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At least one shot had been fired. Upon arrival, deputies saw a man pass off a handgun to another man. One of the handguns had its serial number filed off. Deputies arrested James Jennings of Hays and Devin Alexander. Deputies found a gun cabinet with more firearms. A search of the home and vehicles lead deputies to marijuana and pill containers. Additionally, charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm were filed.
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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number: 19.520
Announcement issuance date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Proposal submission deadline: Friday, June 3, at 12:00 p.m. (noon) EST. Proposals submitted after this deadline will not be considered.
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In Russia/North Caucasus
-- Include capacity-building of local/ regional organizations or institutions to address gaps in healthcare, protection or other services for IDPs; and/or
-- Increase IDP self-reliance and access to housing and services by increasing income-earning potential.
Proposals should include at least one of the following:
-- Tuberculosis screening, prevention, treatment;
-- Gender-based violence prevention, reporting, response;
-- Livelihoods/income generation assistance to provide subsistence or facilitate access to shelter;
-- Counseling to improve access to services and/or shelter;
-- Psychosocial services to distressed refugee and IDP communities in Chechnya and Ingushetia; and/or
-- Capacity-building of local or regional organizations or institutions to address gaps in healthcare, protection or other services for IDPs.
-- Counseling and/or legal aid to facilitate access to registration, asylum processing, and/or services.
[Note: IO partners funded through contributions should not apply via grants.gov. IO partners may submit applications for consideration via alternate methods such as email.]
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Of this funding, we anticipate providing approximately $200,000 for an NGO protection project for urban refugees and other persons of concern to UNHCR in Moscow. Because of PRM's mandate to provide protection, assistance, and sustainable solutions for refugees and victims of conflict, PRM will consider funding only those Moscow projects that target a beneficiary base comprised at least 50% of refugees. PRM requires appropriate targeting of beneficiaries in coordination with UNHCR and other relevant organizations.
We anticipate providing the remaining $1.7 million for NGO-implemented programs in the North Caucasus. PRM will consider projects submitted with budgets in the range of $200,000 to $750,000. At least $700,000 of the $1.7 million will be dedicated to gender-based violence (GBV) prevention, reporting and response, whether in stand-alone projects or as project sub-component(s).
PRM anticipates funding one NGO project in Armenia to address protection of vulnerable refugees and/or fill critical gaps in the provision of health, educational and/or social services, and/or livelihood support for refugees. Vulnerable former refugees, in so far as they are populations of concern to UNHCR, may also be included. Individual proposals for activities in Armenia may not exceed $200,000 in PRM-requested funding.
Because of PRM's mandate to provide protection, assistance, and sustainable solutions for refugees and victims of conflict, PRM will consider funding only those projects in Armenia that include a target beneficiary base of refugees. PRM requires appropriate targeting of beneficiaries in coordination with UNHCR and other relevant organizations.
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See "How to Apply" (http://www.grants.gov/applicants/applicant_faqs.jsp#applying) on Grants.gov for complete details on requirements, and note the following highlights:
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Financial Reports: Financial reports are required within thirty (30) days following the end of each calendar year quarter during the validity period of the agreement; a final financial report covering the entire period of the agreement is required within ninety (90) days after the expiration date of the agreement.
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PRM Program Officer Liane Dorsey (email@example.com; 202-453-9387) or Ed Findlay (email@example.com; 202-453-9281), Washington, D.C.
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As an ex-theatrical film distributor myself, I'm always following trends in the industry as it evolves due to new technologies and changing public tastes. Yesterday's L.A. Times had a good article on Jonathan Dern's The Bigger Picture which, through various subsidiaries, is distributing anime and kiddie films to weekend matinees on a regular monthly schedule.
Dern's company has found a way to market direct-to-video animated features to digitally equipped theatres, usually a few weeks before their DVD release. Filling the theatre isn't a big concern for his business model, a fact made possible due to the low costs involved with distributing a film via digital projection.
Although major studio movies attract big crowds on weekends, Dern said that over the course of a typical week auditoriums are often filled to only 10% to 15% of capacity.
"If we can move the dial 1%, that's a big number," Dern said.
Bigger Picture started three years ago, when Dern and Rutkowski came up with the "Kidtoons" animation programs. A typical program might include a G-rated feature, such as this spring's "Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Blossom Festival," plus cartoon shorts, music videos and singalongs.
"The light bulb went on," Dern said. "We said, 'When else are there very few people in theaters? When else could we put people in seats?'"
If I had to guess, I'd suspect that Dern's company is making its money by charging a distribution fee from the film's video company, who may consider this a justifiable cost of special marketing the DVD release. Is it working? I'm not sure what kind of box office money they are generating (it wouldn't surprise me if they are offering these films to theatres for free) but apparently theatre owners are pleased.
Shari Redstone, president of National Amusements Inc. in Dedham, Mass., said the distributor was building a following at theaters such as The Bridge in Los Angeles.
At 10 a.m. on a Saturday in March, she said, the chain's 24 theaters taking part in "Kidtoons" sold 1,200 tickets for "Strawberry Shortcake" — a strong turnout at a time when business is typically slow or nonexistent.
"When I was a kid, we'd watch a horrible print of 'Gulliver's Travels' and buy stale popcorn," Redstone said. "This is a new and better experience for the whole family. And it's another way to ensure that a generation grows up knowing that when they want to be entertained, they can go to their local movie theater."
As someone keeping track of U.S. theatrical animated feature film releases, I've been struggling with how to chart these film showings. Technically these are theatrical releases, but there are no physical prints and the movies themselves were clearly made for video release. For now I'm considering them a footnote in my long term research. Time will tell how they should be cataloged — and whether The Bigger Picture will endure .


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For instance, St. Lawrence County schools are atrophying so rapidly that one district is proposing to scour the world to enroll foreign exchange students.
Yes, having Asians, South Americans, Europeans, et al., sitting in north country classrooms would do wonders for the world view of local kids. But this isn't about the children, of which there are fewer. It is about the tax base, of which there is not much left. Substitute "foreign exchange students" with "foreign currency students" and you will have a better sense of why everybody always says that an eroding revenue stream is the mother of invention. (And if they don't say it yet, they'll be saying it soon.)
St. Lawrence County has unraveled so fast in two years that most individual school boards have experienced a strange metamorphosis: Instead of attacking consolidation as an evil plot hatched by the St. Lawrence BOCES to kill a community's identity, they are now calling BOCES — while they still have enough money to pay the phone bill –- to ask how consolidation might work.
With its vastness and lack of manufacturing, St. Lawrence should be the petri dish for consolidation experimentation. But as anyone watching the SUNY Canton and SUNY Potsdam consolidation debacle can attest, county leaders see consolidation as mixing species, which everybody also says ain't natural.
Jefferson County school districts should take note, but they won't. With greater financial resources they will be able to put off the future for several more years — or at least until this crop of superintendents enters pension Nirvana.
But why wait? Does anybody think the financial health of our school districts will be better in 10 years?
Watertown and General Brown school districts are the most recent example of why the county should have one school district. An apartment complex is being built straddling the district boundary lines. Yet because both districts are so starved for cash, they have jointly decided to force some of the children to ride a bus for miles rather than walk to a nearby school.
But these districts are not alone. All of our districts produce examples where the status quo is served first, where boundary lines prevent common sense. One district lays off teachers while a nearby district is hiring. It should be an easy problem to solve. But instead the out-of-work teachers must go back to square one in applying for a job — let's start the tenure clock again! — instead of simply being transferred to another school 20 miles away.
The flaws are everywhere. We have so many school districts that we can't find enough members of the public to serve on school boards. We solve the problem by electing the spouses of teachers and guidance counselors who, not surprisingly, wave through salary increases for teachers and guidance counselors. And when we can't find enough spouses we then elect teachers and guidance counselors from neighboring school districts. In big letters they proclaim that there is no conflict of interest. But in the fine print there is this: when the union these teachers and guidance counselors belong to is seeking a new contract, the union will enter negotiations using as a benchmark the contract its members helped approve in the neighboring school district.
Jefferson County schools have spent the last decade bungling the future at taxpayers' expense. They have all gone off in different debt directions so that nobody wants to be stuck paying off someone else's turf field. But now is the time to begin talks in figuring out how to manage change rather than becoming the victim of change.
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The Salvation Army's Newnan Service Center helped 138 children through the Angel Tree program during the Christmas season.
The Army's local activities during Christmas were a topic of discussion at the Jan. 17 advisory board meeting. Stephanie May, center director, termed the project "a huge success." She said the children were from 58 families and commented there were "a lot of new faces I saw this year."
May also said 12 senior citizens received a Christmas dinner.
A holiday event was held at the thrift store on Dec. 7. Santa Claus visited, and photographs were made. May said the event was enjoyable and worth repeating in December 2013.
The Red Kettle drive raised $36,296.72. That number was down from the 2011 total, but it was noted there were many fewer volunteers to ring bells.
"I don't know if it was the weather. There was so much going on in the world," May said, noting some groups were seeking help for victims of Super Storm Sandy about the same time the kettles were in place.
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"I do think Sandy had an impact," Bette Hickman, co-chairman of the advisory board, commented. She also said, however, that board members must take a more active role in 2013 – working to get more groups and individuals to volunteer for the kettle project.
She suggested board members could speak to civic groups and encourage people to sign up to ring bells and collect money at the kettles. "I think the board needs to become more involved," Hickman said.
Fred Miles, who volunteered with the Red Kettle drive, was a guest at the meeting and garnered praise from May. "He really stepped up to the plate," she said.
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Among federally subsidized high-speed train projects that railroad taxpayers — including California's $68 billion boondoggle — none is more outlandish than a proposed $5.5 billion gamble on a quick train to Las Vegas.
Yet the federal Department of Transportation is considering rolling the dice on this loan for Xpress West, which would originate in Victorville, Calif. As pie-in-the-sky rail plans go, this one's a true novelty.
It's based on the premise that passengers will drive 75 miles from Los Angeles (or more than 100 miles from south Orange County) and board a train that will speed them the remaining 175 miles to Vegas.
"Nowhere in the world do people drive so far to board a train for such a short trip," writes Wendell Cox, head of a public policy consulting firm.
Promoters say the train would be a boon for traffic-weary drivers. Except drivers would face more traffic en route to Victorville than they would from there to Vegas, Mr. Cox says.
Then there's Xpress West's problematic passenger projections, which typically dog these projects. Proponents project four times the ridership of Amtrak's Acela high-speed train in the Washington/New York corridor. Research by Oxford University calls this a "strategic misrepresentation." That's being kind.
Whether it's an overly ambitious 520-mile high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco or a shortie to Sin City, taxpayers shouldn't be taken for these outrageous rides.
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Yesterday it came to light that for the past two months criminals had been targeting high-tech traffic lights that have modems.
The modem with a sim card was then removed by the criminals from the traffic light and the sim card was used by them to make unlimited phone calls that were believed to have run into millions of rands.
JRA spokesperson Thulani Makhubela said the theft was discovered in November.
"The cost for the repair and replacement of high-tech things removed from the traffic lights will cost about R9m," said Makhubela
He said they were shocked by the theft of equipment installed in traffic lights around Johannesburg and said they believed a syndicate was behind the theft.
"These traffic lights have a GPRS system that we are able to control from our sophisticated control centre.
"Of the 600 high-tech traffic lights that have modems, 400 are believed to have already been targeted by criminals," said Makhubela.
He said he did no want to go into details on how the traffic lights worked and which service providers provided them with sim cards but said the problems started in November.
"If we go into details on which robots have the new systems and how you can identify them, then we will be opening ourselves up for more problems.
"What I can say is that this has cost us a lot of money," said Makhubela
Asked about surveillance cameras near the traffic lights, Makhubela said they had not picked up anything on their systems.
"We have now blocked all the sim cards that were stolen.
"We are speaking to our traffic engineers and suppliers on new ways we can make the sim cards inoperable if they are disabled from a traffic light and modem.
"We are going to be taking up new security measures to prevent this from happening," explained Makhubela.
Johannesburg Metro Police spokesperson Edna Mamonyane said the vandalism of traffic lights was a contributing factor in road rage incidents.
"It causes a lot of traffic problems and unnecessary accidents.
"We get problems relating to drivers' behaviour as some drivers are irritated and don't give a chance to other road users.
"This causes road rage and we have to use more personnel to attend to that," she said.
Mamonyane said that they were not aware which traffic lights had the GPRS technology but it had responded quickly to acts of vandalism that could be seen from its CCTVs.
She said there was a huge problem in areas in the outskirts that did not have CCTV, like the N17 near Rosettenville where traffic lights have been cut down on a number of occasions.


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The amount of damage Voyager took in year of hell (it was destroyed) and the length of time it endured before being destroyed (a whole year, or thereabouts) means that Voyager wins this poll easily.
Does the matter that that all happened in an alternate time line affect this result at all?
It was on screen, so I count it.
The reset button erasing the previous year and everything that happened to Voyager was also on screen. That damage never actually happened. Year of Hell should then be disqualified.
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Dr. Cheng Chi Lee, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, noticed while researching circadian rhythms that a hibernation gene was switched on when certain animals were in complete darkness.
"We wanted to know what was the signaling mechanism that turned this thing on when we put the animal in constant darkness and through a long search we narrowed it down to a molecule that our body produces naturally."
That molecule, 5 Prime AMP, is a garbage product of metabolism, but in high enough doses, can overide enzymes in the body that regulate the molecule and the hibernation, or torpid state, it causes. When Dr. Lee injected lab mice with the molecule concoction, he was amazed at the unexpected result.
"The body temperature of the mouse dropped from 37 degrees (c) to almost close to room temperature and it was astounding. Then we realized the significance of this molecule because it was basically altering the metabolic state of the body."
With the ability to artifically lower body temperature using a method that closely mimics nature, instead of induced hypothermia that's often used after heart attacks or head injuries, Dr. Lee says precious cells that are destroyed because of a lack of oxygen could be saved instead.
"If you cool the cell down, the metabolic requirement would be less, therefore the requirement for oxygen consumption would be less and you can think about this clinically as a tool where you have major surgical procedure where we have all kinds of heart and lung machines to keep the body alive in those kinds of procedures. If you cool it down far enough, the metabolic need will be significantly reduced."
Dr. Lee says if the hibernation molecule could eventually be applied to humans, the uses could include inducing hibernation in the astronauts who will eventually go to Mars, a trip that could take about 8 months.
"If you can put a person in a state of suspended animation, you can think about all kinds of things you can do, not just astronauts shipping to Mars, but you can think about someone who may have a serious disease that needs to be controlled in some fashion or for example, a person who is in need of a transplant that is in a situation like that and awaiting an organ, we can put them in that state, maybe. I don't know. Those are things that leads to our own imagination down the road. I think what we need to do is solve the technology."
With plans to eventually test the molecule on pigs and then human if it proves safe, Dr. Lee says the procedure has great promise and could eventually become a valuable tool in the healing process.


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It comes as no surprise that the unemployment rate for teenagers and college students is twice the national average. Laid-off adults with arm-long resumes are now vying with high school students for jobs as clerks, waitresses and cashiers.
But, tough economy aside, a growing number of teenagers have been taking themselves out of the job hunt for the last decade.
Encouraged by their parents, they've opted instead for unpaid internships and exotic volunteer opportunities. Why bus tables and scoop ice cream when you can snag an office job and see a profession close-up? Why endure a frustrating job search and then perform grunt work when you can chalk up volunteer hours in Costa Rica that will look good on a college application?
Young Americans have been taught to take seriously their own "enrichment" and not to be shy about positioning themselves to stand out from their peers. Their parents encourage them to forego low wages and manual labor for experiences that will engage them, and teach them to lead. It just doesn't make sense to spend a summer doing something unrewarding.
What is unfortunately lost in this equation is that boring, repetitive and sometimes downright demeaning jobs come with their own gifts.
Success in life requires not just learning how to lead, but to serve.
Personal growth, oddly enough, happens best when we take our eyes off ourselves.
Maturity may mean realizing we don't want to spend our lives performing manual labor, but also understanding that plenty of people have to - and that they are no less deserving of respect than we are.
Spend a summer waiting tables only to have customers snap their fingers at you and keep you waiting as they banter with friends about their order, and a young person will never again treat a waiter or waitress as a personal servant.
Attend to golfers who overload their bag or send others to fetch forgotten items and a young caddy will one day realize someone else's labors provided his day of leisure.
Stand behind the counter at a department store soaking up complaints, and a teenager will think twice about blaming someone who didn't produce the defective product and is probably doing his best to make things right.
Somewhere in such a summer, every one of those young people will feel the urge to tell a customer that they are, in fact, an honor student, or a pre-med major at a university. They will feel the pain of being assumed to have no potential. They will hunger for someone to look them in the eye, to realize they have a name.
And, ever after, they will see the world with a new set of eyes.
They'll look at the person taking their parking ticket in a downtown garage and wonder where else in life they're bound for.
They'll follow an usher to their seat and wonder where they've been and what they've done.
They'll take their empty popcorn container out from under their seat at the movie theater and put it in a trash can. They'll pick up the fallen box of cereal at the grocery store. They'll refold the shirt they considered at the clothing store.
Suddenly the world around them will be filled with the efforts of hard-working, unassuming human beings.
And the teenagers will learn not just simple courtesy for them, but empathy.
And when it is their turn to lead, they'll lead from the street-level and not from the corporate suite - not a bad thing for their career, company or country.


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The Rattlers wiped out the memory of Aaron Garcia's ArenaBowl-winning, last-play touchdown pass at US Airways Center with four defensive stops that equaled their season total through the first five games.
With Arkeith Brown intercepting a Garcia pass, with Tyre Glasper getting three sacks and forcing two Garcia fumbles, with Marcus Pittman returning one of the fumbles for a touchdown, the Rattlers rolled to a 68-34 victory over the San Antonio Talons in front of 6,835 on Sunday.
It was the most complete game of the season by the Rattlers (4-2), who also got a boost on kickoff coverage by Johnnie Kirton, who was signed two weeks ago.
Rattlers coach Kevin Guy didn't say much last week in practice about Garcia's return to Phoenix. Last year, Garcia threw a touchdown pass as time expired to give Jacksonville a 73-70 victory over the Rattlers in the championship game.
But Guy knew the defense was playing with more of an edge seeing Garcia out there.
"I'm sure the defensive coaches had them tuned up about facing him," Guy said. "But, at the same time, we knew they were a little banged up at receiver. We took advantage of that, playing a little more aggressive."
Before Sunday, the Rattlers had given up nine fourth-down conversions on 13 tries -- 16th out of 17 teams in the league -- in five games.
Brown, who replaced Virgil Gray at safety two weeks ago after Gray suffered an ankle injury, intercepted Garcia on a fourth-down play in the Talons' first series.
Nick Davila (14 of 26 for 203 yards, four touchdowns) threw his second scoring pass, this one to Kerry Reed from 11 yards, and the Rattlers had a 13-0 lead after one quarter.
The Rattlers had built a 19-0 lead after another fourth-down stop before Garcia threw his first touchdown pass with eight minutes left in the half.
Glasper's sack and forced fumble was picked up by Pittman and returned 11 yards to give the Rattlers a 40-14 lead with 3:51 left in the third quarter. Garcia was sacked three times by Glasper and another time by Ron Jones.
"Finally, we got together and unleashed it," Pittman said.
On offense, Maurice Purify had another dominant performance with nine catches for 132 yards and three touchdowns.
"We knew we had to start fast and finish strong," Purify said.
Davila's only interception came with two seconds left in the first half when his pass bounced off the end zone net and into the hands of defensive back Fred Shaw.
Garcia ended up 25 of 39 for 287 yards and five touchdowns. But his three turnovers allowed the Rattlers to stay in control.
"That was a Hall of Fame quarterback in the Arena league, and we had to vindicate," Davila said. "But it didn't matter who was the quarterback. We had to come out with a W and that's what we did."
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If the lender of a guaranteed farmer program loan takes any action described in section 1981 (b)(4) of this title with respect to the loan and the Secretary approves such action, then, for purposes of the guarantee, the lender shall be treated as having sustained a loss equal to the amount by which—
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Source(Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 357, as added Pub. L. 100–233, title VI, § 619,Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1683; amended Pub. L. 101–624, title XXIII, § 2388(d)(2),Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4053.)
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This was a grim statement and fuel for the cynics that hilariously christened him "Fat Ronaldo", so he would not be confused with the Portuguese impostor. On hearing the news, I expected a raft of tributes, obituaries and gushing appraisals of a career that touched the lives of millions. Unfortunately this was not the case. View full article »
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The Facilities Management Web pages reside on a content management server (CMS) called Cascade. This server contains most of the web sites at William and Mary. Access to edit pages is granted by the Creative Services team. Training and help to use Cascade are available through Creative Services.
The [[borawl, Systems Administrator]] will provide the following services:
- Create new web pages.
- Modify web pages.
- Upload of files.
Note: The Systems Administrator only has privileges to Facilities Management web pages. Contact [[creative, Creative Services]] regarding any changes outside of the Facilities Management web site.
What you need to know about uploading documentation (Word, PDF, Excel, etc.)
The Facilities Management web site contains documentation that is helpful to users inside and outside of the department. Uploading documents is handled by the Systems Administrator, but the following is required :
- Please ensure that documents are in the desired format before submitting them to the Systems Administrator for upload. Modifications, corrections and format changes to documents will not be performed. For example, if you want your file to be in a pdf format before it is uploaded, it must be in a pdf format when you submit it for upload. If you need assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the [[borawl, Systems Administrator]].
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NICE issues major guideline on cardiovascular disease
Practice nurses and GPs should seek to systematically identify all patients aged between 40 and 75 who may be at risk from cardiovascular disease, according to latest guidelines.
NICE said that risk should be based on CVD risk factors already recorded in primary care electronic medical records and assessed using a modified Framingham 10-year risk equation.
Statins are recommended for the primary prevention of CVD for adults who have a 20% or greater 10-year risk, once other ways of managing risk factors have been tried. Treatment should be initiated with the generic drug simvastatin 40mg.
For secondary prevention, statins are recommended for all adults with clinical evidence of CVD.
NICE Deputy Chief Executive Dr Gillian Leng said: 'This guideline will provide much needed clarity for healthcare professionals, many of whom report uncertainty in how to manage blood lipids in patients both with and without pre-existing cardiovascular disease.'
But Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, said: 'The BHF is disappointed that NICE ducked the issue of providing guidance on target levels of cholesterol for people who don't yet have heart disease, but are at high risk.
'It has focused its advice entirely on generic statins which may not achieve meaningful reductions in cholesterol levels,' he said.
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Gahhhh kill it with fire!
Upon viewing this picture the people of Italy flooded into the streets, demanding their politicians to file a anti-defamation suit against all American 'i list celebrities.'
True story. Jennifer Nicole Lee saw a man with a camera. She got naked.
Not enough cleavage to excuse that face… something seems off about it.
Right? There's something weird about the angle or perspective here. It's like the face was photoshopped… onto a man's body.
Not just that… her mouth. Something is just weird about it, it's like it's too big for her face.
She cuts tomatoes on the wrong axis
Her secret ingredient? Testosterone.
Those are Man boobs
Throjo wins the game.
I thought this was a joke picture with a woman's head on a man's body.
Her body looks like a really muscular man
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I wanted a 2-3 day pack which was significantly lighter than mainstream packs, yet could carry heavier loads when necessary. UL "stuffsacks with shoulder straps" didn't appeal.The Versalite 50 fulfils these criteria well by weighing only 1100g, but with a harness that can handle 18kg for short distances (see below).Construction is silnylon, with more durable fabric strategically placed in wear prone areas. You get the impression they started with a normal pack, then lightened it in all areas that wouldn't compromise load handling or comfort. The result is a pack with a cushy padded harness, good supportive hipbelt, yet weighs 40 - 60% less than most. It even has a double layer base.Apart from the top rope strap, compression straps are absent & replaced by a thoughtfully designed compression cord arrangement which shrinks the pack down to a 20l summit pack very effectively.Volume control is excellent & the pack easily handles 10-12kg loads. On a recent hike in the Japanese alps it carried 18kg for 3 hours when one party member had an injury which required us to share his packload. The Versalite was overpacked to around 60 litres & 18kg with 2 tents, 3 litres of water, 2 stoves & fuel, 4 huge nashi pears & 2 litres of canned beer! Apart from slight butt sag on the hipbelt, stability was still excellent & comfort was good. When studying the pack empty, it's hard to imagine it could carry such a load so well.There's the usual hydration pocket attachments, a smallish top pocket with internal pocket & lightweight hiking pole/ice axe loops. Base pockets are massive & bottles are easily accessed whilst wearing. They also work when the pack's stuffed full. Quality of construction is excellent.The only slight concern is some care needs to be taken with the silnylon fabric, but that applies to all packs made from that material. Apart from that, there's little to pick that hasn't been well designed & executed. An excellent pack for those wanting to significantly lighten their pack base weight without compromising comfort.
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Performance & Technical Opportunities
The WSU theatre programs offers a variety of productions, from musicals to revues to straight plays, each semester. You are encouraged toaudition for on-stage roles or work backstage for these shows.
In addition, the student organization Associated Actors &Technicians (AAT) produces performances each year: collections ofone-act plays, student-written works and full-length productions.
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Sep 29, 2011, 6:03 p.m.
"Heat Rises" tops best-sellers list
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Heat Rises" jumped to the top of the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday. The list is compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
New book satirizes reality TV, "PC Britain," media
LONDON (Reuters) - James Palumbo is best known as the co-founder of Ministry of Sound, the music and nightclub business that claims to be the world's largest independent record company. But, for the time being at least, he is swapping the beats for books, self-publishing his second novel "Tancredi" -- a satire on everything from reality television to obesity and health care to political correctness.
Scarlett Johansson says privacy invasion is unjust, wrong
(Reuters) - Actress Scarlett Johansson on Wednesday spoke out for the first time since leaked nude photos of her appeared on several websites, saying that being a celebrity does not give others the right to invade her privacy. Earlier this month, the "Iron Man 2" star joined the growing list of Hollywood celebrities, including "High School Musical" actress Vanessa Hudgens and "Friends With Benefits" star Mila Kunis, who have had private photos leaked online at the hands of hackers.
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1. Holy Rollers (B-)
2. The Kids Are All Right (B)
3. History of the World, Part 1 (C-)
4. Blazing Saddles (A+)
5. Scarface [1932] (B-)
6. The Purple Rose of Cairo (A)
7. Rampart (B+)
8. We Need To Talk About Kevin (A+)
9. Tucker and Dale vs Evil (B+)
10. They Live (B-)
11. Darling Companion (D)
12. A Dangerous Method (B-)
13. Haywire (C+)
14. Mission: Impossible (B+)
15. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (B+)
16. Twixt (C+)
17. Burn After Reading (B+)
18. Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy (B-)
19. Drive (A)
20. Crazy Stupid Love (A)
21. The Omega Man (D)
22. The Adjustment Bureau (B+)
23. The Artist (A-)
24. Lady and the Tramp (B)
25. Hugo (A-)
26. The Secret World of Arrietty (B)
27. Twelve Angry Men (A)
28. Act of Valor (F)
29. Walker (A)
30. Lonely Are The Brave (A-)
31. Executive Action (C)
32. Three Colors: Blue (A)
33. Bright Leaves (A)
34. Photographic Memory (A)
35. The People Vs. George Lucas (C-)
36. Avatar (B-)
37. The Life of Reilly (A-)
38. Limitless (B-)
39. Star Wars (A)
40. The Empire Strikes Back (A)
41. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (A)
42. Machete (C+)
43. Unmasking The Idol (D-)
44. Alien (A+)
45. The Raid: Redemption (B-)
46. Attenberg (B)
47. 21 Jump Street (C+)
48. Piranha 3D (C+)
49. The Hunger Games (C-)
50. This Filthy World (B)
51. Bad Fever (C-)
52. The Conspirator (C)
53. We The Party (C-)
54. My Darling Clementine (C+)
55. Freakonomics (C+)
56. Sound of My Voice (A-)
57. Tales from the Script (C-)
58. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (B+)
59. Me and Orson Welles (B)
60. Everything Must Go (B+)
61. The Avengers (C)
62. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (B)
63. One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (B)
64. Starship Troopers (A)
65. Alien (A+)
66. Aliens (A)
67. Into the Abyss (B)
68. The Expendables (D)
69. Dumbo (B+)
70. Bullet in the Head (B-)
71. City Streets (D)
72. Hard Boiled (A)
73. Burn After Reading (B+)
74. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (B+)
75. A Few Good Men (B)
76. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (A)
77. RoboCop (A-)
78. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (A-)
79. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (C-)
80. Your Sister's Sister (A)
81. The Gunfighter (B+)
82. The Sting (A-)
83. The Thin Blue Line (A)
84. Rango (A)
85. The Killing (B+)
86. The Order of the Black Eagle (F)
87. Jaws (A)
88. Marley & Me (B-)
89. Dominick Dunne: After The Party (B)
90. Prometheus (B-)
91. Collaborator (B-)
92. The Island of Lost Souls (B)
93. The Taking of Pelham 123 [1974] (B+)
94. High Anxiety (C+)
95. Carlos (A-)
96. Stargate (B)
97. Ben-Hur (B+)
98. Bringing up Baby (A)
99. The Trip (B+)
100. Observe and Report (D-)
101. The Conversation (A)
103. Cat Ballou (B)
104. Monsters, Inc. (B)
105. Torn Curtain (C)
106. Marnie (A-)
107. Three Colors: White (A-)
108. Logan's Run (C+)
109. Horrible Bosses (B+)
110. Hotel for Dogs (C)
111. Election (B)
112. Independence Day (A)
113. Batman Begins (A-)
114. The Dark Knight Rises (B+)
115. Winnie the Pooh (A)
116. Sleeper (B)
117. Total Recall [1990] (B+)
118. Topaz (C-)
119. Stealth (F)
120. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (A)
121. Frenzy (B)
122. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (C+)
123. Primary (B-)
124. Kick-Ass (C-)
125. The Puffy Chair (C+)
126. Hopscotch (B)
127. Visioneers (C-)
128. Vertigo (A)
129. Che (B)
130. Spin (B-)
131. My Dinner with Andre (B)
132. District 9 (B+)
133. The Rescuers (B-)
134. Anatomy of a Murder (A)
135. The Tigger Movie (B-)
136. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (A)
137. Three Colors: Red (A)
138. The Tourist (D)
139. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (C+)
140. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (B)
141. Spies Like Us (D)
142. Mr. Mom (F)
143. Inside Man (B+)
144. 12 Monkeys (B+)
145. North by Northwest (A)
146. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (B+)
147. Bottle Rocket (B)
148. From Dusk Till Dawn (C-)
149. Some Like It Hot (A)
150. The Joneses (C+)
151. The House I Live In (B+)
152. Troll 2 (F)
153. The Right Stuff (A-)
154. Shadows and Fog (B-)
155. A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (C+)
156. The Front Page (B-)
157. Argo (B+)
158. 3:10 to Yuma [1957] (A-)
159. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (A)
160. The Man From Planet X (C-)
161. The Creature from the Black Lagoon (A-)
162. The Invisible Man (B)
163. Chinatown (A+)
164. I Love You, Man (B+)
165. Hollywoodland (B-)
166. The Thin Red Line (B+)
167. Return of the Jedi (B)
168. The Facts of Life (C)
169. Where the Wild Things Are (B)
170. Apollo 13 (A)
171. Silver Linings Playbook (B)
172. Sunset Blvd. (A)
173. Something in the Air (A-)
174. Berberian Sound Studio (A-)
175. Tarantula (C+)
176. The Green Berets (F)
177. La Haine (A)
178. Throw Mama From the Train (C+)
179. Horrible Bosses (B)
180 Skyfall (B+)
181. One Eyed Jacks (C-)
182. The Man Nobody Knew (B)
183. Aliens (A)
184. Bernie (B+)
185. Inheritance (C+)
186. Fatal Attraction (D+)
187. Apocalypse Now (A)
188. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (A)
189. The Rescuers Down Under (B+)
190. The Great Mouse Detective (A)
191. Death Wish (D+)
192. Outrage (B)
The Rescuers Down Under
: Maybe it's just nostalgia speaking, but I think this is a far better movie than the original. It does away with the mediocre musical numbers, has much more dynamic animation, and is excellently cast (what's not to like about George C. Scott's turn as the villain, or John Candy's turn as a bird?).
The Great Mouse Detective
: This was always my favorite Disney movie as a kid, so I know nostalgia is at play here, but I really enjoyed revisiting it. Vincent Price is excellent as the bad guy, the mix of simple digital animation with traditional animation is quite good, and score by Henry Mancini is a lot of fun. Sure, this is riffing off the Rathbone version of the character more than the original stories (Rathbone even has a cameo as Holmes!), but it's fun.
Death Wish
: I've seen all five
Dirty Harry
films, but not even the worst of the bunch prepared me for this tripe. The cinematography is dull, the direction is lifeless, the writing awful, and the acting...well, let's just say I don't think Jeff Goldblum, Denzel Washington, and Christopher Guest have kept this on their resumes. Charles Bronson is actually serviceable (and not too old, as he would be in the inevitable sequels), but the film is really indefensible in the ways that it justifies vigilante justice and portrays the poor. One character even suggests rounding up all the poor and putting them in concentration camps! Bronson laughs this off (!), but later, after his wife is murdered and his daughter raped, it seems like he might agree.
It does have a pretty neat Herbie Hancock score, though, which is about the only thing positive I can say about it.
: This is an insightful, well put together documentary about closeted politicians and their anti-gay policies, although those familiar with the subject won't find much new here. It's amazing (and reassuring) how much things have changed in the four years since this film was made, though; most of the figures discussed are out of office and, in many cases, out of public life altogether.
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Does God Have Nipples? Course considers questions of art, religion, and sexuality
Summer Session 08 came to an end on August 8, continuing the PSR tradition of summer courses adding creative and enlightening options to its curriculum. Offering an innovative twist on a typical art history course was "Sexuality in Sacred Art," a weeklong course taught by artist and activist Justin Tanis. Among those registered for the course were full-time PSR students, as well as clergy and lay people continuing their education. The course was offered as part of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry's ground breaking Certificate in Sexuality and Religion.
The course involved time-honored techniques for studying art history, including examining slides and images in books, placing them in historical context and offering ideas about the artist's intended meaning. But for this course, Tanis added more interactive touches that included class members making creative works of their own, and sharing their own thoughts on the intersections of sexuality and spirituality.
By the middle of the week, the class had achieved the kind of camaraderie that led to open and comfortable discussion, even on very personal topics like sexuality. One particular exercise involved the class breaking into small groups and considering images of Adam and Eve by Michelangelo, Rodin, Gauguin, and Epstein.
One group looked at Michelangelo's famous image of the Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel. One member of the group asked, "How does God look physically? I mean, he's got nipples and a navel." Another observed, "Adam seems kind of passive. I think God's the more erotic one in this image."
Another group considered Gauguin's "Eve," a sensuous Tahitian woman picking a flower in a tropical setting. "The look on her face suggests a three year-old who's touched what she's not supposed to touch." Tanis put the Gauguin image in historical context, describing the artist's idealization of Pacific Islanders as somehow "pure" and untouched by civilization, and the sexualized colonialism the image represents.
The walls were covered with works on paper the students had completed themselves. The images were vibrant with paint and pastels, sometimes with collages of photos cut out from magazines. "We do a creative piece each day as part of the course," Tanis explained. "Some of them are more individual and contemplative, others are group projects."
The final class project was to design a mural that would be appropriate for display in a church setting. Tanis expressed his hope that the course could lead to using art to create more open dialogue on sexuality and spirituality in communities of faith.


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It didn't take Connecticut men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie long to figure out how new rules on physical contact would affect his team this season.
The NCAA men's basketball rules committee adopted a more strict approach in the offseason, and after observing the nuances of officiating in November, Ollie knew what was best for his team.
"Calls we used to call ticky-tack are now being enforced," he said. "It's allowed us to get to the free throw line when our guards are aggressive. It's been a great benefit to get to the free throw line as much as we did."
The Huskies lead the American Athletic Conference in made free throws and in a small way have helped contribute to one of the most significant statistical developments of the 2013-14 basketball season.
With the regular season complete, free throws made and attempted and overall scoring are up from 2012-13, a season in which free throw attempts dipped to their lowest mark since 1976 and scoring fell to its lowest point since 1952.
Teams are scoring 71.2 points a game this season, up from 67.6 at this point in 2012-13. Free throw attempts are up to 22.6 from 19.8 per team per game in 2012-13. Last season's mark was the fifth time in recorded history that attempts dipped below 20.
Foul calls also are up, from 17.7 to 19.2.
Coaches credit the changes in rule enforcement for the statistical shift, but that doesn't mean they all like them.
"I'm just not a fan of 'em, personally," Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. "I don't like having my best players on the bench. I just think the emphasis has been put so much on it that they have to change it to six fouls or your best players will be on the bench or playing apprehensively.
"I was in favor of (six fouls) and the widening of the lane. I think there are other things that could be done. We have a weird sport; nobody's disqualified in any other sport unless you punch somebody. The game can be changed so much by someone being disqualified (for too many fouls)."
As the NCAA tournament nears, teams will encounter different officiating crews than they see in conference play. There might be an adjustment period similar to the one Ollie and Illinois coach John Groce alluded to Monday when talking about the early stages of the 2013-14 season.
"The goal was points per game being up and offense being improved," Groce said. "If you say, 'Did they accomplish the goal?' I'd say yes."
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text: I'm heading to cancun april 5th, Im def not gonna chance taking anything with me as getting throught customs both here and in Mexico is no joke. I also know that I will find it and anything else I want there no problem. What I worry about is getting caught, robbed, or killed. Anyone have any suggestions ? I have heard many stories that alot of the dealers work with the police, they will see you the bag, tell there cop buddy, he then will arrest you damand money to let you go ( alot of it ) and take your shit and give it back to the dealer, and the cycle starts over on another poor american tourist. Anyone hear of the or have suggestions for me ?:hail: