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Remember Beignet and Gumbo, the long-haired Chihuahua and kitten combo rescued by Helen Woodward Animal Center (HWAC) in Rancho Santa Fe, California? Well, you should remember them as the rest of the world knows them as international celebrities!
Their inspiring story was featured on Yahoo.com on Tuesday, March 4th. It ignited Helen Woodward Animal Center's website, receiving over 28,000 visits from around the globe in less than 24 hours.
While HWAC is seeking one adoptive family for the two pets, not wanting them to be separated, they are now requiring that each prospective adopter submit a 300-word maximum essay be submitted in order to be considered for the adoption. The lucky individual or family of individuals will receive their animal family members on Wednesday, March 12th.
Beignet and Gumbo were discovered in Barstow, California, as mother nursed her unlikely son. They were brought to the Center where they managed to charm the staffers with their unconditional devotion toward one another. When word of their story hit the front page of Yahoo News, staff members soon discovered that the duo was charming people across the globe as well! True love took on a whole new meaning!
Abandoned in a backyard in Barstow in January, with evening temperatures falling to 20 degrees, the mother dog's puppies were nowhere to be seen but her strong motherly instinct remained. Neighbors rescued the canine only to find her nursing a small, gray kitten that certainly would have died without her loving nourishment. Currently thriving under Helen Woodward Animal Center veterinary care, and named Beignet (canine) and Gumbo (feline) in honor or the Mardi Gras season, the adorable twosome is ready to begin the next step of their journey together. Center staff intends to keep them together and is seeking one adopter for both the mother and son.
Ever since their story made international headlines, they have become very popular, thus HWAC believes their perfect forever family to be close at hand. The canine mom and kitten son have gained international interest from countries such as Switzerland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Chile and Finland.
Donations for the pair have come in from across the country and calls and inquiries have arrived from as far away as Kentucky, New York, Guam and the Philippines. Helen Woodward Animal Center is requiring a 300 word-or-less essay to accompany each application, stating why Beignet and Gumbo would be best suited to the potential adopter.
"They are such a special pair," stated Shannon Bush, Customer Service Lead. "We want to make sure that the next part of their lives together is absolutely perfect and filled with devotion and kindness. They deserve it. They embody love and comfort and it's time they received it in return."
Beignet is currently 19 months old and Gumbo is five months old. If you would like to adopt this special mother and son, please submit your application along with a maximum 300-word-essay, no later than Monday, March 10th, 2014. Applications can be downloaded at: http://www.animalcenter.org/_downloads. Please send to 6461 El Apajo Road, PO Box 64, in Rancho Santa Fe, 92067 or fax to (858) 756-0605. The selected forever family will be able to pick up their new furry friends on Wednesday, March 12th.
For more information, go to www.animalcenter.org, contact Helen Woodward Animal Center Adoption Department at: 858-756-4117 ext. 313, or stop by at 6461 El Apajo Road in Rancho Santa Fe.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Alabama will play its final non-conference mid-week game on Tuesday, May 15 when it hosts Troy at 6:05 p.m., at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. The Crimson Tide is 18-33 overall and Troy enters the game with a 24-27 overall record.
All games for the 2012 season will be broadcast on the Crimson Tide Sports Network. Tuesday's game against Troy can be heard on WFFN-FM 95.3. Chris Stewart and Lee Tracey will provide the radio commentary for the Troy game. The audio and video broadcast, along with live stats will be available at RollTide.com.
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Following the Kentucky weekend, Taylor Dugas jumped Ben Moore for the team batting lead with a .343 average. Dugas had four hits last week to increase his school record to 329 career hits. He is now third all-time in the Southeastern Conference in hits. This season, Dugas leads the Tide in average, runs (39), hits (66), doubles (12), triples (6), walks (22), hit by pitches (18), and slugging percentage (.497).
Ben Moore is second on the team with a .339 average, which is 11th best overall in the SEC. Moore is hitting .340 during conference games, to rank sixth in the SEC. Moore is tied with Jared Reaves for second on the team with 62 hits, is second with 10 doubles and third with 28 RBI. Reaves and Brett Booth are tied for the team lead with four home runs and 31 RBI each Reaves is fourth on the team with a .317 average.
James Tullidge has started the last 25 games, and after collecting seven hits in the Kentucky series, he's hitting .337 for the season, which is third on the squad. Tullidge leads the team with a .457 on-base percentage and his .355 average during SEC games is also a team-high. Tullidge has a six-game hitting streak going, and is hitting .476 (10-21) during that stretch.
Troy enters Tuesday's game with a 24-27 overall record after winning two of three games against Louisiana-Monroe this past weekend. The Trojans have won four of their last five games, which includes two wins against Louisiana-Lafayette. As a team, Troy is hitting .271 for the season, while averaging 9.5 hits and 6.4 runs per game. The Trojans' pitching staff has a 4.86 ERA, while allowing a .278 opponent's batting average.
The top hitter for Troy is first baseman Logan Pierce with a .360 batting average. Pierce leads the team with 71 hits, is second with 15 doubles, and third with 44 runs scored, five home runs and 43 RBI. Danny Collins leads the team with 11 home runs and is second on the squad with 47 RBI. Boone Shear has a team leading 52 RBI, and is second on the squad with a .330 batting average and nine home runs.
Thomas Austin and Nate Hill lead the Trojans with 30 appearances this season, all coming out of the bullpen. Austin leads the team with a 2.21 ERA in 61.0 innings pitched. Nate Hill leads the team with five wins, while averaging one strikeout per inning pitched. Joe Hernandez and Tyler Ray have four wins each. Ray has a team-leading 67 strikeouts in a team-high 88.0 innings pitched.
In a series that dates back to 1941, Tuesday's game between Alabama and Troy will be the 26th meeting all-time. When the teams met at Troy on March 20, the Trojans posted a 9-0 victory over the Crimson Tide. Following the loss to Troy earlier this season, the Tide holds a 17-8 advantage in the series. In the last meeting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama posted a 6-5 victory in 11 innings on March 8, 2011. Alabama is 13-2 against the Trojans when playing in Tuscaloosa. The only homes losses to Troy came in the 2006 and 2007 seasons. Alabama has won the last three games played in Tuscaloosa (2008, 2009, and 2011). Alabama holds a 3-2 record in the last five games against the Trojans. Alabama head coach Mitch Gaspard is 1-2 all-time against Troy.
Senior Day for Alabama will be on Friday night of the Georgia series. Prior to the start of Friday night's game, UA will honor eight seniors; Taylor Dugas, Nathan Kennedy, Josh Rosecrans, Jon Kelton, Hunter Gregory, Jared Reaves, James Tullidge, and Jason Zylstra.
The Crimson Tide returns to SEC play on Thursday, May 17 with game one of a three-game series against Georgia at 6:35 p.m. CT. The series continues with game two on Friday at 6:35 p.m. and wraps up on Saturday with a 1:05 p.m. game.
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An explosive celebration of color and noise occurred Sunday outside of the Tong Wo Society building in Halawa, North Kohala.
There, sequined lions danced, drums banged, firecrackers popped, incense burned and prayers were offered. The festivities, part of the 15-day Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, are meant to bolster the yang, energize everyone, add jubilation, share blessings and appreciate history.
The Chinese Lunar New Year is known as a time of spiritual renewal, fresh starts, reverence to one's ancestors and goodwill to others, said Douglas Chong, Hawaii Chinese History Center president and a cultural historian for the local Chinese community.
2013 is the year of the Black Water Snake. While the water snake is usually associated with being a good year, particularly one lucky with money, the color black is taken as a warning to plan ahead, venture carefully and proceed with a level of caution, he added.
Throughout the free event, Chong shared the history of the Chinese in Hawaii, particularly those that lived in North Kohala, where his wife, Valerie, is from. He revealed the purpose of the Tong Wo Society building, which was one of the early formal meeting places for the Chinese immigrant workers, a social center, as well as a place for the secret White Lotus Society that pushed for and funded the overthrow of the Manchu government in China.
Built in 1886, it is the oldest standing Chinese building in the state. The patron saint in the main room upstairs is Kuan Kung, the god of war. There are two shrines located in the side rooms, dedicated to the ancestors, or Brothers of Shaolin, on the right and Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy, on the left, Chong said.
The Tong Wo Society building is only open to the public once a year during the Chinese Lunar New Year. Though the society is a nonprofit organization, it does not receive funds from foundations and relies solely on the public's generosity. Donations were sought throughout the event Sunday. The funds will be used for maintenance and restoration work done by society members Clyde Wong and Gordon Oshiro, both of Hilo, as well as volunteers and friends in the community.
The Tong Wo Society is still trying to raise approximately $30,000 to purchase and install a new 50-year light weight shingle roof for the building, Wong said.
This year's celebration was particularly special for Waimea resident Betty Lau, whose grandfather was from China. She had seven grandchildren performing the lion dance, and the youngest, 2-year-old Hulali Wong, became brave enough to wear the mask earlier this week. Sunday was Wong's big debut and Lau was beaming with pride for all her family members participating. She spoke about the importance of nurturing time-honored rituals, as well as teaching the next generation about their culture and history.
This was the third Chinese Lunar New Year celebration Becky Tyson of Elkhart, Ind., had attended at the Tong Wo Society building. Her favorite components of the event are the firecrackers, lion dancing and community togetherness. Tyson attended Sunday's festivities because she enjoys learning more about other cultures and traditions. By keeping those traditions alive and sharing them, there's an opportunity to not just respect each other, but also celebrate and value diversity, she said.


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MESA, Arizona (SMU) - The SMU swim teams participated in the USA Grand Prix at the Skyline Aquatic Center. Mesa, Arizona was the fourth stop on the Arena Grand Prix Series.
Sophomore Nathalie Lindborg finished fifth in the 100-meter freestyle with a final time of 55.96, Nina Rangelova finished at 56.44 for a tenth place finish, and Isabella Arcila came in eleventh with a final time of 56.11.
In the 200-meter breaststroke Rachel Nicol finished sixth with a final time of 2:31.58, Raminta Dvariskyte came in seventh at 2:31.59, and Erica Donadon came in fourteenth with a time of 2:39.73.
Junior Monika Babok finished twenty-third in the 100-meter butterfly with a final time of 1:06.00.
Rangelova earned sixth in the 200-meter freestyle with a final time of 2:01.95.
Arcila claimed eleventh in the 200-meter backstroke with a time of 2:16.67, Anna Volchkov finished fifteenth at 2:20.81, and Deanna Matthews came in eighteenth with a final time of 2:19.19.
In the 50-meter freestyle Lindborg finished ninth with a final time of 25.91, Rangelova finished fourteenth at 26.48, Arcila finished seventeenth at 26.18, and Babok earned a final time of 27.28 and finished twenty-fourth.Nicol took fourth in the 100-meter breaststroke clocking in at 1:09.88, Dvariskyte finished eighth at 1:11.27, Donadon clocked in at 1:14.10 for sixteenth.Arcila finished fifth in the 100-meter backstroke with a final time of 1:02.47.On the men's side, senior Mindaugas Sadauskas earned fourth in the 100-meter freestyle touching the wall at 49.78 and senior David Larsson took sixteenth at 51.57.In the 100-meter butterfly Larsson finished at 55.43 for a fourteenth place finish.Sadauskas took fourth in the 50-meter freestyle finishing with a final time of 23.01 and Larsson touched the wall at 23.71 for a fifteenth place finish.Sophomore Matas Andriekus finished the 100 meter backstroke with a time 55.84 for fifth place.


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College Hockey:Lessard Signs With Dallas
Hobey Baker winner Junior Lessard signed a one-year contract Thursday with the Dallas Stars. Lessard, coming off a Frozen Four appearance with Minnesota-Duluth, led the nation in scoring this past season with 63 points in 45 games, including two goals in the NCAA semifinal loss to Denver.
A 6-foot native of St. Joseph deBeauce, Que., Lessard survived an offseason near-drowning incident to become the fourth Bulldog to win the Hobey Baker Award. He helped Duluth to its first Frozen Four appearance since 1985.
"I just wanted someone who was willing to give me a chance and they were willing to do that," Lessard said to the Associated Press. "Dallas can be a great fit for me."
Though not loaded with college players, Dallas does feature the likes of former stars Scott Young, Chris Therien, Bill Guerin and Marty Turco.
"We look forward to helping him develop into a solid professional hockey player," Stars general manager Doug Armstrong said to the AP.
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In the village of Bishop Mayne is a magical Wishing Well where a person may make one wish in a lifetime. But the Well can create problems for those who use its power, for wishes often go wrong. It was just such a wish that took all the children in the town away. Only eleven-year-old Nuria, who lives with her grandfather up on the mountain, remains.
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Dora Chen and Leslie Couse
Dora Chen, Assistant Professor of Family Studies - College of Health and Human Services
Leslie Couse, Associate Professor of Education - College of Liberal Arts
Professors Dora Chen and Leslie Couse traveled to China with three undergraduates from the Departments of Family Studies and Psychology for a month-long visit to Chinese preschools to explore cross-cultural influences on the teaching and learning process.
On the Great Wall of China from left to right: Corey Landsman, Katrina Junkins, Kristen LaBua, Dora Chen, Leslie Couse.
At the core of the guidelines for Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) is the importance of providing an environment in which children feel safe and secure and have ownership of their learning experiences. Two of the ongoing issues concern its cultural relevance (does it apply to classrooms serving children from different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds?) and implementation (what can it and should it look like in actual practice?). This trip was part of a larger research effort to explore how notions of developmentally appropriate practice may be salient across different cultures and the development of a classroom observation instrument to facilitate teacher training for the implementation of the principles of DAP.
The majority of the available early childhood classroom observation tools are predicated on examining best practice from the perspective of the teacher, or deliverer of instruction. However, the teacher is only one critical element of a classroom environment; the children comprise the other. Assessing the effectiveness of DAP in classrooms must include consideration of its impact on children. This involves taking a bottoms-up perspective (Katz, 1995) of looking at program quality from the standpoint of the experience of children. This means that teacher training should focus on helping teachers consider the what's and how's of teaching in relation to the children they are teaching. Thus, teachers must be able to observe and understand children from diverse backgrounds and cultures, including those who do not speak English. Learning to "read" the children is a critical first step in effective teaching of young children. This is especially important in our increasingly diverse nation where classrooms are made up of children from ethnically, culturally, linguistically, and socio-economically diverse backgrounds.
On this trip, we collected data in six classrooms across three preschools in Beijing and visited an international school and three other preschools in Hohhot (Inner Mongolia), all serving children from various socioeconomic backgrounds. We observed children in their naturalistic classroom settings and interviewed teachers. From the classroom observations, we asked ourselves: How can we tell when Chinese children are feeling safe, taking ownership of their learning experience, and are in the process of developing conceptual understanding? Can we read Chinese children in the same ways that we read children in our preschools? From our teacher interviews, we asked: How do you know when children are feeling safe, taking ownership of their learning and developing conceptual understanding?
The opportunity to observe children has enabled us to begin the process of learning to read Chinese children in their own cultural setting. Although for most of us, the language barrier posed a great challenge in the beginning, it has forced us to learn to tune in to children's non-verbal expressions and behaviors, yet to be conscious about jumping to conclusions. Another interesting observation that came through was that watching Chinese children was not all that different from watching preschoolers in our own UNH Child Study and Development Center (CSDC). The opportunity to talk with teachers has enabled us to confirm and disconfirm our prior conceptions of notions of DAP. Based on her classroom observations and the teacher interview discussions, Katrina Junkins, a student researcher, began revisiting her thinking about engagement, using this to clarify her thinking about the notions of safety, I, and conceptual understanding. These reflections provide critical insights into ways we could fine tune the draft of our observation instrument.
Thanks to the support of the CIE and the Family Studies and Education Departments, this trip has provided an invaluable opportunity for institutional-level collaboration by allowing us, two faculty from two different colleges at UNH (CHHS and Liberal Arts) to work together in our shared discipline, seeking to enhance our knowledge about the teaching and learning process by deepening our knowledge of how culture influences approaches to teaching and learning for young children. It has also supported the efforts for continuing cross-cultural collaboration between preschool educators in China and the US initiated by Dora Chen two years ago.
In spite of the tight weekly school visit schedules, we were able to make time on the weekends for several experiences of a lifetime. These included an unforgettable climb on the Great Wall of China, tasting scorpions in Beijing, a most interesting camel ride in the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, and an all too short two-day glimpse into the markedly westernized city of Shanghai, the Water Village – also known as the Venice of China, and the silk factory and private gardens in Suzhou.
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have to reread these again! so that i can get more laughter and joy into my life and understand that it is NORMAL.
today my daughter BIT me in the thumb!!!!!! so i went a little nutty and went around askin "do children bite?" I asked at the bakery, I told a man passing by and I asked a lady with a toddler, "does she bite, does she bite"????
just glad it didnt happen during mass, no not that she scratched me in my throat, and i had to pretend it did not hurt! cuase thats all i need to get up and start asking is it normal? is it normal? do toddlers scratch!
my main question has been is it normal, then in my mind i say why dont I handle it.........?
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University of Pune for last several decades is facilitating such students through its External Registration Program which allows them to register for certain courses, undertake self-study of the stipulated syllabi and directly appear for the examinations leading to graduate or post-graduate degrees in certain faculties.
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Cancer and Red Food Coloring
According to a new study food coloring Red 2G—which is often added to meat products—may cause cancer. Reuters reports:
Tests using animals indicated that aniline, a substance into which Red 2G is converted in the body, might cause cancer in animals and humans, possibly hitting the genetic material of cells, the EU main food safety body said in a statement.Coincidently, just last week I blogged about Dr. Fuhrman's suggestion for all those craving the red of red meat; Cravings: Red Color = Red Meat.
"It is therefore not possible to determine a level of intake for aniline which may be regarded as safe for humans," EFSA said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Optimistic despite a tightening deadline, President Barack Obama said today he and House Speaker John Boehner are "pretty close" to a grand fiscal deal to avoid a first-of-the-year shock to the economy, but that congressional Republicans "keep on finding ways to say no as opposed to finding ways to say yes."
Obama cast a resolution to the "fiscal cliff" as a matter of political will. He said in the aftermath of the massacre of school children in Connecticut, the nation deserves a compromise by its political leaders.
"If this past week has done anything, it should just give us some perspective," he said. And he urged lawmakers to "peel off the partisan war paint" and strike a deal.
Obama spoke to reporters at the White House after announcing an administration-wide response to Friday's shooting at an elementary school in Newtown that killed 20 first-graders and six adults.
His comments came shortly after the White House threatened to veto Boehner's backup plan for averting the "fiscal cliff." Boehner's measure, a so-called Plan B, would block tax increases from being triggered Jan. 1 on everyone but those whose incomes exceed $1 million.
Boehner is planning a House vote on his proposal Thursday, hoping it would raise pressure on Obama to make concessions as both sides continue reaching for a bipartisan deal on averting the "fiscal cliff." Without an agreement among lawmakers, broad tax increases on nearly all taxpayers and budget-wide spending cuts will be triggered in early January.
boehner is a poor excuse for a man and politician. 70% of the population agree with raising taxes on the top 2%. the republicans who are followers of grover norquist are considering instead of raising taxes on the riches people in the country, 2%, instead let's let them go up on everyone. there intent is obvious, they only care about the rich and large corporations. the repubs want to cut benefits on seniors and, if you can believe it, veterans with disabilities. they want to make cuts to social security which adds nothing to the nations' deficit. they act like they won the election! they protect big pharma and won't let obama negotiate for lower prices on meds for people on medicare. they hate unions. they hate anything that benefits the middle class. their actions border on treason. i pray obama steels his spine and doesn't cave to these political miscreants.
papa: Do you realize that even if the rich are taxed at 100% it won't work? We can take it all and still not make a dent in the deficit.
We don't have an INCOME problem, we have a SPENDING problem. We take in 5 million a day and spend 11 million a day, borrowing 46 cents on every dollar we spend. We can't afford a debt ceiling increase.
We're all going to have to sacrifice - that's when "fair" is going to happen. We're already screwed.
where were you people when bush was blowing the deficit through the roof with two wars off the books and medicare part d ? all unfunded? you're hypocrits. where were the teabaggers? now all of a sudden spending is the catchword? cheney said "deficits don't matter". where were you then? the repubs are phonies, they're all about getting the power back so they can take care of their rich friends. and let's just say it, racism. no president in history has been subjected to such vitriol and hatred. bush got everything he wanted, unfortunately. the repubs met on the night of obamas' inaguration and agreed to opose everything that he wanted to do. obamacare? the u.s. is the only industrialized country in the world without universal healthcare. 44 million without healthcare? that's unacceptable. but as long as the rich (most repubs) can afford to pay for their health problems it doesn't matter that middle class and poor people are dying every day for lack of healthcare.
i agree, let's go back to the clinton years when the rich paid their fair share and help create 22 million jobs.
Lets go back to the spending levels of the Klinton era too. Oh sorry. ObamaClaus ain't gonna do that! Can't buy votes that way. My Bad!
papa1 I can see by your last post that you don't have a clue about Obammy care other then you think its going to be free. WRONG! Come January every working person will have to pay a fee of $64.00 to cover the lazy arses in this country. That is only the beginning. You will find out that the middle class is really going to suffer with all the NEW fees ( taxes) that it will impose on them. As far as taxing the rich where do you stop, when all that money is gone. They will start to tax everyone else. Until Obammy brings spending under control I'm all for what John Boehenr is doing. If you find yourself with nothing to do, read the Obammy care bill. It will scare the hell out of you, It surelly did that to me when I read it.
Obama wants to raise the debt ceiling and continue to spend, spend, spend with the money he plans to get by taxing the rich all while the national debt continues to skyrocket. He doesn't actually have a budget or plan of his own, his strategy is tax the rich!
Boehner wants to close the loopholes (tax revenue), cut the budget (reduce spending) reduce the deficit (protect our children's future) and not raise the debt ceiling (live within our means).
My earlier post said we take in 5 million and spend 11 million per day....correction....BILLION per day.
National Debt = $52,038 per citizen, $142,626.per taxpayer. Closing our eyes does not make this go away. Taxing the rich at 100% does is not even a drop in the ocean compared to what we owe.
76ytown, do you really put all this debt on obama? take off that triangular hat and get real. the deficit isn't even the most pressing problem facing america. it's jobs and the repubs voted no (surprising) on obamas' american jobs act that would have created millions of jobs fixing our crumbling infrastructure including thousands of dangerous, unsafe bridges, including one in boehners' district.
Manufactured rubbish, all of it.
Who cares. Government didn't when they bailed the banks out and stuck the citizens in the gut.
What are they going to do? Cut off welfare monies? Stop mailing Social Security out? Delay tax refunds?
Government isn't going to do a damn thing.
Obama hasn't passed a budget in how long? The country still continues.
It is time to DEFUND government. Cut everything that isn't essential. NO more random projects. No more pork.
Entire thing is a hoax. Every tax applied to the rich inevitably has trickled down onto everyone else. Class warfare keeps people amused and confused and ignorant of reality.
I actually did not know where to comment on this news that Fiat, the owner of Chrysler, you know the automobile company that got the massive bailout to protect union jobs, is going to start building Jeep SUVs in Italy. Looks like Romney was partially correct just had the wrong country, he said Jeep production was going to move to China, and he was chastised for his remarks. Oh well, union people keep following the Obamanator down the path of destruction of the USA.
Yep @geogejeanie.
Let's not forget the $20 BILLION of handout cash given to GM that is going to start new production lines in China for GM's electric hybrid models and Cadillac.
papa: " Obamas' american jobs act that would have created millions of jobs fixing our crumbling infrastructure including thousands of dangerous, unsafe bridges,"
Government creating jobs, spending more, creating more deficit is not the answer. Jobs in the public sector is the answer. How do we get there? By creating an environment where business can thrive and hire and not be choked by taxes and regulations. Our current national debt and deficit and the direction it is going is keeping everyone - business and individuals cautious about spending. Government's answer to that...stimulus! (what did you spend your last stimulus check on to improve the economy?)
Once again, here's the debt clock: http://www.usdebtclock.org/ I think everyone should become familiar with these numbers since that is where the real fiscal cliff is. Once the interest rates rise...and they will...we're screwed!


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Selected events coming up during the festival include:
· The "Lucy I'm Home" Exhibit and Art Show throughout the festival at Dykelman-Young Gallery and Vintage Emporium
· The Lucy Art Class on August 6th at 2:30 p.m. at Infinity Performing Arts
· The Lucille "Ball" on August 6th at 8 p.m. in the Crystal Ballroom of Hotel Jamestown
· Lucille Ball's Comedy College on August 7th at 3 p.m. at Infinity Performing Arts
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Here is Bellas sequel to her extremely popular all-female toy fest. Sultry Haley Paige, feisty Annie Cruz and busty big girl April Flores mix it up with nasty, nonstop lesbian action thats just a little less rough than the usual Belladonna production. Of course, Bella personally makes sure to put every young lady to the taste test!
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I decided to do a series of posts all about 2010. Since I love running (and most everyone else seems to hate it) I thought I'd get it over with first.
2010 was a great year for running. I felt like I really made some great strides (pun intentional) as a runner. I'm faster and more confident and also quite a bit leaner. I really enjoy the sport and I'm never sorry I went for a run, even when they start before 5am.
Miles Run: since I started logging miles on Daily Mile back in May, I've run almost 400 miles, averaging 55/month. I will probably run 50 more before the end of the year. I'm guessing I probably logged between 150 and 200 miles the first 4 months of the year (I was training for my 1st Half Marathon), so I put my estimated mileage for 2011 at 600.
Races Run:
Nashville Half Marathon (13.1 miles, 2:48:33)
Title 9k (acutally 9.9k or 6.1 miles, 1:14:34)
Bolder Boulder (6.2 miles, 1:15:09)
Apex Father's Day 5K (3.1 miles, 33:10)
Heart and Sole 10k (10K/6.2 miles, 1:15:05)
Disneyland Half Marathon (13.1 miles, 2:31:00)
Denver Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon (13.1 Miles, 2:29:00)
Turkey Trot (4 miles, 42:00)
Best (Running) Moment of 2010: finishing my SECOND half marathon and realizing I'd run virtually the whole thing.
Worst (Running) Moment of 2011: the day I found out they were closing my gym
Favorite Race: hard … a toss up between Disneyland Half and Denver Half. Disneyland was a great setting and Denver was too … and I had lots of friends and pre-race fun in Denver.
Best Swag: Heart and Sole Half had the best swag, especially for the $$ … hat, t'shirt, awesome water bottle, even socks! Their post race event was great too – no stale bagels here!
Best Running Gear: no slip elastic headbands!
Favorite running tech: I dearly love my Garmin watch, but I never would have run nearly as much with out my treadmill + Tivo combo
Best Running Buddies: I logged a ton of great miles with my darling hubby as well as with my girlfriends, K&J … they all kept me going through long miles
Running Inspiration: I'm blessed with loads of great inspiration: my family, particularly my darling kids, my great friends, especially my running buddies, and awesome running blogs like RLAM and Racing with Babes and of course other bloggers who run, like Liz and Kristi!
Favorite Workout Tunes: California Gurls, Party in the USA
Favorite Running Website: Can't pick. Aside from the aforementioned blogs, I love Daily Mile, Garmin Connect and EarndIt (I just won a Free Road ID from them!!!).
Goals/Plans for 2011: I want to improve my speed and my stamina on hills. I would also like to drop a few more pounds and work more on my core and strength. I'd like to log 800 miles next year. I don't know for sure which races I'll run next year, though I anticipate running most if not all of the local ones I ran last year.


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Why the Palestinian president shocked his people over 'right of return'
Mahmoud Abbas' comments to Israeli news channel have sparked a massive backlash, writes Joshua Mitnick in the Christian Science Monitor.
Within a day after the Friday broadcast of the interview, Palestinians in Gaza – controlled by rival faction Hamas – burned posters of Mr. Abbas which were labeled as "traitor," and Mr. Abbas was forced to do damage control by telling Arabic language newspapers that he had only spoken on a personal level and there had been no change in the Palestinian position.
Tale of Two Jewish Towns on Shore
Seth Berkman of the Forward meets the members of two New Jersey Jewish communities hit by Hurricane Sandy.
"We want to know why nothing is being done, and when we will see someone who can tell us anything," said resident Lauren Dadoun, sitting in the Synagogue of Deal, one of the only buildings open in town, thanks to power provided from generators. More than 100 local residents had stopped in at various times since the storm to charge cell phones, tablets and other electronic devices, said Dadoun and others at the synagogue on the night of November 1. People came, too, they said, to regain the slightest sense of community, by talking with their neighbors.
Daily Digest
- Times of Israel: Tunisian party sues Israel over Abu Jihad assassination
- Haaretz: Israeli Americans are from Mars, Jewish Americans are from Venus
- Jerusalem Post: Israel, Microsoft set to sign cooperative agreement
- Ynet: Was Israel on verge of Iran war in 2010?
- New York Times: Palestinians at the U.N., Again
- Washington Post: In Turkey, Syria poses a new test for Erdogan's authority
- Wall Street Journal: Sheldon G. Adelson: I Didn't Leave the Democrats. They Left Me
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|Summer of Sam? This could be the breakout season for Sam Bradford and the Rams. (AP)
When it comes to the NFL playoffs, six is the magic number. As in, on average, over the past 10 years, every year six playoff teams from the season before are out, and six new teams are in. Half the field remains; half are replaced.
It's just one more sign of parity (economic socialism too strong a term?) that makes the NFL such a wild and crazy ride, with twists and turns each season. Of course, the shared television revenue and nature of the draft and system for scheduling games and the salary cap all help maintain such equity, and, with 10 years of a new CBA in place, it's safe to assume it's here to stay.
Frankly, this season, with the rise of some of the young, talented teams in each conference, I'm not sure the Joy of Six will apply this year. I'm thinking more like four or five teams will swap out from the 2011 postseason. But then, who am I to challenge what has become an NFL reality?
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And with rosters relatively set for the start of training camp at this point, I'm prepared to take a shot at sizing up the field. As a brief primer, last season New England, Baltimore, Houston, Denver, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati qualified in the AFC, and Green Bay, San Francisco, New Orleans, New York, and Atlanta qualified in the NFC.
Injuries will certainly play a major role in the ultimate outcome of which teams return, and every year a team or two ends up drastically better, or worse, then it was just a few months ago. That, too, is the nature of the game. But then again, the power of an elite quarterback is just as tried and true, and that's why I'd put some of last year's playoff group in the "virtually certain to be back" category.
In other words, unless one of these teams loses a Hall of Fame quarterback for good in the first few weeks of the season, they're in. I'm putting New England, the Giants and Green Bay in this group.
New England has little competition in that division, and the Pats got better and deeper while Buffalo is the only other team in the AFC East to make power moves, and I don't believe it's enough to close the gap.
The Packers looked like they might be perfect a year ago. They aren't missing the playoffs this season.
As long as Eli is healthy I see the Giants trying to defend their title in the postseason. It may be ugly with another late run required, and I'm sure they'll stumble in November or something like that to keep it interesting, but they are too organizationally strong for me to think they aren't in the equation even in a more competitive NFC East.
And while the Texans lack a future Hall of Famer under center, Matt Schaub is plenty good enough, so I'm lumping then in with this first tier of returnees as well. Hell, they survived injury catastrophes a year ago and still made a nice playoff run. They can't be that banged up at critical positions again, and that division is sitting right there for them to snatch and run away with.
Outside of that, I could see a case for anyone of the 2012 postseason teams crumbling.
Can Alex Smith do it two years in a row for the 49ers? The NFC West remains no great shakes. But even saying all of that, would I be stunned if the 49ers weren't back in the playoffs? No.
Baltimore and Pittsburgh aren't getting any younger. The Ravens will likely be without defensive player of the year Terrell Suggs all season, while the Steelers must adjust to a new offensive system. The Suggs injury is huge, and even if Baltimore's offense steps up, it might not be enough in what may be the toughest division in football.
The Broncos got immensely better at quarterback ... assuming Peyton Manning stays healthy and returns to his old form. That's a big if. That young defense should continue to get better, but then again, San Diego should be more consistent this season and Philip Rivers is too good to struggle like that two years in a row.
The Bengals and Lions have so many young pieces in place, but then again these are still the Bengals and Lions were talking about: can they put it together two years in a row?
The Falcons, to me, are vulnerable. The run game seems to be slipping, there remain pass rush and coverage issues and I'm not sure their home dome mojo is still as profound as it seemed a few years back. They look like a team that could slip, and their division rival Saints, well, all they're dealing with is a prolonged contract negotiating with their quarterback and bountygate and losing their head coach all season, well, it's an unprecedented level of offseason turmoil.
That's a lot to overcome. I tend to think the Saints use it as motivation and rise above it all, but that's hardly a given.
But if you're going to make me pick six who won't be back, I'll go with Atlanta, Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, San Francisco and Cincinnati. I'm just playing a hunch here, and, as I said, I'm not sure half the field will turn over this time around. But if history is going to hold, then I suppose I'll go with these six.
Which begs the question: Well, genius, then which are the six new teams?
Well, glad you asked. And I'm gonna go bold here. Why not, right?
If the 49ers aren't going to make it in this scenario, then give me the Rams. I believe this is the year Sam Bradford puts it all together. This is a team that was a win away from the playoffs in 2010 and has the potential to step up. The schedule won't be as brutal this season and the injuries can't be as devastating.
Every year there is a team that comes out of nowhere, so give me the Rams in 2012. Also, I like the Panthers as a wild-card team. They will learn from some heartbreaking defeats from a year ago and Cam Newton will continue to make history. The linebackers will finally stay healthy, the run defense will improve. I love the direction this franchise is heading in and Newton has a full, normal offseason under his belt now. So I say the Panthers in and the Falcons out. Rounding out the NFC, I'll take the Eagles to replace the Lions.
Despite their horror start, the Eagles got close in 2011, the dream team stuff is long forgotten and key players like LeSean 'Shady' McCoy and DeSean Jackson have their financial futures secured now. I say the improving offensive line keeps Mike Vick healthy enough to get in.
In the AFC, Give me the Chargers to replace the Broncos, with Norv Turner and A.J. Smith's jobs on the line. I'll go with a resurgent Chris Johnson to lead the Titans back to the playoffs, as that team is now long removed from Jeff Fisher's abrupt departure and all the VY drama and Johnson's prolonged holdout.
This is where I run into problems, because ultimately I do believe at least two teams from the AFC North make it, and I have a hard time convincing myself a team like the Jets, Raiders, Chiefs or Bills could really beat both the Ravens and Bengals out. But if I have to pick one, I'll go with the Bills and that improved pass rush to get in as the final AFC wild card.
So that's my six. How about yours?


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Eating out can be a true dilemma, especially when all you want to do is grab something healthy yet substantial for lunch. Fact is eating out can really put a crimp in your daily diet plans and some things may seem like healthy choices but have hidden calories and high fat.
Good news is that although there are many grease laden food failures lurking at many restaurants some food chains have really taken the time to include choices that even a nutritionist would love.
In a new series of articles entitled "Takeaway Tuesday", I hope to help you score better choices at your favorite dining establishment. By the way never be afraid to ask them to hold the salt and skip the mayo. Adding extra veggies, a little vinegar can give you a little extra flavor without the fat.
Here are five such choices from Blimpie
Turkey Sub with lettuce, tomato, onion on wheat bread
Calories 320
Fat 3.5 g
Saturated fat .55g
Cholesterol 30 mg
Carbs 49 g
Fiber 3 g
Sugar 8 g
Protein 21 g
Veggie Sub with provolone cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, sweet peppers, red peppers on wheat bread.
Calories 330
Fat 9 g
Saturated Fat 4 g
Cholesterol 15 mg
Carbs 49 g
Fiber 3g
Sugar 8g
Protein 14g
Club Sandwich hold the cheese please!
Calories 310
Fat 4g
Saturated Fat 1 g
Cholesterol 25 mg
Carbs 49 g
Fiber 3g
Sugar 9g
Protein 18 g
Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad
Caesar salad can be tricky so it's best to go light on the dressing and get it on the side. Blimpie's classic dressing is about 70 calories, 7 g fat for one tablespoon.
Fat 7 g
Saturated Fat3.5 g
Cholesterol 70 mg
Carbs 6 g
Fiber 3 g
Sugar 3 g
Protein 27 g
Tomato Basil with Raviolini
A little soup can go a long way in staving off hunger and tomato soup is a classic.
Calories 110
Fat 1g
Saturated Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 10 mg
Carbs 22 g
Fiber 0g
Sugar 5 g
Protein 4 g


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"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" was No. 1 for movies on demand from April 7 to April 13, 2014, according to Rentrak. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," the second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (played by Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. Also starring Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving and Evangeline Lilly. "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" got good reviews from critics and was a blockbuster in cinemas.
"August: Osage County" debuted at No. 2."August: Osage County" (based on Don Letts' award-winning play) tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them. Starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin and Chris Cooper. Streep and Roberts received Oscar nominations for their performances in "August: Osage County." The movie got mixed reviews from critics and did mediocre business at the box office.
"Frozen" remained at No. 3. In the animated musical "Frozen," Anna (voice of Kristen Bell), a fearless optimist, teams up with extreme mountain man Kristoff and his sidekick reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering mystical trolls, a funny snowman named Olaf, Everest-like extremes and magic at every turn in a race to find Anna's sister Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), the Snow Queen, and save their kingdom from eternal winter. "Frozen" won two Oscars: Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song (for "Let It Go"). "Frozen" got excellent reviews from critics and now holds the record for the highest-grossing animated film of all time.
"The Wolf of Wall Street" dropped from No. 1 to No. 4. "The Wolf of Wall Street" (directed by Oscar winner Martin Scorsese) is based on the true story/memoir of Jordan Belfort, the disgraced Wall Street executive who founded the New York firm Stratton Oakmont and led a renegade group of stockbrokers to defraud investors of millions. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Belfort in the movie, which has graphic depictions of Belfort's greed and addictions to drugs and illicit sex. Also starring Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Kyle Chandler and Rob Reiner. "The Wolf of Wall Street," which was a hit with audiences and critics, received five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.
"Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" fell from No. 2 to No. 5. In this sequel to 2004's "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," egotistical anchorman Ron Burgundy (played by Will Ferrell) has to start over after losing his job to his wife and co-anchor, Veronica Corningstone (played by Christina Applegate). Ron reassembles the news team and squares off against a new rival. Will the world's greatest anchorman be crushed beneath the weight of his own ego and his salon-quality hair? Also starring Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner. "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" got mostly positive reviews from critics and was a box-office hit.
Also noteworthy, the boxing drama "Grudge Match" (starring Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro) debuted at No. 6. The horror flick "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones" debuted at No. 10.
Here are the Top 5 movies on demand for the week of April 7 to April 13, 2014:
1. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (debut)
2. August: Osage County (debut)
3. Frozen (No. 3 in the previous week)
4. The Wolf of Wall Street (No. 1 in the previous week)
5. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (No. 2 in the previous week)


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Happy Easter. I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend. Enjoy the day.
I am sorry I haven't posted anything lately but my time has been consumed with March Madness. I will be back and posting some good stuff soon.
Coming up…my opinion about the latest Jim Carlson arrest, results from March Madness, the latest Duluth pot hole plan, and coming real quick is golf season. I am so ready.
Happy Easter!!


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"There are excellent chapters on epidemiology, emergency department principles and radiology images, all illustrated with diagrams and tables ... I particularly enjoyed the predictions for the next five years, as people live longer with complex, chronic conditions." (Nursing Standard, 22 February 2012)
"All in all, this is a good book put together by Dr. Arvind Venkat as its editor. A fairly large variety of problems encountered in emergency rooms by doctors are covered in it. If you have had insufficient exposure to such cases in your medical and surgical textbooks, this is the book that can fill the gaps for you." (Biz India, 6 February 2012)
"When every second matters, bureaucracy needs to be shoved aside. Challenging and Emerging Conditions in Emergency Medicine discusses the important issues that emerge in serious issues that have life and death connotations on the line for it all. As the population ages, and new techniques emerge in medical science, and conditions lead to multiple emergency treatments as people live with heart disease, obesity, and other long term conditions. Discussing evaluation and diagnosis with essays from many long term emergency physicians and more, Challenging and Emerging Conditions in Emergency Medicine is a vital discussion of this very important aspect of modern medicine and the high complexity in this incredibly vital situations." (Midwest Book Review)
"The specialty of emergency medicine has expanded in many dimensions over the past 50 years. First and most dramatic is simply the magnitude of care that emergency de-partments (EDs) now provide. The volume of patients visiting EDs in the United States has increased to more than 117 million per year (39.4 per 100 population).[Niska R, Bhuiya F, Xu J. National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2007 emergency department summary. Natl Health Stat Report. 2010;26(26):1-31.] The duration and extent of care provided in EDs are likewise increasing as hospital inpatient capacity is reached and patients in EDs receive prolonged care while awaiting inpatient beds. In addition, the constraints on the health care system continue to increase and the ED, which is always open and will necessarily see all comers, is becoming the portal of entry for a wider spectrum of patients.
The scope of practice in emergency medicine is expanding, with an ever-increasing number of subspecialty fellowships offered and increasingly advanced research and procedures being performed. Simultaneously, medical care has advanced, promoting vastly increased longevity for patients with diseases or congenital disorders that previously would have precluded their survival to adulthood. This increased longevity now leads to ED visits for complications of chronic diseases not seen by prior generations of emergency medicine physicians. Concurrently, with the increase in time patients spend in EDs comes a correlative increase in the duration that these patients are cared for in the ED. Moreover, new disease entities and treatment modalities have emerged, further expanding the breadth of cases presenting to EDs.
Challenging and Emerging Conditions in Emergency Medicine has a stated goal of offering emergency physicians a resource when addressing patients with increased longevity despite chronic or congenital diseases, those receiving novel treatment modalities, and those with complications of social pathologies and lack of medical resources. The book nicely fills a wide gulf between standard textbooks in emergency medicine and the subspecialty literature and focuses on issues critical to the emergency medicine physician who will necessarily care for these patients. Edited by Arvind Venkatand written by notable experts, the book includes a compelling index listing topics that every emergency medicine physician will recognize as new challenges in the field. It is a welcome addition to the emergency medicine armamentarium, an up-to-date resource that deals with topics ranging from those increasingly common but always frightening cases of the adult with congenital heart disease to the all-too-common but exceedingly challenging issues of the obese patient with a medical or traumatic issue.
The structure of the individual chapters allows the opportunity to understand the epidemiology, procedural interventions, and disease presentation and management of each disease process. Each chapter includes a section titled "The Next Five Years" that provides an interesting view into the effects of the disease on the future of emergency medicine practice.
The book is more than complete enough to serve as a general reference yet concise enough to allow it to be used for general reading. It will serve as a superb study guide for emergency medicine residents and provide tremendous opportunity for practicing emergency medicine physicians to update their skill sets. Timely, highly relevant and well written, Challenging and Emerging Conditions in Emergency Medicine should have a place on every emergency medicine physician's reading list." (Review by Arthur Pancioli, MD. JAMA October 26, 2011—Vol 306, No. 16)
"Patients with severe illness and significant physical and social pathologies that were once perceived as life shortening are now living longer and in some cases, surviving into old age. As a consequence it is likely that patients with conditions that were once a rarity will be seen more frequently in the emergency department (ED) with either complications of their condition or co-morbidities. The need for specialist input with such patients is imperative, but there is also a requirement for ED staff to be familiar with the nature, presentation and progression of these conditions and current treatment strategies in order to meet the immediate needs of patients.
Venkat's book provides an insight into some of the once unusual conditions that are now being seen in EDs, ranging from the more commonplace post-cardiac arrest patient, complications of obesity and those with chronic pain, to the esoteric problems of children with intestinal failure and complications of visceral transplantation. Each chapter gives an overview of the condition and its progression and the complications that might lead the patient to present to the ED, and a review of immediate management and current therapies. The chapters end with an interesting glance into the future, with projections of potential changes in treatment options and patient outcomes over the next 5 years.
The sections are readily digestible with easily accessible text and clear diagrams. Key therapies are presented in tables and lists, with clear referencing to current literature.
All of the contributors are based in the United States (US) and as such much of the data on prevalence and treatment modalities have a US focus. However the unusual range of conditions covered and the guidance on immediate support and therapy make this an interesting and helpful resource for doctors, practitioners and nurses working in any ED." (Review by Bob McMaster, International Emergency Nursing, September 2011)


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You may have noticed that we're hardly perpetual rays of sunshine around here, but even so, we seem to spend a lot of our time enthusing about one gewgaw or another. Doubtblush exists to make it clear that we do not, in fact, like everything.
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A round-up of the week's religion news.
Review: It Runs in the Family
A review of Frida Berrigan's It Runs in the Family by Alice Bach
Ahbash Rising: Religious Freedom in Ethiopia, Part 2
Protests in Ethiopia could have profound ramifications for Muslim-state relations in Ethiopia and beyond, writes Alex Thurston in the second of two posts on Ethiopia's Muslims.
African Responses to "Muslim Innocence"
by Alex Thurston Protests against the Innocence of Muslims film have taken on a global scope...in sub-Saharan Africa, responses have ranged from violent protests to calls for peace.
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by Alex Thurston Should Sudan's protesters topple President Omar al Bashir, I believe the media would get excited, but until they do, the Sudanese will remain, for the media, "marginal Arabs" or, as el Dahshan argues, Arab "villains."
Rolling the Dice: The Orthodox Church's "Bet" on Putin
by Irina Papkova The recent Russian elections have highlighted the complicated relationship between the Orthodox Church with both state and society. In December, prominent clergy expressed their dissatisfaction with the evidently fraudulent nature of the parliamentary election, and even patriarch Kirill made statements that could be interpreted as calling upon Putin to reform the...
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It wasn't the result they were looking for, but it will work. Liberal won the WAC soccer title outright after a 1-1 tie at Dodge City Memorial Stadium Thursday in the rain. Isai Gutierrez scored a goal after an assist from Hector Mata with five minutes to go to tie the game. Dodge City's goal came within the first five minutes of the game. The shots on goal were even at 8-8. Frederic Gomez had three saves. The Redskins didn't receive a good whistle in this game. They had two goals waived off due to controversial offsides calls and Dodge City had 14 direct kicks compared to Liberal's four. But the Redskins finish 7-0-1 in the WAC for their 10th straight conference title and a decade of utter dominance in their conference. Dodge finishes 6-1-1 in the WAC. There was a lightning delay before this game was played. The 12-1-3 Redskins host Wichita West Tuesday at 6:30 to begin the 5A playoffs.
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After Tuesday's special election in Florida's 13th Congressional District, DNC boss Debbie Wasserman Schultz spun the Republican win in true Orwellian fashion by claiming the GOP "underperformed."
Republican David Jolly won Tuesday's election with 48.5 percent of the vote compared to 46.6 percent for Democrat Alex Sink. Libertarian Lucas Overby had 4.8 percent.
"The GOP underperformed tonight in the #FL13 - a district they've held for decades," she tweeted.
Although Republicans held the House seat for some four decades, the district voted for Obama in both the 2008 and 2012 election. According to Fox News, the district is 37 percent Republican, 35 percent Democrat and 24 percent independent.
Sink outspent Jolly by about three to one in television advertising, trying to paint Jolly as an extremist who wants to privatize Social Security and destroy Medicare. Republicans narrowed the gap somewhat with outside spending.
Democrats also brought in Bill Clinton, who recorded a phone call for Sink.
Sink, Fox added, had "cautiously embraced the health law" even as she admitted it needs fixing. She also hurt herself with an insensitive comment regarding immigration.
"We have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping? We don't need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers," she said in a debate.
But Jolly's win, according to Wasserman Schultz, apparently proves that strength is weakness.
"Tonight, Republicans fell short of their normal margin in this district because the agenda they are offering voters has a singular focus – that a majority of voters oppose – repealing the Affordable Care Act that would return us to the same old broken health care system," she said in a statement.
The National Review's Jim Geraghty destroyed that notion in one tweet.
"Indeed, as Rep. Bill Young ran unopposed seven times," he said.
Twitchy said "the rest of Twitter" had a "field day" with Wasserman Schultz's tweet.
"Evidently 'underperformed' is Libspeak for winning," one person said.
"Fixed this 4 U MT @DWStweets: The GOP won tonight in #FL13 -a district Obama won in 2012 and where Dems outspent the GOP 2-1 so no biggie," another person said.
"He underperformed so much that he won," added "talkradio200."
The election was viewed as a "must-win" for Democrats.
"Since most nonpartisan handicappers and analysts have for years expected this seat to go Democratic when it became open, a Republican victory would likely say something about the national political environment and the inclination of district voters to send a message of dissatisfaction about the president. And that possibility should worry the White House," said Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report.
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17 July 2013, by Tom Marshall
Europe's first farmers used sophisticated muckspreading techniques to keep their land fertile some eight millennia ago, according to new research. And this revolution in agriculture may have played an important part in the genesis of the violence between communities that's blighted human society ever since.
It seems people were manuring and watering their crops as long as 6000BC. Until recently, the consensus has been that farmers only started using animal dung during Iron Age or Roman times, and that more ancient farmers of the Neolithic used a slash-and-burn approach involving working a patch of land for a few years and then moving on once they'd exhausted its nutrients.
But a team of researchers has analysed charred pulse seeds and cereal grains from 13 Neolithic sites around Europe, looking at the relative proportions of several different forms of nitrogen, known as isotopes. They looked in particular at the relative abundance of the heavier nitrogen-15 isotope relative to its lighter sibling nitrogen-14.
'There was a lot of violence in these early farming communities - they weren't peaceful hippie types.'Dr Amy Bogaard, University of Oxford
Experiments on modern farms show that the more muck you spread on a field, and the more often you do it, the higher the ratio of N-15 to N-14 climbs. In crops across Europe, the paper's authors found clear evidence of that the locals were spreading the dung of goats, cattle, sheep and pigs on their fields much earlier than we'd assumed.
This suggests they understood how important the land's fertility was and tried to preserve or even increase it for the next generation, having noticed that animal dung let them grow bigger, healthier plants. This involved long-term investments of the time and effort needed to collect, transport and spread manure that would then slowly release its nutrients over years and decades.
This could have led to important social transformations; as farmers started to pass down fertile land to their children, some of the earliest divisions between rich and poor might have started to emerge. If heavy manuring had made one group's land unusually fertile, their neighbours might have been tempted to resort to violence to get it.
'The fact that farmers made long-term investments such as manuring their land sheds new light on the nature of the early farming landscapes in Neolithic times ,' says Dr Amy Bogaard, an archaeologist at the University of Oxford and lead author of the paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
'The idea that farmland could be cared for by the same family for generations seems quite an advanced notion, but rich fertile land would have been viewed as extremely valuable for growing crops,' she adds. 'We believe that as land was viewed as a commodity to be inherited, social differences in early European farming communities started to emerge between the haves and the have-nots.'
She cites the example of the Neolithic mass burial at Talheim in Germany, which holds the remains of a whole community who were massacred – men, women and children – with blows to the head from the stone axes that farmers used to clear land, arguing that this could have resulted from a raid intended to seize the community's land. 'We're increasingly realising that there was a lot of violence in these early farming communities - they weren't peaceful hippie types,' says Bogaard. 'Some of that violence was probably in the form of sporting or ritual contests between communities. But some of it was very deadly, like what we see at Talheim, where it looks like the attackers went in by night and killed everyone.'
The 124 samples of charred barley, wheat, lentils and peas the team examined came from harvested crops that were stored in buildings that then burned down. They came from sites dating from between 6000BC and 2400BC, and are taken from places across Europe including Hambledon Hill in Dorset and Lismore Fields in Derbyshire.
The NERC-funded study even suggests farmers understood which crops would benefit most from manure and concentrated their resources on them, leaving relatively hardy crops unfertilised; in one site in southern Greece, naked wheat had been heavily manured while barley had received very little fertilisation. Pulse crops, meanwhile, had received both manure and lots of water. 'Subsistence farmers are very observant of what we would see as very small differences in plant growth,' Bogaard explains. 'They would have noticed quickly that their middens and dung heaps produced much bigger, healthier plants, and later realised that certain crops benefited more from manure than others.'
Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe's first farmers. Amy Bogaard, Rebecca Fraser, Tim H. E. Heaton, Michael Wallace, Petra Vaiglova, Michael Charles, Glynis Jones, Richard P. Evershed, Amy K. Styring, Niels H. Andersen, Rose-Marie Arbogast, László Bartosiewicz, Armelle Gardeisen, Marie Kanstrup, Ursula Maier, Elena Marinova, Lazar Ninov, Marguerita Schäfer, and Elisabeth Stephan. PNAS 2013 : 1305918110v1-201305918.
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Ancient farmers did many things to prepare the land for cultivation. For acidic soil, they used seaweed and lime, and after successfully applying it, could plant their crop.
Tim Upham, United States
Tuesday, 23 July 2013 - 00:15
Just a question, did these farmers keep their animals in their houses over the winter months, if they did then all the fine manure would have to be thrown out in the spring.So would putting manure on the fields have been a happy accident.
Jon Nemo, Tumble, Llanelli
Tuesday, 23 July 2013 - 10:13
Jon Nemo - yes, the scenario you have outlined is probably relevant to Neolithic farmers who housed their animals over harsh winter months. But the evidence we have is that the way they used manure reflects an awareness of its benefits on particular crops and/or parcels of land.
So clearing out stabling areas was not the only aim. Also, at some sites there is great consistency in apparent manuring levels among crop samples, and I suspect here that manure may have been 'spread' by grazing animals.
Amy Bogaard, University of Oxford
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Texas Tech Softball
#24 Texas Tech at Iowa State
Apr 09, 2011 at Ames, Iowa (SW Athletic Complex)
Score by Innings R H E
Texas Tech.......... 300 531 3 - 15 14 1
Iowa State.......... 000 050 0 - 5 9 2
Umpires - HP: Robert Blatcher 1B: Renee Williams 3B: Lenny Fly
Start: 2:00 Time: 2:17 Attendance: 313
Weather: 60 degrees, cloudy
Dennis, K. faced 3 batters in the 5th.
Torrescano faced 1 batter in the 7th.
Texas Tech Softball
#24 Texas Tech at Iowa State
Apr 09, 2011 at Ames, Iowa (SW Athletic Complex)
Texas Tech starters: 3/3b Bledsoe, E.; 1/lf Drewry, S.; 26/cf Kenney, M.; 56/dp
Allen, C.; 18/1b James, S.; 2/2b Hall, L.; 7/rf Hamada, A.; 22/c Gentsch, H.;
19/ss Richardson; 20/p Dennis, K.;
Iowa State starters: 15/cf Kidwell, H.; 6/ss Davison; 17/3b Varela; 10/1b
Miller; 24/dp Torrescano; 25/rf Cole; 5/c Habben; 44/2b Johnson; 19/lf
Drahozal; 9/p Zabriskie;
Texas Tech 1st - Bledsoe, E. hit by pitch (2-2).
Bledsoe, E. stole second. Drewry, S. out at first p to 2b, bunt, SAC (1-0);
Bledsoe, E. advanced to third. Kenney, M. walked (3-2). Allen, C. popped up to
3b (1-0). James, S. homered to right field, 3 RBI (1-1); Kenney, M. scored;
Bledsoe, E. scored. Hall, L. flied out to cf (1-0). 3 runs, 1 hit, 0
errors, 0 LOB.
Iowa State 1st - Kidwell, H. reached on an error by
2b (2-1). Davison popped up to 1b, bunt (0-1). Varela lined out to 3b (0-0);
Kidwell, H. out at first 3b to 1b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, 0
Texas Tech 2nd - Hamada, A. to rf for Richardson.
Richardson to ss for Hamada, A.. Hamada, A. grounded out to 1b unassisted
(2-2). Gentsch, H. grounded out to ss (1-1). Richardson popped up to 1b (2-2).
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Iowa State 2nd - Miller singled to left field (2-2).
Torrescano flied out to rf (0-0). Cole reached on a fielder's choice (1-0);
Miller out at second ss unassisted. Habben singled to second base (1-1); Cole
advanced to second. Johnson grounded out to ss (0-0). 0 runs, 2 hits, 0
errors, 2 LOB.
Texas Tech 3rd - Bledsoe, E. struck out looking
(3-2). Drewry, S. grounded out to 3b (0-1). Kenney, M. grounded out to ss
(2-1). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Iowa State 3rd - Drahozal popped up to 2b (1-0).
Kidwell, H. singled up the middle (1-0). Davison singled to second base (1-0);
Kidwell, H. advanced to second. Varela flied out to cf (0-0). Miller walked
(3-0); Davison advanced to second; Kidwell, H. advanced to third. Torrescano
popped up to ss (0-0). 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB.
Texas Tech 4th - Allen, C. grounded out to 2b (3-2).
James, S. walked (3-2). Clemmons, M. pinch ran for James, S.. Hall, L. popped
up to ss (1-1). Hamada, A. singled to center field (0-1); Clemmons, M. advanced
to second. Gentsch, H. singled to left field, RBI (0-0); Hamada, A. advanced to
third; Clemmons, M. scored. Richardson walked (3-2); Gentsch, H. advanced to
second. Bledsoe, E. walked, RBI (3-2); Richardson advanced to second; Gentsch,
H. advanced to third; Hamada, A. scored. Tongate, R. pinch hit for Drewry, S..
Tongate, R. reached on an error by 3b (1-2); Bledsoe, E. advanced to second;
Richardson advanced to third; Gentsch, H. scored, unearned. Drewry, S. to lf
for Tongate, R.. Kenney, M. singled, advanced to second, RBI (0-0); Drewry, S.
advanced to third; Bledsoe, E. advanced to third, scored on an error by lf,
unearned; Richardson scored, unearned. Kennewell to p for Zabriskie. Allen, C.
struck out swinging (3-2). 5 runs, 3 hits, 2 errors, 2 LOB.
Iowa State 4th - James, S. to 1b for Clemmons, M..
Cole singled up the middle (2-1). Habben popped up to p (1-0). Johnson singled
up the middle (1-2); Cole advanced to second. Drahozal struck out swinging
(1-2). Kidwell, H. flied out to cf (0-0). 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2
Texas Tech 5th - James, S. grounded out to ss (0-2).
Hall, L. singled through the left side (0-0). Hamada, A. singled up the middle
(1-2); Hall, L. advanced to second. Hamada, A. advanced to second on a passed
ball; Hall, L. advanced to third on a passed ball. Gentsch, H. homered to left
center, 3 RBI (3-2); Hamada, A. scored; Hall, L. scored. Richardson singled to
shortstop (0-1). Knutson to ss for Davison. Torrescano to p. / for Kennewell.
Bledsoe, E. grounded out to 2b (2-2); Richardson advanced to second. Drewry, S.
flied out to lf (1-2). 3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Iowa State 5th - Powell, T. to ss for James, S..
Richardson to 1b. Knutson homered to left field, RBI (1-0). Varela walked
(3-2). Miller homered to right field, RBI (3-2); Varela scored. Ward, K. to p
for Dennis, K.. Torrescano walked (3-1). Enslin pinch ran for Torrescano. Cole
hit by pitch (2-0); Enslin advanced to second. Habben grounded out to 1b
unassisted (1-1); Cole advanced to second; Enslin advanced to third. Johnson
singled to right field, RBI (1-2); Cole advanced to third; Enslin scored. Harms
pinch hit for Drahozal. Harms grounded out to 2b, RBI (0-2); Johnson advanced
to second; Cole scored. Kidwell, H. grounded out to ss (2-0). 5 runs, 3
hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Texas Tech 6th - Torrescano to p for Enslin.
Drahozal to lf for Harms. Kenney, M. homered to left field, RBI (1-1). Allen,
C. hit by pitch (1-0). James, S. to 1b for Powell, T.. Richardson to ss. James,
S. lined out to lf (2-1). Hall, L. singled to center field (0-0); Allen, C.
advanced to second. Hamada, A. lined out to 2b (1-1); Hall, L. out at first 2b
to 1b. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Iowa State 6th - Knutson grounded out to 2b (1-2).
Varela lined out to cf (1-0). Miller struck out swinging (0-2). 0 runs, 0
hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Texas Tech 7th - Gentsch, H. singled up the middle
(0-0). Palmer, J. pinch ran for Gentsch, H.. Torrescano to dp. Holliday to p.
Richardson homered to right center, 2 RBI (1-0); Palmer, J. scored. Bledsoe, E.
doubled to right field (1-1). Drewry, S. grounded out to 3b (2-0). Kenney, M.
walked (3-0). Allen, C. doubled to center field, RBI (0-1); Kenney, M. advanced
to third; Bledsoe, E. scored. James, S. reached on a fielder's choice (3-2);
Kenney, M. out at third 3b unassisted. Hall, L. flied out to lf (0-0). 3
runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Iowa State 7th - Ward, K. to rf for Hamada, A..
Gentsch, H. to c for Palmer, J.. Brokeshoulde to p for Ward, K.. Torrescano
grounded out to 2b (0-0). Cole popped up to 2b (0-1). Habben struck out
swinging (2-2). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.


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