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Liz Smith: Steve Jobs' Death Wipes Out Sarah Palin's Decision Not To Run For President
And more from our Liz: Julia Roberts is one bad apple in "Snow White" … Johnny Depp apologizes … "The Situation" gets dressed
"STAY HUNGRY. Stay foolish!" This was Steve Jobs' advice to the aspiring young.
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PERHAPS the only person in the world who wasn't somehow moved by the death of Apple's creative genius was the former half-term governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. Sarah's decision not to run for president was vastly overshadowed on Wednesday, when word came of Jobs' death from cancer at age 56. Even Fox News — though they didn't drop their nightly line-up to pay homage to Mr. Jobs, as did CNN, MSNBC and CNBC — seemed muted in their coverage of Sarah's momentous decision. Had Mrs. Palin stayed too long at the Fox fair?
So, New Jersey's gov, Chris Christie, is out, and so is Palin. I wouldn't bet the rent on Christie possibly being lured back in, but surely Sarah will not reconsider. However, she has promised to stick around to support her causes and candidates and be a down home, aw shucks, you betcha provocateur.
We probably have not heard the last of her perpetual cries of victimization.
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JULIA ROBERTS isn't known for her bad-girl roles. Despite all the nasty tricks she played on Cameron Diaz in "My Best Friend's Wedding," she ended up doing the right thing in the end, encouraged by pal Rupert Everett. But it was fun to see Julia go to the dark side. Well, fans of Miss Roberts will have more fun next March when her "Snow White" movie opens. (Actually, that's not the title, or the full title. There are other Snow White-themed films pending, so producers are trying to come with a one that won't confuse audiences.)
In any case, Julia's turn as the Evil Queen is much anticipated. She's just plain bad and there is no redemption in store. She hands out poisoned apples, for goodness sake!
Lily Collins, who plays innocent Snow White, was impressed by Julia's ability to get into character. She told People magazine: "Off camera she is so down to earth and sweet. We'd be shooting and she's being extremely horrible to me — in character — and once they yell 'cut' the first thing she says is, 'Are you okay? I'm sorry. I hate being mean to you.'"
In fact, Julia told her director, Tarsem Singh: "I feel like I'm being mean to Bambi!" (Miss Collins is only 22, and Singh describes her appeal as "Liz Taylor meets Audrey Hepburn.")
I can't wait to see Julia — one of the least vain actresses in the world — doing her "mirror, mirror on the wall" bit, or some variation of that.
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JOHNNY DEPP looks better than he has in a long time, on the cover of the new Vanity Fair. Just shows what a haircut and a shave can do! But he got himself in trouble when he said that he found photo sessions invasive: "You just feel like you're being raped, somehow." He has been compelled to apologize. Political correctness — their police force is omnipresent. Bevare! (As Bela Lugosi used to warn.)
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SPEAKING OF looking good, Flow Formal Wear has hired "Jersey Shore's" perpetually shirtless Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, to model suits. With ties and real shirts and cufflinks and vests. Guess what? He looks handsome and suave! Mike should keep his abs — nice as they are — under cover, and continue to dress like an adult. He might even extend his 15 minutes to an hour or so.
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"Well, I am really a hedonist. I don't enjoy dieting. I think dieting is truly vain — it's only for yourself. Being a size six instead of a size 12 is not going to make you more attractive spiritually. It's not going to enable you to see the mountains clearer."
That was Elizabeth Taylor, back in 1997. I had gone to Los Angles to interview Miz Liz for Good Housekeeping magazine, and to attend her big 65th birthday gala/AIDS benefit. I'd almost forgotten about this interview, but I came across it while trying to clear the chaos that is my office. Elizabeth, after three grueling hip operations was in good shape — a little plump, but still radiant, and quite introspective. She was divorced from Larry Fortensky by that time. I asked her what she wanted to accomplish in the next few years: "Wipe out AIDS, wipe out AIDS, wipe out AIDS. Then take a rest. A walk on the beach."
Two weeks later came word that the star of stars had a brain tumor! But she survived that crisis, too. I thought she'd never succumb.


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Shurong Diao is a New York based design undergraduate student from the School of Visual Arts and for this particular project she used hair to create 'hair alphabet' letter forms. Inspired by Chinese calligraphy style Shurong Diao explains on her porfolio website that she wanted to build a connection between Chinese Characters and the Roman alphabet. And she has done this by substituting black ink on rice paper with long black hair.
With Rapunzel-like hair Shurong has created the entire alphabet which can be seen below. To see more of this multidisciplinary designer's work you can view it here.

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Monitoring the health of selected eastern arc forests in Tanzania
Madoffe, Seif; Hertel, Gerard D.; Rodgers [Rogers], Paul; O'Connel, Barbra [Barbara]; Killenga, Raymond. 2006. Monitoring the health of selected eastern arc forests in Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology. 44: 171-177.
The eastern arc mountains (EAMs) are a chain of isolated mountains (534,000 ha) in Kenya and Tanzania surrounded by arid woodlands and influenced by the Indian Ocean. In 1900 there was three times the amount of forest cover there is today. Much of the original forests have been converted into agricultural crops. These mountains are recognized as a globally important 'hot spot' by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and World Conservation of Union (IUCN) for forest biodiversity and are major national, regional and local sources of hydropower, water and wide array of forest-based benefits and agricultural production. In February 2000 we began a 3-year evaluation of forest health, land-use change and information sharing in the EAMs. Permanent sample plots were used to evaluate forest health. This paper summarizes the baseline data from eighteen permanent sample plots in the east Usambara's and nine in Ulugurus. The eastern arc web site (http://www.easternarc.org) was established, continues to expand and contains some detailed information on the project. Information gathered will assist land managers, planners, policy makers, interested communities (villages) and individuals in decision-making. These data can also provide an early warning system of stresses on forest catchments.
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Sochi strays come to Washington
Stray dogs from Sochi, Russia were brought to the Washington Animal Rescue league by way of Humane Society International and Povodog for adoption. POLITICO's Madeline Marshall captures the excitement- human and canine- about their arrival.
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Cedar Point announces 'GateKeeper' coming in 2013, world's longest winged roller coaster
Construction for 'GateKeeper' already under way
SANDUSKY, Ohio - Flying you through the air at Cedar Point in 2013 will be GateKeeper, the longest winged roller coaster in the world.
"GateKeeper will be unlike any other ride in the park," said Cedar Point GM John Hildebrandt in a ceremony at the gates to the park.
GateKeeper will be the longest winged roller coaster in the world, boasting the longest drop.
"We believe GateKeeper will maximize thrills," said another Cedar Point official at Monday's big reveal.
Officials at the amusement also park said taking flight on GateKeeper will feel like "you're riding on the wing of an airplane."
"Your feet dangling free, your body moving as though it were one with the train. I have ridden a winged roller coaster and it is a unique thrill. It is a thrill," said Hildebrant.
(Mobile users click link to watch: http://on.wews.com/TzLhb0)
GateKeeper will change the entrance of the park, with guests walking underneath it to get inside.
"GateKeeper won't have the roar of Raptor, but will generate a few screams as it flies by," Hildebrant said. "GateKeeper will make a bold statement."
The ride will be 4,164 feet long and fly guests through twists and turns and upside-down at speeds of 67 mph. And don't forget about the 164-foot vertical drop on the blue-steeled tubular coaster that will have riders on seats that extend sideways from the track, with nothing above or below them.
The GateKeeper will be the first new coaster since Maverick opened in 2007.
GateKeeper is part of a roughly $30 million project overhauling the park's entrance. Construction is already under way. Parts are set to arrive in mid-October. Steel erection is slated to begin in November. The ride will be ready to roar in May 2013.
The Swiss company, Bollinger and Mabillard, is constructing GateKeeper. It's the third ride in the amusement park built by the company. Raptor and Mantis were the first two.
GateKeeper will be built where Disaster Transport and the Space Spiral are located.
Earlier this year, Cedar Point announced they would cease operation of Disaster Transport to make way for a new attraction. Disaster Transport has already been shutdown and is in the process of being demolished. Space Spiral will continue to operate through Labor Day.
GateKeeper resembles a ride that debuted earlier this year at Six Flags Great America outside of Chicago.


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6th Annual Catholic Men's Conference
- http://www.oakdiocese.org/ministries/family-life/mens-conference/6th-annual-catholic-mens-conference
- 6th Annual Catholic Men's Conference
- What
- Diocese
- When
- Nov 3, 2012, 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM (America/Los_Angeles / UTC-700)
- Where
- St Francis of Assisi Church, 860 Oak Grove Road, Concord, CA
- Contact Name
- Ed Hopfner
- Contact Phone
- 510-267-8392
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2012 East Bay Catholic Men's Conference
Catholic Men in the World
— Standing with St. Joseph
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. Prov 27:17
Speakers / Registration / Directions /
East Bay Catholic Men's Conference
St Francis of Assisi Church
860 Oak Grove Road, Concord
Saturday, November 3
As Catholic men we are called to be men of virtue, role models, and servant leaders. We "contribute to the sanctification of the world, as from within like leaven". (Christifideles Laici, 15).
Join your fellow Catholic men for the sixth annual East Bay Catholic Men's Conference, to better learn how to practically live out our call.
Be encouraged and challenged by top Catholic leaders in our roles as Catholic men. Deepen your understanding of what it means to be a Catholic man in today's society. Be supported by, and be supportive of, your brothers in the Faith.
Space is limited — early registration is recommended
2012 Speakers
Patrick Coffin - Catholic Answers LIVE
Speaker, author, radio host
Patrick is a dynamic, internationally known speaker and popular radio host of Catholic Answers LIVE. He will use his deep understanding of our faith to prepare and encourage you to be a witness for Christ and His Church in your daily life.
Fr Kenneth Nobrega - Diocese of Oakland
Exorcist, vocations director
Fr Ken will speak about the reality of spiritual warfare, avoiding common traps men can fall into, and effective weapons for spiritual combat
Father Michael Sweeney, O.P. - Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology
Father Michael has spoken to audiences around the world about the call of the Church to lay men (and women) to transform and heal the problems of society.
Ned Dolesji - California Catholic Conference
Executive Director
Ned will speak about the necessity for Catholic men to take an active role in public life. He will also give you insight into the work of the California bishops with the state legislature.
Mike Pritchard - Catholic Mens Fellowship
This former Marine Sergeant, who served in Vietnam and Desert Storm, will inspire you with his zeal for the Lord and challenge you to live your faith in everyday life.
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The MTV Video Music Awards just ended, but our Twitter feed is still overflowing with commentary and our Tumblr dashboard is packed with GIFs. The night certainly didn't disappoint, what with Dude Gaga (aka Jo Calderone) hitting on everyone in between smokes and Beyonce and Jay-Z glowing with excitement over their musical messiah. But where do they fall on our Top 10 VMAs Moments We'll Be Talking About Tomorrow? Read our list below and stack our favorite moments against yours!
10. Lil Wayne leaping in his seat to cheer on Nicki Minaj. Nothing will stop this short guy from supporting his gal pal.
9. Adele's much-deserved standing ovation for her amazing performance of "Someone Like You, " AKA "The Entire World's Break Up Song." We wept openly in the fetal position during the entire thing. We're totally fine now though! *sniff*
8. Cloris Leachman and the Jersey Shore girls star in: Trainwreck City! They're old, they're young, they're DTF up their hosting bit on live TV!
7. Jersey Shore Ronnie fist-pumping along to Lil Wayne while atop another man's shoulders. We'd watch another Jersey Shore season of just this.
6. That Britney Spears tribute! It's Britney, bitch! Remixed with a bunch of little kids dancing!
5. Justin Bieber's out of control hormones. If Selena's face is on camera, chances are the Beib's mouth will be attached to it.
4. The Hunger Games trailer a snoozefest? Maybe for some of you, but not for those of us who are fans of Jennifer Lawrence running in a forest with Liam Hemsworth's voice playing in the background!
3. Tyler the Creator's earnest and adorable acceptance speech, contrasted with his ridiculous tie-dyed cat shirt. Oh, and his cheering mother, who will forever live on in GIF form.
2. And the What Is Life Award goes to: Lady Gaga, for hitting on Britney Spears while in character as a dude, only to be flat out denied. (No offense Brit, but Dude Gaga >Jason Trawick.)
1. Beyonce Beyonce Beyonce OMG Jay-Z watching Beyonce perform he's all proud and adorable and is it possible that they are BOTH glowing OMG THEY ARE HAVING A MUSICAL MESSIAH BABY AND ALL IS RIGHT IN THE WORLD!!! (So much so that we'll overlook those sparkle-y tuxedo jackets, Bey — this time.)


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Prepared remarks of Paul G. Kaminski, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and technology, at Acquisition Reform Day, the Pentagon, May 31, 1996.
Good morning everyone, and welcome. I want to thank you for
participating in the Department of Defense's Acquisition Reform
Day. ...
Today, across the entire department, thousands of
acquisition personnel are ceasing their normal operations and
joining in a departmentwide discussion of institutionalizing our
acquisition reform initiatives.
Throughout the acquisition community, commanders and
managers are meeting with their team members to discuss the
implementation of acquisition reform and to emphasize their
commitment to getting best value for the warfighter.
Here in the Pentagon, we are also taking a day to put down
our phones and push away from our desks and our in boxes so we
can focus on acquisition reform -- its past, its present and its
We are at a point in our acquisition reform program that is
not too much different than the situation faced by Winston
Churchill during World War II when the U.S. entered the war. He
observed that "This is not the end, or even the beginning of the
end, but it is, I believe, the end of the beginning." When you
think about it, this is exactly where we are in our program of
acquisition reform and the reason why I've selected "The End of
the Beginning" as today's theme.
The department has begun to make substantial progress in
improving the way it procures equipment and services. Our success
is real and visible. Many programs are experiencing cost
avoidances and savings in the hundreds of millions [of dollars] -
- a few in the billions of dollars. We are stripping away the
onerous nonvalue-added documentation and procedures and now have
a foundation in place to move to 21st century business practices.
This is good news, but I have gotten the sense that due to
the pressures of our daily work schedules and the sheer
difficulty of communicating effectively across a broad and
diverse organization, we need to do a better job of communicating
and gaining a common vision of what we as a team can do to
accelerate implementation of our acquisition reforms across our
entire acquisition system -- from C-17s to socks, from major
defense acquisition programs to base procurement.
We need to be sure that the word is getting out to every
single member of our team. The message is too important not to be
heard. That's why Emmett Paige, the assistant secretary of
defense for C3I [command, control, communications and
intelligence], and I called for the acquisition community to
observe today as Acquisition Reform Day. Our departmentwide
discussion today will be along three distinct but related
communication paths.
The first communication path is top-down. The goal is to
have the department's acquisition leadership publicize the policy
changes and many important acquisition reform initiatives now
under way. Executives, commanders and managers throughout the
acquisition community must take responsibility to ensure that
their personnel are aware of the acquisition reform initiatives
and their part in implementing them. It is important to
communicate that we mean what we say and then back that up with
out actions -- to not only talk the talk, but walk the walk.
The second path is horizontal. The goal here is to have our
program managers, contracting officers, logisticians, financial
analysts and other career professionals share with each other
their lessons learned, best practices and front line wisdom.
There have been many truly significant accomplishments. I ask you
to crow a little to your peers -- share what has worked and
recognize outstanding performers on your team in the presence of
And the third path is bottom-up. The goal here is to have
the department's acquisition work force -- the practitioners in
the field -- communicate new ideas up the chain of command. We
need feedback from you and all of our people on what's working,
what's not and what needs improvement. We also need to know what
barriers to effective implementation still exist and what your
recommendations are to overcome these barriers.
I want everyone to use both their internal management chains
and the Defense Acquisition University's Acquisition Reform
Communications Center to provide us feedback. We have provided
feedback forms in your information packages. I want to support
you, to empower you to do your job better -- but I need your
ideas to do so.
Today, the department's acquisition community joins together
to take stock of its collective efforts to improve its processes
and procedures. You need to realize that each of you can make a
I am very proud of your accomplishments thus far in
acquisition reform. The energy, dedication and commitment that
everyone in the department has brought to acquisition reform is a
real tribute to the professionalism of our acquisition community.
It also shows what we can do when we work together as a team
dedicated to a common goal.
Indeed, one of the key factors in our success has been our
ability to work together in teams. Process action teams have been
the foundation of our efforts. Our PATs have worked as integrated
teams representing important interests across the department and
industry to develop solutions that aren't just smart but are also
We have teamed with the Congress to enact landmark statutory
reforms. With the passage of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining
Act of 1994, the Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1996 and the
Information Technology Act of 1996, the department has been able
to take three huge steps toward becoming a world-class buyer.
Now, working with the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, the
department is fully implementing these groundbreaking statutes.
Some of the key statutory reforms include:
The Congress and the Department of Defense have been talking
about acquisition reform for a very long time. More importantly,
we are together now doing something about implementing real
reforms -- as a team.
But there is still a lot more to do.
We need to provide additional Title 10 statutory waivers for
the defense acquisition pilot programs -- eventually we need to
change the statutes and make the reforms permanent. We need
relief from provisions restricting defense contractors from
supporting operational tests. We need a dual-use applications
program -- one that is whole and viable -- to help the department
leverage commercial technologies.
The reprogramming thresholds have not changed in over 20
years. We need to restore the original balance by doubling the $4
million and $10 million thresholds for reprogrammings within
RDT&E [research, development, testing and evaluation] and
procurement accounts respectively. And we need additional
flexibility to manage our financial affairs -- why not give
program managers some relief from the existing "color of money"
restrictions between appropriations?
The Congress is continuing to provide the department with
additional flexibility. Both the House and Senate authorizing
committees, for example, are giving favorable consideration to
extending the Section 845 "Other Transactions" authority for the
Defense [Advanced] Research Projects Agency to 1999 and providing
this authority to the secretaries of the military departments as
Together, the Congress and our team can continue to step up
and do something real for the American taxpayer and our
warfighters -- equip U.S. forces with affordable tanks, ships and
planes that are second to none.
Reform of military specifications and standards is another
landmark achievement. We have literally turned the entire milspec
[military specifications] world on its head. In the past, program
managers had to seek waivers to use commercial specifications.
Today, the shoe is on the other foot -- anyone who wants to use a
military specification must obtain a waiver.
Another important reform is the Single Process Initiative.
Today, in many of our contractor's facilities, the contractor
will have one manufacturing process for its commercial customers
and perhaps several different ones imposed by various DoD
programs. The Single Process Initiative deals with this problem
by reducing the number of different processes and relying on
commercial practices as much as possible. Our objectives are one,
save money; two, obtain a better product; and three, foster a
more competitive industry.
So far, we have received over 100 concept papers from 41
contractors proposing to modify 177 processes. We have modified
34 processes at four different contractors. In one single block
change with Raytheon, we affected 884 contracts at 16 separate
Another important initiative is our effort to streamline and
simplify acquisition oversight procedures. Historically, the
department's oversight processes have been very burdensome, with
the result that many of our program managers have spent more time
dealing with the administrative hassles of the oversight process
than actually managing their programs.
Today, we have instituted a new approach, based on
integrated product teams. This approach facilitates identifying
and resolving issues in a more timely manner. The key change is a
move from after-the-fact oversight to early-and-continuous
Yes, this insight approach is still relatively new, but we
are starting to see results. For example, we have dramatically
reduced the time from the day of the Defense Acquisition Board
meeting to the signing of the acquisition decision memorandum,
which averaged about 23 days in 1994, to about two days.
Also, because our early-and-continuous insight process is
helping resolve major issues, I have been able to cancel numerous
formal Defense Acquisition Board meetings. Since there were no
issues, there was no need for a formal meeting. Last year, 26 DAB
meetings were scheduled to occur, but I only had to convene eight
of them.
The rewrite of the department's 5000-series acquisition
regulations is an excellent example of what integrated teams can
achieve. On March 15, 1996, the secretary of defense approved the
new policy and procedures, which are contained in DoD Directive
5000.1 and DoD Regulation 5000.2-R. The new regulations implement
changes in the way the Pentagon has traditionally done business,
I have read the new regulations. I must admit that I tried
many times to read the old 5000 documents without much success.
These new documents are key to institutionalizing fundamental
change in the defense acquisition process and are a visible
symbol of the department's acquisition reform efforts. It is
important that each of you are aware of this new institutional
foundation -- a foundation of policy documents and available
training and support materials.
Now that we have an institutional base in place, we are
beginning to see the benefits of acquisition reforms. The
evidence is still mostly anecdotal, but we are seeing savings on
major programs like the Joint Direct Attack Munition, the C-17
and the SMART-T [Secure, Mobile, Anti-jam Reliable Terminal], and
on thousands of small purchases of items like T-shirts and socks.
The Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM, program provides
a good illustration of the savings possible by switching from the
old ways to the new ways of doing business. A couple of years
ago, the department set out to convert tens of thousands of
"dumb" gravity bombs into "smart" bombs that could be accurately
guided. The key to doing this was to build a kit for each bomb
that could receive navigation signals from existing global
positioning system satellites. We started the program the old way
and estimated in 1993 that we could get the cost of each JDAM
modification kit down to about $40,000 by the time we converted
our 40,000th unit.
Without the benefit of these reforms, we started the program
by sending out a request for proposal that contained a 137-page
work statement and 87 military specifications. Last year, we sent
out a new request for proposal. This time, we sent out a two-page
performance specification -- two pages about what we wanted the
system to do, not how the contractor should go about doing it.
And this time, we had no requirement for any military-unique
specifications or standards.
As a result, we signed a contract early this year for JDAM
kits that cost $18,000 each -- starting with the first unit, not
the 40,000th. When you are buying over 80,000 such kits, that
amounts to a major savings -- approximately $2.9 billion, or
about 50 percent of the original program cost. Those savings have
now been applied to the department's pressing modernization
priorities in the president's fiscal year 1997 budget request.
The department has been able to put tangible procurement
reform into play on major programs like JDAM and on thousands of
smaller purchases like T-shirts, socks and Navy Chukka shoes. By
scrapping the military specification for T-shirts and socks, the
Defense Logistics Agency is now buying brand-name commercial
undershirts and socks for military clothing sales stores --
offering superior quality at 10 to 20 percent discounts.
I want to conclude by thanking all of you again for your
dedication and asking for your commitment to acquisition reform.
Published for internal information use by the American Forces
Information Service, a field activity of the Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs), Washington, D.C.
Parenthetical entries are speaker/author notes; bracketed entries
are editorial notes. This material is in the public domain and
may be reprinted without permission. Defense Issues is available
on the Internet via the World Wide Web at


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RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) — Once ranked among the country's most popular governors among voters, Bob McDonnell is losing more support.
Democratic firm Public Policy Polling reported a 12 percent decline in McDonnell's approval rating in a new survey released on Monday. In fact, only 36 percent of voters indicated they approve of the job McDonnell is doing.
That's a 12 point drop from last month when 41 percent of voters polled said they disapproved of the job he was doing.
The steep decline comes amid more news about the FBI's investigation into gifts McDonnell and his family allegedly received from a campaign donor.
Last week, a new report alleged that Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams gave Gov. Bob McDonnell's real estate company $70,000 last year. That brings the total of funds from Williams to $145,000.
In the upcoming election, 31 percent of voters said they are less likely to vote for a candidate McDonnell endorses.


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Full detailed profile on Kristen Connolly playing Josie Driver on As the World Turns Daytime Soap Opera.
Kristen Connolly (Soaps.com)
Kristen Connolly
Currently playing: Josie Driver
Kristen Connelly took on the role of Josie on October 31, 2008; prior to joining the cast of As The World Turns, Kristen appeared on Guiding Light, New Amsterdam and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
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Alpha USA relies heavily on volunteer resources. We have named our volunteers Alpha Advisors because that is exactly what you do. Advising, counseling, coaching, and encouraging make up the primary activities of an Alpha Advisor. All are passionate about the Alpha course as a way to transform lives.
Below you will find further detail outlining potential roles of the Alpha Advisor. These documents are by no means exhaustive. If you have suggestions for other roles that Advisors can fulfill, please click here to pass your ideas and 'best practice' along.


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worst retail I've ever come across.
Never have I gone to work for a company so low in standards, with 4+ "managers" there's no communication!? Treated and called a liar?! Really? No way to run a business...no way to treat employees. You have managers at your coconut point store (fort Myers fl) that seem to think they are above laws that are strategically placed to protect employees, not to treat them as they feel. I shall never return to a lane Bryant store and neither shall my friends and family after I spread the word, you have some bad press to clean up now. Haha


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- 13,560
- people in the U.S. have this name View Ronald Smith on Whitepages
Meaning & Origins
From the Old Norse personal name Rögnvaldr (composed of regin 'advice, decision' (also, 'the gods') + valdr 'ruler'). This name was regularly used in the Middle Ages in northern England and Scotland, where Scandinavian influence was strong. It is now widespread throughout the English-speaking world.
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English: occupational name for a worker in metal, from Middle English smith (Old English smið, probably a derivative of smītan 'to strike, hammer'). Metalworking was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents were perhaps the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is the most frequent of all American surnames; it has also absorbed, by assimilation and translation, cognates and equivalents from many other languages (for forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).
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Nicknames & variations
Ron, Ronnie, Ronny, Ronni, Ronn, Ronnald
Smithson, Smyth, Smit, Smithers, Smitherman, Smithey, Smythe, Smits, Smithwick, Smither


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Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, angering China which condemned the selection as a "desecration" and described Liu as a "criminal."
In choosing Liu, the Nobel committee cited his efforts to use non-violence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland.
Liu, 54, was sentenced to 11 years in prison last December for his role in creating a manifesto entitled Charter 08, calling for democratic reform in China.
China reacted quickly to the Liu's selection, although the announcement was blacked out in China. Both the BBC and CNN went to black during the coverage of the award.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a short, angry statement on its website declaring, "The Nobel Peace Prize is meant to award individuals who promote international harmony and friendship, peace and disarmament. Liu Xiaobo is a criminal who has been sentenced by Chinese judicial departments for violating Chinese law. Awarding the peace to Liu runs completely counter to the principle of the award and is also a desecration of the Peace Prize."
The statement also warned the giving the prize to Liu will "damage to the relations between China and Norway.
President Obama, who received the prize last year, said Liu is an "eloquent and courageous spokesman for the advance of universal values through peaceful and non-violent means, including his support for democracy, human rights, and the rule of law."
Click here to see ABC News' interview with Liu Xiaobo just before his arrest.
The president scolded China over Liu's imprisonment.
"Over the last 30 years, China has made dramatic progress in economic reform and improving the lives of its people, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. But this award reminds us that political reform has not kept pace... We call on the Chinese government to release Mr. Liu as soon as possible."
The Dalai Lama, a Nobel Laureate who has also clashed with China over human rights issues, congratulated Liu and called on China to release him.
Sharon Hom, executive director of Human Rights in China, praised Liu's selection and said, "This award comes at a critical historical crossroads in China and constitutes a powerful affirmation for the voices calling for change."
Chinese authorities would not allow access to Liu today.
His wife, however, expressed joy at the news. Surrounded by police at their Beijing apartment, Liu Xia was not allowed out to meet reporters. Instead she gave brief remarks by phone and text message, saying she was happy and that she planned to go Saturday to deliver the news to Liu at the prison, 300 miles away.
Hong Kong Cable Television quoted her in a Twitter message as saying that Liu will draw encouragement from the award and she hoped to go to Norway to collect the prize if he could not.
Though Liu is not well-known to ordinary Chinese, his activism goes back to the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989. In an interview with David Kerley of ABC News a few months before his arrest in 2008, Liu explained the deep impact on him of the military crackdown in Beijing.


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With two weeks to go before the election, it is startling to consider this fact: the first Republican and Democratic primary debates took place within a week of each other…seventeen months ago. And by the time those debates had taken place, at least six candidates — Obama, Hillary, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and John McCain — had already been conducting full-bore campaigns, complete with large staffs, for nearly five months.
Thus, by the time the final vote is cast on November 5, the campaign to win that vote will have gone on, at full gallop, for 22 months. I'm not talking about the old-time permanent campaign, when people had private meetings seeking to secure high-level state support and made frequent trips to New Hampshire and Iowa. I mean these were fully functioning, fully developed campaigns, spending millions of dollars a month. And for what?
That's the key question. Obama felt the need to declare his candidacy in February 2007 so that Hillary Clinton wouldn't have the field entirely to herself. But his campaign's key brilliant insight — to go after the delegate rich caucuses because Hillary, inexplicably, wasn't — would have worked if he had started six months or more later, precisely because Hillary wasn't focusing on them. How much money did he waste? Clearly, not enough to matter; but certainly the first nine months of 2007 were a wash for both of them.
And on the Republican side? Romney and Giuliani might just as well have lit a match to the combined $140 million they spent in 2007, for all the good it did them.
Why did it all start so early — when, for example, Bill Clinton didn't have a single paid staffer until September 1991?
Simple. Everybody was feeding the beasts. There was the media beast, eager for an early race. There was the Washington beast, that astonishingly parochial creature, always ready to announce some candidate is dead in the water because that candidate didn't do exactly what Washington Beast Leader #3 wanted him to do at exactly the moment Leader #3 thought it needed to be done.
There was the Ideologue Beast, which wanted to get everybody on record as early as possible on checklist issues — abortion, Iraq, Kelo (look it up), card check, NAFTA, CAFTA, and any other AFTA you could name.
There was the campaign-industry beast, which always insists it's one minute before midnight and unless you line up that assistant chairman of the New Hampshire Maple Syrup Lincoln Day Dinner, someone else will take him and you'll never get the prime position at the pancake breakfast two weeks before the vote.
The campaign-industry beast cannot be underestimated here. Fundraisers want to fundraise. Pollsters want to poll. Media people want to make commercials (and YouTubes). They want to play, and they want to be paid as early as possible, for obvious reasons.
I think it's fair to say that the candidates got suckered, a little bit. Obviously, on the Democratic side, the unprecedented amounts of money and media attention and the sheer length of the two-person race ended up generating an astounding number of primary votes (38 million) and perhaps creating the momentum that will carry Obama over the threshold on November 5. But it's also far from clear that he needed it, exactly; unless he receives a vastly greater number of votes than John Kerry's 59 million, it will probably be fair to say that he got the Democratic votes he could have expected in any case and would have gotten them in any case.
On the Republican side, the year 2007 apparently existed primarily to create a crisis for John McCain that he was then able to resolve. Everything else we wrote about that year — Rudy's popularity on the stump that faded to nothing, the potential meaning of a Fred Thompson run that came to mean nothing, Mitt Romney's embrace of conservatism rather than technocratic centrism, Mike Huckabee's Iowa straw poll surge, etc. etc. — was all sound and fury signifying nothing.
Perhaps candidates will be wiser in 2012 and 2016 and not allow themselves to play this game again. On the other hand, it's very hard to resist it once it has happened.


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Win or lose I'm not in favor of a rematch either way. A second game proves what? If Bama wins first and then replays LSU in the BCS Championship then you have a 1-1 tie. You almost need a game 3 to determine a champion. If Bama loses tomorrow and then gets rematched against LSU and win, you can just hear all of the LSU fans saying "We beat you in Tuscaloosa, we should be co-Champions." I would want it to be a clear cut case, National Champions no if's or but's. Plus the Sugar Bowl would be a home field advantage for LSU, like Bama playing in Birmingham. Let's just beat them tomorrow and forget about it.
I do think we'll win and actually not even very close when it's all said and done. Bama 28-LSU 10.
I'm an Alabama fan and I didn't really care who won that game but even I was pissed at the game management by Miles. I was screaming, "Call timeout, call timeout" and that whole drive was just poor, poor play calling. Jefferson taking a sack, throwing out in the flat and then not having the kicking team ready. After that first pass that got LSU down to the 32, the kicking team should have been huddled ready to run on the field at any minute. The obvious thing that was going to happen was for LSU to kick a field goal so where were they?
If I'm an LSU fan, I would be so pissed, heck I feel for you guys. That was high school coaching right there, wow!


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This is not a book to be rushed through in the mad dash for bedtime. Though it's short, with only a few lines of text on each page, this is a book that should be savored. Beautiful watercolor illustrations sweep across every page, bringing to life the story of Harris, the wild hare, who learns to find his feet. Harris's grandpa shows him how to use his enormous feet to hop into the sky, climb to the tops of mountains, and run very fast. At the end of the book, Grandad finally decides Harris is ready to discover the world on his own, leaving readers with a bittersweet and thoughtful end to this story. Children will connect with this little rabbit's journey of independence, and parents will appreciate the lesson of self-discovery. (Good Books, $16.95)


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God delights in giving his people the real thing to eat. "Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food." The Hebrew word for rich is literally fat. The feast that he provides in the gospel is not a meager, low-carbohydrate or low-fat diet. He brings the real thing: real bread, real steaks, real Parmigiano Reggiano – the best food and the best wine. He blesses his people with a rich banquet and authentic cuisine, a cuisine that is redemptive-historical. In other words, the preaching served to the people in the local church should always use a method that preaches Christ responsibly from the whole Bible.
Of course, the term 'redemptive-historical preaching' is somewhat elastic, at least in Reformed circles. It is similar to the phrase 'covenant theology;' not everyone means the same thing when they use it. For example, I have sometimes heard people caricature redemptive-historical preaching as preaching that ignores the imperatives of Scripture and leaves little place, if any, for application. That is a most unfortunate misrepresentation of what I (and many preachers far more experienced and able than myself mean by the term). Redemptive-historical preaching, in its most simple definition, is preaching that preaches Christ from all the Scriptures. It assumes that the Scriptures are not a collection of timeless principles in abstract, but a coherent record of progressive revelation that tells the story of God redeeming a people for himself through the Person and Work of Christ his Son. It takes seriously Christ's admonition to the Pharisees who missed the point of this story: "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me" (John 5.39). It is the kind of preaching that Christ himself did to his disciples on the road to Emmaus, where, "beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself" (Lk 24.27). It applies biblical theology, which, as Graeme Goldsworthy notes, "is nothing more or less than allowing the Bible to speak as a whole: as the one word of the one God about the one way of salvation."
It is the Bible's prescribed method that proclaims Old Testament characters such as Noah, Joseph, David and Daniel preached primarily not as moral examples to imitate, but as sinners in the unfolding drama of redemptive history who foreshadowed Christ. It is a method of preaching that takes seriously Edmund Clowney's warning that "it is possible to know Bible stories, yet miss the Bible story."
The Bible is much more than William How stated: 'a golden casket where gems of truth are stored.' It is more than a bewildering collection of oracles, proverbs, poems, architectural directions, annals, and prophecies. The Bible has a story line. It traces an unfolding drama. The story follows the history of Israel, but it does not begin there, nor does it contain what you would expect in a national history. The narrative does not pay tribute to Israel. Rather, it regularly condemns Israel and justifies God's severest judgments. The story is God's story. It describes His work to rescue rebels from their folly, guilt, and ruin.
Starving, weary souls need to hear this story line and unfolding drama that culminates in the Person and Work of Christ.
Sadly, however, there will always be local chefs who deviate from the Bible's cuisine. Let them be urged to keep it authentic. "The preacher's business," said R.L. Dabney, "is to take what is given him in the Scriptures, as it is given to him, and to endeavor to imprint it on the souls of men. All else is God's work." Fusion food might be a fun fad in our postmodern culture, but it has no place on the spiritual menu in the local church.
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Vance County commissioners successfully reduced the overall budget by $455,875 (1 percent) after 16 very public hours of line by line review.
On June 13, they listened to the county manager's "final" adjustments to the budget that restored $82,312, or 18 percent, of the commissioners' cuts.
Without a whimper, commissioners agreed to restore those cuts, netting the commissioners' budget cuts to $373,563, or 0.8 percent of the original budget proposal.
What was in those dinners and lunch the taxpayers' bought the commissioners that clouded their minds? Clouded, so much so, that the commissioners agreed to add a $57,383 planner to the Planning Department, even though the director of planning was unable to justify the position when queried by four commissioners.
I offer these suggestions for inclusion in the commissioners' approval of the budget on Monday, June 23:
• Commissioners and staff will pay for their meals effective July 1, 2014, for all meetings, including committee meetings.
• The finance director will present a quarterly financial report similar to the corporate world, starting October 2014.
• The county manager will develop and recommend a plan for review at the annual retreat to utilize 21st century technology to cut postage costs and paper costs by at least 50 percent where legally applicable.
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Since it's summer, this edition of Fiction Friday is a bit different. Instead of highlighting one book, we want to show you a whole, ever expanding series. The library figures that because of all this beautiful summer weather, you may need more than one book to keep you busy! For today's entry, we have chosen the Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan. You might think, "Hey that sounds familiar!?" It probably is if you followed the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series or watched the motion pictures! This series is the continuation of…continue reading →


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100 American Independent Films (2nd Edition, Bfi Screen Guides) : An increasingly pervasive influence on contemporary European cinema and mainstream Hollywood, American independent films have frequently provided the most experimental and distinctive voices in US cinema. A whole generation of innovative and idiosyncratic American film-makers, including Steven Soderbergh, Todd Haynes, Hal Hartley and Spike Lee, emerged during the critical and commercial renaissance of the late 1980s and 90s. In this revised and updated new edition, Jason Wood provides a guide to one hundred of the most interesting and influential American independent films, featuring indie classics such as Shadows, Blood Simple and Reservoir Dogs, with twenty-five brand new entries, including recent releases such as Old Joy, Junebug and Me and You and Everyone We Know. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, a commentary on the film's significance, production and exhibition history and cross-references to other films. The new edition also includes prefaces by film-makers Tom Kalin and Scott McGehee and David Siegel, as well as an introduction by Jason Wood charting the history and defining features of American independent film.
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In an era when the naming of restaurants resembles the naming of Japanese cars the ideal being a single, elegant, mysterious word like "Incanto" or "Lexus" it seems rather daring to give a new place such a defiantly plain, yet weirdly complex, name as Flour + Water. One suspects that the idea is to suggest simplicity and forthrightness, but a certain austerity is also implied not to mention the ubiquitous ness of flour in this country. We eat way too much flour, too much of it white and refined. It silts up our insides. I do like the "+" for its distinctiveness.
As it happens, pizza crust consists largely of flour and water, and one of the bigger deals at Flour + Water (which opened by a pair of Davids, White and Steele, late in the spring on the ground floor of a big Victorian building in the innermost heart of the Mission District) is pizza. The pies are made in the Neapolitan style, which means a thin crust and a very hot oven. This style of pizza has become very, very popular in San Francisco in the past few years a winsome development for those of us who suffered through a long Dark Age of foam-rubber crusts. Are Flour + Water's crusts up to the high standard set by Pizzeria Delfina, Gialina, Pizzetta 211, and Piccino? That, Horatio, is the question.
The duet of flour and water also figures in pasta, but the routine here can be more complex, since if you replace the water with egg, you end up with noodles. Flour + Water's excellent pastas are hand-rolled, just from semolina flour (the slightly yellowish stuff produced from durum wheat) and water, I would guess. The name we give to this combination, macaroni, faintly suggests that it came from a box on a supermarket shelf, but in fact Flour + Water's pastas are not only brilliantly sauced but produced in unusual shapes with evocative names "maltagliati," for instance, or "rags," a type of pasta made from leftover scraps. One evening I saw a plate of this arriving at the festive table next to ours, and it did look like a tiny pile of old clothes waiting to be stuffed into a Goodwill bag.
My own plate of pasta, already dispatched, had consisted of agnolotti ($16), a swarm of little ravioli-like pockets filled with seasoned minced pork and bathed in a sauce of butter, Parmesan cheese, and parsley. (Our well-schooled server said that the name meant "clouds," but I might have misunderstood her; "agnolotti" is also said to refer to the shape of priests' hats.) The pasta itself had the slight, not-unpleasant toughness I associate with fresh macaroni; fresh noodle pasta is a bit more pliant and luxurious. It's like the difference between wool and cashmere.
Given the apparent pedigree of the pizza operation (chef Thomas McNaughton's kitchen has its own pizzaiolo, Jon Darsky), I was struck by the condition of the crust under a margherita pie ($12 for a decent-sized one). I am all for blistering, and the restaurant's Web site boasts of an ultra-hot oven, but there is a difference between blistering and charring. Blistering good, charring bad. Charring makes an un-pretty spectacle and leaves an off taste we are talking about burnt flour, after all while research suggests that it's bad for you. By the time we were done with the pie, the serving tray was littered with twisted little lumps of charcoal, like burned-out tanks on a miniature battlefield. The toppings were fine and included fior di latte (a mozzarella cheese made from cow's rather than water-buffalo milk). The half-wilted basil leaves clearly had spent some time in the oven.
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Reply-25#41 - oldlifetwo (06/25/2013) [-]
troll, the best at ruining of lives, the most feared, WRONG. For, the true Anonymous will rise again, and our power will be twice as strong! For, behind the masks, we are invisible. You will know our presence, you will feel our wrath, and you will know what it truly means to be encountered by Anonymous! Come, my fellow anonymous brothers, join me in our quest to regain the glory we were once so acclaimed to have. I offer my hand to you, brothers. Anonymous.
TL;DR The true Anons will return.
TL;DR The true Anons will return.
#100 to #41 - zorororonoa (06/25/2013) [-]
#72 to #41 - eonsmashface (06/25/2013) [-]
I haven't comment in a while.. your post inspired me.. I just don't know HOW to insult you.
so here's my best attempt; Get off funnyjunk, it's starting to hurt you, you attention seeking maroon.
so here's my best attempt; Get off funnyjunk, it's starting to hurt you, you attention seeking maroon.
#69 to #41 - originalanonymous (06/25/2013) [-]
I am the original and i plan on doing no such thing.
#63 to #60 - anon (06/25/2013) [-]
I don't know where the **** you heard that, but you're wrong. No one can let you or stop you from joining anonymous because you don't know who is and isn't part of it, and anyone going on about how how they are "super 1337 anonymoose hax0rs" are missing the point and doing it wrong
#68 to #63 - rainbowblast (06/25/2013) [-]
You are correct and even the members of lulzsec said that it was better if a person who believed in their ideals weren't a hacker. A mass of physical protesters can make a much larger difference than hackers ever will be able to.
Reply+2#64 to #63 - Shenanigins (06/25/2013) [-]
Seriously, being asked to join would defeat the whole, "anonymous," purpose of it.
#61 to #60 - Shenanigins (06/25/2013) [-]
...no. Anonymous isn't an organization it's just a loose collaboration of people working towards a similar goal. There are no leaders of Anonymous, there are no secret passwords to enter Anonymous, because the people in ARE anonymous, as in they don't have their identities out there.
#66 to #61 - electrozz (06/25/2013) [-]
No, I know that, but what I was trying to say is that if you have no skill in actual things that are important to them, you really shouldn't try to be one of them. They've got groups of people who know each other and work together. Like the attack on a news station. That would require multiple hackers. And it (supposedly) did. If you do decide to become a part of anonymous, you should at least try to form a small group that has some way of collaborating with each other to form organized attacks of certain places. After all, that's what anonymous is known to do.
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Frances DuVall, a native of Arkansas, was first employed by Northwestern State College as Reference Librarian in 1947; later her title was changed to Library Director and Associate Professor of Library Science. During the decade of the 1950's, DuVall, with the assistance of fellow librarian, Edith Gorman, created and developed a statewide program centering on DuVall's love of children's literature. This program, which is recognized as the third oldest children's choice award in the nation, is the Sequoyah Children's Book Award. The Oklahoma Library Association later assumed sponsorship and the program continues today. Based upon DuVall's original concept, the award is presented annually to the author of the book chosen as the favorite in voting by children in grades three to six throughout the state. The first winner of the award in 1959 was Fred Gibson, author of "Old Yeller." DuVall served as the first Chair of the Sequoyah Committee as well as Executive Secretary of the committee. In 1966, OLA honored DuVall for her leadership in this awards program.
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Monday, May 27, 2013
Revolt Fitness Week 4 Protein Pancakes Recipe - Changes are coming and
Staring next week (June 3, 2013) the Revolt Now Fitness program will change from 6 to 4 weeks. This will make it so much easier to follow along with the fitness and meal plan provided.
I am really excited to try this new schedule!
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A monthly membership is only $10! $27 for 3 months or $50 for the whole year! So much cheaper than a gym membership.
Check it out for yourself and join me and the other Revolt bloggers next week for the next month long Revolt Uprising!
Now for one of my favourite recipes on this program.
Having a breakfast high in protein will keep you full and help start your day off right. Here is my favourite breaksfast recipe on the program so far.
Banana Protein Pancakes
3 egg white (or 2 full eggs)
1 medium banana
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 scoop protein powder (optional)
Mix all the ingredients in a blender. Cook as you would regular pancakes.
Tip - I like to use coconut oil for these pancakes because of the health benefits and the great flavour it adds!
Topping options - fresh fruit, unsweetened applesauce or small drizzle of real maple syrup.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Revolt Now Fitness Week 3 and and Free Week Trail for You!
Week 3 has come and gone.
This week I didn't see much change up or down in weight but also didn't put in a much work as I have in past weeks. This week, it's back at it again! Two steps forward, one step back, right?
The Revolt Now Fitness site is now up and running. There is a special one week kickstart trial for Littles Rule the Roost readers! You can sign up on the website. Once you take a look at what the creator, Nicole, has changed in her life and tried out the program, I know you will love it as much as the rest of us do!
It's only one week.
What have you got to lose except some weight and inches!!
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Revolt Now Fitness - Week 2 Update
The second week of Revolt Now Fitness was filled with some good and some not so good.
First, the not so good - I didn't do the full compliment of workouts. Life just seemed to get in the way this week. It happens. But, I did get some physical activity in anyway! It is now nice enough to walk DD to school and back. Gardening season is in full swing and, boy, are my muscles feeling it! Raking, shoveling, hauling, bending, digging - my body is still getting a workout.
This week, I am going to fit my 30 minute workouts in - even with the gardening.
Second - the good - even though this week was ideal, I still lost 1 pound and a total of 4 inches! Not too shabby!
Week 3 here I come!
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Maple Bacon Butter Tarts - Amazing Appetizers Culinary Challenge featuring California Raisins
A mix of sweet and salty.
Distinctly Canadian.
And did I mention bacon???
Butter tarts are staple around The Littles household during family gatherings and celebrations. The addition of Canadian maple syrup and bacon bring an interesting yet delectable twist on this Canadian classic.
These tasty little tarts can be made mini sized for appetizers or regular sized for dessert.
Use your favourite pastry recipe for the tart shells or use premade ones like the ones from Tenderflake, like I did.
Maple Bacon Butter Tarts
1/4 cup maple syrup
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 Tbsp melted butter
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup crispy bacon, broken into little pieces (I used Maple Leaf Lazy Maple Bacon)
1/2 cup raisins
boiling water
Soak raisins in boiled water (this is the secret to great butter tarts). Mix maple syrup, brown sugar, melted butter, eggs and vanilla until well combined. Drain raisins. Divide raisins and bacon equally between the tart shells. Pour batter over raisins and bacon in each shell until the shell is 1/2 - 3/4 full.
Bake at 350 for 10-15 minutes.
Disclosure - I wrote this post as an entry into the Eat Write Retreat Amazing Appetizers Culinary Challenge. I was provided with cooking tools from OXO and California Raisins to complete my recipe.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Mother's Day Gift - Sutton Smithworks Jewelery
Is there a mom out there that doesn't like getting jewelery as a gift for Mother's Day?
Sutton Smithworks is a Winnipeg jeweler that handcrafts beautiful jewelery.
Not only do they carry the traditional family rings and charms, but they can also create a unique piece that would be sure to make any mom happy.
What's more personal than a fingerprint? A new trend in jewelery is to have a fingerprint stamped into it. The stamp can be made into a ring or a pedant as pictured above. You can even have a paw print done if you have fur-babies!
The carved photo pendant or photo etched pendant are unique to Sutton Smithworks. I have not seen like them anywhere else. The detail that is captured in pendant when compared to the photo you provided is unbelievable! Great way to preserve a memory.
Check out their website to see an example of how they took pieces from an old china tea set and turned it into a beautiful pendant. What a great way to preserve a family memory using an inherited piece of china that may otherwise go unused.
Have something else special in mind? Stop by and have a chat with the staff. There are two goldsmiths on site that can create pieces that are only limited by your imagination!
Disclosure - This is a sponsored post. I received a pendant in exchange for this post. All views expressed are my own.
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Memorial Service Set For Five Fort Bliss Soldiers
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A memorial service will be held this month at a West Texas post for five soldiers killed in a bombing in Afghanistan.
Officials at Fort Bliss say a service has been scheduled May 22 at the post chapel.
The five Fort Bliss soldiers died May 4 in Maiwand, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when an improvised bomb damaged their vehicle.
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Dietetic Technology
A Dietetic Technician, trained in food and nutrition, is an integral member of the health care, business and industry, public health, food-service, and research team. Merritt's training focuses on health care where Dietetic Technicians Registered (DTR's) work cooperatively with Registered Dietitians (RD's) both of which are registered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (CDR/AND). The DTR is the professional practitioner who screens clients for nutritional risk, assists in their nutritional care, and supervises food production and service.
In California a "Dietetic Technician Registered" is legally defined through a Scope of Practice law [1] (Business and Profession Code Section 2585-2586.8), which requires that Dietetic Technicians be registered with the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics [2] (CDR/AND), 120 South Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL, 60606-6995, phone 312-899-0040.
Merritt graduates of Track 1 and 2 are registration eligible because they have met the CDR/AND requirement of:
An Associate degree or higher from a US regionally accredited college or university or foreign equivalent
Successful completion of a ACEND accredited didactic program (DPD or DT)
Successful completion of 450 hours of supervised practice within a ACEND accredited DT program
Meritt graduates will become registered when they have passed the CDR's certification exam.
Merritt's DT program is Developmentally Accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics [3] (ACEND/AND) through December 2004 at which time full initial accreditation will be considered. CADE is located at 120 South Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL, 60606-6995. phone 312-899-0040 X5500, FAX 312-899-4772.
Every Merritt DT graduate will receive a verification statement and an AS Degree in Dietetic Technology (Track 1) or a verification statement and a Certificate of Achievement in Dietetic Technology with prior degree (Track 2), which will qualify her/him to become a Dietetic Technician Registered after s/he has passed a national exam.
Mission, Goals, And Outcome Measures
The Program mission is to provide the highest quality dietetics education that meets all professional standards and serves both the community and student needs.
DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM MISSION and GOALS
The Department mission is to provide the highest quality dietetics education that meets all professional standards and serves both the community and student needs.
The mission of the Dietetic Technology Program is to prepare competent entry level Dietetic Technicians through education and training that meets all professional standards and train students to display superior customer service and collaborate with empathy in a diverse community.
GOAL 1: The Program will provide the guidance, skills and support necessary to complete the program in a timely manner.
GOAL 2: The Program will prepare its graduates to be readily employed in nutrition and dietetics or a related field; or to continue their education at a higher level.
GOAL 3: The program will prepare its graduates for active participation in the profession as leaders, mentors, and preceptors.
GOAL 4: The program will develop practitioners who are responsive to community needs and who have the ability to collaborate in a diverse environment.
Program Goal 1
The Program will provide the guidance, skills and support necessary to complete the program in a timely manner.
1. Students will graduate from the program within five years of entry 80% of the time.
2. The Survey of Current DT Students will show a mean of at least 4.0 on a 5.0 Leichert Scale response to questions regarding the level of guidance, support, and encouragement they have received from program faculty. The survey will be administered twice a year.
Program Goal 2
The Program will prepare its graduates to be readily employed in nutrition and dietetics or a related field; or to continue their education at a higher level.
1. Over a 5-year period, at least 70% of graduates will be employed in a dietetics related field within 3 months of completing the program
2. One hundred percent of graduates will participate in an Exit Interview, where evidence of completion of all competencies and evaluation by preceptors is presented in portfolio format and job search resources are provided
3. An evaluation of knowledge, skills, and competence by employers of program graduates at one and two years post graduation will show a mean rating of satisfactory or above.
Program Goal 3
The program will provide the training, experiences and opportunities in supervised practice to support the successful completion of the Dietetic Technology registration exam.
1. At least 80% of all graduates will sit for the DTR exam within 1 year. The actual number of first time examinees will be reported to the Program Director who will compare to the number of verification statements issued. A question regarding exam attempt and reasons for not attempting will be included on The Graduate Survey.
2. Over a five-year period, the pass rate for the DTP Graduates taking the registration examination for the first time will be at least 80%.
Program Goal 4
The program will develop practitioners who are responsive to community needs and who have the ability to collaborate in a diverse environment.
1. Preceptors will be asked to rate program students regarding their cultural competence and ability to function as part of a diverse team. The target will be a mean of 3.5 on a Leichert Scale of 1-5.
2. Employers will be ask to rate the graduates they hired (at one year and two years) regarding their cultural competence and ability to function as part of a diverse team. The target will be a mean of 4.0 on a scale of 1-5.
3. At least 50% of graduates will become a member of a professional organization as reported on graduate survey at one and two years post graduation:
4. Graduates list one or more activities that they have done to contribute to their community.
Admission Requirements
To Merritt College: must be at least 18 years old or a high school graduate or passed the high school proficiency examination or GED.
To the Dietetic Technology Program: must have a Student Education Plan showing projected completion of either Track 1 or Track 2 within 2 semesters.
For Those Students Who Have Not Previously Completed An Associate Or Higher Degree
General Education:
See Merritt College Catalog [4] for general education requirements for an Associate of Science degree.
Major Requirements:
The following courses are required for the AS Degree in Dietetic Technology to fulfill the accreditation knowledge and skills requirements of CADE/ADA.
BIOL 24: Basic Anatomy & Physiology (4 units)
PSYCH 1: Intro to General Psychology (3 units)
ANTHR 3: Intro to Social & Cultural Anthropology (3 units)
MATH 203 or higher: Intermediate Algebra (4 units)
ENGL 1A or equivalent or higher: English Composition and Reading (4 units)
COMM 20: Interpersonal Communication (3 units)
HLTOC 201: Medical Terminology (2 units)
NUTR 10: Basic Nutrition (4 units) or BIOL 28 or BIOL 31 or equivalent
NUTR 12: Nutrition and Disease (3 units)
NUTR 30: Sanitation & Safety (2 units)
NUTR 31: Food Production Systems (3 units)
NUTR 32: Supervision and Training (3 units)
NUTR 70A: Seminars in Supervised Practice--Level A (2 unit)
NUTR 71A: Rotations in Supervised Practice--Level A (2 units)
NUTR 70B: Seminars in Supervised Practice--Level B (3 unit)
NUTR 71B: Rotations in Supervised Practice--Level B (2 units)
NUTR 70C: Seminars in Supervised Practice--Level C (3 units)
NUTR 71C: Rotations in Supervised Practice--Level C (2 units)
Other Recommended Courses:
NUTR 25: Weight Management Practices and Principles
Other Courses Required by Peralta Community College District
CIS 205: Computer Literacy (1 unit)
Ethnic Studies: Area 5 (3 units)
If you have already completed coursework which you believe is equivalent, please request that an official transcript be sent to PCCD Admissions and Records [5] and to the Program Director, Nutrition & Dietetics at Merritt College. Also register for NUTR 1 and bring a copy of your transcript to be evaluated for equivalency and currency.
Recommended Sequence of Courses for Summer Plus 4 Semesters (employed students usually take longer):
NUTR 70B, NUTR 71B, SPCH 20, PSYCH 1A, ANTHR 3, electives
NUTR 70C, NUTR 71C, an Ethnic Studies course, a Humanities course, Electives
Students who plan to transfer to a baccalaureate degree program are recommended to contact the receiving institution since required courses vary.
TRACK 2: Certificate Of Achievement In Dietetic Technology
If you already have a degree Associate or higher, you may qualify under one of the three categories:
1. With a Verification Statement from and Accredited University
2. Without a Verification Statement
3. With a Degree earned outside the US
1. With a Verification Statement
Graduates of a ACEND/AND accredited Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) who present an original verification statement from the Program Director of the DPD Program to the DT Program Director and an original transcript from the degree granting institution may apply to complete the 450 hours of supervised practice (NUTR 70-71 A-C).Upon successful completion of the supervised practice, the graduate will earn a Merritt College Certificate of Achievement and the DT Program Director will provide the graduate with another verification statement. The graduate is now qualified to apply to the CDR/ADA to sit for the Dietetic Technician Exam to become a Dietetic Technician Registered.
Certificate of Achievement Requirements:
NUTR 70A Seminar in Supervised Practice, Level A(2 unit)
NUTR 70B Seminar in Supervised Practice, Level B (3 units)
NUTR 70C Seminar in Supervised Practice, Level C (3 units
NUTR 71A Rotations in Supervised Practice, Level A (2 units)
NUTR 71B Rotations in Supervised Practice, Level B (2 units)
NUTR 71C Rotations in Supervised Practice, Level C (2 units)
Total required units: 14
2. Without a Verification Statement
Applicants with an Associate-degree or higher from a regionally accredited U.S. college or university must provide the DT Program Director with an original degree transcript and evidence that they have completed the equivalent courses needed to satisfy the ACEND/AND Foundation Knowledge and Skills requirements (courses listed under "Dietetic Technology: Degree Major Requirements"). Additional coursework (as determined by the DT Program Director) beyond the seminar lectures and 450 hours of supervised practice may be required.
Please enroll in NUTR 1 to have your transcript evaluated and to develop an individualized plan.
Credit for prior coursework is granted on an individual basis based on the recommendation of the Program Director and approval of college administration.
The applicant will be admitted to the DT Program when they are within two semesters of completion of all requirements listed below.
Certificate of Achievement Requirements:
NUTR 70-71 A-C as listed above.
Plus any courses listed under "Dietetic Technology: Degree Major Requirements" not previously completed.
3. With a Degree earned outside the US
Applicants are required to provide evidence of equivalency through an evaluation service recommended by CADE/ADA. The applicant proceeds as specified in #2 above.
For information, call Program Director Mary Louise Zernicke at 510.436.2521 or email her at email@example.com [6].
Register for Nutrition 1, Survey of the Profession, to explore the full range of academic and career opportunities. This course will also provide an opportunity to review transcripts of courses completed elsewhere and to individualize your education plan.
Enroll on-line or call 510-436-2487 for registration assistance.
[1] http://www.dietitian.org/
[2] http://www.cdrnet.org/
[3] http://www.eatright.org/CADE
[4] http://www.merritt.edu/
[5] http://www.peralta.edu/apps/Pub.asp?Q=22
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When the final three football games of the season were approaching, the Poteau Pirates knew that they had to go 3-0 to make the playoffs.
The Pirates took care of the first game, a 41-21 win over Muldrow on Oct. 18 at Costner Stadium.
"We played real well," said Greg Werner, Poteau's first-year coach. "Muldrow is a team that's played a lot of people close. It felt good to get that one out of the way, and get back to our winning ways. Hopefully, we can get on a roll again. We're beat up, but we're ready to go."
Now, the Pirates will try to take care of the second game of the three-game set of must-win contests at 7:30 tonight as they travel to meet the Broken Bow Savages in a District 4A-4 game at Memorial Stadium.
The Pirates (5-3 overall, 2-3 in district play) must win out to have any shot at making the playoffs.
When Werner was hired last spring as Poteau's new football coach, he and his family knew tonight's game would be a different one than all the other contests this season, as he will face his former players.
"It's going to be weird, and it's going to be tough on me, my wife and [senior tight end] Jay," he said. "It's something that we're going to have to deal with. Fortunately, it's just a one-time thing, but it is a tough deal. It is what it is, and we're going to have to deal with it."
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District 4A-4 Standings
Team District Overall +/-
Tulsa Cascia Hall-x 5-0 8-0 +75
Fort Gibson-x 4-1 7-1 +45
Broken Bow 4-1 6-2 +37
Sallisaw 3-2 5-3 +18
Poteau 2-3 5-3 -10
Muldrow 1-4 2-6 -45
Stilwell 1-4 1-7 -45
Tulsa Rogers 0-5 1-6 -75
x — Clinched playoff berth.
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To Get There — Take U.S. Highway 59 south to U.S. Highway 259. Take U.S. 259 south to Broken Bow.


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Local residents talk about Marshville's future
Local people discussed their likes, dislikes, fears and wishes when it came to the town of Marshville Thursday at the town's community center.
From about 11 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Marshville residents, planning board members, town officials and others who attended the event, participated in various exercises that helped get their voices heard about the future.
The goal of the event was to gather value statements and thoughts that would help with the creation of a future plan for the town.
About 20 people attended the event. For the first session, participants paired into groups of two and wrote down five things they liked about the town that were later posted on a board in the front of the room. What the participants wrote was then placed into categories and discussed among all of them. A similar process was conducted when it came to participant's dislikes, fears and wishes for the town.
"These are going to be value statements we'll put into the plan later on," Bill Duston, who along with Jana McMakin, who hosted the morning session, said in reference to the items participants wrote and focused on during the event.
When it came to likes, comments about Marshville having a small town atmosphere filled up the board. When it came to dislikes and fears, thoughts about the town's infrastructure, public safety, growth and public participation, were some of the major concerns people mentioned.
"Most people have a lack of information about what's going on in the town," Fern Shubert, who attended and participated in the event Thursday, said.
An example she gave was that a lot of people didn't know about the public input sessions Thursday until she handed out flyers about them.
Other concerns people mentioned were repeated water main breaks in the town such as one that happened Wednesday as well as a lack of sewer service, a lack of new and diverse businesses in the town and a lack of recreation and youth facilities.
"I think what I am hearing is that infrastructure is the key to the town's future," Duston said while summarizing the overall thoughts of the group Thursday.
When it came to what people wished for the town's future, participants commented not only on finding ways to improve the town's infrastructure but also finding ways to attract more and diverse businesses to the town as well as finding ways to encourage more people to stay and be involved in the town instead of only staying a short time before moving onto other places.
Those who attended the morning session from 11 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. said they enjoyed being able to express their thoughts about the town and its future.
"I thought it was very rewarding and it will help us at the planning board," Virginia Morgan, a Marshville planning board member who participated in Thursday's event, said.
Attendees of the first session Thursday were invited to attend the evening session as well to give more of their thoughts.
"There was some lively discussion on issues affecting the town's future," Duston said in reference to the first public input session Thursday.
For more information about Thursday's comments and Marshville's future plan contact the town hall at 704-624-2515.