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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - Cal State Northridge men's volleyball opened its fall training camp on Monday, Oct. 10. A roster of 25 players entered camp as the Matadors prepare for the first of two fall tournaments this weekend at USC. The four-week camp wraps up in November at the UCLA SAC Tournament.
With several impact newcomers competing with the five returning starters from 2011, many of the positions in the 2012 starting lineup will be hotly contested battles in the fall.
With a largely inexperienced lineup, the Matadors finished 7-22 overall (5-17 MPSF) last season but look to regain their foothold among the elite teams in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in 2012.
After switching to outside hitter towards the middle of last season, senior Matt Stork returns to spearhead the Matador offense. Stork, a two-time All-MPSF setter in 2009 and 2010, had 189 kills (1.99) playing a little over half the season at outside hitter. Stork and sophomore outside hitter Brandon Lebrock accounted for 362 kills a season ago.
Sophomore Greg Faulker, a 2011 MPSF All-Freshman Team selection, will again team up with junior Drew Staker to form a solid middle blocking duo. Senior setter Danny Rodrick, who took over when Stork was moved to the outside, averaged 6.47 assists per game last season.
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Head coach Jeff Campbell, who enters his 15th season at the helm of the men's program, will get his first look at the team this weekend (Oct. 14-15) as the Matadors will play six matches at the USC Fall Tournament at the Galen Center Pavilion. Northridge will wrap up its fall camp at the UCLA SAC Tournament the weekend of Nov. 11-12.
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You want to build a psychological fence around the different sexes when they are young so that there is mutual respect, especially in aggressive boys toward girls.
Separate rooms help children understand that the sexes should not be lumped together as if boys and girls are all the same.
"Hands off!" should be the lesson boys learn when it comes to girls once they are old enough to act on their curiosity.
If there is room in your house to create another bedroom or add on, go ahead, but it's inappropriate for boys and girls to share a bedroom indefinitely.
Also, your son isn't going to be keen on the idea of baby sister always in his stuff and crying at night and "bugging" him all the time.
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They must have different rooms.
It is a law no matter if they are yours or adopted.
Best of luck
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its okay.... as long as they are little but girls start to understand what privacy is when they hit age 4 so it might not be the best idea once your little girl gets older
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if you own your own home its ok. but at certain age if you are having boy and girl you need to give them their rooms. i am thnking its about 7 to 10 that theys hould have own room. if you are renting its like 3 or so. they will not rent two bedroom when the kids are certain ages. take care.
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I think if they are both young, but I'd say that when the boy(oldest) is probably about 7, he should be getting his own room.
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It really depends on the social worker for that one, and in some places like where I live, a foster child must have their own bedroom, so I am assuming that goes for an adoptive child as well.
My own personal opinion is when gender identity is being formed (between 2-4) is around the time where kids of the opposite sex have to stop sharing bedrooms. Obviously they can still share at grandmas house or the hotel or whatever, but I think normally between the ages 2-4 years old thats when they should have bedrooms with only same-sex siblings.
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I'd say after 11 or 12, its a no go. As youngsters kids dont really have privacy issues or care to be honest. But as they enter puberty they are going to want privacy and their own space. Also adoption agencies will prefer a family that give the child its own bedroom, especially if its of the opposite sex.
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The state will require separate bedrooms.
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Brother and sisters are allowed to share a room together until the age of six.After that age the law requires the children to be in seperate rooms.I live in nj and have had dyfs at my house and if i didnt get a bigger apt or give up my room to one of my children they were going to take them away from me for neglect.Stupid huh..
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yes there are laws that describe at what age they need to have separate rooms. it all depends on what state you live in. call you children family services and ask them to mail you a policy/procedure regarding bedroom set ups....
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It's the ruling to separate boy and girl. Anything can happen if they are in a room. In my religion Islam, in the family, son and daughter, once they are adult, they must be separated. Boys and girls in separate room.
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nope but you should have something to seperate the room/for them to change behind
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Yes. A social worker would never allow you to co-habitate two children of the opposite sex especially since you've already had the boy. It's also kind of morrally wrong and an invasion of both of their privacy. What would you do when they got to the age of like 11?
You could transform your dining room or something into a bedroom...
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As a responsible parent, you should have two separate bedrooms for a girl and a boy.
Eventhough they are your own sons & daughters, they should have separate rooms for privacy.
Boys and girls has two distinct personalities.
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They shouldn't unless they are little. But especially if you are considering adoption you may want to think about expanding room #'s. it's important for each child to have their own bed and own dresser. If the room is big enough , try loking into rood dividers. again, a lot will depend on their ages
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If they were to come in your home to inspect then they would tell you that each child needs thier own room, I have a gf with 3 girls and 1 boy and she told me that the baby could share a room with him but that when she was old enough to sleep in her own bed they would have to seperate them.
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If you want to adopt a girl, you need to be looking for a larger house. I'm not sure if there are laws about adopting, but I do know that when I was pregnant we had to move and we were looking at an apartment and the landlord told us that because it was HUD housing if we were having a boy then we needed to get a 3 bedroom apartment because they will only allow the opposite sex in the same room if one is under 6 months. Besides, as the kids get older they develop modesty and will want their own space.
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Most of my children are grown and out of the house now, but I remember the family vacations we had when they were little. Sometimes we would go to the ocean and let the kids play in the sand. It was always Dad's job to help build the sandcastle. We would meticulously build the turrets, dig out the moat, and carve out the castle walls. That castle looked great—until the tide came in. No matter how big or elaborate we made our sandcastle, it would always meet the same fate—destruction.
Spiritually speaking, many well-meaning people have built their homes on a sandy foundation. They have put their trust in the sandy foundations of good works, sincerity, religion, and baptism, which can never get them into Heaven. The wise builder will always build his life upon the sure, solid, and scriptural foundation—Jesus Christ. The Bible says in Ephesians 2:20 that Jesus Christ alone is the foundation upon which our lives should be built.
Jerry and Julie were a couple that possessed a tremendous desire to be good people. They both had a religious background and staked their eternity on the sandy foundation of good works. I was in their home on a Tuesday evening sharing the Gospel of Christ with them when, about halfway through my presention, Julie began to weep. Through tears she said, "I knew I couldn't live a perfect life, but I kept trying!" I will never forget those words.
There are millions of families just like Jerry and Julie's that need a real, solid foundation that provides strength and stability for their lives. Here are a few sandy foundations you can help people avoid when sharing the Gospel:
Family heritage. In John 3:6–7, Jesus told Nicodemus, a very religious person, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." Nicodemus had a proud family heritage, but Jesus told him that his natural birth was not enough. He had to be spiritually reborn.
Religious tradition. Many people cling to their church, their sacraments, and their repetitious prayers to remove their sins. "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers…" (1 Peter 1:18).
Keeping the Ten Commandments. If you meet a person who says they try to keep the Ten Commandments, ask him to name all of them. Chances are, they do not even know the laws which are their hope for eternity. James 2:10 demolishes this false hope: "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
Moral superiority. An atheist group recently launched a campaign asking people to "be good for goodness sake," claiming people can be good without God. Jesus answered this claim in Mark 10:18, "And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God."
People all around us are staking their eternity on sandy foundations. It is our responsiblity to help them understand that their foundation is faulty without Jesus Christ. He is the only proven foundation.


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Dr. Leon R. Harshorn taught in the LDS Church's seminary and institute programs for several years, and at Brigham Young University for more than three decades. He has served as a bishop and a mission president. He is the author of several books, including Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration and Put on the Whole Armor of God.
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Two charged in prostitution bust
Police here say they got conflicting versions of how an admitted pimp wound up with the children of one of his prostitutes in his car.
The woman claims he told her he'd kill them if she didn't have sex with men he sent to her; the pimp says he was just taking care of the children while she worked.
Jonathan Daniel Lopez, 32, of 202 Two View Drive in Pigeon Forge, admitted to Pigeon Forge police officer Matthew Pendleton that he was running a prostitution ring, according to his arrest warrant. But he told the officer he was just providing day care for one of his employees by keeping her children, aged 2 years and five months, while she was working for him.
"Mr. Lopez admitted to being a 'pimp' but denied holding the children against the will of (their mother)."
The Mountain Press is not identifying the children's mother because she's the alleged victim of a sex crime.
The incident started Sunday when the woman's husband apparently went to the Cocke County Sheriff's Office and told officers there his family had been kidnapped, according to Pigeon Forge Police Chief Jack Baldwin. After some discussion, they realized the group could be in this area and contacted local authorities. "Luckily her husband went to the Cocke County Sheriff's Department, which was able to get us enough info to locate her," Baldwin said.
Pigeon Forge officers found the woman in Lopez's apartment; she said that he had showed her a revolver and threatened to harm her children unless she had sex with men he sent to the apartment.
Pendleton and other police officers found Lopez and a woman, Jennifer Diaz, driving in Diaz's car a short time later with the children inside. They didn't find a revolver in Lopez's possession, Baldwin said.
Diaz also told police she was just caring for the children. "Ms. Diaz advised she was babysitting for (the woman) while she was at Jonathan Lopez's apartment with a Hispanic male engaging in sexual activity for money," Pendleton wrote.
Lopez and Diaz cooperated when the officers stopped them, Baldwin said. The children were unhurt and were returned to their parents.
Police also found what they believed to be cocaine and marijuana in Lopez's home; the arrest warrants indicate he has previous convictions on drug charges in Florida.
They charged him with two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping, one count of aggravated kidnapping, promotion of prostitution, possession of a schedule II substance and possession of a schedule VI substance. He was being held at the Sevier County Jail Monday.
Diaz, 32, of 853 Montewood Circle in Pigeon Forge, was charged with promoting prostitution.


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The North American Tiddlywinks Association
T i d d l y w i n k s !
A compendium of tiddlywinks perversions by Sunshine, February 1976
Miniwinks, or squop games, is a game in which two players, armed with an equal number of winks, take alternate shots in an attempt to completely squop their opponent. Multi-miniwinks occurs when four or more players play the game. Two partners will eventually win the four player game by squopping out the two opponents, but the partnerships are not fixed at the start of a game. The four mercenaries embark on a game, playing in colour order, and making and breaking partnerships as the game proceeds. It is not unusual for a player A to double-cross and squop his "partner" B (with whom he has maybe spent the last few rounds plotting the destruction of the other players C and D), thereby winning the game in partnership with either C or D.
A policy of carefully limited involvement in the early stages tends to pay off - by which I mean inducing the other players to "do the work"-. One method of controlling play is for a player to squop an enemy wink and at a later shot to chip it out on to, or near to any winks, pile or cluster that suits his purpose. The result may or may not be to the liking of the newly freed wink. If green squops red, and next shot chips red next to a pile containing blue and yellow winks, the effect is strongly invitational for red to squop his new companions immediately. This sequence of plays may form the basis of a win for green and red. On the other hand, if green squops a blue, and next shot chips the blue next to hostile winks, red or yellow will get a chance to resquop before blue gets a chance to play. Green, by this policy, is trying to get all three opponents deeply involved in piles, so that one of them can be selected later to partner him in victory.
Complete isolation (by running away) is not to be recommended, for at least three reasons. Firstly it is negative and boring for the player concerned, being rather like attempting to win a game by default. Secondly it lessens the enjoyment of the other players and can therefore ruin beautiful friendships, and thirdly it is rarely successful against opposition who can chip each other, as described above, to capture a renegrade wink.
The game can be generalised to allow for more than four players. The game for five produces two winners and three squopped victims, the six player game three of each, and with seven players three win and four lose.
With seven players there is much more room for low cunning, threats and treachery and players less technically gifted can often do surprisingly well, gaining from the intrigue and suspicion plying around among the other players. It can safely be said that the seven player game enables the participants to display, within the rules, the most deplorable forms of human behavior, of which the parent game is happily innocent. (The above account comes from The Winking World, number 23.)
Many variations on the simple squop game exist, involving various numbers of winks and winkers. The usual game is a two player one, each player having six winks, with turns being alternated until one player is squopped out. This game is played in a limited area with no loss of turn for far flying winks.
One simple change is to restrict boondocking - inflicting a loss of turn for shooting one's wink off the table, or giving an offended wink a bonus shot to come back into play. Another change that could be used only affects the scoring of a long series of squop games. Instead of scoring each game 1-0, score 1 point for winning plus 1 point for each free (uninvolved) wink.
A rule that leads to large strategy modifications is having each player declare (on the completion of their current shot) which free wink they wish to shoot on their next turn. If the chosen wink is squopped by the time the turn is to be taken. anY other free wink may be used instead.
Another possible addition is that of the pot. Pot-squop can be played with two or more players, each starting with six winks 18 inches from the pot. Extra turns are given for potting enemy winks. The game ends when one player is in complete control of everyone else, or, as some players prefer, when only one player remains alive. This game is carried on to even greater heights in in a partnership game known as Five Way Pot Squop (see Parent Game variations).
And then there is Super Wink squop games. Each player receives, in addition to the standard two large and four small winks, one squidger to do battle with the smaller winks.
A tennis style match can also be played. Squop games are played on a 5 versus 6 basis, players alternating who has the one small wink advantage (the serve). Play until 6 wins, by a margin of at least two games.Tie breaker for 6-6 match is a best 2 of 3 regular squop game series.
A complex strategical game, utilizing potentially great quantities of colour order finesses, is called Scramble Squop. All 24 winks are randomly scattered, with a minimum distance of 1½ inches between winks, and with non-scrambling (or shuffling) player picking his starting colour and thegame proceeding in normal colour order with the absence of the pot.
Several forms of squop games exist for play between non-equal players besides the obvious handicapping method of extra wink(s). One procedure is to start with a six on six game but instead of the game being overwhen the designated weaker player is squopped out," loser" receives an extra wink at their baseline. game continues in this fashion until weaker player squops out the opponent. rare occurences of six winks vanquishing 18 winks have been recorded.
And finally, there is that very confusing perversion 3-way, 2-way (or n + 1/n way for larger quantities of players). Simply use one more colour than there are players (3 players - four colours) and play with a fixed people order and a fixed colour order until one colour wins. Strange piles develop, players get to shoot with winks they shot at and missed on their previous turn, and an amusing effect shows up when a colour is squopped out. Reducing number of winks per colour makes the game more likely to end before confusion reigns supreme. Game is excellent for non-competitive winking as well as practice for unequal players.
N players, each using six winks. On a given turn, a player uses all their non-squopped winks once in any order desired. Squopping one's own free wink results in a bonus shot for the squopping wink, provided that neither squopper nor squoppee has been involved in a bonus shot on the current turn. The bonus shot must be the next shot taken.
When a wink is squopped by two enemy winks (which need not belong to the same enemy) such that each is covering a part of the wink that the other is not, the squopped wink is dead and removed from the game. When a player has only one living wink, that wink has the bite, and any wink it squops is dead. The biter also receives an extra turn after any biting shots. If during a turn, an opponent's wink becomes free, it receives a shot (and any applicable bonus shots) immediately and then the original turn is to be completed. Should one colour squop out all opponents, the turn is completed and one additional compleat turn allowed before a wink must be freed. Game ends when only one colour remains.
With more than two players a non vulture rule may be imposed. To avoid one colour waiting for the others to weaken each other, this rule states that after a player's first two turns (when winks start in clusters two feet from each other ) that if he has three or more free winks, at least one squop of an enemy wink must be attempted.
Back to the table of contents of Sunshine's Alleghany Airlines Book Club Presents compendium of tiddlywinks perversions.
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Alex: TOP HATS
Daniel: FREAKING AWESOME TOP HATS
But for completeness' sake, the rest of the team's thoughts are below.
Chase Christian
Here's how I can sum up the first levels of the Worgen starting area:
Putting vehicles in as low as level 5, they're clearly working to get new game mechanics in the hands of lowbies as quickly as possible.
Daniel Whitcomb
Both races are incredibly fluid and beautifully animated. I am incredibly pleased. They keep the feel of the old NPC skins but are much more beautifully detailed, and at first glance do not appear to suffer any of the glitches and clipping issues that plague most PC races.
Class option wise, I can dig it, but I am a bit disappointed. No Worgen Paladins? The Gilneans are devoted followers of the Light. Even the Cataclysm starting movie showed a cathedral in Gilneas. I really wanted to see some genuine pissed off angry retributers of the Light ready to bring Holy Vengeance on the Defilers. If you can let Worgen and Goblins be Death Knights, let 'em be Paladins!
Elizabeth Harper
These new races really show how much Blizzard has learned since the game first launched -- and even since we last had new races in Burning Crusade. While original WoW starting zones drop you, one of many of your kind, into a chain of fairly non-descript quests of the kill ten rats variety, both Goblin and Worgen starting zones throw you into the middle of an epic story-line in which you're the hero. Much like the Death Knight "starting experience," the point of the Goblin and Worgen starting zones isn't just to give new characters enough levels and experience to join the larger world of Azeroth -- it's to tell a story. Here's to hoping the rest of Azeroth, post-Cataclysm, will feel less grindy and more epic, like these new starting zones!
Matt Low
I made a mistake when I created a Goblin. So what was the mistake?
I created a Hunter.
I have never played a Hunter before and I had no idea what to do. I just mashed buttons and prayed that I'd connect with my shots. One of the quests involved rescuing other goblins. I liked the idea of being created as the savior of the goblin people. The Goblin racials are great! Now I can sort of say that I can truly do some rocket jumping in the game. I picked a bad time to pick a class that I honestly didn't know how to play. I died a lot because I'd run into multiple mobs and I was unable to get range and shoot them.
The starting area looked great. It was very vibrant and tropical. Whatever detail they added in Wrath, they amped it up even more in the beta. And this is pre-beta.
I've learned my lesson. Look at the class selection closely before hitting the create character button.
Mike Schramm
I think the new races seem a little bit like fan service. They'll be extremely popular, and they are cool, but it does seem like they're tweaking the lore a bit to get them in there. The racials are very flashy, but the racials I'm most interested in -- the Goblin money discounts -- didn't come into play in the demo. The class options also seem a little like fan service, but I think that's only because the lore hasn't been explained yet: the Goblin's Injured Colleague quests seem like they're going a long way towards telling an epic story and making the new options make sense.
I like the Worgen starting area better than the Goblins, though the Goblins area seems like it could be a jungle-style Stranglethorn that people actually like, which is excellent. Haven't had much experience with the starting experiences yet -- it seems a little less epic than the Death Knight experience, though remember we're comparing a Hero Class to a character someone might be picking up for the first time.
I think both Worgen and Goblins will be super popular as races, and I think the combination of completely revamping the old world will mean that everyone and their mother will be rerolling on the exact same day. Fun? We'll see.
I was able to play both races and while I completely agree with all of the geeking out about the Worgen, I had more fun playing a Goblin. Both back-stories are delightfully dire, but the Goblins have a better sense of humor about their fate. I also love that gadgets play an intimate part of the Goblin existence -- as it should be. The rocket belt racials are powerful and fun, but gadgets are also played with for many of the quests. I was not able to play enough of either to really compare to the DK starting experience, but I predict I'll be rolling one of each character to experience both.
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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will destroy Azeroth as we know it. Nothing will be the same. In WoW.com's Guide to Cataclysm you can find out everything you need to know about WoW's third expansion. From Goblins and Worgen to Mastery and Guild changes, it's all there for your cataclysmic enjoyment.


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By Jordan Mackay on April 16, 2007 5:06 PM
If you look closely at this photo, you'll notice that each of the bottles has something in common. That's right, they're either empty or well on their way. The reason they got that way also has a common factor—my wife. She's a wine expert and her taste in wine is exceptional. So I was surprised to discover—well before we were married—that Christie's taste in after-dinner drinks runs to the sweet side of things.
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If you think covering the world of wine and spirits is fun, imagine going to work on a Saturday morning and tasting 16 vodkas before 10 a.m., followed by 14 flavored vodkas, then 13 white rums. This is my life . . .
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BOSTON — Mitt Romney is back, if only briefly.
The former Republican presidential candidate is re-emerging after nearly four months in seclusion at his Southern California home.
Former aides describe his burst of activity this month — a national broadcast interview, a speech at a gathering of conservatives — as a thank-you tour of sorts designed to close out a lengthy political career.
His party isn't exactly clamoring for his return.
In his first public comments in months, Romney used a Fox News interview to criticize President Barack Obama's leadership. Romney said Obama has been "flying around the country and berating Republicans and blaming and pointing" instead of preventing Washington's latest budget crisis.
In about two weeks, Romney is to deliver his first postelection speech, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
A few Republican governors who aggressively supported Romney's presidential bid last fall offered lukewarm responses in recent days to the question of Romney's future role in the GOP. Conservative leaders suggest that they are ready for a new era without a prominent Romney role.
"He has every right to be involved. And certainly he gave a lot for the cause," said Tim Phillips, president of the national conservative group Americans for Prosperity. "But most of the movement is wanting to look forward. They want to look forward to the next generation of leaders."
Without a public office or a prominent position in the private sector, Romney lacks a ready platform.
Before Romney, the previous two losing nominees, Republican John McCain in 2008 and Democrat John Kerry in 2004, eased their way back into national politics through the Senate seats they retained after the elections.
After his loss in 2000, former Vice President Al Gore appeared in a documentary film about climate change and became an outspoken advocate for environmental protections.
Romney, almost immediately after his defeat, retreated to the privacy of his California home. He surfaced in the national media in recent months only in photographs such as those showing him pumping gas and enjoying a day out with his family at Disneyland.
In his goodbye message to staffers at his Boston headquarters last November, Romney promised to remain an active voice in the party. Four months later, former aides say he is more likely to play a quieter role focused on fundraising, while using his status to help elevate issues from time to time.
"We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs. But the ride ends. And then you get off," Romney told "Fox News Sunday" in an interview taped Thursday. "And it's not like, 'Oh, can't we be on a roller coaster the rest of our life?' It's like, 'No, the ride's over.' "
Several Republican governors, already jockeying to fill a leadership vacuum in an evolving GOP, offered reserved responses when asked during last weekend's meeting of the National Governors Association about Romney's re-emergence.
"We need as many voices for conservative reform and leadership as possible," said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, among those Republicans thought to be weighing a 2016 presidential bid. "I welcome Governor Romney and anybody else who will help to make that message and help to take that fight."
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Romney has "a power in his voice that we want to see continue."
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Peru State criminal justice student, faculty place in 2012 American Criminal Justice Association Lambda-Alpha Epsilon Regional Conference Competition
(Peru, Neb.) Five Peru State College (PSC) criminal justice students and two faculty members recently competed against 140 of their peers at the American Criminal Justice Association- Lambda Alpha Epsilon (ACJA-LAE) Region 3 Conference Competition at Central Missouri State University. Three earned honors.
The ACJA-LA Conference consists of a series of competitions including academic testing, crime scene investigation, physical agility and firearms. Students and advisors competed in all of the competitions, with the exception of the firearms category.
In the Physical Agility category, PSC Criminal Justice Instructors Daniel Hayes and Ronicka Schottel won second and third place, respectively, in the men's and women's divisions. Andrew Horn, a senior criminal justice counseling major from Verdon, won third place in the men's division. Hayes also placed fourth in the Professional Division Corrections Academic Test.
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All are members of Kappa Omicron Rho, the Peru State chapter of ACJA-LAE, a criminal justice honors fraternity with more than 2,000 members nationwide.


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Here's an good article by Mr. Jeffery Tucker. I'm posting it for your benefit because it is so well written and so relevant for todays economy. High unemployment and the housing bust and foreclosure affect so many people including Christians who are not immune from the lousy economic decisions of our political leaders. Enjoy!
by Jeffrey Tucker
Where have all the workers gone?
One of the most bizarre happenings in our current economic environment has been the surprising collapse of the number of people in the labor pool. This reality adds a sting to the unemployment numbers. They are falling bit by bit, but so is the total pool of people who are even part of the count. Once people drop out, they disappear economically.
The trend for men in particular goes back half a century, but for all groups, the dropout rate accelerated dramatically after 2008:
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, economist Richard Vedder makes a rather obvious point -- obvious once it is stated. If people aren't working, they aren't producing. If they aren't producing, the economy is not growing. For this reason, he attributes a substantial part of the slow growth to this rather plain reality: Millions of people aren't doing anything.
"If today, the country had the same proportion of persons of working age employed as it did in 2000, the U.S. would have almost 14 million more people contributing to the economy. Even assuming that these additional workers would be 25% less productive on average than the existing labor force, U.S. gross domestic product would still be more than 5% higher ($800 billion, or about $2,600 more per person) than it actually is."
Makes sense.
The larger question concerns how and why this happened. I have my own theories about this, but let's first look at the evidence that Vedder himself comes up with to show that most of this can be explained by transfer programs like food stamps, disability insurance, student subsidies, and unemployment payments.
Let's look at each.
Food stamps were a slightly goofy subsidy to the big agriculture lobby back in the 1960s, fobbed off on the public as somehow essential to ending hunger. Today, food is cheaper and more plentiful than ever, and American waistbands reveal this fact. People talk about the plight of the hungry, but it is mostly a myth. We are the most stuffed society in the history of the world.
Yet even now, 47.5 million people are receiving food stamps, with an average benefit of $125 per month. That's 15% of the population. That's some pretty serious grocery purchases there. Big Ag is very happy about this. Must be nice to a have a pool of guaranteed customers who live off others.
Vedder makes the point that a major reason people work is to eat. If the eating part is guaranteed, why bother working?
With disability benefits -- the government program most famous for massive fraud and abuse -- it's the same story. Back in 1990, only 3 million people took checks. Today, that number is through the roof, so much that almost 8.6 million people get checks that provide the equivalent of a full-time income. And this has happened at a time when medical technology is better than ever at dealing with real disability.
Next comes the whole student racket. Back in 2000, not even 3.9 million young people received Pell Grant awards to go to college. Today, the number is approaching 10 million. Going to school is a great way to avoid having to work. Hey, but maybe all these desk sitters are absorbing fabulous information that they will soon spring on society in the form of dazzling innovations and productivity, and we will look back and say, wow, that was worth it after all.
OK, stop laughing.
Next comes unemployment. In the past, it was never possible to stay unemployed for a full year and still receive benefits. Now it is normal. Congress just keeps extending benefits, probably out of fear that if these people are pushed into the labor market, unemployment will go up and wages will fall and there will be a revolution. It's literally the case that government is paying millions of people to shut up and stay at home.
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What are we to make of Vedder's picture of the workforce? One gains the image of many millions of people sitting at home drawing checks, pretending to be students, stuffing their faces with tax-funded potato chips, and otherwise just living it up. If that's really true, that's not really suffering, is it? The data reported above indicate no real disaster, except for those of us footing the bill.
I actually don't think this is entirely the right way to look at it. The reality is that the labor market is broken today because it is not really a market in any normal sense. Many people are shut out due to more substantial problems. People are saddled with debt, terrified to lower their wage expectations, and completely shut out of a system that doesn't seem to accommodate the old expectations.
Think back to 100 years ago. Unemployment was practically unknown. Why? Because there was (and there still is) stuff to do and people to do it. So long as employers and employees could negotiate without a gigantic state interfering with them, everyone was happy. There was no income tax. There were no added benefits. There were no impositions on the right of association. People bounced from job to job, taking 100% of their earnings in the form of real money.
That was a great system while it lasted. It initially came about after the end of the feudal period and with the rise of the capitalist middle class. Average people actually made money for the first time in the history of the world, and it was pretty cool. There was no shortage of jobs.
That whole system came to an end during the Great Depression and World War II. It began when the government dared to decide who could and could not work and under what terms. This was the first step in what amounted to the nationalization of the labor pool. Kids could not work. No one could work apart from a government-dictated wage. The amount of time they could work would be regulated.
Then, in World War II, two additional changes came about. Taxes would be taken out of the paycheck by the government, and the taxpayer would get back later whatever the government didn't keep. Millions of people began to think of the government as their benefactor. Wage controls then led some large companies to pay employees in benefits like health care, a practice that was later pushed more broadly.
This is not the way the free market works. Workers prefer to be paid with money, plain and simple. That's because money is the most liquid good. It can be converted to anything else. It is what gives choice and personal empowerment.
Today, the government's system is pretty well locked down and super sticky. The costs of bad hires are very high for employers, so they are super cautious. The clarity of the work contract is gone. The market is not being allowed to operate.
Adding to the problem is the issue of housing. Many of the millions of people who have dropped out also own homes they can't sell at a profit, which means that they are not in a position to move. The house works as a kind of brake on personal progress.
This is a story of demoralization created not by a few government programs, but by hundreds, among which is the boom and bust cycle itself. The excluded workers are victims, and no less so because of their privilege of drinking unlimited amounts of soda at your expense.
Ending this problem is going to require doing far more than cutting food stamp allocations and cleaning up disability graft. It will require a complete dismantling of 100 years of attempts by government to do things to help American workers.
Jeffrey Tucker
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Staff Report / 26 April 2012
The sixth edition of Cityscape Abu Dhabi concluded , bringing an end to four successful days of the latest real estate development updates and announcements, both locally and internationally.
Several major UAE based developers showcased their key developments to visiting investors and partners from more than 80 countries. Among them, Sorouh Real Estate launched its retail property brand Boutik, aimed at enhancing the lifestyle experience at some of its major developments.
The Abu Dhabi based developer will open its first Boutik branded space in Sun and Sky Towers on Al Reem Island in June this year, hosting the first ever Waitrose supermarket in Abu Dhabi. In the second half of the year, Sorouh will also open the grade A shopping mall, Boutik Al Ain, home to a Carrefour hypermarket.
Gurjit Singh, Chief Operations Officer at Sorouh said: "Cityscape Abu Dhabi continues to be one of the most important real estate exhibitions in the MENA region, and we continue to support this annual gathering to demonstrate our commitment to Plan Abu Dhabi 2030 and the long-term vision for the economic development of the emirate."
Baniyas Investment and Development Company (BIDC) also showcased its award winning development, Bawabat Al Sharq project, in Bani Yas city. The investment and development arm of the Bani Yas Club had a busy year in 2011, when they launched the luxurious Andalucian style villas on Bawabat Al Sharq. The distinct three, four, and five bedroom villas were the focal point of BIDC's exhibition stand at Cityscape Abu Dhabi this year, and will begin to be handed over to owners by the end of 2013.
"Cityscape Abu Dhabi is the most important real estate show in Abu Dhabi, providing a unique platform to learn of the latest market updates of the regional real estate industry," said Wael El Ashry, Commercial Vice President at Baniyas Investment and Development Company.
"Being a key player in the real estate industry, Baniyas Investment and Development Company participated this year to gain an overall analysis of the current real estate market scenario, as well as to showcase our flagship developments." While major local real estate developers were busy providing the updates for ongoing developments in the UAE capital this year at Cityscape Abu Dhabi, several other exhibitors were attempting to attract would-be investors to the opportunities available to them on a global scale.
Leading the pack was the UK based realtor and developer Knight Knox International, which launched two separate projects at Cityscape Abu Dhabi, including the Laguna Beach Resort Two in Pattaya, Thailand — a collection of 1,100 luxury freehold studio, one bedroom, and two bedroom condominiums, and the luxury Sea Caves Residences on the west coast of Pafos, Cyprus.
Meanwhile, BuildUp Real Estate was looking to lure Middle East investors and end-users to some of the most pristine Mediterranean real estate that Greece currently has to offer.
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Danny Orleans joined David Kaye and Doug Scheer at the IBM/SAM Combined Convention in early July. Over 500 magicians from all over the world attended to see them perform for an audience of children and then lecture on the tricks and techniques that have made each of them successful.
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Market Scene: La Boqueria in Barcelona
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Now, I feel like I should charge for writing comments here.
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Now, I feel like I should charge for writing comments here.
I've eaten some pretty mind-blowing food at Bar Pinotxo. From the more modest dishes like the chickpeas Kenji describes above, the stewed snails or the tripe to the little mollusks (tallarines, berberechos), right up to the incredibly delicious but outrageously expensive gambas (4 for 17€). Their flam de mato is also something not to be missed if you have more of a sweet tooth.
I've always found the service very friendly, but expedited. It is a bar after all and not a restaurant. I've never felt pressed to leave, though. Just because you get your bill doesn't mean you have to skedaddle. You can always order something else and pay the bills together.
I never really liked shopping at the Boqueria, though. It's too often overrun with tourists. I got most of my produce from fruiterias and the corner supermarket. Or I would stop at another market on my way home, which often included passing in front of the Boqueria.
I did shop there once in a while when I wanted something special like top quality morcilla de burgos or Spanish cheeses. The best jamon I ever ate was some hand cut Guijuelo from one of the stands on the North side of the market. I bought 100g and ate it over two days. It was absolute bliss and worth every pretty penny. Of course I had some amazing paleta iberica to hold me between rounds of jamon.
When in Spain, one should not neglect the superawesometastiness of good paleta iberica. It's a real bargain when compared to jamon of equal quality. I also believe it's a much wiser choice for sandwiches, because good jamon should always be eaten by itself.
Rodzilla, I don't see anything wrong with the meat in that picture. I don't see gristle either, just fat. Like onepercent99 said, it's just an undercooked lamb chop.
It's happening again.
Pot, meet kettle.
WTF, dude?
@dbcurrie - I'm the exact opposite. I hate recipes. I just want to see how something is made. Once I've seen it done, I can work off just a list of ingredients. Of course, you have to start with a reliable source. Most cooking videos are terrible, as are most cooking blogs.
This recipe needs more spam.
I love ensaïmadas. They are one of the great discoveries I made when living in Spain. My whole time there, I kept wondering why so many people ate those awful Spanish croissants when they could have been eating an ensaïmada.
In Barcelona, it's easy to find really good ones, too. The ones at Granja La Pallaresa are always so fresh and tasty. There's a bakery on Gran de Gracia that has ones stuffed with crema catalana. Those are something special, but they are literally everywhere.
Just as eating churros is a given when visiting Madrid, ensaïmadas are an absolute must-eat for anyone visiting the Catalan regions of Spain.
Maybe if you told us what was wrong with the bread we could help you out. In the meantime all we can do is speculate, ramble and self-congratulate.
It is indeed possible to make good bread at home and it doesn't have to be complicated. I've started cooking my bread in a dutch oven. It's dead easy and the results are pretty fantastic.
I've never been there so I wouldn't know.
@AnthonyC - I also get irritated when people call fresh goat's cheese just goat cheese or even chèvre. Do some people actually think there's only one kind of goat's cheese. There are hundreds of goat's cheeses out there and the range is almost as great as that of cow's milk cheeses. Reducing goat's cheese to a single product seems rather ill-informed.
Burger365's list made me hungry. Cabrales has to be the best blue I've ever eaten. Petit Basque is a very nice cheese, as is Roncal. The rest are going on my to-do list.
Beaufort is at the top of the batting order, these days. Of all the gruyère type cheeses, Beaufort is king.
I think the crust on top is a bit excessive. It's already rich enough as it is. Anyway doesn't crust on top change it from treacle tart to treacle pie?
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Looks like the guy pulled his article. What did it say?
I'm 100% with Kenji on this one. Robuchon mashed potatoes FTW!
Very nice article, Kenji. I love Peruvian and Ecuadoran ceviche so friggin' hard! I don't know why I've never made it before, but this is giving me incentive to finally have a go.
Healthy and unhealthy can be very subjective. I think it's a better to look at food's nutritional value rather than its health benefits. People can go back and forth forever discussing the health benefits of this or that food, but nutritional value is much more objective.
German bread as a general category contains a lot of products with whole grains, sprouted grains and seeds. It's dense and it's high in calories, but a big part healthy eating is portion control.
Oh, I forgot to add: What's wrong with molasses? It's the most nutritious form of sugar.
German breads for sure. They're darn tasty, as well.
@eurekabru - Any Gruyère type cheese will do for tartiflette, but the traditional cheese is Reblochon. It's a similar but more unctuous cheese from Savoie. Tartiflette was invented in the eighties by the Syndicat Interprofessionnel du Reblochon: the Reblochon marketing board.
I will not be forced to choose!
Why the fuck not?
It just happened a few minutes ago. The links in the comment notification emails are now sending me to the mobile version of the site.
I tried to go in my account to change the settings, but there does not seem to be any option for this.
Thanks for looking into this,
I'm asking this because, it's something I had never eaten until recently, and both times were very disappointing.
I suspect this is because it wasn't prepared properly, but I have no point of reference. I've never had good confit lamb shoulder. What I've had has been dry and fibrous like certain kinds of canned meat (don't ask). I suspect it was overcooked, but I need confirmation.
I have had confit leg of lamb and lamb shank which is usually quite amazing. Flakey, unctuous and flavourful. It's one of my favourite meats ever. The shoulder was nothing like that.
So was I served bad lamb shoulder or is it just something that's not for me?
Is there a way this can be done from the user side?
I'd like to change the address to which my updates and newsletters get sent, but I can't find anywhere to do it in my account page.
Am I missing something?
Thanks in advance,
It's federal election night up here in Soviet Canuckistan.
I just came back from voting and I'm getting ready for an election night TV marathon.
On the menu: Kraft Dinner, Diet Orange Crush and rum, and Cheesies (not Hawkins unfortunately).
Don't ask me who I'm rooting for. That's personal.
Anyone else doing something special for election night?
I just grilled foie gras and white truffle stuffed abalone over charcoal I made from hundred dollar bills.
What about you?
The other day I had some food and I enjoyed it considerably.
Have you ever had food?
Something happened whilst I wasn't looking. The form for reporting inapropriate comments seems to have disappeared.
I wanted to report another spammy music school recipe comment and saw there isn't any link in Recipes to report inapropriate comments so I went to Talk to click a ramdom thread and the page it sent me to didn't contain the usual form.
Has the reporting system changed? How are we supposed to go about it, now? And how do we report spam in recipe comments?
Thank in advance,
... And so it did, and it's not one of those one-off, one location, $150 deals, either. The Franco-Belgian fast food chain Quick has come out with a foie-gras burger at an everyday price. Only 5€, about $7, gets your grubby hands on the near-luxury sandwich. Better hurry though, it's only around for the Christmas season.
The article is here
Hello SE,
Could you please enlighten me has to why some of my post containing links to other sites are getting held for moderation and others not? What is it that triggers such a thing? And why are we apparently not allowed to link to certain sites like eater.com?
Thanks in advance,
Monsieur Ghislain
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Yes, @alexandrak, such a post does exist, and if your boyfriend finds what I'm about to write all TL;DR, he can check it out: The 10 Best Pizzas in NYC » That's a solid list, no doubt. And if his NYC pizza research stops there, I'm sure he'd be happy. But I think simply dropping a best-of list on a New York newbie does him a bit of a disservice. After all, he's moving to a pizza mecca. I think a little context is in order.More
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As we've seen, there are some tourist-frequented spots that really do serve good food. But where do we think tourists should go? Here are a dozen places that we think visitors to our fair city shouldn't miss. (Pizza, bagels, burgers, Italian-American spots, picks for Food Network and Top Chef fans, and the best way to get into great restaurants for less cash—it's all here.) More
OK. Forget for a minute that Forcella is doing some solidly legit traditional pizzas. That's all well and good and totally worth your while. But just know that the place is the only pizzeria I know of in NYC that's doing a deep-fried "montagnara" pizza. More
Can we figure out a way to get any cheese to melt smoothly like American cheese in the same amount of time that it takes our buns to toast and our burger to cook? Is that too much to ask? More
I've been plotting ways to get more baby octopus in my life. This mission was probably the result of a series of incredible versions of the cephalopod at restaurants recently. They've given me just enough motivation to try my hand at making it at home. Most recipes call for a quick cook over high heat, then toss the octopus with some simple vinaigrette. But I fell in love with this recipe from David Pasternack's The Young Man & The Sea (which SE overlord Ed Levine co-wrote!), which goes the long route—simmering the octopus for nearly 30 minutes in a tomato sauce. More
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On the streets of Istanbul, Alex Sarkissian and Chef Matt Carpenter discovered the irresistible Etli Pide. This Turkish street food is practically non-existent in the US. For this edition of Top This, we learn how to make their Etli Pide, an open-faced calzone brimming with seasoned minced beef, kasseri cheese, organic farm egg and thyme spiked oven roasted tomatoes. More
Wrapping glutinous rice in banana leaves has to be one of the best things you can do with glutinous rice. The banana leaves impart their herbaceous, almost minty scent to the rice, which gets a double treatment of flavor: once from the wrapping, and again from the filling. You'll find banana leaf-wrapped bundles of glutinous rice across China and parts of Southeast Asia, the fillings varying according to regional tastes. More
Given how well Xi'an Famous Foods (full review here), the Flushing noodle and soup joint that made a successful leap across the East River to the East Village is doing, it was only a matter of time before a few of its competitors began to follow suit. Henan Flavor, the brand new Chinatown spinoff of Flushing's Henan Feng Wei, serves a menu that resembles Xi'an's in many ways. Wide hand-pulled noodles available in soups or platters, simple homestyle stews, and pork-stuffed sandwiches. But despite these superficial parallels, a few bites in and it's quite clear that you're in a different province entirely. More
Coconut curries are probably one of the best ways to cook a fish head because the pungent, thick-bodied, spicy broth complements the rustic look and feel of the head. More
Cooking duck is a great gateway experience to the full-on nose-to-tail eating. All of the parts are delicious and easy to prepare, it just takes a little time. Watch this video to see ducks turned into sausage, pate, rillette, stock, prosciutto, and confit. More
Like tofu, wheat gluten has been dismissed by some carnivores as a vegetarian mainstay that only health food nuts and hippies eat. Wheat gluten certainly is a healthy food, made by washing wheat flour dough with water until only the elastic mass is left. Like tofu, it's low in fat and high in protein. Yet with its delightfully chewy texture and wheaty, wholesome flavor, it's completely underappreciated. More
Take a big lump of cheese mixed with egg and butter, wrap it in dough, flatten it down, and bake. Sound good? Then get yourself to your closest purveyor of the Georgian cheese-stuffed bread khachapuri. In this video from CHOW, you can see how khachapuri is made at hole-in-the-wall bakery Georgian Bread in Brighton Beach. More
This Thursday is Lunar New Year, which, if you're Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, or just a festive person, means you'll probably be eating with friends and family. Lunar New Year doesn't have specific holiday foods, per se. Feasting with loved ones is the most important part! Here are recipes for rice cakes, dumplings, mochi, scallion pancakes, and more. More
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An intriguing mash-up of short story, video game, and street art is currently unfolding on the sidewalks of San Francisco's Mission District. "She Loves the Moon" is a two-person romance told through sidewalk stencils like the one above; players can start at two different locations and follow the story, making choices along the way that determine whether the romance has a happy or unhappy ending. We think this idea is adorable, and we are convinced of two things:
1. Someone will try this in Brooklyn in less than a week.
2. Some movie studio will co-opt this idea to virally market their crap romantic comedy in less than a year.
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Moving on from Munro
Improving Children's Services
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~ Eileen Munro
~ Maggie Blyth
Getting the right things right
~ Mark Gurrey and Eleanor Brazil
Child protection: 40 years of learning but where next?
~ Ray Jones
Doing something different: reconfiguring front-line services: opening up the market
~ Chris Wright
Re-imagining early help: looking forward, looking back
~ Sue White, Kate Morris, Brid Featherstone, Marian Brandon and June Thoburn
Children should be seen and heard: understanding the child's experience
~ Jenny Clifton
Responding to adolescent risk: continuing challenges
~ Leslie Hicks
Moving on with Munro: child sexual exploitation within a child protection framework
~ Jenny J. Pearce
Missing children post-Munro
~ Charlie Hedges
Symbolic half-measures? On local safeguarding children boards, their contributions and challenges
~ Michael Preston-Shoot and Martin Pratt
~ Maggie Blyth
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