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Cool Your Jets: Dealing With Bob Costas
And the side effects of being on the biggest stage
A quick note to all the skiers and snowboarders up in arms about Bob Costas' comments comparing ski and snowboard slopestyle to the Jackass TV series: Relax.
Week In Review January 10: Old People Ski More Than You
Team America wins, friends don't let friends ski in jeans, another webisode for your viewing pleasure
The guy who usually writes these, Kade Krichko, took a break this week. Apparently he was too "busy" taking a road trip with 4BI9 and got "stuck" in the airport and couldn't "handle" writing this week. If you miss Kade, don't worry. He'll be back next week with all the news that's fit for skiing's WIR.
Backcountry Skiing in the Golden State: The Waiting Game
What do you do when you're writing a backcountry skiing guidebook and there's no snow? Go to Canada
What do you do when you're on assignment to write a guidebook about skiing in the golden state and there's no snow? Go to Canada.
FWT Courmayeur Teaser Video
The Freeride World Tour heads to Italy next week for its first stop of the season
The Freeride World Tour kicks off on Saturday, January 18 at Courmayeur Mont Blanc, Italy. Situated in the Aosta Valley at the foot of the south face of Mont Blanc, Courmayeur presents skiers with a dramatic arena in the Alps. In past years, the tour has kicked off in the United States, France, Russia, and Canada, but this year, the honors goes to Italy. This is the third consecutive year that the tour has stopped at Courmayeur. Tune in to Powder.com for consistent coverage on the FWT all season long.
Junk In The Trunk: Flylow Compound Pants
The pants you want to be wearing (and take off) when you find yourself lying next to a fire on a fur rug
Flylow Compound Pant
I've been skiing in the same Flylow pants for about five or six seasons. I keep trying to replace them, but each season I've ended up back in the same pair of pants. There are a few features that have kept me. For one, they're durable. They're constructed of a heavy Cordura and have held up remarkably considering I have more than 300 days in these pants. I also like the back pocket for my wallet. This has its drawbacks—namely that you're sitting on your wallet on the chairlift. But for me, the back pocket is the natural place for a wallet. Too much stuff in my front pockets restricts movement, and putting the wallet in a jacket pocket increases chances it will get left behind if I have to run into the store on my way to the hill, or if I ditch my coat before heading to dinner or après. I also like that the zippers close down, making it less likely that they'll work themselves open. And I like that the waist fastens with a button instead of a snap, so they don't come undone if I unzip my fly.
This year, I found a replacement. It's the Flylow Compound Pant. The Compound has all the features I liked about my old pants, plus a few upgrades. Instead of closing with a down-zip, the zippers are horizontal, which has all the same benefits, but without needing two hands to open them. They also added a cargo pocket. Anything heavy here will clunk against your knee, but it's a good spot for cash, credit cards or a room key, allowing me to put my phone in my front pocket (again, where it usually goes) without having to worry about dropping my cash or card if I pull it out on the lift, or erasing my hotel key. It also works for an RFID lift pass.
The biggest upgrade, however, is in the materials. The compound uses a Polartec NeoShell, making them much lighter, more waterproof, and more breathable than my old pants. The NeoShell is waterproof to 10,000+ mm (meaning it will hold a 10,000 mm water column without leaking, the textile industry threshold for waterproof). This is useless, of course, without fully taped seams and waterproof zippers, which the compound also has. NeoShell also features proprietary membrane construction that Polartec claims to be the most breathable—allowing two cubic feet of air per minute to pass through. Because it's so air-permeable, NeoShell breathes through convection—meaning you don't have to get hot and steamy before it starts working. And it does this in a soft shell. The remainder of the construction, meanwhile, remains the same as my trusty old pants, with reinforced articulated knees, and Cordura-reinforced ankle cuffs.
MSP's Days of My Youth: Black Panther
Michelle Parker's new nickname
A highlight reel of Michelle Parker from MSP's upcoming film, Days of My Youth. Where the nickname Black Panther comes from, we have no idea. Cat-like reflexes? Cat-calls? Stealth objectives?
Salomon Freeski TV: Super Pillows
What if skiing powder and pillows were a video game?
In summer, pillow zones look like unclimbable fields of 10-50 foot boulders and cliffs. Covered with feet of powder, suddenly a giant boulder field turns into a bouncy playland descendable by fat skis and a committed skier.
Some describe pillow fields as a "series of flat landings." Which isn't too far from the truth. Each pillow has stacked up powder that requires a very well positioned landing to immediately jump off the next pillow. Filled with trap doors one can fall into and the occasional uphill landing, a carefully pre-selected line is optimal for a safe and manageable descent. Pillows are challenging and present a high degree of difficulty, but when descended properly can be one of the most fun ways to get down the mountain. Suddenly you're in the air nearly as much as on the ground. You're bouncing down the mountain, flying off of blind airs, landing on small pads of snow and rebounding into the air once again. The whole thing feels like jumping down a mountain full of trampolines.
With new ski technology, pillows are skiable like never before. From high-tech touring equipment that allows you to get up and around steep slopes to the top of pillow lines and hold you in safely on the way down, to fat skis that bounce as opposed to sink into the snow so you keep momentum through the line. Twenty years ago, pillows would have been nearly impossible to ski. Skinny skis would sink and touring equipment would have blown up on every landing.
With the progression in technology, pillow skiing is quickly becoming one of the most sought over forms of skiing. Its challenge and incomprehensible feeling of bouncing down the mountain will lure many more for years to come.
—Cody Townsend
The Next Stop for the Olympic Qualifiers
Halfpipe and Slopestyle qualifiers continue at the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix in Breckenridge, January 8 to 11
The Olympic qualifiers continue this week at the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix at Breckenridge, Colorado, held January 8 to 12.
The Amazing, Great, Worldwide Epic Race
Vail Resorts hosted a contest to see who could ski all of its resorts across the globe first
Since opening day at Eldora Mountain in Colorado, several hundred skiers had battled to see who could ski every resort offered on Vail Resorts' Epic Pass—26 ski areas total spanning four countries and five states. Whoever did so first, and documented their travels for proof, would win a lifetime Epic Pass.
Rising Tide Episode 9 – How the Internet Changed Skiing with Wallisch and Logan
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In 1968 a decision was made to combine the RAF Commands that had become famous in World War Two. Thus Fighter,Bomber, Coastal, Air Support and Signals Commands were combined into the single Strike Command. This amalgamation was to see service throughout the remaining years of the Cold War and action in the Falklands and the Middle East in Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Granby.
This book looks at the origins of the World War Two Commands and their outline histories until 1968. The organisational change caused re-equipment, base changes and increasing economic constraints – an all-too familiar story. The Royal Navy was now responsible for the UK's nuclear deterrent in the form of their Polaris submarines, so the RAF's V-Bomber Force were now relegated to tanker operations, with the exception of the lone Vulcan that was sent to the Falklands conflict.
The Commands fleet of fast jets became more adaptable, with single types able to assume the roles of fighter, bomber,reconnaissance and maritime attack. The aircraft also become multi-national in their design and manufacture as Britain's post-war lead in aircraft design had been frittered away by years of thoughtless government and our aircraft manufacturing devolved into a single company. Apart from the brilliant Harrier which the US continues to develop and build, other aircraft flown by the Command were from European syndicates, the Tornado and Jaguar being examples. The US supplied the transports in the form of the faithful Hercules and Europe most of the helicopter fleet.
This book looks at the operations that took place during Strike Commands existence, the aircraft they flew and the men who flew them. It is a tribute to the fast-dwindling strike power of the Royal Air Force.
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"The Deceitful Heart"
Sermon shared by Kenneth Sauer
February 2004
Summary: We can�t rely on what our hearts tell us; we must only trust in God.
Scripture: Jeremiah 17:5-17:10 (add scripture)
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Jeremiah 17:5-10
�The Deceitful Heart�
By: Kenneth Emerson Sauer,
Pastor of Parkview United Methodist Church,
Newport News, VA
I was talking with a very troubled man this past week.
He is a 50 year old drug addict and alcoholic who has been married several times, has children that he has never spoken to, and has never been able to keep down a job.
He recently was released from a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, and proudly told me that he has been sober for 46 days.
He said that he feels good for the first time in a long time�
�that he has been attending a church in Virginia Beach�
�and this time�
�this time�
�he�s going to stay sober.
Then he asked me, �What do you know about sanctification?�
Well, sanctification is a fairly complicated theological term�
�but I told him that sanctification is the journey which Christians begin after they have repented of their sins, and have made the decision to allow God to create in them a new heart by making Jesus Christ the Lord of their lives.
Sanctification is the journey toward perfection�which none of us will ever achieve on this earth�
�but it is the daily process of putting off the old and taking on the newness of life in Christ.
He then said, �Now that I�m not doing drugs or drinking anymore, I still have one vice that eats away at me. It�s lust. How do I deal with lust?�
Well, in whatever form it takes, is this not what every human being who has walked the earth--since the Fall of humankind-- when we became aware of the knowledge of good and evil-- has had to confront?
How do I deal with lust?
How do I deal with what my flesh desires, but what the Holy Spirit of God knows is not good for me?
Some people just decide to embrace the lust, and turn their whole hearts away from God.
And make no mistake, this is a decision.
It�s a decision to follow the cravings of one�s own flesh which never fails to leave one in dire straits.
�This is what the Lord says: �Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord.
He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.��
Isn�t it interesting that those who depend on their flesh for their strength� �will not see prosperity when it comes.�
What does that mean?
Could it mean that they will not be satisfied with life no matter what happens?
Even if the deepest desires of their hearts are met�they will not be happy, they will remain unsatisfied�
�even though this is what they have been seeking.
Because the deepest desires of our hearts is not what we truly need.
Let�s face it, our hearts are deceitful.
We cannot rely on them.
The Lord tells us in Jeremiah 17:9 that �The heart is deceitful above all things��
Obviously there is something radically wrong with humankind.
We rob each other.
We lie to each other.
We abuse each other.
We rape each other.
We step on each other.
We even kill each other.
And God, through the prophet Jeremiah, puts His finger right on the central problem�
�right on the weakest place�
�the most wounded place�
�the place with the most defects�
�the human heart!
In Matthew Chapter 15 Jesus declares: �out of the heart come
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Women in football movies: blink and you'll miss them
Apparently, I harbor an inner
redneck. Earlier this week, I blogged about country music, and today I'm
blogging about football, both of which I like a great deal. I'm not
sure how all of this meshes with my musical theater–loving New York
ways, but I guess we all have our contradictions. Happily for me, my
girlfriend tolerates the country music (and the showtunes) and embraces
football. So we do OK. I'm mentioning all of this right now, of course,
because this Sunday is Super Bowl Sunday, and I will be rooting for my
hometown Giants. (Although my regular season team is the Pittsburgh
Despite the emergence of numerous
women's professional football leagues over the years (you can check out a pretty
good history here), football is a guy sport. Women can
and do play, but next to nobody pays attention — including me. While
I generally like women's sports more than men's, I simply cannot get
into women's pro football. But I do like women in football movies when
I can find them. Here are the very, very few.
1. Tami Maida —
Quarterback Princess (1983)
I'll bet I wasn't the only young
adolescent who developed a crush on Helen Hunt in her turn as high school quarterback
Tami Maida. I had already seen her on Family, The Facts of
Life and that ABC Afterschool
Special, Desperate Lives, where she
jumps out the window while on angel dust. But in Quarterback Princess,
she played some football and crusaded for the rights of girl athletes
everywhere. Of course, she also made a point of how straight she was.
And how she didn't like other boy things, like logging. But still, both
Helen Hunt and the real Tami Maida were pretty cool.
2. Molly McGrath —
Wildcats (1986)
Hawn was the
girls' track coach who longed to take over the J.V. football team. (She
was brought up on football.) The sexist varsity coach arranges for her
to get a chance coaching a team in the slums. Against all odds,
she wins over her team of ne'er-do-wells, grows closer to her daughters
and stands up to her bullying (in a nerdy kind of way) ex-husband. Oh,
and wins the big game against the sexist coach's team. Also, Swoosie Kurtz is in the movie. And Goldie Hawn raps
(à la "The Super Bowl Shuffle") with her players over the closing
credits. "It's the sport of kings/Better than diamond rings./Football."
The only problem was that her football proficiency was not convincing.
3. Annabelle Farrell — The Replacements (2000)
Brooke Langton
plays Annabelle, the cheerleader/bar owner who is Keanu Reeves'
support and inspiration in The Replacements.
There's a little bit of Susan Sarandon/Bull Durham to her character,
but mainly I just included her here because she's hot.
And that's pretty much it for
movies I've seen. A friend told me that Kathy Ireland played
a replacement kicker in Necessary Roughness, and Cameron Diaz
was important in Any Given Sunday, but I haven't seen those movies
and therefore cannot comment.
I can, however, comment on
a couple of TV characters who strut their football stuff.
1. Rudy "Sweet Feet" Huxtable
— The Cosby
Back when Rudy was still little
and cute, she joined a peewee football team. Claire (played by the lovely
Phylicia Rashad) was initially worried, but then, with the rest
of the family, got caught up in the "Sweet Feet" phenomenon when
Rudy turned out to be good.
I liked that there was no big
gender issue to this episode. The kids were all so little that girls
playing wasn't a big deal. And she stopped playing because she got all
beat up in a game and it wasn't so fun anymore. (Although quitting at
the first loss is not a great message for kids.) Mostly, it was just
Rudy being insanely cute in a football uniform.
2. Monica, Rachel and Phoebe
— Friends,
"The One With the Football"
Again, the girls got to actually
play football during this episode. The backstory was that Monica and
Ross had not been allowed to play football since they were adolescents
due to a nose-breaking incident in the quest for the "Geller Cup."
Now, it's Thanksgiving and
the gang is playing football in between turkey-basting breaks. Monica
is obsessively competing with Ross. Phoebe is discovering herself as
an athlete. And Rachel just wants someone to throw her the ball.
Here's my favorite quote from the episode:
Rachel: We should definitely
play football more often. Maybe there's like a league we could join
or something.
Phoebe: Isn't there a national football league?
Chandler: Yes; yes, there is. They play on Sundays and Monday
Rachel: Oh, shoot! I work Monday nights.
And here's a clip of all the
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Thank You Thursdays: The cross-dressing Kurd Men For Equality
By Maya | Published: April 25, 2013
TweetEarlier this month, in the city of Marivan, Iran, a judged sentenced a man convicted of domestic abuse to be paraded around town dressed in traditional Kurdish women's clothing. This was a "punishment" since obviously being a woman is so embarrassing, amirite? In response, a local feminist group held a rally, and 17 members of [...]
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A short list of ways white people can be less oppressive
By Sesali Bowen | Published: March 19, 2013
TweetI've had a particularly "uncomfortable" weekend. I won't go into the specifics, but I've been at the center of more than one triggering and oppressive moment with white folks this weekend. So I would like to share a short list of things that white people can do to not make a black girl like me [...]
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Was MF Global brought down by an accounting play?
Bethany McLean has a theory: that accounting helped to sink MF Global, and that the $6.3 billion long position in European debt was made "for an accounting play".
The key part is that for accounting purposes, MF Global's filings say the transaction was treated as a sale. That means the assets and liabilities were moved off MF Global's balance sheet, even though MF Global still bore the risk that the issuer would default; that means the exposure to sovereign debt was not included in MF Global's calculation of value-at-risk, according to its filings. And that also means MF Global recognized a gain (or loss) on the transaction at the time of the sale. The filings do not say how much of the gain was recognized upfront. But if it were a substantial portion, then these transactions would have frontloaded the firm's earnings. That, in turn, may have helped cover the fact that MF Global's core business was struggling.
Moving assets and liabilities off your balance sheet to make yourself look less risky? That's a very Lehman move, redolent of the notorious "repo 105" trades.
But I'm not convinced by this story.
Firstly, the debt of Italy, Spain, and Belgium might be getting a lot of headlines right now, but in terms of price action it's not actually as volatile as you might think. These assets weren't actually significantly more volatile than the rest of MF Global's balance sheet, and so including them on the balance sheet would not have increased MF Global's value-at-risk very much. In fact, it might have reduced it.
Now that doesn't mean, of course, that the assets weren't riskier than most of the rest of the balance sheet. They were. They were sovereign bonds being held to maturity, in most cases at the end of 2012. And a lot can happen between now and then. That's what the markets were worried about, rather than any immediate mark-to-market losses on the bonds. In fact, it's not clear that there were mark-to-market losses on the bonds. But if you're holding a bond to maturity, that's an inherently much riskier position than if your prop desk is holding it as part of a bond position which it can sell at any time.
Secondly, it's extremely unlikely that MF Global recognized a gain on this transaction at the time of sale. The bank bought this debt on the open market, and then immediately put the bonds up as collateral, getting cash in return. We don't know who lent MF Global the money, taking the bonds as collateral. But whoever it was had no reason whatsoever to value the bonds at more than their market price. So there's really no way that MF Global could have recognized a gain on the sale: much more likely, in fact, that it would have registered a modest loss. (In a repo transaction, it doesn't matter if you sell the bonds for less than they're worth, since you also contract to buy them back at a pre-set price later. So long as the repurchase price is also low, it's fine if the initial sale is done at a low price too.)
And finally, there's no indication that taking this trade off balance sheet helped to significantly hide the size of MF Global's assets, or to understate its actual leverage. Here are the numbers from MF Global's quarterly filings:
What I'm charting here is the total size of MF Global's assets, in green; its equity, in blue; and the ratio between the two, in red. Obviously, the leverage ratio is ludicrously high: there are more than $40 billion of assets being supported by just $1.2 billion of equity.
But can you see, in this chart, where Jon Corzine joined the company? (It was in March 2010.) And can you see where MF Global brought the European sovereign bonds back onto its balance sheet? (It was in the final numbers, for September 2011.)
The fact is that MF Global's leverage ratio — and its total balance sheet — was higher before Corzine arrived than it was at any time afterwards. And that when the European sovereign-bond trade was brought back onto MF Global's balance sheet, the total size of that balance sheet actually fell.
In other words, the trade which brought down MF Global, even if it had been on the balance sheet all along, would never really have been visible on the balance sheet, or in the leverage ratio, or in the value-at-risk figures. I'm not clear on why the trade was moved off balance sheet in the first place. But I think it's a stretch to say that accounting brought down the bank.
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Totally agree with your analysis. I was puzzled by Bethany McLean's theory as I was reading it. It was nicely written but quite far out.
This was a clear liquidity squeeze. Someone knew MF Global was under stress and demanded additional collateral. MF Global as far as we know went as far as posting client funds as collateral to buy more time.
It does not matter if this was Lehmann like repo 105 accounting. What matters is that the firm ran larger positions than it could afford. Moving the bonds off balance sheet just made the vulnerability less visible and ultimately obscured what the firm owed and owned at any one time. Maturity matching and liquidity management are banking basics, if you fail at them you deserve to be out of business. And if you fail at them while using client funds as collateral, then you belong into jail.
Well very briefly, far far too much debt. Almost always the prelude to disaster.
Am I the only person that thinks this is Refco Part 2. Moving debt around to fool investors. And doesn't MF's executive team have some former Refco executives? Did we really get scammed again by the same people at the same game?


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i feel awkward and annoying and unwanted
all of this
when i was little my dad would always go on about how friends weren't just gonna come knocking on my door sometimes i'd have to ~go to them
and i'd just be like
i'll just sit here and await friendships
My period.
When I first get it, I'm like.
Then I become depressed and I'm like.
And all I wanna do is.
If someone tries talking to me, I'm all like.
And the entire time, I'm like why me.
And once it's over, I'm all like.
3 years old - "mommy, i love you"
13 years old - "WHATEVER MOM !"
16 years old - "Mom is so damn annoying"
18 years old - "i wanna leave this house!"
25 years old - "Mom, you were right"
30 years old - "i wanna be with my mom again"
50 years old - "i dont want to lose my mom"
70 years old - "i would give up everything for my mom to be here with me"
We only have 1 Mom.
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Delicate in flavor with a slight tang, banh hoi rice noodles are a special event Vietnamese food that's often enjoyed at parties and celebrations. They're instantly recognizable as the white noodles are shaped like rectangular mats of thick white cheesecloth. They're very thin, finer than Italian angel hair pasta. It's best to purchase banh hoi (pronounced "baan hoy") fresh from a Vietnamese market or Chinese barbecue shop in a Vietnamese community where they're typically sold on Styrofoam trays and wrapped in plastic wrap. For a general low-down , take a read of Vietnamese Noodles 101: Banh Hoi Fine Rice Noodles.
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text: 10 February 2011 BREAKING: Obama Administration Seeks Weaker Wildlife Protections on National Forests, Grasslands Posted by: James Navarro | 7 comments | Share: Proposed National Forest Management Act regulations lift Reagan-era wildlife viability standard Summary: Proposed forest planning regulations released by the Obama administration today fail to provide critical, concrete protections for water and wildlife The administration's proposal would roll back strong safeguards for wildlife conservation issued by the Reagan administration in 1982: a requirement that the U.S. Forest Service maintain healthy, sustainable fish and wildlife populations The proposal would leave the decision of whether or not to maintain healthy, viable populations of many imperiled wildlife species at the discretion of individual forest managers, leaving the fate of hundreds of species uncertain The proposal would allow individual forest managers the discretion to "give up" on protecting many needy species without facing accountability to the public Defenders of Wildlife will be reviewing the proposal in greater detail and urging the Obama administration to set binding standards for safeguarding water quality and fish and wildlife habitat on our 155 nation's forests and 20 grasslands, a total land area as big as Texas The following is a statement from Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife: "Our nation's wildlife is getting the short end of the stick in the Obama administration's proposed forest policy. The administration appears to be looking to do the bare minimum for wildlife and is abandoning its responsibility for keeping common species common. The public expects a lot more from President Obama." Background: Congress passed the National Forest Management Act in 1976 to reform the Forest Service and to ensure that the agency give due consideration to non-timber values, such as recreation, wildlife, and water. In 1982, the Reagan administration adopted wildlife viability protection in response to declines in the population and range of many species caused by the routine approval of logging and other development projects that did not take the need to conserve wildlife into account. The Reagan rule, currently in effect, supports populations of popular game species such as elk, moose, and black bear, and helps keep sensitive and rare species off the endangered species list by identifying and correcting wildlife population declines before species become imperiled. In 2005 and again in 2008, the Bush administration tried to rewrite these regulations, lifting the requirement that the Forest Service manage its lands so that all native species can remain viable. Defenders of Wildlife challenged the Bush administration's proposals in the courts. Ultimately, the court found that the Forest Service violated the National Environment Policy Act by approving the new regulations based on a faulty environmental impact statement that failed to analyze adequately the environmental impacts of the new regulations, and that it had violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to examine the effects of eliminating wildlife protection standards on protected species. Links: Read our report that lays out Defenders' expectations for the National Forest Management Act planning rule. Follow Defenders' forest policy expert, Peter Nelson, on the blog for more analysis of the regulations. 7 Responses to "BREAKING: Obama Administration Seeks Weaker Wildlife Protections on National Forests, Grasslands" Jo Anne Otterstrom February 10th, 2011 Obama…you need to step down, you sir, are a walking disaster area! Reply Jay February 11th, 2011 Please let us know what the administrations reasoning was and exactly what we can do to change the policy. Reply Dr. Lee Jolliffe April 22nd, 2011 Mr. Obama, you make me ashamed to be a Democrat. Reply Jo Ruggles September 23rd, 2013 REMIND President Obama of his PROMISE to PROTECT our wildlands and wildlife when he ran for President in 2008. He failed miserably when he appointed Ken Salazar as Interior Secretary who was beholden to the ranchers, farmers and hunters. And, I don't know about his new Secretary, Jewell. She talks a good game, but she walk the walk? FWS is out of control and running amok. Let's see how she handles them. 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U.S. envoy Zinni back in Middle East on Thursday
The United States will send envoy Anthony Zinni back to the region on Thursday for a second round of talks, aimed at brokering a cease-fire between the sides, according to Tel Aviv based HaArtez.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Dan Kurtzer phoned Israel Prime Minister Sharon's office Tuesday and informed him of Zinni's return to the Middle East, thus confirming Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat's statement on Zinni's arrival.
According to U.S. sources, the Retired Marine General will stay in the region for four days and will be accompanied by Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. Zinni's mission will be to ensure that Arafat is "cracking down on terrorists" and "assuming that happens, to encourage Israelis to ...ease closures", the U.S sources added.
During Zinni's first two-week visit in the region, violence between Israel and the Palestinians had erupted once again. Zinni ended his visit following the attack against a bus in Emmanuel, which resulted in the killing of ten Israelis. Following the attack, the Israeli cabinet made a decision to declare Palestinian President Arafat "irrelevant". At the time, U.S. officials criticized Arafat for not making enough efforts to prevent attacks by the Palestinian militants.
Since then, President Arafat has arrested Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants. A drop in attacks has been noted since President Arafat's speech in mid-December calling his people to observe a cease-fire. Sharon, on his part, has said that Arafat needs to do more in order for the peace talks to resume. (www.albawaba.com)
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- U.S. Envoy Zinni Leaves the Region, Decides No Point in Continuing His Efforts
- Zinni Compares Arafat to New York Mafia Chief; Arafat Compares Himself to George Washington
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- Israel Says Zinni Might Have Been Targeted by Tank Explosion in West Bank
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The Journey - November 30, 2012
Road Rules | Proverbs 3:17 | Devotional
Proverbs 3:17 Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace.
Steve McNair was killed…by his lover. She shot the former All-Pro quarterback, husband, and father of four, four times. Then she ended her life with a single bullet to the head. What a sad story! What a reminder of Scripture's relevant truth: A life of duplicity leads to destruction (Proverbs 11:3). But a life of wisdom leads to a much better place.
Our proverb today is found in a section where Solomon personifies wisdom. He describes "her" as "more profitable than silver" and "more precious than rubies." Investment in wisdom "yields a better return than gold." In her right hand, she holds "a long life" and in her left hand "are riches and honor." Solomon is clear that wisdom is not book-learning or simply the result of life experience. Both are important…as far as they go. But foundational to wisdom is the "fear of God"—a double-edged sword that invites us to embrace God as Father (even Abba Father) and dread His disdain for sin. The result of proper fear of God is the beginning of true biblical wisdom.
Wisdom does not guarantee a problem free life. It certainly does not make us immune to the fallout of the bad decisions of those we love. Biblical wisdom does promise something deeper and more profound. God will make our way "pleasant" by pouring His favor and blessing on our obedience. And God will bring peace to our paths—a peace that surpasses human understanding (Philippians 4:7). Now that's a better place!
Father, place within our hearts a desire to follow hard after you. Keep us on a path where your blessings rain. Keep us on the path where your peace fills our hearts. O God, protect us from being found in the story of a life that leads to destruction. In Jesus Name. Amen.
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For any group of youth: Learn about being a park steward and earn the Bandelier Steward patch by completing a Youth Stewardship booklet along the Main Loop Trail. Each youth who completes the booklet to the satisfaction of his or her leader can get a free Bandelier Steward patch from the Visitor Center Desk.
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That family at the end — Peggy, Don and Pete — have often treated each other badly, as family members do. Each of them has been selfish, unkind or oblivious in one way or another. They know exactly what buttons to push in order to hurt each other, and Peggy and Pete have the pain of their own complex history locked away in the back of their minds.
But they broke bread together, and they found comfort in the fact that not one member of that trio wanted to settle for what was easy. "Mad Men" often depicts acts of selfishness, nastiness and calculating cruelty, and those frequent displays of cynicism, dislocation and status-seeking can start to seem a little wearing.
But what keeps me devoted to "Mad Men" is that every so often, it circles back to the ideas that people can find common ground and are capable of altruistic acts. The show's depiction of self-flagellation and desperation can be riveting at times, don't get me wrong, but I like that "Mad Men" occasionally implies that people can follow the better angels of their nature and find comfort in doing so.
Life can be dark and depressing, but occasionally you come across clean, well-lighted places. Sometimes friendship waits there. Or at least some hot fries."
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While many functional/haskell paradigms don't translate, there are a few techniques that JS can benefit from.
Why functional is better? So many reasons, one comes here: Programming languages are not made for computers, they are for humans to formulate generic solutions computers can solve faster in the details. The imperative style formulates the steps the computer has to follow, the functional style formulates the generic solution as such. Imperative style wants you to act like a machine, functional style allows you to think like a human.
it's haskell in your browser!
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Yhc Web Service is built around CouchDB which itself is written in Erlang. CouchDB uses JSON as encoding for queries and responses. A special daemon regularly polls the database for updates. If a new Haskell source is submitted for compilation as a new document, the daemon extracts it from the database, and invokes Yhc to transform it along with modules imported into linked Yhc Core. Next, Javascript Backend is invoked, to convert the linked Core into Javascript. Finally, using the XHTML template (user-supplied or standard), a Web page is built. Output from the compiler and other programs called during compilation is also collected. Results of compilation are stored in the database as attachments to the document which contains the submitted Haskell source.
- http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0262560992/ #Before Haskell, may be better to go with Sheme
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1012573/how-to-learn-haskell #Roadmap
- http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/why-functional-programming-why-haskell.html #as…
Quick diff in a gist form. Hmm i don't have nearly any experience in Haskell but it prefer Erlang form its just feels ok :).


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But she has been trying to get some money for a staged photo opp of her wearing her newest accessory, the SCRAM bracelet , used to monitor her alcohol intake. Lindsay was reportedly seeking $10,000 for a posed photo of her and SCRAM. Too bad none of the big players bit, so she ended up doing the set up with a small agency.
Why would they considering there are TONS of photos of her and her SCRAM gear… We all remember when Angelina Jolie gave birth to her twins, Knox and Vivienne two years ago. The media scrambled to get the first exclusive photos of her with her new babies. In the end, People magazine won and published the Brangelina twins for $14 million as the cover of their August 4, 2008 issue. This still remains as the most expensive celebrity photos ever.
Back in March 2008, People paid Jennifer Lopez $6 million for photos of her twins. At least we know that Brangelina's hefty paycheck went to a foundation created by them focused on helping children around the world.
According to Popsugar.com, Jolie-Pitt twins People issue sold 2.6 million copies which is its biggest selling issue in seven years and its 4th highest selling issue ever after the 9/11, Princess Diana and JFK Jr. death covers. People's newsstand price is $3.99 per copy, which brings the total to $7,774,000. Not bad at all.
Back in June 2010, Shannon Price sold ex-husband Gary Coleman's death photos for $10,000 to Globe magazine. Talk about keeping it classy, Shannon.
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Seems like the paparazzi aren't the only ones trying to make a buck with photos. Celebs are jumping on the bandwagon–or perhaps more accurately, turning the tables–to make a pretty penny or two. In fact, Adrien Grenier recently got BEHIND the camera to make a documentary called Teenage Paparazzo about 13 year-old paparazzi Austin Visschedyk.
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Crisis FC! - AFR Voice - Ep7
Since AFR last loosened up its larynx, there was a series of high profile exits from the football juggernaut. Pulling his ripcord first was David Beckham, who looks set for a safe and particularly well-paid landing in France. Next up was Roberto Di Matteo and Mark Hughes – both unceremoniously ejected from West London into no man's land. As you'll hear, Rafa Benitez shouldn't get comfortable with his in-flight movies just yet either as we wonder whether dastardly Roman Abramovich is determined to drive Chelsea into the ground.
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How the Women of Good Vibrations and Babeland Have Helped to Liberate Female Orgasms
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In 1999, Rachel Maines published a most provocative work, The Technology of the Orgasm. It is a study, as its subtitle indicates, of "hysteria, the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction." An underground classic, a documentary film based on it, Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm, directed by Emiko Omori and Wendy Blair Slick, was released in 2007.
The study is a critique of "androcentric" culture, the tyranny of male-centric sexuality. It is remarkably revealing, dialectic analysis of how the technology invented to discipline female desire, expressed as "hysteria," became, a century later, sexual wellness products sold by Amazon and at Wal-Mart.
Maines' book should be read as part of the larger feminist critiques of patriarchy through the repression of female sexuality, particularly through the suppression of the female orgasm. She documents how, from Hippocrates to Freud and beyond, the ruling sexual ideology of each age was based on the tyranny of the phallus, the erect and orgasmic male penis. This tyranny involved a "socially" accepted notion of sexual pleasure based on male ejaculation and the goal of sexual coitus, penetration, serving the needs of procreation.
Her study also details how women resisted this tyranny. One form of resistance, perhaps the most threatening to male hegemony, was labeled "hysteria" or, more broadly, "hysterical paroxysm." The American Psychiatric Association's "DSM" finally dropped the "disorder" in 1952.
Maines shows how, during the late-19th century and much of the 20th century, the (mostly male) medical profession employed a variety of techniques -- including manual, hydraulic, mechanical and electronic devices – to treat this female "disorder." Initially, they hand massaged women patients to orgasm. She notes that the first vibrator was released in 1880 and, since the 1920s, clinicians increasingly relied on new and improved technologies – what she calls "capital-labor substitution options" – to address the "problem."
Most illuminating, Maines' points out that "once the vibrator became a relatively lightweight and inexpensive device that could be operated by water or electricity in the home, it became a 'personal care appliance' and not a medical instrument." [p/121] And the rebranding from "personal care appliance" to "sexual wellness" was but a short hop-skip-&-jump.
Going further, Maines' argues that there has been "a systematic effort to subsume the knowledge of the clitoris, not the vagina, as the seat of the greatest sexual feeling in most women into the androcentric model … ." The purpose of this effort has been "to avoid one-to-one heterosexual confrontation over orgasmic mutuality by shifting the dispute onto medical ground." [p/112]
The challenge facing today's "sexual wellness" business is shifting the sexual pleasure paradigm from the traditional "androcentric" culture to one of "orgasmic mutuality" and the equality of the clitoris and penis. This is as much a socio-political struggle as a sexuality issue.
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The 2nd wave of feminism championed not only social and political equality between women and men, but also sexual equality. Profiles of four women's sex-paraphernalia ventures – Good Vibrations, Bableland, We-Vibe and My Secret Luxury -- suggest how things have changed over the last four decades.
The "grandmother" of sex-toy shops for women is Good Vibrations, the esteemed San Francisco firm that recently celebrated its 36th anniversary. Its founder, Joani Blank, sex educator/therapist, started the store because in 1977 when there was no where for women to get erotic materials that was in Black's words, "clean and well-lighted" and "friendly, feminist and fun."
Carol Queen, the company's staff sexologist and historian, recalls the scene in the late-70s when the store opened. "San Francisco was the epicenter of the 'sexual revolution,' during the pre-HIV gay freedom years," she notes. Queen adds: "Good Vibrations was very specifically created for women, but the irony of this was, shortly after it was launched, the store began to get visit from male customers too -- it turns out many of them also didn't like the classic 'dirty bookstore' type of store."
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I used to dye my hair constantly. Whenever I was bored with anything, I would change my hair, and I would do it myself, and I would do it poorly. There wasn't a shade of burgundy drugstore hair dye that didn't get slathered onto my hair in the 90s, and this was when I was trying to be normal- otherwise I'd go for one of the superbright Manic Panic colors- the ones that would stain your hands for days after dyeing. My parents, if you were wondering, found this whole hair dyeing thing to be a tad upsetting.
At some point, I got the stupidly entitled idea in my head that I shouldn't have to pay for hair dye since it was such a constant, transient thing for me, so I decided to steal it. This was not generally in my character, but for some reason, I thought it was just. I went to the drug store in the local mall, which had a mall exit as well as an exit directly to the parking lot, and I plotted like an idiot.
I roamed the store with a studied casualness that could not have looked more suspicious, and it did not help that I was surely wearing something ridiculous, maybe striped stockings or jeans held together by safety pins or a t-shirt that said "Spaghetti Power!". I hovered in aisles, I picked up products and put them down, and I looked for security guards. Since I had no idea what anti-theft stuff looked like, once I finally fake-meandered my way over to the hair dye section I decided to take the dye out of the box and shove it into my other shopping bag.
Mind you, I had at least $20 on my person, more than enough money to pay for this hair dye. I just felt like hair dye should not be a thing I should have to pay for. I was an idiot, and still am sometimes.
I finally made my move, and after meticulously taking the two dye bottles and conditioner (can't forget that!) from the box, I shoved it in my bag nonchalantly and slowly made my way to the exit that faced the parking lot. I was terrified but believed I was in the clear. I got out the door and breathed a huge sigh of guilty relief, still kinda unsure why I decided to do such a thing, when a woman behind me said "Excuse me?". My brain said "I'm sure she just wants to know the time".
She didn't.
She was a plainclothes security guard, and she wanted to know if I had anything in my bag that belonged to the store.
I said no, my voice shaking.
She asked me to come back inside.
I did.
She sat me down in an enclosed cubicle near the pharmacy, so like the pharmacy, its floor was about a foot higher than the rest of the store. The top of the cubicle was open, and as I waited, heart pounding, I concentrated on the high ceiling above me, wishing I was up there, perched like a bird, just observing this scene rather than being inside of it. How sad, bird-me would think, that girl doesn't deserve this.
The guard explained that she had seen me stealing and rifled through my shopping bag until she found the dye. She asked if I had stolen the dye, and I nodded, willing myself not to cry. She said that she was going to call my parents. I told her that she didn't need to do that, and she gave me the options of calling my parents or calling the police.
The guard spoke to my parents on the phone, so I don't know how they sounded, but what I do know is that they seemed to arrive immediately, and that my Mom, convinced that her daughter was a hoodlum, told everyone in ear shot that she might faint. Ahh, the reactions of a fine Southern woman.
I've blocked out the discussion in that horrid raised-up cubicle, but I was crying, my mom was crying, and my dad was most likely just shaking his head in bewildered disappointment. After about 30 minutes, I was told that I was banned from the store forever, and I was free to go.
I kept dyeing my hair after that, but from then on I always gladly paid for the products. Some experiences, like hair dyes, are permanent.
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Kobe said,
I was caught shoplifting when I was 13. It was a horrible experience. The store made me pay a $75 "fine" — well, my mom — or they threatened to call the police. And I was grounded for a month by my parents.


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CAPE CORAL, Fla. - Call for Action is working to uncover the truth behind a recent loan modification mishap involving Bank of America.
We told you about Cape Coral single mom, Nicole DePuy on Monday, July 26th. She tried for two years to get a loan modification with Bank of America. She finally got the modification approved but says the bank foreclosed and sold her home anyway, despite being current on her new deal.
We contacted Bank of America to find out what happened. We put in our first inquiry a week ago and kept checking in since. The bank told us they were working on it. Finally, as our story was airing last night we received a statement from Bank of America saying that they were working behind the scenes and would contact Nicole.
Nicole tells me she received a call back from Bank of America during the commercial break before our story aired. She says the representative told her they were working with Isla Blue, the company that bought the property, to try to buy it back or else give her more time to move. She says the bank also said they may be able to help her with rent and moving expenses.
Well, we found this response interesting because we called Isla Blue and they say they have never had anyone from Bank of America contact them. They did tell us they were open to receiving that call, however.
We sent emails and made calls to Bank of America today to press them as to why they would say tell Nicole one thing, when we discovered it may not be the whole truth. So far bank of america has told us nothing. They did not respond to us by our 6pm newscast deadline.
But that's not all. After Nicole's story aired we got a call from another woman also in Cape Coral who says the same thing happened to her. Laqurdia Tatum was approved for a trial loan modification; she even showed us the approval letter. The letter stated that over the next three months, if she followed the requirements and made her payments, Bank of America would not auction her home. She tells us that she made her payment and she even showed me the canceled check.
Tatum then went to Fort Bragg in North Carolina to say goodbye to her son who was being shipped off to serve in Afghanistan. She returned home to find out-- the bank had auctioned her house anyway.
"I can't tell him. He just landed in Afghanistan yesterday. I can't tell him... he thinks we're OK. He's actually wiring money so we can keep the mortgage going," Tatum told us.
So we called Bank of America and sent them detailed emails again about Nicole's situation and Laqurdia's situation. We are going to continue to follow this story and push for answers about why Bank of America foreclosed on two homes in our area despite being approved for the modification program. They again, didn't respond.
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Volunteer Opportunities
There are many needs in this world and many opportunities to fill those needs. It isn't your age that matters – it is your willingness to see the needs and make a commitment to take action. Listed below are just some of the many opportunities for people of all ages. You can always call the Volunteer Center at 856-415-9084 to help with your search to find the perfect opportunity for you!
Current Volunteer Opportunities
Not knowing how to read can be demoralizing to the point which it can prevent someone from getting a job or discourage someone from participating in society. The mission of the Literacy Volunteers of Gloucester County is to teach people to read and write English. This organization is in dire need of tutors for adults who are struggling to learn English. Tutors will create lesson plans and give one-on-one help to their student on a regular basis. These volunteers will make an immeasurable impact on their students by supplying them with an invaluable skill. In order to become a Literacy Volunteer, you must be 18 years old or older and have completed 12th grade English. If you are interested, please contact Trudy Lawrence at email@example.com or 856-218-4743.
The Emmanuel Cancer Foundation is a 30+ nonprofit organization providing a variety of specialized services, at no charge, to any New Jersey family facing the challenges of caring for a child with cancer. They are searching for numerous types of volunteers, including delivery volunteers, food drive specialists, communication specialists, and advisory board chairpeople (view detailed descriptions here). If you are interested, please contact Zipporah Browne at email@example.com or at 856-853-4803.
Do you have a skill or hobby that you are interested in sharing with the community? Great! CFFS is in need of volunteers to lead activities or lend their skills at our residential programs, which serve youth ages 11-25. Cooking breakfast on the weekends, baking cookies every Sunday, leading a sewing or tailoring workshop, after school tutoring, leading a writing or poetry workshop, offering singing or voice lessons or another form of musical workshop, and creating and leading a fitness, wellness or nutrition class are just a few examples of the activities you could set up.
Email firstname.lastname@example.com to learn more about the opportunity.
Are you interested in volunteering in healthcare? Virtua Hospital in Berlin needs volunteers to work at their information desk. There are three four-hour shifts per day during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 12 noon, 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. from Sundays through Saturdays. If interested, please contact Kathy Tonarski at email@example.com or call 856-322-3555.
Girl Scout of Central & Southern NJ is looking for volunteers to deliver workshops called Green Apples that enrich and energize the leadership e.g. Geocaching, Scrapbooking, S.T.E.M., Motivating Your Team. The possibilities are endless. Do you have something you love! Share your passion with our adult volunteers!
These volunteer facilitators will work to carry out Enrichment Workshops for our 12,000 adult volunteers.
Workshops are typically 2-3 hours in length on weekday evenings between 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm. Dates and course time are set by the Facilitator. Workshops you plan to present must be approved by the Manager, Learning Services prior to scheduling. Workshops may be scheduled in areas of your choosing in our area.
Interested in getting involved as a council trainer? Need more information? Please contact Stephanie Fowle, Learning Services Specialist at 609-849-0741 or email@example.com.
The Life Long Learning Program is dedicated to providing opportunities for individuals to pursue their interests in an inclusive, fun-filled community environment. Volunteers are needed to assist instructors in the following classes: cooking, literacy, health and wellness, performing arts, find arts, and arts and crafts. Classes are being held on Monday evenings through November 25th from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the Bankridge Regional School in Sewell. Come join the fun of assisting others to learn new skills while making new friends. For more information contact Brenda Scardefield at 856-848-8648 x23 or LuAnn Lima at 856-848-8648 x24.
The house made from love needs volunteers of all ages, including teens for their Teen Advisory Council. The volunteers can choose from a variety of activities including Family Fun Night activities, meal preparation as well as event and house operation support. Please contact Dorothy Lucca at 856-966-4663 or firstname.lastname@example.com for more information!
Furrever Friends is 100% volunteer-run, so we are always in need of volunteers who want to help save the lives of homeless animals. We need volunteers to help out at our PetSmart Adoption Center, help with fundraising activities, provide foster homes for cats and kittens, offer transportation, etc. No matter what your skills, abilities or interests, Furrever Friends can use your help! For more information e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Continuing Opportunities
Join the Fight Against Hunger – Organize Your Own Food Drive
Hunger isn't just a holidays-only occurrence for many families in the area. You can do your part by organizing a food drive with friends, neighbors, or community group. Click on Food Bank of South Jersey to find out more about how you can help.
Additional groups: Philabundance, Gloucester County College food drive, Faith Fellowship Ministries Joseph Storehouse. Also, the Gloucester County Division of Social Services has a list of food pantries in the county.
Organize a Donations Drive to Help People in Need
Organize a drive to collect much needed items such as baby bundle items (diapers, wipes, etc.) or raise money to purchase gift cards for youth that reside in supportive housing. To find out more about how you can help, please click on Robins' Nest, Inc.
Help Improve the Environment
There are multiple environmental organizations in South Jersey that are always in need of volunteers for their many events. The South Jersey Land and Water Trust has several volunteer opportunities for young people: volunteers are needed for stream cleanups, tree plantings, preserve maintenance, help with education programs, volunteering at events and other community events, and in office help. The New Jersey Tree Foundation has tree plantings in Camden every Spring and Fall. The AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassadors Program is an environmental community service program administered by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to raise public awareness about water and watershed issues and to promote watershed stewardship through direct community involvement. Volunteers are needed to help assess trees and at other volunteer events such as tree plantings and cleanups. The Scotland Run Nature Center, located in Clayton, offers many environmental education programs to children and adults and could use volunteers to help out at these events. The Nature Conservancy protects thousands of land in New Jersey and could use volunteers at a variety of events such as cleanups, preserve maintenance, and habitat restoration. In Haddon Township, the Saddler's Woods Conservation Association is a group dedicated to the protection of an old growth forest in Camden County.
The Center for Family Services is in need of volunteers to help improve the lives of disadvantaged children in the area. They are currently seeking volunteers to help kick off their Born to Read initiative. Volunteers will act as literacy specialists in the classroom. You will be helping in the classroom through reading aloud sessions and other activities to promote kindergarten readiness through reading. Through volunteering with this project, you will be taking part in an important first step towards a successful school career. Volunteers commit to one hour per week, with one class, for one school year. These centers will be located throughout Camden County & the city of Camden. Interested in any of these opportunities? Contact Annie Duklewski at email@example.com to get started!
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Camden County, Inc. is an independent, non-profit organization committed to advocating for the best interest of children in out-of-home-placement under the jurisdiction of the NJ Family Court. In order to do this, the CASA must investigate the facts of the case, recommend a course of action to the court or Child Placement Review Board (CPR), facilitate the resolution of the presenting problems, and monitor the progress toward the established goals. To learn about CASA's newest program, the Youth Transition Program, please click here. CASA volunteers are ordinary people who care about kids who come from all backgrounds. Some are students or retired adults; however you must be at least 21 years old, no criminal history, make a one year commitment to the program, attend 30 hours of training, and attend 12 hours of in-service training. No legal expertise is required. If you are interested in being a CASA Volunteer, please call 856-858-4488. If you are unable to attend this training but are still interested in volunteering, please call for more information.
Give a Child A Head Start on Their Future
Many children are not as fortunate as others and never get the opportunity they deserve. There are multiple volunteer opportunities in Gloucester County to give back and provide a child a fulfilling childhood. The Boys and Girls Club of Gloucester County provides a safe place for disadvantaged children to learn and grow. Volunteers are needed to help with programs in the areas of education, fitness, social recreation, teen issues, bullying prevention and more. Big Brothers Big Sisters provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. Don't forget to visit the Woodbury Child Development Center and the Glassboro Child Development Center to find out how you can give back.
Be There for Someone in Their Time of Need
Many of our partner non-profits work in the healthcare sector and need volunteers to give comfort to those who are sick, provide bereavement for those terminally ill, provide support to the elderly, and help with the disabled. If you are interested in volunteering and helping those in need, please consider volunteer with some of these organizations:
Abilities Center of South Jersey
NewPoint Behavorial Healthcare
Samaritan Healthcare and Hospice
Visiting Healthcare and Hospice
Walk for a Cause
Many of our member non-profits are advocacy groups whose mission is to raise awareness about certain issues, whether its trying to stop substance abuse or trying to find a cure for a disease. Volunteers are needed to help with donation drives and at their many events as well as be support. Some of the many advocacy groups that the Volunteer Center works with are:
American Red Cross of Gloucester County
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Provide Someone With A Roof Over Their Head
Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization that builds or repairs homes so families healthy, safe, and feel a sense of self-worth. Volunteers are needed weekly to help build homes. Whether you want to volunteer in Glassboro or Camden, volunteers are always needed.
Volunteer with Animals
Most of our member non-profits work with people trying to overcome challenges, but some also work with animals. There are thousands of pets ready to be adopted in the county. Volunteers are needed to help out at shelters, to take care of the animals and provide love. Some of our non-profits that work with animals include:
Gloucester County Animal Shelter
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County
Donate Your Bicycle and Help Someone in the Developing World
Not all of our non-profits focus solely on people in southern New Jersey. Some work to help people in other countries. There are hundreds of volunteer and non-profit organizations, such as the Peace Corps, that work to help people abroad. One local non-profit allows you to help people overseas without leaving the county. Pedals for Progress is a non-profit that recycles your old bicycle and sends it abroad to someone in need. If you are interested in donating your bicycle, click here.
A full list of the non-profits that need volunteers in Gloucester County can be found on our Non-Profits page. Volunteer opportunities can be found on our One-Day/Short Term Volunteering page. Call us at 856-415-9084 to find out what volunteer opportunity is right for you.


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Mississinewa 1812 is the largest living history event in the United States. This annual recreation of the culture and events of the Battle of Mississinewa in 1812 provides participants with an intimate, hands-on look at one of the largest battles in the War of 1812. Participants in this event enjoy a one-of-a-kind opportunity to explore this era of U.S. history as if they were actually there. The event features re-creations of the military camps, Indian camps, and Rivertown around the time of 1812. Participants can explore the food, crafts, lifestyle, and arts of the time and may interact with authentic guides.
The Quilters Hall of Fame is a memorial to the best quilters from around the world. Located in the home of famed quilter Marie Webster, this Hall of Fame inducts new honorees on a regular basis, offers a quilting guild for quilting enthusiasts, and provides a number of events designed to entertain and educate quilting hobbyists. Quilting enthusiasts can find any number of events and quilt displays to sate their appetite for the beauty and skill that go into creating phenomenal quilts. Visitors can explore the beautiful gardens surrounding the house or participate in celebrations that surround the addition of new Hall of Fame members.
The Mississinewa Riverwalk provides a walking trail of more than two miles along the Mississinewa River. This paved trail wanders through one of Marion's Matter Park and provides peaceful and beautiful views of nature and the river. These views provide the perfect calming backdrop against which families, singles, and couples can enjoy an afternoon stroll or a more strenuous schedule of exercise. In addition, the trail allows for more than just walking and conversing; biking and rollerblading are options, too. The area is particularly friendly for families and children, providing a safe and easy trail along which even young children can travel.


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There will be a temporary power outage on Circuit 1204 at 5:00 a.m. Monday morning, May 12, 2014, for the contractors to pull new high voltage cabling from an existing electric manhole to the Crimson Café building.
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WOW. Got some balls eh? LOL good job. :)
Oh my fuck.
I didn't even read the second one.. That guy's rather rude . - . If you're so mean why didn't you tell him off? Because I didn't see you do that. c: He's just jealous over how amazing you are D<
I know it's not crazy, I just wanted to go simple for my LovEvo outfit. I will be wearing ALL my kandi and my hello kitty ears, so come find me ! <3
that's not crazy D: your body is so pretty //Not being a creep ;~;'//
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What We Offer
The Spirit of Camp Big Canoe is in everything we do. Through our land, water, and arts activities, our leadership and out-tripping programs, and more, we are together and experiencing a camp like nowhere else.
Countdown to Camp Big Canoe 2015
Session 1 starts in 257 days!
Never to Early for 2015
It's never too early to save your spot for next summer – dates for the summer of 2015 are now on-line.
Early bird savings can be yours, register for the summer of 2015 today to save and start your countdown to camp now!
Like Nowhere Else
Camp Big Canoe is a residential camp for boys and girls aged 6-16. Located on 240 acres surrounding private Hart Lake in the beautiful Muskoka district of Ontario, Canada, our campers are given every opportunity to experience the challenge and rewards of outdoor living and to appreciate their natural environment.
Get Ready for Camp
Wherever possible we try to help you prepare your child for camp.
Find out what to pack, what not to pack, transportation info, preparation tips for first time campers, info on how you may contact your camper and even songs and camp lingo to get your camper in the Spirit of Camp Big Canoe!
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Register now for summer 2015!
The summer of 2014 was one for the ages for Camp Big Canoe. It's never too early to think about next summer. Register now for the Summer of 2015.
Save Money. Be kind to the environment. Support an innovative Canadian company. Help send a kid to Camp. That's a pretty good combo! If you purchase Dizolve Laundry soap, not only will you get those dirty camp socks cleaner than ever before, but your purchase of this Canadian made, innovative, eco and cost friendly detergent will help to send deserving kids to camp. Purchase yours today.
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A big thanks to everyone who participated and supported our runners and walkers. Your help will ensure camp remains an affordable experience for all who deserve to enjoy the gift of Camp Big Canoe. Thank you for sharing the Spirit.
Pictures, Pictures, and More Pictures – Hugs, High Fives, and Smiles, Oh My!
Want to re-live the Summer of 2013? Check out our gallery for pictures from all four sessions and Pee Wee Camp. As you will see when you click, our gallery goes all the way back to 1998! Re-live the memories and once again share in The Spirit of Camp Big Canoe.
Alumni Day 2014 – The 2nd Annual Alumni Day will be hosted Saturday, July 12. Stay tuned for more information about the day. Hope to once again see people from all the decades!
Open House 2014 – On Sunday, June 29 we will once again open up camp for all to come and enjoy the Spirit of Camp Big Canoe in person. Whether it is your first summer or your fifth, come on up to camp to enjoy a day at camp before the summer whizzes by!