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NEW YORK (USA Today) - Stocks rallied strongly Monday on optimism that a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" can be reached and on strong quarterly earnings from corporations.
The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 207.65 points, 1.7% to 12,795.96. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index finished up 27.01 points, or 2% to 1,386.89. The tech-laden Nasdaq composite index closed up 62.94 points, or 2.2%, to 2,916.07. The rally impacted the bond market, where the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note jumped to 1.61%. When a bond's yield rises, the price falls.
STORY: Should you sell stocks to avoid 'cliff' tax hikes?
A strong reading on homebuilder sentiment, which rose to a 6-year-high, also gave investors a reason to get back into the stock market.
After falling for nearly two weeks on fears divided lawmakers wouldn't get a deal done in time, stocks soared Monday amid renewed hopes that Democrats and Republicans are willing to work together and hatch a plan to avoid damage to the economy that would be caused by a host of mandated tax hikes and government spending cuts set for Jan. 1 unless Congress acts.
Signs of compromise lifted sentiment on Wall Street, Andrew Busch, a policy analyst at BMO Capital Markets, wrote in a morning research note to clients. He cites "constructive" comments Friday from President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner.
"This led to a sharp turnaround back to a risk-on trading environment," Busch wrote. "It also reflects how strongly correlated the market is toward positive or negative news on the cliff."
Busch warns that the process is just beginning and a strong risk of disagreement still remains.
Randy Frederick, managing director of active trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab, said the rally is due largely to the market becoming "oversold"since Election Day and that a bounce was due. He, too, warns of more volatility ahead.
Shares of Apple (AAPL) jumped 7.4% to finish Monday at $566.44 a piece. Thecompany's stock is down 20% from its 52-week high of $705.07.
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) shares surged Monday afternoon, ending the day up 3.2% to $13.27 a piece, in advance of its fourth-quarter earnings report due out Tuesday after the market closes.
Intel's shares opened lower, 15 minutes late because the announcement came just before the opening bell that CEO Paul Otellini said he was retiring in May. Intel (INTC), the world's largest chip-maker, has not selected a successor. The shares ended Monday up 7 cents, 0.35%, to $20.26 each.
Home improvement company Lowe's (LOW) said Monday that its third-quarter profit surged 76%. Its shares closed Monday up $1.97, or 6.1%, to $33.95.
Tyson Foods (TSN), the country's largest meat company, easily topped Wall Street expectations Monday for its fourth-quarter earnings. The company's stock soared $1.85, or 11%, to end at $18.73 each.
World stock markets also rose Monday, registering optimism after negotiations late last week between President Obama and leaders of Congress. Obama met with the top leaders of the House and Senate Friday.
Economists have been warning of the consequences if no action is taken. The spending cuts and higher taxes - plus the expiration of extended unemployment benefits - would mean that $671 billion is sliced out of the American economy next year. That's enough to throw the world's biggest economy into a recession.
European stocks ended the day higher. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 2.4% to 5,737.66. Germany's DAX 30 index gained 2.5% to 7,123.84. France's CAC-40 index advanced 2.9% to 3,439.58.
There are reports that Greece's request for $40 billion more in bailout funding has been approved. And investors looking for good deals following a global stock market slump that followed the U.S. presidential election helped push Asian stock markets higher.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 0.5% to 21,262.06 and South Korea's Kospi rose 0.9% to 1,878.10. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.6% to 4,361.40. Mainland China's Shanghai Composite Index inched up 0.1% to 2,016.98. The smaller Shenzhen Composite Index rose marginally to 800.84.
"Because Hong Kong dropped for two weeks, maybe there is some bargain hunting," said Linus Yip, strategist at First Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong. He said that the budget negotiations in the U.S. are occupying the spotlight in the near term, but the ultimate issue is the state of the global economy.
Investors were particularly concerned by data last week showing U.S. industrial output falling 0.4% in October and the 17-country euro area falling into another recession.
The yen's recent weakness helped boost Japan's Nikkei 225 and its heavy orientation toward exporting companies. The index in Tokyo jumped 1.4% to close at 9,153.20, its highest close since Sept. 19.
A weak yen reduces the cost of Japanese products overseas, and that helps companies whose survival depends on sales beyond their home turf.
Benchmark oil for December delivery ended up $1.22 to $86.67 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The price of gold jumped $17.70, 1%, to finish at $1,736.60.
In currencies, the euro rose to $1.2814 from $1.2727 late Friday in New York. The dollar was flat at 81.38 yen.


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Williams, 57, president of Carolina Pine Merchants Inc., is a lumber wholesaler who flies to see customers in the Carolinas and Georgia. Warm thermals softly rock his high-wing Cessna, which seems suspended in a cradle of air. A gap in forest and farmland ahead, barely perceptible at first, seems to grow. Well make a long approach. He banks and throttles back. His eyes dart, a habit of pilots who know no air-traffic controllers are watching for other planes. The opening becomes a ribbon of pavement with a cluster of metal buildings. Silky smooth, the plane touches down just beyond hash marks at the end of Asheboro Regional Airports runway. Near the terminal, a killdeer flutters and drags her wing through the grass, feigning injury to lure intruders away from her nest.
Its not unusual for animals to outnumber pilots at airports like this. Months earlier, 240 miles west at a mountaintop airfield near Sylva, nothing stirred but a groundhog venturing from its winter den. Another day, some 450 miles due east of there, seagulls shrieked over empty taxiways as a summer storm bore down on Beauforts Michael J. Smith Field. Regardless of season, pilots landing in Hurdle Mills, a Person County crossroads north of Durham, heed a standing warning: Beware of cows on the runway.
These and 59 others are North Carolinas general-aviation airfields, rarely glimpsed by the roughly 51 million passengers who flew in and out of the states 11 commercial airports last year. A few are large. Concord Regional, its 7,400-foot runway home field for many of the NASCAR racing teams based near Charlotte, is busier than some commercial airports. At Johnston County Airport in Smithfield, planes land and take off about 60 times a day. Others, like Asheboro Regional, have a dozen or so flights some days and some days none. At Kill Devil Hills, small-plane pilots wrestle tricky ocean winds to land at First Flight Airport, adjacent to the Wright Brothers National Memorial, where aviation began 107 years ago. These small airports are one of our most important tools for business, economic development and corporate recruitment, says Richard Walls, aviation director of the N.C. Department of Transportation.
Clear prop! Williams intones, an unnecessary formality. His Cessna 172 is the only thing stirring. The engine gurgles, warming up. His safety briefing would make an airline passenger think twice. If the engine stops and we have enough runway, Ill just put it back down. If weve got enough altitude, Ill turn back. If not, theres a nice little cleared field up ahead. Commercially rated and qualified to fly by instrument, the former paratrooper has flown into two-thirds of North Carolinas small airports. I could drive, but it would take twice as long, be twice as aggravating and probably twice as dangerous. Plus, its kind of cool, flying into a place to meet a customer.
Therere a couple of views of the business flyer, Walls says. One is of the high-rolling exec, jetting off for the weekend. Thats overstated. Primarily, the business flyer is a guy with interests across the state or the Southeast who has something like a King Air or Baron a one- or two-engine plane and likes to combine business with a love of flying.
About 15 of the 55 planes based at Asheboro Regional are owned by corporations such as Malt-O-Meal Co., the Minneapolis-based cereal maker with a plant nearby, and St. Louis-based Energizer Holdings Inc., which has two local battery plants. Should have been here yesterday, airport manager Karen McCraw says. Last couple of days, weve had a corporate jet parked out here on the ramp. A former IBMer, she is a pilot, as is her husband. Their company, Cardinal Air LLC, manages Asheboro Regional and Siler City Municipal under contract.
Williams pushes his airplane backward into a hangar by hand. They may be out of sight, but the small airports he and nearly 14,000 private and corporate pilots fly out of are more than faded windsocks and terminals with walls lined with the traditional clipped shirttails of first-time solo pilots. Directly and indirectly, they contribute about $2 billion a year to the state economy, compared with nearly $12 billion generated by those with scheduled airline service.
Their names, such as Asheboro Regional, are pedestrian. Unlike Dead Dog Airport in Pittsboro, Happy Bottom in Advance and more than 400 other private strips, public general-aviation airports are usually extensions of counties or towns, funded by state and local governments to attract and keep business and industry. They spin off about 15,000 jobs statewide and have other roles, particularly enabling access to remote regions after hurricanes and disasters. Behind their sleepy facades, deals unwind, fortunes are staked, and international intrigue unfolds.
North of Raleigh in Franklin County farm country near Louisburg lies Triangle North Executive Airport. Were pretty much the top level for business airports, manager Steven Merritt says. Weve got a 5,500-foot runway thats big enough for business jets, and weve got IFR instrument-flight rated equipment. Weve got 8-foot fences. Of course, deer can jump just about anything. Its also popular with human jumpers 13,000 skydivers last year and is used by a local company for helicopter flight training.
This airport and those like it are preferred by real-estate speculators, site consultants, investors and developers who operate out of the public eye. Scouts for Altoona, Pa.-based Sheetz Inc., a national convenience-store chain expanding in North Carolina, landed here to search for sites of 10 more stores the company plans to build in the state. But secrecy sometimes involves more than business contracts and deeds.
Woods on three sides border Johnston County Airport, off U.S. 70 some 30 miles east of Raleigh, where 115 planes are based. Some people speak in whispers about a hangar known as Big Blue. Others wont speak about it at all. Airport manager Ray Blackmon politely steers conversation away from Aero Contractors Ltd., whose cryptic business card reads: discreet air- lifts. The company wont comment either. N.C. Department of the Secretary of State records shows it was incorporated in 1979 in the wake of Americas withdrawal from Vietnam.
Similar records in Delaware show Jim Rhyne, a former CIA pilot, formed Aero Contractors. Federal Aviation Administration tracking data of tail numbers on some of an estimated two dozen planes linked to the company, painted white without identifying marks, have them leaving here and, after stops near Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, continuing to Guantanamo, Cuba; Kabul, Afghanistan; and Baghdad, Iraq. Aero Contractors, sources say, transports CIA teams and, for whats known as extraordinary rendition, suspected terrorists to countries where torture is permitted. Forty years ago, the occupant of Big Blue had another name: Air America, the CIAs secret air force in Southeast Asia.
Small Tar Heel airports also find themselves in the cross hairs of other controversies. Complaints have prompted the 400,000-member Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, based in Frederick, Md., and National Business Aviation Association, based in Washington, to adopt programs urging pilots to hold down noise around small airports. Private pilots and businesses own about 8,000 planes in North Carolina. We have a huge interest in where we can take off and land, says Chris Dancy, an AOPA spokesman. Twenty-seven small airports nationwide have closed since 2008. At least one of North Carolinas is struggling to stay alive.
From the top of Airport Road, with its 10 mph hairpin turns, the mountain college town of Cullowhee looks like a toy village in the valley 2,000 feet below. The approach by air is not for the queasy, either. From a few miles out, the airport looks like the deck of an aircraft carrier. Crosswinds sweeping Berry Ridge buffet a small plane, which yaws like a crab as the pilot struggles to line up on the 3,000-foot runway, barely wider than a two-lane road, with sharp drop-offs at both ends. On a foggy, turbulent day in December 2005, two people were killed when a single-engine Cirrus flew into the side of nearby Savannah Ridge. This is Jackson County Airport, the only airfield in the state to fall off a mountain.
Placement was controversial from the beginning, and the method of construction was controversial, says former County Manager Ken Westmoreland, who also managed the airport until his resignation in January. Basically, we took two mountain peaks, lopped off the tops and pushed them together in the middle to come up with a flat area. Like many general-aviation airports, Jackson Countys is third-generation. It began in the barnstorming days of the 30s as a dirt landing strip near Sylva, the county seat. In the 1960s, it moved to a grass strip in the valley soon hemmed in by development, homes and power lines. It was forced to find a new home a decade later, and Berry Ridge was chosen. The chairman of the county commission, Westmoreland says, was a pilot.
Environmentalists cringed. Nature didnt favor the site either. It was completed in 1978; a landslide carried away one end of the runway a year later. In 1990, a fierce storm destroyed the terminal, and in 2004 rain from hurricanes Ivan and Frances washed more of the mountaintop away. Lawsuits followed. Because of its altitude, several times a year we have to send somebody up there to fix something lightning struck. Its subject to crosswinds, too. Particularly in the wintertime, its brutal up there.
In the spring, not as much. Its construction-trailer terminal sits empty. In the sky above, a small plane circles, then disappears. Its as if the pilot had second thoughts.
The John Deere stops again, and the farmer hired to keep Triangle North tidy crawls down. Merritt, the airport manager, watches from the shade of a painted park bench under the terminals overhang. We do two things here, he says. We pump gas and we mow grass at least when the mowers working. Its an oversimplified but not inaccurate business model for most small airports.
Probably fewer than 10 of the 74 airports in North Carolina break even financially, he says. In 2010, Triangle North came close, falling about $10,000 short of its approximately $700,000 operating budget. Many airport managers say theyre boxed in by limited revenue sources. They staff and maintain their airports, usually from state and local money, and pay back what they can. Asheboro leases its to Cardinal for a nominal $1 a year. Cardinal earns its money from fuel sales.
We only have two hangars available, Merritt says. All others are rented, and you cant rent em twice, so the only variable we have is to pump gas. Aviation fuel at small airfields typically is priced at least $1 less per gallon than at large ones to attract pilots. In Asheboro, aviation gas last summer was $5.46 a gallon; jet fuel, $4.99. At Triangle North, Merritt figures his margin is 28%, a profit of more than $1 a gallon. I had a guy call yesterday asking the price. He wanted 300 gallons. He said, Ill be there in an hour. Ours was $5.19, and it was $6.85 at Raleigh-Durham, so he saved more than a dollar a gallon, and we made a dollar a gallon.
The FAA helps pay to build general-aviation airports, but then theyre on their own, says Scott Seritt, the agencys Atlanta-based airports manager for the Southeast. Theyre struggling. Pilots arent flying as much, local governments are constrained on their budgets, and airports are expensive to build. North Carolinas newest, the $13.5 million Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport, opened in 2009 replacing one built in 1946 that cost too much to update. Merritt estimates his airport, which cost about $8 million when it was built 20 years ago in its isolated setting, would top $20 million now.
Since the 60s, the FAA has had a rule that airports should not be within 30 miles of each other. The system is basically built out, says Merritt, a former member of the state DOT aviation staff. The idea was to build a network so nobody would be more than a 30-minute drive or so from a suitable airport. But having a staked claim on location is no guarantee of an airports future.
Plopped among Rockingham County tobacco farms north of Reidsville, Shiloh Airport recently gained national attention when a developer wanted to build a 1,700-acre landfill less than two miles away. Landfills attract birds, noted one expert on the topic: Chesley Sullenberger hailed as a hero after landing his airliner on the Hudson River in New York after it struck geese, disabling its engines wrote a letter imploring local planners to block the landfill. Other, man-made threats can come out of the clear blue.
Below, houses along east Charlottes cul-de-sacs line streets like dominoes. At the end of Wilgrove Air Parks 2,800-foot runway 12 miles across the city from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport a tan Cessna 172 climbs, banking to the north, away from downtowns skyline. A faint red light seems to glow brighter in the otherwise empty sky in the distance, several hundred feet above the small plane. Thats the WSOC tower, the pilot warns the novice at the controls. The 1,000-foot television tower is an example of the deadly obstacles pilots face flying at low altitudes near small airports. Barely visible several miles away, it looms larger until, faintly, its guy wires, like strands of a spiders web angling downward, appear. Thick steel cables, they can slice through a plane like a cleaver.
Were pushing for zoning around airports to keep them from putting cell towers and things of that nature too close, says Walls, the state aviation director. Some counties and municipalities do a good job. Some dont. What happens if you put a cell tower out there, and 10 years later you want to extend the runway? Land use is a critical issue. So too are the economics of small airports and the airplanes that use them.
Theyre pricing some pilots out of the sky, though not video producer Steve Kahn, who bases his 30-year-old turbocharged, four-seat single-engine Mooney at Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport in Union County. One of his Edit on Hudson Inc.s recent assignments was in Greenville, 220 miles east, more than four hours by car. We had a shoot at a T-shirt factory, and the client said, You can drive up there with us, Kahn, 66, says. I said, I think not. We flew, and when we got there, the airport provided a courtesy car for us. We were at the factory, set up and ready to shoot before the client arrived.
Dan Hubbard is vice president for communications of the National Business Aviation Association, which lobbies for business aviation. He says the political climate and the public view of business airplanes as tax-dodge toys for the rich are daunting to both airplane owners and small airports that depend on support from the nonflying public. Our companies like to cite efficiency benefits. I can attend three meetings in three locations in a day, whereas with an airline, it might take three days to attend one meeting. The 2008-09 recession has amplified the role of small airports. Since then, airlines have pulled back service in about 200 markets. In a place like North Carolina, a business plane and a small airport may be the only options for getting where you want to go.
But economic swings that hit a business can hurt a small airport. Asheboro-based Klaussner Home Furnishings Inc., one of the nations largest furniture makers, sold its Cessna Citation jet early this year after a downturn in sales. That cost Asheboro Regional hangar rent and fuel sales. We really hated losing them, McCraw says, but weve still got a couple of twin-engine planes based here, including those of a modular-home manufacturer that flies out to meet with suppliers.
McCraw figures its about $120 an hour to fly her small Mooney, plus several thousand dollars a year for maintenance. Hangar space starts at about $100 a month. Williams says insurance, hangar rent and other fixed costs run about $600 a month for his plane. Those still flying are resigned to the costs, though.
Beyond the economic winds that batter both, Kahn is concerned about the future of small airports and the pilots who use them. Safety is an issue. If we start seeing more and more accidents, were going to see more and more community groups saying, Close that airport, its unsafe. We as pilots control a good part of our destiny. General aviation has about 13 fatalities per 100 million miles traveled, the FAAs Seritt says. Thats nearly nine times the death rate of driving an automobile. AOPA figures show the chance of dying in a general-aviation accident is about five times higher than in an airline crash.
One reason is because airlines dont operate at airports like this: On a mountaintop in Jackson County, billowy clouds hang low overhead. It is quiet enough to hear crabgrass straining through cracks in the weathered runway. Four small, tethered planes bake on the tarmac, including a Cessna like the one Curtis Williams flies. Its name is lettered on its tail: The Mighty Sparrow.

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Not everyone is aware of the benefits of pruning climbing roses in the summer. However, this is recommended if you want to enjoy their colourful splendour right through to autumn. Roses normally flower in the months of June to August. The main difference between summer pruning and winter pruning is that summer pruning is done in the growth period rather than the dormant period.
Your roses will benefit from summer pruning right up to the middle of August. This is somewhat dependent on the weather conditions – when these become less favourable – that is to say, colder nights – the shoots that develop will not be strong enough to bear flowers. Until that time, they can.
There are many different types and varieties of roses. These all require different pruning times and pruning methods.


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Optimist Club Meets Its Pledge Challenge
(LeMars) -- LeMars Mayor Dick Kirchoff was the guest speaker at the LeMars Optimist club meeting. Kirchoff attended the meeting to accept the last payment the Optimist Club had committed for the Community Betterment project. The Optimist had made a financial pledge of $25,000 to be paid over the course of ten years. Kirchoff told the civic organization how the community was able to raise more than three million dollars, then the city was able to qualify for matching grants which led to a community investment of nearly eight million dollars. The community betterment project helped finance several facilities. Kirchoff says through the funding, LeMars is able to offer a better quality of life.
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Kirchoff displayed a plaque recognizing LeMars' efforts as an all-star community. He says he is extremely proud of LeMars for taking the vision of tomorrow and making it happen today. He says of all the pledges, the city has been able to collect on nearly 98 percent.
Optimist Club president, Mike Jaminet remembers when the decision was made ten years ago. He says it was a difficult decision, but one the civic organization felt like they had to make.
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The local Optimist organization offers programs for the area's 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students. This coming Saturday, the Optimist club will sponsor a free day of bowling for the students. The Optimists Club was able to help finance the community swimming pool.
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|MMHF to host Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Complete with bow ties, high heels, cocktails and a doorman, the first annual Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball will be a night to remember.
Melissa Memorial Hospital Foundation will be hosting this formal event the evening of Saturday, Feb. 26 at the Phillips County Event Center.
Event chairmen Steve and Kim Young said the push is to have one major fundraising event each year—a replacement for the several small benefits held by MMHF in the past. The foundation will still do some of its annual activities throughout the year, but this will be the main fundraiser.
The fun-filled evening includes cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and a nice Cajun-themed dinner. A live auction will follow with a limited number of big items for sale, in addition to a silent auction with smaller items. The evening concludes with a dance featuring live music.
"It's going to be a night of being pampered," said Kim. Either formal dance attire or Mardi Gras costumes are encouraged for this elaborate event.
While individual tickets may seem expensive, Steve emphasized it's really a donation to the hospital foundation with the added bonus of a good meal and a fun night out. Individuals and couples are encouraged to invite their friends and fill a table of eight.
Funds raised from the Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball will go toward the expansion of MMHF's scholarship program, the purchase of equipment for the hospital and future plans for an endowment for the foundation.
Organizers said this event has been in the planning stages for more than nine months. They noted their appreciation for table sponsors who have committed to the Mardi Gras benefit, allowing planners to move forward.
MMHF intends to make this an annual event with a different theme each year.
Reserve a ticket by Monday, Feb. 14 by calling Cherrie Brown at 520-5320, Ardie Besse at 520-4209, Kim Young at 854-2133, Steve Young at 466-2133 or Gary Krumm at 520-4460.


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A 41-year-old man is at Sparrow Hospital with serious injuries after he was hit by a car crossing the street Saturday night.
It happened on Grand River and Dawn Avenue in Meridian Township around 9 p.m.
Police say the area is not well lit and there is no crosswalk. Officers believe there was little the driver, a 42-year-old man, could do to avoid the crash.
The victim, from Ontario, Canada, was with a group of friends when he was hit.
Investigators do not believe alcohol was a factor, but are still looking into the crash.
The incident closed the westbound lanes to traffic
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text: By Tim LinscottManaging Editor At the Creek Valley Invite on Thursday, Sept. 5, the Perkins County girls golf squad was just edged by Dundy County/Stratton for second place. Bridgeport won the invite with a team score of 412 while Dundy County/Stratton finished with a 464. Perkins County ended the day third with a team score of 466. "The team shot the lowest score this season, even though a couple of girls had a tough day," Perkins County girls golf coach Troy Kemling said. "The other three played well on another hot day." Leading the Plainsmen was Carra Johnson, ending up sixth overall. Johnson had a 108, scoring a 58 on the front nine and knocked eight strokes off of her back nine to race up the leaderboard. "I am happy for Carra, as she equalled her all-time low with a 108. She played her best nine holes on her back nine by carding a 50," Kemling said. "Her ball-striking was so much better today, along with improved putting." Hailey Sletten finished the day in eighth place overall, shooting a 113. Sletten had a 58 on the front nine and ended with a 55 on the back nine. This is the second meet in a row that Sletten has finished in the top 10, which means she is catching up to her potential in the eyes of her coach. "She is learning how good she is capable of being. She plays very well for a series of holes only to be undone by losing focus," Kemling said. "She is working on some swing keys that, as the season continues, will become more automatic and easier to repeat." Just missing the top 10 for Perkins County included Capri Meyer. Kassidy Hernandez of Bridgeport closed out the top 10 with a 114 on the day and Meyer was just shy with a 117. Meyer shot a 62 in the first round and shaved seven strokes off of her score for a 55 in the second round. "Capri played a much improved back nine by limiting big mistakes. It is just a matter of time until she finds herself inside the top 10 in a meet," Kemling said. Alexis Schmidt completed both rounds with a 128 (67-61) and Amanda Reichert finished with a 132 (69-63).


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Police say an Albuquerque man fed up with his bank went to the extreme when he broke out the bank's windows and then called police on himself.
KOAT-TV reports that Charles Scribner reported his crime last week shortly after smashing the windows to a Bank of America in Southeast Albuquerque.
According to the police report, Scribner told police Bank of America had "sold him out" and he became enraged. Scribner admitted he broke out the front doors, shattered a window next to the inner doors and smashed an upper window.
Authorities say Scribner told a 911 operator to have police come arrest him because he didn't want to have to keep breaking windows.
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- Mixed cell tumors containing both neural ganglionic cells and neural glial cell components
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[1] Gangliogliomas occur when a single cell in the brain starts to divide into more cells, forming a tumor.[2] This can occur when the cell randomly acquires changes (mutations) in genes that regulate how a cell divides. Most gangliogliomas grow slowly and are considered benign. However, up to 10% of gangliogliomas may grow more rapidly and become malignant, meaning the tumor affects the surrounding brain tissue.[3] The main treatment for ganglioglioma is removal of the entire tumor during surgery. If the entire tumor is not removed, it has the potential to recur and may require additional surgery or treatments, such as radiation therapy or chemotherapy. Unfortunately, because gangliogliomas are quite rare, there is limited information to show that radiation therapy or chemotherapy are effective treatments for this condition.[3]A ganglioglioma is a rare type of brain tumor, accounting for approximately 1% of all brain tumors.
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I use the Superfeet (green) in my tibets and sheep hunters. They are def better then the stock ones. If you go with the Lathrop jells post about them. I was thinking of trying them myself.
I am trying to decide on some After market Footbeds for my Tibets. Any opinions on the Superfeet (orange maybe) or the Lathrop and Sons Synergy?
I use the Superfeet (green) in my tibets and sheep hunters. They are def better then the stock ones. If you go with the Lathrop jells post about them. I was thinking of trying them myself.
Green superfeet for me, but I am trying the L & Sons this year.
Green super feet in my Lowa GTX as well.
I love my synergys! They are in my workout shoes and my shin splints have nearly went away. I would highly recomend them.
I was at Sportsman's Warehouse today and they carry "Soft Sole". I know nothing about them, except that the gal in the shoe department said they were supposed to be the same as Superfeet... but she also said they had only had them 2 weeks and had no training on them, so whatever that is worth.... any one else used "Soft Sole" before?
The Synergys don't seem to be made for much arch support. I kind of think I want a little arch in mine. My left foot had Planters Factitious that took me almost a year to get over (from turkey hunting in Rubber Knee boots on some big long hikes one spring, the knee boots had NO support). I don't want to go back there. That is my only concern with them.
I just ordered some of the Danner Pronghorns with the free Synergy footbeds on Lathrop and Sons website, when they get here I let you know what I think. I have never had aftermarket footbeds, so I thought I would give it a try and see what all the hype is about.
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Thanks, I look forward to hearing about them!
I've been wearing the Lathrop and Sons synergy for about a month now in my running shoes. So far I am incredibly impressed! Have yet to take them up in the mountains but bear season is only a month away...


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In September 1988, a new governance of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was adopted. Election of student representatives to the Student Council is carried out in the beginning of the academic year.
Student Council represents the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the Genetic Counseling program, the Masters in Public Health program, and the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). The council's aim is to improve all aspects of student life. Student Council meets once a month to discuss ideas and promote new projects. Members also meet with the school administration monthly for updates.
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MADRe - Museum of Contemporary Art Donnaregina of Naples
Inaugurated with a very crowded and talked about opening on the 11th of June 2005, Naples can finally count on the "MADRe".
This new structure enhances and completes the already rich offerings of existing artistic and museum centres, whether they be historical, classical or contemporary art.
The MADRe works in synergy with the activities of the other structure (namely, the PAN, the Castel Sant'Elmo, the National Archaeological Museum, the National Museum of Capodimonte and the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts) – interacting with the territory and with the more interesting national and international situations in the sector of contemporary art.
Unfortunately, due to the complex and radical restoration works that the building has undergone, only some parts of the MADRe are currently usable.
The first exhibition displays will remain open until the 22nd of October 2005, in the fourteen rooms that are appropriately called the "art rooms" – only on Saturday and Sunday, from 12:00 to 20:00 (free entry).
After the summer, after the end of the restoration work, which is skilfully planned and being carried out by the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza y Vieira, the long awaited Museum of Contemporary Art of Naples will finally be opened for good.
The area has been conceived of as a apace where different temporalities can meet and blend (it is subdivided over the three floors of the building, but will only be completely usable in early 2006).
The MADRe has been set up in the 13th century "Palazzo Donnaregina", in the pulsing centre in the historic centre, almost in a symbolic contrast between the historic city and the new trends in international art.
This same contrast is also reflected in the sublime and imoerceptible restoration work on the building, by the architect Alvaro Siza y Vieira, who has retained the ambience and character of the historical building, specially in his sensible and flexible redesigning of the interiors, so that it seems to collect contemporary visions and languages inside it, like an ancient container.
The MADRe will certainly a major contribution to the diffusion of contemporary art of Naples, and a valuable addition to the social recovery of the area surrounding it.
The entrance of the Museum is on the ground floor, through a large entrance hall that leads to a large room where documentary films are screened, (accompanied by catchy soundtrack), by the Neapolitan director Pappi Corsicato, on the "birth" of the MADRe and the works that bring it to life.
Still of the first floor, in the next room, there is a display of images by the Neapolitan photographer Peppe Avallone, who, with his splendid Polaroids, reconstructs the most significant moments of contemporary art exhibitions in public spaces in Naples over the last ten years.
Through the pictures of the works that have been displayed at the annual appointment in Piazza del Plebiscito, visitors can see more of the most interesting installation of contemporary artistic language, such as the "Mountain of Slat" by Mimmo Paladino, the "Labyrinth" by Richard Serra of the "Capuzellas" disseminated on the asphalt by Rebecca Horn, just to name a few.
For its first reason, this reborn building in Via Settembrini is showing a collection of works belonging partly to private collectors, with others donated by the artists themselves.
They are all beautiful works by the most recognises artists on the contemporary scene, who, each for different reasons, is tied to Naples, to its essence and its eternal contradictions.
Among the more effective works and installations – helped by the fact that they are new works – visitors will notice the fortunate "site specific" contaminations of the artist, who, in agreement with the inspirational project of MADRe, have interacted freely in the monographic rooms, appropriating spaces, trespassing barriers, and exploiting lighting and architectural forms.
Among these, there is a room by Mimmo Paladino containing a white sculpture with its black turned, leaning on the walls, which are full of dark grooves highlighted with charcoal, almost like deep scratches on dilated skin; the room with two floors, by Francesco Clemente, where the seductive and colourful tribal images all over the walls, harmonise with the very particular majolica tiles that the artist designed and had made specially for the occasion; an installation by Jannis Kounellis has an enormous anchor resting on a piece of glass with inserts of coloured glass; the storm of brown marks in the room by Richard Long; a room with careful fitted pieces by Sol LeWitt; and "Gennaro's Sky" by Luciano Fabro, which is an installation made of iron, painted like a starry sky that looks like paper.
Other artists, on the other hand, have limited themselves to a re-visitation of works that have already been released to the general public, including: the installation of skulls by Rebecca Horn, this time, reflected in sinisterly illuminated circular mirrors; the sturdy geometric blocks by Richard Serra; the improbable kitsch combinations by Jeff Koons; and the "White Temple" by Giulio Paolini.
In autumn, with the opening of the second floor of the building, other prestigious works will be added to the permanent collection, with some of them on long term loans from collectors and gallery owners of international renown, as well as the long waited for masterpieces by the master Anish Kapoor. (Simona Virgilio)
Naples, Via L. Settembtini 79
From Monday to Thursday and Sunday from 10.00 to 21.00; Friday and Saturday from 10.00 to 24.00
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EUR 2,00 for European Union members between 7 and 25 years old
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Ticket office close one hour before Museum closing time
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The MADRe Museum is a site of CAMPANIA ARTECARD circuit
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From the Piazza Amedeo Station take line 2 on the subway, in the direction of Gianturco, and get off in Piazza Cavour (second stop). From Piazza Cavour enter in Via Duomo arriving to the crossroad with Via L. Settembrini; proceed, turning on the left, for about 100 metres: the Museum of Contemporary Art Donnaregina is in Via L. Settembrini 79.
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Brian Failing, son of Michael and Christine Failing of Lisle, was awarded the Outstanding Human Thought and Behavior Award during Honors Convocation May 13 at North Central College in Naperville.
A senior, Brian is double majoring in history and urban and suburban studies at North Central College. He is a graduate of Naperville North High School.


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Office: 202 ten Hoor Hall
Requirements for the major and minor in history are outlined below. The Department of History requires regular advising and consultation, particularly for its majors to ensure that courses are selected in accordance with each student's interests and level of development and with departmental, college, and University requirements, including the core curriculum.
Requirements for the major in history. The history major requires 36 hours, distributed as follows:
- 6 hours in Western civilization: HY 101 (or HY 105 or HY 110) and HY 102 (or HY 106)
- 6 hours in American civilization: HY 203 (or HY 205) and HY 204 (or HY 206)
- 3 hours in United States history: HY 225, HY 226, HY 295, HY 312, HY 313, HY 314, HY 315, HY 316, HY 318, HY 319, HY 320, HY 323, HY 324, HY 325, HY 326, HY 330, HY 331, HY 337, HY 341, HY 358, HY 408, HY 409, HY 413, HY 416, HY 417, HY 421, HY 422, HY 423, HY 428, HY 429, HY 468, HY 469, or HY 480
- 3 hours in European history: HY 235, HY 236, HY 247, HY 248, HY 289, HY 321, HY 353, HY 355, HY 357, HY 358, HY 361, HY 362, HY 385, HY 386, HY 390, HY 393, HY 442, HY 443, HY 444, HY 446, HY 447, HY 450, HY 490, HY 491, HY 493, HY 494, or HY 495
- 3 hours in African, Asian, or Latin American history: HY 237, HY 238, HY 243, HY 244, HY 277, HY 306, HY 309, HY 310, HY 384, HY 401, HY 402, HY 403, HY 404, HY 470, HY 471, HY 472, HY 473, HY 474, or HY 475
At least 18 hours must be in courses numbered above 299 (this requirement can be satisfied by courses that also fulfill the requirements in categories above). A minimum of 18 hours at the 300 or 400 level must be earned on this campus.
Requirements for the minor in history. The history minor requires 21 hours, including HY 101 (or HY 105 or HY 110) and HY 102 (or HY 106) and 9 hours in HY courses numbered 300 and above, which must be earned on this campus.
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2A maximum of 6 hours in any one department may be applied to the humanities, literature, and fine arts (HU, L, FA) and history and social and behavioral sciences (HI, SB) requirements.
3Six hours in courses designated W must be included in the junior or senior year. A minimum of 36 hours in 300- and 400-level courses, including 18 hours in the major and 6 hours in the minor, must be completed on this campus.
Honors program in history. The history honors program is open to history majors who have a 3.0 overall GPA, a 3.3 GPA in history, and at least 12 hours of history courses completed. The program requires 9 hours of honors work, including HY 399 History Honors Colloquium (usually taken in the junior year) and a 6-hour thesis (HY 498 and HY 499) completed (usually in the senior year) under the direction of a tenured or tenure-track member of the department. Graduating with honors in history requires a 3.0 overall GPA, a 3.3 GPA in history, and satisfactory completion of a thesis judged to merit an honors designation.
Graduate programs. The Department of History offers programs leading to the master of arts and the doctor of philosophy degrees. The requirements for these degrees are stated in the University of Alabama graduate catalog. The Ph.D. degree is offered in United States history and history of the South, modern British and European history, Latin American history, and military and naval history. For detailed information, consult the graduate catalog.


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My insurance covered my first birth which was birth center with midwives with a transfer to the hospital at the end. It also covered my second birth which was a home birth with a midwife. All we had to pay was our yearly deductibles. Yay!
Aetna DID cover my last birth, which was at a birth center with a lay midwife. We had contemplated a homebirth, and I was told by Aetna that it would be covered if a midwife was present and I wrote a letter ahead of time (basically, I had to get a precert). I was told that as long as I met those requirements, a homebirth would be covered a the same level as any other birth with an in-network provider (which my lay midwife was). I am pretty sure this was accurate info at the time, because we had a lengthy discussion about it, and he read the policy to me over the phone-- homebirth was written into my husband's employer's policy. A friend of mine was also told that Aetna has an across-the-board no homebirth policy. Either that is not true, and it depends on your policy, or it has changed in the past year. It amazes me how difficult it is to get coverage for a homebirth. Don't they realize how much less expensive it is than a hospital birth?
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Ignoring Founders' Warning
January 16, 2013
The senseless Sandy Hook slaughter is another horrible abuse of freedom that must be put into proper perspective....
I'm starting to wonder why the free press is starting to use censorship in their articles like the Intell. Their lead story does not allow comments. I don't think I would make a comment about the Steubenville rape case but to close comments is like closing down the free press. Is this what they call soft press or the press being controlled by outside elements? Now I know why the Pittsburgh paper broke the Manchin MBA award story from WVU. I like to hear different views rather than controlled views.
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Infact, instead of an Obamanation you have become Wraithen? At least you know CLEARLY where I stand.
What PLATFORM did Obama run on in 2012?? Demonize the rich and blame Bush/Romney STILL.
That wasn't a {bleeping} platform, that was just EXCUSE MAKING for not having a plan.
And it WORKED because the voter base is bunch of ignoramus lazy f****s.
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Wrat, I've read it plenty of times and use it daily. But now I think it's time for a change. We should convert our system of government into a "Wratocracy", without any executive, legislative or judicial branches...just WRAT! He will control the horizontal, he will control the vertical. Wrat knows all, sees all and is all powerful.
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Wheezerdawg, did the Constitution authorize undeclared wars using drones to attack innoncent civilians?
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Wheeldog "Do you believe the government is wrong to restrict the ownership of fully automatic weapons, grenades and other explosive devices, flame throwers, bazookas, shoulder fired missiles, etc.? These are forms of 'firearms'."
Of course the Constitution is not perfect, and the Founders could not anticipate everything. For example, the Founders could not have anticipated nuclear missiles. And there are liberals today who would do great harm to millions if allowed to possess nukes. So there IS a line across which the right to bear arms is certainly not what the Founders intended. Are flamethrowers, bazookas, and shoulder-fired missiles across that line, too? That question is worthy of debate. But the Founders certainly did intend that those citizens, in rising up against tyranny, would be at LEAST equally armed as the most basic infantry soldier, and that includes bearing a semiautomatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine.
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Wheeldog "Had those framers been able to foresee a future where a building full of little children would become a killing field for a single mentally disturbed person armed with enormous firepower perhaps the 2nd Amendment would have been written differently."
You realize massacres of innocent civilians occurred in the time of the Founders, too. Did the Founders see fit to exclude the bearing of tomahawks, knives, and swords?
In fact, the Founders didn't specify which arms citizens were guaranteed to bear precisely because they could not predict what new arms would be available to a tyrannical Government. Like the Founders didn't expect citizens to be able to stand up with knives against the rifle-equipped forces of a tyrant, they also didn't expect the citizens of today to be able to stand up with muskets against tyrannical Government forces equipped with modern military rifles.
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Wheeldog, guaranteeing citizens the right to bear arms would NOT guarantee there was a citizen militia available because the right to bear arms is not a REQUIREMENT to bear arms, nor does it ensure citizens are willing or capable of doing so. And anyway, the founders would have expected any "citizen militia" to be armed with modern military rifles equivalent to those possessed by an armed invader.
The idea that the Founders would specifically guarantee a right to self-defense from hostile natives and animals isn't credible, either. Like the First Amendment guarantees free speech, press, and assembly, from a Government that would legislate those rights away, the Second Amendment is only necessary when there is a possibility the Government could legislate to take away citizens' arms. The founders were not concerned that the Government might take away rifles used for putting food on the table or to defend themselves from natives.
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oldman, thanks? LOL
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Troll is a good canidate for low information Fox News poster boy of the year,
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Wheezerdawg get out of the 18th century, the Supreme Court has ruled the "regulated Militia" is every man and woman in the United States (DC versus Heller 2008).
Writings from Madison and Jefferson confirm exactly this AT THE TIME.
What YOU BELIEVE is just the usual liberal CRAP, not supported by facts AS USUAL.
But thanks for being the pretentious laughing stock of the valley.
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1whoworks has it correctly spoken...
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At the time the musket was the most modern weapon. If you acually read what the framers said one of the big reasons for the 2nd is that they want the government to be scared of the people. As they wisely knew if the government is not scared we would get a President that enacts laws on his own without legislation, pushes through legislation the is unpopular that will restrict the peoples right for self determiniation and otherwise abuse the office.
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None I repeat none of the provisions stated by dear leader would have done anything to stop, hinder, or prevent any of the mass murders that have taken place recently. The common demominator in them all is mental illness. The question should not be what to do with guns. It won't matter. It is how to deal with mental illnes and aquiring guns. And yes do it Constitutionally.
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Yes the framers knew that society would change. The put provisions in the Constitution to change it. Their intentions were NOT FOR THE COURTS TO CHANGE IT, NOT FOR THE PRESIDENT TO CHANGE IT, BUT FOR THE CONGRESS TO DO IT THROUGH PROPER PROCEDURES. If you want to change it do it! Don't pervert it.
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The framers of the Constitution had the foresight to realize that the world they knew in the 18th Century would change, and the Constitution had to be adaptable to a changing society. They were men of vision, but they were not infallible - and they knew that. They put together a document that allowed future generations to interpret its provisions to fit the reality of the time. Had those framers been able to foresee a future where a building full of little children would become a killing field for a single mentally disturbed person armed with enormous firepower perhaps the 2nd Amendment would have been written differently. However, they left that task to us through interpretation.
Let me ask you a few questions. Do you believe the government is wrong to restrict the ownership of fully automatic weapons, grenades and other explosive devices, flame throwers, bazookas, shoulder fired missiles, etc.? These are forms of "firearms".
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"Now a question for you, Wheeldog," Troll.
Good question. Insofar as the 2nd Amendment is concerned I believe that was placed in the Constitution largely because, at the time, the newly born nation did not have a standing military capable of withstanding an attack from a major power. A citizen militia that could be quickly assembled was critical to national defense. Firearms were also a virtual necessity for subsistence frontier farmers and others forced to live off the land and to defend themselves against hostile Native Americans and potentially dangerous animals.
At the time the American Revolution the standard long gun was a muzzle loading weapon that was fired and recharged at a relatively slow pace compared to modern firearms. Accuracy was particularly critical when using a rifled long gun, because reloading was even slower than for a smooth bore musket.
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Obama got only 51% of the popular vote in 2012 election and that was MORE than he got in 2008 or George W. Bush in EITHER election!
This country is SERIOUSLY divided between Urban and rural about 50/50, any of you dumb***s who think the Constitution can be easily modified with a requirement of 75% of the states to ratify is full of CRAP!!!
REALITY is at this point in time, ANY controversial change to the Constitution is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
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The Child Labor Amendment is a proposed and still-pending amendment to the United States Constitution that would specifically authorize Congress to regulate "labor of persons under eighteen years of age".
The amendment was proposed in 1924 following Supreme Court rulings in 1918 and 1922 that federal laws regulating and taxing goods produced by employees under the ages of 14 and 16 were unconstitutional. The majority of the state governments ratified the amendment by the mid 1930s, however it has not been ratified by the requisite 3/4 of the states according to Article V of the Constitution and none have ratified it after 1937. Interest in the amendment waned following the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which implemented federal regulation of child labor with the Supreme Court's approval in 1941.
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The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women.
The ERA was originally written by Alice Paul and, in 1923, it was introduced in the Congress for the first time. In 1972, it passed both houses of Congress and went to the state legislatures for ratification. The ERA failed to receive the requisite number of ratifications before the final deadline mandated by Congress of June 30, 1982 expired, and so it was not adopted, largely because Phyllis Schlafly mobilized conservatives to oppose ERA.
Supporters in 2012 tried to revive the discussion of the Equal Rights Amendment, via a petition on the White House Website.
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The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would have given the District of Columbia full representation in the United States Congress, full representation in the Electoral College system, and full participation in the process by which the Constitution is amended.
This proposed amendment was proposed by the Congress on August 22, 1978, but failed to be ratified by 38 states prior to its expiration on August 22, 1985.
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Imphat, the Constitution is ALL good, you should try reading it sometime.
But of the amendments, the 27th is a yawner. It was to prevent Congress from voting THEMSELVES a big raise because it because effect with the next congress.
So unless they get reelected, they possibly do NOT get to benefit personally from the a big raise unless the people give it to them..
You remember: government OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people.
Not "Me the President", WE the PEOPLE.
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boxerboy, "stoic and unflinching debauchery"? I'm having a hard time finding a context for that. Hillary Clinton comes to mind, but I think even she flinched occasionally at her Slick husband's debauchery. And isn't "moral rectitude" redundant? Let me guess. Union English teacher.
And "flaming Republican"? We prefer "smokin' hot Republican," thank you very much.
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Sounder, thank you for your Jan 19, 9:30 AM comment. The much-needed rationality that your comment adds does much to offset the extreme bias of both this editorial and the N-R staff as a whole.
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Yavalak obviously is a flaming Republican. What a shame to think someone of his moral rectitude had daily interface with young minds, minds which he corrupted with his stoic and unflinching debauchery.
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I guess now Wrat will tell us which amendments are good and which aren't. What a joke! Pick and choose, you simpleton.
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|The men of Rho Sigma will be auction off dates with some of the members. The highest bidder wins the member that is up for bid
|The OBU Glow Run 5K is a unique experience to run/walk through a glowing course. It is appropriate for all ages; so feel free to bring your family members. Come get your glow on with the Arkadelphia community! It's sure to be a glowing good time.
April is Autism Awareness Month so the Betas will be hosting a 7 on 7 flag football tournament as a fundraiser for the foundation Autism Speaks.
Chi Delta parent day
The Women of EEE/The Women of Tri Chi
This event will consist of a fun, friendly competition of dodgeball that will allow students on campus to come out and join and enjoy! This Tournament consist of 7 balls with 8 players per team & will go at it on Tuesday April 8th at 6pm!
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|The event will start 9:00pm Tuesday night and go until 9:00pm Wednesday night. Students and staff will be invited to step into the footsteps of those trapped in slavery around the world; standing one day for their everyday. The event will include activities for students and staff to learn more about modern day slavery, and also provide ways to take action through donating, signing a petition, and standing. By standing, students and staff will join hundred of other colleges/universities around the world as they give a voice to the voiceless slaves trapped around the world. Snacks will be provided for those standing.


text: I am planning an elk hunt in Colorado next year. I am going with my dad and three other guys from church. I have been doing research on everything elk hunting in Colorado. I have come up with hunting around Gunnison. I have a few questions about the area. Of course you can find anything on the web and some guys are saying there are not as many elk around these parts and then the next say there is an elk around every tree (just an exaggeration). we are doing a pack in wall tent style hunt (more questions to follow on that subject). Here is what I am looking for terrain and population. Since 4/5 of the guys are going are over 50 I don't want to get to an area and find out its nothing but steep mountains and impossible to get to, but we are all willing to work to get these elk, specially since I am the 1/5 pack mule. I have not been to Colorado for a while and when I did go it was to Estus Park. We did see a lot of elk there so my question is would I be better off hunting around there then further southwest? any info is appreciated even if its hunted this area and seen a lot would help. Thank you guys in advance for your help and time. If you come to SD for pheasants ill help you and try and get you on some birds....if/when the population comes back


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|Holyoke earns a third, 2 fourths in Border League Tourney
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Five Holyoke teams played in the Border League tournaments last week, June 24-27. The tournament was an exciting close to the boys' summer baseball season.
After five days of games, Stefan Betley, coach for the Green teams, had one team place in the tournament when Holyoke Green Little League claimed the third place title. Gold Coach Kyle Bules saw both Gold teams place in the tournament, with Holyoke Gold Babe Ruth and Pee Wee taking fourth place in their respective tournaments.
Results from the tournament are as follows:
Holyoke Babe Ruth (13-15)
Holyoke Gold Babe Ruth team entered the Border League Tournament with a 10-6 record and #3 seed. The team finished the tournament in fourth place.
Their first round game against #6 Sedgwick team was a win for the Gold team. Friday Holyoke went up against #2 seeded Oshkosh for a chance to play in the championship game. After losing to Oshkosh 4-0, Holyoke Gold went on to play #4 Wray in the third place game Saturday. Wray was triumphant, beating Hoyoke 13-6, leaving Holyoke Gold in fourth place.
Holyoke Green Babe Ruth was seeded #7, with a 4-12 record at the beginning of the tournament. Playing first against Oshkosh on Wednesday, Holyoke lost 10-0. In their second round game against Sedgwick, Holyoke had their second loss, with a 7-4 score, taking them out of the tournament.
Placing for the Babe Ruth tournament was Fleming in first, followed by Oshkosh, Wray, Holyoke Gold, Sedgwick, Haxtun, Holyoke Green and Chappell.
Holyoke Little League (11-12)
Holyoke's only Little League team, wearing the green jerseys had a 5-5 record at the end of their season, giving them a #3 seed in the tournament and a third place finish.
Green's first game was against Haxtun for the chance to play in the championship game. Seeded #2, Haxtun beat Holyoke 15-5, sending Holyoke to the third place game. Playing #5 Oshkosh, Holyoke Green won 8-7 to take third in the tourney.
Placing for the Little League tournament had Sedgwick taking the championship, followed by Haxtun, Holyoke Green, Oshkosh and Chappell.
Holyoke Pee Wee (8-10)
Holyoke Green was seeded #3 with a 7-5 record for the Border League tournament. Holyoke Gold had a 4-8 record and #6 seed.
In round one, Holyoke's Green and Gold teams faced each other, Gold coming out on top, 6-4. Gold lost in round two against #2 seeded Sedgwick 7-2. Finishing the tournament in the game for third place against #5 Fleming, Holyoke Gold lost 5-3, taking fourth.
Following the Holyoke-Holyoke game, Green lost to Oshkosh 13-3. In the fifth place game, Chappell beat Holyoke Green 4-3.
At the end of the Pee Wee tournament, Sedgwick came out on top, followed by Haxtun, Fleming, Holyoke Gold, Chappell, Holyoke Green and Oshkosh.


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The thing that has always bothered me about all of these high priced over the top tags auctioned off by various groups is that there is no accountability of how and where they spend the $$$. A Colorado Governors mule deer tag goes for over $100K and the buyer gets the right to hunt anywhere/anytime!!!
Just because someone has lots of bucks shouldn't give them the right to buy this type of hunting access. The only groups that I donate to are the NRA and RMEF. I know their track record (even tho I don't always agree with them) and support what thay try to do. Too many of these other socalled sportsmans groups/organizations are top heavy with people sucking off $$$ that should have gone towards what they promise thay are going to do. Some almost seem like a ponzi scheme. If this keeps up the average guy without megabucks is going to be scrambling for the leftover tags while the best get skimmed off the top.
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Lady Gaga shares the stage and is brought to tears as she performs 'Born This Way' with 10 Year Old Singer and YouTube Sensation, Maria Aragon at the Monster Ball concert held at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada. Lady Gaga invited Maria Aragon out on stage 2 different times during the show. Once to perform 'Born This Way' on the Paino, and finally again at the end of the show during her last song 'Born This Way' Radio Version. March 03, 2011.
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among the all-time cyclone greats?
I say behind Willoughby and Hornacek...I'd put Hoiberg, Johnny Orr (coach), and Gary Thompson as my top 3?
What do you guys think?
I'd have Royce in the 3rd tier with Cato, Stinson.
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If you never had Fred then you never would have had Georges. Think about that for a minute you stupid *****
Not a Grayer or Fizer fan?
I'd put Fizer as #1.
High, but lower because his body of work only includes this year.
Star Players off Big 12 champ years, higher.
Players from Hoiberg era, higher.
He was key in bringing ISU back from the depths but I feel in 5 - 8 years he'll be somewhat forgotten up against the other players. Not completely forgotten but not a legend. A little higher than Brackins mainly because White had success while here.
Fanatic #25
I can't really these guys exactly, but he is certainly one of my favs.
Are we talking about fan favorite rank or production rank? If it's fan favorite, he's definitely top 5. Production wise, maybe top 10 because he only had one year here.
Originally Posted by BigBake
High, but lower because his body of work only includes this year. Star Players off Big 12 champ years, higher.Players from Hoiberg era, higher.He was key in bringing ISU back from the depths but I feel in 5 - 8 years he'll be somewhat forgotten up against the other players. Not completely forgotten but not a legend. A little higher than Brackins mainly because White had success while here.
Not a legend? He had legendary dunks and charisma.
I'd say higher than anybody since Tinsley, but I'm not sure about Stinson.
Stinson's three years vs White's one is a tough call. I think White is higher though because he was so dominant and because of his off-the-court persona.
He will have a special spot because of his story of redemption....getting his life back on track while here and growing as a person. That no other ISU player to me can claim.
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Not a legend? He had legendary dunks and charisma.
If I take a step back from this year, in the grand scheme of things not a legend. He could have had that if he came back. But a few years from now he's a great (not legend) that lead us to the NCAA tourney (and not sweet 16, elite 8, final 4). That right there is what hurts his legend stock to me the most.
But yes, he is probably one of the top 5 best players we've had come through.
Tinsley at the top
He might be a top ten guy. Closer to ten than one.
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
Top 20.
Only playing 1 year hurts, he's one of the better Cyclones all time but didn't do enough here to be in the discussion to hang #30 in the rafters at Hilton.
Tough call due to having only one year and playing the #1 team in the second round...
That said, he is top-10 to me. A combo of JT and Fizer. Had he stayed another year and led ISU to heights never before experienced, he could have been #1 imo.
Personally, he's my favorite player I can remember. Granted my years of fandom have been pretty dark (i'm 19...so i really only remember about 2000 on..) His story just amazes me, and his ability to make everything look so effortless is awesome. I love Royce, it's almost unhealthy, and I have no problems admitting it!!
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) - November 19th will go down as a day of change in Maryland Terrapins History, from ACC to Big 10, wow!
I spent the days leading up to the worst kept secret in town speaking to various Maryland alumni who lamented the termination of this 59 year marriage, which included countless memories: 10-win football team in 2003, ACC Hoops tournament run in 2004, just to name a few.
Jim Santa class of '74 (football) said,"I feel hoodwinked, I feel really bad for Maryland basketball fans being they would live for the ACC Tournament every March and now that's gone." A day of sadness for some, but I call it a day of reality.
The landscape of college athletics has been changing for years. The Big 12, Big 10, SEC, Big East, Pac 10, Mountain West, Conference USA, and WAC are just a few examples of conferences electing to realign since 2010. A head-spinning alteration of the collegiate map producing odd dancing partners. For example, Houston, SMU and Boise State will all participate in the Big East in 2013. What's east about those schools?
But this is what it is now. Television revenue and bowl alliances which are connected to conference strength have created a dog-eat-dog mentality amongst conference commissioners. The Big 10 (now 14) made the deal with Maryland and Rutgers with television market footprints on its mind. Maryland's mascot might be a turtle but to the Big 10 the school may as well be called "the conduits." In other words, a conduit to get their brand to the Washington, D.C. area.
Maryland President Dr. Wallace Loh was blunt in his explanation during the announcement of the decision. "This move ensures the financial stability of the athletic department for years to come," he said. Big 10 member schools received about $24 million dollars in shared revenues this fiscal year, according to the St. Louis-Post Dispatch. For Maryland, that was music to a cash-strapped athletic department's ears.
So what are ACC diehards left to do? Simple, get over it and move on! 59 years in the ACC are not just being thrown in the garbage. President Loh and Athletic Director Kevin Anderson are simply attempting to craft a new chapter, one that might actually resurrect a few of the seven sports the school recently had to drop. I applaud their efforts.
This move was destined to upset a lot of alumni, fans and current students. As someone who did not grow up in this area I can, without bias, say Maryland-Duke and Maryland-North Carolina are two of the best rivalries in college hoops. This being Thanksgiving week, I remember growing up eagerly anticipating Nebraska-Oklahoma football this time of year. Anyone 40 years old or older probably will agree with me when I say it was always one of the best. That chapter is closed now. The Cornhuskers have Big 10 opponents to worry about, while Oklahoma is still in the Big 12 FOR NOW, which I remember as the Big 8 by the way! The memories are unlimited, unbounded, and everlasting but Both "Big Reds" to a degree have gotten over it!
ACC diehards, Dr. Loh and Kevin Anderson were careful and articulate in their explanations. They delivered the news compassionately without tearing your heart out. But you also need to know they were saying certain things to you without actually saying them. First, old rivalries are important and they will try to maintain them as best they can but the future sustainability of the entire athletic department trumps all that. Second, don't scoff at what you can't see yet. Who knows what future great rivalries/memories await in this newly formed conference.
And lastly, don't allow an artificial romance with something as fleeting as a Saturday afternoon Maryland-Wake Forest football game in front of 40,017 fans blind you. The game is changing! There's a bigger picture out there and if you don't acknowledge that you risk being left homeless (athletically speaking that is).
Dr. Loh and Kevin Anderson have taken their share of blame from me in the past; now let me applaud them for a courageous and possibly forward-thinking move. Good luck!
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We have been getting ready for an update of our mail server from CentOS 5 to RedHat 6 so that we are running on a supported operating system. I have installed multiple RedHat servers in VM Workstation 8 and have been trying to install the ZCS 7.2 on them, so we can make sure the install works and we can successfully copy the existing user accounts to the new servers.
The install seems work fine on both the mta and mailbox/ldap servers.
- All processes are working on both servers
Mailbox/Ldap server:
ldap Running
logger Running
mailbox Running
spell Running
stats Running
zmconfigd Running
Mta Server:
antispam Running
antivirus Running
imapproxy Stopped
zmnginxctl is not running
memcached Running
mta Running
stats Running
zmconfigd Running
* Believe that proxy is not running due to communication issue I am having. Install was able to successfully read from LDAP.
However I have been unable to get to any of the websites, admin or user.
- All firewalls are off on both servers.
- I can telnet into the port 80 directly on the mailbox server locally and remotely, but when I go a "GET /" I get
no response and eventually get "Connection closed by foreign host."
I tried this same command locally on our current active CentOS server and did get the webpage as expected.
I have tried installing and re-installing this server many different times with many different configurations based on reading through the forum posts.
- Setting the sudo file
- Installing Redhat with the specified disk parameters
- Installing and not installing proxy server
FYI: Also tried to install on physical servers but are having the same issue there.
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JONESBORO, GA -- It's a small attempt to create some light in what can seem like a dark holiday season. With a mass shooting in Connecticut and both a teen and nine-year-old killed recently in metro Atlanta, Dwaine Flowers wanted to do something good for people.
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The Clayton County man rounded up a few family members and asked a friend to provide a list of single-parent families living in a Jonesboro public housing complex. After he spoke to them about what they needed for Christmas, he went out shopping. With help from local sponsors, he came up with eight Christmas dinners with turkey, and a list of toys.
"We decided to step up to change things for our community," Flowers said.
The mothers and their children graciously accepted gifts ranging from a little girl's bike to a TV set. Many said they were struggling to provide for their kids during the holidays.
"I'm speechless, my kids didn't have anything to open up on Christmas and now they do," said Courtney Ogletree. "I feel so blessed."
Flowers said he plans to try to make it a tradition every year.
"If we could get more people to do things like this, the world would be a better place," Flowers added. "That's self-explanatory."
His cousin Darrell Cloud agreed, and said he looks forward to pitching in next year too.
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EAP Proves a Giant Step for Ballplayers
For Michael Paolercio, director of employee assistance programs, work-life and wellness services for the San Francisco Giants, winning the World Series in 2010 proved the organization's ability to handle stress and show resilience under pressure.
The San Francisco Giants' historic 2010 World Series win was a triumph not only for the team but also for all of San Francisco—a city that hadn't reigned as Major League Baseball champions since it moved west from New York in 1958.
For Michael Paolercio, director of employee assistance programs, work-life and wellness services for the Giants, winning the World Series proved the organization's ability to handle stress and show resilience under pressure.
The Giants have the only internal EAP in all of pro sports in the United States, Paolercio says. The program serves ballplayers and 250 full-time, year-round employees including managers, coaches, scouts, retirees and family members. The EAP is also available to game-day workers, whose ranks swell in season to about 1,000 people including vendors, ushers and security guards.
Started in 2001, the internal EAP is part of the team's medical department, which lent it immediate credibility, Paolercio says. Still, getting the team to trust the EAP as a confidential resource proved difficult at first.
"Twelve years ago, the players would not have brought me a glass of water if I were on fire," Paolercio says, presenting his EAP model at the Integrated Benefits Institute & National Business Coalition on Health's Health & Productivity Forum in February in San Francisco.
"Trust comes with time," he says. "It's not just granted to you."
Paolercio built that trust little by little in several ways. First, having the program on-site created familiarity as well as a safe, confidential place for high-profile players to seek help. "They could access the program without being seen by the public," he says.
Second, years of traveling through the minor leagues allowed Paolercio to form early relationships with players before they were brought up to the major league squad. Minor league players also are more accepting of mental health services, such as anger management and marriage counseling, Paolercio says.
"They are looking for any competitive edge to get them to San Francisco," he says.
Helping minor leaguers through rough patches set the foundation for trust once they reached the Giant's stadium, AT&T Park, where the EAP was seen as a natural component of the medical department, he said.
Among the services offered through the EAP are mental health screenings, wellness programs such as yoga and massage, legal and financial referrals, mental health and substance-abuse crisis interventions and informal consultations. Paolercio also conducts drug testing for the team.
Being a familiar face around AT&T Park has been critical to reaching the players and staff, Paolercio says. More often than setting a formal appointment, ballplayers will catch him in the hallway and ask if he has a minute right then to talk, he says.
"Informal contact," he explains, "is a very powerful tool in my job and in my organization."
Rebecca Vesely is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. To comment, email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Obviously, I can dominate the game. I have worked hard at my game and when you do that, things become easy for you. If I can play two good matches then I will feel really good going into the Australian Open.
- Roger Federer on the state of his game
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A kidney transplant is a surgery to replace a diseased or damaged kidney with a donor kidney. The donor may be a relative or friend. The donor can also be someone who has died and donated the organs.
A kidney transplant is done to replace a kidney that is no longer working and cannot be fixed. It may also be done if the kidney has been removed. A kidney transplant is only needed if both kidneys are not working.
Common causes of
kidney failure
If you are planning to have a kidney transplant, your doctor will review a list of possible complications. These may include:
Some factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
Be sure to discuss these risks with your doctor before the surgery.
There is a shortage of donors. You may be on a transplant list for some time. You may need to carry a cell phone with you at all times. This will allow the transplant team to reach you if a kidney becomes available.
Your doctor will likely do the following:
Leading up to your procedure:
General anesthesia
will be used. It will block any pain and keep you asleep through the surgery. It is given through an IV in your hand or arm.
An incision will be made in the lower abdomen. The donated kidney will be connected to your arteries, veins, and ureter, which is the tube that carries the urine to the bladder. In most cases, a diseased kidney will be left in place unless it is is causing problems or if room is needed for the transplant. The incision will be closed. The new kidney may start producing urine right away or within a short time.
You will be closely monitored in the intensive care unit (ICU) and will have the following devices:
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You will have pain during the recovery process. Your doctor will give you pain medication.
This procedure is done in a hospital setting. The usual length of stay is 1-2 weeks. Your doctor may choose to keep you longer if you have complications.
While you are recovering at the hospital, you will need to:
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After you leave the hospital, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs.
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