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- Spring Breeding Duck Numbers
- Pheasant Crowing Counts Down Statewide
- Fall Turkey Lottery Process Moved to September
- Summer Safety on the Water
- Fur Harvester Classes Scheduled
- Swan Application Deadline
- Violations Surge During Paddlefish Season
- Watchable Wildlife Photo Contest
- Put Garbage Where it Belongs
Spring Breeding Duck Numbers
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department's annual spring breeding duck survey showed an index of 3.9 million birds, down 17 percent from last year, but still 73 percent above the long-term average (1948-2012).
Mike Szymanski, Department waterfowl biologist, said blue-winged teal and gadwall saw the largest decline. "Blue-wings are coming off near-record highs, so it's not unexpected to see the drop," he said.
Blue-winged teal were down 38 percent and gadwall 28 percent. However, both are well above the long-term average – blue-winged teal 42 percent and gadwall 59 percent.
"Duck numbers are still really good, well above long-term averages," Szymanski said, while mentioning that total duck numbers for 2013 are similar to estimates over the past decade.
Scaup showed a notable increase from last year, while mallards, pintails, shovelers and canvasback were essentially unchanged.
The spring water index was up slightly from 2012. Water conditions were good in larger wetlands, but many shallow wetlands were on the verge of drying up the week the survey was conducted.
"The somewhat poor wetland conditions probably resulted in losing ducks to Canadian nesting grounds," Szymanski said. "A big factor was probably that our smaller, shallow wetland basins were not holding much water throughout much of the state and the larger wetlands were all frozen when ducks were migrating through North Dakota."
Szymanski said water conditions were much better in the northern half of the state. "Duck numbers were down roughly 30 percent in the south central and southeastern areas of the state due to dry conditions," he said. "However, breeding and renesting conditions aren't reflected well in our data this year as most of the state got several inches of rain the week following our survey. That won't change duck numbers, but it will mean better conditions for breeding and raising young."
Additionally, the loss of Conservation Reserve Program acres was evident during the survey, Szymanski said, as massive stretches of land conversion to cropland were obvious. "The loss of grass will hurt production of ducks and other grassland nesting birds," he said. "However, the recent overly wet conditions will also help bridge the gap a little bit for ducks."
The Department's July brood survey will provide a better idea of duck production and insight into expectations for this fall.
Pheasant Crowing Counts Down Statewide
North Dakota's 2013 pheasant crowing count survey indicates that rooster numbers were down about 11 percent statewide compared to last year, heading into the spring breeding season.
All four pheasant districts had lower counts than last year. The number of crows heard in the northeast declined by 18 percent, southeast and southwest by 11 percent, and the northwest by nearly 2 percent.
Stan Kohn, Game and Fish Department upland game management supervisor, said only the southwest was initially spared a harsh winter, but a spring snowstorm in April buried much of the area in more than 12 inches of snow.
"Had it not been for the long winter in most of the state and the April storm, I would have expected a higher crow count statewide," Kohn said. "But I think we did lose some birds during late spring, which reduced our 2013 spring breeding population slightly from 2012."
The late spring snowstorms and cooler than typical April delayed breeding and nesting for all upland game birds, Kohn said, with early nesting hens facing rainy conditions, and probably some flooded nests. "On the positive side, this occurred early enough in the nesting season that most hens should have renested," he said. "In addition, the wet spring seemed to jumpstart grass and forb growth in pastures, helping later nesting pheasants with improved quality of nesting habitat. Unless we experience some early summer weather problems, I still expect much better upland game production this summer from all our species."
Fall Turkey Lottery Process Moved to September
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department moved the 2013 fall turkey license application deadline, originally set for July 3, to September to allow for a better assessment of the fall turkey population before determining license numbers.
The official date for the application deadline is September 4. Stan Kohn, Game and Fish Department upland game management supervisor, said the change will allow more opportunities for hunters. "Our fall turkey numbers are a lot more precise when we can use data from late spring and early summer before we have to finalize the proclamation," he said. "Now we can thoroughly assess brood production, which has a direct influence on the fall population."
For years, the fall turkey proclamation was finalized in late May, with applications out in early June and the deadline for applying in early July. Game and Fish made the decision to change the fall turkey process this spring, after a tentative application deadline of July 3 was publicized in news releases, online, and in the North Dakota OUTDOORS 2013 calendar.
Prospective applicants should check the Game and Fish website at gf.nd.gov in August for more information on the fall turkey license application process.
Pheasant crowing counts are conducted each spring throughout North Dakota. Observers drive specified 20-mile routes, stopping at predetermined intervals, and counting the number of pheasant roosters heard crowing over a two-minute period during the stop. The number of pheasant crows heard is compared to previous years' data, providing a trend summary.
Summer Safety on the Water
Failure to wear a personal floatation device is the main reason people lose their lives in boating accidents.
The National Safe Boating Council warns boaters that most drowning victims had a life jacket available, but were not wearing it when they entered the water. "It is difficult to put a life jacket on once you are already in the water," said Nancy Boldt, North Dakota Game and Fish Department boat and water safety coordinator. "The single most important part of safety on the water is wearing a personal flotation device."
North Dakota law requires all children ages 10 and younger to wear a personal flotation device while in boats of less than 27 feet in length. The law also requires all personal watercraft users to wear a life jacket, Boldt said, as well as anyone towed on skis, tubes, boards or other similar devices.
Water users should make sure to wear life jackets that are the appropriate size, and in good condition. It is also important that children wear a PFD while swimming.
When purchasing a PFD, Boldt suggests considering the most prevalent water activity. Water skiers and tubers should wear a life jacket with four nylon straps rather than one with a zipper, because straps are stronger than zippers upon impact with water. Anglers or persons paddling a canoe should opt for a PFD that is comfortable enough to wear for an entire outing.
Water skiers and tubers are reminded it takes three to ski and tube. When a person is towed on water skis or a similar device, an observer other than the operator is required on the vessel.
It is important for swimmers to know water depth, as serious injuries can occur from diving into water. Large objects hidden below the water's surface can lead to significant injury.
North Dakota boaters also are reminded that marine VHF radios are an important part of boat safety that should not be improperly used by operators. Boldt said they are intended for boat operators who are in distress and facing an emergency situation.
Regulations to help ensure safe boating this summer are found in the 2012-14 North Dakota Fishing Guide. A more comprehensive listing is available in the North Dakota Boat and Water Safety Guide or the Boat North Dakota education book. These guides are available online at the Game and Fish website, gf.nd.gov, by email at email@example.com, or at a local Game and Fish Department office.
Fur Harvester Classes Scheduled
The North Dakota Cooperative Fur Harvester Education Program is sponsoring fur harvester education classes in Bismarck, Jamestown and Dickinson for anyone interested in trapping or hunting furbearers.
The free 16-hour course in Bismarck and Jamestown is August 13, 15 and 17. The course in Dickinson is September 7 and 14.
Students will learn about traps, trapping and snaring techniques, furbearer biology and fur care. A field day allows students to make a variety of land, water and snare sets.
Upon completion, graduates are issued a certification card that is recognized by any state requiring trapper education prior to purchasing a license.
Anyone interested in signing up for the class should access the Game and Fish Department website at gf.nd.gov, click on the online services link, and "online course enrollment" under the hunter education heading.
Swan Application Deadline
Swan applications will be online and at vendors throughout the state in late July. The application deadline is August 14.
Hunters are encouraged to apply at the Game and Fish Department's website, gf.nd.gov. The website also contains application forms that can be printed and mailed. Regular license fees apply and no service charge is added.
Applications will be available at Game and Fish offices, county auditors and license vendors.
Applications are also accepted at the Department's toll-free line, (800) 406-6409. A service fee is added for license applications made over the phone.
Residents and nonresidents can apply. Since swans are classified as waterfowl, nonresidents may hunt them only during the period their nonresident waterfowl license is valid.
Violations Surge During Paddlefish Season
North Dakota game wardens issued a record number of citations during the recent paddlefish snagging season.
From opening day May 1 until the season closed May 19, wardens cited more than 170 individuals as part of an annual saturation effort in Williams and McKenzie counties. Last year the citation total for a similar time frame was 82.
Robert Timian, North Dakota Game and Fish Department enforcement chief, said the agency has for many years brought in wardens from other areas of the state to help during the paddlefish snagging season. "Our main priority is to protect the paddlefish resource from illegal harvest," he said. "However, paddlefish snagging is not the only outdoor activity during this time."
For instance, only 11 of the 177 total violations were directly related to paddlefishing. The most prevalent violation was fishing without a license, involving 41 nonresidents and 12 residents. Littering was another common infraction, with 19 citations issued.
The wardens also patrol several thousand acres of state wildlife management areas in the two counties and issued 21 citations for possession of glass beverage containers and 14 citations for prohibited use of a motor vehicle.
In addition, wardens also cited numerous individuals with open containers containing alcohol in motor vehicles, and minors in possession of alcohol, and made three arrests on felony warrants and turned four drug-related incidents over to county sheriffs.
"On our management areas," Timian emphasized, "we're full service law enforcement."
Enforcement saturation efforts are conducted statewide depending on the need, Timian said. "This isn't only done in the northwest during the paddlefish season," he said. "We bring in wardens for additional support for short-term, specific operations in other areas of the state as well."
Watchable Wildlife Photo Contest
The deadline for submitting photos to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department's annual Watchable Wildlife Photo Contest is September 30.
The contest has categories for nongame and game species, as well as plants/insects. An overall winning photograph will be chosen, with the number of place winners in each category determined by the number of qualified entries.
Contest entries are limited to digital files submitted on disk or via email. Contestants are limited to no more than five entries. Photos must have been taken in North Dakota.
By submitting an entry, photographers grant permission to Game and Fish to publish winning photographs in North Dakota OUTDOORS magazine, and on the Department's website, gf.nd.gov.
Photo disks should be sent to Watchable Wildlife Photo Contest, C/O Patrick T. Isakson, North Dakota Game and Fish Department, 100 N. Bismarck Expressway, Bismarck, ND 58501-5095.
Send emailed digital photos to email@example.com. Digital submissions can be either original digital photographs, or scans made from prints or slides/transparencies. Photographers will need to supply the original image if needed for publication.
Photo disks will not be returned. All entries must be accompanied by the photographer's name, address, phone number and email address if available. Other information such as photo site location and month taken are also useful.
Put Garbage Where it Belongs
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department reminds outdoor enthusiasts to do their part by packing out all trash from recreational areas.
All garbage should be placed in a proper trash receptacle. If trash cans aren't available, or are full, dispose of trash at home. It is not uncommon to see garbage piling up around trash containers after they become full. Styrofoam containers are not biodegradable, but yet are often found wedged in cattails, drifting or washed up on shore.
Worn tires, old mattresses and kitchen appliances have found their way to public use areas. This illegal dumping is costly to clean up and takes a significant toll on the environment. Not only does it spoil the beauty of the land, it destroys habitat, has the potential to pollute North Dakota waters and can injure wildlife.
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If we're honest, we're rather expecting our humble stand at the NEC Birmingham for this year's Focus on Imaging to be packed out with Ilex fans desperate to know the answers to such pressing questions like, does the DeLonghi yet live? and, what exhibitions have we actually been to see this month?
But if the prospect of finding out how much coffee the team behind your favourite photography books actually drinks* wasn't quite enough to lure you our way, we've added a few incentives to get you over to Stand B21!
Our Twitter giveaway splurge of January and February may have come to an end, but really we were saving the best for Focus. If you wander over to the Ilex stand you'll be able to enter our biggest giveaway yet, to win yourself an iPad Mini!
The lucky winner will be able to view all their favourite books on photography and filmcraft on a handy tablet, not to mention Photographer's i interactive magazine and our special enhanced eBooks. (Of course if you just wanted to play some games, that's ok too, we won't judge.)
If you're not able to make it to Focus or simply can't push through the crowds, there will be other ways to enter this smashing competition but I'm afraid that's going to be a whole other surprise for another day!
*Just over 4kg in about 2 months. If you're having trouble visualising that, as editor Frank pointed out it's roughly the weight of a baby. How he came to weigh his coffee by the baby is still a mystery to us all.


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The Sochi Olympics Closing Ceremony is going to have the fans watching around the world. For the final time the athletes will come together to share a moment with the world and the Olympic flag will be passed from Sochi, Russia to Pyeongchang, South Korea. According to Hollywood Life on Friday, Americans are going to be tuning into this life event to watch the action live from Fisht Olympic Stadium.
Still contemplating what time you should tune in because the time zones are confusing? The Sochi Olympics is in the same time zone as Moscow, Russia. The fans are going to be dealing with time zone math to figure out exactly when they can watch the Olympic Games. Or they can just find out in one click. Thanks to the Countdown to Olympic Closing Ceremony site, the ongoing clock offers an exact time on when the performance will start.
The start time is ceremonial for the Closing Ceremony with a time of 20:14 in Sochi. However deciphering what time that is in Los Angeles that might be tough. A quick look at the countdown clock offers easy math with no complicated clocks to figure out.
Watching your favorite Olympic athletes walk the oval for a final time in the Parade of Athletes or hearing seeing what the organizers of South Korea might have in store means knowing exactly what time to be watching. Thankfully this countdown clock does all the hard work!


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2006-07 (Sophomore): Member of the A-10 Commissioner's Fall and Spring Honor Rolls ... Outdoor Track: Did not compete ... Indoor Track: Did not compete ... Cross Country: competed in just one race during the season ... took 43rd at the Dartmouth Invitational (9/9) completing the 8K course in 28:25.10.
2005-06 (Freshman): Member of the Fall and Spring A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll ... Outdoor Track: Did not compete ... Indoor Track: Placed 16th in the 5,000 meters (15:48.96) at the A-10 Championships (2/18) ... Cross Country: Finished 41st overall vs. Maine/Vermont (9/17) in 31:58 ... finished 109th overall at the Dartmouth Invitational (9/10) in 31:07.50.
Before UMass: A 2005 graduate of Brick Township Memorial High School where he was the Central New Jersey Group IV State Champion as a senior ... twice named team MVP ... honored as a member of the All-County First-Team and the All-Shore Conference Third-Team ... holds the school records for the 5K (16:10) in cross country and the 3,200 meters (9:27) in outdoor track which were both set his senior year.
Personal: Mathew Joseph Weissinger ... born Feb. 22, 1987 in Rarrington Township, N.J. ... son of Glenn and Janice Weissinger ... has one sister, Melany ... majoring in mechanical engineering ... lists kayaking and biking as two of his hobbies.
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Buffett to Buy Omaha World-Herald
By Nathalie Tadena
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said it will acquire Omaha World-Herald Co., adding the hometown newspaper publisher to the massive conglomerate.
In addition to the Omaha World-Herald, the purchase includes daily and weekly newspapers in Iowa and Nebraska. The company also owns World Marketing Inc., a direct marketing firm.
Buffett said the deal is consistent with the company's legacy of local ownership.
Omaha World-Herald Chief Executive Terry Kroeger said the deal addresses the company's long-term capital needs. He said the company's employee-ownership structure was restrictive and limited the ability to raise capital from non-employees.
The deal is expected to close in late December. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
Berkshire also owns the Buffalo News, a purchase made in 1977, and press release disseminator Business Wire, bought in 2006.


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why? one of the true mysteries of life, which may never be solved.
why? one of the true mysteries of life, which may never be solved.
It must be that look in their eyes.
i'm stymied, i'll say that much.
The majority of normal nerdy otakus prefer asian culture and woman because the woman there look up to the men like back in the 50's prosperity. Sex anytime and any where, dinner cooked, and they aren't too bad looking to most nerds either.
ok were done here
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
I find Japanese culture really interesting. That's about it, China kind of sucks.
And Asians <3 whites. That's why anime characters are always Caucasian.
I live. I love. I kill. I catch Pokemons. I am content.
it's not just nerds that dig the asians, yall need to get that out of your head right now. it's a white thing.
I get all of those explanations, but the thing is you see more asian girls dating white guys that asian guys dating white girls... what's up with THAT
I like asians. They cook amazing food.
ChikaraGoku King AnimeSakura Blossom
i dont know who asian guys date besides other asians, but white guys really go for asian girls. i am trying to figure that out. what makes them so appealing?
Urban myth(?)=American men are more endowed than Asian men.
We could all take a lesson from crayons:
Some are sharp
Some are beautiful
And all are different colors
But they learn to live in the same box
You know where this is going;)
Noelle pairs with no one:P
the white man will take any victory he can get in the world of penis size between race. no matter how small that victory.
that's a double pun god dammit that's funny shit! you didn't think of it.
You forgot a culture ....Blacks
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It's called the "Player Assessment Tool". It's the new test that the NFL will begin using at this years player combine to evaluate players coming into the league who might not be up to snuff scholastically. It will be used along side the Wonderlich, an intelligence test that's been used since the 70's. The PAT is considered to be more "fair" and contain less "cultural biased" than the time-tested Wonderlich.
Cyrus Mehri, an attorney who champions the use of the test, says: "This kind of levels the playing field from a socio-economic point of view". In other words, it will provide data on the proficiencies of a bunch of guys who never should have been allowed to graduate from college in the first place. The very existence of the PAT proves that the idea of football players actually getting an education is bunk.
Mehri told USA Today Sports, ""A lot of guys may be very intelligent, but are not as book-smart as others. Someone may not be the best reader, but they can still be very smart in picking up things."
Not the best reader? Is this guy nuts? Are basic reading skills not a requirement to enter college, much less to graduate? Has the very concept of college athletics broken down to the point that players are leaving universities without the basic skills to answer questions that the average sixth grader shouldn't struggle with?
Let's take a look at a few questions from the presumably "biased" Wonderlich test. These can be found at ESPN's "Page 2" site:
When rope is selling at $.10 a foot, how many feet can you buy for sixty cents?
A boy is 17 years old and his sister is twice as old. When the boy is 23 years old, what will be the age of his sister?
5. RESENT / RESERVE • Do these words
1. have similar meanings, 2. have contradictory meanings, 3. mean neither the same nor opposite?
Look at the row of numbers below. What number should come next?
8, 4, 2, 1, ½, ¼
These questions are ridiculously easy. Any adult with half of a functioning brain should be able to breeze through them. The Wonderlich isn't exactly the bar exam. It's not even the SAT. It's a very simple, very basic evaluation of lower-lever mathematic and language abilities that also provides some insight into an individual's ability to reason. The only thing the Wonderlich is biased against is utter stupidity.
If football players are allowed to graduate without the skills to ace the Wonderlich should we not question the entire system? Is it unfair to expect men of all socio-economic backgrounds to be able to multiply six by ten? Shouldn't players be offended by the notion that they need a test that has been scientifically dumbed down for them?
It's asinine. But defenders of the test claim that it reaches for the player's "core intelligence". THESE ARE COLLEGE GRADUATES. Are our schools moving jocks along and giving them passing grades based on "core intellect" or are they expecting them to learn stuff?
Some folks will think that this article is unfair. I strongly contend that it's unfair not to hold young athletes to the same standards that other students are held to and that's it's unconscionable to allow them to graduate without basic skills. Football careers are fleeting. The value of education can not be understated. That the NFL feels it needs the PAT demonstrates that not all college athletes receive an education. Players are entering the league having come from schools that placed no expectations on them to learn.
College football is a joke. Only a handful of schools expect players to perform like actual students in the classroom. Those that do are considered to be at a competitive disadvantage to those who don't. Why even bother with the university charade? The NFL might as well just create a minor league and allow kids to drop out of school and hop right in.
The goal of the PAT is to provide NFL teams with a mechanism for discovering how well a prospective player might be able to absorb the kind of learning he will need to do within a system – how well he can pick up the playbook. The test is basically an admission by teams that, unless the guy is a quarterback, they don't really care how stupid he is just so long as he can play football. That's fine. The NFL is a business and the players are only workers. But the idea that these players received a college education is simply laughable.


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Work Hard Play Hard
If you eat clean and train consistently on a regular basis, and these are the ground rules you stick to, a treat here or there won't slow progress.
I've learned the hard way that it's no way to live to deprive yourself. Treats are an integral part of any balanced program.
I've tried treat days, treat meals, small treats in my every day, and all can definitely work. I've found that NOT planning treats has worked better for me than planning them. I prefer to eat clean and train consistently and when an opportunity arises to enjoy life with those I love and when it includes a treat, I go for it.
Instead of planning treats, I allow life to happen. There are more than enough spontaneous treat occasions and for me, it makes me feel less deprived and much more free if I am not restricted to a specific treat date and time. I've found that with all those spontaneous treat opportunities, there's no need for me to plan my own treat meal or day – plus – that only puts emphasis on deprivation for me.
Flexibility, spontaneity and balance is where it's at. But remember, you have to have already put in the work. So work hard, but play hard too. It's the only way I've found to live. It's where happiness is at for me.
Work hard, but play hard too.
Be consistent, but treat yourself.
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Comment by Brittany @ GOtheXtraMile:
Monday, April 29th 2013 at 11:32 am |
Amen!!! Completely agree. Life is too short not to treat yourself. I like going with the flow, too.
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Comment by Recki a.corchado:
Tuesday, April 30th 2013 at 1:46 am |
I myself had to learn that it's ok to have a treat once in a while. As long you are consistent with your clean eating and exercising you will be ok. Hard lesson learned. Lets not be so hard on ourselves we deserve it sometimes.
Comment by Jenn:
Tuesday, April 30th 2013 at 9:02 pm |
Amen sister! Couldn't agree more. I've come to the same conclusion and am much happier for it. I'm pretty sure my friends and family are happier for it too!
Comment by Beatatjata:
Tuesday, May 7th 2013 at 6:24 am |
I´m getting to the same conclusion. I´ve planned my treats before, tried to keep them to one day a week etcetera but now I´m trying to learn to really listen to my body and go with the flow. If I don´t want to have chocolate on a saturday, why HAVE to just because I planned to have chocolate on saturday… It might take a while but I´m sure I´ll get to the point where I treat myself in moderation when I feel like it. and "when I feel like it" wont be every day
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Comment by CHAARG:
Monday, May 20th 2013 at 7:50 pm |
Love this post! I hate when people act like having a treat day is a major "cheat" day. Everything worth having requires hard work, everyone involved with fitness knows this. With that being said, treating yourself is so necessary. I know sometimes I just need a break from the gym or a delicious calorie filled meal. I know that I LOVE being healthy and fit, so I don't need to further restrict myself! Thanks so much for sharing!
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PDN Video Pick: Hey You! A Project for Haiti
After the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, seven young artists, including photographers Kareem Black and Wyatt Gallery, formed an art collective they called Le Set (Creole for "seven") and volunteered with healinghaiti.org. They have continued to use their work to raise money for the healinghaiti.org and to inspire others to help. They call their initiative "Hey You: A Project for Haiti" because "hey you" is what they heard from children wherever they went in Haiti.
Filmmaker Eugene Fuller, a member of Le Set, has created a film about the collective's trip to Haiti. Here's a trailer,. The full video was shown at a fundraiser held at the Mother agency in New York last week. You can see it, and learn more about Hey You Haiti, on the project's web site.


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Time flies. It is the last day of 2012. I am so happy that I am at home being with my families. I feel so grateful for all I have and I look forward to the upcoming 2013 very much!
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The truth is, politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion,
religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect.
The most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own
courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our father and preserver.
God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.
Well, it's a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the world of science and is not yet believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it
once was believed. But if it was going to be taught in the schools, then I think that also the biblical theory of creation, which is not a theory, but the biblical story of creation, should also be taught.
I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting
and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.
For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.
We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.
"The first man in twenty years to make the Presidency a part-time job, a means of filling up a few of the otherwise blank days of retirement."
"A triumph of the embalmer's art."
Pat Robertson's one-time replacement as chief of the Christian Coalition
It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve
his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether
you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective.
I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night.
The Christian Coalition's Agenda
We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.
Pat Robertson Disagrees:
"We want ... as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996."
"You know, I'm a convention, at the Republican convention I'm a delegate from VA. So is Ralph Reed. We're both delegates elected by our state to come to this convention. And,
uh, we have another 450 Christian Coalition members. Uh, so to say that we're non-partisan is a little ingenuous. I mean, obviously we're partisan. The Christian Coalition's voter guides, on the other hand, are non-partisan. The money that is spent in
an election cycle is a non-partisan, uh, effort. But I think under the various laws, the FEC rules, and so forth, it is perfectly all right to advocate candidates who support your positions on key issues, be they abortion, or family tax credits, or whatever.
The Supreme Court has said that's part of our First Amendment freedom. So I, I, I don't deny that we have that right. But so far we have been more or less non-partisan, but I think rather clearly Republican."
William Rehnquist
Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
The "wall of separation between church and state" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.
Janet Reno
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"A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial
giving to Christian causes; who home schools his children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the Second Amendment; and who distrusts big government."
Carolyn Risher
Mayor of the small Florida town of Inglis
Satan, ruler of darkness, giver
of evil, destroyer of what is good and just, is not now, nor ever again will be, a part of this town of Inglis.
[Funding for faith-based charities
should] be judged based on performance and results -- not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.
Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue -- not the same violence we deal with in Boston,
where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.
And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not clear how many people are using the things. The best
contraceptive in this case is abstinence.
Mendel Rivers (1905-1970)
The Court has now officially stated its disbelief in God Almighty.
Rev Ted Roberts
It's my experience that in any church, from 60 to 70 percent of men are losing
the battle for purity.
Robertson (b. 1930)
Founder of Christian Coalition (the Muthah of all Radical Religious Right groups)
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We have enough votes to run the country. And when
the people say, "We've had enough," we are going to take over.
There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore.
When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. "What do you mean?" the media challenged me. "You're not
going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?" My simple answer is, "Yes, they are."
You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.
I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them.
The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people
and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening.
[Planned Parenthood] is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism -- everything that the Bible
The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft,
destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.
wars of extermination have given a lot of people trouble unless they understand fully what was going on. The people in the land of Palestine were very wicked. They were given over to idolatry. They sacrificed their children. They had all kinds of abominable
sex practices. They were having sex apparently with animals. They were having sex men with men and women with women. They were committing adultery and fornication. They were serving idols. As I say, they were offering their children up, and they were
forsaking God. God told the Israelites to kill them all: men, women and children; to destroy them."
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the Evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic
Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.
"Junior" Rodriguez
can kiss my ass.
Rev Lester Roloff (?-1982)
Better a pink
bottom than a black soul.
Texas State Attorney General John Hill
"I don't mind pink bottoms. What I do object to is black, blue and bloody."
Corpus Christi Caller-Times Newspaper
"[Eighteen-year-old Justin] Simons told deputies he was not allowed to take a break unless he jumped across the pit.... When he tried to jump the pit,
he fell and sprained both ankles."
"The Christian agency ... the Texas Association of Christian Child Care Agencies, Inc, ... a private organization created by Governor George W Bush
last year ... will re-inspect the homes annually and has the power to take the accreditation away."
Wiley Cameron
"... to avoid the perception of a conflict of interest ..."
Dr James W Prescott
"The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have
contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul
and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples."
Emergency Room Doctor
"I'm sorry, Maam, I have to call the police. Your son has been tortured."
Bertrand Russell
"The twin concepts of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is vigorous, both in religion and politics."
Roman Catholic Church
You are going to see again the child about which you read in the Terrible Judgment, that it was condemned to hell. See! It is a pitiful sight. The little child is in this red hot oven. Hear the fire!
It beats its head against the roof of the oven. It stamps its little feet on the floor. You can see on the face of this little child what you see on the faces of all in hell, despair, desperate and horrible... This child committed very bad mortal sins,
knowing well the harm of what it was doing, and knowing that hell would be the punishment. God was very good to this child. Very likely God saw that this child would get worse and worse, and would never repent, and so it would have to be punished much
more in hell. So God, in His mercy, called it out of the world in its early childhood.
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least
an error of faith.
... the hypothesis that God has increased the complexity of life on earth by successive creations
of new life forms over billions of years while miraculously changing the earth to accommodate the new life.
[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and
time of the cosmos.
The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.
Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence
pointing to God.
[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one -- the Bible's.
The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.
Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature.... Without causation, nothing happens and without organization by an intelligent being,
systems tend to lower and lower levels of complexity.
Victor Stenger: Ross Not Extreme Like the Others
"I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the scientifically unsound
notions of the young-Earth creationists and other anti-evolutionists ... They are so far off the scale that their scientific claims need not be taken seriously. Their distortions and misrepresentations of the scientific facts are not consistent with
their self-righteous claims of acting to protect all that is good and moral."
Victor Stenger: No Conspiracy Against Big Bang
"Ignoring relativity, quantum mechanics, nuclear energy, DNA, and the rest of twentieth century science, Ross has characterized the COBE satellite results
as "the discovery of the century," and claims they fulfill the prophecies of the Bible. He inflates the importance of the proponents of the steady-state models, like Hoyle, and charges that they are surreptitiously
engaged in the ancient assault mounted by science against God. Ignoring the fact that the overwhelming consensus of cosmologists now accept the big bang, Ross would have us think that scientists are engaged in some kind of atheist conspiracy to suppress
the big bang theory. In fact, Hoyle and his supporters are far from the mainstream on this issue. The overwhelming majority of cosmologists today accept the big bang. It has become as fundamental to the framework of cosmology as evolution has become
to the framework of biology."
Karl Christian Rove
I don't know. Just get me a fucking faith-based thing. Got it?
Wendell Runion
We are encouraging everyone that attends football games to join in the Lord's Prayer immediately and spontaneously as soon as the national anthem is complete.
If you are going to have organized spontaneity, you have to have something everybody knows that is easy to say.
This is not in defiance of the Supreme Court ruling.... If the fans break out in a spontaneous prayer, there is no Supreme Court ruling against that.
There is a Constitution where this phrase was found -- the former Soviet Union.
Anybody that would feel unwelcome because the Lord's Prayer is spoken at a ball game is a little narrow minded.
That's definitely Satanic, influenced by Satan.
Taze Russell
The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.
The deliverance of the saints must take place some time after 1914.
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Score: Luke McCown 6-yard pass to Jimmy Graham (Derek Dimke kick). Drive: 16 plays, 80 yards. Time of possession: 6:30. Time remaining: 8:30. Key play: Brandin Cooks snagged a 16-yard pass from McCown to keep the drive going.
New Orleans Saints 7, Tennessee Titans 7
Score: Jake Locker 4-yard pass to Justin Hunter (Travis Coons kick). Drive: 7 plays, 62 yards. Time of possession: 3:28. Time remaining: 5:02 in the first quarter. Key play: A strip by Kenny Vaccaro and the fumble recovery by Curtis Lofton was overturned in Saints territory after review. Two additional five-yard penalties by the Saints kept momentum in the Titans' favor.
Tennessee Titans 10, New Orleans Saints 7
Score: Coons 50-yard kick. Drive: 15 plays, 47 yards. Time of possession: 8:04. Time remaining: 10:20. Key Play: A Junior Galette sack pushed the Titans back seven yards and they were forced to settle for a field goal.
New Orleans Saints 14, Tennessee Titans 10
Score: McCown 19-yard pass to Graham (Dimke kick). Drive: 3 plays, 20 yards. Time of possession: 1:04. Time remaining: 4:25. Key play: Vaccaro strips the ball to set the Saints up in Titans territory.
Tennessee Titans 17, New Orleans Saints 14
Score: Zach Mettenberger 64-yard pass to Hunter (Maikon Bonani kick). Drive, 4 plays, 74 yards. Time of possession: 1:51.Time remaining: 2:34. Key play: Hunter made a leaping grab over the middle with no defender in sight for an easy touchdown.
New Orleans Saints 21, Tennessee Titans 17
Score: Ryan Griffin 23-yard pass to Mark Ingram. (Dimke kick). Drive: 4 plays, 79 yards. 1:16. Time remaining: 1:18. Key play: A 53-yard grab from Joe Morgan, who easily beat his defender, set up the quick score.
New Orleans Saints 24, Tennessee Titans 17
Score: Shayne Graham 34-yard field goal. Drive: 4 plays, 8 yards. Time of possession: 1:03. Time remaining: 11:42. Key play: Vinnie Sunseri intercepted Mettenberger and returned it to the Titans' 24-yard line to set up the short field.
New Orleans Saints 31, Tennessee Titans 17
Score: Griffin 3-yard pass to Seantavious Jones. Drive: 6 plays, 32 yards. Time of possession: 2:32. Time remaining: 8:49. Key play: Griffin a pass to Jones on second-and-5 for 11 yards to get a first down.
New Orleans Saints 31, Tennessee Titans 24
Score: Mettenberger 1-yard pass to Chase Coffman (Coons kick). Drive: 8 plays, 91 yards. Time of possession: 2:34. Time remaining: 0:10. Key play: Saints cornerback Derrius Brooks was flagged for a 23-yard penalty for pass interference, setting up Tennessee at the Saints' 27.


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No. When you're running dist-upgrade it will only upgrade your system according to the current software repository. That being said it will not upgrade 13.10 to 14.04. The do the full distribution upgrade, you will need to change your software repositories to 14.04.
If you run "sudo apt-get linux-generic", it will only upgrade the kernel. If you run "sudo apt-get upgrade" however it will upgrade all packages that have an update & it may include the kernel as well.
Technically speaking, yes, the kernel (Linux) is the operating system. That is why the upgrade option for apt-get is dist-upgrade which stands for "distribution upgrade". Kernel (Linux) + all applications make up the distribution. If you upgrade from Linux kernel version 3.12.x to 3.13.x, you have technically upgraded the "operating system", but you haven't upgraded your "distribution" which might still be Ubuntu 13.10 (and not Ubuntu 14.04).
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In light of Black History Month this year, CBC News honored Alicia Cinnamon as one of ten Black Canadians making an impact in their community. Alicia was recognized for "I Can't Breathe", a song she made in tribute to the death of 15-year-old Tyson Bailey, a victim of gun violence in Toronto in January.
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The "hero" officer's patrol car camera captures the rescue just moments before a speeding train rushes by.
21:15, UK, Tuesday 24 June 2014
A Texas police officer has been hailed a hero for dragging a woman off the railroad tracks just seconds before a train rushed by.
A camera mounted on Officer Ramon Morales' patrol car captured the rescue in the town of Richmond, about 20 miles southwest of Houston.
Officer Morales was patrolling the area when someone flagged him down to say that a woman was sitting on the tracks at a nearby crossing.
Footage shows the officer pulling up to the crossing just as the approaching train lights begin to flash.
Officer Morales then runs up to the grab the woman, dragging her clear of the tracks just moments before the train speeds by.
The woman can be heard crying hysterically as the policeman pulls her to safety.
Master Sergeant Lowell Neinast called Officer Morales a hero who saved the woman without regard to his own life.
Richmond police said the woman, who has not been identified, was taken to hospital for evaluation.
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Oh Yeah
* Hiring cars! The thought of driving for 7 hours for the tenth time this year to visit my family for the Christmas holidays made me very stabby. So I treated myself and flew there and hired a car at the other end. I'm so freaking jet set right now.
* Looking forward to Cell Block 69 this weekend. It's my end of year tradition and always marks the start of my holidays!
* Painting my nieces nails and then her painting mine. Well more like my fingers… and my hands… and Nan's coffee table.
* This dress shop that my friend's sister told me about. I want one of these and one these and one of these please.
* Seeing my crew on stage together again in a whacky Christmas pantomime. Awesome.
* JB Smoove. Freaking. Hilarious. We saw his live show last week and my face almost broke. What I loved the most was that he used audience involvement but he wasn't unkind. So many comedians are lazy and resort to paying out their audience for cheap laughs but JB was really positive. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up.
* One of my Facebook statuses getting liked over 2000 times. It was actually kind of scary but still really cool. Also read the comments. There are some nutty little nut bars out there on the interwebs.
* Meeting a long time reader who encouraged me to start outfit posts again. I actually stopped simply because I felt like the net was over saturated with outfit shots and that no one really liked them. I'm going to commit to more outfit shots in 2013… but with a twist!
* Hitting the white wine with my mate and singing the full score to Les Mis at midnight on a Sunday. Totally irresponsible. Totally amazing.
* Beautiful Turkish feasts with delicious red wine.
* My nieces beautiful manners. 'Thank you so much for my stickers Carly!'. She's two and she out-polites most adults I know.
* Helga's Sandwich Thins. I love them with philly cheese and tomato! Scrummy!
Hell No
* Hidden charges that occur when hiring cars. Admin fee? Just include it in the full cost of the car hire. I obviously can't hire the car to myself. Morons.
* Bad car karma. I've had someone smash my side mirror, crash into my car WHILE I WAS SITTING IN IT and also a douchebag smashed my window and stole loose change from my car. Grrrr!
What about you lovely? What are your Oh Yeahs and Hell Nos of the week?
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– AWESOME customer service and writing to those companies on Facebook, thanking them
– Scoring PeepToe heels on sale, for under $100.00!
– Vintage shopping on a Sunday afternoon
– Uno Stacko, seriously so much fun and filming it slo mo with a Go Pro cam!
– Planning for 2013
– Baked beans & poached eggs on toast
– Listening to 'The Rainbow Connection' for the first time in AGES and then getting lost in Miss Piggy Youtube clips!
– Kitty cat snuggles on sick days
– The Beard cooking me a garlicy pasta for dinner as I am sick
**Hell No
– Being sick. Seriously, I am a SOOK when it comes to being sick
– Sneezing/coughing/feeling YUCK!
– Wanting a block of Cadbury Marvellous Creation and the shop across the road not yet selling it
**Oh Yeah update:
– Purchasing Cadbury Marvellous Creations today
**Hell No:
– Feeling too sick to eat it
Oh Yeah.. two days left at work and then a week and a half off. Getting to see everybody's face when they open their presents this year at my parents including my sister who was overseas way too long. having a clean house before company comes over and we all mess it up.
Hell No.. stuff falling over and breaking at my office and then a parade of people coming through and acting like it's an issue. why can't I just put back up that shelf? Finding out that everybody gets to leave work early but me because I need to shut down computers. Boo.
Is it wrong I look at that picture and all I can think is that she is going to drip icecream on that fur jacket?
Oh Yeahs – getting some great reviews on my book on Goodreads. Btw best Christmas present for a writer – buy their book and review it (or whatever other indie project your friends are making).
Hell no – going for a job interview and getting messaged everyday saying they haven't made a decision yet!
Oh Yeah – getting most of my work done on our last day at work today; getting lots of compliments from people I work with about my work this year; and being approved for an extra week's leave that means I can go away with my Dad and my littlest sister and a stack of my Dad's family, and relax on the beach and just generally chill out and eat Coco Pops.
Hell No – not quite finishing all my work and feeling bad about that; feeling so super sad for tragic things happening around the world; feeling extra super sad for people in Australia who will be struggling to make Christmas happen, or who will feel alone over Christmas.


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Nov. 10, 2009
PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University Athletics is partnering with Washington state area food banks to Bag the Beavers.
For every bag of food donated to a participating food bank, a person will receive a voucher for one free ticket to the Washington State vs. Oregon State football game on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 at Martin Stadium.
Following is a list of participating food banks. This list will be updated periodically as more food banks participate in the program. Check WSUCougars.com throughout the duration of the program for the most up-to-date list.
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Community Food Bank
Community Action Center: 350 NE Fairmount, Pullman
Second Harvest Food Bank
1234 E. Front Ave., Spokane
Our Place Community Ministries
1509 W. College, Spokane
Volunteers of America Hope House
111 W. Third, Spokane
Golden Age Food Share
504 S. Oregon Ave. Pasco
Basin City Help Services
101 Canal Drive, Mesa
St. Vincent de Paul Society
3013 North 84, Pasco
Colville Food Bank
210 S. Wynne St., Colville
Community Services of Moses Lake
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Mattawa Area Food Bank
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Royal City Food Bank
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Ephrata Food Bank
1010 A St. SE, Ephrata
Soap Lake Food Bank
325 E. Main Ave., Soap Lake
Harvest Outreach Food Bank
120 W. Railroad, Kennewick
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- Transport by air-conditioned coach
- English-speaking local guide
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What You Can Expect
Enjoy a tour of Ston, which in the times of the Dubrovnik Republic, was the second-most important town in the area. Its wealth was derived from the salt works that are still functioning today. Although it was known for its spectacular city walls, the region today is predominantly known as the oyster capital of Croatia. After the tour, you will have free time in Ston to explore its city walls, one of the longest city walls in Europe. You will be served a tasty seafood platter with octopus, mussels, small fish and an oyster.
12pm: Arrival to the village of Orašac – Demonstration of Production of Olive Oil, Tasting of smoked ham and cheese
13.30pm: Stop at Ston – Short Tour and Free Time
15pm: Arrival to Mali Ston and Tasting of Seafood
16pm: Departure towards Dubrovnik
ca 17:30pm: Arrival to the Hotels
Customer Reviews
October 2013
I enjoyed this tour. I met a few Swedish Diplomates at the table. We enjoyed wine, smoked ham, fresh veggies and olive oil. I don't eat oysters, so my only criticism is that they should have an option for non oyster eaters. Half our table didn't care for mussels/oysters.
September 2013
visit to farm with food and wine excellent
September 2011
Our day in Dalmatia was brilliant. We caused a problem over pick up but they kindly waited for us. The places they took us were lovely and everywhere we went the locals wanted to feed us. We have used Viator several times before and would have no hesitation in using them in the future.
November 2010
June 2015
Nice tour, shown a lot of countryside and explained history to us
December 2013
This trip was a nice break for us - we got to check out the towns, try yummy home-made Mediterranean food and wine, and meet nice fellow travelers. Only problem is that you sit in the bus for a little too long. Also the two guides, though really nice, didn't really connect with the guests - so it wasn't all that memorable. Would recommend if you have a lot of days and don't feel like driving into the countryside yourself!
May 2012
A great day out! The guide was very informative and knowledgeable, the lunch was delicious, yes the best smoked ham we had in Croatia as was the red wine that went with it. Ston is a quiet, picturesque town and if you are a seafood fan, you'll love the mussels, oysters and calamari. Timing was perfect, not too long or short and we took in some great views. Good value for money!
December 2010
July 2014
The tour was okay but nothing much to see in this trip. The stop at the olive oil production got to be boring but the food that they served was quite good.
August 2012
Our tour leader was very good and we really enjoyed the visit to the olive grove. The trip to Ston and the seafood meal was a waste of time as far as we were concerned. The food was served without any comments from locals as to its origins etc and the local wine was terrible and from my observations was not enjoyed by other members of the party either.This part of the tour would be rated 0 by Diane and myself. Sorry if these comments seem harsh but we would not recommend this tour to our friends and family while the Ston section remains within the days activities. It is a pity as the visit to the olive grove was so enjoyable.


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It's time to start shedding those winter layers and get a new spring in your step.
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What started out as a nice ceremonial play in Nebraska's spring game has ended up with 7-year-old Jack Hoffman making a run to the White House.
Hoffman, who is ba1ttling brain cancer and provided one of the year's best moments when he ran for a touchdown in the Cornhuskers' spring game, and his family are in Washington D.C. and will meet President Barack Obama, according to Nebraska's official blog. The post said the family was invited to the meeting, and Jack Hoffman's father Andy was hopeful it came off as planned.
That's a pretty incredible month for a little boy.
The clip of Hoffman's run on YouTube had more than 7.7 hits as he prepared to meet Obama. He will get his own trading card made and the N'Sider blog said he threw out the first pitch at a Michigan-Nebraska softball game.
For a 7-year-old kid it might be tough to pick out the top highlight, even if one of them is meeting the President.
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"Your abilities are a collection of ideas and tools. The more you have, the better you are as a person and the more you have to offer," Chef Walter Manzke stated while discussing how his experiences growing up and in previous kitchens shaped who he is as a chef today. From growing up in Julian on his parents' large parcel of land to working with Joachim Spichel, Alain Ducasse, and briefly in a number of other kitchens including Feran Adria's elBulli, Manzke has amassed a number of tools and ideas that he uses on a daily basis at the recently opened Republique restaurant in the former Campanile space at 624 South La Brea Avenue.
At Republique, Chef Manzke's notes the food is "very ingredient driven and very straight forward making dishes comforting, recognizable, satisfying, fulfilling. The food is not a lot of technique or garnish. It's a little bit back to the basics, back to the classics. We do have a lot of new equipment, new ideas, new technology and new techniques to bring it out but it's just straight forward and simple - ingredient driven." Manzke continued that Republique cuisine "has a huge influence from bistros of France, which kind of have the same idea so the restaurant is recognized as something. I want it to be recognized as a bistro so you know you can come here every day, and you know you can have something satisfying. Republique's not a restaurant where you see the latest trend. It's just about doing things right, well and creating a great atmosphere."
Walter grew up in Julian in San Diego County on his parent's large property where his family had a large garden, lots of fruit trees and grape vines for wine. He grew up eating a salad every night for dinner. Through eight months of the year food was grown in his family's garden so Walter just thought getting food this way was normal. This is how he ate every day he lived at home. He knew what the seasons were because in June he ate cherries until he got sick of them, then he ate strawberries and then whatever next was in season ...peaches, plums, and berries. Additionally foraging was also nothing new for Walter, since miner's lettuce and wild onions grew on a whole hillside of his parent's property. There are wild turkeys on his parents' property that he has made charcuterie with. There's venison too. For Walter, again all of this was just normal.
At Republique, Walter noted there's another big influence here on how his upbringing affects the menu. At Republique, Chef Manzke stated "a majority of the meat and fish and a lot of vegetables are cooked on a wood fire which is something again really popular right now but to me I knew it my whole life because my parents house is heated by wood; they have a big wood furnace; they heat their house in the winter. Julian is at a high altitude so it gets cold, and snows so their house is heated by wood and in the winter we cook everything on a big fire place with an hearth in it and a grill." Walter said his family also has a wood burning oven that's outside. So his family cooks everything outside during the summer and inside during the winter. Walter didn't have a steak unless that steak was cooked over oak on a wood fire.
At Republique, Chef Manzke also uses oak to cook with in Republique's wood oven, and rotisserie range top. The last time his parents came to the restaurant, they filled their truck with wood from their property. For Chef Manzke this wood is better since for him, this wood has a better flavor than the wood we can readily get here. He wishes he could get it every day. Chef Manzke stated "..Fruitwoods like peach have a great smoke that is fantastic for barbeque when you're smoking something directly in the smoke but for these fires here at Republique, you want the wood to burn clean. You don't want a lot of sparks. The fire needs to be hot and consistent and oak is great for that."
Back before Republique, in 1993 Chef Manzke started working with Chef Joachim Splichal when Splichal opened Pinot Bistro. Chef Manzke was there at Pinot Bistro almost three years when he I left for Europe where Walter spent eighteen months including a year with Alain Ducasse in Monaco at Le Louis XV. For the first six months with Ducasse, Walter worked unpaid. For the remaining time, Walter made what he refers to as "coffee money." Though the money of course was appreciated and helpful, it really didn't matter. It wasn't about the money. His time spent there was about the learning experience, an experience Walter feels that he should have paid for being in Ducasse's kitchen.
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Here's one way to keep Darron Thomas out of the endzone.
Air James picks up six of his 108 points on the season.
Hard to blame Anthony Anderson for getting fired up during the team's Autzen entrance.
Freshman Bryan Bennett will take over the role of backup QB after Nate Costa's season-ending injury vs. UW.
Props to Justin Hoffman who picked up his first career reception against the Huskies.
The Duck didn't have much to do early on, but his guns were on fire by the end of the game.
Jordan Holmes models the uniform he wore on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 2009, long before teammate LaMichael James, who is featured this week.
O-lineman Mana Greig practicing the "72 Fridge Option" during pregame.
Eric Evans, aka Big E, springs into action to capture another blog worthy shot.
Not your average kicker: Rob Beard reverts to his days playing fullback on this PAT run.
Jerry Allen's man D.J. Davis would have had a career high in receiving yards if not for a penalty that wiped out this huge gain.
Guess who leads the No. 1 team in the nation in tackles? It's linebacker Spencer Paysinger.
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Great to see Kenjon Barner back on the field, running free and scoring touchdowns.
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Just a reminder that the first of the Summer Grand Prix series starts this Tuesday (28th April) at the Rising Sun. Meet at the Barking Dog pub at 6.30pm for a 6.45pm start. It's a fast 2 mile handicap course and there's prizes to be won at the end of the season! Hope to see you there.
Junior training recommences this Friday 17/04/15 at Churchill playing fields.
Please be ready and registered for an 1830 start.
The North Of Tyne Athletics Network (NOTAN) Junior Grand Prix starts this weekend Saturday 18th April.
Further details/entry form can be found on the NOTAN website. These events give young athletes the chance to compete for Wallsend at a competitive level.
Details here
Whilst on the subject of junior track and field - A massive well done to Thomas Rumney who won the U13 100m at the The Ann Marie Readshaw Open Track and Field Meeting on Sunday 12/4/15.
The Terry O'Gara Memorial 5k takes place on Sunday 26th April entry details here. A fun run also takes place prior to the 5k. This event is free for all Wallsend Juniors who have paid subs for 2015. It would be great to see a large contingent of Wallsend Juniors representing the club at this great event.
The Junior Park Run is a timed 2k run and takes place each Sunday on the promenade, Whitley Bay seafront. The club is always well represented by our juniors each week, but it would be great to see even more juniors running along the sea front representing the Green and Gold.
Last week Alfie Ward won the event for the first time. Ellen Williams finished 2nd lady and 7th overall in her first junior parkrun.
Details of junior parkrun here
Annual Subs are now due. They cost £20 (£12 of which is UKA affiliation fees). Payment can be made via paypal,bank transfer (details in the member section) cheque- Payable to Wallsend Harriers or Cash.
All junior sessions for Friday 10th April 2015 are cancelled due to other events taking place at Churchill Playing fields. Junior sessions at Churchill return on Friday 17th April.
Gordon Smith Relays
The Gordon Smith Memorial Relays take place on Wednesday May 13th at Segedunum.
Teams can enter now using this form.
The Toby 2015 - It's back!
The annual Toby is now part of Wallsend Harriers legend. Will you be part of this year's story?
As club members we are all fortunate to be able to run and the Toby gives us the opportunity to do something extraordinary for a great cause. Since 2008 the annual Toby has raised money for St Oswald's Hospice, which has cared for the loved ones of some of our club members. This year we are likely to break the £25,000 barrier in total money raised for St Oswald's over the years!
This coming Friday (April 3rd/Good Friday) all sessions including junior sessions are cancelled.
Juniors return 17th April.
Thank you.
Annual subs are now due. As agreed at the last AGM subs have increased to £45. Please ensure you pay this by 31 May 2015. Any questions, please contact Elaine Liu (Treasurer) or Mick Day (Membership Secretary).
Junior subs are also due junior fees have been held at £20.
We are going to trial paying subs only directly into the club's bank account. Currently you can pay subs via Paypal but this incurs an additional fee which goes directly to Paypal. Details of the club's bank account and instructions can now be found in the members' only section of the website. If you have any questions, please contact me. (Elaine Liu)
The T&F 2015 season is almost upon us, and we will be holding an informal taster session for anyone to come and try out an event they may be interesting in competing in.
Events on offer will include:
Hurdles, Javelin, Shot Putt, Long Jump, Discuss.
If time we may have a look at some baton hand-overs too.
We will be joined by our T&F Team mates Blyth, so it will be a great time for us all to get to know one another.
If you're not keen, but are curious - come on down anyway, we'll need a few extra pairs of eyes to make sure all goes smoothly.
The annual Elswick Harriers Good Friday Relays take place on April 3rd (Good Friday Suprisingly!) if you're wanting to run in this great event let you're relevant team captain know.
The relays are a 3 x 2.2 mile race for the ladies and 4 x 2.2 miles for the men.
Teams need to be submitted before this coming Monday 23rd March, so let your captain know ASAP!
Due to circumstances completely beyond the control of Elswick Harriers, we cannot use the excellent facilities of the NHS building at Newburn Riverside Business Park.
As a consequence we require the full co-operation and understanding of all participating clubs, if this historic and popular race is to continue.
. Race HQ will be located at Newburn Leisure Centre, Grange Road, Newburn. NE15 8ND. Registration will be open FROM 9AM.
Tel: 0191 264 0014.
Event Registration, ALL COMPETITORS PARKING, toilets, changing facilities, results recording and prize giving will be located at Race HQ.
. We will still use last year's course on Newburn Riverside Business Park
. To arrive at the Race Start Area (which is 2.2 miles from HQ):
. Please allow 20 to 30 minutes to arrive IN GOOD TIME. Please take the opportunity to use this run time as an excellent warm up! Directions & marshals will be on hand to assist and direct you.
. Regretfully we will NOT BE STAGING ANY JUNIOR RACES.
. Please DO NOT TAKE YOUR CAR TO THE START AREA.
ANY ILLEGAL PARKING MAY RESULT IN A COMPLAINT FROM A LOCAL BUSINESS & THIS WILL RESULT IN REFUSED PERMISSIONS TO HOST ANY FUTURE RELAYS AT THE RIVERSIDE LOCATION. Thank you.
For those of you who weren't at club tonight we are meeting at the fish quay at 1815 on Thursday to do the North Tyneside route. Please meet at the carpark on the sea front next to the Staith House pub. See you there!
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April 2, 2010
TEMPE, Ariz. - Kevin Tucker is in a tie for third after the first day of the Thunderbird Invitational, held at the par-71, 7,057-yard Karsten Golf Course.
Tucker finished the day with 13 birdies on his way to carding two rounds of three-under-par 68 to finish in a two-way tie for third. The senior will tee off tomorrow, one stroke behind San Diego State's J.J. Spaun and three strokes behind the leader Steve Lim, of USC.
Fellow senior Austin Hurt finished second for the Cougars with a two-round total of 144 (+2), good enough for a share of 34th. The Bainbridge Island, Wash., native will tee off tomorrow in search of the 19th top-25 finish of his career, which would put him in a tie for sixth on the Cougar all-time list.
After carding an opening-round of 76 (+5), freshman Hank Frame fired an even-par 71 to finish the day in a tie for 56th. Junior Nick Ellis and senior Nick Grigsby finished with first-day totals of 152 and 157, respectively.
The Cougars were aggressively competing with the tournament field which includes nine teams ranked in Golfweek's top 25. WSU ended the day in 12th place, topping No. 24 California by six strokes. The team will look to make up some ground tomorrow as four ranked teams are within five strokes of the Cougars heading into the final round Saturday.
"Tucker played fantastic and Austin was really solid as well," said WSU Coach Walt Williams. "We came in seeded 15th and are in 12th, but when we play well tomorrow and move up, it is going to give us a lot of confidence going into the home stretch of the spring."
Play will resume tomorrow with tee times beginning at 7 a.m. Check www.golfstat.com for live results.
Thunderbird Invitational; Tempe, Ariz.
Karsten Golf Course
Par-71; 7,057 Yards
Results After Rounds Two of Three
WSU Results: T3. Kevin Tucker (68-68--136, -6); T34. Austin Hurt (72-72--144, +2); T56. Hank Frame (76-71--147, +5); T78. Nick Ellis (75-77--152, +10); T85. Nick Grigsby (83-74--157, +15).
Team Results: 1. Arizona (554, -14); 2. USC (556, -12); 3. UCLA (558, -10); 4. Arizona State (567, -1); T5. Oregon (569, +1); T5. UC-Irvine (569, +1); T7. Washington (571, +3); T7. Stanford (571, +3); T9. Oregon State (572, +4); T9. San Diego State (572, +4); 11. UNLV (575, +7); 12. WSU (576, +8); 13. Colorado State (581, +13); 14. California (582, +14); 15. BYU (583, +15); 16. Denver (593, +25).
Top Five Individuals: 1. Steve Lim, USC (68-65--133, -9); 2. J.J. Spaun, San Diego State (69-66--135, -7); T3. John Chin, UC-Irvine (72-64--136, -6); T3. Kevin Tucker, WSU (68-68--136, -6); T5. Jonathan Khan, Arizona (68-69--137, -5); T5. Eugene Wong, Oregon (69-68--137, -5).


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Film critics, audiences and religious groups alike failed to support "Henry Poole is Here" en masse, that rare film which dabbled in spirituality.
So what gives?
While many were moved by "The Passion of the Christ" and the micro-indie "Fireproof," "Poole" didn't earn the respect of the more spiritually minded movie goers.
And with good reason, since noble intentions shouldn't be enough to give any of the above groups reason to embrace a warmed over sermon pretending to be a moving screen drama.
Luke Wilson, up until now the less intriguing of the Wilson boys, stars as Henry, a man who appears to have thrown in the towel on his own life. He buys a home without haggling on the price and sets up camp there, choosing a few vodka bottles and his own misery for companionship.
His depression gets interrupted by a nosy neighbor ("Babel's" Adriana Barraza) who sees the spitting image of the Lord in a water stain on the side of Henry's house.
The stain starts drawing a crowd, from a local priest (an effective George Lopez) to his neighbor's daughter who likes to tape neighborhood conversations with an old-school recorder.
Eventually, Henry opens up enough to get to know the girl's mom, Dawn (Radha Mitchell), a woman who stirs something within his battered heart.
"Poole" begins with a simple but arresting premise, and director Mark Pellington ("Arlington Road") coaxes beautiful visuals from his limited settings. It's hard to believe how striking a bland suburban tract can look on film.
Wilson might be a poor choice to anchor such a mood piece, but he stretches beyond his normal skill set to make Henry someone worth following. What Wilson can't do is navigate around an unlikely screen romance – would a stunner like Dawn really pursue a sad sack like Henry? – and an ending which goes precisely where you fear it might.
"Henry Poole is Here" offers a novel spin on the healing power of spirituality but it didn't have a prayer of gaining the adulation of either religious or secular audiences.
(Photo: Luke Wilson and Radha Mitchell share a candlelit pizza dinner in "Henry Poole is Here.")
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FOOTBALLERS are sought for a fundraising tournament next month.
Daniel Jobes, son of Malmesbury charity walker Graham, is organising the event on May 27 to help his dad raise money for CLIC Sargent and Hope for Tomorrow.
He is seeking 10 teams of nine to play the Corinium Stadium indoor arena in Cirencester.
Meanwhile Graham and daughter Becci are training for a five-day 100-mile marathon walk around Malmesbury and the villages in July.
Anyone wanting to enter a team can email Daniel at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 01666 825691.