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By DAWNE LEIKER
Seeking options to accommodate heavy truck traffic on 230th Avenue and Feedlot roads, Ellis County commissioners voted Monday to authorize applying for grants for road improvements.
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By DAWNE LEIKER
Seeking options to accommodate heavy truck traffic on 230th Avenue and Feedlot roads, Ellis County commissioners voted Monday to authorize applying for grants for road improvements.
The roads affected by the paving project include 230th Avenue between Interstate 70 Exit 157 and Feedlot Road from 230th Avenue to U.S. Highway 183. Improvements to each road likely would be in excess of $2 million.
Substantial truck traffic is a concern on the roadway due to expansions by Hess Services and existing home and businesses in the area.
Commissioners authorized county officials to apply for Kansas Department of Transportation and Community Development Block grants, and to explore other options, such as special assessments and tax increment financing, should those two grant applications fail.
Acquiring state funds is highly competitive with approximately $6 million available statewide through KDOT, according to Public Works Director Mike Graf.
"So you're competing for dollars that are (needed) around the state," he told commissioners.
County Administrator Greg Sund urged commissioners to authorize applying for the grants because the window of opportunity to acquire funds likely will close soon. Without grants, the county is "not going to be very successful in construction of this road," he said.
"We just don't have the money."
Construction would entail widening the roads to allow for large loads and making other improvements to aid visibility.
Commission Chair Swede Holmgren said he is concerned about safety on the roadway.
"You pull out from the shooting range," he said. "It's blind coming from the hill.
"You don't know what's coming from the north. They're on top of you before you know it."
In other business, commissioners:
* Approved release of funds for Rural Water District IC KANSTEP grant application.
* Voted 3-0 to approve contracting with Kirkham-Michael Construction Engineers to provide a cost proposal for a road safety project.
* Were updated by Graf that Glassman Corp. is researching public works building shop exhaust system issues.
* Were informed by Sheriff Ed Harbin that County Counsel Bill Jeter had no concerns with a lease agreement to place an antenna and equipment for amateur radio at the Springhill radio tower.
* Asked to table approval of a fire district bylaw resolution.
* Received information from Sund regarding a maintenance contract for voice-recording equipment in the public safety communications center.
* Approved Commissioner Dean Haselhorst as Ellis County delegate to the annual Kansas Workers Risk Cooperative for Counties. Holmgren was chosen as alternate.
* Discussed moving forward with priorty-based budgeting.
* Agreed to meet in executive session at next week's meeting to perform an annual review of Sund's job performance.


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LC player signed by Cincinnati Reds
Baseball star Jeff Taylor Jr., who holds the ODAC record for stolen bases, was recently signed by the Cincinnati Reds.
"I'm very excited to continue to play baseball at a competitive level, and I think that LC has prepared me to take the next step," said Taylor, who is scheduled to graduate in August. "This is an opportunity for me to show what I can do, and I am grateful to the Reds for giving me that shot."
Taylor finished his career at Lynchburg as the all-time stolen base leader, holding the Old Dominion Athletic Conference record as well. He ended his tenure at Lynchburg as the all-time games played and started leader, and was also a two-time All-ODAC first-teamer. He posted a .356 career batting average (218-613), scoring 133 runs and driving in 121 over his four years at LC.
"He certainly has the ability to play at that level; he works hard; and we as a program are very appreciative of the Reds organization on giving him a chance to showcase his talents," said LC head coach Percy Abell.
Taylor will report to the rookie-level Arizona League (AZL) where he will join the Arizona League Reds. The AZL Reds compete in the Central Division of a 12-team, three division setup. Play begins on June 21, as the Reds will battle the AZL Dodgers at 7 p.m. in Glendale, Arizona.

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Congrats. I'm glad the prosecutor chose this path. Looking forward to having yoursonnephew on campus. He's gonna love it here.
Because of earlier threads on the subject, I thought you would want to know that last week, before a plea was even entered, the prosecutor rejected the pending charge against my nephew Nelson. This matter is over.
Im not going to get into the details of the case. The prosecutor's rejection speaks for itself. I'd much rather write about Nelson receiving the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete Award upon selection by his principal, counselor and coach. The award is given for outstanding football performance, team attitude, academic achievements, campus achievements and character.
Nelson graduates on June 9 and will be in Boulder on June 12, ready to hit the books and the field.
Congrats. I'm glad the prosecutor chose this path. Looking forward to having yoursonnephew on campus. He's gonna love it here.
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It will be great to see Nelson in the Back and Gold!
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Thanks, Nova.
Great to hear. I hope that Nelson knows that the fans were overwhelmingly in support of him and saying that this sounded like bull**** from the start. Glad the judge agreed.
Looking forward to seeing him make an impact as a freshman this year.
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Sweet. Thanks for the update, Nova.
Fantastic, we need the help at WR. I hope he can contribute early.
Good news, looking forward to seeing Nelson play....
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BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 19: A model amusement park, complete with spinning rides and flashing lights, glows at the LOXX miniature train landscape at the Alexa shopping mall on April 19, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. The LOXX landscape recreates in 1:87 scale landmarks of central Berlin as well as a myriad of often humorous little scenes of everyday life. According to a company employee the landscape covers 1,100 square meters, contains 200,000 lights, 90,000 human figures, 5,800 meters of model train track, a model airport and has 150 trains running at any one time. It also has coloured ceiling lights that dim and change to imitate twilight, nighttime and dawn, as well as sound effects to imitate an occasional thunder storm. LOXX technicians are currently expanding the landscape in order to also recreate Potsdamer Platz. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)


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Last week, as I was piecing together a diversity training presentation, I came across my "Two Wongs Don't Make a White" slide. This corny play on words was used as a t-shirt graphic by the clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch in the earlier part of this decade. Thank goodness those t-shirts didn't get much play and were dragged off of the market, along with Abercrombie's image as an equal opportunity employer. (The retailer has also faced failure to hire and promote discrimination lawsuits.) Although the retailer, today, is making an effort to redeem itself, I couldn't help but wonder what they were thinking when they exposed the market to those t-shirts. Have the lines of culturally insensitive jokes been so drastically moved that even a large retailer doesn't know the difference between wrong and right?
With the advent of diversity and multi-culturalism, many of the invisible racial barriers in society are slowly fading away thanks, in part, to entertainment. With Justin Timberlake and Amy Winehouse producing some of the best R&B music, it's hard to have white radio stations and black radio stations. Reality television shows openly parade mixed race-couples, making them less of a taboo or head turner.
Comedians, especially, have been the greatest catalysts for making other cultures less mysterious by lifting the lid off of what were once private inside jokes. You have Rex Navarrette openly joking about Filipino time (that is, being 20 minutes late to everything). George Lopez pokes fun at his Latino brothers and sisters on HBO specials and his network television show. Larry the Cable Guy gives Northern urbanites comedic insight to redneck life.
What happens when people at work decide to re-tell a joke they heard from Navarrette, Lopez, or Larry? Is it ok to laugh at or make a joke about another race, culture, or religion? These were the questions underlying my reasons for not watching the Dave Chappelle show.
Now, I never started a mass boycott against the show, but I was vocal about why I didn't tune in. While I never judged anyone for watching the show, I just couldn't support a show that profusely overuses the "N" word on national television. I felt that his show, which was written by a multi-racial staff, could be used to defend the use of the "N" word. I knew that some would argue that the word had evolved to the point where it was no longer an offensive racial epithet to denigrate black people and could be used by any and everyone. I was not ready for that level of evolution.
Comedy is tricky. The same slurs, epithets, and offensive language that comics use to get laughs, can create disrespect in the workplace, school and in other social settings. I'm sure that some snarky designer at Abercrombie & Fitch probably thought he or she was appealing to the public's sense of humor about Asians with the hideous "Wong" t-shirts. As Abercrombie reminds us, context matters. Material that works in a nightclub often falls flat in the office.
I've gotten into it with a couple of people who used the "N" word in titles. That's where I draw a big line, since I don't want to have to look at the word when I'm trolling for great posts.
Abercranky and Filth, however, cultivated an image and a culture of overt racism and reveled in it. I hope that that firm suffers the consequences as the lawsuits progress.
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A raft of injury-enforced withdrawals means England coach Roy Hodgson has no choice but to experiment in his side's final game of 2012 away to Sweden on Wednesday.
Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott, Kyle Walker, Aaron Lennon and Jonjo Shelvey all pulled out of the squad on Sunday, after Ashley Cole, Joleon Lescott, James Milner, Frank Lampard and Jack Rodwell had already been declared unavailable.
Hodgson was rebuffed in his attempts to select Tottenham Hotspur striker Jermain Defoe and Arsenal winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain due to fitness concerns, and having elected to omit midfielders Gareth Barry and Michael Carrick, he finds himself left with an inexperienced squad for the friendly.
The chief beneficiaries are likely to be the newcomers and the players on the periphery of Hodgson's plans for the 2014 World Cup.
Everton midfielder Leon Osman, Arsenal full-back Carl Jenkinson and 20-year-old Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha have all been called up for the first time.
They join Spurs defender Steven Caulker, Chelsea left-back Ryan Bertrand, Stoke City centre-back Ryan Shawcross, Liverpool winger Raheem Sterling and Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster in hoping to be awarded a first cap.
Rooney's withdrawal, after he injured his ankle in Manchester United's 3-2 win at Aston Villa on Saturday, could open the door for Chelsea's Daniel Sturridge to win his first international start.
The former Manchester City striker has started just once for Chelsea this season, with Fernando Torres consistently preferred in attack, and he says he is grateful that Hodgson continues to show faith in him.
"I am thankful for the manager choosing me and giving me the showcase to show what I am capable of," said Sturridge, who has made three substitute appearances for England.
"When he got the job he made it clear it was not always about players who are starting for the team and if he believes in you, he will choose you for his squad."
At the other end of the experience spectrum, Steven Gerrard is set to win his 100th cap when he leads the team out as captain at Stockholm's new Friends Arena.
The Liverpool man will become only the sixth man to reach the 100-cap threshold for England, after Peter Shilton, David Beckham, Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton and Billy Wright.
He could be partnered in midfield by Jack Wilshere, who returns to the fold after a 17-month injury lay-off, although Hodgson has promised Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger that he will use the 20-year-old sparingly.
Hodgson began his coaching career in Sweden, working at Halmstads, Orebro and Malmo, and he led England to a 3-2 win over Wednesday's opponents when they met in the group phase at Euro 2012 in June.
Like England, Sweden have made an unbeaten start to their 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign, and with coach Erik Hamren having selected a strong squad, Hodgson says he anticipates a keenly contested match.
"I think the rivalry between Sweden and England has been a fierce one and Sweden have made life very difficult for England over the years," he told FATV.
"Their record against us is very good and they'll certainly be interested on this occasion to get some revenge for the defeat in the Euros."
Sweden's last outing saw them rally from four goals down to draw 4-4 with Germany in an unforgettable encounter in Berlin last month.
Paris Saint-Germain superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the catalyst behind the comeback against the Germans, is expected to start against England, but Hamren has hinted that he will also experiment.
"We have a team that is still inexperienced in a lot of positions," he said.
"To get as much game-time as possible together is the ambition. Now we have a change of stadium and we obviously want to win here, too."


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ReQall: Tivo your brain?
ReQall lets you speak your thoughts into your phone, and plays them back when you want.
Sci-fi time at Demo 07: call in to Qtech's ReQall, speak your ideas and to-do lists, and the service then does smart things with them. For example, if you save a task for a particular date, ReQall will feed it to you when you call in on that future day.
It also does speech-to-text conversion, and can e-mail you your notes, or put them on a desktop widget.
Pretty cool idea. For me, it depends on the speech-to-text quality. Can't wait to try it out.


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Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 4 review
4 disk bays, N/A storage supplied, 2x 10/100/1000Mbit/s Ethernet ports
The ReadyNAS Ultra 4 is a network storage device from Netgear designed to provide enough storage for even the most demanding of users. With four 3.5in drive bays it can store terabytes of data, making it an ideal backup device for small businesses or the self-employed, or an expansive multimedia vault for the home user.
The unit itself is large and not particularly attractive. The mesh front panel swings open to reveal the hot-swappable drive bays and a rather large carrying handle protrudes from the back of the unit. Given that it weighs 2kg without hard disks, this is a welcome inclusion. Disks are cooled by a rather noisy 90mm fan, which makes it irritating to use in a home setting.
The useful RAIDiator software simplifies the initial setup as it can identify, format and mount any installed disks. Multiple disks default to the proprietary Netgear XRAID-2 format, which automatically uses the last installed disk for data redundancy. If a disk fails, it can be replaced and the data rebuilt. This is useful if you have plan on adding disks at a later date as it can expand the array without erasing data, but regular RAID modes are still available. Once the unit is up and running, you don't have to use the monitoring software; a smart LCD screen on the front of the device shows useful information such as IP addresses and the status of installed disks.
Three USB ports are available for attaching external hard disks, digital cameras and printers, all of which can be accessed through the user interface. The single USB port on the front can be used for one-touch backup to an external storage device; although if you've filled four drive bays with data it's unlikely you'll fit everything on one external disk.
There are plenty of features that make the ReadyNAS Ultra 4 suitable for a range of tasks; a BitTorrent client for downloading files straight to the device, UPnP and DLNA media streaming, iTunes music server and even support for TiVo-based DVR boxes. Unfortunately Virgin's Tivo-based box won't be out until later this year, so we couldn't test how well it worked. The unit also supports Logitech's Squeezebox and Skifta for streaming content over the internet. It also borrows features from more business-oriented storage devices including SCSI support, but few home users will require it. Remote access through the ReadyNAS Remote software is fairly straightforward and requires minimal advanced setup.
With our test disks installed in RAID 1 mode, the ReadyNas Ultra 4 wrote large files at 63.2MB/s and read them at 58.8MB/s, which is very fast for a NAS device. Smaller files were written at 12.6MB/s and read at 16.7MB/s, which while slower is still very impressive. These speeds are mainly down to the Intel Atom Processor powering the unit; it acts more like a mini PC than a storage device. This helps speed up the web interface as well, so you're never left waiting for pages to load.
Ultimately, most users won't benefit from the ReadyNAS Ultra 4. Performance might be fantastic but the feature set isn't that much greater than any other high-end NAS device. The major concern is the very high price; even without hard disks the unit is prohibitively expensive and if you don't have any spare you'll have to factor them into the cost of purchase. For peace of mind that your data is secure, it would be better to buy a much cheaper two-bay enclosure such as the Synology DS210j.


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CASEYVILLE, Ill. (KMOV.com) – Police are looking for a burglar who plowed through a Caseyville woman's garage door after taking several items from her home.
According to reports, the burglary happened Thursday morning at a home in the 500 block of East O'Fallon Drive.
The homeowner told News 4 the suspects were able to gain access to her garage which is attached to her home. The suspect reportedly pulled a large SUV into the garage then broke into the house through a window. The homeowner said the burglar took various items from the home, including TVs and computers.
At some point, the thief got spooked, ran from the home and back into the garage. Once in the garage, the suspect hopped back into the SUV and tore out of the garage without opening the door.
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This is Hsiao-Ching Chou's blog about life as a working mom and simple Chinese cooking.
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Terry Huffman came to George Fox University in 2003 as a member of the Department of Sociology and Social Work and joined the School of Education in the fall of 2006. Dr. Huffman received his PhD in sociology from Iowa State University, specializing in race and ethnic relations and sociology of the family. Previous to joining the George Fox University faculty, Dr. Huffman was associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Dakota. His research on American Indian education was recognized by the South Dakota Council for Reconciliation for its contribution toward improved racial relations.
A Study on the Role of Native Culture in the Teaching Experiences of American Indian Educational Professionals
During 2010-2011, Dr. Huffman will be conducting research on the experiences with and perceptions on teaching on reservations (or tribal designated areas) among American Indian educational professionals. The study investigates the manner in American Indian teachers connect their Native cultural heritage and their practices as teachers, intrinsic rewards, challenges they face, and long-term career plans.
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Ph.D. Sociology, Iowa State University (1988)
M.A. Sociology, Marshall University (1983)
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Huffman, T. E. (2010). Theoretical perspectives on American Indian education. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.
Huffman, T. E. (2008). American Indian higher educational experiences: Cultural visions and personal journeys. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Journal Articles
Huffman, T. E. (2008). Factors associated with the personal assessment of college among American Indian students at a rural university. The Rural Educator, 29(3), 18-29.
Huffman, T. E. (2001). Resistance theory and the transculturation hypothesis as explanations of college attrition and persistence among culturally traditional American Indian students. Journal of American Indian Education, 40(3), 1-23.
Huffman, T. E. (1997). The transculturation of Native American students. In J. J. Macionis & N.V. Benokraitis (Eds.), Seeing ourselves: Classic, contemporary, and cross-cultural readings in sociology, (pp. 211-219). Upper River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Huffman, T. E. (1996). Assimilated American Indian students: A closer look. In T. E. Schirer S. M. Schacher (Eds.), Celebration of indigenous thought and expression, (pp. 31-47). Sault Ste. Marie, MI: Lake Superior State University Press.
Huffman, T. E. (2009, November). Cultural visions, personal visions: The higher educational experiences of American Indian students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation, Madrid, Spain.
Huffman, T. E. (2008, October). Encounters with academia: Higher educational experiences of Native American students at a rural university. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association, Edmond, Oklahoma.
Previous Honors
Burlington-Northern Faculty Achievement Award
Appointed by the Board of Regents to the South Dakota American Indian Studies Council
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text: High schools tackle football concussions By Elizabeth Landau, CNNUpdated 10:32 AM ET, Mon September 2, 2013Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend before killing himself two years ago. Pathology reports show he likely had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, doctors say. Scientists believe repeated head trauma can cause CTE, a progressive degenerative disease of the brain. Symptoms include depression, aggression, and disorientation, but so far scientists can only definitively diagnose it after death. Here are a few of the former athletes who have been diagnosed with CTE.Hide Caption 1 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Hall of Famer Mike Webster was the first former NFL player to be diagnosed with CTE. After his retirement, Webster suffered from amnesia, dementia, depression, and bone and muscle pain.Hide Caption 2 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – The death of 36-year-old Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Justin Strzelczyk put the link between playing football and CTE in the national spotlight. Strzelczyk was killed in 2004 in a car crash after a 40-mile high-speed chase with police in New York. Hide Caption 3 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Evidence of CTE was found in the brain of football player Lew Carpenter after his death in 2010 at the age of 78. Hide Caption 4 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Pro Football Hall of Famer Louis Creekmur, who played for the Detroit Lions from 1950 to 1959, suffered decades of cognitive decline before his death.Hide Caption 5 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Linebacker John Grimsley of the Houston Oilers died of an accidental gunshot wound to the chest. Analysis of his brain tissue confirmed damage to the neurofibrillary tangles that had begun to affect his behavior and memory.Hide Caption 6 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Chris Henry played five seasons for the the Cincinnati Bengals before dying at the age of 26. He died after falling from the bed of a moving pickup during a fight with his fiancée, ending a life plagued by behavioral problems. His young age prompted concern over how quickly athletes start to suffer from CTE.Hide Caption 7 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Offensive lineman Terry Long of the Pittsburgh Steelers commited suicide by drinking antifreeze. Although the antifreeze caused swelling of the brain, football-related brain injuries were a contributing factor to his death.Hide Caption 8 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Pro Football Hall of Famer John Mackey suffered from dementia for years before dying at the age of 69.Hide Caption 9 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Ollie Matson played 14 NFL seasons starting in the 1950s and suffered from dementia until his death in 2011.Hide Caption 10 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Andre Waters spent most of his 12 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles before his suicide at age 44.Hide Caption 11 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Tom McHale of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, right, died in 2008 of an apparent drug overdose at the age of 45.Hide Caption 12 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Junior Seau took his own life in 2012 at the age of 43. The question of CTE came up immediately after his death; scientists at the National Institutes of Health confirmed the diagnosis in January 2013. Hide Caption 13 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Wrestler Chris Benoit was found dead at his suburban Atlanta home along with his wife, Nancy, and son in an apparent murder-suicide. Later testing found that the damage to his brain was similar to that of an elderly Alzheimer's patient.Hide Caption 14 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Reggie Fleming, who played for six NHL teams, mainly in the 1960s, was the first hockey player to be diagnosed with CTE.Hide Caption 15 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Hockey player Bob Probert was found to have CTE after suffering from heart failure at the age of 45.Hide Caption 16 of 17Photos: Athletes and CTE 17 photosAthletes and CTE – Ryan Freel became the first MLB player to be diagnosed with CTE nearly a year after he committed suicide at age 36. Hide Caption 17 of 17Story highlightsThere are approximately 1,100,000 teens playing high school footballConfusion, nausea, headache are some of the symptoms of concussionsNFL players receive an estimated 900 to 1,500 blows to the head each seasonHigh schools are changing the rules and implementing safety programsJason Stevens remembers all too well the feeling of not being sure where he was. He suffered a concussion during the third game of his high school football season last year, and had to sit out for the rest of the season. "It felt like the entire helmet was just pressing in your head, like your head was expanding," said Jason, 15, of Poughkeepsie, New York. Football teams across the country are getting the message: It's time to tackle concussions.In a landmark move Thursday, thousands of former football players and their families reached a settlement with the National Football League. According to court documents, the NFL will pay $765 million to fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation, medical research for retired NFL players and their families, and litigation expenses.It's an issue for more than the nation's top football players. There are approximately 1,100,000 teens playing high school football, according to The National Federation of State High School Associations. And in organized youth leagues, there are another 3 million. Concussions result from blows to the head, such as when a player collides with another in a sporting event. "In a football game, when someone takes a hard hit, the helmet does a pretty good job of protecting the skull from getting a skull fracture," Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and CNN's chief medical correspondent, told Bleacher Report. "But what is really happening when someone is running down the field and ... they get hit -- the brain keeps moving inside the skull."It's not so much the hit, although that's important, but the sudden acceleration and deceleration of the brain that causes the concussion, Gupta said.Confusion, nausea, headache and loss of consciousness are some of the immediate symptoms of concussions, but they can also have longer lasting effects. Severe impacts to the head can lead to bleeding or permanent nerve damage. And recent research has shown that repeated hits to the head can lead to a brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.Jason Stevens, 15, suffered a concussion during the third game of his high school season last year.In the 2012 football season, there were two fatalities directly related to football, both in semi-professional football, and both during regularly scheduled games, according to the Annual Survey of Football Injury Research [PDF]. "In 2012, one of the semi-professional players was hit by a blindsided block on a punt return and the second player was involved in a helmet-to-helmet collision," the report said. Among high school football athletes, there were nine indirect fatalities -- one from heat stroke, four related to the heart, two from asthma, one from lighting, and one of an unknown cause. None were impact-related, but earlier this month a teen in Georgia died after he broke his neck while making a tackle during a scrimmage game. Over the last 10 years, an average of fewer than three boys a year have died from on-field injuries playing high school football, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina. More concerning to experts is the repeated hits they're sustaining on the field. A professional football player receives an estimated 900 to 1,500 blows to the head during a single season, according to the Sports Concussion Institute in Los Angeles. How many is that over a lifetime? Just WatchedEx-NFL player: Settlement not a rewardreplayMore Videos ...Ex-NFL player: Settlement not a reward 03:40PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedNFL settles concussion suit for $765MreplayMore Videos ...NFL settles concussion suit for $765M 02:04PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedExplain it to me: ConcussionsreplayMore Videos ...Explain it to me: Concussions 02:38PLAY VIDEONFL concussion fast factsThe NFL has initiated strict sideline concussion rules and cognitive tests, to be administered by trainers and doctors who cannot be overruled by coaching staffs. But changes are happening on lower levels as well. The National Federation of State High School Associations Football rules committee approved rule changes earlier this year regarding what should happen when players' helmets come off of their heads during games. To minimize risks, these rules included an illegal personal contact foul mandate: "No player or nonplayer shall initiate contact with an opposing player whose helmet has come completely off."Also, it will be illegal "for a player whose helmet comes completely off during a down to continue to participate beyond the immediate action in which the player is engaged." Any player whose helmet comes off during the game is also forced to sit out at least one play.The National Federation of State High School Associations announced earlier this month that it has partnered with USA football to endorse a program that promotes high school football player safety. The program is called Heads Up Football, and it currently involves 32 high schools in eight states. In 2014, any high school in the country will be able to participate. High school programs that participate each assign a Player Safety Coach, who is trained by USA Football to instruct coaches, parents and players on specific tackling mechanics. The techniques are aimed at reducing helmet contact, concussion recognition and response protocols, and ensure adequate fitting for helmets and shoulder pads.Heads Up Football will incorporate about 4,000 high school student athletes this year, as well as youth football programs that represent nearly 600,000 youth players in all 50 states and Washington. A lot of schools in the Los Angeles area are requiring pre-season cognitive testing for football players, so that if a player gets a concussion, he can be re-tested and the results can be compared to the original screening, said Sidney Jones, athlete trainer and clinical coordinator at the Sports Concussion Institute.Jones conducts education, pre-injury and post-injury testing throughout the Los Angeles area. "I think as different things are happening -- whether it's NFL lawsuits, or more media attention on things like concussions -- I think a lot more parents and schools are willing to try to protect their kids a little bit more, and get more education," she said. Jones has found that many student athletes -- she mainly works with children 18 and under -- do not know the risks of concussions. She educates them about prevention and symptoms.She keeps it basic and does not talk about the long-term risks of concussions that have been getting a lot of attention in research. That's because, in her view, "We don't have the research available to us yet to actually concretely say anything." Some parents are taking matters into their own hands. Jason's mother, Erika Stevens, wasn't satisfied with the normal training on her son's team, so she hired a personal trainer to help him avoid concussions in the future. He's learned how to properly hit, and when to let the play go, over the past couple of months, she said. "We hope that it makes him a smarter player."Jason said his team passed out new football helmets this season that are designed to minimize the risk of concussion more than old ones this season. 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HONOLULU, "These new, beautiful elephant inspired signs will undoubtedly increase awareness of the location of the Honolulu Zoo, our hidden treasure in The elephant themed signs were inspired by the Honolulu Zoo's newly completed elephant exhibit. The multi-million dollar exhibit, which was completed last year, has been wildly popular with the zoo's patrons and has continued to draw excitement and garner interest from guests. "The Department of Enterprise Services appreciates this gift to the City by the Honolulu Zoo Society and realizes the importance to capitalize on this marketing and branding opportunity to our visitors," said Randy Leong, Department of Enterprise Services, deputy director. "This signage will no doubt help to increase our revenues at the Zoo through admissions at the gate and retail spending." The Honolulu Zoo is the third most visited attraction on About the Founded in 1969, the Honolulu Zoological Society is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization whose purpose is to support the Honolulu Zoo and its mission, to educate the public about the importance of wildlife and conservation issues, and to provide for the needed capital improvements to the Zoo through fundraising efforts. For information on how to support the Honolulu Zoological Society, visit the HZS website at www.honzoosoc.org or call (808) 926-3191 |


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Recent article in TechCrunch explains how Facebook can hit $30B to $40B in just a few years
Advertising $10B - easily cutting a big slice off the huge spend on TV commercials
Credits & Payments $12B - the digital version of Amex rewards and frequent flier points + PayPal like payments + cut of commerce via partnership with Amazon
Games $3B - skim their cut from big name game providers who plug into the FB platform
Daily Deals $10B - no brainer replacement for Groupon when each Company/brand can offer daily deals to their Fans anytime they want
Email/voice/video inbox $1B - fees for extra storage and calls
Photos $1B - more photos on FB than any other site, so why not sell custom print packages like Snapfish or Shutterfly
As reported by Media Post's Online Media Daily, Google is being sued for using a copyright image of an inflatable gorilla without the owner's permission (Scherba Industries) in print ads that I wrote about here.
Talk about a double whammy. Not only are they using print ads to promote online advertising via Adwords but now they get sued for using a copyright image. Plus these are some of the worst ads I've seen - tons of copy, weird layout, the tiniest of coupon codes.
Who is Google's ad agency so I can make a note to not use them?
Forrester just released research that the percentage of consumers creating content on the Web has leveled off over the past few years at 23%.
Honestly that seems high to me compared to the roughly 10% of my Facebook friends who actually post even a simple update more than once a month. Let's face it, the vast majority of people are "lurkers."
Some reasons for the low percentage could be:
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FHSU's Holub isn't alone with two perfect games
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Fort Hays State University senior ace right-hander Maddie Holub accomplished the first perfect game in MIAA annals in nearly a decade. However, Holub isn't the first NCAA Division II pitcher to throw two perfect games in a season, according to NCAA statistics and HDN research.
Holub tossed the first perfect game of her career and the first in Tiger Division II history in a 1-0 victory on April 6 at Tiger Stadium. Then, on Saturday, Holub worked her second straight perfect game in as many starts in a 5-0 home win against Missouri Southern State University.
Holub became the first MIAA pitcher to throw a perfect game since University of Missouri-Rolla's Renee Roberts worked a six-inning perfect game in a 14-0 victory against Green Mountain (Ga.) on March 10, 2004. Roberts had just three strikeouts, while Holub had 17 and 14 strikeouts in her two perfect games.
The last time the MIAA was involved in a perfect game was on March 18, 2009 when Missouri Southern State University lost 7-0 to Cameron (Tex.) and Carrie Harvey.
Quincy (Ill.) University's Torie Bunzell worked two perfect games in 2011, including a perfect game and no-hitter in the same doubleheader against Rockhurst (Mo.) University. As well, Arkansas Tech's Dana Aldrich tossed two perfect games in 2008. Division II has 26 perfect games in the last nine years.
Holub's perfect games have helped Fort Hays move to 35-7, 15-3 MIAA. Fort Hays, ranked No. 14 in NCAA Division II, has tied the school record for wins in a season. The 2003 team finished 35-20.
Holub is 20-1 with a 0.71 earned-run average and ranks second nationally in ERA, fourth in strikeouts per seven innings (11.7) and seventh in victories. FHSU will travel to University of Central Missouri on Friday and Southwest Baptist (Mo.) University on Saturday.


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Although it was first designed by Clinton & Russell (in the Italian Renaissance Revival style), its current incarnation has been completely remade. The effect of the new, modern design has been an entirely pleasing one. Not only were elevators added, but also a new roof, and an overhaul of the old HVAC system.
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Disjointed thoughts on trackbacks, Movable Type and weblogs
I am probably the last weblogger on earth to have noticed that blogdex now has a great look complete with track backs. I am sorry that they haven't brought back search as I had hoped, but trackback is a very welcome addition.
Two of the key reasons I I migrated from blogger to movabletype are a) a better comment system and b) trackbacks. Every time I clicked on the comments on this page, I could feel YACCS groaning under the collective weight of all of us. I think the premise of a remotely administered comment system (specially free ones) is inherently faulty. Any Content management system that aspires to be a serious contender ought to have its own native comment system.
The other thing which really, really excited me was the idea of trackbacks (See Gallagher for a detailed treatment). I think trackbacks as an idea is going to find widespread adoption on the net and MT is the pioneer in this area.
I don't care much for the whole RSS brouhaha.
From a big picture perspective, I don't think weblog management systems will take off as independent large business entities. There will probably be significant enterprise interest in weblogs as a tool, but it will be a functionality in a CMS or a portal product, a market that the biggies like Microsoft are much better placed to serve. The really good weblog products will be bought out by the large CMS vendors.
But while I don't have much faith on the large scale enterprise adoption of weblogs as standalone entities, I do believe in the increasing popularity of weblogs as a net culture phenomenon. Weblogs have democratised web based content publication and can help realize a global conversational commons. From that context, Blogger is probably the most visible and highly trafficked product out there.
The less talked about thing about MT is that some of the best minds using weblogs have either migrated or are migrating to movable type. I quite think that at least in the foreseeable future, most innovation in the weblog space will happen in or around MT.


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Articles By Dr. Paula Hyman
Who is an Educated Jew?
A historical perspective on the Jewish canon, and reflections on what today's learned Jews need to know.
American Jewish Feminism: The Movement Matures
Moving beyond equal access to express women's sensibilities and experiences in Jewish life and organizations.
Battling Stereotypes of the Jewish Mother
One woman confronts a stereotype to which she herself might be subject--and learns about protecting her children from stereotypes.
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Doncaster loan for youngster Mutch
The 18-year-old, who progressed through the youth ranks at St Andrew's, made four appearances during a loan spell with League Two side Hereford back in November. Rovers boss Sean O'Driscoll said: "Jordan will come in and add an extra number to the squad. "With Simon Gillett going back to Southampton, it looks as if that could flounder, so we need as many good players as we can; and Jordan is a talented 18 year-old. "We've taken him on a youth loan, which gives flexibility to both clubs and we will see how he develops. He's a talented boy and he looks like he has a big future. "He did well at Hereford on loan and Birmingham City now want to test him at a higher level. We've got a great reputation with young players and have a good environment for them to come."
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Locoweed (also crazyweed and loco) is a common name in North America for any plant that produces swainsonine, a phytotoxin harmful to livestock. Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of species, most in three genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae: Oxytropis and Astragalus in North America,[1] and Swainsona in Australia. The term locoweed usually refers only to the North American species of Oxytropis and Astragalus, but this article includes the other species as well. Some references may list Datura stramonium as loco weed.[2]
Locoweed is relatively palatable to livestock, and some individual animals will seek it out. Livestock poisoned by chronic ingestion of large amounts of swainsonine develop a medical condition known as locoism (also swainsonine disease,[3] swainsonine toxicosis, locoweed disease, and loco disease; North America) and pea struck[4] (Australia). Locoism is reported most often in cattle, sheep, and horses, but has been reported also in elk and deer. It is the most widespread poisonous plant problem in the western United States.[1] Agricultural Research Service and New Mexico State University scientists have been collaborating since 1990 to help solve the problem that locoweed presents to livestock farmers. The research involved identifying the fungal species that produces the locoweed toxins, pinpointing levels of toxicity in animals once they have ingested locoweed, observing the effects of locoweed toxins on livestock's reproduction and grazing preferences, etc. Together, the scientists assembled a grazing management scheme to help farmers avoid the poisonous locoweed.[5]
Most of the 2000 species of Astragalus, including many that are commonly known as locoweeds, do not produce swainsonine. Some species, including a few that produce swainsonine, accumulate selenium. This has led to confusion between swainsonine poisoning and selenium poisoning due to this genus.
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The first technical account (in English) of locoism was published in 1873, in the United States. Linguists have documented locoism in use among English speakers by 1889, and both loco and locoweed in use by 1844.[6]
Loco, a loanword from Spanish, is understood by most English-speaking users in the sense of crazy, and this appears to have also been the sense understood by vaqueros.[6] In Spanish, however, loco has an older, different sense. In Spain, where the native Astragalus species are not known to cause locoism, for centuries loco has been applied to some of these species in the sense of rambling: common names include yerba loca (hierba loca; rambling herb) and chocho loco (rambling lupine).
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Locoweed is a compound of loco and weed. Although some authors claim it is incorrect to use loco as a noun (in place of locoweed), this usage has a long history.
The presence of a toxin in locoweed was demonstrated in 1909. Initially, the toxin was reported to be barium, but that was soon disproved. Swainsonine, first isolated from Swainsona, was shown to be responsible for pea struck in 1979, and was reported in both Oxytropis and Astragalus in 1982.[7]
Since 1982, swainsonine has been isolated from still more plants, some of which also are reported to cause locoism or medical conditions similar to locoism. The first report of locoism in South America, involving Astragalus pehuenches, was published in 2000.[8]
Swainsonine is produced by a small number of species, including species in several genera of plants and two genera of fungi.
Oxytropis is distributed throughout western North America, particularly in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. However, most species of Oxytropis have narrow habitat requirements and within those habitats are abundant only in unusually wet years.[1] The species most frequently encountered by livestock are O. lambertii (Lambert locoweed, purple locoweed, woolly locoweed) and especially Oxytropis sericea (white locoweed, white point locoweed, white point loco). Swainsonine has also been found in O. campestris (in Canada).[9]
Some species of Astragalus (milkvetch) are also referred to as locoweed. These are primarily species which grow in areas with high selenium content in the soil.[citation needed] Swainsonine has been found in:[9]
In Argentina, locoism (locoismo) was first reported in 2000. A flock of sheep grazing a pasture with Astragalus pehuenches was poisoned and 220 sheep (73%) died.[8] Although this was the first report of locoism in South America,[8] swainsonine had been isolated previously from A. pehuenches and several other species in Argentina and Peru.[8][10]
In the Old World, native plants causing locoism have not been reported. Astragalus lusitanicus in Morocco was suspected,[11] but has been shown be neither a producer of swainsonine nor an accumulator of selenium. Its toxicity is suspected to be due to a novel alkaloid.[12] In Spanish, common names of this species include altramuz loco, chochos locos, garbanzo del diablo, and garbancillo.
In Australia, species of Swainsona (Darling pea) that cause pea struck include:[9][13]
Astragalus and Oxytropis are 2 of 20 genera (and 78 names of genera) in the tribe Galegeae, subtribe Astragalinae. Some authorities include Swainsona in the subtribe.[14] Formerly, Swainsona was in another subtribe, Coluteinae, that has been combined into Astragalinae.
Swainsonine has also been isolated from Sida carpinifolia and Ipomea carnea, and both species have been reported to cause locoism.[15]
Embellisia, a fungus isolated from Oxytropis lambertii, has also been shown to produce swainsonine and to cause locoism in rats.[16] Rhizoctonia leguminicola, a fungal plant pathogen that may occur on red clover, also produces swainsonine. Although intoxication due to this fungus resembles locoism, it has additional signs and symptoms due to the production of other toxins.[17]
Locoweed is eaten during the early spring and late fall, when it is often the only green plant available to grazing animals.
Intoxication with swainsonine has several kinds of effect.
Livestock that graze for several weeks on locoweed (and little else) develop a lysosomal storage disease similar to genetic mannosidosis.[18] Swainsonine inhibits a lysosomal enzyme, alpha-mannosidase.[19] This results in abnormal accumulation of the molecules normally processed by the enzyme, and this accumulation leads to vacuolation of most tissues. Vacuolation is most obvious in neurons and epithelial cells. The vacuolation resolves shortly after poisoning is discontinued, but if the vacuolation is so severe that it destroys cells, it may result in some neurologic damage that is irreversible and permanent.[18] The damage is highly varied.
In cattle at high altitude, complications of locoism can include congestive heart failure.[20]
In cattle, sheep, and goats, locoweed poisoning causes reproductive losses.
Diagnosis of clinical poisoning is generally made by documenting exposure, identifying the neurologic signs, and analyzing serum for alpha-mannosidase activity and swainsonine.[18]
In mule deer, clinical signs of locoism are similar to chronic wasting disease. Histological signs of vacuolation provide a differential diagnosis.[21]
Sub-clinical intoxication has been investigated in cattle grazing on Astragalus mollissimus. As the estimated intake of swainsonine increased, blood serum alpha-mannosidase activity and albumin decreased, and alkaline phosphatase and thyroid hormone increased.[22]
Because O. sericea is both frequently encountered and relatively palatable to livestock, it is an important cause of economic losses in livestock production. Keeping livestock away from locoweed infested pasture in spring and fall when grass and other forbs not actively growing is recommended. Another suggested remedy is to provide palatable supplemental nutrients if animals are to be kept in infested pasture. These remedies take into account livestock preference for locoweed during seasons when grass is dry and not very nutritious.[23] Conditioned food aversion has been used experimentally to discourage livestock from eating it.[24][25] In horses, a small study has shown promising results using lithium chloride as the aversive agent.[25]
How to Reduce Losses: Restrict access to locoweed during critical periods when the plant is more palatable than associated forages. Maintain conservative stocking rates to avoid forcing animals to consume locoweed when desirable forage becomes limited. Remove animals that begin eating locoweed to prevent intoxication and to keep them from influencing others to start eating locoweed. No treatments have been identified that are effective in reversing or minimizing locoweed poisoning.[26]
Locoweed can be controlled by spraying actively growing or budding plants with clopyralid (20-30 gm ae/Ac), picloram (250 gm ai/Ac), and metsulfuron (30 gm ai/Ac). If plants are scattered, treatment of individual plants or patches may be practical. Follow precautions when handling herbicides.[26]
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College aid should be "sooner, simpler and smarter," advocates say.
Disadvantaged students need more and better information on colleges, degrees and financial aid.
Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs
College aid should be "sooner, simpler and smarter," advocates say.
Disadvantaged students need more and better information on colleges, degrees and financial aid.
Awarding credentials for competency — not just seat time — is helping workers move up career ladders. But there are concerns about the quality of competency-based programs and whether students should qualify for financial aid.
Also see: After college, what?
Disbursing student aid in smaller amounts every two weeks, "Aid Like a Paycheck," encourages low-income college students to work harder in school and manage money better, a new study shows.
At a Hamilton Project forum today, participants presented new ideas for redesigning Pell Grants, income-based loan repayment and college cost calculators.
President Obama's plan to link federal aid to colleges' graduation rates and graduates' earnings "falls somewhere between "irrelevant" and "catastrophic" for community colleges.
Private colleges that educate many teachers and social workers also are concerned.
Additional need-based student aid helped low-income Florida students stay in school and earn a degree, a new study finds.
Every year states hand out $11 billion in college aid — usually without tracking whether students earn a degree. That's changing. Some states are linking financial aid to students' academic progress.
To really improve college access and success, double or triple the average Pell Grant, recommends financial aid expert Mark Kantrowitz.
"The higher education system is . . . a passive agent in the systematic reproduction of white racial privilege across generations," concludes a new report. Latino and black students — even those with high grades — are more likely than whites to go to community colleges, where their odds of graduation are lower.
Linking financial aid to graduation rates will penalize colleges that enroll low-income students, two new research papers warn.
Without a community college, Erie, Pennsylvania keeps losing jobs and laid-off workers can't afford to retrain. Industry is disinvesting.
Federal college aid overwhelmingly goes to students pursuing degrees, while many seeking vocational certificates don't qualify for aid. Taxpayers should support people who want to learn high-demand job skills — computer techs and nurse's aides — not people who want to spend four years studying Shakespeare, argues a workforce researcher.
Students who earn credits for competency, not just "seat time," will be eligible for federal student aid, if their college's competency-based program is approved by accreditors.
Pell isn't broke! Changes designed to cut the cost of aid to low- and moderate-income students have turned a projected deficit into a surplus that will last till 2015.
Students must take more credits, use aid for fewer semesters and forego summer courses, unless they pay their own way.
What's ahead for higher ed in the next four years? President Obama pledged to link federal aid to colleges' willingness to cut the rate of tuition growth, but was that just campaign rhetoric?
California community colleges will use new tax revenue to add classes and reduce wait lists.
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Who could ever forget when Kim stripped down for 'Playboy,' now a new scandalous picture of Kim, topless from the shoot has surfaced and you can see it below! HollywoodLifers, read on for the shocking pic!
Kim Kardashian has been on the cover of Vogue and Playboy, two totally opposite publications but you've got to love her for it. In 2007 she stripped down and several fully naked pics leaked on the web, and now a never-before-seen pic has made it's way into a Latin magazine and we have the scoop!
Kim definitely has a body to die for, and in this new sexy pic, (which you can click on below) it's clear she has it all! But wow, we forgot just how up close and personal these photos were!
Click here to see the never before seen topless photo of Kim!
Kanye West On Kim's Nude Shoot Dreams
Even though Kim posed naked once, it isn't enough, according to our source at HollywoodLife.com. Not only does she want to do it again, Kanye West wants to direct the shoot!
"Hell yeah he would go and then he'd make them get out of the room so they could handle some business alone," a source tells us. "He likes being in control and I wouldn't be surprised if he started to direct the whole damn shoot."
But why would Kim want to do it again? Because our insider reveals that she's so proud of her post-baby body and that she's never been more proud of her curves.
"As soon as I pop this thing out, I want to do Playboy or some nude shoot," Kim said on a teaser promo clip for Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
We wouldn't put it past her and we're sure she'd look amazing. HollywoodLifers, does it still shock you that Kim posed naked for Playboy?
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To all my fans, I'm the real Kimmy and I want to thank all of U for making me RICH and FAMOUS. I am worth millions and have u all to thank for it. Most if all I thank my mom, it was her great idea for me and RayJ to do a sex tape. My mom then sold it for Milions, I took my cloths off for playboy. Another fat $$$$, I got my own TV show and everybody wants to be me.
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Wow the slut is back!!!!!??? She is so fake ,and so injected everywhere, I'm shocked she can even think, and proud??? Proud of what???? Your a whore and your child hopefully will not be a reflection of you or your pimp!!!! I think your kid is being raised by strangers, oh yeah and so much for that stupid vogue magazine. There are no stores here that even sell it. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
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You're late HL. This is old news. Kim makes her living, among other things, doing nude and semi nude pictures….that's why Kanye looks like a fool trying to upgrade her. If you look closely, Kim didn't have a big inflated butt then. That's why people laugh at her when she pretends her butt has always been real.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A Las Cruces woman is charged with the murder of a 22-year-old woman after an argument at a party Saturday morning.
Jacklyne P. Legarreta, 23, of the 1800 block of Seldon Avenue, was arrested shortly after the incident and is charged with an open count of murder and tampering with evidence.
Police said sometime after 1 a.m. Delia Vasquez, 22, was stabbed in the chest outside an apartment at 406 Vassar Ct.
Vasquez was taken to Memorial Medical Center and then flown to University Medical Center in El Paso where she died.
According to a criminal complaint, Vasquez attended the party with two other women.
In the complaint, Legarreta became upset after one of the women allegedly looked at her boyfriend inappropriately and confronted Vasquez's friend, Vanessa Montoya, for inviting the woman to the party.
Police said the argument became physical and that's when Vasquez stepped in to break up the fight.
The documents state Legarreta then began fighting with Vasquez.
Witnesses told police Legarreta fell to the ground while Vasquez grabbed her chest.
Friends helped Vasquez into a vehicle and began driving her to the hospital while Legarreta remained at the apartment and tried to clean herself.
Officers located Legarreta at the apartment and took her into custody.
Legarreta is being held at the Doña Ana County Detention Center with a bond set at $250,000.


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There is no shortage of news readers on the market. Nor is there a shortage of verticals from which to aggregate that news. The inherent problem, of course, is that news is an ubiquitous activity. The result is that as the information we receive gets more commoditized, so, too, are the platforms from which we […] more »
Watchup, an iPad app, won a 2012 Knight News Challenge grant. Below, Watchup CEO and co-founder Adriano Farano writes about the latest developments. After several months of our hard work and lots of lasagna, Watchup 2.0 has finally hit the iPad App Store. Launching the 1.0 version of the app at the MIT Media Lab […] more »
The Knight Foundation continues to fund the latest projects in news and technology, but the format of the Knight News Challenge might be near an end. In announcing the latest recipients of the Knight News Challenge grants, Knight Foundation CEO Alberto Ibargüen slipped in that the grants "may be finished" and "it may be that, as […] more »
This is the first in a series of Q&As with Knight News Challenge winners who've wrapped up their projects. Brian Boyer, currently the news applications editor at NPR, is the project manager of PANDA Project, a Knight News Challenge winner in 2011. I recently interviewed Boyer about the project via email. The following is an […] more »
The Knight Foundation today announced the winners of the second round of its News Challenge, a contest aimed at funding innovators in the media industry. In this round, which focused on data, Knight awarded six grants totaling $2.22 million. Knight announced earlier in the year that it was changing the rules of the News Challenge […] more »
Two and a half years ago, I co-founded Stroome, a collaborative online video editing and publishing platform and 2010 Knight News Challenge winner. Like most first-time entrepreneurs, I was under the impression that the decisions made after we went live were the most important. It turns out, the success of most startups begins with a […] more »
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced the winners of its first round of this year's Knight News Challenge contest at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference held in Cambridge, Mass. Networks is a theme you'll see running through the winners. That's because that was the focus of this year's first round. What […] more »
Two and a half years ago, I co-founded Stroome, a collaborative online video editing and publishing platform and 2010 Knight News Challenge winner. From its inception, the site received a tremendous amount of attention. The New School, USC Annenberg, the Online News Association and, ultimately, the Knight Foundation all saw something interesting in what we […] more »
The TriangleWiki celebration. LocalWiki is incredibly excited to announce that our second focus community, the TriangleWiki, has just launched. Check it out! They even had TriangleWiki-themed champagne! The TriangleWiki launches with over 1,000 pages — more than three times the amount that the Davis Wiki had at its launch. Interestingly, the TriangleWiki wasn't spearheaded by […] more »
Let's face it: The great promise of citizen media has not really been fulfilled. News organizations have struggled to find ways to supplement their coverage of news events with contributions from citizens — and finding citizen media related to a news event is currently difficult at best. Keyword searches and hashtags provide partial solutions, but […] more »


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- 1 Boboli pizza crust
- 2 chicken-sausage links, spicy italian or buffalo style, Al Fresco
- 1 cup(s) sliced mushrooms
- 1/4 cup(s) pizza sauce
- 7 ounce(s) roasted red peppers, drained and cut into strips
- 3/4 cup(s) reduced fat shredded mozzarella cheese
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Remove casings from sausage links. Crumble sausage meat into a small nonstick skillet placed on medium heat. No oil should be necessary. Add mushrooms and sauté for 5 minutes until sausage pieces are browned. Remove with slotted spoon and rest on kitchen paper to drain of any fat.
- Place Boboli on pizza pan or baking sheet. Spread pizza sauce thinly on Boboli. Lay roast peppers on top. Add sausage and mushroom mixture and sprinkle with cheese.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until cheese is melted.
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The stars are in our midst … and small businesses can only benefit.
Late October, Network Solutions hosted the Solutions Stars video conference featuring exclusive conversations from BlogWorld Expo. Those in the Solutions Stars series talked shop on everything from building strong web presence to understanding social media strategy.
Say what?! listen, listen, listen
This week, I revisit another clip in the series about listening to your communities through social media. Watch the full clip below as these marketing leaders, top bloggers, and entrepreneurs discuss who to listen to online — and where to find them.
But first, the players … :
David Alston, VP of Marketing, Radian6
relates a key tenet of social media to sales & party-goin' strategy
Ryan Anderson, Community Relations, Overlay.tv
tells more on businesses "answering the social phone".
David Berkowitz, Director, Emerging Media & Client Strategy, 360i
reveals a source of inspiration for what your next step should be in a social media initiative.
Toby Bloomberg, CEO, Bloomberg Marketing
gives a Web 2.0 lay-of-the-land for learning what's being said about your business.
Matt Dickman, VP of Digital Marketing, Fleishman-Hillard
recommends an easy approach to finding relevant influencers and customers in your space.
Robyn Tippins, Community Manager, Yahoo Development Network
shares how small business can "stand out" when it comes to listening to communities and customers online.
Chris Brogan, VP of Strategy, CrossTech Media
names (3) sources where small businesses can start finding online conversations about them.
Jason Falls, Director, Social Media at Doe-Anderson; blogger for Social Media Explorer
Outlines tips for keeping your business' ear to the ground toward your customers.
Brian Solis, CEO, FutureWorks, and author of PR 2.0
gives the scoop on how to see what comes up online that's related to your business.
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Miami's 13 Best New Year's Eve 2013 Parties
Carl Cox. Monday, December 31, 9 p.m., Mansion, 1235 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-695-8411; mansionmiami.com. Tickets cost $250 to $20,000 plus fees via wantickets.com. Ages 21 and up. Yeah, yeah, yeah ... You could pay $250 to enjoy the coming of the New Year like some sorta totally average electronic dance music fan. Or you could max out the credit cards to celebrate like the Cox man with a $20,000 "Your Own Party on the Stage" package, complete with Grey Goose, Moët, and party favors!
Shwayze. With Mike Russ, Gino G, Chris Valencia, and the Problem Kids. Presented by Red Rabbit. Monday, December 31, 9 p.m., Shelborne South Beach, 1801 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-531-1271; shelborne.com. Tickets cost $95 and up plus fees via wantickets.com. Ages 21 and up. Are you, as 26-year-old SoCal rapper Aaron Smith (AKA Shwayze) might say, "on your Shway shit"? Will you get drunk off love and champagne on South Beach for NYE? Will you meet a stranger "hot like cashmere"? Will you do it "in public/Let them all see, fuck it"? < Previous>
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A fictional henshin style hero in Crayon Shin-Chan universe. He often exploits his popular show by selling and advertising his products throughout his television series. In his show, he's always with his trusted sidekick Loli Pop. |
Ai Suotome
Ai Suotome is a wealthy spoiled girl from Shin's kindergarten class. Ai is often accompany with her bodyguard Mr. K. Ai is cunning and manipulative and will blackmail or exploit any weaknesses to get her way. She is in love with Shin chan. |
Boo is one of Shin's classmates in his kindergarten class. Boo is kinda slow and he has a perpetually runny nose with a string of snot running down his face. |
Georgie Herbert Walker Prescott III
Georgie is one of Shin's friends and classmate in his kindergarten class. Georgie is the preppy goody-goody two shoes type. He is also a republican and often argues with Shin and his lifestyle. |
Ginnosuke Nohara
Ginnosuke Nohara is the father of Hiro Nohara and the grandfather of Hima and Shin. Just like Hiro and Shin, Ginnosuke is somewhat of a lady chaser as well. |
Happiness Bunny
Happiness Bunny is a stuffed plush animal toy that belongs to Penny Milfer. Penny and her mother often take out their anger on Happiness Bunny by beating it senseless... |
Hima Nohara
The youngest child of the Nohara family. A precocious and vibrant infant. She possess a palpable lust for shiny objects and brand-name goods. |
Hiro Nohara
Father of the Nohara family, and its sole source of income. He and his wife bicker on many different things, from how little he gets for spending money every month, to whose turn it is to give the baby a bath. |
Loli Pop
Loli Pop is Action Bastard's trusty sidekick, she often arrives just in the nick of time with a new invention or action technique for Action Bastard to use. |
Maso Sato
Maso is one of Shin's friend from his kindergarten class. Maso is a bit of an effeminate crybaby, and is in love with Ai Suotome. |
Michi Hatogaya
Michi is the wife of Yoshirin, and the both of them are neighbors of the Nohara family. They are often portrayed as moochers. |
Miss Anderson
Miss Anderson is Shin Chan's kindergarten teacher at the Super Happy Fun Time American School. Her boyfriend is Doyle, the closet telepath. |
Miss Polly
Miss Polly is one of the teachers at Super Happy Fun Time American School. Don't let her shy look fool you, she is a kinky closet pervert! |
Mitzy Nohara
Mitzy Nohara is Shin and Hima's mother, and Hiro's wife. Mitzy loves bargains and sales and is often a penny pincher. She continually saves money for her boob job jar. |
Mr. K
Mr. K is Ai Suotome's personal driver and bodyguard. He is always around her and does her every bidding. Ai often exploits his dark secrets and blackmails him to follow her orders. |
Nanako Oohara
Nanako is a young college student in which Shin is in love with... |
Nushiyo is the land lady of Falling Apartments, she has very strict rules for her tenants, and despises Shin and his friends. She likes to spend her time building constructs from her collection of dentures. |
Paris is the young daughter of Summer. She is dressed like and acts like her teenage mother. She is somewhat a rival of Hima Nohara. |
Patty Milfer
Patty Milfer is Penny Milfer's mother. Patty is abused physically and sexually by her husband Bill Milfer. On top of that, Shin always causes trouble for her on several occasions. With all of her troubles, Patty is a bit erratic and full of rage, which she takes out on Happiness Bunny. |
Penny Milfer
Penny is one of Shin's classmates in his kindergarten class. She is often the rival of Ai Suotome, and she loves to play House; sometimes the medical drama version and sometimes the cooking and cleaning version... She comes from a troubled family, and often takes out her anger through her stuffed bunny plush. |
Principal Ench
Principal Ench is the school principal of the Super Happy Fun Time American School. |
Rachel Katz
Rachel Katz is one of the teachers at the Super Happy Fun Time American School. She has an alternate persona as Tiger Woman, one of Ench Man's greatest enemies! |
Shin Nohara
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Whitey is the Nohara families' pet dog. He is a fluffy white dog and is often neglected although he shares a special relationship with Shin. |
Yonro is one of the tenants that live at Falling Apartments... When the Nohara family moves in, Yonro is one of their neighbors. Yonro is a college reject. |
Yoshirin Hatogaya
Yoshirin is the husband of Michi, and the both of them are neighbors of the Nohara family. They are moochers who are always in debt due to their spending habits. |
Yuu is one of the tenants of Falling Apartments, she lives in apartment 203. She is the neighbor of Shin's family when they move in temporarily. Yuu's dream is to become an actress, and because of that, she is often seen in strange costumes and make up... |


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Washington's Birthday has been a national holiday since 1885.
In 1968, when Congress was considering a shuffle of three-day weekends with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, some Illinois lawmakers tried to get the February holiday stretched to cover Abe Lincoln by calling it "Presidents Day." But according to an account in the National Archives Prologue Magazine, Virginia legislators, jealous of their state's prerogatives, blocked the change and maintained Washington as First in Our Hearts, First in the National League East, and First in Special-Today-Only Used Car Discounts.
But this got us thinking. As OPM notes above, the states can do what they want. Illinois recognizes Lincoln's Birthday as a separate state holiday, for instance. This year they celebrated it on Feb. 12.
Are there any other presidents – besides Abe and George – who have special state days unnoticed by the nation at large?
Yes there are! In Texas, Aug. 27 is recognized as Lyndon Baines Johnson day. That's the date of LBJ's actual birthday. State agencies aren't completely closed that day, but only skeleton crews are required. (Everybody else is home trying to make it through Robert Caro's Alamo-sized LBJ bio, perhaps.)


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The-Dream - Veteran Feat. R. Kelly
Veteran The-Dream Feat. R. Kelly
Bump Veteran, the latest cut from The-Dream featuring R. Kelly on the assist. It was released on Wednesday, July 7th, 2010.
Bump Veteran, the latest cut from The-Dream which features R. Kelly on the assist. It dropped on Wednesday, July 7th, 2010. The-Dream's horizons are broadening with each new release, and Veteran is no exception. It's a worthy addition to a catalogue that has seen much growth since The-Dream stepped foot in the rap game. We're looking forward to hearing more.
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I just receive this from the Tennessee Firearms Association:
HB0962 Restaurant Carry
I cannot stress enough that we need more phone calls and emails to legislators about passing HB0962 in the House and Senate without the House restrictions. The Senate version of the bill strips out these restrictions. We expect, at this point, for the bills to be in both Houses on Thursday the 30th of April and to be potentially in and out of conference by that time.
Parks Bill(s)
There are several parks bills moving and efforts are being made to consolidate these different bills into one bill by amendment. This would be preferable to minimize the chance for conflicting language and/or provisions related to federal, state and local parks. We are also hearing "objections" to issues pertaining to wildlife management areas and refuges. One of the largest attacks we are seeing at this time is coming from the Tennessee Municipal League and other organizations that claim to represent local governments and local law enforcement which are objecting to the State setting a standard rule for permit holders and parks. Instead, these local governments want to totally control not only the parks that they actually claim to "own" (does the government really own anything relative to the citizens?) but they also essentially want a local veto over carrying in state or perhaps even federal parks in their jurisdiction. We need substantial call and email volume in opposition to allowing local governments to control local parks because it will clearly result in a situation where there is no standard to be applied statewide regarding permit holders and the use of public parks.
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I See You Trolling, B. Coop
August 28, 2013 / Posted by: Michael K
Here's 38-year-old Bradley Cooper lying his head on the lap of his 21-looking-like-a-13-year-old girlfriend Suki Waterhouse while reading "Lolita" in a park in Paris. TOO EASY. B. Coop once said that he'd never mess around with Jennifer Lawrence, because his 15-year-old self could've made her and now here he is reading "Lolita" with a girl who looks like she'd get carded while trying to get into a PG-13 movie. The trolling is thick here. Well, I guess you really have to bring out heavy doses of foolery to sell a staged photo-op nowadays.
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