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Benajmin "BeBe" Winans, part of the legendary Winans musical family, will perform during both the opening ceremonies and the patriotic memorial service at The American Legion's 95th National Convention in Houston.
Winans has topped the charts with gospel, R&B and inspirational music, and has won numerous awards since getting his start in the mid-1980s. In 2012, he released "America America," a patriotic album that includes both standards and several songs written by him.
Winans recently spoke with The American Legion about his inspiration behind "America America" and coming to national convention.
Q: Why do you think you were invited to national convention?
A: I think a lot of it has to do with a couple of things, one of which is my appreciation for the armed services. I had traveled, for the second or third time, overseas to sing for our troops. And one thing led to the other. And so I'm looking forward to coming and being a part of the convention this year.
Q:How did you start performing for the troops?
A: I found out after being in music as long as I have that your music travels across the waters. And because of that, I've received invitations to travel the world and sing for our troops, as well as just concerts overseas. And I have been richly blessed by doing so. The troops tell you how much they appreciate what you've done, but you have a chance to tell them how you appreciate what they've given.
Q: Are there particular songs that you get requested to sing?
A: Yes. Our national anthem. They love to hear it sung. At the same time, it represents all of America. And it's a song that I know a lot of people get nervous when they sing, but I sing it when I'm not on stage. It's a song that I've always loved, and so I'm the least nervous when I sing that.
Q: What do you think is the key to making a good showing of the national anthem?
A: I think with any song, it's to believe what you're singing. And so it's a song that I believe in, and that I actually love singing. And so with anything, practice makes perfect. If you're just being asked for the first time to sing it, and you've just learned it before you sing it, you're going to have trouble. But I know that song like I know my ABCs. It's just that simple. If you're comfortable with it, it's easier to sing.
Q: Were there particular ideas you had in mind when you wrote "America America?"
A: I was inspired. I write when I'm inspired. Some of the songs I was inspired to write when I'd visit a base and sing "God Bless America" and the other public domain songs. And so "America America" derived from one of those moments. "We're the United States of America" is another. And the song "Ultimate Sacrifice" I wrote because one of those visits was right before we went to war. In Iraq, I went and sang for the troops, and the reality of going to war is that ... some lives are going to be lost. So it was amazing to me that these brave young women and men were willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice. So that song was a song of gratitude to these incredible, brave people who were willing to do just that.
Q: What are you most looking forward to during the national convention?
A: I think anything and everything. When I go anywhere – and it's a simple answer – I love people. And whether the people are of my faith or not, whether they're of different races or different creeds, I love people. And so for me to be invited and come to a convention where there are people, I'm always excited to do so. This convention and opportunity is really exciting for me because in the last couple of years, I've been more attuned to the sacrifices of those who are in the service, and their families who sacrifice as well. And so I'm very excited to come and, through song, say 'thank you' to an organization that does something to help and better the lives of those who have served this country.
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ALBANY -- Laxmiben Patel, 82 of Albany, GA died Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at Dawson Health and Rehabilitation.
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RICHMOND, Va (WTVR) – A pair of armed robberies in Richmond Thursday night into Friday morning have some in the city unsettled. In one of the robberies, Richmond Police said three masked men robbed two walkers at gunpoint.
Police said it happened in the 2600 block of Franklin St., which is in Church Hill.
A friend of the victims, who didn't want to speak on camera, told CBS 6 her friends were walking home from dinner around 10:15 p.m. Thursday.
A robber grabbed one her friends by the neck and pointed a handgun to his head. Another suspect shoved the barrel of a shotgun into the side of her second friend.
The trio of masked men took cash and cell phones from the pair and fled towards Main St. down a nearby flight of stairs.
One neighbor in the area saw police cruisers rushing up and down the street after the robbery, but noticed something suspicious about 20 minutes before it happened.
"There were two people standing on the corner, in all black clothes. About five minutes later, another individual walked up in all black," said the man, who CBS 6 has chosen not to identify.
Richmond Police say they are still looking for the suspects in this case.
But it wasn't the only late night armed robbery in Richmond Thursday night into Friday morning.
According to VCU's Alert System, Richmond City and VCU Police were called to the intersection of Lombardy St. and Grove Ave. for another armed robbery around 2 a.m. Friday.
Two victims were approached by two men, and one of the suspects pulled a handgun with laser-sight attached to it on the victims.
The suspects fled in a getaway car driven by a third person. The vehicle is described as a red, mid-sized sedan.
The robbers took the victims and cell phones. The robbery did not occur on VCU's campus, only nearby.
"It's kind of alarming that they were able to their hands on that kind of tactical weaponry to commit armed robbery," said Stephen Weinstock, who lives in the Fan District near the scene. "I'm definitely kind of alarmed by at least my percieved increase in violent crime, armed robberies, and that kind of thing."
"Be more alert when I go out at night," said Kate Tyler, who heard about the robberies during her morning jog down Lombardy St.
Richmond and VCU Police are searching for suspects in both cases. If you have any information about either robbery that could aid investigators, you are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 780-1000.


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Harley announces that she is just going to be herself with Daisy instead of trying to be the perfect mother. Her apron is turning the distracted Gus on, but when they start making out, Dylan arrives. Gus gives him a beer and he gives Harley flowers. She tells him that she is going to give Daisy some room, but that's not what Dylan had in mind. Harley is proud that the kids are upstairs doing homework, but Dylan doubts it. She goes up to check and Gus says that he'll treat Daisy like she's his own. 'She's not�' he says abruptly before fumbling through an explanation of what he means. Harley comes back downstairs. 'She's gone.'
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Hey Aneesh! I am astrosonu - Velocity is not really speed ok. Speed means distance * time. Velocity is driving at a speed in a curve road.
And speed means how fast it goes. There are many types of velocities - Constant, changing, istant, terminal which you will study in higher classes. SI unit of velocity is metre per second.
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Velocity is described as a vector that has magnitude and direction. Also associated with the change in direction of an object at a certain speed. Velocity is defined as rate = distance over time. If something goes farther in a short amount of time, the rate increases. If something a shorter distance in a longer time, the rate decreases. Overall, velocity deals with how fast an object is going a certain distance in the amount of time.
Velocity is simply speed in a given direction. Speed is defined as dist/time, so velocity would be dist/time with a direction (ex. westward.)
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The New York State Museum is marking the 40th anniversary of Apollo 17 by exhibiting a moon rock collected during the mission.
The state's rarely-displayed fragment will be on view in the Albany museum's lobby from Wednesday through Feb. 10.
The 3.7 billion-year-old rock is the only one in the state's collection.
It's one of the "goodwill" rocks from a sample President Richard Nixon ordered divided up and given to the U.S. states and the heads of 135 countries in 1973. New York's piece was presented to Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.
Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon.
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Vitamin D3 enhances mood in healthy subjects during winter
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Mood changes synchronised to the seasons exist on a continuum between individuals, with anxiety and depression increasing during the winter months. An extreme form of seasonality is manifested as the clinical syndrome of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) with carbohydrate craving, hypersomnia, lethargy, and changes in circadian rhythms also evident. It has been suggested that seasonality and the symptoms of SAD may be due to changing levels of vitamin D3, the hormone of sunlight, leading to changes in brain serotonin. Forty-four healthy subjects were given 400 IU, 800 IU, or no vitamin D3 for 5 days during late winter in a random double-blind study. Results on a self-report measure showed that vitamin D3 significantly enhanced positive affect and there was some evidence of a reduction in negative affect. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for seasonality, SAD, serotonin, food preference, sleep, and circadian rhythms.
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Arawaks and Caribs were the first known tribes to inhabit Guyana. The peaceful Arawak populated the coast, while the Carib lived in the rainforest, as many still do. Existing tribes include the Wapishiana, Akawaio, Macushi, Patamona, and the Wai Wai. Anthropologists believe these peoples may have originated farther inland in South America and populated Guyana during territorial expansion.
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Columbus sighted Guyana in 1498, but did not drop anchor. Instead, the first European settlers were the Dutch. Though they established fertile plantations on reclaimed land, the English took command in 1814, in one aftereffect of the Napoleonic Wars.
In 1831, three separate settlements united into British Guiana. Laborers were imported for the plantations; their descendants would bring Guyana great diversity. A third of the modern population descends from African slaves brought to grow sugar. Nearly half comes from East Indian laborers imported after slavery ended. Perhaps 10% of the population is Amerindian, surviving mostly in the hinterlands. Other ethnic groups include descendants of British, Portuguese, and Chinese immigrants.
After World War II, the colonial world ended. As Guyana moved towards independence, two factions formed, one of Indo-Guyanese and one of Afro-Guyanese. Independence came in 1970, though Guyana remains a Commonwealth nation.


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The oldest intercollegiate polo program in the U.S., the Harvard Polo Club builds on a tradition of polo at Harvard, dating back to 1883. The team, reestablished in 2006, currently has 22 members and practices regularly in Hamilton, Massachusetts. During our fall and spring seasons, we compete in matches against Yale, Stanford, the University of Virginia, the University of Connecticut, Cornell, the University of Massachusetts, and Skidmore, among others.
Harvard Polo is very competitive. In June, the team travels to the UK in June for an exhibition game with Oxford, Cambridge and Yale at the Guard's Polo Club outside of London. While in Europe, the team plays additional games in Rome, Geneva and Chantilly. This year we traveled to Asia in July to play in Mongolia and China. The team took second place in the inaugural Metropolitan Intervarsity Polo Tournament in Tianjin, China.
We are supported by generous alumni and donors, our most generous being Tommy Lee Jones (Harvard '69), an avid polo player has invited the team to his San Saba facilities in Texas, Florida, and Argentina for training in addition to donating polo ponies and equipment. We are deeply grateful for all of the support we receive, especially as we aim to make Harvard Polo a sustainable, central, and permanent fixture on the Harvard campus for generations of undergraduates. If you are interested in supporting the team please visit the Donate section of this website.


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Is President Yar'adua Missing?
President Yar'adua may be missing if the report by the Nigerian Tribune today is anything to believe! This paper in an article titled ŌĆśYar-adua not with us ŌĆōSaudi-Hospital, reports today that the Nigerian President may be missing: It asserts that its investigation on the exact hospital location of the President shows that the President is not in any of the two branches of the King Faiscal Hospital in Jeddal and Riyadh where the President is reported to be receiving and responding to treatment. And so where is the President? Same newspaper says the President may be in a safe place where he is under intense prayer sessions by Islamic prayerlords, allegedly organized by the wife Turai Yar'adua.
Isn't Nigeria a banana republic? Tell me she's not. The President has been out of Nigeria for over a month on account of emergency intervention over acute pericarditis. Immediately after he was rushed out of country late November, we were told he needed confirmation of the diagnosis and treatment in Saudi Arabia [a country where her Prince just returned from medical pilgrimage to America for health-related problems!]. Political tension began to rise as the Nigeria group of 55 demanded that the President resigns in the event that he can no longer perform his function as President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed forces of the country. The Federal Executive Council responded through the Prof. Dora Akunyili and the Vice President-both affirmed that the President is doing fine and ŌĆśresponding favorably to treatment'.
This absence of the President has created a leadership vacuum and caused the nation to be at stand still: the 2010 budget is yet to be formally presented and defended by the President. Swearing-in of a new Chief Justice of Nigeria has also generated enormous controversy within the legal landscape to a point that the Nigerian Bar Association is at war of wars and letters with the Judicial Council and Supreme Court. And the alterations of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Aondonakaa have made matters worse. The Senate-President suddenly turned cleric persuading Nigerians to pray vigorously for the recovery of Mr President.
I believe in the power of prayers but I am quick to ask: what the prayers will do? To whom do we offer our Nigerian Prayers? Let's assume God: Is God happy with our greedy politicians who walk into office through serious electoral malpractices? Is God happy that 365million has been set aside for feeding in Presidential Villa for 2010-meaning 1million naira daily-when more than 70% of Nigerians live below $1 [#150] daily! Is God glad with the cabals in the FEC who cannot obey constitutional provisions because they are afraid of its deleterious effects of its outcome on their political life? I wonder what God Allah thinks about Nigeria when our nation becomes an issue before him!
Kindly answer our prayers to remove these leaders and place the right people there.
God of heaven and EarthŌĆ"Arise because of Nigerian masses and let their enemies be scattered.
The FEC including the Vice President is afraid to invoke the letters of the constitution in the event of an incapacitated President. The National Assembly has turned political and constitutional matters to religious debates for selfish interests. God, deliver them from the sordid fear that is fast crippling our dear nation!
I've got one last request, God: Where is Mr President? And what's happening to him right now? The FEC, the President's Advisers and legislators do not have true answers to those questions, you're the only we can ask.
While I await your noble response, I'd remain patriotic to my country!
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Re: Is President Yar`adua Missing?
Anioma777 posted on 12-31-2009, 14:07:03 PM
The sooner he dies the better for him and the country, but maybe he his in coma. He deserves what is happening to him. In life we can make errors but we can atone for it. The problem now is not if UMYA is missing or not. The problem is the so called law makers, ministers and their cronies who have been sticking up two fingers at the rest of the suffering Nigerians with thier madness talk. Below is an extract from the Nigerian Tribune, comments like that makes one wonder how long can our collective docility continue.
I am so ashamed to be a Nigerian when I read these statements from a so called lawyer, SAN and Minister of Justice.
Re: Is President Yar`adua Missing?
Dapxin [RIP] posted on 12-31-2009, 14:55:33 PM
Its a shock-grief to have to share the same tag with such a brainless shag: Andooaka.
Its depresses, when you now begin to add SAN and Attorney General to the mix. Really is.
Re: Is President Yar`adua Missing?
Dick posted on 12-31-2009, 22:30:25 PM
Well...The President may be missing but not dead. Something to thank God for. Maybe we should just leave our verious duty post and submit to prayer; Muslims and Christians alike. The more feverish the prayer the better. We waste so much time doing nothing except planning for our pockets...Nigeria is a country, a geographical entity... not a nation. We are not supposed and indeed not designed to act as one.
When he gets better, he will come back. If he does not, Turai will rule. Face your job
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Iye posted on 12-31-2009, 22:33:54 PM
Oh my Gosh┬ģ..am I ever glad to see you┬ģ.Happy New Year


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Despite Helen Thomas's apology and resignation, the controversy over her call for Israel's Jews to be thrown out of their country and "go back" to Germany and Poland isn't quite over. Not to be outdone by the anti-Semitic octogenarian scribe, radio talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell defended or at the very least rationalized Thomas's slur on her radio show, the audio of which can be heard on YouTube. The comedian and her "friends" on the show think Thomas's remarks are merely "politically incorrect." O'Donnell claims that in 2010, no one could possibly believe that Thomas thinks Jews should go back to Auschwitz (as one of the Gaza flotilla "humanitarians" allegedly told the Israeli navy) and that her main point was justified because "What she was saying was, the homeland was originally Palestinian and it's now occupied by Israel."
O'Donnell's rants are not particularly significant, but her assertion about whose land the Israelis currently occupy is important because it represents a common misconception about the Middle East conflict that often goes without contradiction.
Indeed, even those pundits that reacted appropriately to Thomas's remarks, such as the Washington Post's Richard Cohen, who wrote an admirable column about what happened when some Jews did, in fact, attempt to go back to Poland after the Holocaust, failed to point out that Jewish rights to historic Palestine predate the tragic events of the 1940s. Cohen described the Kielce massacre, in which Poles slaughtered returning Jews, as well as the hostility of even some Americans, such as General George Patton, toward displaced survivors. He rightly noted that the plight of these homeless Jews helped galvanize support for Zionism at that crucial moment in history in the years leading up to Israel's independence.
But as with President Obama's June 2009 Cairo speech to the Muslim world, which posed a false moral equivalence between the sufferings of Jews in the Holocaust and the displacement of Palestinian Arab refugees, the idea that Jewish rights to the land are merely a matter of compensation for events in Europe is a pernicious myth that must be refuted at every opportunity. Jews need not be required to leave Israel for Europe not only because to do so would be insensitive but also because the place Arabs call Palestine is the historic homeland of the Jewish people. Despite the dispersion of the Jews, the Jewish presence in the land was never eradicated. For example, Jerusalem had a Jewish majority in the 1840s. Palestinian nationalism grew not as an attempt to reconstitute an ancient people or to solidify an existing political culture but strictly as a negative reaction to the return of the Jews and does not exist outside the context of trying to deny the country to the Zionists. That is why even moderate Palestinians find it impossible to sign a peace agreement legitimizing a Jewish state, no matter where its borders might be drawn.
The idea of Jews as colonists in the Middle East is a staple of anti-Zionist hatred, but it surfaces even in respectable forums and in the work of writers who are nominally sympathetic to Israel. Earlier this week, Ross Douthat wrote a column in the New York Times comparing the State of Israel to the Christian Crusader kingdoms that sprouted in what is now Israel during the Middle Ages before being swept away by a Muslim tide. Douthat doesn't seem to wish the same fate for the Jews and acknowledged that the analogy between the Crusaders and Israel is one invoked by Arabs who wish to wipe out the Jewish state. But his analogy between Israel's demographic and strategic problems and that of the Crusaders is itself specious. Unlike the Christian noblemen who ruled the country and its mainly non-Christian inhabitants from castles that are now historic ruins, the Jews settled on the land en masse and developed it in an unprecedented manner. Contrary to his evaluation of Israel's current position, its economy has flourished despite war; and though it has many problems (as do all countries), it is no danger of being swept away except by the sort of cataclysmic threat that a nuclear Iran poses. Moreover, and contrary to the land grab of European knights who massacred Jews in Europe on their way to further atrocities in the Holy Land, the Jews came back to their country as a matter of historic justice, as a people reclaiming what was rightly theirs.
Friends of Israel and those representing the Jewish state generally ignore the need to point out the myths about Zionism that have resulted in all too many people accepting the idea that the Jews are "occupiers" of an exclusively Arab land. They fear boring their listeners or seeming too strident. But the costs of this neglect are to be measured in the growing numbers of people in the West who accept the lies spread by Palestinian propagandists or who don't know enough to challenge them.


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How to Trap Cockroaches
Four Methods:Sticky tape and onion trapJar trapRed wine trapWine bottle cockroach trap
Hate those roaches in your house? One way to get rid of them is by setting a trap. It's a great alternative to bug spray, and it costs less than paying somebody to remove the bugs for you.
Method 1 of 4: Sticky tape and onion trap
1Get some sticky tape. Buy only tape which is extremely sticky, otherwise the roaches could easily struggle out and escape after a few minutes.Ad
2Get an onion and chop off a small piece.
3Put the piece of onion in the middle of a length of your sticky tape.
4Put the length of tape in a dark spot.
5Keep it there overnight, and in the morning you should have lots of cockroaches on it.Ad
Method 2 of 4: Jar trap
This is a very effective cockroach trap that is safe for children and pets.
1Find a quart size glass jar that has a slight shoulder, like a mayonnaise or spaghetti sauce jar.
2Tape masking or duct tape all around the outside (except for the underside) to give their little feet traction so they can climb up the outside. Coat the inside for at least four inches down from the top with petroleum jelly so they can't get any traction there.
3Put something smelly in the bottom of the jar to attract the cockroaches. A piece of banana peel or overripe, fragrant fruit works well. [mangoes bits and pieces]
4Place it wherever you have a roach problem, indoors or outdoors. The roaches climb up and fall in and can't get out. Eventually you can pour some boiling water in there to kill the roaches. Flush them down the toilet, and recharge the trap with more petroleum jelly and a new piece of banana peel or whatever.Ad
Method 3 of 4: Red wine trap
1Use half a glass of red wine. The glass or container design is very important however (cylindrical tall containers, narrow mouth bottles etc), as it should prevent the cockroaches from climbing out of it.
2Place the glass in strategic positions overnight. Roaches are known to be attracted to the smell of wine and they usually fall inside and die during the night, possibly due to the effects of alcohol.
- Sometimes, even a mixture of water and wine may work. However, the roaches are only attracted to good food and wine.
- Never experiment with flammable liquids.
Method 4 of 4: Wine bottle cockroach trap
1Find an almost empty wine or beer bottle. Any tall bottle with a narrow neck will do. It will need to have a few teaspoons of wine left in it. If it is a dry red wine, add a quarter teaspoon of sugar and swish it around.
- If you don't want to use alcohol, try some sugar and water with a bit of fruit, or just experiment. Boil the water first and let it cool to stop the concoction from going moldy before it has done its work on the cockroaches.
2Smear some cooking oil all around the inside of the top of the bottle. This will make a slippery slide to the bottom of the bottle.
3Place the wine bottle in a spot where you have seen some cockroaches. For example, near the compost heap. Leave it for at least one night, but it might take a couple of nights to ferment to the right composition to attract the critters.
- The cockroaches are attracted by the wine or beer, they get onto the top of the bottle and slip on the oil into the bottom and cannot get back out again.
4When you check it in the morning and find cockroaches in the bottom of the bottle, carefully pour some very hot water into the bottle to kill them, and then dispose of them.
- You can set the trap repeatedly, with a new bottle every few days. It is possible to catch almost a hundred in a week if there are lots, and gradually the numbers will decline as there are less cockroaches around to get caught.
We could really use your help!
- You don't have to use onion; you can also use peanut butter, or anything sweet.
- Once you trap the roaches, you can vacuum them off the tape. Or, alternatively, throw the tape out.
- Keep the tape away from pets or children.
- The tape may dry out.
Things You'll Need
- Extremely sticky tape
- Strong scented food (like onion) or wine
- Dark spot where roaches are bound to be found
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Monthly Archive for November, 2010
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Rachel Simmons is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls and The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence. The founder of the Girls Leadership Institute, Rachel works internationally with girls, parents, and school professionals to develop strategies to address bullying and empower girls. For more information, visit www.rachelsimmons.com and follow her at www.twitter.com/RachelJSimmons.
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'Ann of Green Gables' auditions scheduled for Sunday, Monday
Lakeland Theatre Company will hold auditions for "Ann of Green Gables" on Sunday and Monday. Shows are scheduled for April 26-28 and May 2-5. In addition, school day shows on May 2 may require actors to take a day off of work or school.
Living in Green Gables, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister, Marilla, try adopting a boy to help around the farm. However, the orphanage sends, Anne Shirley, a girl in her teens, by mistake. Matthew quickly connects with the girl, but Marilla is slow to warm up to her.
This production, directed by MaryAnn Whitemore, will be presented on the main stage.
The ages listed below refer to that of the character, not the actor. It is possible that a person may be cast outside of the character's age range.
Attendees are asked to familiarize themselves with the story as these will be cold read auditions.
This production will need from 6-12 males and 12-18 females, teen through adult, and one child. Some characters include:
• Anne Shirley: An energetic dreamer who is hot-headed, speaks her mind, and talks entirely too much
• Matthew Cuthbert: A strong but silent older man who quickly falls to Anne's charms
• Marilla Cuthbert: A stern, older woman who likes routine and dislikes surprises
• Rachel Lynde: A strict, blunt friend of Marilla's who likes neat and proper things and people; the town busy-body
• Mr. Phillips: Avonlea school teacher who is enamored with his student Prissy Andrews
• Prissy Andrews: A schoolgirl studying to attend Queen's Academy; the teacher's pet
• Diana Barry: A schoolgirl who loves to dream who becomes Anne's "bosom friend"
• Mrs. Barry: Diana's mother who is strict and thinks all girls should be neat and proper at all times
• Minne May Barry: (female, 6-8) Diana's little sister
• Moody MacPherson: The son of the train station owner who is also a schoolboy
• Gilbert Blythe: A schoolboy; he competes with Anne for the top student in school and for the best teaching job after school; he and Anne have difficulty showing their true feelings for each other
• Miss Susan Stacy: School teacher who encourages her students in their education
• Aunt Josphine Barry: Diana's wealthy great aunt;takes a liking to Anne and supports her pursuit of higher education
• Mrs. Allan: The Reverend's wife


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Black Violin – Classically Trained
Album Description
2 parts Classical, 2 parts Pop, with a splash of hip-hop, served chilled–"Classically Trained" is a genre-busting collage that pushes the limits of music and dares listeners to think outside the box. For their sophomore release, Black Violin front men Kev Marcus (violin) and Wil B (viola), cleverly feature smooth verses and symphonic hooks underscored by an array of rhythmic grooves, ranging from pop-rock cadences to trunk rattling bass. Armed with stage experiences with Alicia Keys, Mike Shinoda, and Gym Class Heroes, this promising group is stretching the fabric of how music is interpreted. Add the spellbinding vocals of Wil B and the innovative approach to the violin and you are sure to be taken on an incredible journey.


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Cystic fibrosis is a birth defect. Normally, the mucus in the lungs is thin and slippery. In cystic fibrosis, the mucus is thick and sticky and causes infections and blocks the lungs. This is especially dangerous if it blocks airways and stops breathing. These thick secretions also block the pancreas. The pancreas helps the intestines digest and absorb food. The mucus also can block the bile duct in the liver, causing liver damage over time.
Cystic fibrosis can affect all races and ethnic groups, but occurs mostly in whites. It affects people in different ways and to different degrees.
CF is caused by defective genes that are passed from parent to child. A child must inherit a defective CF gene from each parent to have CF. If the child only gets one CF gene, he or she is a carrier of the disease, but does not have it. If both parents have the cystic fibrosis gene, there is a 25% chance that each child they have will have CF.
Newborns with cystic fibrosis may develop a blocked intestine the first day or two after birth. Other signs in newborns include failure to grow, bulky foul-smelling greasy stools, and frequent respiratory infections.
Common symptoms of cystic fibrosis in children and young adults include:
Additional signs may include delayed growth, enlargement or rounding of the fingertips and toes, liver problems, on-going diarrhea, abdominal swelling, part of the rectum coming out of the anus, or a collapsed lung.
Babies are tested for cystic fibrosis as part of newborn screening blood tests. Even though most newborn screens that suggest CF are false positive tests, a positive on this test means a higher chance that your child has the disease. CF is usually diagnosed by age 3, but it can be diagnosed much later in those who have a mild case.
If your child's newborn screen suggests that he or she may have CF, your child should have a sweat test. The sweat test measures the amount of salt in your child's sweat. People with CF have a high level of salt in their sweat. To do the test, a special chemical is put on part of the skin to help make your child sweat. An electrode is put on the area and weak electrical current causes the area to sweat. The sweat is collected and tested in a lab. The test does not hurt.
There is no cure for cystic fibrosis. The goal of treatment is to slow down the progress of the disease and help your child lead as normal a life as possible. The average lifespan for someone with CF is about 37 years. Treatment for CF may include taking medicine such as:
Your child may also need to eat more calories to help fight infection. For a baby this may mean making high-calorie breast milk or formula. For a toddler or older child, you will need to add extra calories during the day. Using more dairy products is an easy way to add calories (for example, you can give your child whole milk, use extra butter on foods, or add extra cheese to pizza or casseroles). You will also need to learn chest physical therapy (CPT). CPT helps drain your child's airways by tapping on your child's chest or back. You will need to do this at least twice a day.
Your child may also need to:
For more information about CF, contact:
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Web Site: http://www.cff.org
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Web Site: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/cf/cf_what.html


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Joan Neuberger
Professor — Ph.D., 1985, Stanford University
- E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Phone: 512-475-7219
- Office: GAR 2.102
- Office Hours: W 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
- Campus Mail Code: B7000
Research interests
Professor Neuberger studies modern Russian culture in social and political context.
Courses taught
Her teaching interests include modern Russia, nineteenth-century Europe, gender, film, and visual culture, with a focus on the politics of the arts. She is the author of an eclectic range of publications, including Hooliganism: Crime and Culture in St Petersburg, 1900-1914 (California: 1993), Ivan the Terrible: The Film Companion (Palgrave: 2003); co-author of Europe and the Making of Modernity, 1815-1914 (Oxford: 2005); and co-editor of Imitations of Life: Melodrama in Russia (Duke: 2001) and Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture (Yale: 2008).
REE 335 • History Of Russia To 1917
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Fall 2011
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TTH 200pm-330pm WEL 2.304
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In this course we will examine fundamental issues regarding political, social, cultural life in the modern Russian Empire, autocracy as a political system, national identity at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, poverty & modern industry in a predominantly rural society, political opposition and the revolutionary movement.
Readings (Required): available at bookstores
Nicholas Riasanovsky & Mark Steinberg, A History of Russia
V. Kivelson and J. Neuberger, eds., Picturing Russia:Explorations in Visual Culture
Anna Labzina, Days of a Russian Noblewoman
B. Engel & C. Rosenthal, eds., Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar
Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
Additional required readings will be on-line on our Blackboard site on the "Course Documents" page
Assignments & Grading
Map Exercise - 10%
Short Essays/Participation: 10%
Two In-Class Exams, 20% each = 40%
Take-home Final Exam 40%
Attendance in class is required. In case of absence it is your responsibility to find out about scheduling or other changes. Additional information on assignments will be distributed in class. No make-up exams will be allowed without written documentation for a family or medical emergency. Students who will miss class for religious holidays or other University sanctioned events should contact me in advance to make accommodations.


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Cooking and Baking
Your thoughts on lunches for a group
For New Year's I'm going on a trip with a big group (14 people) and I offered to plan the food. I have the menu mostly planned out but I'm having trouble with lunches since I normally eat leftovers for lunch and I don't like the typical food (sandwiches) that much. I am just not creative with this meal. Two lunches can be cooked at the place, and the last lunch has to be packed for driving home. Any grand ideas for these? I'm going to assign a team of two to each meal so they can do prep work more easily. We also have two vegetarians so meat has to be on the side or we just have to go veggie.
Here's the rest of the menu to give you an idea of what we're already eating:
Thursday dinner: Veg chili
Fri breakfast: Scrambled eggs with toast/english muffins
Fri lunch: ??
Fri dinner: Spaghetti and meatballs (meatballs on the side), salad
Sat breakfast: Baked oatmeal w/ scrambled eggs and yogurt
Sat lunch: ??
Sat dinner: Red lentil coconut curry w/ rice
Sun breakfast: Oatmeal w/ fruit
Sun lunch/dinner: ?? packed for driving
Thanks for your feedback!
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Mr. [Doe] mentions in passing my criticism of Luther's "pre-involvement with Nazi Germany" (whatever that could possibly mean). Of course, the casual reader has no idea what the context of this was, nor that it was not my own expressed opinion at all, but rather, that of Protestant William Shirer, in his 1600-page epic The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (by all accounts one of the most well-known histories of that tragic time and place). Here is what Shirer stated:In fairness to my critic, "Jeb Protestant," who wrote on that blog today: "I would be skeptical about anything Dave Armstrong or William Shirer says," it is true that I was more harsh on Luther in the post (as indicated by my use of this citation) than I am today. My views have softened considerably since my "new convert" period when I was quite disenchanted with Martin Luther, having discovered a lot of new things that I had never heard before.
It is difficult to understand the behavior of most German Protestants in the first Nazi years unless one is aware of two things: their history and the influence of Martin Luther. The great founder of Protestantism was both a passionate anti-Semite and a ferocious believer in absolute obedience to political authority. He wanted Germany rid of the Jews and . . . advised that . . .Now, if Mr. [Doe] doesn't like this opinion, let him argue with William Shirer about it.
they be put under a roof or stable, like the Gypsies. in misery and captivity . . .-- advice that was literally followed four centuries later by Hitler, Goering and Himmler . . . In . . . the peasant uprising of 1525, Luther advised the princes to adopt the most ruthless measures against the 'mad dogs' . . . Here, as in his utterances about the Jews, Luther employed a coarseness and brutality of language unequalled in German history until the Nazi time. The influence of this towering figure extended down the generations in Germany, especially among the Protestants. Among other results was the ease with which German Protestantism became the instrument of royal and priestly absolutism . . . until the kings and princes were overthrown in 1918 .
. . . In no country, with the exception of Czarist Russia, did the clergy become by tradition so completely servile to the political authority of the state . . . Like Niemoeller, most of the pastors welcomed the advent of Adolf Hitler to the chancellorship in 1933 . . . Hitler . . . had always had a certain contempt for the Protestants: . . . .
You can do anything you want with them. They will submit . . . they are insignificant little people, submissive as dogs . . .He was well aware that the resistance to the Nazification of the Protestant churches came from a minority of pastors and an even smaller minority of worshipers.
(New York: Fawcett Crest, 1960, pp. 326-329)
Opinions (at least in a conscientious thinker) evolve and grow over time. Luther had been a huge hero of mine, and there is a certain disappointment that one goes through in learning about the fuller historical picture (one that is often hidden from view in too many -- not all, by any means -- Protestant treatments). With the passing of time, and many hundreds of pages more study, I think I am a lot more objective now in writing about Martin Luther than I was seventeen years ago.
I wrote in a very old paper of mine about Luther (from 1990 or 1991, right after I converted), introducing the same Shirer quote (just after having discussed some of his notorious remarks about the Jews),
May God have mercy on a man with an abominable mouth and pen like Luther's. For, without much reflection, one can imagine the implications of such venomous talk for the later history of Germany.That's tough language, for sure, but as we shall see, it is little more than what many Protestant or otherwise non-Catholic historians have also stated. It also should be mentioned in fairness to me, that in the original paper I wrote criticizing Luther, dated 14 January 1991 (I had to dig the original paper manuscript out of piles of old papers of mine!), immediately after the Shirer quotation, I wrote:
Catholicism, on the other hand, while not totally unblemished with regard to Nazism . . .So we see that I was not totally blaming Luther and Lutheranism for the Nazi tragedy, even in the period when I was most critical of Luther. With that background in mind, here is what I wrote on Jimmy Akin's blog, on this general issue and my own opinion:
Shirer is not the only one who has made the connection between Luther's political-ecclesiological thought and the Nazis. How about Alister McGrath: perhaps the foremost Protestant historian writing today?:The person who made the link (a Catholic who was simply offering further historical information) expressed a willingness to remove the link to an older paper if I didn't want it there, but I wrote:
As the Peasants' Revolt loomed on the horizon, however, it seems that the deficiencies of his political thought became obvious . . . This understanding of the relation of church and state has been the object of intense criticism. Luther's social ethic has been described as 'defeatist' and 'quietist', encouraging the Christian to tolerate (or at least fail to oppose) unjust social structures. Luther preferred oppression to revolution . . . The Peasants' War seemed to show up the tensions within Luther's social ethic: the peasants were supposed to live in accordance with the private ethic of the Sermon on the Mount, turning the other cheek to their oppressors -- while the princes were justified in using violent coercive means to re-establish social order. And although Luther maintained that the magistrate had no authority in the church, except as a Christian believer, the technical distinction involved was so tenuous as to be unworkable. The way was opened to the eventual domination of the church by the state, which was to become a virtually universal feature of Lutheranism. The failure of the German church to oppose Hitler in the 1930s is widely seen as reflecting the inadequacies of Luther's political thought. Even Hitler, it appeared to some German Christians, was an instrument of God.A major Lutheran biographer of Luther, Heiko A. Oberman, makes similar comments:
(Reformation Thought: An Introduction, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 2nd edition, 1993, 209-210)
The Third Reich and in its wake the whole Western world capitalized upon Luther, the fierce Jew-baiter. Any attempt to deal with the Reformer runs up against this obstacle. No description of Luther's campaign against the Jews, however objective and erudite it may be, escapes the horror: we live in the post-Holocaust era . . . Luther's late writings on the Jews are crucial to this agonizing but necessary task of remembering . . .I haven't even staked out a definite position on this particular matter. I was simply citing non-Catholics who saw a relationship between the two. I just finished a new book on Luther on Thursday and I didn't say anything about either Nazi Germany or Luther's well-known negative comments about Jews, and in fact, a third of the book was devoted to praise of Luther when he held a view that is entirely or largely Catholic.
(Luther: Man Between God and the Devil, translated by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart, New York: Doubleday Image, 1992, 292)
There are all kinds of myths about what I supposedly believe (especially regarding Martin Luther). Jeb Protestant is no accurate guide to my thinking, I can assure everyone here! I wouldn't classify him as a troll, but he doesn't engage me in what I would call dialogue, when he shows up on my site.
I recently revised some of my Luther papers, and the Shirer quote appears to not even be in my current papers anymore (I just did a search of my site to try to find it). That's how much I cared about its importance. The link given above was to an older version of one paper, from Internet Archive. But the above two citations remain. If Protestants want to gripe about these two very prominent historians and their opinions about Luther and later anti-Semitism, then that has nothing to do with me.
Just to set the record straight. Aren't facts and documentation wonderful things?
I should also add, to clarify my position, that there is plenty of detestable anti-Semitism in Catholic history as well (as the present pope and the previous one have both solemnly acknowledged), so that I would reject any attempt to pin the blame of ultimate or sole causation of Nazism on Lutheranism. I am one who believes that historical causation is an extremely complicated, multi-faceted thing: rarely able to be narrowed down to one cause. I don't think reality (and particularly the history and influence of ideas) works that way.
The past has enough scandal in this regard to shame all three major branches of Christianity. I would oppose anyone, however, who tried to deny any connection between Luther's anti-Semitism and political teaching, and Nazi Germany. There clearly is an influence to some degree there, that cannot be denied by anyone acquainted with the relevant facts.
No, that's fine. No problem. I don't repudiate the old article or have a problem with you citing it. I was just observing that since this citation is no longer even on my site, obviously I didn't consider it important enough to retain, and that this doesn't fit in with the impression (held mostly by anti-Catholics) that I wish to "bash" Luther by (among other things) linking him to Hitler.And this considerable admiration was, by the way, strongly reiterated in the Introduction to my recent book: Martin Luther: Catholic Critical Analysis and Praise.
My view is far more complex and nuanced than that. Whatever I hold in this regard is scarcely distinguishable from non-Catholic historians like McGrath and Oberman. In other words, it is not a "Catholic" apologetic thing; it is a factual, historical thing that can't be confined to mere apologetics or polemics. Such fine distinctions, however, are not exactly a notable trait of anti-Catholic Protestants, who find it hard to imagine that a Catholic apologist like myself actually admires Luther in many ways and does not consider him an "evil" or insincere man.
Also, I discovered that McGrath, in the book cited above (p. 271, footnote 6), wrote:
See the famous letter of Karl Barth (1939), in which he asserted that 'The German people suffer . . . from the mistake of Martin Luther regarding the relation of Law and Gospel, of temporal and spiritual order and power': quoted by Helmut Thielicke, Theological Ethics (3 vols; Grand Rapids, Mich., 1979), vol. 1, p. 368.This goes far beyond what I would ever assert. Barth seems (though it doesn't necessarily follow, logically) to assert Luther as the direct and/or primary cause of the Nazi tragedy. McGrath possibly tacitly assents to the same sentiment by citing it.
Ironically, the most notorious treatise on this topic is not by a Catholic (let alone a dreaded "apologist"), but from a Lutheran from Berlin: Peter F. Wiener. It's called Martin Luther: Hitler's Spiritual Ancestor. He expressed trepidation that he "might be accused of having come under Roman Catholic influence and trying to convert my pupils."
Moreover, Wiener actually adopts an ultimately "moderate" position on the controversy not unlike the one I (and many others) have taken:
LET me sum up. First of all, I have to repeat my thesis: I do not believe myself, nor have I wanted to give the impression, that Luther and Lutheranism are the sole source of our present-day troubles. Economic, political, geographical, and many other causes have to be taken into account if we want to explain the destructive present-day mentality of the Germans, which is above all other causes to blame for the misery in which the modern world finds itself twice within a third of a century.Wikipedia provides an in-depth article on Luther and Anti-Semitism. Some excerpts:
I did not mean for one minute either to deny that there are things that are good and laudable in Luther—that he pronounced and taught some very fine things which, if they had become the ethical standard of modern Europe, might have brought us peace and prosperity instead of war and misery. All I maintain is that Luther and his doctrines are one of the causes why Europe could follow such a fatal road—that Luther, the man and his teaching, had many disastrous sides, as well as good ones. This negative aspect of Lutheranism is not only generally ignored, but is just the very aspect which as influenced German ethics and standards.
Franklin Sherman, editor of volume 47 of the American Edition of Luther's Works in which On the Jews and Their Lies appears, responds to the claim that "Luther's antipathy towards the Jews was religious rather than racial in nature," Luther's writings against the Jews, he explains, are not "merely a set of cool, calm and collected theological judgments. His writings are full of rage, and indeed hatred, against an identifiable human group, not just against a religious point of view; it is against that group that his action proposals are directed." Sherman argues that Luther "cannot be distanced completely from modern antisemites." Regarding Luther's treatise, On the Jews and Their Lies, the German philosopher Karl Jaspers wrote: "There you already have the whole Nazi program"). . . .
Martin Brecht in his extensive three volume biography of Luther writes that "an evaluation of Luther's relationship with the Jews must be made." . . .
Brecht ends his evaluation:
Luther, however, was not involved with later racial anti-Semitism. There is a world of difference between his belief in salvation and a racial ideology. Nevertheless, his misguided agitation had the evil result that Luther fatefully became one of the "church fathers" of anti-Semitism and thus provided material for the modern hatred of the Jews, cloaking it with the authority of the Reformer.
[Martin Luther, 3 vols., Volume three: The Preservation of the Church 1532-1546, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), Vol. III:351] . . .
In 1983 The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod denounced Luther's "hostile attitude" toward the Jews.The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in an essay on Lutheran-Jewish relations, observed that "Over the years, Luther's anti-Jewish writings have continued to be reproduced in pamphlets and other works by neo-Nazi and antisemitic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan." . . .
In 1994 the Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America publicly rejected Luther's antisemitic writings, saying "We who bear his name and heritage must acknowledge with pain the anti-Judaic diatribes contained in Luther's later writings. We reject this violent invective as did many of his companions in the sixteenth century, and we are moved to deep and abiding sorrow at its tragic effects on later generations of Jews."
In 1995 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada made similar statements, as did the Austrian Evangelical Church in 1998. In the same year, the Land Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, on the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht, issued a declaration saying: "It is imperative for the Lutheran Church, which knows itself to be indebted to the work and tradition of Martin Luther, to take seriously also his anti-Jewish utterances, to acknowledge their theological function, and to reflect on their consequences. It has to distance itself from every [expression of] anti-Judaism in Lutheran theology."


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Feb 27 2008
Current Obsession(s)
Naked's Blue Machine. Superfood smoothie. Makes me a squirrel on high caffeine a la "Over the Hedge" (Remember Hammy? Yes. Exactly like Hammy) I am pretty sure I am going to overdo this too.. like I am always wont to.
More about Naked Juice.
And Mr. Jeff Fisher, the Titans' coach. The most stylish of all NFL (head) coaches. Thanks NaN for sharing this photo with me.
What is/are yours?
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# Breannaon 28 Feb 2008 at 6:26 am
Jon Gruden is wayyyyy better.
# Non 28 Feb 2008 at 11:36 am
In NFL
obsessed with – none.
likey – Eli & Tom Brady.
Bill Cowher = all purpose eye candy
Tony Dungy = gotta respect him
Ribena is mine


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Video:Profile of Terry Bradshawwith Jamal Andress
Want to learn about the NFL career of Terry Bradshaw? Watch this About.com video to see a brief biography of this noteworthy quarterback.See Transcript
Transcript:Profile of Terry Bradshaw
Hi, I'm Jamal Andress for About.com and today we're profiling NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw.
Terry Bradshaw Basics
He is a four-time Super Bowl champion, two-time Super Bowl MVP and was invited to three Pro Bowls
Bradshaw was born in 1948 in Shreveport, Louisiana. where he played football and did track and field at Woodlawn High School. He chose to attend Louisiana Tech University and in his junior year, led the NCAA with almost 2,900 yards. His senior year saw him throw for only 2,300 yards but he still ranked third in the NCAA.
#1 Draft Pick in 1970 NFL Draft
Bradshaw entered the 1970 NFL Draft and was taken as the number one overall pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers -- with whom he'd play his entire 13-year career. Bradshaw became the Steelers starter in 1971 but struggled early on with interceptions -- over his career he'd throw almost as many interceptions as touchdowns.
Terry Bradshaw and The Immaculate Reception
But in 1972, Bradshaw would be involved in one of the most famous passes in NFL history against the Oakland Raiders. Bradshaw threw a pass to John Fuqua but deflected the ball away from Fuqua. Steelers fullback Franco Harris grabbed the ball out of the air and ran it for the winning touchdown. The play would become known as the "Immaculate Reception."
Bradshaw's Super Bowl Success
Bradshaw led the Steelers to Super Bowl IX (9) in 1975 where they beat the Minnesota Vikings. Pittsburgh would return to the Super Bowl the next year and won again, beating the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl X (10).
In 1978, Bradshaw was named MVP after throwing for almost 3,000 yards and 28 touchdowns. The Steelers returned to the Super Bowl and again faced the Cowboys. Bradshaw threw for more than 300 yards and four touchdowns, including a 75-yard touchdown that tied Johnny Unitas for the longest pass in a Super Bowl. The Steelers won Super Bowl XIII (13) 35-31 and Bradshaw was named Super Bowl MVP.
Pittsburgh would repeat in 1979 when they'd return to Super Bowl XIV (14) and beat the Los Angeles Rams 31-19. Bradshaw would again be named Super Bowl MVP.
Legacy and Accomplishments of Terry Bradshaw
Bradshaw retired after injuring his elbow in a 1983 game. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989 when he was first eligible. When he retired, he held the record for most career yards and touchdowns in Super Bowls. He led the NFL in touchdown passes in 1978 and 1982 and was selected to the NFL's 1970's All-Decade Team.
Bradshaw has been in broadcasting since his retirement. He was with CBS from 1983 to 1994 and has been an anchor and analyst on Fox NFL Sunday since 1994.
And that's a look at NFL Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw. Thanks for watching, and for more information, be sure to check out About.com.


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See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryLine breaks: burn|out
Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːnaʊt/
Definition of burnout in English:
noun[mass noun]
1The reduction of a fuel or substance to nothing through use or combustion.
Example sentences
- After winning the TAFC title moments earlier, Austin's dragster, which he purchased from the estate of the late Gary Ormsby, broke at the start of the burnout in the Top Fuel final.
- He then got the first of his two big breaks in the semi's when Haley had to shut off after his burnout because of a fluid leak.
- Boost velocity control is achieved by burning all boost propulsion stages to burnout, shaping the trajectory to use all the energy, without thrust termination.
2The failure of an electrical device or component through overheating: [with modifier]: an anti-stall mechanism prevents motor burnout
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- He said he understood that at times this was down to the burnout of motors at the reservoir.
- It is proved that high local overheating in the filament region is the cause of local electrical burnout of the devices.
- Electrical burnout of fluorescent lighting ballasts causes the heating and. volatilization of an asphalt potting-compound inside the ballast.
3Physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress: high levels of professionalism which may result in burnout
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- Failure to build in adequate rest into training will inevitably lead to both physical and mental burnout as well as injury.
- Next, so that you don't suffer from burnout by overworking, take time to review and plan each move that you make toward your leaner, meaner company.
- He withdrew from the game entirely before the end of that year, citing physical injuries and personal burnout.
4 [as modifier] Denoting fabric whose pattern is produced by using chemicals to burn away areas of the pile or the fabric itself: burnout velvet a long-sleeved jersey burnout top
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- This top has a classic shape in a beautiful burnout fabric.
- Garments with a burnout pattern tend to be heavy, because of the weight of the base fabric, leading them to drape distinctively.
- Celebs have been spotted wearing burnout pieces in their day-to-day wardrobe.
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Seasonal change in nutrient composition of spotted knapweed and preference by sheep
Ganguli, Amy C.; Hale, Michael B.; Launchbaugh, Karen L. 2010. Seasonal change in nutrient composition of spotted knapweed and preference by sheep. Small Ruminant Research. 89: 47-50.
Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos) is one of the most troublesome rangeland weeds in western North America. As part of a larger investigation evaluating the use of targeted sheep grazing to control spotted knapweed, we examined sheep preference and forage quality of dried spotted knapweed in different phenological stages. We collected spotted knapweed for preference evaluation trials from a sagebrush steppe community near Dubois, Idaho throughout the 1999 growing season and analyzed the plants for nutritional quality. Preference for spotted knapweed was evaluated in a cafeteria trial, where we offered 12 ewes dried and chopped spotted knapweed in rosette, bolting, and flowering/ seedset phenological stages. Nutritional value of spotted knapweed was highest in early phenological stages and declined with phenological development. Sheep readily consumed spotted knapweed in all phenological stages; however, rosette and bolting knapweed were generally selected over the flowering/seedset knapweed. Spotted knapweed consumption was related to crude protein, and neutral detergent fiber content of spotted knapweed, yet consumption was not related to cnicin content, a suspected feeding deterrent. This study suggests knapweed is acceptable forage that has adequate nutritional value during the growing season to sustain wild and domestic ungulates.
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In a time when the venture capital industry has been shrinking, firms need to show how they differentiate from the rest.
Venture firm GGV Capital does this with its joint China and U.S. approach to growth technology investing. The firm is made up of investors in the U.S. and China, with its partners working closely together on deals across the Pacific.
GGV plans to announce Tuesday that it has raised $625 million for the firm's fourth fund. This is actually comprised of two entities: a $520 million dollar fund and a RMB650 million ($105 million) Yuan-denominated fund. The firm's previous fund in 2007 was $610 million. The interest in GGV from limited partners was driven by the firm's string of recent exits, including 13 initial public offerings in the U.S. and China since January 2010. Exits include Buddy Media, Pandora, SuccessFactors and Athenahealth. Other current investments include Square, UCWeb and Qunar.
GGV invests out of one fund, emphasizing shared work among partners with companies, along with shared compensation–partners receive equal carried interest. Another firm with a partners working across the Pacific is DCM, which invests in the U.S., Japan and China. Other U.S. firms, such as Sequoia, Accel, Matrix and IDG, have separate or affiliated funds in China. While some other firms prefer to let largely independent partners handle China, GGV's approach is a shared partnership. "There's an interesting common alignment of incentives," says GGV partner Jeff Richards. "There's just as much incentive for me to help (partner) Jenny (Lee) with her China company as there is for her to help me in the U.S.. LPs also like it because there's not a siloed star system."
GGV's shared China-U.S. strategy means U.S. partners spend four to eight weeks in China each year and China partners do the same in the U.S. The firm also holds quarterly partner meetings that alternate between China and the U.S. The partners spend so much time in the opposite market not just to keep in touch with partners but to share deals. For example, with Buddy Media, which was recently acquired by Salesforce for $689 million in cash and stock, Richards was the partner on the deal, but Lee, based in China, was the "copilot" helping with potential China business. Meanwhile, with China's HiSoft Technology, Lee was on the board, but Richards was helping, particularly with the IPO in 2010. The heavy travel and communication across the Pacific is not easy–perhaps a 20% to 30% "tax" on partners, but that means a 50% better outcome, says GGV cofounder Hany Nada.
GGV's new RMB fund is separate from its dollar-denominated fund, but the firm is still holding to its same strategy. The dollar fund will invest in U.S. and China companies. GGV is adding the RMB fund, which is backed only by China investors, to be able to invest in certain companies that require local, RMB investors.
While U.S. firms often hold Monday morning partner meetings and require overseas partners to dial in at odd hours in their local time zones, GGV holds its meetings at 5pm Pacific time, which is 9am in China. It's an example of how the firm has tried to keep a balance between the two regions and incorporate the China team fully. "My theory is it's the (former) colonial power in China; it brings back dark memories," Nada says. "Waking up at one o'clock in the morning to dial-in isn't what you want to do. The second (China partners) have success you're going to go to LPs. We saw a ton of that with people leaving firms to start their own firms."
Because GGV has close ties with China companies, the firm has been active helping with a number of recent high-profile China mergers and acquisitions. This, despite the fact that mergers are not as accepted there as in the U.S. For example, in March, GGV-backed Tudou (which went public in 2011) and Youku merged, creating the largest video sharing website in China. Nada and Foo also worked closely with Tudou during its merger talks with Youku, Foo says. "Hany and I flew to Hong Kong to meet with the investor group of Youku and the Tudou management team and Gary (Wang, CEO)," says GGV partner Jixun Foo. "We had an agreement at that meeting and two weeks later they announced the deal. That's teamwork." Foo is now the only outside investor in the new company. Nada, a former Wall Street analyst, had previously helped Tudou go public on the Nasdaq in August 2011, which was a tough time for Chinese IPOs.
Foo, previously an investor in Baidu, was also key in Baidu's acquisition last year of GGV-backed travel website Qunar.com. In addition, GGV-backed HiSoft and VanceInfo recently merged, creating a $700 million revenue company. The HiSoft-VanceInfo deal took 19 days (and many all-nighters) from negotiation to public announcement, which is very fast, says Lee. "What's tough is (mergers) are not a well-established trend (in China)," she says. "They can put aside their emotions and personal preferences and come together."
Meanwhile, the China tech IPO market has been hard hit over the past year, even more so than the U.S. IPO market. Still, there are companies that have recently been able to IPO–at least on the China stock markets. But the bar has gotten higher. "The key going forward is you have to be a quality company," says Lee, who opened GGV's China office in 2005 after leaving Jafco.
Over the last ten years the China startup and venture market has changed, Lee says. In the previous five years, entrepreneurs were looking for capital. But in the last several years, entrepreneurs have more options for capital and are looking for investors who offer more. For example, Lee says, when GGV sought to invest in YY.com (which I covered recently), the company was already growing fast and didn't need capital. But Lee and GGV's Hany Nada convinced the company that GGV had experience in gaming–such as backing Xfire, which sold to Viacom for $102 million in 2006–as well experience bringing China companies to the U.S. Now GGV is YY's U.S. investor, helping introduce the management to companies and other key players."The team was hungry for ideas, not capital," Lee says. "GGV's been a strong investor in gaming, from MMOs to mobile and casual platforms. Hany and I convinced the management team of how we thought of the evolution of the business model, not just from a China perspective but also from a U.S. perspective."
In addition to helping China companies come to the U.S., GGV helps U.S. companies explore China. Because China is such a large market, many technology companies are seeking to make inroads, but actually entering the market is not simple. What's next in the China market? Enterprise software in particular is poised for growth. Lee has been active with companies such as 21Vianet (the "Rackspace of China"), HiSoft and China Talent Group, which is like the China version of ADP.
GGV partner Jixun Foo, who previously invested in Baidu while he was at DFJ ePlanet, is actively looking at music companies in China to find the equivalent of Pandora or Spotify. Because the firm invested in Pandora, it has some specific background in the sector. In addition, ecommerce in China, which was overheated in recent years but has now cooled off, is interesting, Foo says. Technology applications for healthcare and financial services are also promising. Travel, where GGV has already invested, still has potential since in China travel is still predominantly for business, but it is moving more towards leisure travel as it is in the U.S., Foo says.
Hany Nada was a buy-side Wall Street analyst with Piper Jaffray for ten years when in 2000 he decided to start GGV. Along with partners Scott Bonham, an investor at Capital Group Companies, Thomas Ng, a venture investor in Asia, and Joel Kellman, a founder of Fenwick & West, Nada raised a $160 million first fund from Piper Jaffray, the Singapore government and others. The strategy was to take a global perspective to growth investing, focusing on the U.S. and China, recognizing the growing impact of China. That approach has put the company ahead of the curve as China's economy has taken off. While the firm invests $5 million to $25 million in mid- to late-stage growth companies, the firm has eschewed the trendy investments in late-stage consumer Internet companies like Facebook that have dropped post-IPO. "We're not momentum investors–we hold stock for five to seven years," Nada says, noting the firm has held Alibaba for almost ten years. The firm helps with the exit process, IPOs, business development, and other of what Nady calls "externally focused" matters. For a firm looking to stand out from the pack, it's a strategy that has worked.


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:Craig Dooley wrote: :> The upcall system of KSE seems like the best way to preempt a process for :> signals. Even though there should only be one message port from what I :> understand, what about 2, and having one do an upcall for things which need :> immediate attention? If im misunderstanding and every time a message is :> receive it jumps to a handler just ignore me. : :The question isn't whether there's one port or two, but what you :do about the signal once it reaches user space. : : 1. Preempt the current thread and start it running the : signal handler. : 2. Preemptively switch to the thread that registered the : handler and start running the signal handler. : 3. Cooperatively run the signal handler in the next : available thread. : 4. Cooperatively run the signal handler in the thread that : registered it. : 5. Preempt the current thread and run the signal handler : in a special signals thread. : 6. Cooperatively run the signal handler in the signals : thread. : :There are advantages and disadvantages to all of these. : :The cleanest way to do it would be for the signal() call request :that signals be delivered to the process's reply port as messages :for the thread that registered the signal handler, and Wait() :would deal with these messages by running them in that thread :when it calls Wait() after completing a signal handler (remember, :userland threads are cooperative, so when Wait() gets that message :that thread *is* in Wait() already, so it only needs to check if :it's handling a signal. : :The downside is that if you're looping and not calling Wait() the :signal handler can be indefinitely deferred. There are a number of :ways to handle this, but they all involve a moderate amount of :bookwork so it's probably best to set that aside until later. Well, we have IPI messaging to consider too, or whatever the IPI abstraction becomes in userland. i.e. for things like scheduling to another cpu, and so forth. This pretty much requires that the userland system be capable of doing the preemption approach. And critical sections would also have to be handled (basically a direct port of LWKT from the kernel into userland, including all the bells and whistles). The 'signal' message might be received during such a preemption, but then what the userland threading system does with it will depend on how the user wants it handled. e.g. queue for later processing, take immediately, forward to another (virtual) cpu, etc. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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Bryan Adams' Hit-Heavy Fox Show
By Jeremy Essig
Lightning Bolt's Sharp New Sound
By Jason Robinson
Fleetwood Mac Back with Classic Lineup
By Hans Morgenstern
Here's Who's Making STL Noisy This Spring
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Beatles Sister Louise Harrison Departs the Midwest
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Working Class Dogs to Honor Rick Springfield
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Torche Gets Back Into Its Heavy Groove With Restarter
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When we started our "Fill in the Blank" interview series back in June, our mission was simply to track down local creatives and give them a platform to speak. We provided open-ended questions, encouraging St. Louis musicians to rant or rave on the subject at hand. When presenting the phrase "The St. Louis music scene could use..." we received some particularly thoughtful responses. While a few seemed content with the usual goings-on of St. Louis music, many were vocal about specific changes they'd like to see.
With a new year now looming before us, we thought it would be worthwhile to compile some of these thoughts. After combing through the answers from six months' worth of interviews, five basic notions were agreed upon: local support, unity, diversity, effort and appreciation. Read on, because this advice rings true for many bands, venues, booking agents and music fans alike, regardless of genre or personal preference.
Local Support
Brothers Lazaroff: The St. Louis music scene could use... more wide-spread support of original local music. There is a strong core of support for local music, between the RFT, KDHX, Arch City Radio Hour, Eleven Magazine, St. Louis Magazine, the Post and great local blogs like I Went To A Show and Jarred Gastreich's Show Me Shows. There are a lot of great outlets for local bands to spread their music. But until there is more of a "support original local music" ethos in the city and suburbs at large, it'll be hard for local bands to maintain momentum and play regularly in St. Louis. Maybe more happy hour and early evening weekday shows would help?
Ultimately, people have to realize that it is worth the energy of getting off the couch for a night and taking in some original music or art. I guess we all fight that inertia, though! St. Louis is a major music city in respects to our history and talent, but we aren't a music-industry town so we have to find a way to create a larger base of concertgoers.
Nicholas Horn (guitar) of Brotherfather: The St. Louis music scene could use... more fans. I don't really know how to make that happen, though. It seems like the bottom line is that St. Louis is a place that's largely dominated by mass culture, and the majority of people aren't interested in hearing much of anything other than what Clear Channel's offering. Luckily, there is a small community of people in town who are very much interested in fostering creative activity, supporting artists in all kinds of different media and generally making St. Louis a more vibrant, interesting place.
Langen Neubacher (guitar, vocals) of the Defeated County: The St. Louis music scene could use... more folks that aren't directly involved in the business following the local music here. The St. Louis music scene is all love between the musicians and venues and artists involved — it's beautiful, but I genuinely believe we've got some local talent that could compete with the best national acts. We need more people outside of our circles to hear us.
Austin (vocals) of Animal Teeth: The St. Louis music scene could use... more unity. It sounds cheesy, but you do not see the same people at a punk show that you would see at a noise show. Give or take [the genres] differ in sound, but one should understand that we are all weirdos and should maybe collaborate on shows.
Jordan Lake (guitar) of Heavy Horse: The St. Louis music scene could use... more unity. Sometimes, it feels like there are multiple St. Louis scenes. I want more a family-like feel across the board.
Philip Lesicko (drums/guitar) of the Funs: The St. Louis music scene could use... more diverse shows. I feel like more people would attend if they were more interesting. I'm not hating on anything, but it seems bleak at the moment. It needs new blood. Suburb kids with a clean slate.
Mister Ben (guitar) of Beauty Pageant: The St. Louis music scene could use... more self-confidence, especially when it comes to weirdness. There's an obsession with paying tribute to indigenous folk music from half a century ago, which the RFT oozes orgasmic love for. I'd rather see more creeps lurking in the corner wielding contact mics, prepared to make utterly uncomfortable noises. Because it's OK, goddammit, to make those noises. You can get away with it here! It's cheap and easy! Maybe we could use a more flexible critical standard, or another beer.
Jeff Robtoy (vocals) of Pillow Talk: The St. Louis music scene could use... more bands that tour consistently, put out records, promote themselves and become recognized on a national level. There are so many crummy bands that are popular not because they are interesting or talented, but because they come from money, a cool part of the United States, or are not afraid to promote their product. St. Louis bands could really be big if they tried a little harder — myself included.
Julio Prato (guitar, vocals) of Kenshiro's: The St. Louis music scene could use... more drive to get outside. St Louis is great, but I feel like it needs a different approach to making it nationally. There's so much fantastic music being made in the city — I wish I could see So Many Dynamos headlining Coachella or something like that. I've gained a lot of respect for the scene because I discovered that I actually enjoy the music quite a bit, so I would like to see those bands propelling themselves into national territory, so that the country starts looking at St Louis and realizing the scene is worth a lot more than what people think.
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Well, I am a bit of a hypochondriac..and by my posts I bet that is no surprise to any of you....anyway, I've been feeling light for awhile now and I always just drank more water and it got worse-
my first thought was "omg this is it- my bp is probably sky high and I'm about to die"...
Anyway, I go take it and with a full blown panic attack (hr at 101) my bp is 104/56. I was feeling less dizzy when I was having the anxiety attack so I'm assuming when I was calm it was lower than that.
Same thing happened today...
my sister suffers from hypo-tension and says the same thing happens to her all the time. She also had the worst experiences with it when she is about to get her period.
Aram is nursing a lot less now that he is 15 months old and I think my hormones are starting to get back normal.
Does anyone have experience with this? It is so weird that I even would have this problem.


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John, Krugman also plays fast and loose with the facts outside the economic realm. He offered this over the weekend on Sotomayor's "wise Latina" speech:
The famous line comes from a speech where she was trying to be entertaining…Have I somewhere along the line said, I'd like to think that bright Jewish kids make the best economists. I probably have somewhere along the line. It doesn't mean anything. …The judicial record shows nothing of this.
In short, this is bunk. The phrase in question was part of a 4000-word speech, published as a law review article months later. I recommend everyone read the speech in full here. This is not a judge yucking it up; it is a serious — and seriously troubling — description of her views on ethnicity and judging. Did Krugman read the speech? Did he talk to anyone present or the judge herself? More likely he is among the Democrats who haven't quite figured out "a single coherent line of defense."
But there is something funny about a fact-challenged economist branching out to new topics for fiction material.


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Pickin' with John and Henry!
Join us this week on Time for the Blues (6/24/12) as Henry and I pick through our blues library in search of "buried treasures!" No, we're not copying a reality show--the stuff we're picking is ABOUT picking! Guitars, get it? Yeah, not one of our best, but hey, the music will be great!