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Marriage and Family:
The Stabilizing Foundation of Civilizations
Having taught high school senior Government classes for nearly twenty years, it is apparent that the modern philosophies which are attempting to redefine marriage are having an effect on some of our rising generation. Having not experienced married life yet, they have not yet felt the happiness and joy from the first purpose of marriage – procreation and posterity. So going through the bodily changes and feelings of teen-age years, they are left to sort out attractive worldly sophistries they are constantly exposed to which ask, "What is wrong with loving whomever you want?" or "Don't we all have the same civil rights to associate with or marry whomever we want?" or "Why should someone's morality be forced onto someone else?" or "Why should the government set any rules for marriage? This is my private business?" Unless our young people are taught the historical human, moral, religious, social, and psychological reasons and foundations for the institution of marriage in any stable civilization, they can be swept up in the present whirlwind of confusing and nation-destroying movement which is marching headlong to redefine marriage and family.
America's Founders knew the importance of marriage and family
Thomas Jefferson reflected his belief that the traditional family is the only source of lasting happiness when he wrote: "By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family."
Benjamin Franklin urged a young friend to marry rather than take a mistress by writing:
"Marriage is the proper remedy. It is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which you are most likely to find solid happiness. Your reasons against entering into it at present appear to me not well founded. The circumstantial advantages you have in view by postponing it are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with that of the thing itself, the being married and settled [emphasis by Franklin]. It is the man and woman united that make the complete human being... Together they are more likely to succeed in the world... If you get a prudent, healthy wife, your industry in your profession, with her good economy, will be a fortune sufficient."
John Locke had already noticed that the law of God concerning marriage, families, and the equal status of husband and wife was given in scripture. He said the oft used phrase "paternal authority":
"... seems so to place the power of parents over their children wholly in the father, as if the mother had no share in it; whereas if we consult reason or revelation, we shall find she has an equal title, which may give one reason to ask whether this might not be more properly called parental power? For whatever obligation Nature and the right of generation lays on children, it must certainly bind them equally to both the concurrent causes of it. And accordingly we see the positive law of God everywhere joins them together without distinction, when it commands the obedience of children: 'Honor thy father and thy mother' (Exodus 20:12); 'Whosoever curseth his father or his mother' (Leviticus 20:9); 'Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father' (Leviticus 19:3); 'Children, obey your parents' (Ephesians 6:1), etc., is the style of the Old and New Testament."
In the 1830s, Alexis De Tocqueville concluded that one of the main reasons American culture was so stable and free of the turmoil found in Europe was because of strong family life:
"There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America, or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated. In Europe almost all the disturbances of society arise from the irregularities of domestic life.… But when the American retires from the turmoil of public life to the bosom of his family, he finds in it the image of order and of peace. There his pleasures are simple and natural, his joys are innocent and calm; and as he finds that an orderly life is the surest path to happiness, he accustoms himself easily to moderate his opinions as well as his tastes. While the European endeavors to forget his domestic troubles by agitating society, the American derives from his own home that love of order which he afterwards carries with him into public affairs."
The attempt to redefine marriage
In the introduction to their recent, timely book entitled, What is Marriage?, authors Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George, (What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, 2012, Encounter Books), identify the current debates as not directly about homosexuality, but about the attempt to redefine marriage. They label the two views of marriage as the traditional or conjugal view and the revisionist view:
"The conjugal view of marriage has long informed the law—along with the literature, art, philosophy, religion, and social practice—of our civilization. It is a vision of marriage as a bodily as well as an emotional and spiritual bond, distinguished thus by its comprehensiveness, which is, like all love, effusive: flowing out into the wide sharing of family life and ahead to lifelong fidelity. In marriage, so understood, the world rests its hope and finds ultimate renewal.
"A second, revisionist view has informed the marriage policy reforms of the last several decades. It is a vision of marriage as, in essence, a loving emotional bond, one distinguished by its intensity—a bond that needn't point beyond the partners, in which fidelity is ultimately subject to one's own desires. In marriage, so understood, partners seek emotional fulfillment, and remain as long as they find it.
"Our essential claims may be put succinctly. There is a distinct form of personal union and corresponding way of life, historically called marriage, whose basic features do not depend on the preferences of individuals or cultures. Marriage is, of its essence, a comprehensive union: a union of will (by consent) and body (by sexual union); inherently ordered to procreation and thus the broad sharing of family life; and calling for permanent and exclusive commitment, whatever the spouses' preferences. It has long been and remains a personal and social reality, sought and prized by individuals, couples, and whole societies. But it is also a moral reality: a human good with an objective structure, which it is inherently good for us to live out.
"Marriages have always been the main and most effective means of rearing healthy, happy, and well-integrated children. The health and order of society depend on the rearing of healthy, happy, and well-integrated children. That is why law, though it may take no notice of ordinary friendships, should recognize and support marriages.
Six specific harms to redefining marriage
"There can thus be no right for nonmarital relationships to be recognized as marriages. There can indeed be much harm, if recognizing them would obscure the shape, and so weaken the special norms, of an institution on which social order depends. So it is not the conferral of benefits on same-sex relationships itself but redefining marriage in the public mind that bodes ill for the common good. Indeed, societies mindful of this fact need deprive no same-sex-attracted people of practical goods, social equality, or personal fulfillment. Here, then, is the heart of our argument against redefinition. If the law defines marriage to include same-sex partners, many will come to misunderstand marriage. They will not see it as essentially comprehensive, or thus (among other things) as ordered to procreation and family life—but as essentially an emotional union. … they will therefore tend not to understand or respect the objective norms of permanence or sexual exclusivity that shape it. Nor, in the end, will they see why the terms of marriage should not depend altogether on the will of the parties, be they two or ten in number, as the terms of friendships and contracts do. That is, to the extent that marriage is misunderstood, it will be harder to see the point of its norms, to live by them, and to urge them on others. And this, besides making any remaining restrictions on marriage arbitrary, will damage the many cultural and political goods that get the state involved in marriage in the first place. We list them in summary form here to orient readers." [Each point is discussed in subsequent chapters in the book.]
"Real marital fulfillment
No one deliberates or acts in a vacuum. We all take cues from cultural norms, which are shaped by the law. To form a true marriage, one must freely choose it. And to choose marriage, one must have at least a rough, intuitive idea of what it is. The revisionist proposal would harm people (especially future generations) by warping their idea of what marriage is. It would teach that marriage is about emotional union and cohabitation, without any inherent connections to bodily union or family life. As people internalized this view, their ability to realize genuine marital union would diminish. This would be bad in itself, since marital union is good in itself. It would be the subtlest but also the primary harm of redefinition; other harms would be the effects of misconstruing marriage, and so not living it out and supporting it.
"Spousal well-being
Marriage tends to make spouses healthier, happier, and wealthier than they would otherwise be. But what does this is marriage, especially through its distinctive norms of permanence, exclusivity, and orientation to family life. As the state's redefinition of marriage makes these norms harder to understand, cherish, justify, and live by, spouses will benefit less from the psychological and material advantages of marital stability.
"Child well-being
If same-sex relationships are recognized as marriages, not only will the norms that keep marriage stable be undermined, but the notion that men and women bring different gifts to parenting will not be reinforced by any civil institution. Redefining marriage would thus soften the social pressures and lower the incentives—already diminished these last few decades—for husbands to stay with their wives and children, or for men and women to marry before having children. All this would harm children's development into happy, productive, upright adults.
Misunderstandings about marriage will also speed our society's drought of deep friendship, with special harm to the unmarried. The state will have defined marriage mainly by degree or intensity—as offering the most of what makes any relationship valuable: shared emotion and experience. It will thus become less acceptable to seek (and harder to find) emotional and spiritual intimacy in nonmarital friendships. These will come to be seen not as different from marriage (and thus distinctively appealing), but simply as less. Only the conjugal view gives marriage a definite orientation to bodily union and family life. Only the conjugal view preserves a richly populated horizon with space for many types of communion, each with its own scale of depth and specific forms of presence and care.
"Religious liberty
As the conjugal view comes to be seen as irrational, people's freedom to express and live by it will be curbed. Thus, for example, several states have forced Catholic Charities to give up its adoption services or place children with same-sex partners, against Catholic principles. Some conjugal marriage supporters have been fired for publicizing their views. If civil marriage is redefined, believing what virtually every human society once believed about marriage—that it is a male-female union—will be seen increasingly as a malicious prejudice, to be driven to the margins of culture.
"Limited government
The state is (or should be) a supporting actor in our lives, not a protagonist. It exists to create the conditions under which we and our freely formed communities can thrive. The most important free community, on which all others depend, is marriage; and the conditions for its thriving include both the accommodations for couples and the pressures on them to stay together that marriage law provides. Redefining civil marriage will further erode marital norms, thrusting the state even more deeply into leading roles for which it is poorly suited: parent and discipliner to the orphaned, provider to the neglected, and arbiter of disputes over custody, paternity, and visitations. As the family weakens, our welfare and correctional bureaucracies grow."
Thus we conclude that our youth must be taught that redefining marriage moves the whole purpose of marriage onto a purely self-centered, emotional basis, leaving the whole culture and nation-strengthening purpose lost forever. Somehow, these concepts need to be made known in a way that our rising generation better sees the danger we are in by socially rejecting the wonderful institution of traditional marriage and family. As one of our Principles of Liberty declares: "The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family, therefore the government should foster and protect its integrity."
Earl Taylor, Jr.


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Do you know why I cannot copy HTML to the clipboard, or if thats not the problem, why OpenOffice and Word 2000 displays HTML as plain text.
The OS is Windows XP (Service Pack 3).
I have copied html from both IE8 and Firefox and when I paste it into either Word or OpenOffice its still all plain text.

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If the start of the New Year appears a bit boring and you're looking for a getaway, these Florida fun and funky attractions might be just what you're looking for.
The Pelican Hotel on Ocean Drive is without question the most unique hotel in Miami Beach. The hotel was created by Diesel Jeans and designed by Magnus Ehrland. The hotel features 29 guest rooms with a surprise behind every door. Each room has its own colorful theme such as Big Bamboo, Viva Las Vegas, Executive Zebra among many others. Guests have access to free WIFI, an iPod sound station, plasma TV and refrigerator with bottled water that's refilled daily. The Pelican Cafe serves a daily breakfast and is a popular hangout for locals and tourists alike.
Experience the deep freeze at one of the country's most unique bars. Welcome to ICEBAR Orlando, the world's largest bar made out of ice. No other place in Florida gives you the opportunity to step into a bar made entirely out of ice. The bar features interior walls, bar, tables, bar stools and cocktail glasses beautifully carved out of 50 tons of ice. Before entering ICEBAR Orlando, guests get to slip into a thermal cape and gloves to keep warm while sipping on a ice cold drink. Afterwards, guests can relax and warm up in the FIRE Lounge, featuring live entertainment, dancing, a full service bar, a VIP area serving signature cocktails.
Florida is known for its mysterious and haunted destinations, but nothing is quite as mysterious as that of the Coral Castle in Homestead, Florida. This unusual stone structure was created by Edward Leedskalnin. The structure is built out of limestone that was formed from coral rock. According to legends, Edward Leedskalnin was able to lift these enormous stones totaling over 1,100tons by using reverse magnetism or his supernatural abilities. To this day, scientists are still baffled of how one man could have possibly built this unusual structure. The secret was buried with Edward Leedskalnin when he died.


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Despite its sterile-sounding name, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan is pretty flavorful. Because it's rich in fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy, whole grains, fish, poultry, nuts and other foods that are naturally low in sodium, it tastes better than a diet high in sodium and refined sugar. In one study, eating a low-sodium DASH diet seemed to be more palatable than the typical American diet, explains retired research nutritionist Eva Obarzanek, PhD, formerly of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, who worked on the first study to show that DASH could help lower blood pressure.
Similar to the Mediterranean-style diet, DASH is high in plant-based foods and low in animal-based ones. It doesn't allow a lot of processed and prepared foods that tend to be high in sodium, added sugar and excess fat. Most importantly, it's rich in nutrients that are associated with controlling blood pressure: minerals (potassium, magnesium, calcium), protein and fiber. Researchers don't know exactly how these help, but they believe that compounds like nitrates, which relieve pressure by keeping blood vessels healthy, play an important role.
And, since it's proven to reduce the risk for heart disease and stroke and help control weight, DASH is especially healthy for midlife women (with and without high blood pressure) who are at risk for age-related diseases and the weight gain caused by hormone flux.
So, what's the catch? DASH isn't easy. "In the beginning, most people fall short of the 8-to-10 fruit and vegetables a day goal," explains Mary Beth Augustine, RD, of the Continuum Health & Healing Center in New York City. To help clients adjust, she suggests preparing 10 sandwich bags each with cut vegetables every Sunday to supplement meals during the week. Other tips: double the serving size of vegetables at each meal, and, until your taste buds get used to the reduced levels of salt, add fresh lemon juice to foods like soups and sauces. And consider consulting a registered dietitian (find one at eatright.org) to get started. Research shows that counseling is helpful for those following DASH. Insurers don't always cover nutritional counseling for hypertension, but some may pay if it's related to other conditions, like diabetes, so it's worth asking your provider.


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- 1 bottle (750 milliliters) merlot
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup orange liqueur
- 1/2 to 1 cup brandy
- 3 cups lemon-lime soda, chilled
- 1 cup sliced fresh strawberries
- 1 medium lemon, sliced
- 1 medium orange, sliced
- 1 medium peach, sliced
- Ice cubes
- In a pitcher, stir the wine, sugar, orange liqueur and brandy until sugar is dissolved. Stir in soda and fruit. Serve over ice. Yield: 10 servings (3/4 cup each).
Reviews for Topsy-Turvy Sangria
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"Made this for a BBQ last night and everyone loved it. I used the cheap Walmart merlot and cut the sugar in half since other reviewers had recommended that. Perfect!"
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Thanks to all the local veterans and their various organizations that helped mark Memorial Day in so many ways on Monday.
The services conducted in many area cemeteries and at local memorials were a honorable tribute to those soldiers who served to protect our freedoms.
There were parades, bands, singing, speeches and all sorts military honors offered in many hollowed spots around the Gogebic Range. This doesn't happen without the planning and participation of hundreds of volunteers.
Family and friends of the honored, as well as many other community members attended these events — each honoring the soldiers by the reverant presence.
Thanks to our local veterans for the service to our country and for their efforts to make these annual Memorial Day services happen.
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For the rest of her life.
According to county pay records, in addition to her $301,000 base salary, Muranishi receives:
$24,000, plus change, in "equity pay'' to guarantee that she makes at least 10 percent more than anyone else in the county.
About $54,000 a year in "longevity" pay for having stayed with the county for more than 30 years.
An annual performance bonus of $24,000.
And another $9,000 a year for serving on the county's three-member Surplus Property Authority, an ad hoc committee of the Board of Supervisors that oversees the sale of excess land.
Like other county executives, Muranishi also gets an $8,292-a-year car allowance.
Muranishi has been with the county for 38 years, and she's 63. When retirement day comes, she'll be getting a lot more than a gold watch.
That's because, according to the county auditor's office, Muranishi's annual pension will be equal to the dollar total of her entire yearly package $413,000. She also has a separate executive private pension plan, for which the county chips in $46,500 a year."
So for thirty years of service at exceptional pay we'll be paying this woman full salary + a 2% annual pension increase for probably 20 years of retirement, or $614,000 in year 20, or 9 million for not working - plus free medical.
"Like other county executives, Muranishi also gets an $8,292-a-year car allowance."
- I guess that means, since the car allowance for all county executuves are included in the pension calculation, that she receives, like the rest of them, a car allowance for life.
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It is said that if there is already n bosons in a particular quantum state, the probability of another boson joining them is (n+1) times larger than it would have been otherwise. But if we apply this rule to calculate probability for one horizontally (H) polarized photon to join a bunch of n=99 diagonally (D) polarized photons, we'll get (99+1) 1/2 = 50. What's wrong?
In general photon number is not conserved and the word 'otherwise' is unclear. We could say there is an infinite set of photons for you to steal one to add to the collection of $n$ photons. Anyway, there exists a set of probabilities $p_i$ such that $p_i / p_{i+1} = i + 1$. You wanted the inverse ratio but we can easily label any set of probabilities in reverse, and shift the index. For example, this rule is satisfied for $p_i = e^{-1} (n!)^{-1}$. The factor of
$$e = 1 + \frac{1}{2!} + \frac{1}{3!} + \frac{1}{4!} + \cdots = \sum_i \frac{1}{i!}$$
normalizes the sum so that it satisfies the probability rule $\sum_i p_i = 1$.


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People being physically assaulted by the authorities at various Occupy Wall Street protests. People being pepper sprayed, poked with batons by various police agencies are bringing out the true colors of the authority figures in this country. We are tearing away at the outer layers of our collective onion, and boy does it stink the further we get into this.
I don't even know what the protesters are protesting…do they have a clear agenda? I think it is along the lines of corporate greed and how lives have been damaged by all the banking and corporate scandals. But they are peaceful in the protests and have had acts of violence done to them. It is as if those in power want this to not be peaceful. Why? Because people who have the power want to hold onto the power and won't give it up easily.
The power structure of this country does need to change, to be altered…I totally agree with that. There should be no poor, no starving in this country and for that fact the entire world. When it all is said and done money is just an agreement of worth anyway. We scratch and fight for pieces of paper.
We do spend billions of dollars in other countries to help them out, yet so many are in need here. But this movement is worldwide so it obviously goes past our country. Are people worldwide tired of being poor, oppressed? Are those in power that insensitive to the majority's needs?
I really want to hope that there is a deeper underlying reason to this movement and not just people protesting greed by wanting more, than that just fills their need for greed. Are all of us that shallow? Urgh. That is very depressing if this is the truth.
Is this the beginning of a spiritual awakening? This is what I hope that it is. I want to believe deep down that we are all equal, that we all have the same amount of power and that nobody should go hungry, or be dirty. But I can't say with total certainty that this is the case.
Maybe people are just sick and tired of greed, inhumanity, and the bean counters and so on? I don't know, as I am not out there at the protests because I am trying to survive by working at a temp job and searching for some kind of decent stable work. You know things are kind of messed up when I get a job for twelve bucks an hour and others say that's not a bad wage. I'm like what? I am middle aged and still can only get jobs that young adults get. It's very disparaging to say the least. So I understand the frustration that is out there.
Why am I not out there? Because I am a writer, an artist and have grown used to working jobs to pay the bills as I continue to strive to get published and get noticed for my art. I have not had health insurance for many years. These blogs are a big part of my art. It has been an uphill battle for over twenty years now. Part of me wants to give up. Part of me has given up at times, but yet my heart pulls me onward and doesn't want me to give up. I don't know what to do, what it will take to break on through, so I just continue to put my true self out there.
Nobody is perfect yet we expect perfection out of each other. We tell people not to take things personally, yet this is a very personal world. Everything has come down to the dollar, to making a profit. We have lost our humanity and our connection to nature. We don't want to be poor and starving, yet so many turn a blind eye towards those who are. Maybe it is a collective fork in the road we have come to. Maybe we are experiencing the perfect storm, brought here by a stream of worldwide events. I don't know, as I am just a regular Joe trying to achieve the American dream and not just survive, but to find a way to thrive. I think that is what most people want. But when those who are in power keep raising the bar ever higher…the situation we are in is like water coming to a boil and the fumes are coming out. We are venting and we don't know why. If we all became millionaires, they would become billionaires and so on.
All through man's history we have kept each other down, tormented, tortured and ridiculed each other. The power struggles of today mirror history. The past is repeating itself because we don't want to learn the deeper lessons of life. Those are that we are all in this together and we should take care of each other and not abuse our power by spraying pepper spray in each other's face. That life is an internal journey and not just a physical sensation. But we bury ourselves in the external world and neglect the internal world. Without a spiritual practice, life is just shallow. End of story.


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UH-Hilo roundup: Vulcans golfers lead at PacWest tournament
The University of Hawaii at Hilo men's golf team is back on top after Day 1 at the Pacific West Conference championships.
Kyeton Littel closed with a 2-under 70 to get within two shots of the lead Friday, and Corey Kozuma and Dalen Yamauchi each posted 71s as the Vulcans charged in front in Vallejo, Calif.
Seeking their first title since 2011, the Vulcans were 11 shots clear of Dixie State heading into today's final round.
After a steady 300 in the opening round Friday left them in third place, Littel (74-70), Kozuma (75-71) and Yamauchi (77-71) each scratched strokes off their scorecards as UH-Hilo fired a 2-under to get to 10-over 586. Chris Shimomura turned in consecutive 74s and joined his teammates in the top 10 at Hiddenbrooke Golf Course.
"After playing the course and getting familiar with the conditions, we really started to grind," Kozuma said.
In 2013, UH-Hilo carried an eight-shot lead into the final day before stumbling.
"We just need to focus on the task at hand and not worry about protecting a lead," Kozuma said. "Our mindset is not that we're ahead. We just need to keep trying and not take anything for granted."
Dominican's Drew Nelson finished with a 69 and was one shot ahead of Dixie State's Kenny You and teammate Mark Milton at 2-under. Littel was in a tie for fourth at even-par, Kozuma was sixth at 2-over and Yamauchi and Shimomura were in a group six shots behind in a tie for eighth.
Yamauchi tied for medalist honors and lost in a playoff last year. Also for the Vulcans, Christian Agosto turned in a 157.
In the team race, Dominican was at 600 in third place, and host Academy of Art (602) and Hawaii Pacific (618) rounded out the top five.
Defending champion Grand Canyon is no longer in the PacWest.
Tom Greer-Smith won his match at No. 1 singles and teamed up for a doubles victory, but the Vulcans fell to Sonoma State 5-2 in a consolation match Friday at the PacWest championships in Surprise, Ariz.
On Thursday in the first round, UH-Hilo (1-17) fell 5-0 to Hawaii Pacific.
Friday's consolation match
Sonoma State 5, UH-Hilo 2
Tom Greer-Smith, UH-Hilo, def. Matt Roberts, Sonoma St., 7-5, 6-3
Philip Holbrook, Sonoma, def. Kainoa Rosa, UH-Hilo, 6-1, 6-2
Daniel Holz, Sonoma, vs. Kallen Mizuguchi, UH-Hilo, 6-4, 0-2, unfinished
Robert Henry, Sonoma, def. Spenver Travalino, UH-Hilo, 6-1, 7-5
Logan Liddell, Sonoma, def. Nicolas Franco, UH-Hilo, 6-1, 6-1
Vincent Paganetti, Sonoma, vs. Daniel Tada, UH-Hilo, 6-4, 3-4, unfinished
Tom Greer-Smith/Kainoa Rosa, UH-Hilo def. Matt Roberts/Philip Holbrook, Sonoma, 8-2
Jimmy Manning/Seth Hein, Sonoma, def. Kallen Mizuguchi/Thomas Dols, UH-Hilo, 9-7
Logan Liddell/Robert Henry, Sonoma, def. Nicolas Franco/Spencer Travalino, UH-Hilo, 8-2
Thursday's first round
HPU 5, UH-Hilo 0
Petr Michnev, HPU, vs. Kainea Rosa, UH-Hilo, 6-3, 2-0, unfinished
Jaume Martinez-Vich, HPU, def. Tom Greer-Smith, UH-Hilo, 6-0, 6-1
Thibaud Berland, HPU, vs. Kallen Mizuguchi, UH-Hilo, 6-1, 3-0, unfinished
Mattis Wetzel, HPU, vs. Spencer Travalino, UH-Hilo, 6-4, 2-0, unfinished
Adriano Locorotondo, HPU, vs. Nicolas Franco, UH-Hilo, 6-0, 4-0, unfinished
Clemens Graute, HPU, def. Daniel Tada, UH-Hilo, 6-0, 6-0
Petr Michnev/Thibaud Berland, HPU, def. Tom Greer-Smith/Kainoa Rosa, UH-Hilo, 8-4
Jaume Martinez-Vich/Mattis Wetzel, HPU, def. Kallen Mizuguchi/Thomas Dols, UH-Hilo, 8-4
Adriano Locorotondo/Yann Renault, HPU, def. Makoa Rosa/Michael Davis, UH-Hilo, 8-0


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This page contains the following information about the Hastings Cultural Regeneration Strategy 2010 – 2015.
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The Hastings Cultural Regeneration Strategy aims to bring about a cultural renaissance in Hastings and St Leonards that will be enjoyed by local people and visitors alike. It also aims to use culture as an effective way to create a healthy local economy, stronger communities and to raise aspirations of the town's residents.
The Hastings Cultural Regeneration Strategy also sets out how, over 2010-2014, our town can capitalise on the investment of public money in the Jerwood Gallery and the Stade.
The Hastings Cultural Regeneration Strategy has 7 objectives.
To transform the town's cultural infrastructure, historic townscape and general appearance, by developing new cultural venues, improving existing venues, maintaining historic buildings, and enhancing the seafront and the public realm around the town centres.
To develop, strengthen and promote exciting and high quality performing and visual arts.
To develop a year round programme of cultural activities, professional and community based, linking with the new Stade facilities.
To develop and brand the town as a major cultural destination on the South Coast, building on Hastings' distinctive identity and using the Jerwood Gallery and Stade as the catalyst.
To increase business activity and create employment through a successful visitor economy and the growth of creative industries.
To work with local people to lead, organise, participate in and enjoy a wide range of cultural activities locally and town wide.
To enable local people, particularly those who are disadvantaged, to raise their aspirations and skills through participation in cultural related activities, education and training.
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If you are going to Monterey, you have to check out the big three attractions: the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row, and Fisherman's Wharf. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is world renown and has revolving exhibits as well as fan favorites; the jellyfish and seahorse exhibits are not to be missed. Cannery row leads to the Aquarium and has shops, food and souvenirs for sale. Fisherman's Wharf is a great place to find fishing, sailing, glass bottom, or whale watching boat tours of the bay.
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LG Vu Plus announced by AT&T, available in June for $150 on contract
While Verizon announced a new LG smartphone (the WM 6.5.3 Fathom VS750), AT&T has unveiled a new LG featurephone – the LG Vu Plus, which builds on the success of the original LG Vu, launched way back in 2008.
The new Vu Plus comes with an enhanced UI, sliding 4-row QWERTY keyboard, HSDPA, AT&T Mobile TV, AT&T Navigator, AT&T Social Net, full HTML browser, 3MP camera, and MicroSD card slot.
The phone's display is a 3 inch capacitive one. Its resolution is not known, but it seems to be 240 x 400 pixels.
LG Vu Plus will be available at AT&T starting June 6. The phone will set you back $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate (a 2-yr contract agreement is obviously required).
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Equal marriage rights and an equal minimum wage are two of the
five of the topics that will be debated by the UK Youth Parliament
(UKYP) on Friday 23 November when Members of the Youth Parliament
(MYPs) are invited into the House of Commons chamber for the fourth
year running.
Over 250,000 young people (11-18 years old) from across the UK
voted to see these issues debated, representing a marked increase
from the 65,000 ballots received in 2011.
The event will be screened as live by BBC Parliament, and all
schools across the UK have been encouraged to tune in to watch the
debates which will be broadcast from 11:10 and will finish at
14:40, at which time the MYPs will vote to decide which of the five
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become an annual event of significant importance as indicated by
the great numbers of young people who cast their ballot to hear
these issues discussed. I am delighted to see an ever increasing
number of young people show their interest in the issues that
matter to them, and I am pleased that the House of Commons can
offer the Chamber as a platform for young people to share their
MYPs will also be joined by the Leader of the House, Rt Hon Andrew
Lansley MP and Shadow Leader of the House, Angela Eagle MP, who
will open the debate from the despatch box in recognition of the
UKYP as the only external group permitted to use the House of
Commons chamber.
Rt Hon Andrew Lansley MP, said:
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parliamentary debate and we warmly welcome all those taking part in
Friday's proceedings. Among them will be some who imagine that, one
day, they also will occupy a place on the green benches as of
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year. For more than a decade, UKYP has established itself as a
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politics at a national level. I hope the young parliamentarians
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What does the term "Duncan Phyfe" really mean? Duncan Phyfe was a Scottish cabinetmaker who emigrated to the U.S. and settled in New York City in 1791. He was a master craftsman whose chairs, sofas, and wardrobes were in high demand throughout his working life. He died in 1848, having created a body of work that was, for the most part, unmarked. He incorporated neoclassical elements into his designs and historians sometimes label his style as Empire.
Today "Duncan Phyfe" has become a catchall phrase for wooden furniture manufactured in the twentieth century exhibiting design elements such as curved legs and claw feet. These items have absolutely no connection to Duncan Phyfe the cabinetmaker nor any company or corporation ever associated with him or designated to continue using his name and designs.
A genuine piece of Duncan Phyfe furniture dating from the early 19thcentury and originating in Mr. Phyfe's New York workshop is truly a valuable and historic treasure. The wooden dining room sets many Cincinnatians grew up with or saw at their grandparents' homes and are often referred to as "Duncan Phyfe" are most likely common but sturdy items made much more recently. They might have a charm of their own but should not be confused with the prominent and important early American furniture that truly represents the Duncan Phyfe name.


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i have encountered myself with a mathematic question problem. The exercise says: The function $f$ is defined by $f:xa \sqrt{3-2x}$. Evaluate $f^{-1}(5)$. Does anyone have a clue how to resolve the equation. What does "a" represent? Does it involve the function?
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I can't tell what $a$ is supposed to be. It looks like you have a definition of $f(x)=\sqrt{3-2x}$ (note: please do not mix $x$ and $X$). Then $f^{-1}(5)$ is the value of $x$ such that $f(x)=5$, so you would need to solve $5=\sqrt{3-2x}$. Can you do that?
Let's suppose that definition of function is $f(x)=\sqrt{3-2x}$ than $f^{-1}(x)$ should be inverse function of $f(x)$ at $x=5$ so we need to find $f^{-1}(x)$
$x=\sqrt{3-2f^{-1}(x)} \Rightarrow x^2= 3-2f^{-1}(x) \Rightarrow f^{-1}(x)=\frac{3-x^2}{2} \Rightarrow f^{-1}(5)=\frac{3-5^2}{2} \Rightarrow f^{-1}(5)=-11$


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MSI: Music, Film and Mathematics together (13rit192)
Andrew Granville (Université de Montréal)
Jenny Granville (Leeds Metropolitan University)
During this period of time we wish to finish post-production on the film using the facilities at BIRS (the film has already been accepted to the Bridges Festival on the basis of a short). Moreover Robert Schneider intends to record the music using the facilities (and hopefully other musicians) at Banff. This will be available on You Tube, at the website for Robert's band (Apples in Stereo) and via a scannable link from the comic book itself. There is some possibility of recording a video, to go with the music, at Leeds Metropolitan University during the forthcoming academic year.


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An Analysis of Some of Browning's Major Characters.
Date: August 1936
Creator: Kincaid, Elizabeth
Description: This study aimed to show the variety and skill of Browning's portrayal of character and to prove that the unifying forces in his treatment of character is the development of the poet himself.
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Characterization in the Plays of Robert Greene
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An Evaluation of Junior High School Libraries of Texas
Date: August 1938
Creator: Johnson, Myrtle Crawford
Description: The objective of this study are: -to list and describe activities and methods used in the junior high school libraries of Texas, -to present data regarding the administration, staff, and facilites of the libraries in junior high schools of Texas, -to determine to what extent the junir high school libraries of Texas are exceeding or falling short of meeting the standards for secondary school libraries as set forth by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and finally, -to propose certain improvements or change to be made to conform to the Standards of the Southern Association.
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Jonathan Swift as a Satirist
Date: August 1939
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Description: This thesis presents a the satire of Jonathan Swift's writings framed within the context of the historical events and conditions as they existed during his lifetime.
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The Narrative Art of Edgar Allan Poe
Date: August 1939
Creator: Hanks, LaCola Lu
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The Negro as a Character in Recent American Fiction
Date: August 1936
Creator: Early, Minnie Lee
Description: This study aimed to assess the character in Recent American fiction. It concludes that writers of Negro literature have been quick to see the effectiveness of the use of Negro religious beliefs and practices in giving reality and substance to their racial pictures. Black men have to live in a white man's world. As a whole, contemporary American fiction gives a panorimic view of Negroes of almost every section.
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Science and Pseudo-Science in Poe's Works
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Creator: Hall, Thomas
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Self-Portrayal in the Plays of Ben Jonson
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Social Backgrounds of the Characters in Willa Cather's Novels
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Some constructive ideas in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
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The last game was badly reviewed.
Lets hope this game is a lot better. Like shitloads. The last few MOH games have disgraced the PS1 originals.
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Holy shit.
As much as I love the drums, that mix of COG is fucking epic.
LGM sounds DOPE with that bass thump while Chester is screaming.
Not too interested in the recent iterations of Medal of Honor, seeing as its turned into another dogshit CoD clone.
That said though, I wouldn't have minded if they confined this imitation of their competitor to the MoH games, rather than fucking up the BF series as well - as they've chosen to do.
hmm....I dunno what to make of this...the last MOH Game was mostly "Meh", and judging by the Gameplay Preview from this Year`s E3, it`s going to continue that scheme. Sure, the Graphics look nice, thanks to the Frostbite Engine, but I think that the game won`t really stand a Chance compared to Battlefield 3. To The Trailer: Like the Remix? of the Song.
And with words unspoken
A silent devotion
I know you know what I mean
And the end is unknown
But I think I'm ready
As long as you're with me
Id it me, or did LGM sound absolutely kickass in that interview? It sounded much rawer.
Can't wait to hear mike's traks .
So Call of Duty gets Trent Reznor to do their score, I wonder if MoH thought "Hey, we should try something like that!"
I also have to wonder if Mike's soundtrack for The Raid had anything to do with the decision...
Definitely a remix of LGM in that interview video, music's completely different. Probably one of the upcoming Living Things Remixed tracks.
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MOH is okay, but I would honestly die of excitement if LP done anything to do with Halo, shame for Halo 4... 343, you know what to do for Halo 5
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Song Lyrics For Change Of Heart by Cyndi Lauper
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STARKVILLE, Miss. - In its first loss of the season, Mississippi State's Lady Bulldog tennis squad fell 6-0 to the No. 36 ranked Cowgirls of Oklahoma State Saturday. The match was played indoors at McCarthy Gymnasium due to extremely cold temperatures.
Singles was played first in the match at the two-court facility at McCarthy.
Georgiana Patrasc and Alexandra Perper kicked off singles play for the Lady Bulldogs, both putting up sterling performances against ranked opponents before finally falling. Patrasc lost 7-6(4), 6-4 at the No. 2 position after a close first-set tiebreaker against No. 125 ranked Meghan Blevins of Oklahoma State. Perper dropped her first set to the Cowgirls' No. 75 ranked Malika Rose on court 1 before rallying to take the second set 6-2. Rose then answered with a 6-2 third set, raising the Cowgirls' overall lead to 2-0.
Oklahoma State continued their winning streak at No. 3 as MSU sophomore Naomi Tran fell there in a 6-2, 6-3 decision against opposing senior, C.C. Sardinha of OSU. Petra Ferancova battled for the Lady Bulldogs on court 4, earning a break advantage in the first set, but was ultimately downed by Maria Alvarez for OSU 7-5, 6-2, clinching the team win for the Cowgirls.
Since the match had been decided, the format for the matches on courts 5 and 6 was changed to one pro set on each court. OSU junior Kanyapat Narattana defeated Lady Bulldog freshman Lien Van Geel 8-3 at the No. 5 position. Sarai Flores completed play for the Lady Bulldogs on court 6, falling 8-0 to Lorena Gheorghe of Oklahoma State, sealing the 6-0 Cowgirl victory.
Doubles play was not contested.
"I think Oklahoma State was clearly the better team tonight," said head coach Daryl Greenan. "We battled pretty close at a couple of different positions. I think the effort is there for us, but there are a few basic areas that we need to improve on. Hopefully we can learn from this match and take the experience into next weekend."
The Lady Bulldogs will hit the road for their next two matches, traveling first to Minneapolis, Minn., to take on the No. 62 ranked University of Minnesota on Feb. 22, followed by a neutral site match against Wisconsin on Feb 23, also in Minneapolis.
Updates for Lady Bulldog tennis can be found at hailstate.com or through Twitter (@mstateWT).
February 16, 2012 - Starkville, Miss.
1. #75 Malika Rose (OSU) def. Alexandra Perper (MSU) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
2. #125 Meghan Belvins (OSU) def. Georgiana Patrasc (MSU) 7-6(4), 6-4
3. C.C. Sardinha (OSU) def. Naomi Tran (MSU) 6-2, 6-3
4. Maria Alvarez (OSU) def. Petra Ferancova (MSU) 7-5, 6-2
5. Kanyapat Narattana (OSU) def. Lien Van Geel (MSU) 8-3
6. Lorena Gheorghe (OSU) def. Sarai Flores (MSU) 8-0
Order of finish: Doubles (not contested), Singles (2,1,3,4,5,6)


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Telltale Games was so successful with creating a point-and-click adventure game based on one comic, it only made sense that they chose another incredible comic for their next game. The Wolf Among Us is based on the Fables comic by Bill Willingham, a series of dark tales about how and where fairy tale/folklore/nursery rhyme characters are living in the real world. For the Fables who decide to leave the homeland for whatever reason, they can come to Fabletown, a hidden part of New York, to try to make a living in the real world. Bigby Wolf, a/k/a the Big Bad Wolf, serves as the sheriff for Fabletown to help Fables live amongst one another in peace during their incredibly long lives. Like Telltale's other popular comic-based game, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us was also released in piecemeal as an episodic format across several months. We chose to wait until the series was complete and then binge on the entire story. To be honest, this is really the only way to go.
The game opens with a brief glimpse of the daily B.S. Bigby has to deal with day in and day out: Fables like Mr. Toad not using a glamour to appear human because they can't afford it, and the Woodsman smacking around a Fable hooker after having a bit too much to drink. It all seems like just another day in Bigby's life as the Big Bad Wolf, until a murder mystery literally falls on Bigby's doorstep. The murder of a Fable is bad enough, but this victim also happens to be the hooker Bigby helped the night before. This one murder sends Bigby down a twisted and unpredictable path that unravels the very heart of Fabletown.
This really doesn't look good.
Put 'em up!
Telltale does not require players to know a lick of the Fables comics or remember any fairy tales they might have read or heard as a kid, but it does make the story quite a bit entertaining if you do. For instance, if you've read the tale of "The Girl with the Yellow Ribbon"—it's been attributed to American folklore and ghost tales from numerous sources—then you know exactly why the hookers are wearing the ribbons around their necks. If you've read "Little Red Riding Hood" at all in your life, then hearing the Woodsman's "real" version of the story adds a whole new perspective to the matter.
As expected with a point-and-click title, the story its best overall facet, but the game mechanics are sound enough to not blemish or take away from any part of Bigby's tales. In many ways, the gameplay reminded me of a mix between Murdered: Soul Suspect and the point-and-click style of The Walking Dead. Whereas The Walking Dead had a few somewhat complex puzzles and intense action scenes, The Wolf Among Us has a stronger focus on exploration and piecing together clues. Occasionally Bigby will have to rough up suspects or chase them down, which throws the player into a few QTEs, much like The Walking Dead. However, I never once felt as stressed or on the edge of death if I made one mistake as I did with The Walking Dead. Since The Walking Dead, is about survival and The Wolf Among Us is about solving a mystery, shifting the style of gameplay around a bit not only fits the game's tone, story, and mood, it separates it from simply being a clone of The Walking Dead.
9.0 Excellent
Beautiful comic book art style, fascinating, deep characters, and the power of player choice all wonderfully blend together in this well-crafted whodunit mystery with more twists and turns than the road to the Crooked Man's house;
Gameplay isn't challenging, not even the QTEs, which is what perhaps makes this season rather short.


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Over the last three months, insecure burglaries in Doncaster have decreased by 32%, and police are giving praise to the public for assisting them in the successful reduction.
Insecure burglaries occur when a property is left unlocked, or windows and doors are left open, which is seen as an open invitation for opportunistic thieves.
Superintendent Eddie Murphy said: "Since November, we have been delivering the message to the public to always ensure their property is secure, to prevent them from becoming a victim of crime.
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- owheelj said...
It's looking up?
- 19 October, 2009 08:43
Wow Aydin, what a great picture, and what a striking design it makes; it would make a fine logo! I have never ever seen a snail or slug hold its ommatophores perfectly straight up like that, in fact I didn't think they could even do that; this one has great muscle control! I know they don't have great vision, but am tempted to say that the snail is looking straight up, but actually in this position the eyespots are facing backwards slightly, so it is tempting to say that it is perhaps trying to look somewhat behind it and over the shell, towards the main light source, a window or overhead light? I know they don't see well, but they do seem to look in one direction sometimes. Take a look at this image:
Where you will see that it seems as if the Limax maximus is looking upwards, I think because the board under which it was nesting was suddenly removed and the light was a surprise to the creature. Nonetheless, you can see that the tentacles are curved upward, as is usually the case, not straight up to attention like your cute little juvenile here.
Susan J. Hewitt
- 19 October, 2009 08:51
- AYDIN ÖRSTAN said...
I don't think it was looking at anything. As you note, Susan, terrestrial gastropods can't really see. I have done some simple tests with several species of snails & slugs & determined that their tentacles don't react (i.e., withdraw) unless an object is brought very very close, within ~1 mm, of the tip of the tentacle. Therefore, I believe the vertical holding of the tentacles in the picture signify something other than a visual response.
- 19 October, 2009 10:33
Your juvenile reminds me of Gary the Snail. : ) http://spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/Gary_the_Snail
Does it always hold its tentacles vertically? I once saw a snail whose tentacles were essentially fused together, which I guessed to be a strange congenital defect. Maybe this guy has some unusual musculature.
- 19 October, 2009 13:00
- John said...
I see Megan got to it before me, but I was thinking that it looked like a cartoon snail.
- 19 October, 2009 14:17
- AYDIN ÖRSTAN said...
You mean Spongebob's snail Gary? Meow...
No, my snail--maybe I should name him/her--can move its tentacles around.
- 19 October, 2009 17:25
Yeah, it's true that snails and slugs can't look "at" something like mammals can, because the eye spots are just simple light sensors, not real eyes, no lens and so on. But I assume they can perceive the difference between a really dark area and a really bright light. Do they move away from a bright light source preferentially? Have you tried that experiment? I imagine LED light is good for brightness without much heat.
Anyway, does this little creature hold its tentacles like that almost all the time? Or only sometimes? It's really comical, I have never seen a snail do that.
- 19 October, 2009 18:33
- Kazimir Majorinc said...
Very pretty snail.
- 19 October, 2009 23:43
maybe it's just happy to see you?
- 20 October, 2009 07:22
I've read that snail eyes do indeed have lenses, which means they can focus their vision to some extent.
I don't think they can see very well, but I suspect they can see better than we think they can.
- 20 October, 2009 12:22
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Another week went by and another Male Diver of the Week award was handed to Army junior Chris Nguyen on Monday.
Jan. 25, 2012
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. — With each passing week, the days count down to the 2012 Patriot League Swimming and Diving Championships, set for Feb. 16-18 from Navy's Lejeune Hall in Annapolis, Md.
Patriot League Swimming and Diving Release - 1.25.12
Army was the busiest of any of the League schools last weekend, with the Black Knights sweeping Drexel Friday and hosting a quad meet Saturday at Crandall Pool at West Point. Army took both meets from League rival American on Saturday, went 1-0-1 against George Mason and settled for the split versus Old Dominion. The Black Knight men went a perfect 4-0 on the weekend, while the women posted a 2-1-1 mark.
While the swimmers continue getting set for the League championships at Navy, Army's diving appears to be hitting its peak. Junior Chris Nguyen tied the record with his sixth Male Diver of the Week nod on Monday after three of his four scores from the weekend surpassed the NCAA Zone qualifying mark.
Bucknell faced off with Lehigh at Jacobs Pool in Bethlehem, Pa. It was senior day for the Mountain Hawks, but it was the Bison that garnered the last laugh with the sweep. Bucknell sophomore Mike Nicholson set a pair of pool records at Lehigh and was named Male Swimmer of the Week for the third time this season.
Another pool record fell last week, but this time it was the home team doing the breaking. Lafayette senior Cory Schutz broke the pool record in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 57.17, surpassing the previous mark held by 1992 Olympian Andrew Ruterfurd. Schutz' efforts, which included a win in the 200 breast as well, led Lafayette to a 150-141 victory over Stony Brook last Wednesday.
American and Holy Cross were also in action over the weekend. The Eagles participated in their second quad meet in as many weekends, this time at Army. Meanwhile, Holy Cross hosted the Worcester City Championships with both the men and women taking first place.
It will be decidedly less busy over the next seven days, as teams begin to wind down from competition and get set for the League championships. The Navy women return to the pool Wednesday at 5 p.m. when they host Johns Hopkins at Lejeune Hall, then the schedule is idle until Saturday. American, Bucknell, Lafayette and Lehigh will send competitors to the Navy Invitational in Annapolis for a 12 p.m. start. Meanwhile in Hamilton, N.Y., Colgate will host a pair of League rivals when Army and Lafayette come to town. Holy Cross will be back in the pool for the second time in as many weeks when the Crusaders host Providence in a dual meet. Lehigh will get back to competition looking to rebound from last weekend's loss to Bucknell when it visits Drexel. Those last three meets are all slated for 1 p.m.
Colgate will be back in non-League competition Sunday when the Raiders visit Connecticut at 12 p.m. The schedule goes dark for a few days until the Holy Cross men visit Boston College on Thursday, Feb. 2. By that point, we will be exactly two weeks from the start of the League championships.
Patriot League Weekly Awards
MIKE NICHOLSON, BUCKNELL So., Chappaqua, N.Y.
Nicholson collected a pair of first-place finishes in aiding the Bison to a 191-107 victory at Lehigh Saturday afternoon in a matchup between a pair of Patriot League rivals. He broke the Jacobs Pool records in both events in which he won, touching the wall in 1:51.05 in the 200-yard fly and 1:52.81 in the 200 IM. The old record in the 200 IM was held for over 20 years by Ron Karnaugh, who was a 1992 Olympian. Nicholson also added a fourth-place finish in the 200 back in 1:56.76 in his first outing in the event of the season.
ELIZABETH PORCELLIO, BUCKNELL Jr., New Providence, N.J.
Porcellio scored a team-best three individual wins as Bucknell won 189-111 at Lehigh Saturday at Jacobs Pool in Bethlehem, Pa. She set a career-best time in the 100 fly with a 58.52 in her first appearance in that event of the season. She added individual victories in the 200 IM (2:08.78) and 200 free (1:55.95). Overall Porcellio was part of four Bucknell wins on the day, as she swam the fourth leg of the Bison's victorious 400 free relay effort.
CHRIS NGUYEN, ARMY Jr., Cheshire, Conn.
Nguyen's dominance over the Male Diver of the Week award continued Monday with his record-tying sixth selection to the honor. The junior from Cheshire, Conn., started his weekend by taking first place in the three-meter board Friday against Drexel by 41 points with a score of 342.37. A day later he picked up the victory again in the three-meter competition during the quad meet against American, Old Dominion and George Mason. He posted a first-place point total of 343.05. Both scores exceeded the NCAA Zone qualifying marks. Nguyen finished second in the one-meter dive against Drexel Friday and in Saturday's quad with scores of 264.82 and 300.25, respectively. The latter also eclipsed the Zone qualifying mark.
TORI MOLCHANY, BUCKNELL Fr., Coplay, Pa.
A freshman, Molchany posted career-best showings off both boards in Bucknell's 189-111 victory at Lehigh Saturday. She took first in the three-meter competition with 255.30 points and finished in second from the one-meter board with 236.24 points. Her three-meter showing was the fifth-best in Bucknell history. Her efforts were part of a 1-2-3 sweep of both boards by the Bison.
ALISSA LEUNG, LEHIGH Fr., Garden City, N.Y.
The Lehigh freshman continued her strong rookie campaign with two individual golds and one second-place finish for the Mountain Hawks against Bucknell. She swept the 100 and 200 back events with times of 58.30 and 2:05.63, respectively, and came in second in the 200 IM behind Bucknell's Elizabeth Porcellio.
CORY SCHUTZ, LAFAYETTE Sr., Pottstown, Pa.
Schutz recorded a pair of first-place showings and broke the Lafayette pool record in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 57.17. It was the third-fastest time in Lafayette history and broke the pool record held by 1992 Olympian Andrew Ruterfurd.
CONNOR STYLES, LEHIGH Sr., Chappaqua, N.Y.
Styles swept the one- and three-meter dives Saturday for Lehigh against Bucknell, giving the Mountain Hawks their only wins versus the Bison. He won the three-meter with 294.23 points and took first from the one-meter board with an NCAA Zone-qualifying 303.97 points.
MAGGIE BEAUDOUIN, HOLY CROSS Sr., Madison, N.J.
Beaudouin was named the Female Swimmer of the Meet at the Worcester City Championships after pacing the Crusaders to a win. She won three individual events and set meet records in the 200 back and 400 IM.
BOBBY BALLANCE, AMERICAN So., Egg Harbor Township, N.J.
Ballance swept the 100 and 200 backstroke events Saturday for the Eagles in their quad meet at Army that also featured George Mason and Old Dominion. He won the 100 back in 52.45 and the 200 in 1:52.23.
Patriot League Notebook
One weekend of Patriot League teams going up against one another is down, and here comes yet another. Army and Bucknell came out on the winning ends of sweeps of other League foes this weekend, as the Black Knights and Bison defeated American and Lehigh, respectively, in competition on Saturday. This weekend Colgate returns to action, and the Raiders will entertain Lafayette and Army in a League tri-meet in Hamilton, N.Y., at Lineberry Natatorium. In addition, Navy will host the Navy Invitational in Annapolis, Md., which will feature swimmers from American, Bucknell, Lafayette and Lehigh. The Navy Invite begins at 12 p.m., while the meet at Colgate starts at 1 p.m.
Tickets for the 2012 Patriot League Swimming and Diving Championships are now on sale through the Navy Ticket Office. An all-session pass costs $35, while individual tickets are also available for the individual trials sessions ($8) and finals sessions ($10). The swimming and diving championships take place Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 16-18 from Navy's Lejeune Hall in Annapolis, Md. Trial sessions begin at 10:30 a.m., while the finals start at 6 p.m. Students who come to Lejeune Hall with a valid student ID card will be admitted for free. For more information, call the Navy Ticket Office at 1-800-US4-NAVY.
Top times for the student-athletes in the Patriot League are available by going to the Patriot League Swimming and Diving homepage at http://www.patriotleague.org/sports/c-swim/patr-c-swim-body.html. There fans can find the Top Times link in the sidebar on the right side of the page. That will bring up CollegeSwimming.com. To find the League's top times in all swimming events, make sure to change the conference setting to "PL."
Navy junior Laura Gorinski set three Patriot League records while she and her teammates combined to break 25 others as the Mids rolled to a 226.5-73.5 victory at Army in the annual Star Meet between the Academy Rivals in December. Gorinski set League benchmarks in the 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes (1:00.72 and 2:11.10, respectively), along with the 200 individual medley (2:00.33). She now owns three individual League records, the most of any student-athlete, ahead of Erin McGraw of Colgate and Tara Chapmon of Navy, who have two individual marks apiece. All three of Gorinski's records are faster than those on the League Championship list, meaning she could be gearing up for a big performance when Navy hosts this season's meet next month at Lejeune Hall.
Last year in early December, Navy's Laura Gorinski competed at the U.S. Short and Long Course National Championships in Columbus, Ohio. During the long course portion of the competition in a 50-meter pool, Gorinski qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke events. Bucknell senior Matthew Segar will join Gorinski at the Olympic Trials after his performance in early December at the U.S. Winter Nationals in Atlanta. He qualified for an opportunity to vie for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team after clocking a 1:52.24 in the preliminaries of the 200-meter freestyle, an event in which he eventually placed 29th.
Another Patriot League swimmer who is working toward potentially representing his country in the 2012 Summer Olympics is Colgate senior captain Costas Hadjipateras. Hadjipateras swam in three events earlier this season at the International Meeting at Alexandria in Athens, Greece, where he won the 200-meter butterfly in 2:05.00. Born in New York City and hailing from New Canaan, Conn., Hadjipateras qualified for the European Grand Prix in Munich, Germany in March, while his time in the 200 fly currently seeds him fifth for the Greek Olympic Trials, scheduled for May in Athens.
The Navy men extended their record run to eight consecutive Patriot League Championships last season when they captured the trophy at Bucknell. Meanwhile, the Colgate women have won the League crown three out of the last four years and are aiming for another trip to the top spot on the awards podium. The Navy men collected the maximum 98 points and 14 first-place votes, with Army (second, 83 points) and Bucknell (third, 73) splitting the remaining two. Lehigh was picked fourth with 59 points, followed by Colgate (56), Lafayette (33), American (32) and Holy Cross (14). On the women's side, Colgate finished first in the preseason poll with 95 points and 13 first-place votes, but the host Mids were right behind with 87 points and the last three first-place ballots. It was the Mids who snapped Colgate's two-year championship run by winning the trophy in 2010, when the League meet was last held in Annapolis, Md. Bucknell took third in the women's preseason voting with 74 points, while Army was fourth with 60. Rounding out the poll was Lehigh in fifth with 46 points, American in sixth with 45, followed by Lafayette (seventh, 27) and Holy Cross (eighth, 14).


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Hamann releases some images of its own rendition of the McLaren MP4-12C. The well-known German tuner introduces the 'memoR' kit, specifically developed for to English super car that is meant to further enhance originality and aggressiveness of the standard design. This special package includes a number of innovations such as the unusual front bumper with integrated LED strips, a re-designed hood and the striking airscoop on the roof, elements that surely provide the MP4-12C with a more up-to-date flavor.
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Angelina Jolie has made a reputation for herself as an extremely wealthy, attractive, and talented actress and a dedicated mother. Recently her image took on a different shade when Pat O'Brien recalled Jolie told him during an elevator ride that she was really horny reported US Weekly on Aug. 21, 2014. According to this story Jolie was actually looking for a random guy in the elevator.
O'Brien made this claim in his memoir "I'll Be Right Back After This." It is said Jolie told him in an elevator that she was really horny and that she was on a man hunt just after she split up from Billy Thornton in 2002. O'Brien says this elevator encounter with Jolie took place over a decade ago at the exclusive Beverly Hills hotel L'Ermitage.
O'Brien recalled that he asked Jolie what was up. She responded that she was searching for a guy that she kind of knew because she was really horny at that time. O'Brien joked that Jolie had his number and they both laughed.
O'Brien has been making headlines in Hollywood with his revelation that Jolie once told him she was very horny and seeking out
a man during an elevator ride as reported by E! Online. The 66-year-old TV personality claims this encounter was for real. However, Jolie has yet had anything to say regarding this rumored encounter.
In his new memoir O'Brien also shared some gossip about an interview he had with Jolie's father, 75 year old Jon Voight. During this interview Voight apparently pleaded for his estranged daughter to get help for what he claimed were serious mental problems. This interview also took place in 2002. O'Brien says he met Voight for coffee in the San Fernando Valley at the time.
Voight is said to have said he was broken hearted about his daughter and felt he could trust O'Brien as a journalist. Jolie reconciled with her father in late 2009 and has been living with Brad Pitt and their children for years. Jolie remains a very popular actress who simply comes across as being a real live human being with the same desires shared by other women with these rumors from O'Brien.


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Carbohydrates often get a bad rap when it comes to a healthy eating plan. But not all carbs are created equal. While on Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet, you'll enjoy "good carbs," such as nonstarchy vegetables and legumes, and eliminate all starchy and sugary carbs to help balance your blood-sugar levels and control cravings. When you reach Phase 2 of the diet, after just two weeks, more good carbs, such as whole grains, fruits, and certain starchy vegetables, like sweet potatoes and winter squash, will be reintroduced. The key to choosing healthy carbs is to focus on those that are high in fiber.
Good Carbs vs. Bad Carbs
Good carbohydrates include those found in nutritious, high-fiber fruits and vegetables, legumes, and whole grains, including certain types of rice, such as brown and wild. Unfortunately, fiber is often removed from grains during processing to produce a smoother texture and to extend the shelf life of breads and other baked goods. Without fiber, processed grains essentially become chains of glucose (sugar) molecules known as starches, which are devoid of nutrients. These "bad carbs" must be avoided on a healthy diet. Besides being packed with vitamins and minerals, good carbohydrate foods typically contain plenty of fiber, which takes longer to digest, thus keeping blood-sugar levels steady — and cravings and hunger under control.
Buying Foods with Quality Carbs
When you pick up a product, be sure to check the Nutrition Facts panel. This will show you the total amount of carbohydrates and how much of that total comes from fiber (and/or sugar). The higher the fiber in a product the better it is (refined-flour products often have very little). Then look at the ingredients list to see where the fiber is coming from. When it comes to grain products, the first ingredient should have the word "whole" (and ideally 100% whole) in front of a specific grain (like whole wheat and whole oats) or should be a less common (but still whole) grain, like brown rice, bulgur, kamut, millet, or quinoa. Finally, for the healthiest choices when it comes to breads, looks for whole-grain breads that contain no trans fats and at least 3 grams of dietary fiber per slice.