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18. December 2012 05:19
Hark! It's that time of year when Christmas songs haunt every grocery aisle, all department store racks, and every last media outlet. You can't escape it. But luckily, not every jolly melody is ho-ho-horrendous. There are some classic tunes that will never go out of style (unlike the scarf you just bought your sister-in-law). So, in case you couldn't make up your mind about which songs will help you deck the halls and which will have you running from the malls, here's a short list of the top 5 best and worst holiday tunes:
1. White Christmas – Bing Crosby
This classic song sung by Bing Crosby goes down in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling single of all time – and that's saying something. The tune reminisces of old-fashioned, idealistic Christmases, and Crosby easily transports us to such snow-capped settings with his deep melodic voice.
2. The Christmas Song – Nat King Cole
First subtitled "Merry Christmas to You," this 1946 classic has become the most-performed Christmas song of all time. (In 1974, Cole's original version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame – so it's good. Really, really, really good.)
5. December 2012 13:28
There are two important things to remember about gifts: 1. They are most loved when they are things that people think are too extravagant to purchase for themselves. 2. They always look more expensive when nicely wrapped. So this holiday season, when you're stumped about what to give someone at work who you've said less than 5 words to or are conned into attending your boyfriend's-sister's-friend's holiday dinner party, keep in mind these fabulous gift options. Each one is easy to locate, available in every price range, and somehow, looks incredibly thoughtful when gifted.
There's a reason why bakeries stay in business. With gifting sweets, you've got your selection of artisan truffles, cupcakes, selections of gourmet chocolate bars – anything goes. And really, they will go. Fast.
Gourmet Foods
Fact: everyone eats food. So, try and find gourmet options to bring to the table (literally). Look for authentic olive oils, imported balsamic vinegar, and top-shelf honeys. And don't be afraid to fill a basket with an assortment of teas, coffee, and possibly a mug. It's cute, simple, and a great gift.
Coffee Table Books
Oversized books are great gifts because they make any subject intriguing. So while you may not know your recipient well – if at all – it'll seem like you do. Check out this list to get a few good ideas of which page turners to schlep to the gathering.
20. November 2012 06:12
We understand that people like different things. After all, that's why there's such a variety of cuisines in the world (for which we are grateful). But there's a plethora of recipes that, for one reason or another, appall the masses – many of them for Thanksgiving turkeys. So this November, give your guests something to be extra thankful for by not serving any of these birds.
The More the Merrier
Hope you've brought your appetite! The extravagant True Love Roast is comprised of 12 different birds – turkey, goose, chicken, pheasant, partridge, pigeon squab, Aylesbury duck, Barbary duck, poussin, guinea fowl, mallard, and quail – along with an array of different stuffing mixes. At 50,000 calories and 50-ish pounds, this impressive arrangement of protein serves 125 people. Take that, Turducken.
13. November 2012 07:41
During times of loss, it's often really hard to figure out what's appropriate as a gift – especially when someone's just lost a spouse. You don't want to evoke painful memories with something overly sentimental, but at the same time, you do want to gift something meaningful. While it is tricky to decide what's right, there certainly are gifts that are perfect for the occasion. Here are some tasteful ideas to get you started:
People often send flowers to express their sympathies. But while flowers are indeed beautiful, they also die. The whole point of a sympathy gift is to make them feel better – not to remind them of death. This is why an actual plant is a better option than flowers. The most popular plant for such occasions is the Peace Lily, but others like yellow rose plants, gardenias, and Calla Lilies are also great choices too.
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This isn't just us being biased. You know how when you're sick you really don't want to exert the effort to cook anything more complicated than canned soup? Multiply that by a million and you'll be close to understanding what the widow or widower is dealing with. This is why gift baskets are great. They offer good food without the hassle of going to the grocery store. The best baskets are those that include quick meals, snacks they can eat right away, or items that last a fair amount of time – like muffins or nuts.
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Birds and animals, in many media and forms
"Animals: Forces of Nature," Frank Gallery, 109 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, through Sept. 8.
"Flight," Craven Allen Gallery, 1106 ½ Broad St., Durham, through Sept. 14.
Dogs, cats, sheep, cows and most other domestic animals, as friend and subjects of humans, are the theme of an art exhibition at Frank Gallery. Birds, much more independent of us than the four-footed animals, are the overriding subject at Craven Allen.
According to Torey Mishoe, Frank's gallery director, Sudie Rakusin and Nerys Levy, the curators of the animal show, specifically asked the artists to celebrate the animals, not to get into the politics of animal rights. At the beginning of the show, in a written introduction, the curators acknowledge animal abuse but tell us this show honors the animals and, in that way, hopes to raise awareness that these creatures have their purpose and deserve to live on our planet with the same dignity as the human race. At Craven Allen, curators Kathryn DeMarco and Bryant Holsenbeck invited artists to visualize flight, with no other parameters.
The Chapel Hill show is filled with images of all sorts of animals in oil and acrylic, prints, photographs, ceramics, glass and fiber. In Durham, it is mostly birds, realized in paint, collage and clay.
Among the photographs at the Frank are Jerri Greenberg's "Morgan, Alzheimer Companion," an image of a tiny, hairless dog being held gently by two gnarled, wrinkled hands; Peter Filene's double exposure "Jumping in Central Park," 2003, in which a dog jumps high for a Frisbee against a view of the ice rink at Central Park; and John Rosenthal's "Cat in Cornfield," 1979, a ghostly white cat striding forward out of a desiccated corn field. I did a double take, however, when I saw Alan Dehmer's photograph "Hand of Man." Seen from behind, a horse has lifted his back right foot and aimed it at the man's bent over rear end. While I am silently saying "yes!" Mishoe tells me the man is shoeing the horse's hoof.
Nerys Levy creates her animals in her iconic abstract style; porpoises entwine, cats curl up and uncurl, and sheep graze knee-deep in a field. There are Alex O'Connor's birds and the Dalmatian "Polly" and Raskusin's drawings of women out of the romantic past with their chosen guard animals. Louise Franke covers the animal world with her special brand of humor. Special fun is "Manet's Golden," a wonderful take on the bar maid of Edouard Manet's "A Bar at Folies Bergere," 1881-82.
Rounding out these artists' offerings on delightful members of the animal species are Susan Filley's birds perched on top of ceramic tea pots; especially charming is the poised Blue Footed Booby. And so the exhibition is a showcase for charming, sweet, docile and wonderful animals.
In Durham, birds soar, perch in collaged splendor to the sides of trees, settle swathed in multi-colored fabric on platforms and pull small vehicles in service to humans. One artist, Harriet Bellows, sees flight as abstract form; her personal background includes 30 years as a professional pilot and she writes in her gallery statement that as she traveled between air and ground she found it became a platform for her abstract paintings.
Every image is about the beauty and independence of birds; humans are rare in these objects, which suggest birds' abilities to defy gravity make them superior to humans.
Holsenbeck has chosen the crow, considered the most intelligent of all the birds, and fashions them into three-dimensional mixtures of fabrics with beaks made from shards of vinyl records. DeMarco's birds are a collaged lot; some are brilliantly colored woodpeckers, others are finches, sparrows and bluebirds. Paul Hrusovsky gives us painted crows, Matt Tomko paints super realistic owls and Cathy Kiffney offers ceramic plates covered with bird pictures.
Jean LeCluyse's drawing of a lone twisted tree where birds nest and swarm suggests a narrative from an old western where someone lies dying in the extreme heat and the birds wait.
Larry Downing works in clay and uses his birds to escort small-wheeled vehicles. In "See Bird" a small bird tries to balance a life boat which sits precariously on a curled shell. Luna Lee Ray's diptych of birds soaring over a background of found papers and large letters of text again celebrates the independence of birds over humans, gravity and nature itself.
Both shows are all about our perception of animals and their relationship to the human family; the artists have missed their chance to tell the dark side of the story. There is no doubt paintings or drawings about the inhumane way chickens, pigs and cows, just to name a few, are grown and slaughtered may not sell, but at least a show with a political point is what the art world must do from time to time. These shows brought to mind the art of internationally renowned British artist Sue Coe (b. 1951), who has worked for 25 years producing drawings and paintings for many causes; the inhumane treatment of animals is high on her list.
Not all artists want to use their art to take a political side, but as part of the art community we should encourage those that do and provide a platform for their work to be seen.
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AUBURN, Mass. – Four Auburn Boy Scouts will achieve the highest rank in scouting this weekend.
Auburn Boy Scout Troop 121 will hold a court of honor ceremony for four new Eagle Scouts on Saturday at North American Martyrs Church, 8 Wyoma Drive.
Andrew Hutner, Benjamin Nelson, Christopher Seaman and Matthew Seaman, all 18, have earned the highest rank in scouting in the last year and will be honored at Saturday's public ceremony.
"Earning the Eagle Scout rank represents years of hard work, strength of character and persistence," said Michael Lavallee, Troop 121 committee chair. "It shows real responsibility and years of dedicated effort. They have a deep respect for the community, and it shows that they are leaders."
Lavallee said the scouts earned several badges and ranks before achieving the Eagle Scout honor. They also had to complete an Eagle Scout service project before earning the highest rank.
"They're respected by peers and adult leaders, and they've dedicated their services to churches, homes, communities and schools."
Hutner's project was a book drive to benefit Auburn Youth and Family Services. Nelson completed a beautification project with flower boxes at the Auburn Public Library.
In addition, Christopher Seaman's project was a food drive to benefit Auburn Youth and Family Services, as well as Kateri's Kitchen at North American Martyrs Church. Matthew Seaman did a beautification project at Faith Baptist Church, redoing the cabinets for the church.
Lavallee said only 2 percent of Boy Scouts nationwide achieve the Eagle Scout ranking. This year, Troop 121 will have 5 Eagle Scouts out of its 30 Boy Scouts, a 17 percent rate.
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After seven grueling years of trying to get pregnant, countless fertility treatments, and immeasurable heartache, Angela and Brian finally received the news they had longed for—they were going to have a baby.
Angela and Brian, who conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) after trying nearly every fertility treatment in the book, were absolutely elated. The road leading them to this joyous point had been a long and bumpy one—one that, at times, put an immense strain on their marriage.
"We literally tried everything, and the stress of the treatments was the worst stress of all," Angela says. Although the process was a harrowing experience, Angela said she'd do it all over again. "Every single second was worth it to hear the nurse tell me on the phone that we were pregnant. Every single second."
Angela and Brian are not alone—6.1 million couples in the United States have difficulty conceiving, according to the National Women's Health Resource Center (NWHRC). That number represents 10 percent of childbearing-aged couples.
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Before embarking on fertility treatments, you and your spouse should brace yourself for an emotional roller coaster ride. "If there is an emotion on the planet and in our bodies, we felt it—happiness that we had a great marriage, sadness when things didn't go as we hoped, fear that it would never happen or that we were doing something wrong, frustration at the situation, and anger," says Angela. "We also went through a strong feeling of confusion as to whether we should go further with fertility treatments and 'play God' with nature."


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MADISON — Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a petition under the state's sexual predator law against an Adams County man. The petition, filed on August 15, 2014, in Adams County Circuit Court, alleges that Herbert E. Droste (12/26/1951) is a sexually violent person and should be committed for treatment. A probable cause hearing is scheduled before the Honorable Charles A. Pollex on August 29, 2014.
Chapter 980 of the Wisconsin Statutes relates to the control, care, and treatment of sexually violent persons. Under Wisconsin law, a person may be subject to a civil commitment when the person has been convicted of a sexually violent offense, has a mental disorder, and is dangerous to others because the mental disorder makes it likely he or she will commit further acts of sexual violence. A civil commitment is defined in Wisconsin law as commitment to the custody and care of the Department of Health Services for control, care, and treatment until the person is no longer considered sexually violent.
According to the DOJ petition, on July 23, 1981, Droste was sentenced in case 80CF66 to not more than 20 years imprisonment consecutive to case 80CF65 for his conviction for Second-Degree Murder in Adams County. He also was sentenced on July 21, 1981, in case 80CF65 to 15 years imprisonment for his conviction for First-Degree Sexual Assault. An additional count of Second-Degree Sexual Assault was dismissed and read-in at sentencing in 80CF66. Droste was scheduled to be released from the Department of Corrections on August 19, 2014, but will be detained at a Department of Health Services facility to await further proceedings on the petition.
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Alrighty now. Let's everybody just take a deep breath and relax.
Here is what we know: The SEC has decided to stand pat for the time being, and won't invite Texas A&M into the conference -- for now.
And just so you know: Whether the SEC had issued an invite to the Aggies -- or if it happens down the road -- the world is not going to hell. College athletics as we know it will not come to an end. It will not be further evidence that the sport we all love, college football, is nothing but a money grab by people wearing expensive suits.
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But it will reaffirm both a basic principle and a basic flaw of college football.
The principle: That, at the end of the day, every institution has a right to self-determination. Texas A&M is currently a member the Big 12 conference, not the National Football League. It does not have to subjugate its mission, either academically or athletically, to a larger body unless it chooses to do so. Conference membership is voluntary. The conference serves the collective needs of the institutions. The institutions do not serve the conference. They cooperate, they consult, and they compromise, but they do not serve.
The Texas A&M folks rightfully ask: "So it was OK and made sense when Nebraska jumped to the Big Ten and Colorado went to the Pac-12? Those were portrayed as good decisions made in the best long-term interests of those institutions. There were no sinister motives involved or inferred. But when we consider it, we're charged with being petty and destroying college athletics as we know it? Seriously?"
If Texas A&M does wind up going to the SEC, it will be fine. It would establish a new identity and be able to offer students and athletes a different experience than the rest of the state's institutions. The motivation for making a move is really irrelevant. The president and the Board of Trustees will believe it is in the best interests of the university. End of discussion.
Texas A&M staying in the Big 12? It will be fine. Yes, there will be criticism and Aggie jokes, and Gov. Rick Perry will wonder why he played the SEC card to a crowd in Birmingham on Friday night. So what? Texas A&M, as a institution, explored an option and it didn't work out. Life goes on.
Having said all that, this exercise again highlights a major flaw in the basic structure of the sport.
You'll recall that back on April 4, our maiden voyage together on CBSSports.com, I laid out five things I felt were necessary to get college football out of the ethical ditch that it has been in for a while.
I return your attention to No. 2:
2. Create a commissioner of college football. My CBS colleague Tim Brando has been saying this for years, and he's right. Somebody needs to be in charge for the good of the entire sport. On cases like Cam Newton and the Ohio State Five, the commissioner has the last word. He or she will have zero tolerance for cheating (and there is a difference between cheating and breaking the rules). Only a strong commissioner, backed up by the presidents, can bring the risk-reward for cheating back into balance.
Others, like Pete Thamel of the New York Times, have written about the fact that at times like this, there is nobody who is looking out for the health and well-being of college football as a whole, making sure the enterprise isn't damaged as schools pursue their institutional self interest.
Everybody seems to want to beat up the conference commissioners when, in fact, the commissioners are doing what their presidents empower and instruct them to do. Commissioners look out for the best interests of their conferences. It's not the job of SEC commissioner Mike Slive to look out for the Big Ten. That's Jim Delany's job. It's not Delany's job to look out for the Mountain West. That's Craig Thompson's job.
If you want to change the behavior, you have to change the structure. If NCAA President Mark Emmert wants to get a handle on some of the excesses of college football, then go to the presidents and sell them on the idea for a commissioner of college football.
Would it be easy? Nope. Commissioners like their power and wouldn't want to give up even a little bit. You would have to have somebody with enough gravitas to keep from getting run over by some very strong personalities. Here are my five recommendations. For obvious reasons, no current commissioners were considered:
1. Michael Tranghese: The former commissioner of the Big East used the power of his leadership to manage an unwieldy 16-team conference and held it together when everybody said it would collapse. Instant credibility.
2. Jack Ford: Former Yale football player, scholar athlete, lawyer, and author who has done a little of everything and been successful at it all. Knows and loves the game. Superb intellect.
3. Gene Corrigan: No-nonsense former commissioner of the ACC. Once summoned basketball coaches Dean Smith (North Carolina) and Rick Barnes (Clemson) to his house and read the riot act to both of them. Not afraid to look any commissioner in the eye and tell him he's full of it.
4. Roy Kramer: Former SEC commissioner and godfather of the BCS. One of the great visionaries in the history of college sports. Led SEC expansion and the creation of the first conference championship game.
5. Kevin Weiberg: Former commissioner of the Big 12 and current deputy commissioner of the Pac-12. He also worked at the Big Ten for 18 months. Very respected by his peers. Perfect temperament for a job like this.
Those are my five. Do you agree that college football could use a commissioner? If so, let's see your nominations.
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Caring for a loved one with mental illness can be a difficult journey.The Mentor Program is designed for family members — mentors and caregivers — bonded in a way like no other by the mental illness of a loved one. Caregiving, in general, presents challenges to most families who are holding down jobs, raising children, and taking care of their own needs and health. When caregiving also encompasses mental illness those everyday responsibilities are added to tasks that are daunting, frustrating, and often overwhelming.
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By Paul C. Barton / Gannett Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - With Obama Administration missteps seen as emerging scandals by some and generating bipartisan outrage among many, members of the Tennessee congressional delegation offered their own outcries Tuesday.
Rep. Phil Roe, R-Johnson City, said the controversies could move Obama from lame-duck status in his second term to "dead duck" status.
House Republicans, Roe and other Tennessee members said, are determined to get to the bottom of all three situations - shortcomings in security last year at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya; the Internal Revenue Service singling out conservative political groups and making them answer exhaustive questions about their operations; and the Department of Justice secretly obtaining phone records in 2012 of journalists working for the Associated Press.
"What in the world are they doing (snooping on) phone lines at the Associated Press?" Roe said, emphasizing it was a blatant attack on freedom of the press.
"I think they are all three serious (situations)."
Republican Sen. Bob Corker said that while many Washington controversies fail to capture the public's imagination, questions about the propriety of IRS actions are totally different.
"I think this is chilling," Corker said. "This is a very serious violation of the public trust."
"We have had Tennesseans and Tennessee groups who have felt they were targeted by the IRS," added Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Brentwood, while declining to name some. "The cover-up mentality that has taken hold is completely inexcusable."
Rep. Diane Black, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said she was looking forward to the start of committee hearings Friday on the IRS situation.
In a statement, Black said she would "not rest until the full scope of the Internal Review Service's corruption is uncovered, the guilty parties are held accountable, and actions are taken to ensure that this never happens again. I will be demanding answers from the acting Commissioner of the IRS and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration."
Not all of the outrage was Republican.
"The IRS should never target Americans for their political beliefs. We must investigate who broke the law and punish them," said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville.
About monitoring phones at the Associated Press, Cooper said, "Forcing the AP to disclose sources is deeply troubling, particularly since legal safeguards were not apparently followed."
But in regard to Benghazi, the Democrat said he saw some troubling political games.
"I hope the result of the Benghazi hearings will be safer diplomats and a wiser foreign policy, but today it looks more like a game of gotcha," Cooper said.
But his Tennessee Republican colleagues said the administration brought the Benghazi questions upon itself by attempting to minimize the situation for political advantage.
"Most people in their heart of hearts believe the administration slanted the situation because there was an election," Corker said.
"I want to understand when somebody is going to be held accountable."
Roe said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remains too defensive about the situation.
And Blackburn said she still wants the answer to such questions as "who gave the stand-down order."
Meanwhile, Roe and Blackburn were not the only ones predicting the multiple story lines would be costly to the administration in its effort to advance its agenda.
"These (investigations) are going to take a lot of time," Corker said.
And even though Democrats, not Republicans, control Senate committees, Corker said he and other GOP senators would lobby for hearings on that side of the Capitol.
Corker, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, began the process last week when he and other GOP members sent a letter to Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. and committee chairman, asking for a hearing related to some of the latest information to surface about the Benghazi situation.
"We're going to keep working with him," Corker said, adding that he hopes public outcry will persuade Senate Democrats to hold their own investigations into the assorted controversies.


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The sexual behaviour of international travellers at two glasgow GUM clinics.
International Journal of STD and AIDS
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A survey of patients attending 2 Glasgow genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics was conducted in 2 3-month periods in 1993 and 1994. Three hundred and twenty-five attendees who had travelled abroad in the preceding 3 months completed anonymous self-administered questionnaires about their sexual behaviour during these recent journeys abroad. There were 112 women and 213 men (185 heterosexuals and 28 homosexuals). Twenty-two (19.6%) women, 56 (31%) heterosexual men and 13 (42%) homosexual men had a sexual contact with a new partner while abroad. Of those who had had a new sexual contact abroad, 11 women (50% of those who had sex with a new partner) and 33 heterosexual men (59% of those who had sex with a new partner) were inconsistent users of condoms. Analysis of data, found that homosexual and heterosexual men, and business including HIV infection, and should be targeted with safer sex health promotion prior to travel.
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Is David Miliband set for a shadow cabinet return in 2014? [1]
The former foreign secretary "is beginning to give serious thought" to a comeback.
The former foreign secretary "is beginning to give serious thought" to a comeback.
by George Eaton [2] Published
When David Miliband was last asked whether he could join the Labour shadow cabinet before the next election, he replied: "You never know". Today's Times (£) [3] suggests that the former foreign secretary, who guest-edited [4] the NS last year, "is beginning to give serious thought to a return to the front line." The paper reports that "an emerging scenario would see him return to the Labour front bench next spring."
The return of the elder Miliband was originally seen as a means of shoring up support for Ed among the party's Blairites, but Miliband's recent political successes (the Budget, his "one nation" conference speech, the Corby by-election) mean this is no longer a factor. He would now be able to bring his brother back from a position of strength. The return of the former foreign secretary would add heft to a shadow cabinet that is short of big hitters. Since retiring to the backbenches, Miliband's interventions - on the economy [5], on the NHS [6], on multiculturalism [7] and on the crisis of the European centre-left [8] - have been among the most impressive from any Labour MP.
The question remains "what job would he do?" After Ed Balls revealed that Ed Miliband had refused to guarantee [9] his position, the Times reminds us that the Labour leader has twice sounded out his brother about becoming shadow chancellor, once before appointing Alan Johnson and once before appointing Balls. However, it is hard to see Miliband moving Balls, whose stock remains high, before the next election. Having served as foreign secretary for three years, Miliband will have no desire to shadow William Hague (a brief Douglas Alexander has performed admirably in). More likely is his return in some election campaign role.
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Worcester, Mass. - Senior Mary Beth Ryan (Holden, Mass.) has been selected to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District softball first team.
The outfielder is familiar with the honor as she was named to the second team last season. She represents the first team this season with a 3.83 grade-point average and will graduate with a degree in history. Selected as the Valedictorian for the Holy Cross Class of 2005, in addition to being chosen as the Crusader of the Year, Ryan has been named to the Dean's List every semester and has earned Patriot League Academic Honor Roll accolades three times. She has also served on the NCAA Reaccredidation Committee and the Student Advisory Council, while taking part in Holy Cross Cares Day and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
On the field, the two-year team captain holds several records for the Crusaders, including career at bats (559), career hits (179) and single season slugging percentage (.544). She is second in many season categories, including at bats (150), runs scored (31), doubles (12) and stolen bases (10), while being second in career runs (84), career stolen bases (40) and career batting average (.320). This season her .384 batting average ranked her at third all-time on the single season charts, while her 10 stolen bases ties her for fourth. Over the course of her career, she posted a .402 slugging percentage (fourth all-time), and has received All-Patriot League honors three times.
Holy Cross was one of three Patriot League teams to have a player named to the first team. Ryan was joined by Lindsey Gerheim of Army and Erin Hanna of Colgate. In order to be selected, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletic credentials and at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).


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DURHAM, N.H.-The University of New Hampshire men's ice hockey team will hold its annual Alumni Weekend on Aug13-14.
On Sunday, Aug.13, former UNH players will take part in two Alumni games beginning at 4 p.m. at the Whittemore Center Arena. In the early game, players from the 1960s and '70s will square off and players from the '80s and '90s will face off at 6:30 p.m.
Admission to the Whittemore Center for the games is free. Some former Wildcats expected to play are Ralph Cox, Tim Burke, Bruce Crowder, Mark Mowers, Domenic Amodeo, Andy Brickley and Eric Royal.
Alumni Weekend activities continue on Monday, Aug. 14 with the annual Friends of UNH Hockey Golf Tournament. This year's tournament proceeds will directly benefit the Charles E. Holt Scholarship Endowment. More than 200 players - including several former players - are expected to tee off at both Cochecho Country Club in Dover and Pease Golf Course in Newington. Players tee off at Cochecho at 8 a.m. and at Pease at 8:30 a.m. with a reception to follow at Pease.


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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Monday, July 21, 2014
Adaptive Activities
at McCarren Play Center (in McCarren Park), Brooklyn
1:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
A sampling of adaptive sports. An excellent opportunity for adults and seniors with disabilities to play and learn modified sports.
Category: Accessible, Sports
Adaptive Walk NYC
at McCarren Play Center (in McCarren Park), Brooklyn
2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Category: Accessible
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival Presents National Lampoon's Vacation
at Bryant Park Lawn (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
5:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
See classic films under the stars.
Category: Festivals, Film, Free Summer Movies
SummerStage Presents: New Songs of Justice: An Evening Honoring Pete Seeger featuring Amanda Palmer / Anti-Flag (acoustic) / Toni Blackman / The Chapin Sisters / Rebel Diaz / Steve Earle / Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion / James Maddock / Mike + Ruthy /
at Rumsey Playfield (in Central Park), Manhattan
6:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Hip hop, Indie-rock, punk and folk artists committed to social change will come together to honor musician and activist Pete Seeger.
Category: Concerts, Free Summer Concerts
Family Drumming: West African Drum and Dance
at Indian Road Lawn (in Inwood Hill Park), Manhattan
6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Join us for a 10-week drum and dance class. All ages are welcome to learn the traditional drumming and dancing unique to West Africa.
Category: Dance, Fitness, Outdoor Fitness
Shape Up NYC's Couch to 5K: Group Run
at Lefferts Historic House (in Prospect Park), Brooklyn
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Join us for our new running group in Prospect Park on Mondays!
Category: Fitness
Outdoor Strength
at Pier 6 (in Brooklyn Bridge Park), Brooklyn
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Take a strength-training class with aerobic intervals in and around the park with local studio, Brooklyn Strength.
Category: Fitness, Outdoor Fitness
Books Beneath the Bridge: Joanna Rakoff & Emma Straub
at The Granite Prospect (in Brooklyn Bridge Park), Brooklyn
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
This free summer literary series features outdoor readings curated by local, independent bookstores, will begin on July 7 at 7 p.m.
Category: Art, Talks
Flicks on the Beach: Iron Man 3
at West 10th Street (in Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk), Brooklyn
7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Flicks on the Beach, now in its fourth year, screens movies on the Coney Island Beach near West 10th St. This year's movie line-up includes critically-acclaimed…
Category: Film, Free Summer Movies
2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series Presents Anthony Hamilton
at Wingate Park, Brooklyn
7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Enjoy the soulful sounds of Grammy-Award winning artist Anthony Hamilton, under the stars.
Category: Concerts, Free Summer Concerts
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A "hot spot" is a site where anyone with a computer or other device with Wi-Fi capability can browse the Internet for free using the District government's wireless network.
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Perforated brickwork, an open-air living space and a roof covered in palm leaves are among the traditional methods used to improve the climate inside this house in Vietnam (+ slideshow). More »
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ALBUQUERQUE -- Midwives, doctors, mothers and members of the Jewish community gathered downtown Tuesday to protest a pro-life campaign that calls abortion the "Holocaust in Albuquerque."
Operation Rescue advocates recently assembled outside the Holocaust Museum in downtown Albuquerque with signs reading, "ABQ: America's Aushwitz" and comparing late-term abortion to the genocide of millions of Jews during World War II.
"It's an inappropriate venue to discuss women's healthcare," said Katie Stone, one of the rally's organizers.
Doctors and advocates also told KOB Eyewitness News 4 they were getting threats from pro-life groups trying to stop late-term abortion in the city.
Organizers of the "Rally to Denounce Terror" said the timing couldn't have been more perfect for the rally, considering the Albuquerque city clerk's office announced Monday night that voters would not see a late-term abortion ban on October's ballot.
Operation Rescue said they sent the clerk's office a petition with more than 27,000 signatures. The clerk's office verified more than 9,000 signatures, but said they ran out of time to count the rest.
Voters could still decide on the ban through a special election, but that would cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"People shouldn't want to abort a baby, that's a life," said Victoria Hicks, a pro-life supporter who believes it should be up to voters to decide on the ban.


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Neely-Kinyon Research and Demonstration Farm
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The Wallace Foundation was formed in 1990 to enhance agricultural research and education for southwest Iowa. A donation of a 160-acre farm in Adair County by Wayne and Margaret Neely in 1994 established the Neely-Kinyon Research Farm. The farm is managed as a satellite of the Armstrong Research Farm.
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Gently to strongly sloping well-drained loess soils characterize the area. Predominant soils are:
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The farm is an innovative working farm that researches and demonstrates alternative agricultural approaches that are environmentally sound and have a positive impact on the community.
Organic crops. A 17-acre block of 40 quarter-acre plots is dedicated to organic research. Plant, soil, pest, grain quality and economic performance of organic and conventional systems are studied.
Soils. The topography of the area makes soil erosion, cropping rotation and tillage research important. There is ongoing monitoring of soil quality for the organic research study.
Livestock. Researchers study sustainable livestock production. Studies include winter grazing of stockpiled forages and cornstalks, rotational grazing of dairy heifers and pasture improvements.
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The SPDR S&P BRIC 40 ETF (BIK) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 375,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 57,000. Shares of BIK were trading flat on the day.
Components of that ETF with the highest volume on Friday were Baidu (BIDU), trading up about 8.9% with over 8.2 million shares changing hands so far this session, and Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR), up about 1% on volume of over 6.8 million shares. Yandex (YNDX) is lagging other components of the SPDR S&P BRIC 40 ETF Friday, trading lower by about 1.6%.


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From October 11, 2014 11:00 am until October 11, 2014 12:00 pm Save to calendar
At Swartz Creek-Perkins Library
Posted by Kim Haden
Categories: Special Event , Animal Program , Children of All Ages
This outdoor program includes fabulous facts on horses, cowboy lore, and a beautiful, miniature horse named Raggs. (He's smaller than a great dane!) A great program and photo opportunity for the whole family.
This program is also available at our Davison Area & Montrose-Jennings libraries.


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This is a pretty easy word game. You start with a five letter word and the next poster changes just one of the letters, in that word to make a new word. The next poster than does the same with the new word. etc;
I am editing the rules of the game here and further ahead. You can change the order of any of the letters, as long as you come up with a new word, by dropping one letter, and adding a new letter. for example first can become fires.
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Mother of man slain at a Forestville nightclub organizes protest
Tomorrow at 10 a.m., Tracy Cooper and a group of concerned citizens will show up at the office of P.G. County Executive Rushern Baker and attempt to convince him to shut down Forestville's CFE events center . Cooper's son, George Cooper, 25, was fatally stabbed inside of the club in the early hours of August 22. In February, Cooper filed a 10 million dollar wrongful death lawsuit against both P.G. County and the club's owners. She wants the place closed for good.
"The goal on Wednesday is to shut down the CFE," Cooper says. "It has been an ongoing goal for us, and I'm just happy that folks are starting to come on board in support of our actions. There is strength in numbers, and I hope that Rushern Baker and the people in his office take note, and see that something needs to be done."
Cooper believes the security at the venue isn't sufficient, noting that, just last month, a 13-year-old girl was shot in the leg in the venue's parking lot, following an all-ages show. The venue was closed temporarily in 2007 as part of a crackdown, led by then County Executive Jack Johnson on nine nightclubs with a history of violent incidents. The move was opposed by the Go-Go Coalition, Peaceaholics, and other groups that felt the county was scapegoating the venues.
"There are no checks and balances," Cooper says. "When the club reopened, after Jack Johnson's whole overhaul, they were supposed to reopen with better security systems, lighting, etc., and that is totally nonexistent. It's just wrong." All of the public phone numbers for CFE are disconnected and people listed as the club's owners could not be reached for comment.
Cooper recently spoke about her crusade to shutter the venue on the Rising Spivey news and talk show, which airs on Bowie's public access channel. Host Shanelle Spivey was so moved by Cooper's story that she helped to organize tomorrow's rally and has continued to report on conditions at the club.
"I'm 26 years old, I definitely understand nightclubs, and wanting to go out, but this place is a hole in the wall," Spivey says." I'm from Largo, I live in Bowie, and for us to go out on a Friday or Saturday night means traveling to D.C. I guess that's why [CFE] is popular in the area. They were shut down in 2007, because of violence, then opened up with the promise of better actions and security, and they haven't done it. They have no regard for the youth in the area if that is how they handle their business."
Spivey adds that she is in favor of having entertainment venues in P.G. County, especially those catering to young people, but only if they are responsible businesses. "One one hand, it would be great to have something in community, because there are few options," she says. "But if they just stand at the door and collect money, they should not be allowed operate."
Cooper says that telling young people not to patronize such venues isn't enough; adults in the community have to work to make them safe places. "Whether our children choose to go or not, isn't it our responsibility? My son is gone, there is nothing I can do about it, but I can help to save to save someone else's child," she says. " These places should not be allowed to operate in our community. They're wolves in the yard."
Cooper and Spivey are asking that anyone interested in marching tomorrow show up at 14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive in Upper Marlboro at 10 a.m.


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Former Thunder coach P.J. Carlesimo, now as assistant with the Toronto Raptors, sat courtside an hour before tipoff Friday night and discussed Nick Collison at breakneck speed, trying to find the proper words to do the player justice.
Why Nick Collison's current and former mates consider him the 'ultimate teammate'
"I love Nick,†Carlesimo began. "He's great to coach. He's a pro. He works his (tail) off. He comes to play every day, whether he's starting or coming off the bench ...â€
Carlesimo paused mid-sentence because Collison suddenly was within ear shot, having exited the court after his pre-game warm-up. Carlesimo raised his voice and his mood immediately changed.
"Collison's a jerk,†Carlesimo barked as Collison broke into a wide smile, took a quick detour and sat next to his former Seattle/OKC coach. "Of all the jerks I've ever met, he's the biggest.â€
And there you have it. Somebody who has worked alongside Collison finally said something bad about the guy. All in jest.
The Thunder's lone original team member since Sam Presti took over as general manager 3½ years ago, Collison likely will complete a 10-plus year career with the same organization. That rarely happens these days, particularly for a role player embedded in a turbulent franchise.
"He embodies what we're trying to do,†Presti said of Collison, the 12th player selected in the 2003 draft. "A lot of things we're always talking about, he's been that.â€
That's why the Thunder gave Collison a three-year extension worth roughly $11 million and chipped in another $6.5 million – all the money the Thunder had remaining under this year's salary cap – as a signing bonus.
It takes someone uniquely ungifted to command that kind of payday at age 30 with career averages of 7.7 points, 6.6 rebounds and 23.7 minutes.
Former Kansas teammate Keith Langford recently shared the following on Twitter: @keith_langford: I know I'm late, but hey I'm all the way in europe... Congrats to @nickcollison4 on ur deal... Still to this day best teammate I've had
Collison seemed embarrassed when asked if he saw the tweet. Why would Langford – and many others past and present – proclaim Collison as a great teammate if it weren't true?
"Because they're on retainer, so anytime the media asks questions about me ... Nah, I don't know,†Collison said with a shrug. "I feel I've always been just about winning, trying to help other people when it's my place to help. I've been able to avoid any ulterior motives. It's the way I was taught to play. The further I've gone, I've seen that it's valuable for me to be that way.â€
Collison is a multi-tasker. He's a trash collector, cleaning up loose rebounds. He's an enforcer, doing all he can to keep the peace underneath at both ends of the court. He's a human sacrifice, taking 57 charges last season (second in the league to Jared Jeffries' 59) and has nine charges in 12 games this season. There's also a good chance Collison leads the NBA in floor burns and intangibles.Thunder Rumblings: Roy Williams brags about Nick Collison
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Cape Breton University Appoints Dr. Arja Vainio-Mattila as next Dean of the School of Arts and Social Science
A liberal arts degree can be, well, liberating! There are so many career choices and options that go along with a liberal arts degree that it's great for people who already know that they want to be a lawyer, teacher, or journalist, but it's also great for anyone who is still deciding.
At Cape Breton University we encourage each and every student to find their own niche in the world, whatever that may be. That's why the School of Arts and Social Sciences offers such a wide variety of options. Both the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and the Bachelor of Arts Community Studies (BACS) offer a range of choices in majors, minors, diplomas and certificates. There are also honours programs to help you reach your full potential.
At CBU we emphasize critical thinking. We want our students to go out into the world ready to ask questions, but also are prepared to innovatively and creatively answer those questions. Through lectures, writing and community involvement we give students the tools to empower their own futures and become the person they want to be.
With traditional program choices such as anthropology/sociology, communication, political science, philosophy, religious studies, English, French and history, along with non-traditional choices such as Mi'kmaq studies, ethnomusicology, and folklore the possibilities are endless. Students also have the chance to take part in volunteer work placements and a study abroad program.
A Bachelor of Arts or a BACS degree will open up more opportunities than imaginable. With time and involvement, graduates can be ready for the professional world and/or for educational advancement. Whatever you chose, a Liberal Arts degree can lead you there!


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Dancing With The Stars
J.R. Martinez and Girlfriend Diana Gonzalez-Jones Expecting a Baby!
It's been a good year for Dancing With the Stars Season 13 winner J.R. Martinez, but it's about to get even better: The famous war vet and DWTS champ has just revealed that he and girlfriend Diana Gonzalez-Jones are expecting their first child — a baby girl, due next spring.
"We found out just last week it's a girl and we are over the moon," J.R. told PEOPLE. "Diana has a little baby bump now and it's the cutest thing ever. With the holidays coming up, this is the biggest and best gift we could get."
And, still fresh off his DWTS win, J.R. says that things keep getting better. "2011 has been full of a lot of surprises and opportunities and ultimately, a lot of blessings," he says. "Diana and I were just asking ourselves, 'How is 2012 going to top 2011?' Well, we have our answer!"
With his long history of motivational speaking and inspirational story, we have no doubt that J.R. is going to make an amazing father — and he and Diana seem to be a perfect match. Congratulations to the happy couple!
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Scully/The World Show
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Bob's guest this week understands that the art of real estate development is about more than just location, location, location (though he does have tales to tell about its importance as well). For Richard Hylands of Kevric Corporation, success in the commercial real estate discipline is seeing undiscovered potential in certain spaces, and then providing exemplary service. Hylands explains that though he prefers to build from scratch, there is definite merit in being able to spot value where others don't. He exhibits a creative talent for helping to transform his holdings in order to attract different clients, but it is thanks to delivering excellent services, and by ensuring that his properties are impeccably managed that he is able to maintain his great batting average. If need be, he will even take a staid merchandise mart and turn it into something "funky", that younger execs will go for.


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Aug. 27, 1957 A. PETERS 2,804,514
CQMBINATION BUMPER AND SWITCH Filed June15, 1956 INVENTOR. ALB/N PE TERS Hrs AIIoXNQew-Q United States Patent COMBINATION BUMPER AND SWITCH Albin Peters, Des Plaines, Ill., assignor to Chicago Coin Machine Co., Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Illinois Application June 15, 1956, Serial No. 591,732
2 Claims. (Cl. 200-6111) This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in a combination bumper and switch especially adapted for use in connection with a ball rolling game in which balls are projected upon the upper end of an inclined board for gravitation thereover into and against the bumper.
The principal object of this invention is the provision of a combination bumper and switch of the character hereinafter described, which comprises relatively few parts, is simple in construction and economical in manufacture.
Another and equally important object of the invention is the provision of a combination bumper and switch having incorporated therein a novel and improved arrangement for effectively actuating the switch to assure that the switch at all times will be positively closed when a ball or other game playing piece engages the target.
Other objects will appear hereinafter.
The invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings showing the preferred form of construction, and in which:
Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the invention showing the same mounted upon a playing board;
Fig. 2 is a side view of the invention similar to Fig. 1 showing the parts thereof in different positions;
Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the invention showing the parts thereof in exploded relation with respect to each other;
Fig. 4 is a sectional detail view taken substantially on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.
Referring more specifically to the drawings herein, my improved combination bumper and switch includes a base plate having a hub 11 which has frictional fit within an opening 12 formed in a game board 13. While this game board 13 is shown in the drawings as being disposed in a horizontal position, it is understood that the same may be disposed at an inclination with respect to a horizontal plane so that balls 14 projected thereon will gravitate down the board.
The base plate 10 is provided with relatively short sleeves 15 which pass through enlarged openings 16 formed in a bumper disc 17. Projected through the openings 16 and into the sleeves 15 are studs 18 formed as an integral part of a hollow bumper 19. The bumper 19 provides studs 20 which seat in recesses 21 formed in the base disc 10. The studs 18 are projected through openings 22. Passed through the studs 20 and openings 23 of the base plate 10 are attaching screws 24 by means of which the bumper housing 19 and base plate 10 are connected to the game board 13. The bumper housing 19 includes a cap 25 which is removable to permit access to the interior thereof.
The bumper disc 17 has a stem 26 formed integral therewith and preferably formed of the same material as the bumper disc 17, which in the present instance is a suitable plastic of non-conductive material.
This stem 26 extends downwardly from the bumper disc 17 through a spring 27 arranged in the hub 11 and through an opening 28 formed in the bottom thereof. The spring 23 is arranged between the bottom wall of the hub 11 and the bottom wall 29 of the bumper housing 19. At the end of the stem 26 is carried a ball-like element 30.
The stem 26 being formed integral with the bumper disc 17 is adapted to rock therewith when the bumper disc is rocked from a horizontal plane by engagement of the ball 14 thereagainst as shown in Fig. 2. To effect rebounding of the ball there is arranged to encircle the bumper housing 19 a rubber ring 31 adapted to be engaged by the ball in the manner shown in Fig. 2. This ring 31 is set in an annular recess 32 formed in the bumper housing 19.
Secured to the underside of the game board 13 as at 33 is a bracket 34 which carries a switch unit 35 at its lower end portion. This switch unit includes two spring leaves 36 and 37 insulated from each other. The spring leaf 37 is insulated from the bracket 34 while the spring leaf 36 has contact therewith. The spring leaves 36 and 37 are each provided with a terminal 38 to which an electric circuit wire may be attached.
The outer end portion of the spring leaf 36 provides an enlarged circular head 39. This head 39 is provided with a centrally located opening 40. Engaging in this opening 40 in contact with the head 39 but not projecting therethrough is the ball element 30.
The bumper structure which I have hereinbefore described is of a conventional construction commonly in use in ball rolling games. My invention is more specifically related to the arrangement for controlling the actuation of the switch 35 by moving the spring leaf 36 into and from contact with the spring leaf 37. This is accomplished by the pendulum action of the stem 26 which is effected by the tilting of the bumper disc 17 by the action of a ball thereagainst. It will be noted that the ball-like element 30 partially projects into the opening 4.0, and as a result thereof is at all times in positive contact with the head 39 of the spring leaf 36 so that the slightest movement of the disc 17 will impart a pendulum movement to the stem 26 to effect opening and closing of the switch 35.
To complete the invention, each of the spring leaves 36 and 37 on confronting sides thereof carries contacts 41.
The spring 27 functions to return the bumper disc 17 and stem 26 to a normal position as shown in Fig. 1.
From the foregoing description, it will be apparent that I have provided a switch for the purposes hereinbefore set forth which will be highly efiicient for its in- I tended purpose and may be manufactured at an economical cost.
While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification Without departing from the spirit of the invention. 1, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claims.
Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:
1. The combination with a ball bumper having a bumper disc tiltable by the action of a ball thereagainst from a horizontal plane, of a stem extending from one side of the disc and having a ball-shaped element at the end thereof, a switch comprising a pair of switch leaves one of which is provided with an opening of a diameter sufficient to receive a portion of said ball-shaped element, 7
said switch leaves being at right angles with respect to said stem, said stem and bumper disc being formed integral and of the same non-conductive material.
2. The combination with a' ball bumper having a bumper disc tiltable by the action of a ball thereagainst from a horizontal plane, of a stem extending from one side of the disc and having a ball-shaped element at the end thereof, a switch comprising a pair of switch leaves one of which is provided with an opening of a diameter 10 sufiicient to receive a portion of said ball-shaped element, said switch leaves being at right angles with respect to 4 said stem, said one of the switch leaves being provided with an enlarged head at its outer end portion, in which head said opening is formed, and said stem and bumper disc being formed integral and of the same non-conductive material.
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When President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo alluded to a critic in last Monday?s State of the Nation Address and exhorted him not to say ?bad words in public,? it drew laughter and applause from the gallery.
This reminded me of Sen. Mar Roxas who shouted the ?P? word during an anti-Charter change rally in Makati a few weeks ago. It also reminded me of many hard-hitting columns by Ramon Tulfo who is polite enough to scramble his bad words into symbols like ?@#$%^&*!!? But sometimes Tulfo pushes the limits by letting us fill in the blanks and mentally say the unmentionable. Tulfo?s younger brother has a radio program where he berates abusive police and public officials on the phone with strong language, but he always stops short of using expletives or ?bad words.?
Although I was born too late to have been under Rolando S. Tinio at the Ateneo de Manila University, I still hear stories about his legendary temper, on and off-stage, when he threw tantrums or objects (like a bakya) at an actor or audience that displeased him. In the classroom, Tinio terrorized students with his genius and sharp tongue. According to Ateneo legend, he was one of the few who got away with using ?bad words? in class.
Early in his teaching career, Danton Remoto tried to copy Tinio?s pedagogical method and was hastily summoned by the uneasy department chairperson who began by saying, ?I heard, Mr. Remoto, that you have been using four-letter words in class.? Danton quickly owned up saying, ?Of course I use four-letter words in class. Which one did you have in mind??love??? That was the end of conversation.
The ?P? word is something we hear every day. My father used to use it like an exclamation mark. As far as I can remember, he never used the word in anger and so it caused no offense. But these days my father has to watch his tongue, fearful that his five-year-old grandson might pick it up and use it in pre-school. The grandson often reminds his grandfather that the ?P? word is a ?bad word.?
When I was in college, I wrote a research paper on curse words that required poring over many dictionaries, including those compiled and published during the Spanish period. This exercise gave me a life-long appreciation for dictionaries, so that now I have two shelves of dictionaries in my study always ready for work or pleasure.
I have learned early on that when buying a dictionary, one of the ways to measure its completeness is to look up the ?bad words.? If no expletives are found or explained away, the dictionary or vocabulary is not worth buying or using.
When I started my research into ?bad words? in Filipino, my first stop was the huge dictionary by Vito C. Santos better known as the ?Vicassan?s Pilipino-English/English-Pilipino Dictionary.? From there I went through, and was disappointed by, the thick volume ?Hispanismos en el Tagalo? (Oficina de educacion Iberoamericana, Madrid, 1972). The dictionary has only one ?bad word? in its 628 pages: ?puta? (prostitute).
What turned out to be more useful were the anatomical terms in ?Vocabulario de la lengua tagala? (Manila, 1869) compiled by the friars Noceda and Sanlucar in the 18th century. For example, the vulgar word for a part of a woman?s anatomy ?puqui? (now spelled with a ?k?) was not translated from the original Tagalog to Spanish unlike the rest of the words in the dictionary. The anatomical terms were rendered into Latin. Thus, ?puqui? was rendered as ?pars vaerenda mullieris, verbum turpissimum.? Noceda and Sanlucar did not want to corrupt laymen and the general public that had access to their dictionary so they left some of the ?bad words? in Latin so that it would sound clinical and scientific, and of course could only be deciphered by someone who knew Latin.
Someone should really compile a dictionary of ?bad words? that will not only give their meanings but also their etymology or the origin and the development of the words. Perhaps the words can also be placed in the context of usage, because how a word is understood over a period of time can change as I have shown in my last column where I explained why ?salvage? in Philippine usage means the opposite of its meaning in English.
To someone doing a dictionary equivalent, nothing should be wrong with the word ?leche? which is ?milk? in Spanish. How did this become a ?bad word?? Well, there is a forgotten original ?mala leche? that implies that one sucked or was raised on rotten or bad milk. Depending on how it is used, ?leche? can simply mean milk or semen.
When two languages use the same word but this word has different meanings they are called ?false friends.? ?Leche? is a good example. A more hilarious example is ?lamierda? which in the Philippines is a colloquial term that means ?going out together? (maglamierda tayo) and whose synonym is ?pasyal? which in turn comes from the Spanish ?pasear,? a verb that means ?take a walk? or ?stroll.? But ?mierda? is the vulgar Spanish word for excrement, so if a Filipino invites someone in Spain to ?lamierda,? he may not realize that he has used ?mierda? (shit) as a verb, and in a completely different way.
Language can indeed be fascinating, but in the case of ?bad words? there is much that cannot be printed in this space. So to repeat President Arroyo?s wise advice, if one aspires to the presidency, ?don?t use bad words in public.?
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Friday, December 19, 2008
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DULUTH - Tonight's mixed martial arts fights at Wild Bill's of Atlanta - billed "A Fight for Charity" - will provide more than thrills for those in attendance, they will help provide a better Christmas for needy metropolitan Atlanta children."I've been wanting to do this for years, but no other venue got it," said co-promoter David Oblas. "Wild Bill's got it, they understood and they wanted to be a part of it." Wild Bill's is a regular venue for MMA events and tickets normally range from $25 for general admission to $100 for a cageside VIP table. Fans can get in tonight by donating a new, unwrapped toy at the door. All donations will go to the Marine Corps' Toys for Tots campaign. Oblas has promoted MMA events all over Georgia and said this show will be the most widely attended in the state in the last decade. And one of the most meaningful. "I always wanted to do fights that matter," he said. "A lot of promoters put Fighter A vs. Fighter B - and I love the fight game - but I just wanted to do something that gave back. I thought this would be really cool." Oblas said they expect a record crowd and may have to do something they've never done before - turn people away at the door. "The place holds ... probably 4,000, 4,200 people," he said. "And we fully expect to sell it out." Even if you're not a fight fan, Oblas said, you can still donate to Toys for Tots. From 6 until 11 p.m., about a dozen active-duty Marines will be out front collecting toys. While those Marines stand that post, Sgt. Darrell Parodi will be preparing for his second professional fight. The 26-year-old from Camp Lejeune, N.C. will face Kamrin Naville of Valdosta Martial Arts in the main event. The card will include nine amateur and three professional bouts. Doors open at 7 p.m. and fights start at 8:30 p.m. For more information, call 404-626-2126 or log onto www.fullthrottlemma.com.
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