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CORPUS CHRISTI - n Miller High School Class of 1967 is looking for classmates for its 45-year reunion. Information: Joyce, 361-877-3247 or email email@example.com.
n West Oso Bears all-class reunion begins at 7 p.m. June 8 with a meet and greet and continues at 6 p.m. June 9 with a dinner and dance at the Holiday Inn Airport, 5549 Leopard St. Cost: $50 per person for both days. Price includes T-shirt sizes XS-XL; $5 more for each 2X and larger T-shirt. Registration deadline is May 18. Information: Marshall McCoy, 361-857-7295; Gloria (Ayala) Salazar, 361-774-5300; Jesse Elizaldi, 361-688-2165; and Victor Trevino, 361-739-9702.
n Carroll High School Class of 1972 will host its 40th reunion June 29-30. The Friday event begins at 6 p.m. at Brewster Street Ice House, 1724 N. Tancahua St. Dress is casual. Free to attend, must pay for own food and drinks. Saturday's event is at Don Miguel's Restaurant, 5253 S. Staples St. Cost: $20 per person, includes Mexican food buffet and cash bar. Mail checks to Robby DeLeon, 5406 Hulen Drive, Corpus Christi, 78413. Information: 361-739-2711 or check us out on Facebook.
n Ray High School Class of 1982 will have its 30-year reunion July 13-14. Information: email firstname.lastname@example.com
n King High School Class of 1982 will have its 30-year reunion July 27-29. Information: www.King1982.com or Alisa, 361-993-5826.
n King High School Class of 2002 will have its 10-year reunion 7-11 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Corpus Christi Country Club. Information: Kenedy Hughes, 361-779-5488 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Tickets can be purchased at khsclass2002reunion.eventbrite.com.
n Incarnate Word Academy and Corpus Christi College Academy Class of 1967 will have its 45th class reunion as a joint reunion with classes 1965-71 on Oct. 5-6 at the Holiday Inn Emerald Beach, Shoreline Blvd. Information: IWAandCCAreunion.com; or Vicki, 361-992-3227, email firstname.lastname@example.com; Sharon, 361-877-1144 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
n Ray High School Class of 1962 is planning its 50th class reunion Oct. 12-13 at the Omni Marina Towers Hotel. Information: Marcia Tullos Cable at firstname.lastname@example.com; CeCe Ward at firstname.lastname@example.com or 361-774-9522.
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What would be your competition food for Throwdown on FN?
I was taking a break from all of the primary coverage last night by watching Throwdown on the FN, and it got me interested in thinking about what I would make, if ever he were to challenge me...
What are you known for? What is your best dish that you would happily pit against his?
I think for me, I would like to think that it would be my chocolate chip cookies, or potentially my chicken dinner bars (nope, no chicken in them, still don't know where that name came from)...but, I am not really sure.
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Revenge Season 2: Dead or Alive Spoiler Roundup
Season 1 of Revenge ended in plane explosions and pill popping, which put three of the show's main characters in jeopardy. Show creator Mike Kelley has already promised that at least one of those three will be declared dead come Season 2, and thanks to a plethora of juicy spoilers this summer, we now know who survived and who is six feet under.
Read on at your own risk!
Charlotte Grayson
Status: Alive
What Happened: At the end of Season 1, the distraught youngster downed a bottle of pain pills upon hearing the tragic news of her mother's plane explosion. Faux-papa Conrad ran into the room to find Char passed out on the bed.
Result: It seems Charlotte is still alive, but a little worse for the wear. "Yes, lovely people, Charlotte has survived," actress Christa Allen told us. "When we find Charlotte, in the opening of Episode 1 of Season 2, the addiction is still involved in some way and affecting her."
It's even been said that Charlotte could take a walk in her half sister's footsteps and go down a revengey path. "I think with the amount of harm that's been done to Charlotte, now's about the time she should start getting revenge," Christa added.
Lydia Davis
Status: Dead
What Happened: Lydia was last seen boarding a plane to Washington D.C. to testify against Conrad and Grayson Global. It was later reported that Lydia's plane exploded. This plane was also supposed to be carrying Victoria Grayson, though the two boarded at separate times.
Result: According to Henry Czerny (Conrad Grayson), Lydia "definitely died" in the plane crash. And actress Amber Valletta recently tweeted about no longer being on set, so we doubt Lydia will live on in flashbacks anytime soon.
Victoria Grayson
Status: Alive (Probably)
What Happened: Dressed in a bad ass white peacoat, Victoria Grayson boarded the infamous plane as Florence + the Machine played in the background. The camera cut to what appeared to be a plane maintenance man, but turned out to be the terrifying White-Haired Man. The camera then cuts to a reporter announcing that a flight supposedly carrying Victoria Grayson has exploded.
Result: Every potential Victoria-based spoiler leading up to this season tells us that the Hamptons queen still lives. Though we haven't seen her on set, co-star Josh Bowman has said she's alive, Emily VanCamp declared it "safe to assume that Madeleine [Stowe] will be back," and Christa Allen talked about Madeleine's birthday gift, which we assume puts them together in August.
What do you think of these spoilers? Are you glad to see Lydia gone? Tell us below!
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Florida fisherman may have record with 800 pound shark caught in Gulf
By Heather Alexander : April 21, 2014 : Updated: April 21, 2014 2:22pm
Photo By Joey Polk
Is that a shark in your truck or are you just pleased to see me?! The crew had intended to keep the catch under wraps but the scene at this gas station as they drove home was a bit of a give away.
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Joey Polk with his potentially world record breaking 805 pound Mako shark pulled in off from the Gulf shore.
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The shark was eleven feet long and 805 pounds
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The will hold a total of 4 world records for land based shark fishing once this one makes it to the books.
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Around 200-250 people gathered to eat the massive fish.
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It took a little over an hour for Joey Polk to reel in the fish with the support of cousins Earnie Polk and Kenny Peterson
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It took a little over an hour for Joey Polk to reel in the fish with the support of cousins Earnie Polk and Kenny Peterson
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It took a little over an hour for Joey Polk to reel in the fish with the support of cousins Earnie Polk and Kenny Peterson
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It took a little over an hour for Joey Polk to reel in the fish with the support of cousins Earnie Polk and Kenny Peterson
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It took a little over an hour for Joey Polk to reel in the fish with the support of cousins Earnie Polk and Kenny Peterson
Of the 1,631 miles of Gulf coastline, 350 miles of it belongs to Texas. There's more to it than beach. Here's a look at some of its more interesting features.
Texas family discovers crashed WWII plane on Gulf dive trip"I felt like I was in a movie or a TV show, where you see things that happen and it doesn't feel like it's real," said Kirpach, an art history teacher in Frisco schools. "We've been diving in this area close to shore for years, and it was just an amazing feeling."
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Thousands of healthy starfish mysteriously wash up on South Padre Island
It's only the third time a case like this has ever been reported, the last being in 2009. "These were healthy starfish," said Tony Reisinger, Cameron County Extension Agent for Coastal & Marine Resources with Texas Sea Grant at Texas A&M University.
Photo By Al Jones/Gulflive.comRecord-breaking amberjack caught in Gulf in fisherman's 'rush of a lifetime'"It's one of those incidents that almost looks fake when you see it," said Al Jones of Gulflive.com who rushed down to cover the catch, "It was almost as tall as Don who caught it!" said Jones.
Photo By Dane KellyDivers get a shock in Gulf as Great White shark swims by"It's like swimming with a submarine with teeth," Kelly said. "I mean, it's huge, it's unbelievable down there; it dwarfs everything I've ever seen underwater." According to scientists at Mote, there is at least one other Great White in and around the Gulf and her name is Betsy.
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Florida fisherman may have record with 800 pound shark caught in Gulf
"She was pulling line out of my reel at easily 60 miles and hour. We call that 'smokin' the drag' round here," said Polk who already holds one land-based shark fishing record.
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Scientists amazed by accidental catch of goblin shark
The extremely rare Goblin shark was accidentally caught up in a shrimp net off the coast of Key West, fishermen hoisted the ugly beast back into the water where it swam away.
Photo By Photo by Carl MooreSomething else spotted in that goblin shark photo has Gulf scientists excitedScientists are now studying the photos of a rare and gruesome goblin shark accidentally caught in the Gulf of Mexico after they spotted another unusual deep-sea creature lying with the captured beast on the deck of the boat.
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Gulf fishermen catch pregnant hammerhead, deliver baby sharks on the beach
After a two-hour battle, the anglers finally got the hammerhead to shore where they noticed its injury. Friends looked on in amazement as Campus started pulling shark pups out intact and rushing them to the water so they could swim away.
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50,000-year-old forest of fresh trees found in Gulf
The Bald Cypress forest, protected in an oxygen-free environment for more than 50,000 years, was likely uncovered by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said Ben Raines, executive director of the nonprofit Weeks Bay Foundation and one of the first divers to explore the site.
Artifacts from 200-year-old shipwreck dock in Galveston
The wreck, its identity and origin still unknown, remains in about 4,300 feet of water some 150 to 170 miles off Galveston. "What we have just completed is the deepest documentation, recovery and excavation of a shipwreck in U.S. waters," said James Delgado, one of eight marine archaeologists aboard the Nautilus.
Photo By The Florida Aquarium photoSunken Civil War boat set to become Gulf of Mexico 'shipwreck park'The USS Narcissus is unique among underwater archaeological preserves because it is U.S. government property. Under the Sunken Military Craft Act of 2005, the U.S. Navy will continue to own the ship.
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Scientists exploring Gulf shipwreck discover frozen tar volcano
A team of researchers working at a command center at Texas A&M Galveston saw something that looked like a shipwreck, but as their robot got closer, they realized it was an eruption.
A first for Galveston Beach Patrol: Water rescue of cowRescuers couldn't use a personal watercraft because the water was shallow and the bottom uneven, so instead they walked and paddled out to the cow on a rescue board.
Photo By Chris Paschenko/Associated PressStudy: Tar balls found in Gulf teeming with 'flesh-eating' bacteriaCovadonga Arias, a professor of microbial genomics at Auburn University in Alabama, found that Vibrio vulnificus was 10 times higher in tar balls than in sand and up to 10 times higher than in seawater.
Galveston sees first photos of two historic shipwrecks
The discovery of three historic shipwrecks, most likely from the same event, is so unusual in the northern Gulf of Mexico that just about any information gained from their analysis will chart new ground, said a researcher on the project.
Woman finds diamond ring in Ziploc bag floating in Gulf
"I looked around baffled," she said by phone Thursday from Miramar Beach. "Is this really happening? It felt like something straight out of a movie." Four days after the mysterious find, despite some promising leads, she's still trying to track down the owner.
A Florida man has pulled in an 11-foot, 805-pound mako shark from the shores of the Gulf in what may be a new world record for land-based shark fishing.
Joey Polk from Milton, Fla., spent an hour wrestling the monster onto land last Tuesday night, sometimes with almost 900 yards of line pulled out of his reel.
The mako is the fastest of all sharks and can swim at speeds up to 60 miles per hour, and Polk said he now knows that is the truth.
"She was pulling line out of my reel at easily 60 miles and hour. We call that 'smokin' the drag' round here," said Polk who already holds one land-based shark fishing record.
"(The reel) has 60 pounds of drag on it, it's amazing that these fish can pull it out," Polk said, adding that a person can barely pull out the line by hand.
"When I saw it, I knew it was a big fish. I've been fishing since I was a little kid, but I thought it was maybe 700 pounds or so, then when we weighed it, it came in at 805! It was amazing," said Polk.
Polk's shark is set to beat out the previous land-based shark fishing record held by his cousin Earnie, who caught a 674 pound mako in 2009.
Earnie Polk was there to watch his record get smashed along with another of their cousins, Kenny Peterson, who was charged with roping the shark's tail as the three got it up onto the beach.
The mako was so big it wouldn't fit in the back of Polk's truck, the tail hanging out for pictures as he was filling up with gas on the way home.
It is not the largest catch for this third-generation shark fisherman. His other world record is for a 949 pound tiger shark caught in 2010.
The father of three said he already takes his two daughters, ages 7 and 9, out fishing to follow in his footsteps. His baby son, now just 3 weeks old, will be next.
"The funny thing is, as I left the house to go out that night, I kissed my son and said 'Daddy's gonna catch up a big, big fish tonight,' but I didn't think it would be this big," Polk said.
This is one of only a few sharks Polk and his cousins have not just tagged and released. This one was cooked with a Polk family secret recipe and served for the community, feeding around 200-250 local people.
"We release about 98% of what we catch...we only bring in the ones too injured to swim away," said Polk, who concedes that not everyone agrees with fishing the animals just for sport.
"I do it because I saw my grandfather do it, my father, then my older brothers, then me. I love the sheer power of these fish, to be locked in hand-to-hand combat with a fish that can bite me," Polk said.
Polk and his cousins won't reveal the exact location of the catch for fear the beach would be swamped by tourists and competing fishing crews.


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A Juneau man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing three people late last night at the Super 8 Motel on Trout Street.
The victims were treated at Bartlett Regional Hospital, according to a police news release. Their names and conditions were not released.
Officers say about ten people were partying in a room at the motel early this morning (Friday), when a fight broke out just after 1:30 a.m. A 25-year-old man was stabbed twice in the torso. A 32-year-old man received a 3-inch cut to his right forearm, and a 22-year-old woman had a superficial cut to her left hand.
Witnesses said 32-year-old Charles Alan Abbott was responsible for the stabbing. He and a 23-year-old woman were detained near the motel. The woman turned over a bloody knife to officers, who placed Abbott under arrest.
He's charged with one count of Assault in the 2nd Degree, and two counts of Assault in the 3rd Degree. He was booked at Lemon Creek Correctional Center on no bail.
Police say alcohol was involved in the incident, which remains under investigation.


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Vampire Diaries Season 4, Episode 11: Who Was the Biggest Badass?
There was a lot of running in The Vampire Diaries Season 4, Episode 11, "Catch Me If You Can." Add in a few fire spells, tunnel chases, and Polynesian knife wielding, and you have quite a few contenders for biggest baddest. Let's review.
Stefan (Paul Wesley) broke his brother's neck, bloodletted him, and had some of the best one-liners of the night. Before Damon (Ian Somerhalder) went all somnambulatory, he taught Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) some hunter tricks and did manage to not kill Elena's (Nina Dobrev) little brother.
And speaking of the new vamp, she came up with a plan that just might work — or at least, it might be slightly safer than Jer having to kill dozens of vamps one at a time. She also helped save Matt (Zach Roerig), who conducted himself admirably, considering the circumstances. (Hey, it's hard to run away from vampires!)
Bonnie (Kat Graham) finally stood up to Shane (David Alpay), and it was pretty awesome! But then he used some Jedi mind trick to douse her flames, so he is also a contender. Sorry, Mayor. Your fumbling was less badass.
And we can't forget Kol (Nathaniel Buzolic), who compelled Damon and nearly killed his sister. As for Klaus (Joseph Morgan), he was kind of the don, who simply had to sit back and wait for Elena to ask him for help.
We have to give a shout out to that mysterious stranger, too. He bit off his own tongue and then stabbed himself to death. Morbid and disgusting, yes, but we'd be remiss if we didn't mention him.
Let's hear it! Who was the biggest badass of them all?
Eh, no one was that badass.
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The 4th of July is around the corner so I used a little food coloring to give it a colorful twist -you could do that or add other colors or none at all; just the frosting of your choice.
Step 1: Gather
White frosting in can
Red and Blue food coloring gel
Add a little food coloring (remember to use a clean toothpick to go into the food gel so you don't contaminate it) to 2 little bowls of frosting.
Step 3: Stack
Practice stacking the doughnut halves with one flat half on the bottom and the other half up on top.
Step 4: Stack frosted
Step 5: Frost and Chill
Frost the outside.Put it in the refrigerator to set up for 15 minutes or so- it was 90 degrees in the kitchen when I made mine so it was pretty goopey.
Finally a use for those unfrosted donuts! They are so annoying. Plain donuts!? What's the point!? Ilove it!
Those were always the last donuts left in the box! I agree with @myrrhmaid! Finally as use for the plain donuts!
Excellent idea for a quick, no muss, no fuss cake.
I would put it on it's side and call it a cake yule log for xmas.
Over some excellent cocktails tonight, we discussed and devised countless variations that included Bavarian doughnuts, stacking and turning and the introduction of ice cream. Please- make merry and enjoy the idea of doughnut cake in all its variations (chocolate glazed doughnuts and cream cheese peanut butter frosting?)
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A place of horror: a place of inspiration
To mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, Geoff Dyer recalls how a visit to the site
To mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, Geoff Dyer recalls how a visit to the site
by Geoff Dyer Published
There is nothing special about travel. It's not a distinct activity, just a part of the normal course of living your life. If you don't have a job, then that is all you do: you live your life. Part of that life will probably be spent in - or getting to - the place that for Larkin, the landlocked librarian, remained only a distant possibility: elsewhere.
In 1991 I went to live for a couple of months in that perennially popular, immensely familiar elsewhere, Paris. It was a really miserable time. The apartment I'd rented was a disgusting pit in a boring part of the city - the first arrondissement - and I arrived on 15 July, just as everyone except tourists flees town for the summer. One thing should have compensated for this. Just before leaving London I'd met Anna, an American woman who lived in Paris and was going to be there for the whole of July and August. She was gorgeous: a model, in fact. When we walked down the rue de Rivoli she left a trail of awe-struck men in her wake - and I was sleeping with her! I couldn't believe my luck. Couldn't believe how bad my luck was, because in no time at all Anna and I began hating each other. I preferred my miserable life in my miserable apartment to being seen with this beautiful model.
I'd gone to Paris to write a novel that was intended to be a version of F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, but I made no progress with it. None at all. I couldn't concentrate because I was so miserable. Everything about my life was miserable. I wished I was back home, back from elsewhere. It was the most wretched and wasted summer since records began.
Then, on 5 September, I made a trip to the cemeteries of the Somme. The ostensible reason for going was the scene in Tender . . . where Dick Diver visits the old trenches of the Western Front, but it was something I had always vaguely wanted to do. I wasn't sure exactly where to go, so I took a train to Albert and from there hitch-hiked to places such as Beaumont-Hamel, Auchonvillers and Pozières - names familiar from histories of the Great War. There were plenty of cemeteries, large and small, all meti culously maintained. I hadn't brought a guidebook, but from a map I saw that at Thiepval (not a name I recognised) there was a large British memorial and cemetery. I got there at about two in the afternoon of a perfect, windless day.
The gravity of the place was tremendous. I mean that literally. As soon as I approached I was held by the force emanating from it. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial declares its purpose in words of immense, mossy resonance: smaller letters explain that it is dedicated to the men, more than 72,000 of them, who lost their lives in the Battle of the Somme and whom war denied the honour of proper burial. Every one of their names is listed on the memorial.
To cut a long story short: I abandoned my Paris novel and ended up writing a book about what the Great War meant to me, to us. So, what does this have to do with travel?
We travel to places. Certain places have a special power. Sometimes this is a fluke of geomorphology; occasionally this natural advantage acquires a religious or cultural dimension that can be explained anthropologically or archaeologically. Then there are places - unexceptional in themselves - which become invested with a power because of what happened there. Attempts are sometimes made to preserve, commemorate or reinforce that power. The idea is to help time stand its ground: for the temporal (history) to manifest itself in the spatial (geography).
My question that day was simple: what led me here? But to answer that, I had to ask another: what baggage (cultural, autobiographical, historical) did I bring with me? What rendered me susceptible to the specific gravity of this place?
Travel starts with departing, leaving. This can be exciting (though the threat of terror makes it, as often as not, simply irritating and inconveniencing). En route there will always be incidental pleasures and distractions, and further irritations, but at some point, you hope, you will have a sense of arrival. Akin to what was so conspicuously missing from my abortive summer romance - the experience of meeting someone and falling in love - this feels like destiny. The analogy would seem tenuous, in that the memorial at Thiepval is always there, whereas the chance meeting - at a party, say - that initiates a romance is dependent on a multitude of contingencies. Yet the sense in these circumstances, however serendipitous, is always of a kind of inevitability. It feels, as the saying goes, as if you were waiting for each other. This is exactly how I felt at Thiepval. "It's as though there's a wonderful secret in a certain place and I can capture it," explained the photographer Walker Evans. "Only I, at this moment, can capture it, and only this moment and only me."
It's not unusual for lovers, once they are safely cuddled up in a relationship, to reflect on how one of them almost didn't turn up at the fateful party where they happened to meet. In the years to come, I often found myself reflecting in similar terms about that accidental pilgrimage to Thiepval. What would have happened if I hadn't gone that afternoon? I could, theoretically, have gone another day, and maybe the weather wouldn't have been perfect, but the question actually misses the point: this wasn't just a visit, it was a meeting ("only this moment and only me"), a rendezvous. The other possibility - what if I hadn't gone at all? (not so unlikely; my time in Paris was running out ) - scarcely bears thinking about. I went to the Somme in the midst of a period of complete stagnation and frustration. From that moment on I was revitalised. I had a new interest, a purpose, something to do, something to live for. There was a place for me again.
Geoff Dyer's book "The Missing of the Somme" is published by Phoenix (£9.99)


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DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire men's and women's cross country teams are set to begin the 2013 season with a home opener Saturday, Aug. 31 against Providence and Holy Cross. The women lead the day off, starting at 11 a.m. while the men follow along at 11:45 a.m. The meet will be the only home competition of the season for the Wildcats.
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The women's squad recently received the 14th ranking in the Northeast Region Poll that was released by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). The Wildcats finished second at the America East Championships last season followed by a 13th-place result at the NCAA Northeast Regional meet.
Leading the squad will be senior captains Elise Beattie (Woodstock, Ill.) and Anne Twombly (Exeter, N.H.). For Beattie, it is the second consecutive year that she has captained the squad. In 2011, she finished 10th in the America East Championship while in 2012, she finished as the conference runner up in the 5K at the conference indoor championships with a time of 17:15.62. At the outdoor championships, Beattie finished third in the same event as she broke the plane with a time of 17:31.50. In 2012, Twombly finished sixth at the America East Championships. At the New England Championships in 2013, the Granite State native broke the tape in the 1,500 run, taking gold with a time of 4:29.44.
Additionally, the women's squad contains plenty of depth with multiple experienced returnees, including junior Chelsey Serrano (Manchester, N.H.) who turned in a fifth place finish against Providence (18.30.0) in 2012 and 14th at the America East Championships in 2012. The 'Cats will also look to sophomores Laura Rose Donegan (Melbourne, Australia) and McKenzie Haney as well as senior Cayla Pellegrini (Derry, N.H.).
The men's squad also ran to a second place finish at the America East Championships in 2012 as well as a 21st place result at the NCAA Northeast Regional meet. The team has a core of solid returners, including John Prizzi (Wyckoff, N.J.) who turned in a 12th-place finish at the conference championships in 2012 with a time of 26:01.66. The 'Cats also return junior Sam Gagnon (Hooksett, N.H.), senior Kevin Greene (Silver Spring, Md.) and fellow classmate Joseph Jourdain (Hudson, N.H.), who garnered an 18th-place finish at the conference championships in 2012 (26:10.44).


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Western reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been muted by concerns about the cost of any response. Germany has always been mercantile in its foreign policy—just remember its efforts to erode Iranian sanctions for the sake of short-term profit, even at the time National Intelligence Estimates agree that Iran was experimenting with nuclear bomb triggers. Germany, too, appears to have been the source of much of the chemical munitions Saddam Hussein used in the 1980s against the Kurds. It should not surprise, therefore, that German chancellor Angela Merkel is reluctant to impose biting sanctions on Russia in response to its aggression, for she rightly points out that Russian President Vladimir Putin would respond by cutting off gas shipments to Central and Eastern Europe.
Putin has leverage over the United States as well: Not only might he nationalize the operations of American companies doing business in Russia, but he also effectively holds U.S. military equipment hostage since much of it is being transshipped across Russia as the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan.
While the costs of doing something are high, it's imperative that policymakers also question the cost of doing nothing. For years, a major argument against significant sanctions on Iran was what the result might be at the gas pump. But the idea that the status quo was and is tenable is nonsense: Should Iran develop nuclear weapons, then it would be in a position through blackmail or otherwise to drive up the price of oil even further. After all, who would stop Iran utilizing conventional forces to disrupt oil flow if Tehran boasted its own nuclear deterrent?
The situation is now similar with regard to Russia. There is no doubt that any response will be expensive. But a more important question is what will the expense be a decade down the line should Putin push into the Baltics or should he conclude that Western officials are so craven and such paper tigers that he can conduct pipeline blackmail anyway? Sometimes inaction may seem like the best of all short-term options, but seldom does it pay off in the long term.


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Facebook's Edit Comment Feature is Old News, and It's Still Broken
Did you hear about the new ability to edit comments on Facebook? Turns out, it's not so new.
Enjoying the ability to now edit comments on Facebook? If you didn't already know it, that feature has been around for at-least a year, they just never advertised it. Facebook has tons of stuff that they haven't really made a big deal about until now, since they are public. It's definitely helping their stock price.
The ability to edit your comment is a nice feature. Google+ saw that people wanted to do this, and gave the feature from the start. Facebook has had an edit feature sort of hidden for a year now though. In some cases (and it was very random at times) if you clicked the delete button on your comment before anyone else commented, it would give you the ability to edit your comment. This was only once in a while. Now they have an actual button, but it shows the edits that you have made which is completely pointless in my opinion and makes the feature a bit broken. People make typing errors and then don't notice them until they have posted the comment, this is why the edit feature comes in handy.
Another sort of new feature you may have noticed on Facebook is emoticons in chat. Facebook has always had their own set of emoticons, and various sites had the lists posted for the key combinations to use them. Now almost all of the Facebook emoticons are in that list. There are a few that they left out. Just click the smiley in the lower right hand corner of any chat window. I'm not sure if any of the Facebook Messenger apps either for desktop, Android, or iPhone have this yet.
It will be interesting to see what other features Facebook brings out of the dust as they continue to move along as a public company.


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Gamma Omega Chapter Meets
The Gamma Omega Chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International met October 3, 2009. With president Heather Smith presiding there were 49 members present.
Carolyn Golan read the Mission Statement followed by the Collect led by Patsy Ashorn, Joyce Knolle led the pledge to the U.S. Flag and the Texas Flag, the meditation was read by Lillian Knapheide. Peggy Ueckert and committee conducted a Memorial Service for a valued friend and member, Hazel Wilkening.
The program "People, Passions, Possibilities, Political Will: Do We Have It?" was presented by Burleson County Members.
Music was led by Sandria Strong.
Linda Cavender read the responses of those who could not attend the meeting. Natalie Neumann, corresponding secretary, read the correspondence. Shelly Nies, recording secretary, made available the minutes of the August meeting which were approved as printed. Linda Pinkerton gave the treasurer's repot that was approved and filed for audit. Committee reports included Program of Work and Service Project - Jennifer Mohr, World Fellowship - Grace Holtkamp, Achievement - Melanie Conway, Chapter Scholarships - Sue Wieprecht, Membership - Machie Meyer, Year Book - Gail Schroeder, Legislation - Pat Olney.
Hostesses for the meeting were the Burleson County members. President Smith announced the next meeting will be November 14, 2009 with the Hempstead members serving as hostesses. Members from Lee County were Connie Moss, Trudy Holland and Barbara Webb.


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"Making Gulf Prosperity Gumbo"
Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 10-11:30 AM
- Combine equal parts heritage, culture, healthy ecosystems, green jobs, and a diverse economy, season well, and serve.
Come explore the importance of mixing together a well-done restoration of the Gulf ecosystem and a sizzling and diversified economy to produce a satisfyingly sustainable future for the Gulf of Mexico post-Deepwater Horizon. Gulf-based representatives – aka "chefs" from different sectors - natural resource conservation, commercial /recreational fishing, outdoor recreation, oil and gas, and community development – will weigh in with their perspectives on the most important ingredients for success and answer how to create a sustainable Gulf ecosystem and economy while preserving the rich heritage and culture of the region. Join us for a lively discussion about the ingredients with a group of guest "chefs" as we consider the best way to make "Gulf Prosperity Gumbo". This session promises lively dialogue - meaty and provocative, and it might get a little hot in the kitchen, all of which it is guaranteed to leave attendees feeling pleasingly full yet craving more information.
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Jeanne Nathan, President of Creative Industry, Inc., an economic and cultural development, urban planning and marketing consultancy in New Orleans, as our moderator; and
The moderator and guest "Chefs" for the panel include:
- Patrick Barnes, President of Barnes, Ferland & Associates, Inc., an environmental engineering and hydrogeological consulting firm and Founder of Limitless Vistas, Inc., an organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged young people gain training and job skills in coastal restoration and other green careers, to represent the green jobs sector.
- Dr. Jon Bell, Professor - Extension LSU Agricultural Center Department of Food Science to represent the commercial and recreational fishing perspective.
- Dr. John Kelly; Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Gulfport, Mississippi, representing municipal and local government.
- Randall Luthi, President, National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA).
- Bob Marshall, Pulitzer prize winning reporter and outdoors editor for the Times –Picayune, representing outdoor recreation.
- Jeanne Nathan, President of Creative Industry, Inc., an economic and cultural development, urban planning and marketing consultancy in New Orleans, as our moderator.
- Eileen Sobeck, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks in the Department of the Interior.
Dr. Larry Robinson, Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Management (NOAA) and Deputy Administrator. Dr. Robinson is NOAA's representative to the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, and will provide remarks and perspectives on NOAA's role in the intergovernmental efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the implementation of Gulf Coast ecosystem restoration actions.


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Ever since the Supreme Court ruled last month that Congress must revise the implementation of the Voting Rights Act, we've been getting a steady stream of jeremiads from the left claiming that the restoration of Jim Crow is just around the corner. This is pure bunk since the southern states that were covered by the preclearance map that must be changed have completely abandoned the racial policies that made the act's adoption in 1965 absolutely necessary. African-Americans are not only not denied the right to exercise their franchise, the large number of black office-holders, especially in the state legislatures that craft the laws that govern voting procedures, testifies to the clout of minority voters.
However, the right to vote and even the vast increase in representation in legislatures and the Congress doesn't guarantee that those who claim to speak for minority groups will get their way on every issue. Yet that is exactly what liberal writer Thomas B. Edsall seems to be arguing today in the New York Times when he claims that the "damage" done by the court will lead to a further "decline in black power" in the south. Edsall repeats the usual canards about voter ID laws being the new Jim Crow—a blatant lie that ignores not only the facts about voter integrity laws but also the fact that a large majority of African-Americans support such rules. But what's really dishonest about this Times piece is the way he tries to distort the truth about the impact of the Voting Rights Act.
Edsall isn't wrong when he notes that the gerrymandering of legislative and congressional districts that created all those majority-minority enclaves has had a devastating impact on the Democratic Party. But the responsibility for this shouldn't be placed on the Republicans who have benefited from the draining of likely Democratic black voters from competitive districts in order to manufacture some that are almost guaranteed to elect black politicians. If liberals don't like the way this formula has boosted the GOP, they should acknowledge that the fault lies with liberal jurists who have consistently interpreted the Voting Rights Act in such a manner as to make this the only possible result.
Edsall laments the way the increase in power to black politicians has been accompanied by a consequent decline of southern Democrats. But rather than being honest about the way the 1965 Act led to the empowerment of blacks as individuals, Edsall prefers to heap opprobrium on a Republican Party that has been the unwitting beneficiary of a legal principle created by liberals. It was, after all, a liberal-dominated judiciary that has treated the Voting Rights Act as not merely a mandate to ensure, as it should, that the government see that every citizen's right to vote is protected, but that district lines must be drawn in order to see to it that minorities would constitute a plurality or majority in as many places as possible. That has led to the creation, not just in the South but in various places around the United States, of districts that are geographic absurdities but which serve to guarantee that blacks and Hispanics can elect one of their one to legislative bodies. Since blacks (and increasingly Hispanics) give a disproportionate percentage of their votes to Democrats, that means Democrats seeking to compete in mixed districts are placed at a disadvantage. That's bad news for liberals but claiming that this is the work of nefarious Republican strategists is absurd. If Republicans were to redraw district lines in order to prevent the election of minority members, that would be a clear violation of the law as presently understood.
It should be conceded that the ultimate impact of this court-mandated gerrymandering isn't good for either party or the country. The majority-minority districts have benefited a few politicians and made their communities proud. But it has been this judicial fiat more than partisan impulses that have led to the dramatic decline in competitive House districts around the nation. Republicans would be better off if more of their members had to appeal to a broad cross section of Americans, and so would Democrats.
As for Edsall, he fails to provide a solution to this problem other than to smear the GOP. What, other than creating rules that would make it illegal for people to vote for Republicans, would he suggest to reverse the decline of Southern Democrats who find themselves disadvantaged by court-mandated districts and incapable of appealing to red state voters on the issues? Does he think Democratic attempts to gerrymander in states they control are just as horrible? Given the way the Voting Rights Act has been interpreted, the damage done by this gerrymander mandate is not something any legislature can remedy by constitutional means.
We would all be better off if the parties were not racially polarized, but the left's determination to demonize Republicans and to wave the bloody shirt of Jim Crow in a feeble attempt to further divide the nation is no answer.


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I picked up a T-Mobile Dash a few days ago and let me say up front it's the best smartphone I've ever used. There, I've gotten that out of my system. I've used a lot of smartphones and what led me to the Dash was the response I got from every single person I talked […] [Read More]
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Business travelers in Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and the UK get some good news from T-Mobile concerning roaming data charges. Transmitting data over the T-Mobile network has been an expensive proposition for roaming customers with a charge of GBP 7.50 per megabyte. The newly announced rate cut reduces that charge […] [Read More]
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Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. I had an experience with T-Mobile this morning that still seems surreal and bizarre. I get a lot of OEMs and phone carriers sending me phones to evaluate because of the writing I do here and on other sites. Right now I have four […] [Read More]
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T-Mobile has been beta testing their HotSpot@Home service for a few months and have rolled it out in Seattle, with other cities to be added continuously. What makes the HotSpot@Home service so compelling is it's the first major rollout of UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access), a protocol that lets calls seamlessly (and invisibly) switch between cellular […] [Read More]


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Mind The Baby attended this year's Irish Homebirth Conference were the main theme was waterbirth. Her post is a perfect summary of the main points spoken at the conference, and we want to share them with all of you.
Waterbirth. I remember being very young and thinking to myself that if giving birth in water was so much easier and less painful than without water, then why not every single woman birthed this way? I also thought to myself that I would definitely do this. Not only I haven't, but my birth started with an induction and ended up in a C-section. I wish I knew then all what I know now about labour and birth.
Go to Mind The Baby blog and read the entire post: Labouring and giving birth in water: tips from the 2013 home birth conference
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Christmas Book Pulled From School For Stating Jesus Is White
Source: Alexis Garrett Stodghill / theGrio
It seems that the public's obsession with defining the races of the inscrutable figures associated with Christmas has not abated. The brouhaha over whether Santa is white caused by Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly's announcement on air that he definitely is is still brewing resentments several days later.
Now, a Florida man has demanded that a children's book be pulled from his daughter's school library shelves for stating factually that Jesus is a white person.
The book, The Legend of the Candy Cane, has been removed from a Florida school after a parent complained about both its religious content and its assertion that Jesus Christ is white.
The controversy erupted after first grade students at the DeBary Elementary School in Volusia County were read to from the book in their classroom during a lesson on Christmas traditions around the world.
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July 30, 2015
General Motors says its U.S. sales rose nearly 8 percent last month, led by fuel-efficient vehicles such as the Chevrolet Cruze car.
But GM's increase may not be the norm. Analysts predict that sales of new cars and light trucks in the U.S. rose slightly from a year earlier as few deals and economic worries kept car shoppers home.
Vice President of Sales Don Johnson says unemployment, low consumer confidence and uncertainty over the federal debt ceiling scared some buyers off.
GM sold 214,915 vehicles in July, including nearly 25,000 Cruzes. That could make it America's top-selling car for the second straight month.
Sales of the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain small crossovers rose 80 percent.
GM is among the first companies to report U.S. sales Tuesday.
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Absolutely spectacular views of the St. Lawrence Seaway from the waterfront sites. Just about any of the prime waterfront sites are excellent. I would be wary about the non-prime sites because many had standing water and were very muddy. If you like waterfront camping, this place is perfect. The electric power was the best we've had at any campground. Verizon cell phones work well, but do be aware that you will bounce off Canadian cells and might be subject to roaming charges. The garbage was picked up several times a day. You can kayak or fish directly from your waterfront campsite. Several campers brought their power boats and were mooring them at a small sandy bay near loop A. This is a state campground so their are no water or sewer hookups, but the views are worth "roughing" it a wee bit. We watched many birds: sea gulls, loons, cormorants, osprey and ducks. While in the area, you can travel up to Ottawa which is about 90 miles away and worth the trip. There is very little to do in the area surrounding the campground, but for a few days it is certainly worth the visit. We hope to return next year. - PENNY
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This campground occupies a beautiful location right on the St Lawrence River. My campsite was within 50 feet of the shoreline. The sites are well spaced, but for many the boundaries are unclear resulting in vehicles being parked at a number of odd angles. When I arrived at the park no maps or information regarding park polices were supplied. In addition, park staff wasn't very helpful. When I requested directions to my campsite I was told that "it's right on the point". Considering the price, which includes a $9 on-line registration fee, I've downgraded it. - Al Larson
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ABC News tells us about the Senate Finance Committee report on Tom Daschle's nomination:
The report indicates that Daschle's failure to pay more than $101,000 taxes on the car and driver a wealthy friend let him use from 2005 through 2007 is not the only tax issue the former Senate Majority Leader has been dealing with since his December nomination prompted a more thorough examination of his income tax returns.
Mr. Daschle also didn't report $83,333 in consulting income in 2007.
The Senate Finance Committee Report also notes that during the vetting process, President Obama's Transition Team "identified certain donations that did not qualify as charitable deductions because they were not paid to qualifying organizations. Daschle adjusted his contribution deductions on his amended returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007 to remove these amounts and add additional contributions." This adjustment meant a reduction in the amount he contributed to charitable foundations of $14,963 from 2005 through 2007.
And the President tells us that Wall Street bonuses are "shameful"? At some point, the hypocrisy level must rise high enough for even the most squishy Senators to say "enough." There just aren't any excuses for this. The number of tax cheats and the dollar value of their "errors" is becoming intolerable — at least one would hope.
But, of course, the Senators played dumb with Tim Geithner, accepting the lamest "I forgot" excuse for his tax "errors," and passing him along to oversee the IRS and the U.S. Treasury. Perhaps this latest example of greed and mendacity is finally enough to stop the parade of tax cheats in their tracks. Tom Daschle isn't essential to any pending economic emergency and his tax problems are really beyond the pale.
If the President doesn't have the good sense and good graces to pull the nomination, the Republicans in the Senate might show they have a spine by mounting their first filibuster. Will the Democrats vote cloture and confirm Daschle? Let's see which party embodies the values of ordinary Americans and believes in equal treatment for the powerful and the ordinary taxpayer.
In short, this would be a fine time to test just how new the New Politics are. We'll see if the Senate can manage to figure that out.


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N.C. Secretary of Commerce: vision, variety lead to success
North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Sharon Decker met with local leaders Tuesday afternoon and encouraged them to continue economic development through community revitalization.
Brick Capital Community Development Corporation hosted Decker and leaders from the North Carolina Community Development Initiative at the W.B. Wicker Business Campus for an informal presentation and tour of the building.
"It thrills me to be in this room with all of you because I say that economic development is community work," Decker said.
The state has its role, she said, but it takes a variety of individuals with vision and skills to accomplish successful economic development in a community.
Decker, who was appointed in January, said North Carolina's economy mirrors the state's during the 1950s — still reshaping after the Great Depression. The state, she said, focused on health, education, economic development, infrastructure, environment, arts and tourism.
"As we come out of this recession, we need to focus on these tenets," Decker said. Referring to Brick Capital's revitalization of the Wicker Center, she added, "This model is a perfect example of that happening in your community."
Much important work is accomplished by nonprofits, she said, and the state is in the process of determining how to support those organizations during difficult budget cycles.
"We are talking about a pool of competitive grants for nonprofits in the state and have looked at some of the best practices in other states where this is the approach they've taken," Decker said."My commitment to you is we will figure it out. I don't know what it looks like standing right here, but I know it's important that we maintain our commitment to community redevelopment."
Brick Capital Executive Director Kate Rumely said she was very excited to have Decker at the facility and to learn about the organization's priorities and accomplishments. Decker also toured a similar facility in Raleigh earlier Tuesday, according to NC Community Development Initiative COO Tara Kenchen.


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[dropcap]On Sunday, Feb. 24, the Williamsburg community will come together for an annual dinner to raise money for the American Cancer Society (ACS).[/dropcap]
The John Randolph/Mark Ellis Memorial Dinner will be held at the Williamsburg Lodge and will feature chefs from some of the area's premier restaurants. David Everett, executive chef and owner of the Trellis, will prepare the appetizer; Chef Justin Dallinger of Kingsmill Resort will provide the salad; Chefs Rhys Lewis and Anthony Frank of Colonial Williamsburg will prepare the entrée; and Chef Tony Rizzo of Two Rivers Country Club will craft the dessert. The chefs and their respective restaurants are donating all of the food, time and staff involved.
The event was created in memory of John Randolph, a former athletic director at the College of William and Mary who died in 1995 after a three-year battle with lung cancer. Those who knew John portray him as a joyous, funny and outgoing man of conviction and compassion.
His widow Maynard Randolph, who lives in Williamsburg and attends the dinner every year, describes John as a "fantastic father" to their two children and a person of great commitment who, to give one example, was a runner who ran throughout the last 13 years of his life "without ever missing a day."
It was John Randolph's assistant athletic director, Bobby Dwyer, who rallied friends and colleagues to create the first fundraising dinner in 1996, with all proceeds donated to the ACS.
"John hired me in 1985 and I am forever indebted to him," says Dwyer, now head of fundraising for William and Mary athletics. "He touched a lot of lives on and off campus, and his memory lives on through this dinner."
Among the regulars attending the dinner year after year were John Randolph's friend and oncologist Dr. Mark Ellis and his wife, Lynn Ellis. As the director of Riverside Health System's cancer program, Dr. Ellis founded the Peninsula Cancer Institute, which has offices in Newport News, Williamsburg
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After Ellis lost his own battle with cancer in 2010, Dwyer and fellow dinner committee members approached Lynn and asked her for permission to include Mark's name on the event.
"It was nice for the committee to think of Mark, to add his name to the dinner," says Lynn, who has recently written a book about her husband's life and work. (Read about the project online at thehealthjournals.com/2012/04/lynn-hamilton-ellis.)
Now in its 17th year, the event has raised has raised more than $150,000 for the ACS.
A reception/cocktail hour precedes the dinner, and besides a few words from Dwyer thanking guests, there is no official program—leaving guests to enjoy table conversations and, of course, the fabulous food. "You'll come, see friends, meet people and have a wonderful meal," says Dwyer, describing the night as simply "elegant."