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Counting calories and avoiding carbohydrates are a daily routine for many, but not for Del Oro High School's varsity football players. Every week during the season, in anticipation of Friday's big game, the players and coaches share a catered meal and listen to a motivational speaker who talks about a facet of character. "It gets the kids away from the field and football. We do some character building," said Casey Taylor, head coach. "We want to give them some skills for life. I don't know if the message is always applied to the next game." According to Peggy Love, secretary of Golden Eagle Football Association, the meals cost $8 per person and are paid for by the football association, which is the team's booster club. As the team prepared to meet Granite Bay High School on the football field last week, they loaded up on inspiration and a big meal. Before they filled their plates, the boys met professional baseball player Daniel Nava, 27, whose parents live in Loomis. Nava just finished his first season with the Boston Red Sox and shared the story of his unlikely journey to the pros. Nava said he started high school standing 4 foot, 8 inches tall and weighing only 70 pounds. He said his high school baseball career consisted of bench sitting or batting last in the line-up. At Santa Clara University, he didn't make the team, but was a manager and did the player's laundry for two years. He then transferred to a community college, grew to 5 foot, 10 inches and became the team's star player. Nava returned to Santa Clara on a baseball scholarship. He then played for a professional team, the Chico Outlaws, and later for the Boston Red Sox farm team. He finally "got the call" to the pros last June. "In high school, I worked my butt off every day, but I still sat on the bench. I created good work habits. I took that same work ethic with me," Nava said. After Nava's presentation, Randy Ubry, of Randy's Creative Catering, served tri-tip, chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, two kinds of pasta, green salad and garlic bread. Trays of assorted cookies topped off the meal. "I keep it simple for the guys," said Ubry, who has been catering the team's meals for more than 10 years. "I always do a beef and chicken dish, and the pastas. I try to keep it balanced," he said. When asked if he figures his normal food portions for the football players, he said, "No, they eat twice as much. They love to carbo load." Calories are obviously not an issue for the young men, who practice 20 hours per week, both in the weight room and on the football field. "They don't believe in calories. They work out so much," Ubry said. "They go through the line in a flash. They pretty much inhale their food." Each of the players seems to have his own idea of what dish of Ubry's he like best. Tyler Allyn said he loves the garlic bread. Kenny Andri said the garlic mashed potatoes are his pick, while Tanner Pahl said the fettuccini Alfredo is No. 1 with him. Ryan Copes, at 6-foot, 5-inches and 320 pounds, is the largest player on the team. His plate was loaded with beef and garlic bread. He said once a season, Ubry makes the team barbecued ribs, Ryan's favorite. Cameron Soldano, on the other hand, was eating a well-balanced meal of chicken, garlic bread and a large salad. Alex Bertrando's plate contained only salad and a cookie. "I ate a big lunch," Alex said. Ubry, who lives in Loomis, said he's been in the restaurant and catering business for 33 years and his own son is now on the freshman football team. He said the players remember the meals he makes them and years later hire him for catering jobs. "I've catered their going away parties, their welcome home parties and even their weddings," Ubry said. Ubry will be serving the football players another filling meal this week as the Golden Eagles prepare to do battle with the Tigers at Roseville High School.


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Adam Lambert covered Jessie Ware's "Wildest Moments," and we are officially dead.
A Glambert's heart wants what a Glambert's heart wants. And, aside from wanting more of Adam Lambert's smizing selfies to frame and hang in every room of our house, our hearts have been politely begging on bended knee to see Adam cover Jessie Ware's "Wildest Moments."
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Hundreds of components come together to make your network deliver the services your company depends on. The quality and performance of these services is only as good as the weakest link do you know where your weakest link is? Services availability, security, performance, utilization, and business alignment are assessed individually and as a whole from a high level perspective to help you make your infrastructure work at its most efficient. The following is a partial list of components that an assessment can encompass:
Your infrastructure depends entirely on the support structure in place to keep it running at peak performance and to repair it quickly when problems occur. Constant review of your in-sourced or outsourced solution is required to keep your support structure in line with the technology in place and the goals of the business. Are you sure you have the right resources supporting the right tasks? Are there tools available to make these resources more efficient? Support services are very expensive if done wrong, but very profitable when done right.
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Workstation support is a science which has rapidly evolved to a highly efficient automated process. Again, how efficient is your support organization? Are they using hard disk loading or are they configuring workstations for individuals? How does your workstation team respond to problems? Do they have to fix individual workstations or are they able to provide a hot spare replacement on a real-time basis? This is another service to which outsourcing is often an efficient answer. However, as with many other services, the answer is not a black and white.
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Two years ago, AT&T and Sprint waged a court battle that essentially concerned the limits of sponsorship in NASCAR. To massively oversimplify, Sprint won, and AT&T, corporate parent to Cingular, the primary on Richard Childress Racing's No. 31 car driven by Jeff Burton, effectively took its money and went home. Can you say Pyrrhic Victory?
I don't know … with teams large and small, good and not-so-good, scrambling to find the money to keep the lights on and mechanics paid, with TV numbers continuing to slide, with whole towns reliant on the health and well-being of NASCAR struggling desperately to survive, somehow, I get the feeling that that AT&T money might look pretty good right about now.


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If you're frying up some eggs and bacon – lucky you! Some folks in the path of Hurricane Sandy weren't so fortunate. CNN's Impact Your World has a great list of ways to get resources to people who need it. Meanwhile, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.
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It has been said that balancing flavors makes great food, and vinegar is the kind of ingredient that can help achieve this balance. Most of us use vinegar in a salad dressing, but vinegar is also what gives barbecue sauce its tang and it's essential to making mayonnaise.
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Memphis was 19-5 and second at 9-2 in Conference USA. Marshall was 13-11 and 4-7 in Conference USA for ninth place.
Close to everything was going right for Marshall in the second period. Marshall came back strong to tie the game at 30-30 with 17:42 left. Then Marshall continued with strong defense and offense to take a 23 point lead of 59-36 with 8:22 left. That was an incredible Herd run of 31 points while holding a strong Memphis team to only 6 points. All that happened in just 11 minutes and 38 seconds.
Memphis tried to over come the 23 point lead, but it was to late. With some fouling and some offense Memphis was able to cut the Marshall lead down to 11 as the time ran out with Marshall winning 65-54.
Coach Royce Chadwick was so excited about the win he brought the whole team in to the press conference instead of the usual two or three players. A group of girls that was in attendance was also at the press conference. "I knew we were capable of playing this way all season. Tonight we got it going. This was a total team effort from top to bottom," Chadwick said.
Every Marshall player did get some playing time. Thirty six points came from the bench. Rashedah Henriques led Marshall scorers with 11 points.
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Five junior bowlers from Madera have qualified for the Pepsi State Championships. The youth qualified in two tournaments held in November and January. They then advanced to the regional tournament and qualified for the state tournament.
The five bowlers, Mathieu Gittings, Daniel Karres, Joseph Ernst and Brian and Kayla Guthier are in the junior leagues at Madera's Valley Bowl. Gittings currently holds the highest qualifying 3-game series in the state with 748 points.
Steve Gittings coaches the bowlers and Will Cummings is volunteer assistant coach.
According to Valley Bowl owner Patti Hoban, this is the first time Madera has had as many as five bowlers going to the state championships, held in different locales each year. Daly City in the Bay Area is hosting the event this year. The Madera bowlers have a chance at the tournament to qualify for the nationals held this year in Detroit.


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Ultimately, to extent that baseball had a steroid problem, it was a collective failure. Players didn't say anything, managers looked the other way, ownership and the front office definitely didn't care, reporters were silent about it, and the fans, oh the fans, well we certainly didn't care. The more home runs Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa and Ken Griffery Jr. and Barry Bonds hit the more tickets me bought at higher and higher prices. We loved the offense, we loved the towering, majestic, bordering on unbelievable bombs we were seeing hit. People crowded into Wrigleyville and McCovey Cove in droves to catch the near murdered baseballs that were being sent there by the dozens, and revenue boomed all across baseball. If you think, in retrospect, that this was all a disgusting display of moral failure, then it's one we are all responsible for, and seeking to punish individual players for being a part of it is akin to demanding Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig be taken out of the Hall because baseball was segregated during their careers.
But hey, I'm a practical guy, and I realize that I'm in the extreme minority here. Very few people share my level of tolerance for steroid users. And because of that, a lot of them are spending a lot of time trying to figure out what to do with Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa and so on, to say nothing of the Jeff Bagwells who are the unfortunate victims of suspicion and ignorance. Should we err on the side of keeping 'roiders out, even if it means punishing some innocent players, or should we just vote for anyone we don't have evidence against, even if it means some juicers inevitably get in? Personally, I see a rather obvious solution to this problem; create some sort of process for removing a player from the Hall of Fame, at least for disciplinary reasons. Jeff Bagwell goes into the Hall and 3 years later it's proven he used steroids? Put it to some sort of vote to determine whether or the entrusted electorate thinks he should be kicked out of the Hall. This presents some logistical problems, but my guess is it will be relatively rare to see someone kicked out, and it should make the initial voting process easier, as voters won't necessarily feel like they have to weigh their suspicion against baseball history if they really don't want steroid users to be enshrined.
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i was just looking for some feed back on a background I created for my 90 gallon tank with led lighting, Thanks for looking at my pics all comments r welcomed, It is the same tank in each picture taken. Backgrounds r easily changed and can be customized to any theme or set up, top lights of the tank r not on, Any thing that i can dream of can be done like this lights can change colors and has a dimmer with remote
The backgrounds here r just random ones i decided to try
waterfall looks HARDCORE!
That is amazing!! Definintly the best background I have ever seen :shock:
How is this done? I have never seen anything like it. It rocks.
sorry for the long reply there is alot that i can do with one of these can even put you underwater swimming with fish so it would appear your were in the tank
almost any thing u could think of for i theme can be done thoes were just some randome ones that i tried
new video if any one wants to see the lights
I'm afraid I cannot see the point of these. I have fish tanks solely to have fish that I can observe interacting. I don't want a background that does anything except "disappear" so the fish and other stuff in the tank are the "display." These are very nice, but not on an aquarium. Would make a nice screen backgrouund on a PC.
To honest i wanted some thing that was both unique and to hide the back of the tank im not really fond of the open concept and for not having put alot of money into the tank gives it a nice look when i want it to. l there is also an off switch and top lights for normal viewing. i thank you for your honesty i thought about other types like the 3d ones but they can not be changed once they r put in and this allows me variety
thank you to all who have posted
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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- A portal, a duel and a kraken that springs to life. No, it's not the latest science fiction movie. It's an advanced technology demonstration that's just getting started.
The Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense is working with the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center to introduce a new advanced technology demonstration- the Joint United States Forces Korea Portal and Integrated Threat Recognition, known as JUPITR.
The goal of the four-year program is to develop unique biological detection capabilities that will address the demand for stronger biosurveillance capabilities in the Korean Peninsula.
Biosurveillance has been a national priority since 2007, when Homeland Security Presidential Directive-21 formalized a policy that said all hazards threats could take many forms, including naturally occurring disease outbreaks.
Two years later the release of the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats recognized that a pandemic disease knows no borders and that a massive outbreak of a disease was just as much a national security threat as a chemical or radiological incident.
The National Strategy for Biosurveillance was established in 2012. While some organizations began moving on the initiative, there are still a number of questions on how to best implement biosurveillance.
Officials said the JUPITR ATD program allows ECBC and JPEO-CBD to be at the forefront of defining biosurveillance and to demonstrate concepts in a space which allows for an innovative and collaborative approach.
"This is a Department of Defense flagship program for how biosurveillance will manifest itself," said Peter Emanuel, Ph.D., JUPITR ATD leader and ECBC's Research & Technology Directorate's BioSciences division chief. "ATD's are a great opportunity to try risky and innovative concepts and really push the envelope on what our technology can do. JUPITR is aggressively pushing technology to the very limit of what we think it can do to demonstrate in the field what biosurveillance can look like."
JUPITR has four distinct legs, which are designed to each support the overall goal. The first leg of JUPITR is an information portal, similar to a web management tool for health surveillance.
Brandon Flores from JPEO-CBD Information Systems demonstrated the current prototype of the portal in ECBC's Berger Laboratories in January, explaining that, "many people who see it at first say it looks a lot like a personalized iGoogle desktop, except that all the feeds are about disease outbreaks and medical supply shipments."
The second leg, led by Brady Redmond, Ph.D., of R&T's BioSensors Branch, will work with scientists on the Korean Peninsula to build upon the capabilities of their labs, allowing them to conduct analysis at their own facilities rather than taking valuable time to send away samples to stateside laboratories for evaluation.
Jennifer Thermos of Joint Program Management-Contamination Avoidance leads the third leg, which she refers to as "The Shoot-Off" because it will pit a number of field biological detectors against one another with the ultimate winner finding a home in the Korean theater.
The fourth leg is exploring early warning concepts by building on an ongoing JPM-Guardian program called Integrated Base Defense. IBD has, at its core, a massive multi-functional all-seeing sensor suite designed to rapidly establish a defensive perimeter. In field tests the 15-foot high box quickly popped open, raising telescoping towers and activating a myriad of field sensors, leading one soldier to exclaim, "time to release the Kraken boys!" thus coining the nickname.
"In JUPITR we will add a chemical/biological capability to the kraken such that our detectors can fuse with the common operating picture developed by its all-seeing eye in the sky. The devices will learn from kraken's acoustic, infra-red and thermal sensors and be able to direct what and where they look, which amplifies their effectiveness," said Ken Kammerer, JUPITR ATD's deputy.
As the ATD lead, Emanuel is currently leading efforts to ramp up for the official kickoff of the program, determining cost assignments, brokering complex technical solutions and collaborating with existing JPEO and other agency partners to ensure the program is prepared for full operation in FY14.
As one of the original experts charged with crafting biosurveillance policies, and with 20 years of bio-detection expertise in his career, Emanuel is well-suited to lead this program. There are also significant connections to the work conducted within the BioSciences Division.
"Our scientists have been working in biosurveillance for so long, this will almost be like a fifth branch under the division," Emanuel said. "This also allows ECBC's Research & Technology Directorate and its Engineering Directorate the opportunity to have a significant impact in this important field. There are so many opportunities to utilize our talent. It makes it so much easier to be able to tap the wealth of experience within ECBC such as Shawn Funks' ATD team or John Strawbridge's early warning expertise."
This program has been under development for the last two to three years, born out of an overlapping of lessons learned from previous Able Response exercises in Korea, which identified a need for a stronger biosurveillance capability. The next exercise will take place June 17-23 and soon after the ATD formally kicks off.
"Right now, what we have is akin to a big chess board where all the pieces were there, they just weren't working together," Emanuel said. "When you recognize the strength and the weakness of each piece on the chess board and move them in concert toward a specific aim, you have a greater chance of achieving your goal. In this case our goal is to significantly increase defense capabilities against impending threats. This really is an exciting time for the field of biosurveillance and at ECBC. We're very excited to be one of the leaders in this mission."


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Holy Copepods, Bristle Man!
So, I was doing a red light inspection of my newly established 55-gallon FOWLR because I was looking for my pesky bristle worm which I'm trying to catch with a trap I made from a water bottle. I think I saw two bristle worms and some other tiny wormie, but they didn't seem to like coming out while I was looming over them. I would just rather address them now before I find out that I have bad wormies.
What was really interesting was that after a while of holding my red light over the corner of the tank, I eventually ended up with a swarm of little specks that were attracted to the red light. I never realized how many copepods I had, especially in a tank only a few months old! And to think that I was about to spend money for them at the LFS to add to the refugium. :roll:
This night viewing thing is just as fun as staring at my tank during the day, except my eyes can't handle it very long. :shock:
Bristle worms are not pests. Contrary to what some may say, they are actually quite beneficial to the system. They are scavengers, and consume detritus, left over food, and livestock carcases. unless your bristle worms are as big as a pencil, I would leave them there to do their cleaning.
yeah... the more I think about it, and the more I read, I think that I'll probably end up leaving them for the time being, I certainly could use the extra help keeping the tank clean. but I will be keeping an eye on everything at night, I hear that those worms grow and multiply very quickly.
I wouldnt say they are fast growers, but I dont bother them unless they get very large. When they get large, they're pretty easy to catch. A pair of Kent Marine's grabbers, a large chunk of meaty food banded to a small piece of rock, and some patience. Find out where it comes out, put the food nearby, and have the grabbers make a arch over it's exit. when it comes out far enough, pinch it with the grabbers and move it over to the sump. (a refugium is a great place for the big ones)
that actually addresses a question I was about to post another thread about... What livestock is normally recommended to place in a refugium. Mine is a very small hang-on refugium though, I'm not even sure it would be big enough for a large worm. My heater barely fits.
interesting... my bumble bee snail is hanging out around where the worm comes out of the rock... Is it possible that the snail is a natural predator of the bristle worm?
bumble bee snails are predators and will eat other snails too.
this might explain a few other problems as well... like my poor little starfish :-(
seriously though, these pods are everywhere! I'm gonna have to consider getting that red mandarin after all!
mandarins will deplete a pod population in no time. i believe in the wild they eat 400-500+ pods a day.
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Car service owners said it unfairly blurred a legal line between yellow and livery cabs, which are barred from picking up passengers on streets and so depend on prearranged rides.
The livery cab owners – and a senior citizen who doesn't own a smartphone – also envision in the suit that e-hailing will leave people standing on street corners while cabbies zip by to pick up app-arranged fares, potentially reviving concerns about discrimination against passengers based on their race, whereabouts or destination. Those concerns led years ago to measures that barred drivers from taking fares via radio dispatch and from refusing any passenger without "justifiable grounds."
The judge, however, said the e-hail plan might actually combat any discrimination, since drivers wouldn't be able to see their fares when accepting them. She didn't address whether cabbies might shun some neighborhoods to take e-hail requests elsewhere but noted the test program could examine discrimination.
She suggested the electronic system could help, rather than harm, older people by "reducing time spent standing or walking" to find a cab. She also rejected other claims, including an argument that the program was too broad to qualify as a test.
The city's chief lawyer, Michael Cardozo, said the ruling confirms the city's position that the program is entirely proper.
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NORWOOD —At the state high school wrestling tournament in Denver last year, three upperclassmen cornered a 13-year-old boy on an empty school bus, bound him with duct tape and sodomized him with a pencil.
For the boy and his family, that was only the beginning.
The students were from Norwood, a ranching town of about 500 people near the Telluride ski resort. Two of the attackers were sons of Robert Harris, the wrestling coach, who was president of the school board. The victim's father was the K-12 principal.
After the principal reported the incident to police, townspeople forced him to resign. Students protested against the victim. The attackers later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges, according to the Denver District Attorney's Office.
"Nobody would help us," said the victim's father, who asked not to be named to protect his son's privacy. Bloomberg News doesn't identify victims of sexual assault. "We contacted everybody, and nobody would help us," the father said.
High school hazing and bullying used to involve name-calling, towel-snapping and stuffing boys into lockers. Now, boys sexually abusing other boys is part of the ritual. More than 40 high school boys were sodomized with foreign objects by their teammates in a dozen or more alleged incidents reported in the past year, compared with about three incidents a decade ago, according to a Bloomberg review of court documents and news accounts.
At New York's elite Bronx High School of Science, three teenage track team members were arrested after a freshman teammate alleged they repeatedly hazed him between December and February, including holding the boy down and sodomizing him with their fingers. They pleaded not guilty in New York state criminal court in the Bronx, according to Melvin Hernandez, a spokesman for the Bronx District Attorney's Office. A lawyer for one of the boys was unavailable for comment; the other two declined to comment.
While little research has been done on boy-on-boy sexual hazing, almost 10 percent of high school males reported being victims of rape, forced oral sex or other forms of sexual assault by their peers, according to a 2009 study in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Hazing in high school is fueling college hazing, experts say, as a new generation of players on middle and high school sports teams learn ways to haze through social media, said Susan Lipkins, a psychologist in Port Washington, N.Y., who has studied the subject for 25 years. The practice has been increasing in frequency over the past decade, becoming more brutal and sexually violent, she said.
"Each time a hazing occurs, the perpetrators add their own mark to it by increasing the pain or humiliation," Lipkins said.
High school boys are trying to prove their masculinity to one another by humiliating younger boys because that's what they think manliness is all about, said William Pollack, associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School.
"We keep saying to the boy: 'Be a man,' and a boy is not a man, so that's not possible," said Pollack, who is also director of the Centers for Men and Young Men at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.
In at least four cases of sodomy hazing last year, the coach or supervising teacher was alleged to have known about it, ordered it, witnessed it or laughed about it, according to police reports and court filings.
At Maine West High School in Des Plaines, Ill., a Chicago suburb, varsity soccer players allegedly "rewarded" new teammates by holding them down and sodomizing them, while coaches did nothing to intervene, according to court documents and police reports.
After witnessing an attack on a 16-year-old in July, varsity coach Michael DiVincenzo allegedly congratulated the victim and asked him "if it was all good," according to a police report. During a freshman drill, he was alleged to have told players they would be sodomized by the varsity team if they failed to communicate effectively, according to a police report.
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About 4,000 sexual assaults occur each year inside U.S. public schools, as well as 800 rapes or attempted rapes, says a letter the U.S. Education Department sent to educators in April 2011.
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State anti-hazing laws enacted in the 1990s have had little effect as victims are often reluctant to testify and penalties are mild. While the Education Department hasn't warned schools about sexual hazing, it has offered guidance on bullying.
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This is basically just to help me understand pointers better, so if you guys can confirm/deny/explain anything it looks like I don't understand properly I would be most appreciative. The examples of using mailboxes, and aunts, and streets, and all that crap is just confusing.
int a = 5;
int b = &a; // b will be the memory address of 'a'
int *c = a; // c will be the value of 'a' which is 5
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One more step to her political dreams while her constituents sit here in Gloucester wondering why? Just another slap in our faces...the petitions can't get signed quickly enough.
Well, I guess the champagne will be on our tab tonight. Fortunately, from what I hear, the macadamia nuts, however, are complimentary.
She only had to run for 2nd vice. Then she automatically becomes 1st vice; then president.
I'm sure Glen Whitley from Texas, the man she beat fraudulently for 2nd last year, and who chose not to sue for a revote, became 2nd veep this weekend, too. He was running unopposed. He said he plans to "dog" her to stick with her promise of integrity.
Let's make sure she is not ever pres. and is only 1st vice for a few weeks. Sign the petitions and PRAY--hard.
What this tells me is that NACO is a bogus organization whose Code of Ethics is meaningless. Gloucester should stop funding this group altogether. Look where it got us!!
They took the position that she and Woody are innocent until proven guilty. It's probably the prudent position to take, considering that she's been telling everybody there that this is just politics, and that she will prevail. And evidently they don't know her well enuf yet to be able to see thru that performance. Especially with Woody standing next to her and agreeing.
Very good point Blee Ding Harte...
Well, why wouldn't they believe him, after all, he is a Pastor (smile).
Being new to Gloucester it amazes me that the local politics are as exciting as they are...but I really find it hard to believe that our two superviors had the gall to make the trip to Kansas...if half of what they are accused of is found true by the legal system I truely hope both will be gone by the fall. I will be signing the petitions for sure.
This is the biggest news in many years! Since I have been here, 1979, it's pretty much been just a big snore around here. I guess the "big fish" just got a bit too big for the little pond!
Amazing what happens to some when they THINK they have a little power, isn't it?
I refuse to give even a smidgeon of credence to the rumor circulating flagrantly throughout the county that had the special grand jury given them a clean bill of health their next step was to use some of the reserve fund to have jeweled crowns made for themselves. Whoever is responsible for this rumor, please stop!!


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Trillium is a substance (probably mineral) that is regularly being traded in the 23rd and 24th century.
In 2267, Spock posed as a trader of kevas and trillium while on Organia. (TOS: "Errand of Mercy")
Later, in 2373, Arne Darvin made the same claim while aboard the USS Defiant. (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")
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Supreme Court asked to decide incentive fund future
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Whether Missouri begins supporting new high-tech businesses now depends on whether the state Supreme Court says the state law creating a special incentives fund is constitutional.
Almost a year after the General Assembly's 2011 special session approved the "Missouri Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act" and Gov. Jay Nixon signed it into law, the high court heard arguments for and against Cole County Circuit Judge Dan Green's February 2012 ruling that the law, as passed, violates the state Constitution.
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They were called the "Good Hands Crew;" about 100 Fort Worth students who agreed to work on campuses this summer for just over $8 an hour. But good hands has ended in bad blood.
FORT WORTH -- They were called the "Good Hands Crew;" about 100 Fort Worth students who agreed to work on campuses this summer for just over $8 an hour.
But good hands ended with bad blood between the Fort Worth school board and the preacher who conceived the program.
District officials say The Rev. Kyev Tatum did not have authority or funding for the student work program. Tuesday night, the Fort Worth ISD board voted unanimously to seek legal action against Tatum. They did not discuss what type of action, but trustee Ashley Paz said Tatum should be held responsible for its impact on the district's budget.
The board recently agreed to pay students about $60,000 for their work.
"We thought we had an agreement," Tatum said Wednesday. "The students thought we had an agreement."
READ: Fort Worth students caught in summer jobs dispute
Tatum said top district officials — including then-Superintendent Walter Dansby — liked the idea when Tatum pitched it in May. But a May 27 follow-up e-mail from Fort Worth ISD told Tatum the maintenance department could not fund it.
Tatum said he didn't see that e-mail until June 2, and even then didn't realize it meant the program was dead.
"Wow! How do we fund it?" Tatum replied at the time.
"From that point up until July 27, there was no response from the district," Tatum said. "So who's really being disingenuous?"
Board member Ashley Paz said Tatum knew he didn't have the authority, but went ahead with the program anyway.
"The fact is, he never had a contract with Fort Worth ISD," she said Wednesday. "We are a public entity. You can't just go on a handshake and a nod."
Paz said she feels betrayed, because Tatum told he her he had secured the funding. She said he should now be held accountable for the cost.
"Absolutely. It shouldn't be a burden on the taxpayers," Paz said.
She said there's no doubt Tatum has helped students at Trimble Tech, his alma mater. He's run a mentoring program there since 2011.
But the district has not renewed that contract for this school year.


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Women CEOs forced out more than men: Did I read that in The New York Times?
An interesting note following Abramson's dismissal
The sacking of Jill Abramson as editor of The New York Times has brought attention to a recent study by Strategy&, the mongo-consulting firm formerly known as Booz & Company.
The study examined data about CEOs at 2,500 public companies, not all of them American. It found that over the past 10 years, 38 percent of all women CEOs were forced out of their job while 27 percent of men were. Wow.
Women CEOs are also more likely to be hired from outside the company than men, 35 percent of women versus 22 percent of men. The report says:
"That women CEOs are more often outsiders may be an indication that companies have not been able to cultivate enough female executives in-house."
Yep, just maybe.
Women were just 3 percent of all new CEOs in 2013. The U.S. and Canada have the highest percentages of women CEOs, 3.2 percent.
The Abramson post-mortems have also focused on the idea of a "glass cliff." The glass ceiling is the idea that there is an invisible ceiling to how high women can progress in organizations; the idea of the glass cliff is that organizations are more likely to turn to women and minority leaders when they are in trouble. A paper that studied CEOs of Fortune 500 companies over the past 15 years found this to be true.
Whatever the real story is over at The New York Times, the Twitterverse is on fire with reaction.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
Developing the Developed World
Entrepreneurship, Liberty, and the Future
Recorded: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
In his #1 New York Times bestselling book, Zero to One, Peter Thiel presents his often contrarian ideas about competition, progress, technology, and finding value in unexpected placesto build a future that we have yet to dream, but that may someday become reality. In Developing the Developed World he brings these ideas to life, including his insights on how to create true innovations in the world of atomsnot just digits and bitsand how to foster a peaceful, prosperous and freer future marked by globalization in a world of limited resources.
Peter Thiel is Founder and Managing Member of Clarium Capital Management, LLC; Co-Founder of Paypal, Palantir Technologies, Mithril Capital Management, and Valar Ventures; Managing Partner of Founders Fund; and past President of Thiel Capital International and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Confinity, Inc. He has been a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and he is the author of the books:
The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus (with David O. Sacks)
He co-founded PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and in 2002 sold it to eBay and founded Clarium Capital Management, a global macro fund. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. The same year he co-founded Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in fields like security and global finance. He has provided early funding for LinkedIn, Yelp, RoboteX, Spotify, and dozens of successful technology startups. He is a co-founder and partner at Founders Fund, a venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. And in 2012 he co-founded Mithril Capital Management, an international technology investment fund.
Mr. Thiel started the Thiel Fellowship, which ignited a national debate by encouraging young people to put learning before schooling, and he leads the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking about the future. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, where he received an A.B. in philosophy and a J.D. from the Stanford University School of Law. He further co-produced the film, "Thank You for Smoking," he was rated a master by the United States Chess Federation, and he received the Innovation Award from "The Economist" in 2010.
Experts: Peter A. ThielType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Antitrust, Competition, and Monopoly, Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Corporate Welfare, Culture/ Society, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Energy, Free Market Economics, Freedom, Government Power, Health Care, History (U.S), Labor and Employment, Law Enforcement, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privatization, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Regulation and Deregulation, Science, Technology, Trade
Ivan Eland on Ranking US Presidents
Recorded: Sunday, October 26, 2014
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, appears on Fox & Friends to discuss his updated version of "Recarving Rushmore."
To order copies of "Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty," click here.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Freedom, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Government Waste/Pork, History (U.S), Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Regulation and Deregulation, Terrorism and National Crises, Trade
Ivan Eland: Obama Calls for United Front Against Russia
Recorded: Thursday, April 24, 2014
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, appears on CTV to discuss Obama's call for a united front against Russia in response to instability in Ukraine.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power, Nationalism, Politics, Terrorism and National Crises, Trade
Benjamin Powell: Are Sweatshops Good?
Recorded: Monday, April 21, 2014
Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell discusses sweatshops and the global economy on the Fox Business Network "The Independents."
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Robert Higgs - Crisis, Leviathan, and the National Security State
Recorded: Thursday, February 27, 2014
"Crisis, Leviathan, and the National Security State" by Robert Higgs was a speech sponsored by The Future of Freedom Foundation February 15, 2014 at the 2014 International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington D.C.
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Maura McEnaney on Willard Garvey at Wichita Rotary Club
Recorded: Monday, October 28, 2013
Maura McEnaney, author of Willard Garvey: An Epic Life, speaks before the Rotary Club of Wichita on October 28, 2013, about her new book published by The Independent Institute's LibertyTree Press.
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Ben Powell Speaks on the Gold Standard on Stossel at FreedomFest
Recorded: Thursday, July 18, 2013
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Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell appears on the Fox Business Channels Stossel show, recorded in Las Vegas, during FreedomFest.
Powell discusses the valuation of US currency, the economic constant of greed, and the gold standard among other topics.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: TelevisionIssues: Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Trade
Art Carden on Stossel
Recorded: Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Research Fellow Art Carden on Stossel to discuss the topic What you think you know...may not be so.
Experts: Art CardenType: TelevisionIssues: Agriculture, Economic Policy, Education, Free Market Economics, Trade


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PASCO — While proposals to turn green-leaning Washington state into a major exporter of coal to China have caused an uproar in coastal communities, the heated debate is largely absent from other places along the industry's expected trade route to Asia.
The state and federal agencies that are conducting an environmental review of five proposed coal-export terminals in the region aren't planning to give residents of one of Washington state's major population centers a chance to comment on the project publicly, even as such meetings take place in similar-sized or smaller communities elsewhere.
As a result, officials and residents in south-central Washington aren't exactly sure what they stand to gain or lose.
In the Tri-Cities, a cluster of towns along the Columbia River with a combined population of 190,000, the few local officials who knew about the projects said they weren't concerned.
"We've just kind of learned to live with the train delays," said Mike Harris, a deputy fire chief in Benton County, which includes Kennewick, the largest of the three cities.
But the Yakama Nation, which has lands in south-central Washington where residents are three hours from any of the scheduled meetings, would like more information on what the projects might mean for tribal communities.
"Having a closer meeting would definitely give people an opportunity to wrap their arms around what's being proposed," said Emily Washines, a spokeswoman for the tribe.
U.S. coal operators, facing declining domestic demand, want to build five export terminals in the Northwest to ship coal to China and other global markets where demand is stronger. Supporters, including business and labor groups, say jobs and the economy are at stake and urge quick approval.
But these proposals face strong resistance from environmental groups and Indian tribes that say a tidal wave of coal shipments will bring more noise and pollution and will disturb tribal fishing grounds and cultural sites. They want the review to include the impacts on communities from the mines to the ports, especially whether the trains will worsen air and water quality and blanket the region with coal dust or block first responders from reaching emergencies.
In July, a coal train derailed in Mesa, a rural village north of the Tri-Cities. No one was injured, and the spilled coal was cleaned up quickly, but the incident became a rallying cry for opponents of the project as an example of what could go wrong.
"Along the Columbia River, it's cliff, highway, railroad, then river," Paul Lumley, the executive director of the Portland-based Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, said in September. "Our communities are wedged between the railroad and the river. We've got nowhere to escape."
Train traffic and environmental hazards are familiar in the Tri-Cities. Pasco, just across the river from Kennewick, is a regional hub on BNSF, a Fort Worth, Texas, rail company with lines across the Western United States. Richland, the smallest of the three cities, is near the Hanford site, which produced plutonium for the atom bombs that ended World War II and later required an extensive cleanup of nuclear waste.
The railroad employs about 300 people in the area, and many local industries depend on it to ship their products.
BNSF already transports some coal through the Tri-Cities, and the volume might increase substantially if the largest of the five terminals is built.


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March 1, 2013
By Capt. Rob Lodewick, 181st Infantry Brigade, Division West, Public Affairs
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Soldiers frequently have the privilege of standing in formation while a fellow Soldier is awarded a commander's coin, named NCO of the month, or recognized with an award. However, very few are privileged enough to stand in the East Room of the White House while the President presents their battle buddy from basic training with the nation's highest military award for valor, the Medal of Honor, in the name of Congress.
Sgt. 1st Class Rodney Harris, assigned to Division West's 181st Infantry Brigade at Fort McCoy, Wis., was one of those privileged few last month.
Harris, an observer controller/trainer in 1st Battalion, 310th Infantry Regiment, received an invitation from the White House to attend the ceremony presenting the Medal of Honor to his longtime friend, Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha.
Harris and Romesha met in 1999, when they attended basic training together at Fort Knox, Ky. As tank crewmen, their friendship continued in their first duty assignment to the 1st Infantry Division in Vilseck, Germany, and then a deployment to Kosovo with 1st Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment. As their paths continued to cross over the next 11 years of their Army careers, the two Soldiers and their Families remained good friends.
Romesha received the Medal of Honor for his performance while engaged in an action against the enemy during the October 2009 defense of Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan's Nuristan Province. His actions were critical in suppressing an enemy force of more than 300 fighters and in organizing an effective counterattack, which eventually allowed his troop to secure the outpost. An estimated 150 enemies were killed in the fight, while 22 Americans were wounded and eight U.S. Soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice in what remains one of the bloodiest battles of the Afghanistan campaign.
Harris said he was very honored to receive the personal invitation to Romesha's award ceremony and immediately made plans to travel to the nation's capital. His three days in Washington included a tour of the White House with other honored guests, attendance at ceremonies in both the East Room and the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes, a private gathering at their hotel hosted by Command Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond Chandler, and opportunities to re-unite with old friends.
Though unable to personally meet his commander-in-chief, Harris said he was proud to have met and talked with many distinguished military and political leaders, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno.
Harris said he was thankful to share in the opportunity to recognize the gallantry of his friend and fellow Soldier, while also honoring the memory of the eight American service members who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the nation.


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My wife is having some unusual fit issues and I was hoping someone here has seen this sort of thing before...
Four score and seven years ago my wife was a competitive Celtic dancer. For 19 years she was whacked with a stick by mean old Scottish women who wanted her to keep her back straight, hips rolled forward. Now, after 19 years of being beaten into submission and rolling her hips forward, she no longer sits on her sit bones.
The result is that when she sits on a bicycle saddle she is not sitting on her sit bones, but is instead sitting on the soft, unmentionable fleshy bits. This, as you can imagine, causes much pain and bruising.
We've tried 7 different saddles with mixed results. She's on a Sella Italia Gel Women's saddle now that has been the best so far, but does not in itself solve the problem. She's also using Pearl Izumi shorts with a very well designed pad, but this is also only one facet and not a fix.
She's currently riding a Trek 1000. Maybe that's half the problem... The size fits her well, but the TT is a bit long (51cm) so we've tested/rented a smaller Cervelo frame that is shorter in the TT (47cm) and this was better for her because it brought her weight back a little and didn't stretch her out even more.
So, we're getting closer but I don't want to spend $1,500 on the Cervelo if it is not going to solve the problem. We've tried getting a professional fit from the best guy in town, but they've claimed her seating position and angles are perfect, save for the fact that her hips are rolled forward.
Does anyone have ideas on this? Ever seen this before? Ever fit a bike to a former ballet or Celtic dancer?


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'Beyond the Spiritual' program set for Feb. 25 in Chapel
The Holmes Community College Concert Chorale will be collaborating with Phyllis Lewis-Hale and Karen Laubengayer, both of Jackson State University, to present "Beyond the Spritual" Black History Month Presentation tomorrow at Chapel on the Hill on the Goodman Campus of Holmes Community College.
The Concert Chorale will begin with a brief mini-concert. Ms. Lewis-Hale and Dr. Laubengayer will follow as they present "Beyond the Spiritual," which will explore the non-spiritual art songs of select 20th Century African-American composers including Florence Prince, Camillie Nickerson, Betty Jackson King and Harrison Leslie Adams.
Lewis-Hale, a native of Jackson, is a lyric soprano in great demand. She has performed in Italy, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Austria, Bermuda and throughout the United States. Some highlights in her career include receiving several awards, such as the recipient of the 2011 Mississippi Humanities Teacher and Scholar Award, the recipient of a HBCU-SAFRA Title III Project Grant in 2011 and 2012 from the University Scholars Center for Undergraduate Research, the winner of the IBLA Grand Prize in the International "Monteverdi/Bellini" Vocal Competition held in Italy, a winner in the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera Vocal Competition held in New York and the recipient of an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards. Ms. Lewis-Hale recorded the "Songs of Separation" of William Grant Still for WGUC Radio in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is currently an Instructor of Music and the Director of the Opera /Musical Theatre Workshop at Jackson State University. She has served as a director of opera for various programs for the last twelve years. She has staged productions for Opera/South of Jackson, the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Ms. Lewis-Hale's research interests include the preservation and popularization of the African-American non-spiritual art song, African-American operas and the Negro spiritual. She has presented lecture-recitals in venues across the country including the National Association of Teachers of Singing National Conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Super Regional Conference of the College Music Society held in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, as well as, the College Music Society's National Conferences held in Atlanta, Georgia and Portland, Oregon. She recently presented a lecture-recital focusing on the "Preservation of the African-American Art Song" at the National Association of African-American Studies National Conference which was held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ms. Lewis-Hale received the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Jackson State University and the Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
Dr. Laubengayer, a pianist and professor of music at Jackson State University, has performed in Europe at the American Academy of the Arts in Verona, Italy and the L'Ecole Hindemith in Vevey, Switzerland. In the United States, she has performed at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC and the International Art Song Festival in Cleveland, OH. She has appeared as guest pianist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra, The St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra in Jackson, MS and the Meridian Symphony Orchestra in Meridian, MS. In addition she has presented lecture recitals on the National and International stage at the National Convention of the College Music Society in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Atlanta, Georgia and Portland, OR; The National Convention of NATS in Salt Lake City, UT; International Conferences at the University of London Institute of Education and at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, England. She has studied and coached with many renowned artists and pedagogues including Jane Allen, William Schatzkamer, Claudio Arrau, Dalton Ballwin, Warren Jones and Sandra Rivers. Dr. Laubengayer holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Stephens College in Columbia, MO and the Masters and Ph.D degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.


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FRONT ROYAL, Va. (WUSA) -- The story of a possible panda pregnancy at the National Zoo is one that Washingtonians love and anyone who follows it knows why it's a big deal: Pandas are fertile for just 24 hours once a year.
Pandas aren't the only focus when it comes to animal reproduction at the National Zoo. At the Smithsonian Conservation Biological Institute, where more than 4,000 acres of land is dedicated to preserving endangered species, biologists are learning what it takes to successfully reproduce animals that aren't breeding in captivity.
"Around 60% of all animals that you see in zoos these days are considered non-sustainable," said Budhan Pukazhenthi, BVSc, Ph.D., DVM. "There's no guarantee you'll see these animals in the zoo in 50 to 100 years because either the animals are getting old and there's not much reproduction or there are no new genes being brought into the population."
One of the rarest species that zoo-keepers are hand-rearing in Front Royal are the clouded leopard cubs. There are three young cubs at the facility. A litter of two cubs, one male and one female, was born on March 28 and a single female cub was born on May 13.
"We have been very successful in producing cubs on a regular basis," said Pukazhenthi. "And the strategy seems to be putting prepubertal animals - a few months old - male and a female together so that they grow up together. There's no aggression and they breed well. If you put unknown unrelated strangers male and a female together to breed, typically what happens is the male ends up killing the female."
When the cubs are born, they are hand-reared, which also seems to contribute to successful reintegration into zoo facilities. 9NEWS NOW was able to film zoo-keeper Ken Lang feed the baby girl born in May.
"We usually start up with two people normally male and female so the cubs don't become imprinted on either sex or a person and then after they are eating well, we start introducing a new person every week," said Lang.
Imprinting is one concern researchers keep in mind. REcently, it became a huge problem for another endangered animal - a white-naped crane called Walnut.
"Walnut has a behavioral problem she came to us she was over 20 years of age," explained Warren Lynch, the Bird Unit Manager. "She was the single most valuable white nape crane in the population. She had never reproduced. Since she was hand raised by people, she did not recognize that she was a crane."
By the time she came to the Smithsonian, she had been to three other zoos.
"The other three facilities actually tried pairing her with prospective mates and she would always fight with them and even killed two," said Lynch.
Now she has laid three fertile eggs and is considered a success story, one of many researchers hope to share in the years to come.