinois. Area Code 847 is one of the 269 3-digit telephone area codes in the USA. It covers roughly 1,617,627 unique phone numbers and 3,627,325 individuals near the city of Schiller Park.
Most numbers within Area Code 847 are located in the following cities: Round Lake, Palatine, Waukegan, North Chicago, Northbrook, Des Plaines, Skokie, Chicago, Coal City, Elgin, Wheeling, Eufaula, Schaumburg, Arlington Heights, Grayslake, Barrington, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, Geneva, Schiller Park, Lake Forest, Deerfield, Glencoe, Lake Villa, Zion, Libertyville, Itasca, Wilmette, Mount Prospect, Oswego, Highland Park, Park Ridge, Antioch, Rialto, Buffalo Grove, Evanston, Vernon Hills, Franklin Park, Garden City, Rolling Meadows, Naples, Scottsdale, Flossmoor, Beardstown, Rock Island, Woodstock, Los Osos, Ingleside, Macomb, Glenwood, Mchenry, Hanover Park, Lake In The Hills, Harvey, Winnetka, Mundelein, South Elgin, Gurnee, Morton Grove, Fox River Grove, Wauconda, Island Lake, Crystal Lake, Carpentersville, Saint Charles, Lake Zurich, Hillside, River Grove, Elmwood Park, Harwood Heights, Algonquin, Cary, Bartlett, Prospect Heights, Glenview, Oneida, Huntley, Joliet, Tinley Park, Perryville, Batavia, Dundee, Fox Lake, Niles, Bensenville, Lincolnshire, Bellwood, Portland, Spring Grove, Hampshire, Huntington Beach, San Mateo, Evansville, Westland, Atlanta, Glen Ellyn, Kalamazoo, Aurora, Downers Grove, Gothenburg, Charlotte, Bolingbrook, Cicero, Romeoville, Salem, Latrobe, Palos Hills, Maywood, Rio Rancho, and Park Forest.
The 847 area code lies within the Central Standard Time (or CST). The current time in Central Standard Time is 09:08 PM on 09/02/2014.
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Schiller Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 11,850 at the 2000 census. [more on Wikipedia]


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Father agrees to pay teen daughter $200 to quit Facebook for 5 months
More and more people are taking a break from Facebook. But not many are getting $200 for the effort.
Count Rachel Baier in that exclusive group. The 14-year-old made a deal with her father, Paul. If Rachel stayed off of Facebook for five months, she'd find herself $200 richer.
To make sure everything was above board, a contract was signed by both parties. Rachel will get $50 if she resists the call of Facebook until mid-April. She'll score $150 more if she makes it to June 26. She has given her father her password, which he has changed to prevent her from accessing her account. According to the contract, Rachel intends to use the proceeds for "stuff."
We spoke with Paul Baier about the plan. It turns out, it was Rachel's idea. "She mostly wanted and needed the money as she has been frustrated by not finding babysitting jobs. She is an honors student but she says Facebook can be distracting."
Rachel originally asked for $70, but then, like an expert negotiator, she came back and asked for $200. "When she realized it would be for five months, she wanted an amount that would really excite her," Paul explained.
Paul hopes this may start a trend. "I've realized that she is part of a generation of kids that has grown up on Facebook. She's been on it for two years full time. This is two years of 24/7 teen discussion of friends, clothes, parties, etc. They can't get away from it. I'm proud she recognized the benefit of a hiatus. She plans to go on using it after the contract ends."
The contract expires on the last day of school. So far, she has no regrets.
Source: News.yahoo.com


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Orlando, FL (Sports Network) - Elias Harris poured in a game-high 18 points to lead No. 17 Gonzaga to a 72-47 triumph over Oklahoma in the semifinals of the Old Spice Classic.
Kelly Olynyk donated eight points and eight rebounds for the Bulldogs (5-0), who advance to take on Davidson in the championship on Sunday.
"That was a really, really good win for us," Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. "We attacked on the offensive end all night and did another great job playing defense."
Romero Osby paced the Sooners with 13 points and five boards, while Isaiah Cousins chipped in 10 points in the setback, Oklahoma's first of the season.
The Sooners (3-1) will face West Virginia in the third-place game on Sunday.
"Gonzaga did a terrific job in dictating pretty much in every way," Sooners coach Lon Kruger said. "Anytime you get whipped that badly on the boards, you know they were a lot more physical, a lot more aggressive to loose balls."
Gonzaga got off to a fast start and never looked back, as the Bulldogs scored the game's first seven points and held a 14-5 advantage less than nine minutes into the contest.
Oklahoma pulled within three on an Andrew Fitzgerald dunk with under six minutes left until halftime, but the Bulldogs closed the half on a 12-5 swing and carried a 32-22 edge into the locker room.
The lead ballooned to 18 early in the second half, as Harris netted nine points in an 11-0 Gonzaga run to press the lead to 43-25 less than three minutes in.
The Bulldogs' lead never dipped below 15 the rest of the way as Gonzaga cruised to victory.
Gonzaga shot 45.8 percent from the field and held Oklahoma to just 32 percent
shooting ... Gonzaga outrebounded the Sooners, 45-22 ... Fitzgerald finished
with four points for the Sooners.
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Wow, I hope somebody calls Sokol Blosser out on that one. Food choices, not lack of fresh food or "food deserts" contributes to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, etc. This isn't Angola. There's fresh and healthy food to be had all over the county. Shoot, Roths was selling fresh tomatoes for 99¢ a lb just this week. What does a bag of doritos, bottle of coke and a twinkie cost? Don't school kids also get breakfast and lunch? Kind of hard to be hungry on 2 Department of Education approved meals. You can also take your kids for free lunch during the summer.
I get so tired of people blaming others for their poor choices and outcomes.
Better control of diet and exericise and organic is probably the best choice of stopping both of these.
i thought it funny the news rans a thing about organic this week. no more nutritional than non organic. HOWEVER.. if you talk about vitamins and minerals maybe not. But if you talk about toxins from chemicals you are talking a big difference. I have studies with the EPA that shows the big difference.
Chemincals stored in muscle tissue and other parts of the body can cause immune problems leaving a person with various illeness.
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That's what I have in mind: should we look to buy Michu when David Villa inevitably leaves? He's tall and skilled, and would bring a new dimension to the team. He plays attacking midfielder or second striker for the Swans, and has been superb for them so far. He's on the verge of a debut for La Roja. The main sticking point would be whether he would fit at one of the wings, as the center striker position is Messi's.
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The 18th episode of the Riddick & Reynolds Podcast dropped on Monday evening. We discussed Mark Gottfried's planned parachuting into Carter-Finley in the first segment, talked Wake Forest with Chuck Amato in the second and delved further into the Wake Forest abyss amongst ourselves in the third.
And the oh-so-popular Sniff Ratings make their second appearance on the show.
Enjoy! And if you do, tell a friend about the podcast...every listener counts!


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