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Gene Editing in Human Embryos
We, both in the church and in broader society, need to think carefully together about how new technology should be used, even as we give thanks for the fruitfulness of modern science, medicine, and technology.
Series: Evolution and Image Bearers (2 entries)
If, according to evolutionary theory, the human species has evolved from non-human ancestors over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, how might we understand humans as uniquely bearing the image of God?
All is Dust and DNA
Jim Stump explores the meaning of the Lenten season from the perspective of evolutionary creation.
On the Evolution of the Imago Dei: Insights from St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas helps us understand how the image of God in man might have developed through evolution.
Through Science to God: Eugenics as Religion
Ted Davis traces the interesting (and often disturbing) history of how Christians have used evolutionary science to justify un-Christian views, and makes some suggestions about a better relationship between science and Christian faith.
How to Build A Bridge: Reviewing "Surprised by Scripture" by NT Wright (Part 1)
New BioLogos content editor Brad Kramer reviews Chapter 1 of "Surprised by Scripture" by NT Wright, and sees Wright's work as a signpost for the future of the science/faith debate.
God as Process Engineer: Creator, Sustainer, Reedemer, and Provider
From a Judeo-Christian perspective, all of these curiosities dovetail into a profoundly meaningful explanation: Being made in God's image helps to explain our creative and investigative skills, particularly when we consider that God has specially engineered this universe to reveal himself to human beings.
New Creation: The Hermeneutic of Love
For Augustine, the literal sense of scripture is not a scientific narrative of physical reality, but a liturgical and poetic narrative of God's awesome power at the dawn of history. This is a vital thread in the story of how to read Genesis.
Christ, Trinity, and Creation, Part 2
Christ is the reason the natural sciences work: he is the source of the laws of nature, and he contains and underpins the natural sciences. Christ is the pattern for all created things, while the Spirit – his presence in the created world – breathes the divine fire into the equations.
Origins News Round-Up for May 28, 2014
This weeks in Origins news: studies of a skeleton uncovered in 2007 provide clues about rapid human evolution in the Americas, our climate and Christian stewardship, a few BioLogos folks give interviews, and some cool links to miscellaneous finds.
Interview with Ronald Osborn
We must press beyond the various creation narratives in the Hebrew Bible, including the final chapters of Job, to the picture of God revealed in the New Testament—the Creator who does not rationally explain away the scandal of suffering but who instead enters into it.
Origins News Roundup for May 14, 2014
This week in our Origins News Roundup: News of new nucleobases, the future of synthetic biology, and some healthy dialogue and critique of certain aspects of modern science.
Origins News Roundup for May 2, 2014
Today's Origins News Roundup features a tour of trending topics in neuroscience, from commentaries and questions made recently by popular media to developments in neuroengineering and the BRAIN initiative.
Still Surprised by Easter
We now take for granted an understanding of the Christian story that was largely worked out by Paul and later theologians. Even though the Gospels were composed after Paul's letters, they were concerned to tell the story itself in all its strangeness as it had been preserved by the first generation of Christians. And what we find in the stories themselves is the shock and wonder and surprise that the resurrection caused.
Interpreting Adam: Introduction
Four Views on the Historical Adam shows that evangelical Christians are far from agreeing on the particulars of Adam and Eve. But this book also makes clear that there is strong agreement among evangelical Christians on the fundamentals of the Christian faith. We agree that all Scripture is inspired by God and authoritative, even while disagreeing on the interpretation of some passages.
Creation Out of Nothing
The key point of continuity between redemption and creation is the idea that the future can be different from the past, i.e., the key is eschatology. More abstractly put, God does new things.
Series: "The Language of God" Book Club (7 entries)
The BioLogos Book Club discussion of Francis Collins' The Language of God.
To Tame the World: What terrifies us about reality pushes us toward its Creator.
We can understand why man, modern man in particular, would like to mop the floors and bleach the walls. We might not be able to tame reality, but we can tame our perception of reality. We intellectualize in order to feel in control.
Series: The Faith of a Great Scientist: Robert Boyle's Religious Life, Attitudes, and Vocation (13 entries)
A deep love for scripture, coupled (ironically) with a lifelong struggle with religious doubt, led Robert Boyle to write several important books relating scientific and religious knowledge. We explore aspects of this fascinating interaction.


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Dec. 17, 2006
KINGSTON, R.I. - Senior center Kaitlin Foley (Albany, N.Y.) scored 16 points on seven of 10 shooting from the floor, to lead the Holy Cross women's basketball team to a 61-54 victory over Rhode Island at the Ryan Center. The Crusaders improve to 5-6 on the season with the victory, while the Rams fall to 1-10 overall.
Rhode Island started the game hot, outscoring Holy Cross 10-3 over the first six minutes of play. The Rams extended their lead to as many as nine points (19-10 with 9:45 left in the half), before the Crusaders rallied with a 7-2 run. Rhode Island was still up by eight (28-20), but Holy Cross scored five of the next seven points to make the score 30-25 at the break.
The Crusaders then came out the locker room on fire, using a 7-2 run to tie the score at 32-32. A few minutes later, Foley converted an old-fashioned three-point play, giving Holy Cross its first lead of the day (35-34 with 16:32 left. The score was still tied at 38-38 with 14 minutes remaining in the game, before the Crusaders used a 6-0 run to take the lead for good. Holy Cross would extend its lead to as many as nine points down the stretch, before finally winning by seven.
Freshman guard Bethany O'Dell (Lincoln, R.I.) totaled 14 points and four rebounds for the Crusaders, while freshman guard Briana McFadden added 13 points and five assists. Rhode Island was led by Safi Mojidi with 12 points, six steals and five rebounds.
Holy Cross shot 56.4 percent from the field on the day (22 of 39), including a 13 of 21 performance (61.9 percent) in the second half.
The Crusaders return to action on Thursday, December 30, when it plays at San Diego in the opening round of the Surf N Slam Tournament.

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The New York Times is caught by surprise. "Unanticipated," (by whom? liberal reporters?) the Gray Lady calls the discovery that "at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials." The Times hastens to assure us that this is Obama's doing — inspiring and trailblazing for Republicans — but hastens to cast gloom and doom on their prospects:
But Democrats and other political experts express skepticism about black Republicans' chances in November. "In 1994 and 2000, there were 24 black G.O.P. nominees," said Donna Brazile, a Democratic political strategist who ran Al Gore's presidential campaign and who is black. "And you didn't see many of them win their elections."
Tavis Smiley, a prominent black talk show host who has repeatedly criticized Republicans for not doing more to court black voters, said, "It's worth remembering that the last time it was declared the 'Year of the Black Republican,' it fizzled out."
Well, far down in the report, the Times lets on that these candidates actually like the Tea Parties and are getting support from supposedly racist, know-nothings (oh, oops, now the media meme tells us they are upscale, over-educated and mainstream Republicans):
The black candidates interviewed overwhelmingly called the racist narrative a news media fiction. "I have been to these rallies, and there are hot dogs and banjos," said Mr. West, the candidate in Florida, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army. "There is no violence or racism there."
And what's more, African Americans, the Times discovers, are attracted to conservative social positions. ("There is also some evidence that black voters rally around specific conservative causes. A case in point was a 2008 ballot initiative in California outlawing same-sex marriage that passed in large part because of support from black voters in Southern California.")
If a batch of these candidates wins — with support from the Tea Parties, no less — what will the liberal chattering class do then? (Cognitive dissonance alert!) You can anticipate the spin. These are not "authentic" African-American leaders, they will say. Harry Reid may point out that they don't sound Black. And the Congressional Black Caucus will be properly recast as the Liberal Congressional Black Caucus (unless the newcomers want to join, which will bring howls of protest from the liberals, who wouldn't want their leftism to be diluted). But the "Republicans don't like Blacks" meme (propounded by none other than the hapless Michael Steele) will take a bruising. After all, they can't all be "inauthentic," can they?


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The Han Bennink 70th Birthday Festival -- Concert and Radio Marathon (April 21, 2012)
WKCR-FM Proudly Presents:
The Han Bennink 70th Birthday Festival
Featuring Bennink in a special 70th Birthday Concert and five-day radio marathon
70th Birthday Concert:
Saturday, April 21 at 7:30 PM (doors at 6:30 PM)
The Italian Academy of Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Advance tickets available here
Radio marathon:
All day Tuesday, April 17th through Saturday, April 21st on 89.9 FM or streaming on wkcr.org
Starting on Tuesday, April 17th on 89.9 FM and wkcr.org, WKCR-FM will commence a five-day radio marathon celebrating the 70th birthday of inimitable Dutch drummer and multi-instrumentalist Han Bennink. With Bennink present for the festivities, WKCR will delve into half a century of his exuberant and imaginative playing on record.
The radio festival will then culminate on Saturday night, April 21, in a live performance at The Italian Academy of Columbia University, featuring Bennink with his esteemed colleagues Mary Oliver, Michael Moore, Thomas Heberer, Richard Teitelbaum, Ray Anderson, Uri Caine, and Mark Dresser.
Bennink is renowned for his dazzling energy and versatility as a percussionist and performer. He excels equally in straight-ahead swinging- as exemplified by his early collaborations with Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, Dexter Gordon, and many others-as he does in the form of European free improvisation, which he helped to found in the 1960's.
Bennink has sustained astoundingly long-lived musical partnerships, including the Instant Composer's Pool (still performing in evolving configurations since 1967) and trio work with Peter Brotzmann and Fred van Hove. He has collaborated with a vast range of international artists particularly in duo settings, but also leading ensembles and backing them as a drummer. Traversing the wide range of music Bennink creates, his unique approach to percussion has often found him playing his chair, various found objects, and his own body. Bennink's visual artwork, often depicted on his album covers, explores multiple media and has been the subject of solo gallery shows in Amsterdam and internationally.
Join WKCR in celebrating Han Bennink's 70 years on 89.9 FM, on wkcr.org, and live in concert. WKCR is a non-commercial, student-run station affiliated with Columbia University.
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Sponsored in part by the Edwin H. Case Chair in American Music, Columbia University


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DoTerra Essential Oil Treatment For:
Broken Bones
Broken or fractured bones can occur anywhere in the body. They can vary from simple greenstick fracture in a child requiring minimal care to crushing injuries involving multiple bones, tendons, and ligaments with complex displacements requiring intense surgery, plates, screws and months of physical therapy. There are a number of types of fractures, we list here just a few of the common types:
· Greenstick Fracture : Bone is not broken completely through the full diameter
· Transverse Fracture : in this the fracture is at a right angle to the bone's long axis.
· Spiral Fracture : in this at least one part of the bone has been twisted.
· Comminuted Fracture : in this the fracture results in several fragments.
· Stress Fracture : It is a common overuse injury. It is most often seen in athletes who run and jump on hard surfaces such as runners, ballet dancers and basketball players.
· Open Fracture : An open fracture is a fracture where the broken bone is exposed. That is dangerous because of increased chances of infection.
Signs that there is a fracture and medical attention should be sought include:
· severe pain, especially with movement of the limb
· swelling
· if there is deformity in the limb or an open wound
· if there is difficulty in moving the injured limb or numbness and tingling indicating nerve damage.
Essential oils of course cannot reposition or splint a fracture but they can hasten the healing process and reduce the discomfort during healing.
DoTerra Essential Oil Broken Bone Treatment:
Rub 3-4 drops of Deep Blue Oil Blend on injured area as needed for pain.
Topically apply 2-4 drops each of Cypress Oil (circulation), Helichrysum Oil (nerve damage, tissue regeneration), and White Fir (anti-inflammatory) to the injured area 2 to 3 times a day.
**If there is ligament or tendon damage add Lemongrass Oil, if there is muscle damage add Marjoram Oil**
Rub 2-3 drops of Lavender Oil on bottoms of feet nightly-if possible- to aid in sleep (proper sleep will help the bones heal faster)
Additional Help:
Diffuse Balance or Serenity Oil Blend in the air to calm nerves.
Take 2-3 drops each of Clove Oil , Ginger Oil, and Oregano Oil in a capsule daily for 10 days, 1x a day (this will avoid infection, however if you do this -also take a probiotic as the oregano oil will also kill the good bacteria)
Take Life Long Vitality Vitamins daily
My husband broke his toe. He whimpered and hobbled around for a while and at the end of the day chose to show me his purplish-black swollen ugly toe. I looked at him and shook my head as I asked why he hadn't used any of the oils. He replied, "OH YEAH! I guess I could do that." He applied oils and within an hour remarked at how the pain was gone and how he should have used the oils immediately. 2 days later he ran a 10k without any problems
-Debbie Huckstep
I am so excited to be able to share this experience with you. I have the "fire in the belly" feeling now when it comes to the oils,` and I will tell you why. Three and one-half months ago I fell while exercising and broke my shoulder. It was not just a "break", but an avulsion fracture. That meant that the muscles supporting the shoulder literally pulled the front bony part of the shoulder up (the fracture) from the force of the fall. Needless to say, I lost the use of my arm within minutes. After the hospital visit and x-rays, we came home to wait for the orthopedic surgeon to see me…in three days!!
We live in a small town. I was in shock and called my daughter-in-law to come help me know what to do. I have gluten intolerance, so the gut issues make it hard to take pain meds. Guess what I had to use? That's right ,the oils. I thought, "This will be a real test." We applied Balance, then lemongrass, then cypress. When I say applied, it was like putting salt and pepper on food. Not just one or two drops, but we shook it on. Immediately I felt better. I began to relax and spent the next few days layering the oils every two to three hours, my arm resting in a sling until the doctor was in. When I got to the doctor's office, he looked at the x-ray, came in and explained that he needed to do surgery to put a plate with six screws in to repair the damage so the muscles would reattach properly. I asked him what my other options were? He said I could wear a sling (the kind you have to wear after surgery) for six weeks. He would x-ray it every week, and if there was the slightest bit of movement, we then would do surgery. I opted for that.
I used the oils frequently, according to how they smelled. If one made me nauseous, I would use another. I used wintergreen for pain, marjoram for muscle repair, lemongrass for ligaments, cypress for circulation, Balance for grounding and the emotions associated with not being able to use my arm. I diffused frankincense, Elevation, and Citrus Bliss to help me be upbeat. I used Deep Blue for everything it can do. I bathed in lavender and cypress. And, the last two weeks I was able to get birch for bone. The power from that single oil was amazing! I added a few drops of helichrysum to the Deep Blue for tissue healing.
Every week I had an appointment with the doctor and every week he said next week we may do surgery, up until the fifth week. At that visit he said, the bone is healed. Let me have your sling. I want you to start physical therapy. He then shook my hand and said I'm really glad we didn't do surgery. WOW! I have my testimony, I have full use of my arm back and I have a fire in the belly about these amazing oils. I cannot NOT share what I know and experienced and I challenge all of you to prove the oils for your own selves.
Karen Merritt


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Upstream Theater's Ancient Mariner Is a Triumph
By Paul Friswold
St. Louis Shakespeare's Blood Reigns Is Fit for a King
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The Rep's Buyer & Cellar Looks Inside Babs' Fantasyland
By Paul Friswold
New Line's Jerry Springer Worth Cheering For
By Paul Friswold
Four Stories Explore Mysteries of Women
By Kelly Glueck
Challenging Gender Roles in Or,
By Paul Friswold
Review: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By Paul Friswold
Parents Lead By Example in Carnage
By Paul Friswold
Newly Reviewed
Damon Freed: Calm, Cool, Coherent Reviewed in this issue.
Louis Cameron: Heineken This digital video loop finds painterly abstraction in the wash of consumer culture. Brooklyn-based Cameron scanned a six-pack of Heineken, elongated the image to maximum verticality, then set it in a perpetual, slow scroll. With its mute, patient and intimate inspection of its otherwise mundane subject, the piece suggests an underlying elegance in the otherwise accosting cacophony of brands, advertisements and products. Through March 29 at the Saint Louis Art Museum, 1 Fine Arts Drive (in Forest Park); 314-721-0072 or www.slam.org. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sun. (10 a.m.-9 p.m. Fri.).
Tony Fitzpatrick: The City Etchings 1993-2003 This series of line renderings of imaginary cartoon icons haloed, Virgin of Guadalupe-style, in carnivalesque heaps of urban artifacts has the intimate, serial quality of daily entries in a notebook and the imagistic content of an illuminated manuscript drawn by a dime-store comic-book artist. With its raw emotional breadth, the work, which negotiates the passing of Fitzpatrick's father, defies this Chicago-born artist's tough-guy persona. The specter of Philip Guston looms large here, manifested in a spirit of wryly internalized loss, Piero della Francesca compositions, and the form of tragicomic characters like hooded Klansmen and blank De Chirico-esque faces. Fitzpatrick adds to this surreal cast with representative symbols of a personally fabled Chicagoland — teetering skyscrapers, water towers and tangles of train track — and that region's immigrant, working-class Catholicism and weather-worn survivalism. Hands clasped in prayer and wrapped in barbed wire float above a clip-art goose or a weeping robot against a shallow backdrop of iron bridges and piled brick. Despite the proliferation of imagistic references, the cumulative effect is honorific, nostalgic and ultimately Fitzpatrick's: a small riffraff world trying to hustle away the irrevocable with the eternal promise of art. Through May 23 at Gallery 210, TeleCommunity Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1 University Boulevard (at Natural Bridge Road); 314-516-5976 or www.umsl.edu/~gallery. Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat.
Funhouse Inaugurating PSTL's new location is this show of point-and-shoot digital snapshots by local writer (and former RFT calendar editor) Byron Kerman. Focusing less on aesthetics than the camera's quick ability to compose, the images extract the comic and ironic from the otherwise mundane by framing instances of the material world inelegantly confronting its natural counterpart, and vice versa. It's ultimately a one-line perspective that would benefit from the immersive suggestion of its title: a gallery-turned-funhouse through the compulsive generation of hundreds of these images, whose yield is, then, a less precious and more complex world-view. Through April 4 at PSTL Window Gallery at Pace Framing, 3842 Washington Boulevard; 314-531-4304 or www.paceframing.com. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat.
Good Friday The second of two group exhibitions celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art features work from the permanent collection that explores "the meaning of suffering, death, compassion, and unconditional love" through direct references to Jesus' last day. The show's explicit focus on the Christian tradition challenges the ecumenical spirit of the institution's identity as an interfaith repository, but one can also take the show as a point of departure for broader expression. It's a fine balance — the blend of faith-based inquiry and the secular standards of contemporary art. The show's strongest works mine this unusual context by being visually evocative, spiritually direct and singularly personal: Michael Tracy's monumental Triptych, 11, 12, 13, for instance, and Adrian Kellard's Lovers and Prayer of the Faithful in Ordinary Time. The latter, who died from AIDS in 1991, explores being a "gay man loved by god" in two eccentrically and emotionally wrought painted woodcarvings that move between the traditionally liturgical and explicitly kitsch in a delicate manner that only this space can entirely honor. Through April 26 at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, 3700 West Pine Mall Boulevard (on the campus of Saint Louis University); 314-977-7170 or mocra.slu.edu. Hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sun.
Ideal (Dis-) Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer This exhibition of canonical canvases of slain martyrs, pious virgins and other grand dilemmas borrowed from two encyclopedic museums and replaced in naturally lit contemporary galleries is a reaffirmation of the human scale. The minimalism of Tadao Ando's building design is diffused by ornate, gilt-framed compositions that date from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, the two historical extremes meeting precisely at the fragile effects of daylight on the predominantly figural pieces. Contemplative and reverent, the show fulfills its premise so well that it seems capable of providing a discretely intimate experience for each and every viewer. Through June 20 at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 3716 Washington Boulevard; 314-754-1850 or www.pulitzerarts.org. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Wed., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat.
Locusts & Honey: New Work by Jennifer Angus In a kind of alchemical transformation, Wisconsin-based Angus pins locust, grasshopper and other bewilderingly large and intricate insect specimens in floral geometrical patterns on the walls of Craft Alliance's Grand Center gallery space, to produce delicately beautiful wallpaper patterns. The effect is something aesthetically marvelous of the purely decorative variety — trumping all the more topical curiosities that the bugs, the process of their acquisition and application and the installation's biblical allusions, evoke. With the other domestic-decorative accents of early-twentieth-century dark-wood occasional tables, jewelry drawers and display vitrines punctuating the space, what remains is a work less about fear, plague and/or bounty than about the peculiar mystery that old Americana holds. Or, more simply, how certain rooms in a home seem to have a spirit and life of their own. Through May 17 at the Craft Alliance Gallery (Grand Center), 501 North Grand Boulevard; 314-534-7528 or www.craftalliance.org. Hours: noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun.
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Upland Habitat scientists are evaluating current vegetation control methods to determine which techniques are best suited to manage flatwoods ecosystems. Treatments under evaluation include chop and burn, herbicide and burn, and burn-only. Study areas include the Apalachicola River Wildlife Environmental Area (WEA), the Caravelle Ranch Wildlife Management Area (WMA), the Half Moon WMA, and the Three Lakes WMA. Quadrants (four-sided sampling areas) and the line-intercept method (used to measure the amount of space occupied by a plant) are used to sample herbaceous and woody vegetation, respectively, in experimental blocks randomly assigned to 12 test plots. Some of the factors used to determine an effective, low-cost treatment for flatwoods systems are: the degree to which the vegetation shades the surface of the ground, the number of individual plants in an area, the amount of bare ground, and the height of the vegetation.
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All saltwater fishing knots have one thing in common they weaken the line theyre tied in. The single characteristic of all good fishing knots is that the degree of the inevitable weakness is as little as possible.
A good fishing knot, properly tied, will reduce the strength of the line by about 20% - a poor one, or a good one tied carelessly, by 50% or more, so it's important to know the right one to use and to be able to tie it properly.
A large part of tying it properly is making sure the line is moistened (accurately applied saliva is good for this) before pulling the knot smoothly together, whilst ensuring that all loops come together evenly so that the entire knot absorbs the forces that will be imposed upon it.
Whole books have been written about saltwater fishing knots. There's more than one knot for any particular application, and theres often more than one way of tying it. But relax - you only need to know one good knot for each application, and the ones you really need are described here.
If you can tie a simple overhand knot, you can tie an arbour knot. Use it to connect your fishing line to your reel spool, or your handline to a yo-yo. This is probably the first knot you'll tie and couldn't be simpler.
If you decided to learn how to tie just one saltwater fishing knot - make sure it's the Uni-Knot!
As one of the easiest fishing knots to tie, and with a breaking strength only slightly less than the line its tied in, you can use it to attach the line to your swivels, hooks and lures (although the Rapala Knot is a better knot to use for lures) and also to join two lines together.
The Braid Knot is the most secure way of connecting a swivel to braid lines.
It's been designed to deal with the special qualities of today's hi-tech braided lines, which can have a tendency to slip when tied with some other knots.
The Snood Knot is the one to use for joining mono to hooks with cranked eyes, where it will hold the hook shank in-line with the hook length rather than allowing it to rotate, as would a Uni-Knot.
Conversely, it shouldn't be used on hooks with straight eyes, as it will hold them off at an angle - use the Uni-Knot for those.
The Dropper Loop (also known as both a blood loop and a snood loop) is designed to stand off from the line at 90 degrees - and therein lies the problem. No line likes a sharp bend like this - it will always create internal stresses resulting in an inherent weakness.
But the version described here is one of the strongest.
The Albright Knot, sometimes known as the Albright Special Knot, is a saltwater fishing knot developed specifically for joining mono line to a single strand wire leader without having to use a barrel swivel at the connection.
Not a dance style from the early sixties as you may first think, the Haywire Twist is the way to connect single-strand wire leaders to lures, swivels and hooks.
To attach your lure to a mono leader of less than 50lb breaking strain, the Rapala Knot is the best way to go. This knot doesn't snug up tight to the lure, but creates a loop which gives the lure freedom to move as its designers intended.
For larger diameter mono, and all multi-strand wire line, you'll need to use a crimped connection.
For a single-strand wire leader, the Haywire Twist is your only option.
Special leader knots are required for connecting the main line to the leader.
And this is not always straightforward.
For instance, the lines may be of two completely different materials, or of very different diameters.
Here's how to tie the Leader Knots you need for connecting all types of line types and diameters.
Just a few knots will meet all your saltwater fishing needs, but
You'll find it next to impossible to tie any of the above saltwater fishing knots in monofilament line much heavier than 150lb breaking strain, and absolutely impossible in any type of wire line.
Crimped connections are the only way to go for heavy mono, nylon-covered wire and cable.
Even crimps wont hold in single strand wire; use the Haywire Twist knot for all connections in this material.
Use it as an alternative to rig tubing to create a reinforced loop in heavy mono line.
Note the requirement for a crimped sleeve to finish it off.
And that, I believe, is all the saltwater fishing knots you'll ever need!
Increase your skill and knowledge with these handy Pocket Guides on the three most vital aspects of hooking and landing fish - baits, knots and rigs.
Being spirally bound they open flat, plus they're waterproof, so they can live quite happily in your tackle bag, in the wheelhouse of your boat or on your bookshelf at home.
They're great reference books; well recommended...
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text: As good as most strength-training moves are for your body, they have a drawback: They tend to work your muscles in a single plane of motion—up and down or forward and back (think biceps curls and lunges). But the way you move every day isn't so straightforward. That's why rotational moves are so valuable. "Twisting or throwing exercises engage more muscles, improve your balance, and build functional, real-world strength," says Tony Gentilcore, a strength coach at Cressey Performance in Hudson, Massachusetts. "Plus, the rotation comes from the core, so you'll gain power and carve flat abs while you're at it." That's a pretty awesome bonus. Complete these moves as a circuit, going from one to the next without taking a break. Then rest 60 seconds. Do the circuit four times.


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Justin Timberlake: Neuer Song 'Mirrors' online
Von Oliver 11. Feb 2013, 16:58
Suit & Tie ist die neue Single von Justin Timberlake und gleichzeitig Vorbote für das kommende Album The 20/20 Experience, das noch dieses Jahr via Sony Music Label RCA Records erscheinen soll. Die Single ist ab sofort bei iTunes verfügbar.
Außerdem schrieb der Sänger noch einen offenen Brief an seine Fans, den wir euch natürlich nicht vorenthalten wollen:
I hope this gets to you the right way. It's the only way I know to do it. Some people may criticize me for the last 3 days. But it was fun, right?? Right?!?! Besides, I'd rather speak directly to all of you. And, who can knock me for having a little bit of fun with it?
Well... No more teasing. Although, it was A LOT of fun. (Did I mention that I'm having fun with this?? Ha!)
*Makes a serious face*
So, here goes:
This year is an exciting one for me. As you probably have heard through the "grapevine," I'm gearing up for a big 2013.
Back in June of last year, I quietly started working on what is now, my next journey with that thing I love called MUSIC.
The inspiration for this really came out of the blue and to be honest, I didn't expect anything out of it. I just went into the studio and started playing around with some sounds and songs. It was probably the best time I've had in my career... Just creating with no rules and/or end goal in mind and really enjoying the process.
What I came up with is something I couldn't be more excited about! It is full of inspiration that I grew up listening to and some newfound muses that I've discovered along the way.
I'm calling it 'The 20/20 Experience,' and it's coming out this year.I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it.That's all I'm giving you for now... I know, I know! Again, with the teasing!!!
Get ready. This is going to be fun (well, at least it is for me).
Update vom 27.01.2013:
Das Album soll am 19. März 2013 erscheinen.
Update vom 07.02.2013:
Tracklist zu "The 20/20 Expierence":
Pusher Love Girl
Suit & Tie
Don't Hold The Wall
Strawberry Bubblegum
Tunnel Vision
Spaceship Coupe
That Girl
Let The Groove Get In
Blue Ocean Floor
Das Cover zum Album ist oben zu sehen.
Update vom 11.02.2013:
Hier gibt es einen achtminütigen Song namens "Mirrors" vom neuen Album:


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The new Quinnipiac University survey out this morning in Virginia spotlights the delicate tightrope President Obama must walk to retain many of the fast-growing, new battleground states that he captured in 2008 - and why Mitt Romney may be better positioned than Newt Gingrich to snatch those prizes from the president.
In 2008, Obama became the first Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to carry Virginia, attracting nearly 53 percent of its vote. In that election, Virginia was a luxury for the president because he also swept the table of Rust Belt swing states like Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota that have often decided presidential elections. But given his difficulties with blue-collar white workers, it will be difficult for Obama to repeat that performance in the Heartland. That could make it a necessity for him in 2012 to carry many of the emerging Sun Belt swing states defined by rapid growth, increasing racial diversity and (generally) high levels of white education - a list that includes Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico in the Southwest and North Carolina, Florida and Virginia in the Southeast. Of all those places, Virginia may be the closest to a tipping point state most likely to decide a close race.
Demography should help the president in these new Sun Belt battlegrounds: given the steady growth of the minority community in those places, the non-white share of the vote in them should be slightly higher in 2012 than 2008. That will likely reduce the share of whites he needs to win those states, even if economic discontent slightly erodes the preponderant share of the minority vote he captured in all of them three years ago. His problem is the share of the white vote he can attract may be declining even faster than the share that he needs - especially in the white working class.
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Please bear with me as I rant.
While stuff like batting orders and Castro's for Hamilton's were a part of our previous manager's ineffectiveness, for me the worst part was bullpen management. Within that, the tendency to change relievers within an inning was particularly disturbing.
Changing relievers in the middle of an inning has the potential to turn bad innings VERY bad, as it usually takes a few pitches for a new guy to get his bearings out there. With runners on base and in critical situations…you can't afford the luxury of one getting away.
Unfortunately, MacKanin has that same tendency, which IMO will only produce similar results.
IMO, there are only TWO good reasons to change a reliever in the middle of an inning (not saying pull starter…but change one reliever for another).
1) Reliever 1 obviously doesn't have it.
2) Reliever 2 provides an IMPORTANT matchup advantage vs. following batters.
Preferably BOTH conditions should be matched.
Which leads me to last night's 6th inning. Coutlangous straightened out his command after walking his first guy in the 5th. He starts the 6th by striking out Aaron Miles, a guy who is very hard to K. So condition 1 is not met. Cout…at 19 pitches so far… is doing fine.
Enter So Tagouchi…lifetime .734 vs LH, .725 vs. RH. Little power…. No big matchup advantage. So Condition 2 is not met either.
BUT MAC brings in Majewski….My guess is he just wanted to get Kepp into the game on the double switch…but its ONLY the 6th inning.
Majewski (who gets no love around here) battles Tagouchi and finally So slices one into the RF corner for a double…bummer.
OK. Now Brendan Ryan (who does hit LH better, but slugged all of .394 in his minor league career)…grounds one up the middle hard. Phillips gets it, but can't make a play. Bummer again.
Majic then proceeds to hit Eckstein loading the bases. Yeah..that was bad.
Now, MAC brings in Everyday Eddie to face Rick Ankiel. Has condition 1 been met? Well…Majic has not been effective…but they haven't been really knocking down the fences either.
And condition 2. Well NO. Take out groundball pitcher (Majic) when a groudball is needed. Bring in lefty flyball pitcher and guess what? Ankiel hits lefties just as well as righties (or better) and did so in the minor leagues also.
We know what happened.
Two unwarranted switches in one inning turn the situation from normal to bad to catastrophic.
Hey, maybe the REDS lose anyway. The probably do. But its this kind of thing that turned the REDS bully from BAD to AWFUL. This is THE recipe for the 8th inning meltdowns we know and love.
On the other hand, why has David Weathers been so effective this year? Aside from pitching well…in the closer role, he has been allowed to work out his own jams.
There is no such thing as 3 up, 3 down middle relief. These guys are going to give up hits and runs. What you want to do is minimize the damage by putting guys in situations to succeed, show them some trust and yeah…pray for the best.


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Bobby Meyers College Writing, Section 017 October 16th, 2008 William Zinsser, a former college student, English professor, and headmaster of Branford College depicts the four pressures on a college student in his article "College Pressures". Four different types of pressure stick out the most: economic, parental, peer, and self-induced pressure. The self-induced phobia: where students are certain that all other pupils are working much harder than they are. Peer pressure: the grade has become the beacon that reflects the journey through college; not intellectual development, or maturing as an individual. Parental pressure: the students conform to parents' wishes, and watch themselves morph into something they're not, just to live up to expectations. Economic pressure: it's not unusual for a student, even if he works part-time at college and full-time during the summer, to accrue an immense amount in loans after four years; loans that he/she begins to repay within one year after commencement (pages 121-127). There are many more sub-pressures below each of Zinsser's four pressures; none more than under "economic pressure." The economy hasn't been helping the cost of tuition recently; college is expensive and costing more every year. ...read more.
I was shaking when I was able to pay off fall semester's tuition cost with only five dollars left in my possession. In this moment, I discovered I was still not ahead. After all, spring's bill comes shortly after the winter. I had three months to save up a substantial stash and was left to fend for myself. My entire schedule's focus shifted from succeeding in school, to paying for school. I worked well past forty hours a week at every chance I could. I found myself donating plasma between classes twice a week. I gave up my lunch hour a few times a week to earn twenty bucks trying new foods from a local company. This method worked for paying off the bills, but it wasn't long before my grades fell. Panic gripped me each time I assessed the situation I put myself in. I took my advisor's advice and implemented a plan to swing my schedule's focus back to my classes. I decided to stick with working no more than forty hours a week, and cut back in other areas. ...read more.
I assumed spending the duration working would help me achieve enough wealth to never again worry about affording school. Although a year of working full-time didn't get me rich, doing so got me past my lowest point of possessing a car, a few articles of clothing, $200 cash, and a negative attitude towards college. I've drastically revolutionized my view of school from being something expensive I have to do, to a necessary task I must complete in order to become what I'm capable of. Though I agree Zinsser's four pressures are significant, for me the most crushing burden is easily the financial pressure. It took much sacrifice for me to put myself through college, but now, I'm ready to reap in the awards. Not only do I have a new outlook on college classes, but I also renewed my commitment to work hard for myself. Money is always a concern for me right now, but I'm hoping my sacrifices will make my college experience more enjoyable someday soon. Though I know the immense fiscal expenditure known as college is worth the investment ultimately, surviving under the financial weight at this moment is a strenuous challenge. ?? ?? ?? ?? Meyers 1 ...read more.
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According to the chief of police department in Pinhais, Marcelo Magalhaes, the UFC star felt offended when a woman called him "rotten" on Twitter.
"Were still investigating to get her name, address and phone," Magalhaes told Globo. "Its a 40-year-old woman who wrote on the internet, in a social media, several phrases, including Brazil will see the idol and rotten that you are."
In an interview with a local radio station, Magalhaes said the woman also called Silva a "s--ty idol."
The process is expected to go to court next. The penalty for this type of crime in Brazil is up to six months in jail, or a fine.


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Capping off a day of full-throated defense of Second Amendment gun rights, conservative commentator Glenn Beck told participants at the National Rifle Association's "Stand and Fight" rally that gun-control advocates "feel they must regulate us until we comply."
To rising cheers, Beck declared: "I will not comply!"
Opponents "think we're silly because we think gun rights are more important than our children. But we actually believe these things because of our children," said Beck, who paced the stage holding up an antique rifle. "Guns save lives. Guns protect homes and businesses. Guns protect our wives and daughters."
For the NRA, its 142nd annual convention has been an exercise in guarding against complacency and mobilizing members to continue the fight, even if the momentum for gun control post-Newtown appears to be stalled.
Under siege
NRA leaders painted a picture of an organization of 5 million members under siege. Prior to the 2012 election, President Barack Obama promised to protect gun owners' rights only to go back on his word in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shooting that killed 20 schoolchildren and six adults, said NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre. The president "launched an historic, all-out attack, a siege on our gun rights," he said.
He envisions the NRA growing to 10 million members and called on those in attendance at the George R. Brown Convention Center to prepare for further legislative battle on Capitol Hill. "They're coming at us with a vengeance to destroy us," LaPierre said. "It's up to us to get to work now with an NRA large enough and strong enough to defeat (all opponents)."
The NRA's expected attacks on Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., were unusually sharp and mocking Saturday. Bloomberg was characterized as the overseer of the "nanny" state. Interspersed among the speeches were videos depicting pro-gun-control politicians in awkward or embarrassing moments, including Biden's off-the-cuff advice to women afraid for their safety to brandish and fire a shotgun.
As the second day of the three-day convention drew to a close, a number of NRA battle cries crystallized as constant refrains:
• The NRA is a "grassroots army, the only thing standing between Obama, Bloomberg and our Second Amendment freedoms," according to NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox.
• The "well-financed Obama-Bloomberg-Biden media attack machine," as controversial retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North put it, unjustly blames the NRA and lawful gun owners for mass shootings such as the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which shooter Adam Lanza took 26 lives with a Bushmaster AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle.
• The solution to gun violence is greater mental health care and pinpointing those with violent potential, greater prosecution of gun crimes and more police and armed personnel in schools. "And for God's sake, let the rest of us alone," LaPierre told members.
NRA speakers focused on imagery of their fight against gun control as a war in which there would be no compromise and no surrender.
The NRA-led defeat in the Senate of bipartisan compromise background check legislation last month was nothing but "a skirmish in a long war (for) our constitutional rights," LaPierre said.
'Peace treaty' mistake
NRA President David Keene, who leaves office Monday, called the defeated compromise a misguided attempt to craft a "peace treaty" as a way of appeasing the gun-control side. "This is a mistake we will never make," Keene said. "We know the stakes. We will never fail you."
The measure's sponsors, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., have talked of reintroducing their measure if and when it appears to have the 60 votes necessary to overcome the filibuster that defeated it the first time around.
The bill would expand background checks to require them at gun shows and for online sales and classified ads. By contrast, the original background check bill by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., would have required background checks for most private gun sales, with some exceptions for transfers between family members, hunters and shooting range members. Schumer accepted the Manchin-Toomey measure as a substitute for his own bill.
Under current law, only sales by federally licensed firearms dealers require submission of a background check request to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, NICS.
On Saturday, NRA leaders made clear that neither version was acceptable to them. The Schumer bill would lead to a national registry of all guns and gun owners in federal hands, they argue, even though federal law requires background checks that "green light" a purchase are destroyed within 24 hours and records of firearms purchases are in the hands of gun dealers, not the federal government.
LaPierre said that the Manchin-Toomey proposal wouldn't have prevented mass shootings in Newtown, Tucson, Ariz., or Aurora, Colo, "and they won't protect the next tragedy."
Olive branch
While convention speakers harangued Obama and other prominent gun control advocates, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, stood in nearby Discovery Park, holding out an olive branch to the embattled organization of gun owners.
"What we're saying to them is, 'Meet us halfway,' " said Jackson Lee. "We're not against the NRA. The only question we're asking this group is 'Can you put down your arms of politics and lift up your arms of reconciliation?' "
Lee, a supporter of the compromise background checks measure defeated in the Senate last month, said she is proud to represent a district in "gun-friendly" Houston. But she pointed to a survey showing 89 percent of Houstonians support expanded background checks.
After the Senate vote, Jackson Lee recalled the dejected looks of Sarah Brady, wife of former press secretary Jim Brady, who was severely wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan, and the parents of children killed in the Newtown mass shooting last December.
"They were being unselfish," she said. "What they believe is that (background checks) would help others. Would that hurt the NRA? I don't think so."


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Privatization: A Viable Policy Option
Haider, S. M., Economic Review
Privatization: A Viable Policy Option
Privatization mainly has become a pragmatic response to budgetary, problems. Economic realities are catching up with history. The centrally planned approach in Pakistan came with the dawn of Independence. The state dominated planned economy showed signs of deterioration during the 1980s. Pakistan has recently shown an inclination to introduce privatization because her budgets will not stand a high level of government expenditure. Privatization has been put on the economic map of Pakistan as a highly visible way of changing the balance between government and the private sector as far as determining where the nation's economic productivity makes the desired improvement. There is a growing feeling in Pakistan that some of the problems that have their origins in high government spending can be solved by moving them away from government into private sector.
Time and time again, experience has demonstrated that human talent, ingenuity and creativity are basic to development. It has also been demonstrated that human talent and endeavour adapt and improve in the presence of appropriate incentives and rewards. Human creativity does not come from machines or buildings or dams or electric typewriters or computers; it comes from people. They have to have incentives and rewards and recognition. Intrigues against talented people and secret efforts to deprive the institutions of the really competent persons by means of leg pulling and factional politics carry us nowhere. This explains the sudden urge for the insurgence of the private sector as a partner, a very important partner, with the public sector, in the developmental process.
Privatization is something specific, something people can understand, something they can deal with; it is the real world. Privatization brings government face to face with the fundamental question: "Is ours a country people want to invest in? If not, what can be done to improve it?"
The objective of privatization is to see that "good things happen". If good things do not happen, nothing solid can be accomplished. The move towards privatization is directed at attaining the requisite accomplishments. It is not an end in itself, rather it is a means to economic betterment for the country. The merit of privatization lies in the fact that state enterprises offer a big opportunity to expand capital markets. It would not be possible to accomplish privatization unless the policy reforms are made to improve the investment climate, to reduce government subsidies and other interference with free markets, and to encourage entrepreneurship.
The global nature of privatization and its acceleration in 1980s are the outcome of the tacit knowledge that socialistic approach to economy can lead to stagnation. Privatization offers the possibilities of raising living standards by introducing competition, which brings about efficiency, lower costs and better services. Privatization has appeared as a quite revolution that is sweeping around the world and around Pakistan. More than fifty countries have engaged in some form of privatization either by selling off state enterprises; or by deregulating agricultural and industrial sectors or by contracting out government services. Since 1981, the trend has accelerated, until now, it now impresses political systems of all ideologies as well as nations at all stages of development.
A principal motivation for the acceptance of the idea of privatization in Pakistan has been an awareness born of budgetary crises that state-run enterprises are usually "white elephants" causing loss of billions of rupees each year. Instead of accumulating surpluses or supplying services efficiently, these enterprises have become a drain on national exchequer. A policy is emerging that the role of the private sector should be enhanced.
Since the Federal and the Provincial Governments in this country are running out of money and the people are disenchanted with the performance of public enterprises, pragmatism is appearing on the national scene. …


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Carl Douglas Burris died at the age of 78 in his home in Columbus, Ohio, on October 19, 2012. He was born to the late Worthy and Ethel Burris on January 5, 1934, in Maggie, W.Va. Carl was a veteran of the United States Navy. He retired after 37 dedicated years from Goodyear Tire and Rubber Plant and Shell Oil in Apple Grove, W.Va.
Carl was preceded in death by three brothers, Worthy, Jr., Larry and Stephen. Carl is survived by his wife Sharon of 58 years; his children and their spouses, Sheree and Floyd Skinner, Steve and Janet Hellner-Burris, Chuck and Betty Burris, Carla and Tracy Singleton, Janet and Scott Ellis; 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren; his brother, Jack Burris; sisters, Betty Crump, Nancy Lee and Kim Burris; and sisters-in-law, Norma M., Norma and Jane, as well as many nieces and nephews, grand nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, October 24, 2012, at Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home in Gallipolis, with Pastor James Ellis officiating. Burial will follow at the Kirkland Memorial Gardens in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Military Funeral Honors will be presented at the cemetery by the Gallia County Veterans Funeral Detail.
There will be a celebration of life gathering following the committal at First Church of the Nazarene in Point Pleasant, W.Va.
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"A great combination of 3 berries and rhubarb, this is the first recipe I've found where the rhubarb isn't too overpowering."
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8 cups
chopped fresh rhubarb
3 cups
white sugar
1 (21 ounce) can
blueberry pie filling
1 (3 ounce) package
strawberry flavored Jell-O®
1 (3 ounce) package
raspberry flavored Jell-O® mix
Used a mixture of rhubarb, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and cherries instead of the all rhubarb (didn't have enough of any of the fruits so used a combination), and used cherry pie filling instead of blueberry. This turned out amazingly wonderful!!! No one has been able to keep their lips off of it and I'm making another batch just one week later! This is reminiscent of the 'fruiti di bosco' jam we fell in love with while stationed in Italy. Update: Running low on Rhubarb I added some frozen cranberries to make up for the tartness - wonderful!
I didn't like the addition of the jello, it added a slightly artificial taste that did nothing for me. I think for someone who likes sugar it would be good, but I can't give this particular jam away. If I had to do it over, I would omit the jello in favour of something not chemically flavoured.
70 Ratings
I first made this last year and it went so fast that this year I did all by shopping at cash and carry so I could buy in bulk and I did up 48 pints hoping it would last all year, NOT! my family puts it on everything and I maen everything. It's my husbands favorite and he tries to hide it from the kids. Who ever thought this up, Thank you from the bottom of my heart, it cans with a hot water bath great
My family loved this recipe. Its a keeper for me. I followed another reveiw and cut the rhubarb in smaller chunks. I cooked for a couple minutes longer than it said. I will be making this again in the near future.
I'm always adapting recipes to meet my personal taste. I added a couple more cups of fresh rhubarb and cut the sugar by 1/2 cup. Then I processed by waterbath for 10 minutes. With these minor changes, it made twelve 1/2 pints of this scrumptious jam. Everyone I've given it to as a gift has raved how great it is! Not too sweet nor too tart. Plus I really like the blend of flavors with the three berries and the rhubarb. Great Recipe!!!! :-)
This jam was very easy to make. I froze it instead of canning it because I don't have a pot large enough for canning. Everyone who has tried it has loved it.
DEFINATELY WORTH MORE THAN 5 STARS! This is an AWESOME jam recipe! I made my 1st batch for my daughters' school staff. (I used 1/2 cup less sugar than called for + add 1 cup strawberries) I only had 1/2 a jar that I was able to keep for myself. I basically ate it all out of the jar that 1st night. The following week I decided to make another batch, this time with cherry pie filling & forgot to reduce the sugar to 2-1/2 cups. I really liked this too, but not as much as the blueberry. To sum up: --Blueberry better than Cherry (but, can't go wrong with either!!!) --3 cups sugar IS a bit too sweet, 2-1/2 cups is PERFECT! --add strawberries for that extra umpf of YUMMINESS! --fast & very easy to make/use up rhubarb (P.S.: Teachers begged that I make it again next year for teachers' gifts.)
This recipe was SUPER EASY to do. And it tastes wonderful. I chopped the rhubarb alot finer than it calls for, but that is just a preference. I would like to figure out how to make it a little runnier too so that it could be made a syrup for pancakes. GREAT RECIPE!!!
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Rhubarb Berry Jam
Serving Size: 1/64 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 64
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 66
Calories from Fat: < 1
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Ind. State Recount Commission to review House District 76 race
The recount of ballots cast in the Indiana House District 76 race between Democrat Bob Deig and Republican Wendy McNamara is complete at the county level, but the final results still are uncertain.
In fact, the Indiana State Recount Commission has yet to determine whether it will approve a full recount.
House District 76 includes all of Posey County and portions of Vanderburgh and Gibson counties.
Currently, McNamara, who already has been sworn in at Indianapolis, holds an eight-vote lead for the seat vacated by Democrat Trent Van Haaften, who made an unsuccessful run for 8th District congressman last month.
Gibson County officials completed going through that county's ballots on Thursday. Vanderburgh and Posey counties finished earlier in the week.
The process now moves on to the Indiana State Recount Commission that will make a final call on votes called into question.
"The recount commission, if there are any disputed ballots, they will hear the arguments on those disputed ballots and make the final determination, said Todd Darroca, a spokesman for Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita. "At the end of the day, the recount commission is the one to make the final determination on the recount itself."
What happened at the county level this week, Darroca said, was merely the first stage of the recount procedure.
"Plenty of reports are saying (the counties) are recounting, but this part of the process is just sorting, making sure they know what ballots are where," he said.
The recount may not be needed.
Today, the state recount commission will rule on a motion to throw out the results of the elections and hold a special election filed by the Vanderburgh County Democratic chairman Mark Owen, who also filed the recount request on Deig's behalf.
Darroca said such claims are made when the losing side alleges "egregious" errors in the election process. In his request, Owen claims there were deliberate actions or a series of actions that make determining a winner impossible.
McNamara's attorney David Brooks said the claim is too vague and does not identify any precincts where supposed irregularities occurred.
"Our position is you got to list some precincts," he said. "Otherwise how can you have a good-faith belief that something happened."
Even if Brooks' dismissal is not granted, the need for a special election will still have to be proven against a high standard.
"It's a very difficult standard to meet to get a special election, and it rarely occurs," Brooks said. "Of the multiple of times people file for contest, only a tiny fraction (of them) ever result in a special election."
Today's meeting, which begins at 2 p.m. in Indianapolis, will be broadcast live on the secretary of state's website, www.sos.in.gov.
The commission will also consider a petition filed in the secretary of state's race between Republican Charlie White and Democrat Vop Osili, which White won last month. Rokita is leaving the post to serve in Congress next year.
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Sophomore Aliyah Zantt
Nov. 16, 2013
Game #3 - Xavier (1-1) vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (1-2)
Game Notes: Xavier Game Notes
Date: Sunday, November 17, 2013
Time: 2:00 p.m.
City: Cincinnati, Ohio
Site: Cintas Center (10,250)
Live Stats: GoXavier.com
Live Video: GoXavier.com
Talent: Mike Schmaltz and Rich Hoyt
Twitter: @Xavier_WBB | @XavierGameday
Twitter Hashtags: #LetsGoX
Current Streak: W 1
Last 5 in 2012-13: 4-1
Last 10 in 2012-13: 7-3
vs. the SWAC: 2-1
vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 1st Meeting
Promotion: The first 2,000 fans receive a team schedule poster courtesy of TriHealth/Post-Game Autographs with Ashley Wanninger and Briana Gladney
Up Next: vs. Longwood - Nov. 21
Xavier, still riding the excitement of a 79-75 overtime win at Michigan on Wednesday, Nov. 13, will return home to Cintas Center to host Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Nov. 17). Tipoff is slated for 2 p.m., as the Musketeers will look to secure their first winning streak of the 13-14 campaign.
Following the UAPB game, the Blue and White will host Longwood (Nov. 20) for the first time in program history. The Lancers return eight letterwinners from a squad that went 14-19 overall (8-10 Big South) and secured an appearance in the 2013 Big South Conference Championship finals. The team's 14 victories marked the most wins in a season for the program since moving to Division I in 2007-08 (16).
The Lady Lions struggled from the field, shooting only 20% in a 76-38 loss to Iowa on Wednesday (Nov 13). The Lady Lions hit only 13-of-63 field goals and shot only 42.9% from the line (9-of-21). In the first half, UAPB shot a frosty 7-of-33 (21.2%) from the field. On the flip side, Iowa shot 51.4%, knocking down 18-of-35 field goals, building a 49-18 halftime lead.
The Hawkeyes cooled to 31% (11-for-35) in the second half, but UAPB remained cold, shooting only 20% (6-for-30). The second half was closer, but the mountain was too high to climb.
Christina Lasane had nine points and seven rebounds to lead UAPB. Carlisha Walker had 11 rebounds.
Since Cintas Center opened prior to the 2000-01 season, the Blue and White are a perfect 13-0 in home openers.
In XU's 79-75 overtime win at Michigan (Nov. 13) they knocked down 11-of-40 shots from behind the arc, marking just the second time the team has made double digit triples in a game since the 2011-12 season.
Season Gms With Double Digit 3's
2011-12 0
2012-13 1
2013-14 1
70's THE MAGIC NUMBER
Xavier has gone 132-9 over the last 12 seasons when scoring at least 70 points, including 3-1 in 2012-13. XU's losses when scoring 70+ points during that span:
- 82-79: overtime loss at Richmond on Jan. 5, 2004
- 74-72: loss to No. 22 Maryland on Dec. 4, 2004
- 76-72: loss at Charlotte on Jan. 3, 2006
- 82-71: loss at Florida to open Nov. 9, 2007
- 72-71: loss to Michigan on Dec. 14, 2009
- 85-75: loss to Louisville on Mar. 22, 2011
- 80-75: double overtime loss to Ohio on Dec. 19, 2011
- 77-73: overtime loss to Appalachian State on Nov. 30, 2012
- 94-88: loss to Ohio on Nov. 10, 2013
Since the 2004-05 season, XU is 49-30 following a loss, including a 7-9 mark following a loss during the 2012-13 season.
Xavier scored 88 points on 28-of-61 (45.9 percent) shooting from the floor at Ohio (Nov. 10). The trio of Shatyra Hawkes, Jenna Crittendon and Ashley Wanninger combined for 64 points (20-of-36).
The 88 points is the highest XU total in a game since scoring 92 points at Saint Louis on Feb. 16, 2011.
On Nov. 7, Xavier Director of Athletics Greg Christopher named Brian Neal head coach of Xavier University's women's basketball team, making him the seventh head coach in program history. Neal had been operating as the interim head coach since Oct. 9, when former head coach Amy Waugh stepped down after a two-year tenure with the Musketeers.
Neal, who spent the last two seasons as an assistant with Xavier (2011-13), will be in his first season as a Division I head coach. Prior to joining Xavier, Neal was head coach of Thomas More's women's program (Division III) for seven years. A graduate of Northern Kentucky University, Neal has also served as an assistant coach at NKU and Wilmington.
Coach Brian Neal and his staff -- assistants Carla Morrow, Bryce McKey and Mark Ehlen, director of operations Garry Horton and video coordinator Brenden Stowers -- have a young team, with eight freshmen and a trio of sophomores on the 13-player roster.
The Blue and White graduated the team's top two scorers from last year's squad. That duo - Amber Gray and Jessica Pachko - accounted for 35 percent (21.1) of the team's scoring and 33.6 percent of the team's rebounding last year. Gray and Pachko, scored more than 1,000 points combined over the previous two seasons. The Musketeers are coming off a season where they advanced to the 2013 Buick Atlantic 10 Championship and earned a No. 7 seed. XU finished the 2012-13 campaign with a 13-16 overall record that included a 7-7 mark in league play.
The Musketeers return five players, including a trio of starters from last year's squad that went 8-8 at Cintas Center. Senior Ashley Wanninger is XU's top returning scorer (9.3 ppg) and three-point threat (53 made triples; .349). Xavier's leader in assists (3.7 apg) and free-throw percentage (.810) last season, senior Shatyra Hawkes, is the other returning starter. Sophomore Jenna Crittendon is coming off a solid rookie campaign where she averaged 6.4 points and 5.4 rebounds and started in 15 of the 26 contests she played in.
XU's other returning letterwinners include sophomores Briana Glover and Aliyah Zantt.
Neal and Company welcome in a huge freshman class (8), which includes Brianna Gladney, Kayla Davis, Maddison Blackwell, Erica Dawson, Leah Schaefer, Martha Thompson, Sydney Neal and Christina Ohlinger.
The Xavier women's basketball program, led by seniors Shatyra Hawkes and Ashley Wanninger, were predicted to finish ninth (20 points) in the BIG EAST Preseason Coaches' Poll. Hawkes was named to the CSM BIG EAST All-Conference fourth team and Wanninger earned All-BIG EAST Honorable Mention honors.
The BIG EAST Conference announced the Preseason Poll and Preseason All-Conference honors on Oct. 16, 2013 at BIG EAST Basketball Media Day at Chelsea Piers in New York City.
The Blue and White's 2013-14 non-conference slate includes four contests against teams that qualified for postseason play, each of which finished the 2012-13 season with a top-55 RPI.
In BIG EAST play, the Musketeers will face each of its nine new league foes twice each as part of the conference's double round-robin format. Four BIG EAST teams appeared in the NCAA Tournament last season (DePaul, St. John's, Creighton and Villanova).
Head coach Brian Neal announced on Nov. 13, the signings of four student-athletes to National Letters of Intent. Jada Byrd (Lithonia Ga./Redan HS), Imani Partlow (Cincinnati, Ohio/Winton Woods HS), Marquia Turner (North Canton, Ohio/Hoover HS) and Kindell Fincher (Fort Wayne, Ind./Canterbury HS) will join the Musketeer program for the 2014-15 academic year.
Blue Star Basketball ranked the Blue and White's recruiting class No. 38 in the country and third in the BIG EAST, while Dan Olson of the Collegiate Girls Basketball Report ranked the class second in the BIG EAST.
Byrd, a 5-10 guard, is rated as a 4-Star player by Prospects Nation and played her AAU ball for the Atlanta Celtics. Named to the 4A All-Region Team as a junior, Byrd averaged 13.4 points, 7.9 rebounds, 3.3 steals and 3.3 assists en route to picking up numerous accolades including, MVP of the Chuck Miller Classic, All-Tournament Team at the Hoopfest Basketball Classic and Team Best All-Around Player (as voted by players and coaches). Byrd has 919 points and nearly 600 rebounds heading into her senior year.
Ranked 162nd and 155th overall by All-Star Girls Report and The Collegiate Girls Basketball Report, respectively, Partlow played AAU for Cincinnati's Finest. The 6-1 forward averaged 18.5 points and 9.5 rebounds last season as a junior.
Turner, rated as a 4-Star player by Prospects Nation, currently plays at Hoover High School after transferring from Canton McKinley. Ranked as the 71st best player in the country by Blue Star Report, the 5-7 point guard averaged 18 points, 4.8 boards, 3.5 steals and 2.2 assists last season. A 2012-13 All-Ohio selection and the 2012-2013 Federal League leading scorer at Canton McKinley, Turner set the Canton McKinley three-point record for single game (7) and single season (52) and currently has 1,007 career points.
Fincher, a 5-11 guard, is ranked 151st in the country by Blue Star Report and played her AAU ball for the Cincinnati Angels. She averaged 18.5 points, on 47 percent shooting from the field, and nearly 11 rebounds per game last year as the Lady Cav's won their second straight Class 1A Indiana State Championship (2012, 2013). A 2013 Journal-Gazette All-Northeast Indiana first team honoree that was selected to play in the Indiana vs. Kentucky Junior All-Star Game, Fincher owns the Indiana state finals record for most rebounds with 19.
Musketeer fans can follow Xavier women's basketball on the program's Twitter (@Xavier_WBB) and Instagram (@Xavier_WBB) accounts and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Xavierwbb.


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Housing Market Not As Healthy As Low End Would Suggest
November 18, 2009
For months now we've been hearing of the housing market picking up, starting with the low end. We've seen a healthy uptick in volume, and even price increases, but we've been skeptical about the durability. The reason being is that home lending by the FHA has filled the vacuum left by the departure of the conventional lenders. The percentage of loans done which are FHA has grown exponentially in the past two years. What's more is that there has been a housing credit propping up the market in much the same way Cash-For-Clunkers did for cars in July and August, and along with low rates, the FHA program provides loans with only 3.5% down.
We're not quite convinced yet and the numbers that were just released, both on housing starts and purchase mortgage apps reveal the weakness.
So let's start with housing starts:
Builders in October unexpectedly broke ground on fewer U.S. houses as the sales outlook darkened with the looming expiration of a government tax credit and mounting joblessness.
The 11 percent plunge in starts to an annual rate of 529,000, the lowest level since April, followed a 592,000 pace the prior month, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. Building permits, a sign of future construction, also decreased.
One month doesn't make a trend, but if you "zoom out" you'll see things are going sideways at best. The positive spin is that population growth will prompt these numbers to eventually pick up, driven by job centers. The areas that fail to create jobs or rely heavily on construction, well they better think of a Plan B.
On the mortgage application front, the numbers are part of the weekly release, but indicate that demand is waining. Mortgage rates are at an all-time low, so the question is how much lower can they go? Not much, so when rates start to move north then demand will fall as people pull away from the market. In addition, refinances will also begin to fall off as well.
Mortgage applications for purchases in the U.S. fell last week to the lowest level in 12 years, indicating the housing market is facing a hurdle with unemployment at a 26-year high.
The Mortgage Bankers Association's index of applications to buy a home dropped 4.7 percent in the week ended Nov. 13 to 210.6, the lowest level since November 1997. The total applications index fell 2.5 percent to 611.7 from 627.5.
We can provide all the tax credits houses we want, but unless we get jobs moving it simply isn't sustainable. What the government is essentially betting (better yet, hoping) is that if they can buoy the housing market until the economy recovers, then they will look like geniuses. That is a big gamble and so far the plan doesn't seem to be working because they forgot about helping people pay the actual mortgages (jobs!), and there is a huge backlog of foreclosures which need to be dealt with. There is also the issue of how well the "permanent" mortgage modifications work out as well.
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nothing to see here. homebuyer tax credit managed to achieve a quarterly pop and people pulled back when they thought the credit would expire. expect these numbers to make an "unexpected" jump in the off season (dec-jan) when builders rush to add some finished supply for the buying season and before the extended credit expires. then it will dip again.


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Why now? Why Amsterdam?
The appetite for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is rapidly growing worldwide. With Gartner predicting that the IaaS market will soon account for a quarter of the overall hosting department, the opportunity seemed ripe to take the next step in our continued global expansion. Amsterdam was the perfect choice when looking to set up our HQ thanks to its central geographic location, which makes it attractive to businesses operating or looking to operate within the EU, as well as its rich infrastructure, its reputation as a high-tech center, and its talented workforce.
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