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Jimmie Johnson, the six-time and defending series champion, has been the hottest driver lately, winning three of the last four races. Johnson scored back-to-back victories at Charlotte and Dover and then finished sixth at Pocono before winning at Michigan for the first time in 25 starts there.
Gordon started Hendrick's string of wins on May 10 at Kansas, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. kept the streak alive last week at Pocono after passing Brad Keselowski for the lead with five laps to go.
Right now, Gordon, Johnson and Earnhardt are 1-3, respectively, in the point standings. Hendrick driver Kasey Kahne has struggled this season, but Kahne showed some improvement at Michigan, where he finished fifth. It moved him up two positions in the standings to 19th.
Earnhardt started the season by taking the checkered flag for the Feb. 23 Daytona 500, but a driver from Hendrick hadn't won again until Kansas.
Now the racing organization is making continuous trips to victory lane.
"I think we were a little off early in the year, but we've been kind of clicking here lately," team owner Rick Hendrick said. "Everybody is really putting out a lot of effort right now, and it's paying off."
HMS had perhaps its most dominating season in 2007, winning 18 of 36 races. That year, the team won four consecutive events in the early going (Las Vegas - Martinsville) and then five straight (Phoenix - Charlotte) before claiming six victories in a row at the tail end of the season (Talladega - Phoenix).
Next weekend, the series will compete at Sonoma, a 1.99-mile road course in Northern California. Hendrick has the most car owner victories there with six (five with Gordon and one with Johnson).
Johnson leads the series with three victories this season after he was winless in the first 11 races. Now that he has a victory at Michigan, just four tracks remain on his list where he's yet to win -- Chicagoland, Kentucky, Homestead and Watkins Glen. The series will run at Kentucky later this month.
"I'm just thrilled on multiple levels," Johnson said after he earned his 69th career Sprint Cup win this past Sunday. "The success that we've had as a team, kind of hitting our stride and getting to victory lane three times in the last four weeks, our teammates and their success, the company, and you look at our engines in our cars and what they're able to do, Rick gives us all the tools to go out there and do our jobs and to have everything so fast and so good. You want it to last forever. We know that it won't, but it's just a good time to sit back and reflect and enjoy it."
Not only has the Hendrick organization been at the top of the class this season, but those teams which receive engine support from Hendrick -- Stewart- Haas Racing, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates and HScott Motorsports -- have been running strong this year as well.
Nine of the top-13 finishers in the Michigan race were in Hendrick-powered cars. All four Hendrick Motorsports drivers placed in the top seven.
Kevin Harvick from Stewart-Haas finished second after starting on the pole and leading the most laps with 63. Harvick set a new track-qualifying record there at 204.557 mph last Friday. Rookie Kyle Larson from Ganassi took the eighth spot. Harvick's teammates, Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch, were 11th and 13th, while Larson's teammate, Jamie McMurray, placed 12th.
McMurray won last month's NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race (a non-points-paying event) at Charlotte.
"I think it's obvious that Hendrick Motorsports produces fast race cars," Johnson noted. "They build fast engines. It doesn't matter if it is Stewart- Haas (Racing), or the Hendrick organization, we're winning a lot of races and running up front."
After finishing third at his home track, Team Penske driver and Michigan native Brad Keselowski admitted that his team as well as the other non- Hendrick-affiliated teams in Sprint Cup have a lot of catching up to do.
"We all have got a little bit of work to do because it's pretty obvious that the Hendrick engines are way ahead of everyone else," Keselowski said.
Fifteen races have been completed and 11 remain before the regular season concludes and the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship begins.
"We've got work to do to get there," Keselowski added. "Thankfully, we've got 12 to 13 weeks until the Chase starts, and I know we've got some stuff coming up for that. I think we're right there at Penske, kind of just maybe a half a nose behind the Hendrick cars or Hendrick-powered cars, whatever you want to call them.
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I've heard from my parents/grandparents that God is in the process of building a new Earth. Where in the Bible does it say God is creating a new Earth? Why would God build a new Earth? I know it says in the Bible that God loves all of man kind, but didn't he also regret creating man once he saw what they did? Why would he do this?
John, I am providing a fairly 'long answer' as you seem genuinely interested. You have tapped into a long historical theme in the Bible with your question. The first occurrence of the actual words 'new earth' occurs here at around 700 BC:
This prophecy was made by Isaiah to Judah who would be fallen into captivity by the Babylonian Kingdom (roughly around 500 BC) but would again be saved, just as Moses had delivered them from Egypt. So by what might appear on face-value as a hyperbole, this was a promise to Judah that after they became captive they would also again return to Jerusalem. This return would be like a 'new world'. At least it would be better than the life in Babylon.
However, the language goes far beyond what one might expect from such deliverance and seems 'heavenly' so within old Rabbinic interpretation before Christ these verses were taken to apply to the times of the future Messiah who would restore Israel. For example this does not seem like something normal on earth:
Here is an example of an Old Rabbi's view from an ancient Midrash before Christ:
So this Messianic expectation surrounding a 'new world' was that the Messiah would bring all Israelites back to Jerusalem and heal everybody in a sort of utopian society. This is how they would interpret the next verse:
You can feel the heavenly impression of this peaceful image. This added to a Messianic expectation of a truly 'new world'. Besides the life after their return from Babylon was not really so exalted, they did not even have their own independent King, but were vassals of other Kings. Therefore this only increased the Messianic expectation leading up to the time of Jesus from Bethlehem. The Jews were subject to the Romans at that time.
With this Messianic expectation that a 'new' world would be created, the New Testament picks up on the theme in fulfillment and in prediction of another future fulfillment. First, in the current fulfillment a 'new' world was already created by Christ's death, resurrection and 'coming in power' by his sending the Holy Spirit in Acts 2. This was a 'creation of a new world', or His 'kingdom' and so we call it the new covenant. Those who believe in God are called members of this kingdom and are born again into it, having a 'new life' in this 'new world'. This was like God 'shaking the whole heavens and earth', so that a new heaven and new earth would result from what 'could not be shaken' (See Haggai 2:6).
Second the New Testament also indicates that this 'shaking' is not yet fully accomplished:
So your answer your questions: Jesus has made a new world and is still building it, all are welcome to join by placing their faith in Him. Also there will come a time when the whole world will be destroyed by fire at the second coming of Christ to 'judge the living and the dead'.
Regarding why God regretted that he made man after the world had become so filled with sin, it is a anthropomorphism, or personification, of God as though he was a man, in order that we can understand what would otherwise be incomprehensible. In other words God has his own reasons for making man, even knowing they would sin and fall, but as we cannot fully comprehend them, He just wanted us to understand that sinful man is far beyond what his purpose was. Yet no worries, now God has shown us how He planned to kill sin, and kill, death, it was in Christ so that:
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- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
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No real need to check them. (Score:5, Insightful)by SCHecklerX (229973) <firstname.lastname@example.com> on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @11:44AM (#42117531) Homepage
Been working well for a decade. The neat thing is that 90% of the stuff that needs to be rejected can be done without any spam analysis at all. I only call my spamassassin checks *AFTER* vetting things through MimeDefang. Why waste the CPU cycles? RBLs, Pretending to be from my domain, mail to system accounts, invalid HELO (not FQDN or IP address - single words are very popular with spammers/botnets), RFC1918 HELO addresses, etc. After that, they then go through my spamassassin process, which has been collecting bayes data for several years. The community provided spamassassin rules are kept up to date, and I have a Nagios process that also ensures they are up to date (check_sa-update on nagios exchange. Written by yours truly).
I'd put my system, based on MimeDefang, Spamassassin, clam, etc against barracuda any day. I bet I have a lot less false positives (0 the past year, 1 every couple of months while tuning at my last company), and use a whole lot less CPU by discarding obvious garbage that doesn't need to be processed by spamassassin.
The most recent thing is the "Hello" stuff from legitimate mail accounts. The spammers are using active exploits the past few years to slip through filters, but they still don't get in. I should relabel my spam folder to "Friends with compromised accounts" Everything else scores off the charts and is discarded.
Too Much Trust in Technology (Score:5, Insightful)Wow - people really trust Google, Barracuda et al to always get it right?
I check the Gmail spam folder daily - usually there are less than a dozen messages there - and about once a month find something that shouldn't have been blocked.
I would never put 100% trust in a spam filter.
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I am not the AC you replied to, but I have tried being friendly and letting people know that they sent to the wrong address.
No good deed goes unpunished. The responses tend to be abusive, threatening or both, blaming the recipient for both obtaining the mail, reading some of it, and the capital offense of implying that the sender might have made a mistake.
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These instructions have been verified against BTM 1.1.
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Step 1: Copy the BTM jars
Include the following jars from the BTM distribution into your classpath:
- btm-1.1.jar
- geronimo-spec-jta-1.0.1B-rc4.jar
- slf4j-jdk14.jar (or any other one available here)
Step 2: Configure connection pools beans
The first things you will need to configure are the connection pools.
Here is a sample bean configuration using Embedded Derby:
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<bean id="derbyDataSource" class="bitronix.tm.resource.jdbc.PoolingDataSource" init-method="init" destroy-method="close"> <property name="className" value="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedXADataSource" /> <property name="uniqueName" value="derby1" /> <property name="minPoolSize" value="0" /> <property name="maxPoolSize" value="5" /> <property name="driverProperties"> <props> <prop key="databaseName">users1</prop> </props> </property> </bean>
Since the pools are created via the BTM API (ie: not with ResourceLoader) it is up to the API user to manage the lifecycle of the pools, mainly calling
Step 3: Configure BTM beans
The second thing you need to do is configure beans for BTM.
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<!-- Bitronix Transaction Manager embedded configuration --> <bean id="btmConfig" factory-method="getConfiguration" class="bitronix.tm.TransactionManagerServices"> <property name="serverId" value="spring-btm" /> </bean> <!-- create BTM transaction manager --> <bean id="BitronixTransactionManager" factory-method="getTransactionManager" class="bitronix.tm.TransactionManagerServices" depends-on="btmConfig,derbyDataSource" destroy-method="shutdown" />
Step 4: Configure Spring PlatformTransactionManager
Next, you need to create a Spring PlatformTransactionManager. There are many of them but the one we are interested in is the JtaTransactionManager. This is required as Spring internally uses
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<!-- Spring JtaTransactionManager --> <bean id="JtaTransactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager"> <property name="transactionManager" ref="BitronixTransactionManager" /> <property name="userTransaction" ref="BitronixTransactionManager" /> </bean>
This is really all you need to get JTA support with BTM inside Spring. You could directly make use of the JtaTransactionManager bean in your code but there are more elegant solutions: using Sping's AOP support to get declarative transaction management.
Step 5: Configure declarative transaction management
This can easily be achieved thanks to Spring's TransactionProxyFactoryBean.
The idea behind it is to wrap your bean with a Spring-generated proxy that will intercept calls and perform transaction management according to a configuration.
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In October of that year, the Packers were invited as guests of the American Legion to watch the first two games of the Major League World Series at International Field of Anaheim in California.
Charlie Sheen, Danny Devito, Denise Richards and Kobe Bryant were also in the stands in Anaheim.
The team was introduced and walked out on the field before watching San Francisco take the opening game 4-3 in a defensive struggle. Reggie Sanders and Barry Bonds hit homeruns for the Giants, while eventual MVP Troy Glaus hit a pair for the Angels.
The second game was a slugfest.
Bonds, in the only World Series of his career, hit a monster homerun into the bay in the ninth with two outs.
It would not be enough and the Angels took the second game 11-10.
The Angels would eventually take the Series in six games, winning the final two games at home 6-5 and 4-1.
In December, the team, along with Coach Frank Portera, was named grand marshall of the West Point Christmas parade.
WCBI named the Packers' championship "Sports Story of the Year" in the state.
The Tupelo 49er's won the state tournament in 2003.
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In 2006, Portera went to the superintendent's office to ask permission to use West Point High School's Earl Williams Taylor Field.
He was denied.
"It was a board decision," then assistant superintendent Steve Montgomery said. "There were some questions about field availability and scheduling conflicts. The school had some summer leagues and some local teams playing in the area.
"I don't think it was 'You can't use the field,' it was more like there were these summer leagues and the school was gonna have these practices."
The minutes from the school board meeting are unavailable.
In June of 2006, Sara Lee, the company that owned Bryan and sponsored the West Point based team, announced it would begin transferring jobs to other company facilities.
By December of that year, 400 employees had been laid off.
In January, 2007, Sara Lee announced it would cease all operations in West Point in March.
Sarah Matheu, a public relations rep with Sara Lee at the time told the Daily Times Leader on March 29 "We have been unable to (sell the facility) despite exhaustive efforts to work with potential buyers."
There was still hope at the time the facility would be sold and used again.
There's a sign behind Earl Williams Taylor field at West Point High School that matches a trophy that rests on a filing cabinet in an office in downtown West Point.
They both match a cluster of empty buildings on Churchill Road.
West Point has changed.
The Boys of Summer, 2002 have grown into men. They have wives, children, mortgages, full time jobs…
Of the 18 members of the team, only Tyler Bratton still works with baseball, serving as Director of Operations with the Mississippi State baseball team.
Despite the fact that the state of Mississippi owns very few national championships-East Mississippi did win the national title in community college football last season-and have no undisputed national champions in any "major" college sports, the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame is not interested in a display for the American Legion World Series team.
In 2002, when the Packers won the American Legion World Series, there were 51 teams in the state. The following year, there were 31. That number has been in steady decline ever since.
This year, there were nine.
By comparison, this season saw Alaska field 22 Legion teams. Rhode Island had 31. Alabama had 78.
Former Major League Baseball commissioner Bartlett Giamatti once wrote in his essay "The Green Fields of the Mind" "(Baseball) breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart."
In the case of Frank Portera, it's true.
"I don't mind telling you I was heart-broken," Portera said. "But I'm not mad. I had a good run. We were the first team from Mississippi to win the Legion World Series. We always will be. They can't take that away from us."
Corey Carter played baseball at Shelton State in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Josh Johnson played four years at Mississippi State and was drafted in the sixteenth round by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Johnson pitched in the minor leagues for two years before finishing in AA.
Dave Nanney went to East Mississippi before transferring to Montevallo University.
Brandon McGarity played four years at West Alabama.
Lance Martin played at Arkansas State.
Rod Williams played at East Mississippi and Mississippi Valley State, as did Chris Stamps.
Tyler Hunter and Scottie Jacobs played at Meridian Community College.
Joby Garner played at Southwest Tennessee Community College before transferring to East Mississippi.
Jeff Schafer played at ICC and the University of North Alabama.
Brent Patton played at ICC.
Russell Bourland played at Northeast Miss. Community College before transferring to East Mississippi.
Tyler Bratton played at East Mississippi and Mississippi State.
Caleb Robertson and John Raymond Pitre both attended Southern Miss.
Frank Portera never coached again.
This series has taken a lot of work by a lot of people to complete and, at the risk of sounding corny, I'd like to thank a few of them. First off, former DTL editor Brandon Walker (now at the North Florida Daily News) for approving it in the first place. Bryan Davis, the current DTL editor who has put as much hard work into this as I have. Adam Fels supplied me with some information that I couldn't find on my own. Kandiace Gray, who read over each article, critiquing, editing and improving every one. Danny Smith and Jarrod McDaniel, former sports editors at the DTL whose articles were a tremendous help in researching this and who took time out of their busy schedules to talk to me.
Former players Russell Bourland, Drew Jaudon, Josh Johnson, Brandon McGarity and Rod Williams who took the time to talk to be interviewed about things that happened 10 years ago; and especially to McGarity for bringing articles he had collected about the team during the regional and world series tournaments.
Also, I'd like to thank former Assistant Superintendent Steve Montgomery for talking to me about the school board decision in 2006.
Mostly, I'd like to thank Frank Portera. Portera not only was the driving force behind the Bryan Packers and American Legion baseball in West Point, he was also the driving force behind these articles. His time was always limited, but he was always generous with it.
If you have enjoyed these articles, it is because so many people were generous with time and effort to help get them out there. If there have been errors or awkward sentences or misspellings, the fault is all mine.
As far as that team, they're not completely done yet. Many of them recall their championship run as "the best two weeks of my life." They have a reunion planned for October.
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|Betsy Adams, RN is the January 2012 DAISY Award Recipient
Congratulations to Betsy Adams, RN who is the January 2012 Daisy Award Recipient. Betsy works in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The DAISY Award is presented monthly to an All Children's Hospital Nurse that has provided extraordinary service to our patients.
A parent wrote:
My son is a patient in the NICU. He has Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and has been in the hospital for over a month. I have visited numerous times, but due to extenuating circumstances, I cannot be there all the time. Talking with Betsy for just a few minutes, I found out more about my son's condition and how to comfort him then I had learned in over a month. She has never been judgmental. She explained different ways of comforting him and even offered to take his dirty laundry home to wash it because I live so far away. She always stops what she is doing to give me any detailed information I request and has helped voice my concerns to the nurse practitioner and doctor on staff. She gave me information about all the medications my son is taking.
Since I also have a five-year-old, Betsy went over the new regulations regarding childcare. She is always friendly and upbeat. She has a very calm, patient, and nurturing demeanor and she makes me feel confident about having my newborn in the unit. It is difficult beyond words to have to leave my son in a hospital while I return home, but when Betsy is working I can rest easy knowing his needs are well cared for and that he is truly loved by her. When it was time for his first bath, I was a little nervous and Betsy helped to calm me. She was understanding and kind. I believe that Betsy deserves to be recognized for her compassion and dedication toward the newborns and infants in the NICU. I have never encountered a more sensitive and nurturing nurse in a medical setting anywhere.
"Betsy has been a RN in the NICU for over 27 years. She has a very calm and caring approach which is especially helpful when dealing with families," said Cindy Driscoll RN, BSN, MS, Director of the NICU. "She has led many different initiatives during her time in the NICU and is currently involved in working with the neonatal abstinence infants and their families. She works in conjunction with Operation PAR and Bayfront Medical Center to ensure that mothers are given consistent information and an orientation to the unit prior to their baby being born. This is just one example of how she goes above and beyond for the infants and the families in the NICU."
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Visitors to Kinston's Maplewood, Cedar Grove and Hebrew cemeteries can now walk through the entrance off South Queen Street through a wrought-iron arch.
Rose Clark of Kinston — who plans to be at the cemetery today installing a metal fence around the entrance — fabricated the 23-and-a-half-foot wide arch, and welded it to the brick entrance posts last week.
City of Kinston Engineering staff and equipment hoisted the arch onto the posts.
"They came down and held it up for me while I welded it to the poles," Clark said Sunday.
The motif of the arch is maple leaves, meant to symbolize Maplewood Cemetery — Maplewood, along with its sister Cedar Grove and Hebrew cemeteries, takes up several blocks off South Queen, between East Shine and East Lincoln streets.
The historic cemeteries are the final resting places for a variety of the city's residents over the past 250 years.
Pride of Kinston Inc. has worked for several years and collaborated with a number of community partners to revitalize the entrance to Maplewood, part of a larger effort to revamp South Queen Street, the southern entrance to Kinston.
A block of buildings — all but one were unoccupied — were torn down in 2009 to create a landscaped entrance to the cemetery.
Pride and its partners have raised more than $200,000 in private contributions toward the project, which is in its final stages.
Brick walkways have been laid, and brick posts have been erected to hold the metal fence Clark will fabricate and install this week. The area must still be landscaped.
Clark, who also fabricated the metal fence next to the Community Council for the Arts' building on North Queen Street, worked with the Arts Council's Public Art Committee and Pride's Design Committee when designing the arch.
She said she worked closely with Design Committee and Public Art Committee members Adrian King — who is also director of Pride — Sandy Landis — director of the Arts Council — and Mary Page Whitley, chairwoman of the Public Art Committee, among others.
"It's just been a tremendous group involvement and it's always rewarding to work together with all of these people," Clark said.
She added: "When groups team up to accomplish something, we get a lot of things done."
Landis said members of the Public Art Committee suggested installing a hand-made arch and fencing at the cemetery entrance would be "an excellent public art project."
"The cemetery project belongs to Pride," she explained. "We were just a collaborative community partner in the archway design."
Landis and the Arts Council are also spearheading the African-American Music Trail project, and the "trailhead" will be a music park off South Queen Street, filled with public art.
"We have this really good collaboration that goes on," she said of collaborative projects such as the cemetery entrance and the AAMT. "That's a way the arts can partner with enhancement, development, restoration, reconstruction, new construction — the arts can play a vigorous role in that, in making the design (of the project) unique for our community."
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Researchers uncovered a small group of reindeer native to the Arctic regions in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Russia and Scandinavia who actually do have a distinct red coloring in their noses. According to Live Science, reindeers have 25 percent more capillaries carrying red, oxygen-rich blood in their noses than humans. This dense network of blood vessels causes their noses to turn a certain shade of red. Scientists were able to find this by using a tiny microscope. They examined the noses of two reindeer and were able to compare their blood vessels to five human volunteers. See more in the video below.
Another study was conducted by Dr. Erwin J.O. Kompanje and his team at the Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam. They studied a group of reindeers at the Rotterdam Zoo. They concluded the following: "There is a scientific explanation for the observation that the nose of Rudolph is red. The exceptional physical burden of flying with a sleigh with Santa Claus as a heavy load could have caused cerebral and bodily hyperthermia, resulting in an overworked nasal cooling mechanism that resembles an overheated cooling radiator in a car: Rudolph suffered from hyperemia of the nasal mucosa (a red nose) under more extreme heat loads during flight with a sleigh."
In other words, researchers found that when reindeers are in colder climates or in higher elevations (such as flying Santa's sleigh?), the increase in blood flow to the nose helps to keep their noses warm. It also helps regulate the animal's internal body temperature.
Another method in which scientists concluded that reindeer noses can turn red was by putting the antlered animal on a treadmill (as seen in the video above). Afterwards, the reindeer's nose showed up as red in a thermographic image.
"These results highlight the intrinsic physiological properties of Rudolph's legendary luminous red nose, which help to protect it from freezing during sleigh rides and to regulate the temperature of the reindeer's brain, factors essential for flying reindeer pulling Santa Claus's sleigh under extreme temperatures," researchers said. Amazing!
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Rudolph was a lush!December 24 2012 at 10:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
There has never been a christ as of yet. If u are referring to "jesus", he was no christ which according to Greek means messiah the savior. According to the old testament "jesus" could have not been a messiah since he didn't fulfill the requisites of being one. Also, his name was Yeshua ben Yosef. Nobody had last names back then but were often carried down the father's name. Also, Yeshua was born during the springDecember 22 2012 at 5:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Wow!.....Since Rudolph is the LRD(lead reindeer) and Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen are in his wake.......I always thought his nose was red from moving at the speed of light.
Oh well.
We need to speak on the true meaning of CHRISTmas.....the birth of CHRIST. For those that roll their eyes to this fact.....prepare to go to your kneesDecember 20 2012 at 8:09 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply
Keep Christ in Christians. Let's start with that. Worship and celebrate, and stop worrying about other people's discussions. No one asked you to come forward with a sermon in a discussion of a secular holiday song.December 20 2012 at 9:46 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply
Okay...calm down man! Why don't you just sit in the corner for an hour until you're ready to play with others!December 20 2012 at 9:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
must drink alot of brandy ,to keep warm.and coke to fly.December 20 2012 at 7:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Rudolph? John "Rudy" Reutigger? (NotrDame movie) Red? Hm. I'm trying to associate the 3 dissimilar stories. Let me get back to you on that. OK?December 20 2012 at 6:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Maybe Rudy has a red nose because he caught a virus.....went outdoors without his coat, doncha know?!December 20 2012 at 6:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
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GoNOMAD Travels: Where We Went in 2011
GoNOMAD's writers are also extensive travelers. Hey, how else would we be able to create so much unique travel content if we sat in our offices and never left? Below is a compendium of the many travels our staff and regular contributors took during this year, we hope this inspires you to make your own fantastic journeys in 2012!
In 2011, I got back to my normal pace of
In June I joined 30,000 other bicyclists to ride the streets of Montreal; first during a 17 km night ride, and the next day 50 km with an even bigger throng. This city is very European and deserves its crown as a Canadian foodie
paradise. Later that month I discovered the gleaming wine-lovers capital of Bordeaux, and in the Aquitaine countryside, visited a Palombiere, or hunting lodge. Then I spent the weekend in a chateau in the Dordogne to survey the local gastronomy.
Then a trip to Wales provided a bunch of new culinary treats especially the morning spent foraging for porcini mushrooms. In November I visited Hana, Maui and the tiny island of Molokai, which couldn't be any more different. One island is a paradise, and another is remote and barely inhabited.
Associate Editor Stephen Hartshorne
Stephen and his daughter Sarah enjoyed a delightful trip to Squam Lakes in
Holderness, New Hampshire, where the movie 'On Golden Pond' was filmed. They saw a performance of the play on which the movie was based, directed by the author, Ernest Thomson. They also visited lots of galleries and craft studios, dined like royalty, and took a boat tour of the Lakes on a glorious Sunday afternoon.
He took a short trip to Williamsburg, Massachusetts to attend a three-day intensive welding workshop at Snow Farm, a local crafts education center where he fashioned a number of brilliant works of art from metal scraps he found in the welding workshop.
Stephen also took a tour of eleven cities in Germany. Beginning in Wittenburg, he visited many of the important places in the life of Martin Luther, and walking through the cobblestone streets of these medieval cities and visiting historic sites, he gained a sense of how important Luther is to the spirit of the German people, not just as the founder of a new religion, but as the founder of the German traditions of music and education.The second half of his tour took him to the fairy-tale palaces of the Rhine-Main Region. He visited Hanau, the home of the Brothers Grimm and the magnificent Philippsruhe Castle. He also visited the Johannes Gutenburg Museum in Mainz and learned about the invention of movable type and gambled at the casino in wiesbaden where Dostoyevsky lost all his dough.
While he was away in Germany, New England was blanketed with two feet of wet snow which knocked out the electricity for three days all over the Pioneer Valley. Fortunately the snow had all melted when he returned!
I started the year with a jaunt down to Rincon Puerto Rico, the Caribbean surfing capital with huge swells, great food and some of the most die-hard wave riders in the world. The lodging choices are all different and reasonable. At evening time, the knights of the board ensure a lively bar scene and love is in the air. An added plus is Puerto Rico's accessibility.
While exploring some of the best manor houses surrounding Dublin I managed to play the Bodhran (Irish Drum) after just one lesson, at Eric Clapton's one-time Irish home. Thankfully the band was very patient. Meeting the best chefs on the country and even getting some pointers added up to one incredible trip. Every trip to Ireland is a pleasure but this one was extraordinary because of the sumptous accommodations…
I have always had my own thoughts on East Germany, mostly based on old spy movies. After a visit to Potsdam and the surrounding countryside it was out with the old ideas and in with the new. East Germany maintains its own identity even as it continues to meld into the unified Germany, it remains a bit different and wonderful. The pace is a slower and the food is hearty. We stayed in a variety of castles and manor homes.
This year I started a new GoNOMAD Blog called Checking In to share some of the world's most unique and interesting lodgings I have stayed in over the years with readers . Guest bloggers will also share some great finds.
Tomorrow I end the year with a road trip to Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico, to revisit the spirit, culture and foods that make New Mexico the Land of Enchantment. As a follow up to my photo gallery of Vermont this Fall, three cameras are packed and ready to go. All in all a very good year of sharing what the world offers.
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Puerto Rico (February): I'm a big fan of the Latin culture, and exploring Old San Juan was a great experience. Zip-lining stole the show, though – flying like superman 800ft in the air.
Los Angeles (September): I went for the Los Angeles Food and Wine Festival (TASTE) and came back with a photo of myself and Giada. The food and booze was icing on the cake.
Punta Cana Dominican Republic (September): The pictures from the Catamaran ride pretty much tell the story – I can't help but smile when I'm on the water.
Finger Lakes, New York (October): For the first time in my life, I came to understand why people miss the seasons. Something else I had never done: Wine tasting in the snow.
Bahamas (November): Two things I never thought I would do were accomplished on this trip: Swimming with wild pigs and feeding french fries to an endangered species.
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Beluga whales may be headed for extinction
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NOAA fisheries biologists Matt Eagleton (left), Dan Vos, Greg O'Corry-Crowe and Rod Hobbs placing a satellite transmitter onto a female beluga whale in Cook Inlet near Anchorage, Alaska, in 2000. The beluga whales that swim in Cook Inlet are continuing to struggle and appear headed for extinction if nothing changes.
A survey done in June found the whales "are not recovering," said Julie Speegle, a spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "We don't know why."
Cook Inlet belugas, considered genetically distinct, have been struggling and in decline for years. The white whales in waters off Anchorage have been listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act since 2008, when the count was higher than the most recent population estimates.
The survey estimated the number of belugas in Cook Inlet at 312.
The previous year's estimate was 284 whales. The increase is not enough to be scientifically significant, NOAA officials said. The aerial survey is conducted from a small plane with bubble windows, behind which scientists count the whales and make video recordings to come up with yearly estimates.
NOAA says estimates have been as low as 278 whales and as high as 366 in the past decade. The annual survey has been done since the early 1990s.
Speegle said NOAA is developing a recovery plan, which is expected to be completed by late spring. Recovery plan team members include scientists, citizens groups, Alaska Natives, and conservation and oil and gas development groups. The recovery plan will set out management actions with the goal being the survival of Cook Inlet's belugas, Speegle said.
The Cook Inlet population has declined steadily since the 1980s from a high of about 1,300. The loss was accelerated between 1994 and 1998, when Alaska Natives harvested nearly half of the remaining 650 whales. Belugas have not bounced back despite a hunting ban.
Scientists said there was one new and interesting finding from last summer's survey. A group of belugas was observed in a location where they had not been spotted in more than a decade. A group of 12 to 21 whales was first observed swimming north into upper Cook Inlet. They then moved into Trading Bay, where they remained.
"Beluga whales have not been observed in this area during our surveys since 2001," said Kim Shelden, chief scientist of the survey.
The state of Alaska fought the endangered species listing, saying it would hurt economic development at the Port of Anchorage, as well as oil and natural gas development in nearby waters.
A federal judge last year affirmed the listing.
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ORIENTAL — The Oriental Film Festival returns to the Old Theater for four shows this month.
The opener is Friday, with John Huston's "The Maltese Falcon."
On Oct. 14, there is Howard Hawks' "The Big Sleep," followed by Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" on Oct. 21. The month concludes on Oct. 28 with Roman Polanski's "
Each film in this series will include discussions led by Professor Emeritus Roger Bullis.
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Both "The Maltese Falcon and "The Big Sleep" star Humphrey Bogart, playing hard-boiled detectives Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, the archetypal detective anti-heroes created in literature by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
"Vertigo" stars James Stewart as a retired police detective and Kim Novak as the femme fatale in the Hitchcock suspense classic. It was recently chosen by 846 film critics, programmers, academics and distributors as the top film of all time in the Sight and Sound film magazine poll—besting "Citizen Kane" for the first time. "
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The virus, known as a coronavirus, that has now been shown to transfer from person to person, rather than from animals to humans, is part of the same family of viruses as the one that caused Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome which killed 775 people in 2003.
According to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the coronavirus spread from a 60-year-old man who lives in the United Kingdom and recently traveled to the Arabian Peninsula to two members of of his family. The virus caused respiratory illness in all three, killing one.
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Juvenile Dependency Court Orientation - a video about the court process for parents whose children were taken from their care.
Juvenile court is part of the superior court. It deals with 3 kinds of cases:
The juvenile court can make orders in dependency cases. For example, these orders can:
If the court takes a child from his or her home, a government agency is responsible for the child. The agency is in charge of the child's health, education, and care. The court can also order the agency to assist the parents in making their home safe for the child.
If your child is taken out of your home because of abuse or neglect, you have the right to have a lawyer represent you in court. If you need time to hire one, you can postpone the first court hearing for 1 day so you can get a lawyer. If you do not have enough money to hire a lawyer, you can ask the court to assign a lawyer to your case. (You may have to pay part or all of the costs for your lawyer if you earn enough money.)
A child in a juvenile dependency case is given a lawyer unless the court says it would not be beneficial. The court can also appoint a Court Appointed Special Advocate (called "CASA") to help the child. Click for help finding a lawyer.
NOTE: If you are a ward or dependent of the juvenile court and are turning 18 on or after January 1, 2012 (or if you are between 18 and 20 and have previously been placed in a foster home), you may be entitled to extended foster care benefits beyond your 18th birthday. These benefits may include money for clothing and housing assistance, medical coverage, job placement services, school tuition and others. To find out if you are eligible, contact your current or former probation officer, social worker or lawyer. You can get more information at: www.fosteringconnections.org/california.
If you and your child are involved in a juvenile dependency case, you must follow certain steps until your case is resolved.
The court will explain what you must do and the deadlines you must meet. The court will try to resolve your case as quickly as possible.
If your child becomes a "dependent of the court," the court will make orders for you, your child, and the social worker. The court makes these orders to protect your child.
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If your child becomes a "dependent of the court" and the court does not order reunification services to help you get back together with your child, or reunification efforts fail, you can lose your child.
Throughout the court process, remember that the social worker can explain how the process works. But the social worker cannot give you legal advice. If you have questions, ask your lawyer or the judge. Also, you must tell the court and the social worker where to mail you documents about your child. If you change your mailing address, you must tell your social worker immediately.
The court has removed your child from the home for the reasons specified in the petition and other court papers you may have received. Read the petition carefully.
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The Wall Street Journal announced today the 24 startups chosen by Wall Street Journal editors to participate in 'WSJ Startup of the Year,' an episodic video documentary for WSJ Live, the Journal's online video platform. Premiering June 24, the series matches the 24 startups with global business leaders and influencers, and tracks their progress from startup to success over the course of five months. In conjunction with announcing the 24 startups, the Journal has also unveiled the documentary's sizzle reel and will host a panel discussion on entrepreneurship at the Northside Festival in Brooklyn tomorrow, June 13.
Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group, Steve Case, Chairman of the Case Foundation, Chairman of Startup America and co-founder and former CEO of AOL, and Tory Burch, CEO and Designer of Tory Burch LLC, are among the global business leaders participating in WSJ Startup of the Year.
Ranging from the fields of health care and philanthropy to energy and education, the 24 companies were chosen from more than 500 applications. Each startup is based in the U.S., has a prototype or proof of concept in place, and less than $10 million in annual revenue.
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Easley Announces Resignation to Take Over Division I Program at Campbell
December 4, 2013
MISENHEIMER, N.C. Dawn Easley has resigned as the Pfeiffer womens lacrosse coach to take the same position at Campbell University, effective Jan. 2. Easley will guide the Camels program that is in its second year of existence and leaves Pfeiffer with the second most wins in school history.
Obviously we are very sad to lose Dawn, said Athletic Director/VP for Athletics Bob Reasso. Shes taking over a Division I program so her time at Pfeiffer has served her very well. We are excited for her and wish her the best of luck.
In her five seasons at her alma mater, Easley amassed a 58-31 record and a .651 winning percentage. She was seven wins shy of becoming the all-time leader in coaching wins and posted a 29-9 mark in Conference Carolinas play. Easley has led her team to a winning record every season she has been at the helm and double-digit win totals in four of her five seasons. She was named the Conference Coach of the Year in 2010.
Last season, Easley led the Lady Falcons to a 14-3 record, 5-1 conference mark and a bid to the NCAA Tournament. The 14 wins are second-most in school history and the Tournament showing was the teams first ever NCAA appearance. She led Pfeiffer to a 10-0 home record and two victories over top-15 ranked teams, including a 10-8 win over No. 2 Le Moyne on March 6. Eight different players earned All-Conference selections, highlighted by Shannon Bonnel, who was named the conferences Co-Player of the Year. Easleys defensive unit was the best in the nation, allowing only 6.12 goals per game and Katherine Athens earned the Conference Defender of the Year award.
Easley was a four-year starter for the Falcons from 2001-2005 and had a two-year stint as Pfeiffers assistant coach from 2007-08 before being promoted to head coach the following season. She is currently fifth all-time in points (102), third in goals (78) and fourth in groundballs (149), while leading the Lady Falcons to back-to-back Conference Championships in 04 and 05.
I have been involved in Pfeiffer in so many ways and have been here for 12 years, said Easley. I have become so attached to so many people that I feel like Pfeiffer is my family. I couldnt ask for a better group of girls or a more supportive administration than I had here. However, the opportunity to build a program in its earliest stages at Campbell is a tremendous opportunity.
Easley will join former teammate and Pfeiffer Hall of Famer Lyndsey Boswell in the Big South Conference. Boswell is the head coach of High Point University.
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MARK KEOHANE, in his weekly Business Day column, says Bryan Habana's performance against the Blues proved that he still has what it takes to match the young brigade.
In a Super Rugby season that is already giving an indication of the next generation of southern hemisphere stars, there were a few veterans who reminded us this weekend their effect and enthusiasm remain as important to the fabric of the tournament.
Bryan Habana, irresistible at the 2007 World Cup and quite the opposite last year, finally got the kind bounce of the ball that seemed his birthright in 2007.
Habana again emphasised the argument that a kick for territory is only as good as the chase. Habana refused to give up on a kick that seemed innocuous and the sprint produced a try for the Stormers and Springbok winger, and one hopes also a reprieve from those who refuse to accept Habana can still make a contribution internationally. Few players can match Habana for dedication and desire, and the support he gets from current and past team-mates says everything about his qualities as a player.
He will never repeat the tournament form that helped the Springboks win the World Cup in 2007. The brilliance of those seven magnificent weeks blinded too many, myself included. When a player sets a standard as Habana did in France, he also sets an expectation that isn't necessarily realistic.
His move from the Bulls to Western Province after the 2007 World Cup also came at a time when the Province and Stormers coaches invested in a defensive mindset that favoured structure and offered little to the individual attacking ambitions of the back three. Opportunities on attack were limited for Habana in a team with the best defensive record in Super Rugby in 2010 and last year. And when a winger is starved of the ball he is also starved of that swagger that turns a stumble into a sensational break.
I sat next to Percy Montgomery at Friday's Stormers match against the Blues. Montgomery, in our company suite draw, had Habana to score the first try of the match and when his former team-mate did just that Montgomery pumped his fist in the air in a show of solidarity.
Montgomery, the first South African to play 100 Test matches for the Boks, spent four years playing Test rugby alongside Habana and the next four as part of the Springbok coaching staff. He has never doubted Habana, and is adamant there has been an evolution of his game that wasn't recognised because of how tightly the wing was marked and how significantly different his role was at the Stormers compared to the Bulls.
Montgomery conceded that where Habana did struggle was in confidence and, as happens in sport, the harder an individual tries the worse it seems to get. The Habana that finished last year's World Cup was not a spent force, but a tired one. The quality of depth among South African players allows the public, the media and even coaches to call time on a player prematurely. The belief is always that this country's rugby production line will produce a younger and faster alternative.
Too often (and here I am in the dock as well) there is more comfort in a new face and a quick fix than the laboured recovery of the likes of Habana.
To see Habana flourish at Newlands was my highlight in a weekend where the Stormers, Sharks and Cheetahs were good enough to win and played well enough to deserve their respective victories. Stormers captain and inside centre Jean de Villiers was excellent in leading the victory against the Blues, and if Frans Steyn is the probable Bok option at No 12 for the 2015 World Cup, De Villiers played with enough authority and effect to make it hard to ignore his claims to a season or two more in national colours.
Bismarck du Plessis was the inspiration for the Sharks and Pat Lambie's radar and all-round rhythm was of a standard that matches the belief in his potential to be consistently influential in determining results. Cheetahs captain Adriaan Strauss is another whose star shines bright in this year's tournament, and rookie flyhalf Johan Goosen has a presence that screams permanence. Bok coach Heyneke Meyer is blessed with so many options in every position and there are South Africans dominating in every competition in the northern and southern hemisphere.
The attrition rate in Super Rugby will be a hurdle for Meyer, Robbie Deans and Steve Hansen, but the South African and New Zealand competition challenge is producing a number of selection alternatives to negate injuries. The tournament's young brigade is thriving, but there are as many veterans matching the new kids, none more so this weekend than Habana and De Villiers.


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RALEIGH — Back in early August when preseason football practice was barely a week old, Southwest's veteran coach Phil Padgett sat down with me to talk about the upcoming season for our 2012 Pigskin Preview.
What Padgett said surprised me.
Padgett is usually the most guarded of coaches,
Not this time.
Asked if the 2012 Stallions had a chance to go all the way, Padgett didn't duck and weave or, more appropriately, take his surf board and paddle out to the deepest part of the ocean. And he didn't seek refuge in coach-speak.
Instead, he said that if his players wanted to make it to the state finals, they could. The Stallions, he added, had gone to the state championship game with "a lot less talent."
Talented, yes. But were the Stallions willing to work and willing to sacrifice to get where their coach thought they could be at the start of December?
While the answer fluctuated during the season for Padgett, the final answer was a resounding, "Yes!"
And so here we are five days away from Southwest (13-1) taking on defending state champion
The Maroon Devils, who have the best nickname of any of the 16 state finalists, have won eight state titles. Southwest, which can counter by saying it plays its home games at The Corral, has three state championships.
On Monday, Padgett and his counterpart from
I asked Padgett about his comments made some four months back.
Padgett said he knew then the Stallions had "enough players that had great skill" that could carry a team over a long season. That was why he said what he did, along with having a "solid" offensive line as well as a defense "we thought was going to hit you," especially at linebacker, an area that had been wanting in recent years.
After our Pigskin Preview appeared, I heard from some coaches and others who were a bit surprised at Padgett's comments. Not that he felt that way, only that he had actually said it. Did Padgett hear a similar refrain?
"Yeah, a little bit," he said. "But I was being honest. It was just a team that I just felt like it had the pieces. A lot of times we had to have this, this and this for it to all come together. But we knew most of the pieces were there.
"Now obviously you can have a great team and get knocked out second round of the playoffs. So I knew that, and you're always guarded as a coach. But I'm just so pleased that these kids have the opportunity to play for the state championship. It is such a neat thing, and I'm just proud."
Were his comments a calculated ploy to get his team to believe in itself as much as its coach and his staff did?
Not exactly, but not far off, either.
"We wanted them to understand that it was there for them," Padgett said. "A lot of times kids can't see that far ahead."
But it was a "fine balance." Padgett wanted his team to believe, but he also didn't want them to look too far ahead and "forget to do the things" necessary to get there.
Padgett said it was a "hard season for several reasons," not least of all because he missed one game after having surgery for an undisclosed medical condition. There were also the normal ups and downs of every football season, which included one point in which Padgett wondered if his preseason confidence had been misplaced.
"At one time I wasn't sure we'd get past the second round of the playoffs because that's what things felt like during the season for awhile. Then I thought, 'Well, maybe the team is going to buy into what it takes to get there,'" he said.
The coaches, he said, knew what it took to get the state finals.
"We just didn't know if the kids were going to buy into what it took. But they did and now they realize, 'Hey, maybe those guys know what they were talking about,'" he said.
But it took awhile.
On Aug. 24, Southwest lost at 3-A Jacksonville 21-14 to fall to 1-1, which Padgett said was probably the low point of the season for his players. For him, however, a nonconference loss is no reason to panic, not that he wants to lose to anyone.
"But every time after a loss we've worked so much harder," he said. "And that loss helped us."
Indeed, the following week Southwest whipped 2-A Richlands 28-7, and Padgett said he felt "as good as I could feel about this football team."
Until practice two days later.
"We came out in Monday's practice and four or five guys were hurt or something and four or five were not there," he recalled, "All of sudden I'm thinking this team doesn't have what it takes to get there because you've got to fight through those kind of things and be there ready to go.
"What those kids don't understand is you can't just throw some magic dust and expect it to happen. You've got to be willing to do the things that it takes."
So what happened? How did the 53-year-old Padgett and his veteran staff make sure the Stallions did what it took?
"We weren't going to change what we were doing. The kids wanted us to change what we were doing. A lot of times kids want you want to back off, and we decided we aren't going to back off here. We decided you're either going to join us or you won't be there with us at the end, wherever we end up," he said.
"With that, you lose a kid or two. But as it turned out, it worked out. That's one thing I'll say, if you're on the right course and you stay it, you weather the bad storm, you're going to make it to port, and that's what we've done."
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