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UPDATE: Dana Milbank will be on Michaelangelo Signorile's show at 4:30 ET today to discuss his WaPo defense of Perkins and FRC.
Michelangelo Signorile has published an open letter to the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, challenging him to a public debate over at Huffpost or on his SiriusXM show over whether the organization deserves the hate group label.
Mike outlines in a reasoned, factual manner why he believes it is.
In that post last week, I also stated that no one should be exploiting this tragedy for political gain. That's why I and many others are greatly disappointed by the press conference you held last week, and I'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to have a public discussion with me about hate (more on this below). Without providing any facts, you claimed that the Southern Poverty Law Center's labeling your group a "hate group" gave the alleged shooter a "license to shoot." You went on to obscure why you were put in the hate group category, implying that it was because of your position against same-sex marriage.
But let's be clear about why FRC is in that category. After all, there are thousands of conservative and religious groups across the country that are opposed to marriage equality, many of which also believe homosexuality to be a sin, but the SPLC does not deem them all hate groups. It's only a tiny handful of conservative groups that have been given that distinction by the SPLC. They are listed as hate groups "based on their propagation of known falsehoods — claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities — and repeated, groundless name-calling." Also, two years ago, an FRC official said "homosexual behavior" should be outlawed. You wouldn't repudiate him. It was also revealed that the FRC contributed $25,000 to stop a congressional resolution to condemn the "kill the gays" bill in Uganda, which would have made homosexuality punishable by death. You worried that the resolution could make it appear as if homosexuality is acceptable. If that Ugandan bill, and even tacit approval of it, isn't "hate," what is?
…But maybe we are misunderstanding you. Maybe you have incontrovertible proof behind these and many other claims. Maybe you can convince me that the hate group label is unfair, or maybe I can convince you that some or all of these claims are erroneous. Or perhaps we will each realize that we've misunderstood one another in some ways. So I'm asking you here and now to engage with me in a civil public discussion to debate these and other claims and to talk about hate. We can do it here on HuffPost, or on my radio program on SiriusXM.
And he also offers a long list of examples of over-the-top anti-LGBT bigotry, including the preposterous FRC pamphlet that "shows gay men and lesbians, falsely, as physically and mentally ill pedophiles who can be cured, and another that begins by likening same-sex marriage to man-horse marriage (and uses a horse graphic)."
Will Perkins — who never avoids an opportunity to whore in front of the media (see "Tony Perkins falsely claims the press ignored Family Research Council shooting") — accept the offer?
You'll recall the The Washington Post's Dana Milbank recently came to FRC's defense, using the yardstick of the KKK as what constitutes a hate group, therefore FRC cannot possibly fall into that category. It was an epic example of heterosupremacy that, apparently generated a lot of heat. So much so that Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jackson Diehl took to Twitter to announce his displeasure that the LGBT community and allies took offense to Milbank's weakly-argued column.
DKos front-pager Scott Wooledge had this response:
I am among the "idiots" who sent an email, although mine was to Milbank. I received no response, which is fine, I only hoped to educate him and participate in a civil, reality-based dialogue on issues of concern to the LGBT community. It was not a part of a coordinated campaign. Rather, like so many of your other gay, lesbian and transgender readers I had a visceral, immediate revulsion to see Dana Milbank playing apologist for Family Research Council after they have called me a pedophile, advocated for subjecting me to criminal sanctions, and believe that I should be "exported" from the country.
My letter was actually rather polite because I just presumed that Milbank was merely ignorant about the depths Family Research Council stoops to in their quest to demonize and slander gay people. I didn't imagine Milbank was honestly arguing that it is a "mainstream conservative" belief that the Ugandan "Kill The Gays" bill merely "uphold[s] moral conduct that protects others and in particular the most vulnerable."
But, by your comments, Mr. Diehl, it appears the ignorance runs much higher up the chain of command Washington Post, than just the columnists.
The Human Rights Campaign's Chad Griffin has an op-ed up today that challenges Milbank's notion that one has to be a Night Rider in full Klan regalia to qualify for a "hate group" label.
Designating the Family Research Council a hate group has nothing to do with disagreements about marriage equality, nondiscrimination laws or any other policy debate. The real issue is the Family Research Council's well-documented and continuous pattern of hateful rhetoric.
Linking gay people to pedophiles is hateful. Consider Perkins's words from 2010: "While activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely distinct orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two. .?.?. It is a homosexual problem."
Calling for the expulsion of gays from this country is hateful, as is arguing for making homosexuality a crime. In March 2008, a senior fellow for policy studies at the council, Peter Sprigg, said of uniting gay partners through immigration: "I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than import them." He later apologized but in 2009 told an interviewer, "I think there would be a place for criminal sanctions on homosexual behavior."
Using junk-science to spread propaganda about LGBT people is hateful — as Sprigg does when he says in his 2010 pamphlet "The Top Ten Myths about Homosexuality" that gay men and lesbians can change their sexual orientation.
…There should be no yardsticks of oppression. Claiming the mantle of "deeply held religious beliefs" is no excuse for propagating lies that denigrate an entire group of people. Just because an organization may sometimes cloak its animus toward our community in the language of Beltway policy-speak doesn't make it any less hateful. And we all have a responsibility to call out hate when we see it.
The problem for the Family Research Council and its defenders is that there is a long paper and video trail of naked, aggressive homophobia that demonizes LGBTs, sees them as sub-human and ineligible for the civil rights Perkins and Milbank take for granted. Discussing these facts in the light of day is absolutely necessary. In fact, Perkins and Co. should be elated to discuss their positions and bring forth the "facts" that they present as talking heads and let the political chips fall where they may.
* Dana Milbank gives WaPo readers a crash course on heterosupremacy as he argues that FRC is not a hate group


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Craig Allan Wilson (born November 30, 1976 in Fountain Valley, California) is a baseball player currently playing with the Seattle Mariners. Wilson can play first base or in the outfield. He bats and throws right-handed.
In , Wilson played in only 59 games as a result of two separate hand injuries that caused him to spend over half the season on the disabled list, playing in only five games between May 6 and August 28. He ended the season with a .264 batting average, 5 home runs, and 22 RBI in 197 at bats.
Through Wilson's career as a Pirate, he had frequently been dogged by trade rumors. In , with the acquisition of Jeromy Burnitz, members of the Pittsburgh press asserted that the Pirates, despite Wilson's relative success, were trying to trade him. At the trade deadline of the 2006 season, Wilson was traded to the New York Yankees for Shawn Chacon. According to the New York Post, at least one general manager in the National League found the deal inexplicable from the Pirates' standpoint. Voicing the opinion that Pirates GM Dave Littlefield had undersold Wilson, the anonymous GM was quoted as saying, "We really thought Wilson was a guy a lot of AL teams would be interested in. He is a high strikeout guy, but he can hit a fastball, damage lefty pitching, and not embarrass himself in right field or at first.
Overall in 2006, Craig batted .251 with 17 home runs and 49 RBI. Though he only batted 359 times, he struck out 122 times. The Yankees didn't re-sign him, causing him to become a free agent.
The Atlanta Braves signed Wilson to a one-year contract worth $2 million USD on January 18, . After 40 games of the 2007 season with the Braves, Wilson was granted his unconditional release on May 17, 2007, to make room for Brayan Peña on the roster. On May 28, 2007, he signed a minor league deal with the Chicago White Sox, but ended up undergoing season-ending shoulder surgery in June. Wilson was released by the White Sox at the end of the 2007 season. On February 9, , Wilson signed a minor league contract with an invite to spring training with the Cincinnati Reds, but was released on February 21 after failing a physical. On April 8, 2008, he signed a minor league deal to return to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
On July 10, he was traded to the Seattle Mariners for a player to be named later.

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It's only a few weeks until Slam Dunk Festival, where our Front X SinStar Bar will be graced by killer acts including the mighty Caspa. He's also in the ace main fashion feature in our current issue, on shelves now. With that in mind, we thought we'd dust off this 20 Questions interview we did with him back in FRONT 172.
1. As a youngster, what was your favourite film?
Gotta be The Goonies. I loved Chunk.
2. What's the worst thing you've ever eaten?
I had a Reggae Reggae pasty from a service station on the way to Leeds. I took a bite and threw it out the window. No disrespect to Levi Roots, but it was pretty bad.
3. If you could throw one person off TV into a pen of lions, who would it be?
Alan Titchmarsh. About ten years ago, he was on the Shredded Wheat box, so at breakfast he'd just be looking at me. It's his face. It really annoys me. That cereal box got punched up and ended in the bin.
4. If you could have any super power, what would you go for?
Easy, it would be flying so I could get to gigs easy and do four of them a night. I'd make more money that way.
5. What is the first album you ever bought?
I think it was Mobb Deep's first album Hell On Earth. I remember the first single I bought, though. It was Rhythm Is A Dancer by Snap! That was on tape from Our Price for 99p.
6. What's your favourite rude word?
7. Who's the biggest arsehole famous person you've ever met?
Ah man, my friends are more arseholes than famous people.
8. Have you got any phobias?
Spiders. I have recurring nightmares about them.
9. If you weren't doing this for a living, what would you be doing?
I'd like to think I'd start up a restaurant or be a chef there. Food is something I've got into as I've got older. My speciality is probably this Caribbean spicy chicken that I do. It's pretty damn good.
10. What social networking shit do you like?
Instagram is my favourite. It's so easy to use. I only got it a few months ago but it's already full of food porn.
11. What's the most you've ever needed the toilet?
I was on my way from Liverpool to Manchester with Rusko, and pretty late for another show. We got out of the car, ran into the venue and pissed at the same time. Running and pissing at the same time is a talent.
12. What's the worst idea you've ever had?
I hired a friend of mine as my driver to take me to gigs. He worked during the day, and one night he was super tired and started falling asleep at the wheel. I've never been so scared in my life. That was a bad idea.
13. What's your alcoholic drink of choice?
I love it all, but when the sun's out it's a gin and tonic.
14. What's the stupidest thing you've ever said to a lady you fancied?
I remember opening my mouth to talk to a girl and just puking everywhere. She walked off and left me to be sick everywhere. You can't recover from that.
15. What's the most illegal thing you (or "a friend of yours") have ever done?
Ha, nothing I can say in a magazine. When I was young we used to dial 999 from payphones. One time we got caught by the police, and I was scared that my dad would kill me. It shit me up.
16. What have you seen that you really wish you could un-see?
Two Girls One Cup. That's not something to watch before a curry.
17. Tell us an AMAZING thing we wouldn't know about you.
I used to play basketball for England, but I dislocated my shoulder about 20 times.
18. Why should people grab a copy of your new single War featuring Keith Flint?
It's a great track. It's out there, it's different and hard and edgy. I want people to buy good music, not just mine but any good music.
19. Where's the shittest place you've ever been?
Man, I went to a curry house in Essex last night and their toilets were fucking terrible.
20. Do you have a secret skill/party trick?
I can do this thing with my eye, where I can make it do a fart noise. I just push my eyeball and it farts. It freaks everybody out.


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Album Summary
- Xavier D�az-Latorre (Guitar)
- Xavier D�az-Latorre (Theorbo)
- Josep Borras (Bassoon)
- Alfredo Bernardini (Oboe)
- Manfredo Kraemer (Violin)
- Guido Morini (Harpsichord)
- Xavier D�az-Latorre (Harpsichord)
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"Very few artists transform the scholarly into the genuinely entertaining as successfully as Jordi Savall. He makes early music accessible and fun." - ClassicsToday.com
"... Couperin listed a wide range of options - violin, flute, oboe, viol and bassoon - while he himself played harpsichord, presumably expanding its role to that of chordal continuo. ... for a month of Sundays, Jordi Savall's colourful options are a delight. The final Concert offers a kaleidoscope of colours, all the more varied by continuo of harpsichord and theorbo/guitar and ending with a wonderfully spirited 'Forlane en rondeau'." -BBC Music Magazine, May 2005 ****
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Works DetailsCouperin, François : Concerts royaux, for harpsichord or violin, flute, oboe, viol & bassoon (Troisième livre de pièces d
- Performers: Xavier Díaz-Latorre (Guitar); Xavier Díaz-Latorre (Theorbo); Josep Borras (Bassoon); Alfredo Bernardini (Oboe); Manfredo Kraemer (Violin); Guido Morini (Harpsichord); Xavier Díaz-Latorre (Harpsichord)
- Conductor: Jordi Savall
- Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations
- Notes: L'Abbaye de Saint-Michel en Thiérache (Aisne-France) (09/06/2004-09/10/2004)
- Running Time: 58 min. 3 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1722


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Miss Ina Odum doesn't eat chicken. Period! She will tell you in a heartbeat, "Nothing fowl goes into my mouth. Nothing 'fowl' comes out of my mouth." I have explained to her a thousand times that it's near on to impossible to be a true southern lady (which she is without question) and not experience a Sunday dinner of chicken, mashed potatoes, coleslaw and sweet tea.
Nothing sways her. She prefers fried shrimp, fried oysters, fried scallops and fried green tomatoes. On the many times she has taken me out to eat over the years, the seafood platter with all the trimmings was her usual order. I dutifully point out to her on each and every occasion that all that fried food couldn't be good for her. It would clog her arteries, raise her cholesterol level, lead to high blood pressure and foul (her word, not mine) up her digestive tract. Maybe she ought to order the baked chicken, or the chicken salad, or the broiled chicken with raw carrots……
Miss Ina celebrated her one hundredth birthday this week.
She apparently has done all right without my gastronomical advice. But that doesn't keep me from pointing out that chicken today might taste a little better than it did in 1918. "Miss Ina, Colonel Sanders has come up with a special 'eleven herbs and spices' recipe." I've suggested hot wings, marinated thighs and "Popeye's". She just laughs at me.
Miss Ina is a special treat. She talks about going down to the train station in DeFuniak Springs and handing out bags of food to the soldiers passing through on their way to World War I. She remembers vividly the first airplane that flew over. "What a sight!" she declares ninety years later with still a hint of wonderment in her voice. She can discuss first hand the shenanigans of the Warren G. Harding administration. I asked about Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh. She wasn't a baseball fan but she was "quite taken" by the exploits of "Lucky Lindy".
I wanted to know about flappers and tin lizzies. Again, I got a first hand account of the popular dress of the Roaring Twenties and Henry Ford's Model-T that put America on the road. Miss Ina wouldn't make a good spokesman for Goodyear or B. F. Goodrich. She remembers the many cars pulled off to the side with a flat tire on any given trip to town. And the twenties apparently didn't roar as much in Northwest Florida as they did in other places.
"Hoover Days" to her is not some forgotten story in a history book. I asked about getting along in the Great Depression. She wouldn't blame it on one president or political party. She remembered that money was always scarce. But folks "in her neck of the woods" raised their food so they didn't feel the squeeze quite like the bigger cities. It's exactly the same thing my parents said.
I asked Miss Ina often to "throw that rug back and do the Charleston for me". She would just laugh and laugh. And then tell me about the dance that swept the nation in the mid-twenties. She kinda talked like she never really participated. But she'd put her hands on her knees and demonstrate the back and forth motion in a way that made me suspect differently!
You talk about a walking encyclopedia! I never tired of asking her about America before women got the vote. Did she ever hear Calvin Coolidge speak? How grand was it when the movies started talking? Did she know about Roosevelt's polio before he became president?
When I realized what a good sport Miss Ina really was, I took a few liberties with the age thing. I asked her if it was crowded on that boat with Noah. Did she remember when Stanley met Livingstone? Why didn't she warn Custer about the Indians?
Once, in between bites of shrimp and French fries, I asked her about her old boy friends……you know, before she met Brother Odum. I thought I'd get that wonderful smile and then the laugh. But she surprised me by naming names, dates and places! Of course, she let me know in that wonderful way of hers that if I "spilled the beans" on her personal life, she'd wring my neck to a fare-the-well!
I know how she came to meet Brother Odum……before he was Brother Odum! I feel like I was there when he asked her to marry him. The World War II home front came alive for me as she described her travels by train across this county with a baby son to be with her husband stationed in California.
And I have heard a story or two about church, preachers, choir directors and congregations of all sorts, kinds and descriptions. We've had the most wonderful conversations long into the afternoon. I know for dead certain positive that nothing foul ever comes out of her mouth.
I love Miss Ina a thousand ways. And I fear our current generation is missing the boat by not stopping to enjoy the seafood platter.
The next time we go out to eat I'm going to take some notes on her non-chicken diet. If she can make it to the century mark sans the fowl life……I may give up the birds myself!


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By RUTH MORGAN
For Starkville Daily News
Since September 1947, the Pilot Club of Starkville, Inc. has left the mark of its influence on many phases of community life in Starkville and Oktibbeha County.
Representatives of the Pilot Club met with the County Board of Supervisors in 1947, to discuss plans for obtaining a full time health department and building. Dr. Mary Walker Critz Fletcher, a member of Pilot Club, went before the State Legislature to endorse a change in existing laws so that federal funds might be applied toward the center. The charter Pilots said, "We've just got to make a success of it, so let's not let a little thing like getting a law amended stand in our way." The Pilots hosted the opening of this facility on November 7, 1949.
Two longtime Pilot Club members, Mrs. Cattie Taylor and Mrs. Ellen Mauldin presented some very interesting information to the Oktibbeha County Historical and Genealogical Society recently concerning the Health Center, which opened in 1949 on Felix Long Drive, which is shared in this article.
Be sure to read the memories below. You will be amazed at the changes in public health given by these public health employees from 1897 to 2002. Dr. Tom E. Waller, Health Officer from 1965-1993, and Marnita Nichols (Mrs. Charles) Henderson, Nurse Coordinator and RN from 1964-2002, share their memories of these years. Dr. J. W. Eckford, Deceased Health Officer in 1897 reported on a quarantine issued due to an outbreak of "yellow fever" in the county.
Delegates from the leading civic clubs of Starkville and State College met with the county Board of Supervisors to discuss plans for obtaining a full-time public health department and building for Oktibbeha County. Acting as spokesman for the group, Dr. Mary Walker Critz Fletcher stressed the need for a public health unit in this county.
Dr. Fletcher presented petitions, which were signed by the officers of the civic clubs representing 682 voting members of this community, to the Board.
It was suggested that Mr. Kroeze, state architect, be invited to the next board meeting to present plans for a county public health building to be erected in Starkville.
The building cost would be about $20,000. Twenty-five percent would be funded with Federal funds, 60 percent with state funds and the remainder with county funds.
In 1947, the county had a part time public health unit housed in two rooms. The work was under the supervision of the county health nurse, Mrs. Gloe Cunningham. The part time venereal disease investigator shared the office with the county health clerk. The same office served as a waiting room and a consultation room.
Mr. Williams, the county sanitarian, shared an office with the county health nurse, who used half of the room divided by a wooden partition as an examination room.
Mrs. Cunningham stated that the department could have obtained x-ray equipment some time ago, but there was no place to store it. X-rays were then made by the traveling x-ray unit. Because of the shortage of space at the department, it took three times as long to take x-rays as it would ordinarily if the health unit were equipped properly.
Mr. Williams stored the equipment he used in county work at his home because of the lack of available space. He stated that there has been a marked improvement in the grade of milk sold in this county during recent years. Mr. Williams also pointed out that there was a need for improvement in the school lunchrooms and the eating-places in Starkville.
Several attempts have been made to obtain a full time county health physician. This post opened in the county in 1940. Several visiting physicians inquired about the job but due to lack of a building and adequate facilities they declined.
A new health center with adequate facilities would enable the Oktibbeha County Health Department to inaugurate a preventable disease program promoted by a full time health unit and its skilled personnel to protect the public by immunization against such diseases as diphtheria, smallpox, whooping cough, and typhoid fever, as well as promoting the early recognition and treatment of cancer. It would advocate special prevention and treatment measures in combating tuberculosis, malaria, hookworm, pellagra and venereal diseases. An industrial hygiene program protects the health of workers by the enforcement of regulations pertaining to sanitation, occupational diseases and ventilation.
A well equipped health center would encourage a sanitation program supervised by the county sanitarian to render public health service to food and milk handlers and give assistance in obtaining proper sewage disposal and protect water supplies, both public and private. It would also aid the sanitary supervision of public buildings in the County such as schools, jails, courthouse, hotels and barber shops. It advocates the control of insect-born diseases by securing proper drainage, screening and the use of DDT.
The adequate space in a new health building would permit the compiling of vital statical records of the department valuable in proving American citizenship, in obtaining a passport and in verifying the age for protection in legal affairs. Death records point out which diseases are the leading killers in this community. Many births and deaths in Oktibbeha County are never reported.
A new health building will assure the services of a full-time health doctor available to every expectant mother.
Tom E. Waller, M.D., 1965-1993 retired Health Officer, Oktibbeha County Health Department remembers...
On July 1, 1965, I became Health Officer for Oktibbeha, Choctaw and Clay counties. The major programs were
• Sanitation - protection of water, food, and milk and issues such as sewage disposal;
• Nursing and medical - visiting clients in the home, services in the clinic, immunizations, child care, prenatal care, granny midwife supervision, treatment of venereal disease, tuberculosis, and investigation of communicable diseases;
• Clerical - record-keeping, registering births and deaths, repository for immunization records.
Many of the people that came for service had between eight and 12 children and occasionally more. Maternal deaths were a serious concern. There was no Medicaid and the pregnant woman had to make arrangements with the lay midwife or with a physician who delivered babies. The physicians and HD cooperated in providing care for these women. HD clinics provided care for uncomplicated cases until the last month of pregnancy when the local physician took over. Nurses worked with the women in the home in preparation for the deliveries. There was no WIC program to provide infant formula and there were feeding problem with some babies due to formula and feeding. As the children grew, the HD became a place that people came to ask if they were sick enough to see a physician. The HD did not have daily medical service available and the local physicians preferred to see sick people at the beginning of illness rather than after the HD had attempted to initiate some treatment that they were unaware of.
Mother's of pregnant daughters often came in crying about their daughter's being pregnant. It was still important to this culture that the mothers should be married and their counsel was very heart felt. As more family planning methods became more diverse, family planning became a major program. We began to see women stopping with five to six children. Longer intervals between pregnancies allowed children to grow and for mothers to be better prepared for the next pregnancy.
Venereal diseases - Gonorrhea replaced syphilis as the most common VD. Syphilis is more damaging to babies and adults than gonorrhea. Investigators traced contacts to get infected people into medical treatment. Over the years AIDS brought in efforts to screen people and later to provide medications. Legal procedures were used in an attempt to slow or prevent the spread HIV.
When Medicare come in the HD were set up to provide home health services. There were few if any other providers initially. Basically HD nurses were asked to return to bedside nursing.
Tuberculosis was an important illness in the county. HD provided the limited number of drugs that were available at the time. Follow-up exams and encouragement to stay on treatment were the main tools that were available. The Sanatorium was still open at that time, but not everyone was able or willing to go there. Patients were asked to take close to 32 tablets a day for two to three years. They were then required to be followed with chest x-rays for 2-3 years. Some patients remained infectious for many months. Permanent cure was not even assured after all the pills and all the follow-up.
To me the change to directly observed treatment in treatment of tuberculosis is one of the most astounding advances in medicine during the past 40 years. The directly observed treatment included a nurse watching the patient take their medicine for just a matter of weeks. If the patient did not show for the treatment, the nurse went to the patient. In combination with the newer drugs patients became non infectious in a matter of days and many were cured within sixmonths.
While in the old building we were able to be one of the first counties to have a pediatric nurse practitioner trained. Not too long after that we were able to have a OB/FP practitioner trained. Their pioneering work put the HD on the tract of having these specially trained nurses to provide prenatal care and family planning care to a number of people that would not have been able to be seen at our limited number of clinics.
By the time the newest HD was built, Oktibbeha was in a 10 county district with the District office being in Starkville.
The first obstetricians to come to Starkville agreed to work the maternity clinics at the Health Department over time they preferred to see all the Medicaid patients in their clinic. I doubt that any county had as good care for these patients as we had in Oktibbeha County.Feeding programs for women, infants and children (WIC) became a major program requiring much more space and personnel. Medicaid program paid HD's to screen infants and children and to refer those who needed them. These activities became a significant proportion of our budget.
Immunization rates reached some of the highest in the state. The HD were able to implement a method that allowed them to follow just people due shots rather that attempting to contact every child who would need an immunization.
These more general remembrances do not tell the personal side that our clients allowed us to share with them. Nor does it recognize the dedicated nurses and clerks that were mostly a joy to work with. Nor the sanitarians, and special investigators who faced many unsuspected situations during their attempt to improve the health of citizens of Oktibbeha County. What a great place and time to have worked.
Marnita Nichols Henderson, 1964-2002, Retired, Nurse Coordinator and RN, Oktibbeha County Health Department
In 1964 I began my career in Public Health Nursing. I had been working in a hospital for about a year after graduating from nursing school. I was first hired in Lowndes County.
Public Health was a whole new world from hospital nursing. In just a few months I knew I had found my true calling. I fell in love with getting to know my patients on a personal basis and they were my friends as well as my patients. In 1966 we moved to Bolivar County and I transferred to their Health Department.
I found even though life was different in the Delta, I still loved my patients and my jobs.
In 1973 we had the opportunity to return to our beloved Starkville. I was blessed to be able to again transfer to Oktibbeha County. It truly was a coming home experience. Oktibbeha County had three Public Health Nurses on staff.
I had the privilege of working for Gloe Cunningham, the Nurse in Charge and Dr. Tom Waller Health Officer.
Gloe had a vast knowledge of how to help people help themselves, and to me this is what Public Health is all about.
We would often go into a home and someone had delivered a very small baby. We assisted the family in learning how to give small frequent amounts of formula, how to keep the baby warm since it needed extra heat.
Even though I worked all areas of Public Health, mothers, babies and Communicable Disease have always been closest to my heart.
During my 38 years as a Public Health Nurse, I have seen many changes in services and facilities for providing services.
In the early years if someone was diagnosed with Tuberculosis they were often facing years on living in the Sanatorium away from their family. With the discovery of newer and better drugs for treatment, people were allowed to be treated at home. With theses changes TB became a much less dreaded disease.
We provided maternal and child care. We saw the pregnant women each month providing their routine checks of weight, blood pressure, vitamins and encouraged good diet and healthy living.
Often a physician would see the patient in the last month of pregnancy and deliver the baby with an overnight stay in the hospital.
Others would deliver at home with a Granny midwife. The ones delivered at home we visited within twenty-four hours to check mama and baby. If we found problems we made a medical referral to the local physician. This was all prior to Medicaid.
Medicaid revolutionized medical access. We now had a payment source for illness and problems we found in our patients. About this time another revolution in medical service arrived, HEADSTART.
They had money to pay for vision care, dental care as well as providing educational services.
For years dental cavities were a significant cause of pain and illness in children, now many more children began to receive visits to the dentist. Therefore when we checked a child you would find fillings in their teeth instead of a lot of teeth with holes in them.
By the early 1980's our building was overflowing with employees and patients.
The District Staff began to research ways to improve facilities, funds were located and Mr. Tom Jones was selected by the county as Architect.
Plans were drawn and Sam Oswalt and Co. received the bid to build a new building on site just below the present site.
On September 1983 we moved into our new Health Department at 203 Yeates Street. It has 5,188 square feet and cost $321,428 which was $51.88 per sq. ft. We had an Office Manager, three Clerks, Nurse Coordinator, four Nurses, one Sanitation, one Communicable Disease Specialist, one WIC Nutritionist, and one Social Worker.
In 1984 I transferred to the local District Office as Epidemiology Nurse. I supervised the communicable disease follow up in 10 counties. Much of my time was spent in immunization follow up.
In 2002 after 38 years I decided to leave (not a job) but a life that I loved, to go home and begin a new career of retirement.
I can truly say Public Health was a ministry for me but I received far more than I gave.
One of my favorite stories was about a child born with paralysis of her legs.
When I went to visit at home after delivery I applied to the cripple children fund for assistance. She was fitted with braces and about the age of two she was sent to University Medical Center for rehab.
They said they were going to teach her to walk. I laughed to myself. This child would not cooperate in trying to do anything.
Well, about a month later the mother called and said the child was coming home. I helped get a bus ticket for the mother to go get her. I met the bus when it got to Starkville and off came the mother carrying the child and the smallest walker I had ever seen. Put the child down and off she went on her walker. I just cried.
Another memory was years ago of a girl of about 15 who came in pregnant. She was upset because she was a good student and hoped to get an education.
I told her it was still possible and she went back to school after delivery. She promised me she would not have any more children until she completed her education. She was true to her word and received a doctorate from Mississippi State University.
I do not know if she ever had any more children because I lost touch with her after graduation.
J. W. Eckford, MD, Deceased Health Officer's Report of July 11, 1897, Oktibbeha County Health Department
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Oktibbeha and State of Mississippi met in called session at the courthouse in the town of Starkville on Thursday the 17th Day of September 1897.
Present R. A. Lampkin, President, Isaac Winston and H. A. Fox.
Absent J. A. Fulgham and G. B. Hutchinson.
Members M. D. McIlwain, sheriff by his deputy J. J. Neely and C. E. Gay, clerk by his deputy W. Lampkin.
The president brought the matter of establishing a quarantine against the public on the account of prevalence of "yellow fever" in some parts of the state and the following recommendation of Dr. J. W. Eckford as health officer was presented and adopted.
As health officer I recommend that no person or firearms be allowed to get off any train in Oktibbeha County except train crews to switch, get water, or orders when necessary.
That the railroads be notified that the conductors on all trains must keep locked the doors of all cars carrying passengers while in the county.
That no freight received from any infected point or any point south of here.
That no one be allowed to come into the county from any where except those coming to bring produce or trade who are in the habit of so doing.
That the citizens of the county be notified that we are in danger from an infectious disease and required to cooperate with officers in the discharge of their duties.
That health and county officers be instructed to enforce this order rigidly and make no exceptions.
This is a matter which will permit no delay and I urge that the board take action at once.
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BEIRUT: Rival factions may be prompted to make concessions that will accelerate the formation of a new Cabinet following the bloody clashes in Sidon, political sources said Tuesday.
"The alarming security situation following the clashes in Sidon might push the March 8 and March 14 parties into making concessions to facilitate the Cabinet formation," a senior March 8 source told The Daily Star.
A senior government source predicted an imminent breakthrough in the Cabinet formation. "Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam is likely to announce the formation of an extraordinary government under extraordinary circumstances in the next few days," the source told The Daily Star.
The source said he was briefed by Salam on his attempts to accelerate the Cabinet formation.
The results of caretaker Social Affairs Minister Wael Abu Faour's talks with former Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Saudi Arabia could be crucial for the success of Salam's efforts to put together a new government, the source added.
The source warned that if a government was not formed in the next few days, its birth would become difficult if not impossible.
According to the source, Salam's proposal for a 24-member Cabinet equally divided by the March 8 and March 14 parties and centrists would not be adopted if there was a consensus among the main political parties concerned with the formation on the need for a new Cabinet whose mission is to contain the security and political crises that might arise following the Lebanese Army's military operation in Sidon that crushed Salafist preacher Ahmad Assir's phenomenon.
The source did not rule out the possibility that the ongoing negotiations on the Cabinet formation were seeking to make the March 14 coalition drop its veto on Hezbollah's participation in the government before the party withdraws its fighters from Syria in exchange for the March 8 parties softening their stance and reducing their conditions for joining the government.In addition to demanding the blocking third [veto power], the March 8 parties want to be represented in the new Cabinet according to the size of their parliamentary representation.Referring to efforts made by Speaker Nabih Berri and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt to facilitate Salam's mission, parliamentary sources said Berri was keen on the success of the premier-designate, especially following the latter's statements concerning the role of the resistance.
Berri is making serious efforts to convince Hezbollah to join the government if it received serious guarantees from Salam and Jumblatt to allay the party's concerns that the Cabinet would not take any decision that might threaten the resistance and its strategy, or bring up the issue of the group's arms or its participation in the fighting in Syria, the sources said.
Although they acknowledge that it is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve this matter, the sources said that Jumblatt's efforts, through his envoy to Saudi Arabia Abu Faour, would concentrate with senior Saudi officials on the minor details of the current situation in Lebanon, which necessitated the formation of a government with the participation of all the major political components, particularly Hezbollah and the Amal Movement.
The Cabinet formation in Lebanon, following the military developments in Syria and Hezbollah's participation in the fighting there, has become closely linked to the assessment of these developments by Riyadh and Tehran, the sources said.
If Hezbollah is offered a Cabinet formula that does not touch the core of its activity, be it in Syria or its resistance against Israel, it will not hesitate to persuade its ally, Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, to participate because it is highly unlikely that the party will join a Cabinet without Aoun being in it, the sources added.
Meanwhile, the March 14 coalition reiterated its support for the Lebanese Army in defending Lebanon against security threats and called for a swift formation of a new Cabinet.
Speaking to reporters following an extraordinary meeting of March 14 lawmakers and politicians, former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said the participants discussed the dangers and risks of fragmentation facing Lebanon.
"The March 14 coalition underscored the need to form a new government that would be capable of committing to the March 14 memorandum and the 'Baabda Declaration' and succeed in regaining confidence in the Lebanese economy," he said.
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As one having recently "fallen in love", I had no desire to discover that this feeling derives not from the smooth charms of the guy pursuing me, but rather from the enthusiastic exertions of my right caudate nucleus and right ventral tegmentum.
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Locals call it the valley of death. And true to its name, many have lost their lives here. At Suguta Valley, a chopper carrying former provincial commissioner Ishmael Chelang'a was brought down in 1996, a police commander was killed and hundreds of police officers and locals have lost their lives.
For those who have been to the valley, it is a dreaded place; you do not want to venture into the treacherous terrain. Treacherous because it appears calm and quiet but in it death lurks.
The valley is a vast segment of the Great Rift Valley set between Lake Baringo to the south and Lake Turkana to the north. Towards the north end, bordering Turkana, the valley floor is only a few hundred metres above sea level, making it one of the lowest parts of the Rift Valley.
The weather in Suguta is extremely harsh - very hot during the day and very cold nights. The Suguta Valley is one of the hottest parts of Kenya with deserts, volcanic cones, salt lakes and uneven lava fields.
There is little oxygen and visitors to the terrain gasp for breath. From the top of the adjacent Mt Nyiru Forest to the bottom of the Suguta, the land drops over 2,500m.
It is a corridor used by cattle rustlers to drive livestock towards Turkana South and also South Horr in Marsabit County. The raiders take advantage of the rugged mountain to elude police officers. Within hours after the raid, the bandits crisscross the area never to be seen again and when pursued, they hide in the forest.
In the latest incident where at least 40 police officers were massacred before dawn on Saturday, a police officer who asked not to be named blames their commanders for "misleading them".
At first, they were told that the raiders were about 45 only but they were more than 100 and well armed. Cattle rustlers acquire sophisticated weapons to carry the raids.
They have been doing so since the early 1970s from the neighbouring countries of Somali, Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan. During mop-ups of illegal guns and ammunition, they give out the ones that can no longer be serviced and hide the best.
The officer said after driving for about 30km from Baragoi, they parked their lorries and were ordered to walk. This is after they were informed by Kenya Police Reservists - who acted as guides - that the manyattas where the raiders were hiding were not far. Among the pastoralists, "just here" could turn out to be many kilometres.
The plan was to attack the manyattas at the wee hours of the morning. So after parking their lorries at about 6am, they started walking towards the manyattas.
But it turned out that the walk was about three hours long of climbing up and down the hills. According to the officer, the raiders were aware that the security personnel were pursuing them.
They even mounted sentries on top of the hills to monitor as they advance. "And when we approached their hideouts, they formed a semi-circle on the mountain," he recalls.
He says the officers literally walked into the ambush as bullets were sprayed from left, right and front. The first platoon - of about 36 police officers - could not contain the fire and attempted to retreat but it was too late.
The officer describes the operation as the worst ever. They were ordered not to carry their mobile phones yet they did not have communication gadgets.
He says their planning was poor because they did not approach the bandits with caution. "We were made to believe that it would be an easy job. Just pursuing a few raiders and returning the stolen cattle," he said.
Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere confirmed that the bandits were aware of the police advance and ambushed them. And police spokesman Eric Kiraithe admitted that the police were "tactically disadvantaged" and the situation was "aggravated by lack of equipment".
He wondered why the officers carried the operation without bullet-proof jackets and armoured vehicles. Former Rift Valley provincial commissioner Hassan Noor once said that the valley gives the security personnel a headache. He suggested the building of roads to open up the area and help the police in pursuing the raiders.
In the recent past, cattle rustling has become more sophisticated and bloody as raiders acquire refined and modern equipment. New entrants also join the age-old tradition with billions raked as the activity ceases being a cultural practice to a commercial venture.
For ages, pastoralist communities, including the Marakwet, Pokot, Samburu, Borana, and Turkana have been locked in a never-ending war involving cattle rustling and intra-community warfare.
The raids have left many villages destroyed and hundreds of families hopeless and displaced. Efforts to tame the practice have yielded little as the cycle of raids and counter-raids is kept going.


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Monday, 26 December 2011
The Day After Christmas 2011
Here it is at the end of Christmas Day and I didn't get around to writing a blog post for today, Monday. All I can say is thank god for you, readers, specifically right now, Cathy Johnson who sent the video below.
Yes, I know, Peter Tibbles gave us his definitive Christmas music post yesterday - and if due to your family festivities you missed it, do go there now). But this one, too, is good in a whole different way and it's a long time to wait until next year to show it to you.
This the Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat 5th Grade class from Quinhagak, Alaska (say that three times fast) and wait till you see what they have done with the Hallelujah Chorus.
Now wasn't that worth extending Christmas a little?
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Yes, it was. Merry Christmas to you. :)
That was fantastic!
That was wonderful!!
Loved all the wonderful faces!
Loved it! Rest ye merry and fear not, for you can blog tomorrow.
OMG ! Loved it! Shared it. Even my Bah Humbug hubby watched it twice. Thanks Cathy and Ronni.
So glad Ronni was able to post this. I loved it and felt sure there were many others of you who would appreciate it, too.
Happy New Year!
- Cathy
Wonderful ... loved it!
Thank you. That was the best thing I've seen in a long time.
I loved the dogs leaping instead of Lords.
Absolutely fabulous!! Thanks
Yes, and it's even better later. I'm still laughing.
Yay! They are great! Loved this and will be posting it on my fb page.
Merry After Christmas!
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The April issue of National Edition, a collection of high school journalism by the American Society of News Editors, features 26 pieces. Four of them — hard news, sports and a movie review — were written by Oakland high school students.
These young Oaklanders covered the shooting of four Oakland police officers, the suspension of Skyline High School principal Al Sye, the induction of Rickey Henderson, an Oakland Tech alum, into the baseball Hall of Fame, and a review of the movie "Watchmen."
(Isabel Rodriguez-Vega, one of the student-bloggers for The Education Report, co-authored the story about Sye.)
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Onslaught Inc is now recruiting for DUST514. www.onslaughtinc.com
I am really excited about Dust. As an Eve player it's an entirely new game mechanic to play, and brings new ships or modules for them, to the game. As a gamer, I think CCP is blazing the path to the future. Bringing not only game genres like space sim and FPS together in a united world, but crossing platforms as it is to boot.
The idea of linking game genres together is an old dream for virtual war fighters. Having one game that has FPS, flight, naval combat, and ground vehicles usually means none of those elements is very good. But now Dust and Eve will have a world where the game you play is tailored just for the type of game you like to play. No compromises, a console shooter on par with Halo/CoD, and Eve, which sort of stands alone in it's niche. Not some forced blending of the two.
Eve also becomes much more than just a space sim game, which I hope will filter down to Dust, and FPS are elevated beyond endless deathmatch battles into a larger context.
All around I think Dust should be good for Eve and FPS in general. Just remember, when that rain of steel comes screaming in from orbit, Mr Dust Player, that little present very well have been sent from me, high above in my Eve ship. Cheers.
omg y is this taking so long to be released !!
this game is shaping up to be a truly ambitious title. they've a lot of plans for this title and based on how successful eve is, they could actually come through on their plans! i'm very interested in this title :D
if eve players can bomb the dust locations and have an effect i think all the disgruntled eve players should unite and bomb the hell out of the dust players :P
funny , damn sony for not leting PC players enjoy this one
three of them got the same accent... lol
i bet they only focus online gaming for this FPS
Game looks well done...I sure hope it does not turn out to be just another FPS.
why is the so much hate for Dust 514 here hell most of you probably haven't even played it
Question. What would happen if one faction dominated the galaxy? I mean, knockout other factions and take so many worlds that the other teams have no hope of stopping them? Do CCP reset it?
@sleepnsurf i paid for the beta, i thought wow this looks awesome, once i got the hang of it i was pretty good at it and i could see the concept. I dunno what they've done but its hard as f@#k now and just pointlessly confusing. Laggy isn't a strong enough word, i know its work in progress but leave this to the pc boys, obviously the ps3 cannot handle moe than 30 frames with over 12 players without loosing detail etc.. yawn...should have made the chip better then. :(
guess ill have to wait till the PS4 and hope its backwards compatible
Its very stupid not to release it on PC but meh.. They will probaly regret it later. Cuz im sure FPS games are played better on console then on PC... NOT!
It was a major fail to not put this game out on PC. They shall taste their tears 4 months after this releases.
Remind me to say "This looks like dust" when the next new shooter comes out so I can be like the rest of you...
I give this game a try , I love the idea of connecting with Eve players to help them take down their foes.
Game is terrible, who cares
looks ok i suppose.... I'll stick with Halo most likely
this is for competing with halo 4?..............
This looks ridiculously slow, boring, and depressing. Why is everything freaking grey!?
So i`ve been playing eve for 5 years and regarding the not pay 2 win. Boosters that will help you get skill poitns faster ? That sounds like pay to win to me. If they mess Eve up like they are doing it with dust, id rather play miniclip space shuttle games.
Wait... If Dust is going to be PS3 only... why is it on Singularity (the Eve Online test server) right now? clearly they meant PC/ PS3.
@rem234 do you realize that dust players can fire back and destroyed eve ships there is a big huge space gun on the ground
and that will be part of them game
@diabolik_023 it is being publish and develop by ccp which are the ones behind EVE
@linkndark21 well of course it is an F2P MMOFPS
@Tripwolf All of this is part of Eve Universe. PC gamers will use EVE Online and PS3 users will use EVE: Dust 514. My guess at why it was not made for 360 is because M$ hates cross play games and the ones they allowed are pretty restricted. Also when valve tried to make TF2 free including add ons Microsoft said "Screw you" and forced them into selling the stuff. You gotta realize that Microsofts control over the xbox online features restricts developers from doing anything like this.
@The-Neon-Seal Eve/dust powerblocks have the same flaws as real life superpowers, they all fall in on themselves eventually.
The last real superpower Band of Brothers fell down when they were betrayed by one of their directors
http://reversegaming.com/welp/mittens.mp3 if you're interested in how metagaming in eve works, this story is what got me to play eve again.
@The-Neon-Seal EVE online has been running for last 9 years. No one has been able to take control on The entire EVE universe. So How can they do in Dust 514?
There is no why that 1 corp can take control on entire Universe!
@The-Neon-Seal each faction has different corps and you can't take over the entire galaxy not sure how much you can control since I don't play eve
@jessie82 It is a PSN game not a PS3 game so my guess is it will be compatibly with the PS4 whenever that comes out in the next 5 years
@Alygator I just think its unwise to put such a hit on their own fans, the people who play eve play it on PC and there is no particular saying they own a ps3 and they are saying they cant even play the game connected to eve if they dont have it, not the best choice imo.
@dashawnthl Not a fan of playing on PC, but I DO agree. I mean, Eve Online is a major hit on PC/Mac, I play it sometimes on Mac myself (not much, I really enjoy the universe, but I have some sort of psychological barrier that keeps me from enjoying mmo's...), the obvious choice would be to release Dust ALSO (or only) on PC/Mac, where we already have a fan base very much consolidated... Plus, Eve is pretty specific, it's a big title, but for a very specific niche, not every gamer enjoys the vibe of the game.
@sleepnsurf yeah i thought this was gonna be awesome its just confusing, really confusing.
@uglypinkmoose I am a big fan of halo but this is nothing like it...
@natalieyan definitely a NO. Its a MMO.
@ChiefReaver Damn, you call that slow? And here I was thinking it was another fast paced arcade shooter. I've thought about getting the beta on my ps3 but I figure whats the point. I hate arcade shooters.
@m4nsonite Pay2Win - Meaning there is no possible way to finish the game without paying.
Upgrades/Premiums - Stuff you can buy to slightly enhance gameplay but nothing that gives extreme advantages. Any guns that can only be bought with Aurum can be matched or exceeded with guns for free users.
@timoteo2k1 EVE online and Dust 514 both are in the exact same universe and servers. From what I hear EVE Online is in the Air and Dust is on the ground.
They will work together very well. Think about it, people in dust call in a air strike, people on eve online respond by bombing the target. It will be awesome!
@timoteo2k1 because it connects with Eve you can send messages between the 2 games join EVE corporations and eventuality Eve players can interact with the battles by space bombardments and corps in eve can give contracts for dust players to do and make stuff like weaps and armor for dust players and that is the stuff that I can think of off the top of my head and I know there is allot more connections between the 2 games
@timoteo2k1 It is in closed beta, so why shouldn't it be on a testserver?
It is on the Singularity testserver because this two games NEED to be on the same server to interact (duh)....why do you even ask, with a bit of brainfunction or googling the words "dust 514" and "singularity" this is not hard to figure out.
Where did they say it will be for PC?
In every interview I did read they said exactly the opposite.
@itchyflop Agreed, and a laggy mess. I am not sold on this game or idea anyway.
@Falzonn @ChiefReaver it isn't an arcade shooter it is a tactical shooter than is more like BF
@shadowhunter0 @timoteo2k1 the best thing to do here, is for all the frustrated eve players to bomb the hell out of all the arenas, Thatll show em :P
@shadowhunter0 @timoteo2k1 whats the point... its a FPS game that will be released on console and not on PC. Pretty stupid. The should atleast release it on PC aswell.
@Endauriel and you totally missed the point.... if it's on the test server, then there is a PC version. This video claims "PS3 exclusivity". Building a full PC version that they never intend to release seems a bit wasteful, right?
BTW, Eve player since 2006, fought on the losing side of MC's invasion of the north, fought "the Great War" and was on the Goon side in the invasion of Delve flying under PL, and still a couple of nights a week i roam New Eden kicking sand in people's faces and stealing their lunch money.
This game is a bad idea.
@shadowhunter0 @Falzonn @ChiefReaver Battlefield is an arcade shooter that employs slightly more thought than some other arcade shooters. Any shooter with incredibly superhero powered soldiers that relies more on twitch shooting prowess than positioning and tactics is an arcade shooter.
You can employ tactics in black ops 2, but it doesn't make it a tac shooter because at the end of the day it takes very little above sprinting at people and holding down the trigger to kill someone.
Sadly, tac shooters are not being made for consoles anymore so people don't understand what the genre plays like. Rainbow 6 is drifting really hard and we'll have to see what they do with patriots, Socom has become increasingly action hero run and gun, ghost recon is CQC gadgetry and gimmicks, OFP went too far into the realm of run and gun FPS with Red River and ended up destroying itself(the company stopped production of the franchise, massive layoffs), and bohemia interactive hasn't put a tac shooter on consoles since operation flashpoint elite on OG xbox.
@timoteo2k1 Did you even got a bit of what I've said?
COD is hosted completely on the game system, where the system all others are connecting is callled.....a server....yupie.....and the others are clients. The hoster is always the server, although this is not a Massively Multiplayer Game which makes your statement complete nonesense.
I said with no word that playstation games will work, if you put them into your PC.....I said, a game, that has a multiplayer like Dust, is usually hosted ON A SERVER which is A PC.....it doesn't matter if you connect to that server through a xbox, a playstation or a pc.
And no, there is no PC version for Dust coming out.
If you think so, link the site where we can read that NOW.
@Endauriel Ahh, sounds good... so let me just pop my copy of Uncharted 2 for PS3 into my Pc...nope doesn't work... Farcry... Nope. Here let's try Bad company 2 PC in my PS3... nope. Because there are different versions of games for PC and PS3.... They're offering this PS3 "only" game on PC, which means there is a PC version.
BTW, games like COD... hosted completely on the game system, no server.
@timoteo2k1 "if it's on the test server, then there is a PC version."
Ohhhhh man....but you know what a server is, right?
Just because Dust is using the same server to store the information this both games need to interact, doesn't mean, there is a PC version for Dust. -.-
You wouldn't imagine, but yea....all games with multiplayer need a server, even the ones on Playstation....and a server is usually ALWAYS a PC or a cluster of PCs.
There is no "Server Version" of a Playstation, so if you watch on this like that (Server --> PC Version) then shouldn't there be a PC Version for EVERY Playstation game that uses multiplayer?


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Presidents of Purdue University
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|Richard Owen, President
|Andrey A. Potter, Acting President
|France A. Córdova, President
|Owen became the first president of Purdue at a time when there
|Purdue's dean of engineering from 1921 to 1953, Potter was
|Dr. Cordova came to West Lafayette in July 2007 as Purdue's 11th
|were no buildings, faculty, or students. He guided the Morrill Act
|considered the "dean of deans" of American engineering education.
|president. During her tenure, she led the development and
|idea of an "Indiana Agricultural College" into reality. He resigned
|implementation of the "New Synergies" strategic plan, helping
|the day before the first class met.
|Frederick L. Hovde, President
|position Purdue to meet the grand challenges of humanity, to
|Hovde presided over the University's greatest period of growth,
|create opportunities for local and global economies, and to enhance
|Abraham C. Shortridge, President
|leading to its emergence as a top research university. During his
|student learning for success in tomorrow's dynamic and diverse
|Shortridge was in charge when Purdue matriculated its first
|tenure, Purdue saw its greatest enrollment growth, from 5,628 to
|students in September 1874. Thirty-nine applicants were admitted,
|25,582 students, its annual budget increased from $12.7 million to
|some conditionally. Women were enrolled for the first time
|$136 million and the Schools of Industrial Engineering, Materials
|Timothy D. Sands, Acting President
|fthe following fall. Shortridge's administration lasted just 18
|Engineering, Technology, and Veterinary Medicine were established.
|Dr. Sands, the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering in the
|months due to his failing health.
|schools of materials engineering and electrical and computer
|Arthur G. Hansen, President
|engineering, served as acting president for six months following the
|Emerson E. White, President
|The first Purdue president who was also an alumnus, Hansen's
|departure of Dr. Cordova. Upon completion of this term he returns
|Under White's leadership, Purdue was set firmly on its course of
|administration, saw enrollment increase to more than 32,000 and new
|to his previous post of Executive Vice President and Provost of
|emphasis on agricultural and "mechanical arts" as mandated by the
|buildings were constructed for agriculture, psychology, life sciences,
|Purdue University. Prior to becoming Provost, he served as the Mary
|Morrill Act. White also is remembered for his failed attempt to ban
|and athletics. He supported the establishment of Purdue's first
|Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center in
|fraternities on campus which led to his resignation in 1883.
|Black Cultural Center.
|Purdue's Discovery Park.
|James H. Smart, President
|John W. Hicks, Acting President
|Mitchell E. Daniels, President
|Smart was known as "the engineers' president." The Schools of
|A professor of agricultural economics, Hicks served as Hovde's
|Upon completion of his second term as Governor of Indiana in
|Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering as well as the School
|executive assistant and the University's lobbyist in the Indiana
|January 2013, Mitchell E. Daniels will become the university's 12th
|of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences were established during his
|General Assembly after 1955. He also served as executive
|president. His eight-year term as governor was distinctive for an
|tenure. During Smart's administration, "Old Gold and Black" were
|assistant to Presidents Hansen and Beering and retired in 1987
|increased attention to fiscal responsibility, cost efficiencies, and
|established as the school colors.
|as senior vice president.
|reform. Prior to serving as Governor, Daniels held a successful career
|in business and the federal government, holding numerous top
|Winthrop E. Stone, President
|Steven C. Beering, President
|management positions in both the private and public sectors.
|Purdue's first vice president, Stone became president upon the
|Beering's tenure was marked by sustained growth in academics,
|He served in the administrations of both President Ronald President
|death of James Smart. He appointed Purdue's first dean of women,
|facilities, and private support. Enrollment and scholarship set
|Reagan and George W. Bush.
|Carolyn E. Shoemaker, in 1913. The Schools of Agriculture and
|records. More than 20 new buildings were constructed on the
|Engineering grew rapidly during Stone's tenure, which ended
|West Lafayette campus and 13 others were expanded or renovated.
|tragically when he was killed in a mountain-climbing accident.
|He fostered efforts to make Purdue an international university.
|His name appears on the diplomas of more than half of the
|Henry W. Marshall, Acting President
|University's living alumni.
|Publisher of the Lafayette Journal and Courier and a member of
|the Board of Trustees, Marshall was elected acting president
|Martin C. Jischke, President
|of the University following President Stone's death.
|Under Jischke's leadership, Purdue completed a strategic plan that
|used data-driven decision making to enhance Purdue's capacity to
|Edward C. Elliott, President
|carry out its missions in learning, discovery, and engagement.
|Elliott was responsible for a major building program that saw
|Jischke developed Discovery Park, an interdisciplinary hub that is
|construction of Ross-Ade Stadium the Memorial Union, and
|home to ten research centers, and he led the Campaign for Purdue,
|development of the Purdue University Airport. During his tenure,
|which raised more than $1.7 billion in private donations to .
|the Graduate School, the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
|the university.
|and the Purdue Research Foundation were established. Elliott
|recruited top names to Purdue, including Amelia Earhart as a
|woman's counselor.
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The Rachel Papers (1973), Martin Amis's first novel, is a vivid work in which Charles Highway, on the eve of his twentieth birthday, recalls his pursuit, seduction and eventual rejection of Rachel Noyes, the first girl with whom he has ever been in love. The novel is a mixture of Bildungsroman (a novel of personal development or education); a coming-of-age story (a kind of subgenre of the Bildungsroman, focusing on the period in which the protagonist moves from adolescence into maturity); and urban picaresque and postmodern pastiche. Amis takes ample advantage of the new sexual and physiological frankness in fiction which the relaxation of censorship in Britain and the USA had made possible by the 1970s. He f…
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Cheerios Super Bowl ad revisits interracial family from controversial 2013 commercial
For the first time in the brand's history, Cheerios is airing a commercial during this year's Super Bowl -- and they're taking the opportunity to make a bit of a statement.
In their 30-second spot, titled "Gracie," the General Mills' cereal revisits their 2013 ad "Just Checking," which generated a bizarre backlash for featuring an interracial couple and their daughter.
In the new clip, the family shares a cute moment around the kitchen table, where dad uses Cheerios to explain to his little daughter that she's got a baby brother on the way. It's as sweetly humorous as the original commercial, with little Gracie proving to be a skilled negotiator. It doesn't directly address the earlier controversy, perhaps making the biggest statement of all.
"Like millions of Americans, we just fell in love with this family," Camille Gibson, vice president of marketing, tells the New York Times. "The big game provided another opportunity to tell another story about family love."
Though the original ad was received by a flood of offensive, bigoted comments, it eventually racked up nearly 5 million views on YouTube.
Are you glad Cheerios returned to the interracial family for their big commercial?
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I have the 8910. I must have gotten the only great one. It's got fair reception, good battery life, its only frozen up on me 3 or 4 times since last june. The only thing that makes me cringe is when i shake it, it rattles.
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In 1912 Wyszyński's father (his mother had died when he was nine) sent him to Warsaw. He completed his grammar school education there in 1915. He then enrolled in the seminary in Włocławek, and on his 24th birthday (3 August 1924), after being hospitalised with a serious illness, he received his priestly ordination from Bishop Adalberto Owczarek.
Wyszyński celebrated his first Solemn High Mass of Thanksgiving, at Jasna Góra in Częstochowa, a place of special spiritual significance for many Catholic Poles. The Pauline monastery there holds the picture of the Black Madonna, or Our Lady of Częstochowa, the patron saint and guardian of Poland. Father Wyszyński spent the next four years in Lublin, where in 1929 he received the doctor's degree in the Faculty of Canon Law and the Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Lublin. His dissertation in Canon Law, was entitled The Rights of the Family, Church and State to Schools. For several years after graduation he travelled throughout Europe, where he furthered his education.
After returning to Poland, Father Wyszyński began teaching at the seminary in Włocławek. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, he left Włocławek because he was wanted by the Germans for the pastoral duties he had performed for working-class people. At the request of Bishop Kozal, he went to Łaski near Warsaw. When the uprising broke out on 1 August 1944, he became chaplain of the Kampinos unit of the Armia Krajowa Polish underground resistance organisation.
In 1945, a year after end of war in the area, Wyszyński returned to Włocławek, where he started a restoration project for the devastated seminary, becoming its rector and the chief editor of a Catholic weekly. Just a year later, on 25 March 1946, Pope Pius XII appointed him Bishop of Lublin; he was consecrated by August Cardinal Hlond on 12 May that year. After the death of Cardinal Hlond on 22 October 1948, he was named Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, and thus Primate of Poland, on 12 November 1948.
World War II ended in 1944 however in eastern present-day Poland, and later in the west hostilities continued between a large segment of native Poles and the Stalinist government, which lasted for several years. The Catholic Church was hoping for return of the Polish government-in-exile from London and the removal of Stalin's puppet regime. The Church actively supported the anti-Communists. One of the prime issues was the confiscation of properties for public use, including secular schools and for distribution among farmers. The Catholic Church had been the largest single land owner just before the war.
After the war Stefan Wyszyński demonstrated anti-semitic attitudes. When a hand grenade had been thrown into the local Jewish community headquarters Stefan Wyszyński was approached by the Jewish delegation. Wyszyński stated that the popular hatred of Jews was caused by Jewish support for Communism, which had also been the reason why "the Germans murdered the Jewish nation". Wyszyński also gave some credence to blood libel rumors commenting that the question of the use of Christian blood was never completely clarified.
In 1950 Archbishop Wyszyński decided to enter into a secret agreement with the Communist authorities, which was signed on 14 February 1950 by the Polish episcopate and the government. The agreement settled political dispute of the Church in Poland. It allowed church to hold reasonable property, separated church from politics, prohibited religious indoctrination in public schools, and even allowed authorities to select a bishop from 3 candidates presented. Karol Wojtyla was selected in such a manner.
On 12 January 1953, Wyszyński was elevated to the rank of Cardinal-Priest of Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere by Pius XII. Beginning in 1953, another wave of persecution swept Poland. When the bishops continued support for resistance, mass trials and the internment of priests began - the cardinal being among the victims. On 25 September 1953 he was imprisoned at Grudziądz, and later placed under house arrest in the monastery in Prudnik near Opole and in Komańcza in the Bieszczady Mountains. While imprisoned, he observed the brutal torture and mistreatment of the detainees, some highly perverse in nature. He was released on 26 October 1956.
Nonetheless, he never stopped his religious and social work. Its crowning achievement was the celebration of Poland's Millennium of Christianity in 1966 - the thousandth anniversary of the baptism of Poland's first prince, Mieszko I. During the celebration, the Communist authorities refused to allow Pope Paul VI to visit Poland; they also prevented Cardinal Wyszyński from attending overseas celebrations. Wyszyński triumphed in 1978, when Karol Wojtyla of Kraków was elected Pope John Paul II, followed by a spectacular papal visit to Poland in 1979. Wyszyński did not turn a blind eye towards the civil unrest in 1980. When the Solidarity trade union was created in Poland, he appealed to both sides, the government as well as the striking workers, to be responsible for their actions.
Cardinal Wyszyński, often called the Primate of the Millennium, died on 28 May 1981 at the age of 79. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his death, the year 2001 was celebrated as the Year of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński.
In the CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II (based upon the life of the Polish pope), Cardinal Wyszyński was portrayed by English actor Christopher Lee.
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In just two years of operation, the Granfield Chicken Farm Abattoir has managed to increase its capacity from producing only 9 000 chickens per day in 2012 to a staggering 130 000 chickens per day.
"We regard this visit here as being our celebration of freedom and progress with you, the community of the Reitz. It is a day for us to share the good story that you have to share with the rest of the country.
"This is the story of how you were able to take a difficult situation, like the economic recession, and turn it around into an economic and social success," President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
The President visited the Granfield Chicken Farm Abattoir - a job creation project site paving the way forward for the Free State community of Reitz.
The project, co-funded by the Department of Labour through the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and the Industrial Development Co-operation (IDC), will see almost R130 million pumped into creating jobs and rural growth within the province.
He said South Africans must seize every economic opportunity they can and utilize government support programmes, to create a better life for themselves and their communities.
The abattoir has also created 1 047 jobs for locals from Reitz and communities nearby.
"This is great news for many families in the area. Another good story ... is that workers here at Granfield own 23% in the business.
"The story of Granfield Chicken project proves that South Africa is a much better place to live in now. There are more opportunities that did not exist before, especially for black people," President Zuma said.
He added that the abattoir project had been innovative and had not relied on government to begin rollout. He explained that government stepped in with funding and technical assistance at a later stage. "However, the increased production is not the secret to the project's success. What makes this project a great success is that the employees are also beneficiaries of a 23.1 percent stake in the abattoir," said Granfield's Managing Director Sas Kasselman.
"This makes the project's success a personal success for the beneficiaries as well. It creates a social responsibility amongst employees."
Skills development is also a crucial factor behind the operational success of the abattoir. Through its employment training and development programme, workers at the abattoir are trained and promoted continuously. "Job growth and skills development sharing is extremely crucial to the growth of any project of this magnitude. We ensure that employees on various levels are trained, and they in turn share their training and transfer skills learnt to their fellow workers. It is a continuous learning environment at the abattoir," said Kasselman. One such employee, who has transcended the programme in just a year and a half, is Adolphina Mojatau. The forty-year old, mother of two, formerly from Bloemfontein, today is a quality supervisor at the abattoir.
"I am very proud of what I have achieved and I am grateful to be able to work on a project that ensures the best quality for our consumers."
Mojatau explains a typical day at the abattoir, means going through almost 50 000 chickens during the day shift, and again another 50 000 on the night shift.
"My team makes sure that every chicken that enters our receiving bay undergoes an anti-mortem. This is where we check that the chickens have no diseases, and they are healthy for consumer consumption. It is a tough job, but we have to ensure that South Africans get the best quality product on the shelves," she said proudly.
To date Mojatau has completed various training programmes for Health and Safety, Food Safety Management, Hazard Training, Meat Inspection and Examination, Internal Audit and Admin. Due to her success, she is also an Internal Training Officer, who shares her story of growth with new employees at the abattoir. "In such a short time, I have been promoted three times. This is not a company that one enters as a general worker and stays put for years at that level. The opportunity for growth is endless. That is what motivates me, and allows me to inspire others working here," said Mojatau.
According to Mojatau, many South Africans, especially those in the rural areas do not know much about the poultry industry, and the opportunities it can create.
"Government is providing so many opportunities, but people cannot sit back and wait for a job to fall into their laps, they must be active and open to new challenges," she says. Today Granfield Chicken Farm Abattoir supplies to local and neighbouring markets and to national stores, including Pick 'n Pay and Shoprite.


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Grey's Anatomy Season 9, Episode 10 Sneak Peek Roundup: Sexy Times, Divorce, and More Heartbreaking Moments
Grey's Anatomy finally returns from its winter hiatus today, January 10, with Season 9, Episode 10: "Things We Said Today." Although the episode is almost upon us, the last few hours are still too long to wait.
To help the time fly, we've gathered all of the sneak peeks right here, so you can re-watch them on constant repeat until the episode airs. (We can't be the only ones who do that, right?)
First, a nice moment for Calzona fans. Enjoy, guys!
Meanwhile, we hope you're warming up to the interns, because it looks like they're going to be more prominent than ever as romantic engagements heat up this week.
On a much sadder note, here Richard (James Pickens Jr.) watches as Adele's surgery takes a turn for the worse. Why? Because Shonda Rhimes loves to break our hearts, that's why.
We'd like to raise your spirits, but this next clip, where Bailey (Chandra Wilson) continues to freak at the idea of tying the knot, isn't exactly cheery stuff.
Finally, in a sneak peek which you can watch here, Owen (Kevin McKidd) and Cristina (Sandra Oh) debate whether or not to make their divorce official. It sounds like Owen is committed to signing the papers, but we hold out hope that he'll have a last-minute change of heart.
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Man Gets Life In Prison For Stabbing Bears Fan
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 29-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing a visiting Chicago Bears fan at a bar before a football game in 2012.
Matthew Reid Hinson, a Navy veteran, pleaded guilty last May to killing William Pettry. Authorities say Hinson slashed 42-year-old Pettry's neck with a pocket knife. Police say Pettry and a friend were talking to Hinson's wife before the stabbing happened.
Hinson apologized to Pettry's family Friday, saying he drank too much and made a "terrible judgment call."
Defense attorneys argued he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from living on a submarine. An expert for the prosecution argued Hinson's primary issue was alcohol abuse.
The Florida Times-Union (http://www.ittybittyurl.com/1mnG ) reports Pettry, a married father of three, was in town to watch the Bears play the jaguars.
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Our food
Miraj Indian Take Away today symbolizes to the traditional home made curry flavors in the U.K.
Those truly interested in the art of "Indian" food will know that the artists in this field are largely Bangladeshies and majority of Bangladeshi, Indian style of preparing food has Afghan/Turkish/Iranian roots-legacy of Muslims rules in South East Asia . The Nawab of Bangla had greater usage of spices similar to their Indian counterparts(Mughal's).
We at Miraj designed our menu to bring out the best Mughals traditions of India and Bangladeshi cooking which lies in harmony with the vast international experience of our head chef. Our aim is to give you food cooked to the highest standards, assuring the highest level of hygiene and customer satisfaction.
Our Chef - Rouf Uddin
Mohammed Rouf Uddin was recruited as Head Chef at Miraj Take Away Restaurant in June 2002.Prior to this employment, Rouf gain tremendous in this industry working in a numerous places such as Masala gate, Radhuni Restaurant and Aroma spice.
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1986 Severe Service Package Ford Mustang - CHiPs LX
What would Ponch and Jon think about Phil Sanchez's '86 CHP SSP Mustang?
Phil Sanchez's '86 SSP Mustang doesn't belong in that group. He bought his LX two years ago, and it hasn't changed much since it served with the CHP two decades ago. The original 5.0L high-output engine is gone, replaced by a rebuilt 5.0L long-block. It remains a ball to drive because it has all the performance features found in a Mustang GT or LX with high-output power. On the ground are those utilitarian 15x7-inch steel wheels, originally fitted with Goodyear Gatorback tires but now wrapped in replacement 225/60R15 rubber.
Phil's SSP still has the package shelf lights, twin spotlights, police radios, siren, "whip" antenna, and shotgun. His goal is to keep the car as authentic as possible--strictly for show--to provide enthusiasts and CHP officers something to reminisce about. People frequently walk up to Phil to relate a story about being pulled over by a CHP Mustang. Sometimes, a CHP officer shares a story or two.
Whatever the story, Special Service Mustangs have left a lasting impression, for some more than others. "License and registration, please..."
If you would like to know more about '82-'93 Special Service Mustangs, a wealth of information is available online at www.sspmustang.org and www.evooa.org.