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Chaos…Simplified was created when a mother of three was looking for the "perfect planner". She wanted a planner that would help her stay organized and was fun to write in. She had a hard time finding one that would best suit her, so she decided to make her own. Chaos…Simplified offers a line of planners for women and girls. The planner is designed to help you keep track of your everyday tasks, plan ahead for the future, and keep your whole life under control.
Up for review, I received the Woman's Day Planner. The planner is a 8″x10″ coil book. It's brown and features a very simple design. The tagline reads, "The Beauty of Harmony" and is stressed throughout the planner many times. The notes she placed throughout the planner reminds you to relax, breathe, and take it a day at a time. We all have busy lives, and this planner is a great way to help you stay organized, prioritize, and reminds you to have fun.
The planner features a newly designed monthly "budget page" complete with fixed and variable expenses. In my household, I'm not really in charge of these things because I'm living with my parents currently, but this would definitely come in handy for me when I move out and become in charge of my household (of course, with the help of hubby). I like that this planner allows you to keep track of household appliances! It gives you an area to write down the serial number, warranty, model, and date of an appliance, which will come in handy if you break something. There is also a section that lets you keep track of birthdays, contacts, notes, and much more.
One of my favorite features of this planner that I haven't experienced with any other planner is that there is a pocket divider that divides up each month. I found this feature incredibly great because it allows you to store your monthly bills, school notes, cards, anything you might need to keep on hand that month. I usually use this section of the planner to keep my handouts from my classes in or upcoming assignments. Another feature that I love is the 3″ fold-over page marker. The page marker is beautifully designed and is allows you to keep track of your place when you are planning. Most of the planners I've used in the past don't come with a page-marker, and it bugs me so much! So I was really happy to see that this planner has one :)
And lastly, my absolute favorite feature of them all- the half page format. This planner is unlike any other planner I've used because of this main feature. The half page format allows you to have a weekly view and a monthly view on the same page. The weekly view is always on top and the monthly view is always on the bottom. This style eliminates the drawback of having to flip through pages of your planner to view your monthly calendar and also eliminates the drawback of not having enough space to write your details in your monthly calendar. You can use the monthly view on the bottom to write down quick events, notes, etc. and then use the weekly view on top to write down the details for each event, note, etc. What I also like is that the weekly view is not only divided by days, it is also divided by time. So, for the Monday section you have space designed for Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and even a supper plan section! I think this feature sets the Women's Day Planner apart from the rest. I love it!
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This guy biked the Giants Logo across San Francisco
Strava user Chris P. biked 60 miles around San Francisco to create the Giants logo in GPS mapping. Why? Just cause he could. Terrific!
Strava user Chris P. biked 60 miles around San Francisco to create the Giants logo in GPS mapping. Why? Just cause he could. Terrific!
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©bySandraMays After several rounds of logos for my client, she decided to design the logo for her store herself. Oh and did I mentioned that she changed the name as well after so many rounds? Too bad, because this was one of the first logos I presented and it reflects exactly what she wanted: a simple, clean logo for an elegant boutique store. Do you agree?

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Permaculture was introduced by a couple of radically-minded Australians, in the 1970s, as an answer to Peak Oil (also). Today it is spread all over the world. Penny Livingston-Stark of the Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, California, explains the movement that looks to the natural world for answers to human problems.
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Partnerships can involve both a site-based and/or campus based component. All program aspects- regardless of type- are collaboratively deceloped between the community partner and our office. Most partnerships are ongoing, with minor revisions made from year to year.
Site Workshops:
Visits are on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis and held either during the lunch period or afterschool.
Campus Visits:
Visits feature a civic/leadership workshop an are often combined with an arts-themed event enabling the youth to experience the diverse nature of Purchase College. Visits are primarily held on weekdays although Saturdays are possible.
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WMST W4303 Gender, Globalization and Empire
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Prof. Neferti Tadiar
HIST BC3803 Gender and Empire
TR 2:40-3:55 pm
Prof. Anupama Rao
"Gender and Empire" is part of the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies (CCIS) Critical Inquiry Lab - an innovative series of linked courses sponsored by the CCIS. This year's lab links Prof. Neferti Tadiar's (Barnard Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies) course, WMST W4303 Gender, Globalization and Empire, with Prof. Anupama Rao's (Barnard History) History course, HIST BC3803 Gender and Empire.
Prof. Rao's lecture course, HIST BC3803 Gender and Empire, examines gender and sexuality as an important lens through which to understand questions of empire, colonialism, and anti-colonial nationalism. Prof. Tadiar's seminar, WMST W4304 Gender, Globalization and Empire, examines the role of gender in economic structures and social processes comprising globalization and in the political practices of contemporary U.S. empire.
This CCIS Lab brings the two classes together to discuss select readings, hosts public lectures by scholars whose work they have read, and culminates in a small student conference during the final week of the semester, involving students from both courses presenting short papers on thematic panels. Please consult the CCIS Lab/WGSS Speaker Series 2013 on the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department website for a schedule of events.
Students may enroll to these spring 2013 courses by registering for either WMST W4303 or HIST BC3803.


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At Sun, I've also worked on the Jiro Technology engineering team as a Jiro Consultant. My true passion is distributed computing on the Java platform. I really enjoyed working with the Jini Technology. Remote class loading is such an adventure! :)
Personal: I live in Greeley, Colorado. I'm very happily married and have four wonderful kids. I retired from the Army National Guard as a CW3 in February, 2006. I love serving God and spending time with my family.


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New Zealand's annual Business Opportunities and Franchise Expo is on Saturday and Sunday the 19th and 20th of October, at the ASB Showgrounds, Greenlane.
A wide range of businesses will be will be there promoting their business opportunities and services to expo visitors.
One of the main benefits of attending an exhibition such as the NZ Business Opportunities and Franchise Expo is that you can meet large numbers of useful people in one place.
Visitors, like the exhibitors, need to plan ahead to make the most of these opportunities.
Do your research
Plan ahead and find out a little bit about the exhibitors on franchisingexpo.co.nz.
Check out their websites and any articles that have been written-find out what they offer and the areas they are looking at for expansion.
Have a list prepared of what franchises you want to visit and what specific questions you want to ask. Although it may be too time consuming to research all exhibitors, it'd still be a good idea to have a few in mind before attending the expo. Remember not all advertisers on franchisingexpo.co.nz are exhibiting at the expo. And not all exhibitors advertise on the website.
Ask questions
Remember the exhibitor is there to talk to you. This is the beauty of the expo forum: people talking to people. Yes they are exhibiting to sell their business opportunities and this is just the first part of the process. They want to provide as many interested visitors with as much information on their business opportunity as they can.
Every individual is different, so you want to ensure the franchise you choose best fits your specific lifestyle.
Important factors to inquire about include: investment and royalty costs, hours of operation, as well as training and support.
If a certain franchise appeals to you, but you haven't had experience in the specific industry you should ask about training procedures.
Also keep in mind that there are home-based franchises-this may be the best option for a family with young children.
Get professional advice
Prior to signing anything it is imperative to get the advice of professionals, both an accountant and lawyer.
Daily seminars
The Business Opportunities and Franchise Expo conducts regular free seminars throughout the course of the event which runs 12pm to 2pm daily.
The seminars are a valuable source of information and cover a range of relevant issues and topics about business and franchising.
They are repeated each day so visitors can ensure they hear everything they need.
A highlight of the seminars will be a presentation from McDonalds NZ on the McDonald's business and how to become a McDonald's Franchisee.
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Ooty, also known as the Queen of Hills, is a perfect destination for all the nature aficionados. Ooty flaunts off its lofty blue-coloured mountains, sprawling grasslands, grand lakes and lush tea gardens. There are several exotic places in this beautiful hill station that makes Ooty tourism famous. Take a look at some of the most popular tourist spots in Ooty.
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Listen to Cool Kids Cook on Voice America Kids. New shows air on Mondays at 7pm ET.
Kid Chef Eliana's Taste Award-winning radio show, "Cool Kids Cook," is on the VoiceAmerica Kids Network. The VoiceAmerica network is the Internet's largest talk radio network and has over 9 million monthly listeners from around the world. The show airs on Mondays at 7pm ET (4pm PT, 6pm CT).
Information about Kid Chef Eliana:
Kid Chef Eliana is an award-winning 14-year-old celebrity chef, cookbook author, and radio show host. Eliana's first cookbook, Eliana Cooks! Recipes for Creative Kids debuted in 2010. Her second Parents' Choice Approved and International Latino Book Award-winning cookbook, Cool Kids Cook: Louisiana, released in 2013 and her third cookbook, Cool Kids Cook: Fresh & Fit, released in 2014. Her weekly radio show, "Cool Kids Cook," on VoiceAmerica Kids won a Taste Award. The show's notable guests include: Chef José Andres, Chef John Besh, Chef Paul Prudhomme, former White House Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses, and Andrew Zimmern. As the IFCO Youth Produce Ambassador, the SoFAB Institute Kids Ambassador, and the Crescent City Farmer's Market Marketeer Ambassador, Eliana's mission is to encourage kids to eat fresh and become culinary explorers. As Eliana always says, "Cool kids cook and get creative in the kitchen!"
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The show is recorded live to tape on Thursdays, and broadcasts on the following Monday at 7pm EDT on VoiceAmerica Kids. The show airs the Monday following the recording at 4pm PT, 6pm CDT, 7pm EDT.
The show is divided into four segments, with three commercial breaks. Kid Chef Eliana interviews the guest for the first two 10-12 minute segments. We ask all guests to be prepared to share an easy recipe for kids to make, send us a review copy of any books or products you want to promote, and a book/product for a giveaway. We love for our guests to share their websites and any upcoming news. If you have a food-related product or book, we want our listening audience to hear about it.


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As repeat guests at the Atherton House (we have family in the area), our extended family is now known to Pat, and we sat and talked over drinks and cheese as we caught up on news, on a recent visit. The guest wing is very modern, renovated, nicely decorated and "accessorized", the bed was wonderful, there is now wireless Internet and an above-ground pool. Breakfasts are incomparable. You're out in the country, yet central to the region's great wine tours, among many other attractions. Great bicycling region, I hear! Highly recommended.
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Stayed here in July 2009 and again in November. Fantastic hosts, great location, and everything about the place excels. I will never stay in hotel in this area if I can stay here.


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Katie Cathey of Amarillo and Dusty White of Mobeetie were married Saturday at Country Home Weddings in Canyon. The Rev. Craig Albracht officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Margie and Gerald Cathey of Amarillo. Grandparents of the bride are Mavis Cathey, who attended the wedding, and the late Raymond Cathey, and Mr. and Mrs. Don Hershinger, who attended the wedding.
The groom is the son of Debbie and Caroll White of Mobeetie. Grandparents of the groom are Mary Price of Sayer, Okla., and Linda and Wayland Sharp of Pampa, all of whom attended the wedding.
The couple planned a honeymoon trip to Jamaica. They will reside in Pampa.
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War of the Ring
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|Previous war: Corsair Wars
|Next war: Unknown
|War of the Ring
|Beginning: T.A. 3018 (earlier fighting in Gondor)
|End: T.A. 3019
|Place: Northwestern Middle-earth
|Outcome: Free Peoples' victory; destruction of the One Ring, Sauron and Mordor; start of the Fourth Age; Arnor and Gondor reunited under restoration of the King of Gondor
|Major battles: Battles of the Fords of Isen, Battle of Isengard, Battle of the Hornburg, Battle of Osgiliath, Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Battle of the Morannon, Battle Under Trees
|Free Peoples of Middle-earth: Gondor, Rohan, Dale, Esgaroth, Erebor, The Shire, Lothlórien, Woodland Realm
|Under Sauron: Mordor, Rhûn, Harad, Haven of Umbar, and Khand
Under Saruman: Isengard and Dunland
Denethor †
|Sauron† Saruman †
The War of the Ring was the great conflict at the end of the Third Age, named for the One Ring and the importance this had in the final outcome. The war was fought between the Free Peoples (a loose alliance of Elves and Men led by the Wise) and Sauron the Dark Lord of Mordor, with Saruman as a third power based in Orthanc. Sauron had been defeated in the War of the Last Alliance, but because of Isildur's refusal to destroy the One Ring, he was not entirely vanquished. He survived in spirit form, and the foundations of Barad-dûr were also not destroyed. While Sauron's spirit wandered the wastelands of Middle-earth for over 1000 years, eventually he rebuilt his power and became a threat once again.
Years before the War, while Sauron was known as the "Necromancer" and abode in Dol Guldur, Gandalf knew that should Sauron return, he would use the power of Smaug, the last dragon, who dwelt in Erebor. Gandalf persuaded Thorin Oakenshield that he should reclaim Erebor for his people. With the assistance of Bilbo Baggins, Erebor was retaken and Smaug was finally killed by Bard. Most importantly, fate brought the One Ring into Bilbo's hands.
The Opening Stages
Saruman had claimed alliance with both the Wise and the Dark Lord, but was ultimately fighting for his own ends. In alliance with the Dunlendings, and having Orcs at his own command, his objective was the defeat of Rohan. Until late in the War, he held the advantage, defeating Rohan twice at the Battles of the Fords of Isen which are considered the beginning of the War.
Sauron at all times held the military advantage in the War, due to his overwhelming forces; not only Orcs and Trolls, but Men of Harad and the East. His main immediate object was the overthrow of Gondor, his near neighbour and the strongest of his enemies. He had such forces at his command, though, that he was able to fight the war on many fronts, also attacking Dale, Erebor and the Wood-elves in the far north, and Lórien from his secondary stronghold at Dol Guldur. There can be no doubt that, had the Wise not achieved possession of the Ring, Sauron would ultimately have been victorious.
The policy of the Wise was based around the Quest of Mount Doom; a company of nine under the leadership of Gandalf travelled from Rivendell with the One Ring, with the hope of reaching Orodruin in Mordor and there destroying it. Because the Ring held much of Sauron's native power, they realised that in unmaking it, they would also defeat its creator.
Aragorn, after enlisting the help of Army of the Dead, attacked the Corsair fleet at Umbar, an assault he had also carried out decades earlier, during the Surprise Attack on Umbar.
The War did not end with the defeat of Sauron, for Saruman fled northward after the capture of Orthanc, and established himself in the Shire, bending the Hobbits to his will by threat of violence and the persuasive power of his voice. The return of Frodo Baggins and his companions led to a rebellion by the Shire-hobbits, in which Saruman was killed by his servant, Gríma Wormtongue.
Battles in Detail
First Battle of the Fords of Isen
February 25, Third Age 3019 Rohirrim vs. Isengard D:Théodred V:Saruman Beginning the first official battle during the War, Saruman, who was already ensnared by Sauron, sent his forces to attack the Rohirrim army at the Isen River. Within the ranks of the Rohirrim were the commanders Théodred, Grimbold, and Elfhelm. Seeking to control Theoden, Sauruman ordered his soldiers to slay Théodred at any cost. With Saruman's assistance, Théodred was surrounded and killed. Saruman's forces then retreated as the victors.
Second Battle of the Fords of Isen
March 2, Third Age 3019 Rohirrim vs. Isengard D:Erkenbrand V: Saruman After hearing news about Théodred's death, Erkenbrand, who became the commander of Rohan's western armies, gathered the forces of Grimbold and Elfhelm to assault the River Isen once more. Though they had a force of about two thousand men and had constructed a shield wall to hold off the enemy, Saruman's forces overcame them and scattered the retreating Rohirrim across Rohan. The riders then regrouped at Helm's Deep, a fortress built along the mountainside.
Battle of the Hornburg/Battle of Helm's Deep
March 3 and March 4 Army of Rohan + Rangers vs. Isengard D:Saruman V:Théoden Consolidating his people to keep them from harm, King Théoden brought about a thousand calvary men to Helm's Deep along with any others in Edoras. Among this force was Éomer, Théoden's nephew, Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and Arwen. While the ones not able to fight took refuge in the caves in the mountain, anyone who was able to fight participated in the defense of the fortress. The army at the Hornburg were met by a small force of Rangers, who also aided in the defense. During the night, Saruman's great army, about ten thousand strong, assaulted the fortress. They raised many ladders and destroyed a portion of the wall to infiltrate the defences. At the last moment, Théoden and his riders charged out into the opposing force and Erkenbrand's forces, headed by Gandalf, attacked from the rear, forcing the enemy into the forest where they were destroyed.
Although Sauron and Saruman were both defeated, the Wise did not achieve total victory. With the destruction of the One Ring, the Three Rings that had maintained the realms of the Elves in Middle-earth lost their power, and the Elves began to leave Middle-earth for the Undying Lands.
Sauron and his Allies
- Mordor
- Orthanc
- Harad
- Rhûn
- Orcs of the Misty Mountains
Free Peoples of Middle-earth
- Gondor
- Dol Amroth
- Lebennin
- Lossarnach
- Forlong the Fat †
- Ringló Vale
- Dervorin †
- Morthond
- Anfalas
- Lamedon
- Shipmen of Ethir Anduin
- Pinnath Gelin
- Hirluin the Fair †
- White Mountains
- Minas Tirith
- Rohan
- Mirkwood
- Lothlórien
- The Shire and Bree-land
- Fangorn Forest
- Istari
- Erebor and the Lands of the North
- Possibly the Iron Hills
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game), "Helm's Deep"


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I photograph graphic imagery and simple beauty found in the ordinary things of extraordinary places. "Unexpected" is the culmination of several years photographing the streets of Paris. My work is not the typical imagery you might expect from Paris. Though beautifully photographed by others, quintessential Parisian scenes are not what draw my eye. Through my camera I see light, color, and the geometry of life in an urban setting. By capturing these images and moments, I hope to illuminate the unexpected beauty of things we might not otherwise see.
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Simoff, Simeon; Böhlen, Michael Hanspeter; Mazeika, Arturas (2008). Visual Data Mining: An Introduction and Overview. In: Simoff, Simeon; Böhlen, Michael H; Mazeika, Arturas. Visual Data Mining: Theory, Techniques and Tools for Visual Analytics. Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer, 1-12.
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In our everyday life we interact with various information media, which present us with facts and opinions, supported with some evidence, based, usually, on condensed information extracted from data. It is common to communicate such condensed information in a visual form - a static or animated, preferably interactive, visualisation. For example, when we watch familiar weather programs on the TV, landscapes with cloud, rain and sun icons and numbers next to them quickly allow us to build a picture about the predicted weather pattern in a region. Playing sequences of such visualisations will easily communicate the dynamics of the weather pattern, based on the large amount of data collected by many thousands of climate sensors and monitors scattered across the globe and on weather satellites. These pictures are fine when one watches the weather on Friday to plan what to do on Sunday - after all if the patterns are wrong there are always alternative ways of enjoying a holiday. Professional decision making would be a rather different scenario. It will require weather forecasts at a high level of granularity and precision, and in real-time. Such requirements translate into requirements for high volume data collection, processing, mining, modelling and communicating the models quickly to the decision makers. Further, the requirements translate into high-performance computing with integrated efficient interactive visualisation. From practical point of view, if a weather pattern can not be depicted fast enough, then it has no value. Recognising the power of the human visual perception system and pattern recognition skills adds another twist to the requirements - data manipulations need to be completed at least an order of magnitude faster than real-time in order to combine them with a variety of highly interactive visualisations, allowing easy remapping of data attributes to the features of the visual metaphor, used to present the data. In this few steps in the weather domain, we have specified some requirements towards a visual data mining system.
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The Denver Zoo invites visitors to celebrate International Polar Bear Day on Thursday, February 27, the nonprofit announced Wednesday.
The event features the zoo's polar bears Lee and Cranbeary. Guests will see them enjoy a special ice sculpture treat.
Zookeepers and volunteers also will offer information about the challenges polar bears face in the wild and how people can help – by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The bears will receive their ice sculpture treat at 10 a.m. The polar bear zoo keeper will speak at 11 a.m.
The event is held in partnership with Polar Bears International, which named the zoo an Arctic Ambassador in 2011.
Polar Bears International has issued a challenge for February 27. In its Thermostat Challenge, the organization asks everyone to adjust their thermostat down a few degrees to lower carbon emissions and help save polar bears. It invites participants to share their pictures on its Save Our Sea Ice Community Page.
Denver Zoo visitors can win a guided behind-the scenes tour of the polar bear exhibit by "liking" the Denver Zoo's Facebook page and sharing their efforts to reduce their carbon footprint.
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These truffle-like cookies will wow guests at any holiday gathering and steal the show on the dessert table. Taste of Home Test Kitchen
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips, divided
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup baking cocoa
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 package (4.6 ounces) mint Andes candies, chopped, divided
- 2 teaspoons shortening, divided
- 1/2 cup white baking chips
- Optional toppings: chopped nuts, sprinkles and crushed candy canes
- In a microwave-safe bowl, melt butter and 1/2 cup chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Cool slightly. Stir in the egg, sugars and extracts. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; gradually add to chocolate mixture and mix well. Fold in 3/4 cup Andes candies.
- Roll rounded tablespoonfuls of dough into balls. Place 2-in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until tops appear slightly dry. Cool for 1 minute before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
- In a microwave, melt 1 teaspoon shortening and remaining chocolate chips and Andes candies; stir until smooth. Melt white baking chips and remaining shortening in a microwave at 70% power for 1 minute; stir. Microwave at additional 10- to 20-second intervals, stirring until smooth.
- Dip half of the cookies in melted chocolate mixture; allow excess to drip off. Place on waxed paper. Dip remaining cookies in melted baking chip mixture; allow excess to drip off. Place on wax paper. Immediately sprinkle with toppings of your choice. Let stand until set. Yield: about 2-1/2 dozen.
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Families from the 'Almagor' group filed an appeal to the Jerusalem Supreme Court
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elatives of Israelis killed in conflict have accused Benjamin Netanyahu's government of betraying them over a planned mass prisoner release, the first 26 of which have been officially approved, which they say could see their loved ones' murderers freed in exchange for peace talks.
Robert Tait
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10:37PM BST 11 Aug 2013
Amid scenes of bitter recrimination, family members of more than 20 victims spoke out before the special cabinet committee meeting on Sunday night that drew up a list of Palestinian inmates for release on Tuesday as a prelude to revived US-sponsored negotiations.
Some 26 prisoners will be freed in the first phase of a programme that will see the liberation of 104 long-term convicts incarcerated since before the 1993 Oslo Accords - including many said by Israel to have "blood on their hands".
The names of those to be released will be published on the Israel prison service's website early on Monday, "after the bereaved families will receive notice".
"Following the government decision to renew peace talks with the Palestinians and appoint a ministerial committee to free prisoners during negotiations ... the committee approved the release of 26 prisoners," a statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office read.
Eight of the prisoners on the list were set to be freed in the forthcoming three years, two of them in the next six months.
The three ministers on the panel – Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Science and Technology Minister Yaakov Peri, a former head of the Shin Bet security agency – stressed that "if one of those released returned to hostile activities against Israel, he will be returned to complete his sentence."
extracted a price for the release by approving nearly 1,200 new settler homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank in a move denounced by Palestinian negotiators as proof of Israeli bad faith in forthcoming talks due to start this week in Jerusalem.
Uri Ariel, the Israeli housing minister and a member of the hard-line Jewish Home party, said tenders would be issued for new homes in the east Jerusalem settlements of Har Homa, Gilo and Pisgat Zeev, and Ariel, Maale Adumim, Efrata and Beitar Ilit in the West Bank.
"No country in the world accepts diktats from other countries on where it is allowed to build or not," Mr Ariel said, referring to international criticism that settlements impede the chances of a peace deal.
Israeli media, citing official sources, said the latest moves were part of a quid pro-quo agreed with John Kerry, the US secretary of state, allowing Israel to continue limited building in main settlement blocs in return for releasing prisoners, a key Palestinian demand.
The deal angered relatives who gathered at Israel's high court of justice in Jerusalem on Sunday for a hearing on a petition against the prisoner release filed by the Almagor organisation, representing the bereaved families.
Oded Karamani, 40, said it would give freedom to the Palestinian who killed his brother Ronen and his friend, Lior Tubol, in a brutal knife attack in Ramot, near Jerusalem in 1990 as they were en route to visit their girlfriends.
"Lior was slaughtered, stabbed 24 times, just because he was Jewish," said Mr Karamani, holding a picture of his late brother. "The killer did this because he wanted to join Fatah [the Palestinian organisation led by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president].
"There's a strong possibility he will be one of the 104 prisoners to be released because the crime happened before Oslo.
"We feel betrayed by our country. Nobody's listening to our voices to understand what's in our hearts. We're getting nothing in return for this prisoner release. There's a sentence in Hebrew which says that he who feels sorry for the cruel will be cruel to the innocent. It applies here."
Rachel Friedman, the daughter of two survivors of Auschwitz, said she feared the release of the man who planned the bombing of a Jerusalem pizza parlour which killed her sister, her husband and their three children in 2001.
"That man had been jailed in 1989 but was released in a goodwill gesture," she said. "When they freed him he returned to terror and now he's back in jail. But now they want to release him again."
The families had marched in protest to the high court from a memorial to the victims of terrorism at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery. Some plan to stage a further demonstration outside the Israeli defence ministry on Monday.
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LUBBOCK, Texas - The Lady Raider track and field team officially placed three student-athletes on the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association 2013 All-Academic Team as announced Wednesday afternoon.
Freshmen Gionna Jackson and Tiffany Tarver along with senior teammate Ifeatu Okafor were named to the squad which recognizes the top student-athletes in collegiate track and field.
Okafor, who was selected as one of two Big 12 nominees for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award, posted a 3.8 grade point average in Human Sciences. She is a two-time All-American in the shot put and captured the 2011 Big 12 Outdoor Championship in the event.
Jackson finished sixth in the long jump at the 2013 Big 12 Outdoor Championships while posting a 3.33 grade point average in Exercise and Sports Science. She recorded the No. 4 jump by a freshman in the Big 12 this season with a leap of 19-feet 6 inches at the Big 12 meet.
As a freshman, Tarver collected three top-3 finishes in the women's sprints and hurdles while posting a 3.83 grade point average in Exercise and Sports Sciences.
To qualify for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team, the student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 and have met either of the following athletic standards: for the indoor season, a student-athlete must have finished the regular season ranked in the national top 96 in an individual event or ranked in the national top 48 (collective listing) in a relay event on the official NCAA POP list provided by TFRRS.org; for the outdoor season, a student-athlete must have participated in any round of the NCAA Division I Championships (including preliminary rounds).


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What the World Needs Now …
This week, while President Obama and the G-8 were trying to get serious out the climate crisis, I was sitting on a very hot beach that could soon be under water, reading John Hay's neglected classic, In Defense of Nature.
The book comes out of Hay's rich experiences wandering the northeastern coasts of North America. I took In Defense of Nature with me because this is its 40th anniversary, because Hay was a great writer, and because he was writing–40 years ago–with the same urgency we must now bring to the issue of "defending nature." I put the idea in scare quotes because it has become increasingly problematic. It still suggests some kind of dualism wherein nature is a helpless, silent thing out there that needs us to save it from ourselves. And while that is partly true, it must also be said that we need saving from ourselves, and we must stop thinking about ourselves as standing above and apart from the natural world.
Now our most urgent business is to recognize that we exist within larger ecosystems that sustain us, or do not, depending on how we understand our relation to them, and that the ultimate ecosystem is the planet, whose atmosphere we are altering. (A new survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows a familiar and disturbing disconnect between the scientific community and the American public on global warming; but climate change call be boiled down to this–the molecular structure of carbon-dioxide traps heat, and that can be proven in any high school chemistry class.)
Hay asked the fundamental question four decades ago: "Why this scarring business of playing God? Is this not our last chance to play at being man?" To see the scarring business of extracting coal, the leading cause of climate change, check out this video:
Nobody plays God like the strip miners, believe me, and it is vastly encouraging to see that one of the country's most respected climate scientists, James Hansen, is now making a direct link between the climate crisis and mountaintop removal strip mining. And Hansen is right now, as sadly Hay was in 1969, that we are running out of time. It is a frustratingly American phenomenon that, as Hay wrote, "Crisis and disaster may be our only educators." But that's where we find ourselves now–at our last chance of being men and women, members of a larger land community.
We are the clever animal; there's no doubt. We did, after all, invent language–words with which to construct a beautiful book like In Defense of Nature, and words with which to deny things like torture and climate change. George Orwell pointed out in his essay, "Politics and the English Language," that political thinking suffers when language suffers. When language becomes too abstract, it becomes a "defense of the indefensible," a rhetoric calculated to "make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." I don't think any evidence need be marshaled here to show how right Orwell was.
But language can also move in the other direction, toward the concrete. This, said John Hay, would mean a move in the direction of conservation and responsibility. "To conserve and have it stick," he wrote, "needs more education in particularity and in close attention to the precious elements of life than we have yet had." We need more public education in the particular, such as Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard movement, whereby children grow, learn about and eat food from their own particular schoolyard.
The attention we pay to the natural world need not come at the beach or in the Adirondacks. In fact, it must be nurtured in cities. The particular stories we tell ourselves must include many more like Elizabeth Royte's profile in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine of urban farmer Will Allen, whose Growing Power farm in downtown Milwaukee feeds 10,000 city dwellers. There, truly, resides a partial solution to the problems of climate change (the food is grown and consumed without petroleum fertilizers or transportation), health care (no diabetes here), and education (Allen is a 6-foot-7 ex-pro basketball player; children listen to him).
Allen and Alice Waters are showing us how to turn away from our scarring attitude toward the natural world, back toward one that will make us more fully human and more wholly accountable. It is at once a great step forward and a necessary return to what John Hay called first principles.
"Perhaps," he wrote, "if it takes ruin to right us, we are closer than ever to first principles."
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HONOLULU, Hawai'i - Nine different Bruins recorded kills on Friday, including a match-best 10 from junior Karsta Lowe, who hit .533 with only two errors in 15 attempts to go with four blocks, as #10 UCLA swept New Mexico State, 25-15, 25-22, 25-12 at the Hawaiian Airlines Rainbow Wahine Classic.
The Bruins win their fifth straight to start the 2013 season, while the Aggies fall to 1-4.
Redshirt freshman Haley Lawless, who made her collegiate debut on Thursday against Santa Clara, posted seven kills and only one error in nine swings for a .667 hitting percentage, adding four blocks in just two sets. Senior Kelly Reeves also had seven kills to go with five digs and two aces. Senior Mariana Aquino recorded five kills and no miscues in seven attacks (.714) with five blocks.
Juniors Megan Moenoa and Monica Stauber handled the setting duties and set the Bruins to a .395 hitting percentage. Moenoa recorded 17 assists, while Stauber added 11 assists and six digs. In the backcourt, sophomore Rachel Inouye had eight digs and two aces.
The Aggies scored the first point of the match, but the Bruins went on runs of 3-0 and 6-1 to go ahead 6-2, a lead they would not relinquish for the rest of the set. A Reeves kill and ace and a Lowe kill made it 3-1, and after an NMSU sideout, back-to-back Lowe kills and an Aquino kill put the Bruins up by four. The Aggies got the next three to cut their deficit to one, but a 7-1 UCLA run broke it open. A service error and a kill by freshman Claire Felix made it 8-5 UCLA. After a New Mexico State sideout, five in a row for the Bruins on an Aquino kill and solo block, an Aggie ball handling error and kills from Reeves and Felix made it 13-6.
The closest the Aggies would get for the rest of the set was five. But at 16-11, a 6-0 Bruin run got the lead to double digits. A kill by junior Zoë Nightingale, an Aggie attack error and a combo block by Lowe and Nightingale got the first half of the run going, with kills by Nightingale and freshman Jessyka Ngauamo and a Reeves ace wrapping up the run. A service error on the Bruins' third set point gave them a 25-15 victory. Six different Bruins had at least two kills in the opener, as Felix and Lowe led the way with three apiece. Reeves added two kills and two aces, while Aquino had two kills and two blocks. The Bruins out-hit the Aggies .370 to .091.
The second set featured eight ties and four lead changes. New Mexico State jumped out to an early 6-2 lead, but a 5-0 UCLA run on two Lowe kills, an Inouye ace and two Aggie attack errors put the Bruins up 7-6. With UCLA up 8-7, New Mexico State went on an 8-3 spurt to go ahead by four again at 15-11. But then it was the Bruins turn for a run, as they scored six of seven and 10 of 12 to go ahead 21-17.
The initial 6-1 run came on two Lowe kills, a Lawless kill, a bad Aggie set and combo blocks by Aquino and Lawless and Aquino and Lowe to put the Bruins ahead 17-16. An NMSU sideout tied things at 17, but a 4-0 run on two Lawless kills, a Stauber ace and an Aggie attack error made it 21-17. A 5-1 NMSU run squared the score at 22, but the Bruins netted the last three points on an Aggie service error and back-to-back kills from Reeves to win the second 25-22. Lawless paced the Bruins with five kills, Lowe added four and Reeves had three. Stauber notched five digs, as the Bruins out-hit the Aggies .524 to .270.
The Aggies began the third set with two of the first three points, but a 6-1 Bruin run put them up 7-3. A Lowe kill, an Inouye ace and an NMSU attack error made it 4-2, and after an Aggie sideout, kills from Aquino, Lawless and Reeves put UCLA ahead by four. Up 10-8, the Bruins went on runs of 5-0 and 11-1 to break it open. The first five points came on an NMSU service error, a Nightingale kill, a Lowe/Nightingale combo block, a Lowe kill and a Lawless/Nightingale roof.
After an Aggie sideout, a 6-0 Bruin run put them up 21-9. Aquino, Lawless and Nightingale had kills, while UCLA had three blocks by Aquino and Lawless, freshman Jennie Frager and Lowe and Frager and Lawless to make the lead a dozen. On the Bruins' second match point, sophomore Hannah Boland recorded the clinching kill to win the third 25-12. Eight different Bruins had a kill in the third, with Aquino and Lowe recording three apiece. UCLA also had five blocks in the set, with Lawless taking part in three of them. The Bruins hit .321 and held the Aggies to a -.053 hitting percentage.
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Bellazzini, M; Beccari, G; Oosterloo, T A; Galleti, S; Sollima, A; Correnti, M; Testa, V; Mayer, L; Cignoni, M; Fraternali, F; Gallozzi, S (2011). An optical and H i study of the dwarf Local Group galaxy VV124 = UGC4879. A gas-poor dwarf with a stellar disk? Astronomy & Astrophysics, 527:A58.
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We present a detailed study of the dwarf galaxy VV124 (UGC4879), recently recognized as a remarkably isolated member of the Local Group. We have obtained deep (r ≃ 26.5) wide-field (23' × 23') g,r photometry of individual stars with the LBC camera at the Large Binocular Telescope under sub-arcsec seeing conditions. The color-magnitude diagram suggests that the stellar content of the galaxy is dominated by an old, metal-poor population, with a significant metallicity spread. A very clean detection of the RGB tip allows us to derive an accurate distance of D = 1.3 ± 0.1 Mpc. Combining surface photometry with star counts, we are able to trace the surface brightness profile of VV124 out to ~5' ≃ 1.9 kpc radius (where μr ≃ 30 mag/arcsec2), showing that it is much more extended than previously believed. Moreover, the surface density map reveals the presence of two symmetric flattened wings emanating from the central elongated spheroid and aligned with its major axis, resembling a stellar disk seen nearly edge-on. We also present H i observations obtained with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), the first ever of this object. A total amount of ≃ 106 Mȯ of H i gas is detected in VV124. Compared to the total luminosity, this gives a value of MHI/LV = 0.11, which is particularly low for isolated Local Group dwarfs. The spatial distribution of the gas does not correlate with the observed stellar wings. The systemic velocity of the H i in the region superposed to the stellar main body of the galaxy is Vh = -25 km s-1. The velocity field shows substructures typical of galaxies of this size but no sign of rotation. The H i spectra indicates the presence of a two-phase interstellar medium, again typical of many dwarf galaxies.
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College: South Carolina St., Miss. Valley St.
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May 28, 2010
Tulane announces Michele Savage, women's basketball assistant, leaves to become head coach at Davidson College
The Tulane University women's basketball team will be losing a stalwart on the Green Wave bench as nine-year assistant coach Michele Savage was named head coach at Davidson College on Friday morning.
May 27, 2010
Tulane tennis improving under Sisk's direction
The Daily Home
Two years into the rebuilding process at Tulane University, Talladega native Terri Sisk is pleased with the progress the women's tennis team has made in that time. "Obviously with this being our second year back, I thought we did a really good job in a lot of areas," Sisk said. "One, you know, we got up to number 67 in the national rankings. That was a true sign of improvement from the year before. We went 13-9 on the year. So from a record standpoint and a national ranking standpoint we did a lot of things right.
May 25, 2010
Tulane third baseman Rob Segedin makes Conference USA All-Academic team
Tulane third baseman Rob Segedin was among five seniors, five juniors and a trio of sophomores were named to the 2010 Conference USA All-Academic Team, as selected by the league's baseball sports information directors.
May 24, 2010
Tulane misses Conference USA Tournament for first time under Rick Jones
For the first time since 1989, the Green Wave will not play beyond the regular season.
May 20, 2010
Tulane's womens golf team, LSU's Megan McCrystal gain ground in NCAA Tournament
Times-Picayune Video
The Green Wave was able to recover due to solid play from sophomores Samantha Troyanovich and Ashley McKenney.
Can the Green Wave build on the win against LSU?
Times-Picayune Video
Tulane beat reporter Tammy Nunez discusses the 9-1 win against LSU and how things clicked for Kyle McKenzie, the Green Wave pitcher who had a good game.
Tulane's Nick Boullosa steals national spotlight with catch
Tulane's Nick Boullosa steals national spotlight with catch.
Slideshow: Tulane center fielder Nick Boullosa's catch
Times-Picayune Slideshow
Tulane center fielder Nick Boullosa made an outstanding grab to rob LSU's Matt Gaudet of a hit in the Green Wave's 9-1 victory Tuesday night at Turchin Stadium.
Tulane's Rob Segedin plays baseball by the book
When Tulane third baseman Rob Segedin talks about his hitting approach book, don't start hunting around in the library for it.
LSU vs. Tulane- LSU centerfielder Nick Boullosa doesn't know the meaning of the word double. His catch in the outfield will be the talk of campus and was just crazy enough to take the top spot in our Top Plays.
May 19, 2010
Tulane regains its swagger in dominating performance over LSU
Tulane got a flash of what might have been in Tuesday's game against LSU at Turchin Stadium.
LSU offense fails to materialize against Tulane
The Tigers (34-19) only had five hits in a 9-1 loss to the Green Wave (31-22), their 13th loss in 15 games.
Tulane women's golf team struggles in first round of NCAA Championship
Tulane women's golf team struggles in first round of NCAA Championship.
Tulane hands LSU 6th consecutive loss
Baton Rouge Advocate
Brennan Middleton hit a three-run home run and four Tulane pitchers combined to shut down LSU, 9-1, tonight at Turchin Stadium.
May 18, 2010
Tigers, Green Wave actually looking ahead
While LSU (34-18) considers the coming series against Mississippi State, Tulane (30-22) has its collective eye cocked toward a visit from Central Florida, which will determine its postseason fate.
May 13, 2010
Tulane pitcher Ryan Doiron preparing for season-ending surgery
Tulane pitcher Ryan Doiron, a sophomore out of Barbe High School, will end his season prematurely to have shoulder surgery.
NCAA cites LSU, Tulane for academic success
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The Green Wave men's cross country team placed four student-athletes on the Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll, while the men's track & field program placed eight, women's track & field 13 and women's tennis team six.
May 10, 2010
Tulane women's golf qualifies for NCAA Championships
The 27th-ranked Tulane women's golf team punched its ticket to the NCAA Championships for the second straight year today after the Green Wave combined for a 5-over 293 total and posted a sixth place finish during the final round of the 2010 NCAA East Regional at the Ironwood Golf & Country Club in Greenville, N.C.
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May 7, 2010
Tulane baseball: Matt Petiton returning to weekend rotation
Senior left-hander Matt Petiton is back in the weekend rotation after two weeks of mid-week starts and relief duty. Petiton is scheduled to pitch Sunday after tonight's starter Conrad Flynn and Saturday's starter Robby Broach.
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Jones picks up 700th win at Tulane
With Tuesday's 8-5 victory against Louisiana-Monroe in front of 2,605 at Turchin Stadium, Jones nabbed his 700th win at Tulane.
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Tulane football's home game times announced
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TEMPE, Ariz. - The Arizona State University wrestling team will face its first dual test of the 2013-14 season as it travels to Illinois on Saturday for the Chicago Quad. The Sun Devils will first take on No. 7 Illinois at Lincoln-Way East High School, followed by matches against SIUE and Ouachita Baptist University. The first dual is set to start at 10 a.m. MT.
Complete Chicago Quad Schedule
ASU vs. No. 7 Illinois - 10 a.m. MT
ASU vs. SIU Edwardsville - 2 p.m. MT
ASU vs. Ouachita Baptist University - 3:15 p.m. MT
The Sun Devils opened the 2013-14 season two weeks ago in Laramie, Wyo., as they competed at the Cowboy Open. Sophomore Ares Carpio (125), redshirt juniors Nathan Hoffer (149) and Joel Smith (157), and redshirt freshman Luke Bean (197) each led ASU with 3-1 records.
ASU also saw strong performances from junior transfer Daniel Gusev, who picked up a pair of wins in the heavyweight bracket of competition, while fellow transfer and graduate student James Brundage picked up a pair of wins in the 165 weight class.
In this week's edition of the InterMat (Nov. 12) and W.I.N. Magazine (Nov. 11) polls, the Sun Devils have picked up rankings of 41st and 43rd, respectively.
Individually, Kevin Radford (184) and Blake Stauffer (174) have picked up rankings in each of the four major collegiate wrestling polls. Radford has been ranked at No. 17 by Amateur Wrestling News, InterMat, and D1CollegeWrestling.Net, while W.I.N. Magazine has listed him at No. 15 in his weight class.
Stauffer is currently ranked at No. 9 in polls from InterMat, W.I.N. Magazine, and D1CollegeWrestling.Net, while Amateur Wrestling News has him listed at No. 15 in the 174 weight class.
Junior transfer Coltin Fought is currently ranked by D1CollegeWrestling.Net at No. 17 in the 125 weight class.
ASU will face some stiff competition against No. 7 Illinois, as the Illini return the 2013 NCAA and Big Ten Champion at 125, Jesse Delgado. Delgado tallied a record of 27-3 last season to tie for the 11th-best single-season win percentage in school history (.900). The two-time All-American scored the second-most dual points in 2013, and is ranked the No. 1 wrestler in his weight class in the both the WIN Magazine and InterMat preseason rankings.
Illinois also returns the 2012 Big Ten Champion and two-time NCAA qualifier at 197, Mario Gonzales. Gonzales posted an 18-9 record a season ago.
SIU Edwardsville, under first-year head coach Jeremy Spates, lists 11 wrestlers on its roster who competed during the 2012-13 campaign, including 20-match winner David Devine, one of the squad's four seniors. Devine picked up the fastest pin of the Red and Black Intrasquad match at 2 minutes and 15 seconds.
Ouachita Baptist University was ranked at No. 9 in the NWCA Division II pre-season poll, while junior Dallas Smith is ranked in the 184-pound weight class and sophomore Garrett Evans is ranked at 125 points. OBU, of Arkadelphia, Ark., lists four seniors on its roster, and an eight-man freshman class.
Prior to its season opener, the Arizona State wrestling team competed in its yearly Maroon and Yellow Intersquad match. In the 125 weight class, Ares Carpio picked up from where he left off last season, dominating Tyree Owens, 20-5.
At 133, Tyler Liberatore took an early lead over Cord Coronado with three takedowns before Carpio came back and held off the major decision with a final score of 9-4.
Freshman Jesus Calderon stepped in at 141, but was unable to overcome Paul Looper's collegiate experience as Looper came out with the 9-2 victory.
The marquee match of the night came at 149, with Preston McCalmon taking on NCAA qualifier Nathan Hoffer. The pair fought to a tie score at the end of regulation before Hoffer came out to win the match.
At 157, Joel Smith picked up three takedowns in his defeat of Codey Combs, while Ray Waters pinned James Brundage in 37 seconds in the 165 weight class.
Josh DaSilvera defeated Chase Eskam in overtime, 3-2 in the 197, while the battle of the heavyweights came down to Kyle Colling picking up the advantage of Daniel Gusev.
In exhibition, Luke Bean wrestled Wesley Moore at the 197, with Moore picking up the win, 8-4.
Each of the Sun Devils' five home matches this season are scheduled back-to-back from Jan. 18 through Feb. 9. ASU will open the home slate with a tri-meet against Northern Colorado and Utah Valley on Jan. 18 before facing its first Pac-12 foe of the year, Boise State, on Jan. 24.
The Sun Devils will then take on Iowa State on Feb. 1 before taking on Pac-12 foe Stanford on Feb. 3, which will be aired on the Pac-12 Networks. ASU closes out the home schedule against Oregon State on Feb. 9, in another match that will be broadcast by the Pac-12 Networks.
Four of Arizona State's meets are set to be aired by the Pac-12 Networks in 2014, starting with the conference opener against Boise State. ASU will then have back-to-back televised duals against Stanford and Oregon State.
The 2014 Pac-12 Championships, hosted by Stanford on March 2 will also be aired on the Pac-12 Networks.
This season, the Sun Devil roster features a pair of graduate transfers, James Brundage and Nick Rex. Brundage, who hails from Ossining, N.Y., received a BA in sociology at Rider University, and is now completing his masters in management at ASU. Rex joins the Sun Devils from Campbell University, where he earned a degree in communications, and was team captain during the 2011-13 seasons.
Along with ASU's two graduate students, the Sun Devils welcome Kyle Colling, a transfer from Oklahoma, Coltin Fought from North Carolina State, and Daniel Gusev from Sierra College.
Some of the most experienced returning Sun Devils come in the form of Kevin Radford and Blake Stauffer. The redshirt junior and true sophomore combined for 43 wins last season, including 25 during the Pac-12 Conference slate. Both are currently ranked in each of the four major wrestling polls.
Similar to last season's squad, the Maroon and Gold features a passel of young newcomers this year, with five true freshman additions, and a trio of sophomores. Joining the Sun Devils this season are freshmen Kaleb Baker (Memphis, Tenn.), Jesse Calderon (Indio, Calif.), Seth Monty (Mesa, Ariz.), Matt Schneider (New Lenox, Ill.), and Mech Spraggins (Belleville, Ill.). New to the sophomore class this season are Wesley Moore (Queen Creek, Ariz.), Pablo Moreno (Yuma, Ariz.), and Kaylon Sencio (Houston, Texas).
The 2013-14 season will see a new addition to the Sun Devil squad, as Tyrel Todd was named as an assistant coach in the Summer of 2013. Todd spent the last two seasons training with the Cliff Keen Wrestling Club, where he recently competed at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. He was fourth at the 2008 Olympic trials at 84 kilograms, just missing a bid to the Beijing Olympics in the process. Following a standout career at Michigan, where Todd was a three-time All-American and 2009 Big Ten Conference Champion at 197 points, Todd served his alma mater as an assistant for the 2010 season before spending one year on the staff as an assistant at Cal Poly.


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ABD in the News
Black Friday Strike Will Test the Power of High-Stakes Online Organizing
By Josh Eidelson
November 21, 2012
Amy Dean, the former president of California's South Bay Labor Council, argued that in OUR Walmart's campaign, social media "is being used in service to creating community for people in a workforce that is spread out globally…. They're right to be utilizing every tool possible, because much of what this campaign hinges on is its ability to make people feel as though they are in relationship" with each other. Dean, a fellow at the Century Foundation, noted that social media is not "a replacement for doing the hard work of establishing one-on-one relationships," but credited the campaign for "using those tools to create these relationships."
Read more at the Nation Magazine
Where Does the Labor Movement Go From Here?
By Amy Dean
April 6, 2011
Thousands of people gathered on the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota on April 4 to take part in a "March for the Middle Class." As they made their way from the St. Paul Cathedral to the State Capitol, they carried signs that defended the rights of working Americans and chanted, "We are one."
ABD Quoted in the Wall Street Journal
Amy B. Dean was quoted in a February 24, 2011 Wall Street Journal article by Jonathan Weisman, titled "Obama Sits Out State Fights."
"Everybody is looking to the president on this one," said Amy Dean, a labor activist and former AFL-CIO official in California. "The grassroots infrastructure of the Democratic Party is organized labor."
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A New Blueprint for Change
By Amy B. Dean
Published: 11/10/2010
The finger pointing and soul searching has begun. Most of this post-mortem discussion is focusing on a narrow period of time, asking what went wrong with the Obama administration during the president's first two years in office. The real problem the country is facing, however, is better considered over the span of two decades.
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Street Photography Now
Wednesday 08 September 2010
Thirteen In-Public photographers and two In-Public masters are featured in a new book, Street Photography Now, published by Thames & Hudson.
The book is co-authored by long-time champion of street photography Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, a street photographer himself. It contains folio pages and biographies of 46 of the world's best contemporary street shooters, divided by four essays and a round table discussion between seven of the photographers from all corners of the globe.
This important and courageous publication displays a passionate understanding of the central ideas of Street Photography, and introduces an exciting new generation of practitioners.
Our congratulations to the authors and to Johanna Neurath from Thames & Hudson for their enthusiasm and practical support of the genre we love.
Street Photography Now will be launched at The Photographers Gallery, London on the 18th September.
Keep an eye out for associated events: the Street Photography Now Web Project, a collaboration between the authors and The Photographers Gallery, and exhibitions in Cardiff and Paris organised by in-public friends the Third Floor Gallery, Wales and Nathalie Belayche of Food for Your Eyes in France.
Street Photography Now is available to order here.
In-Public was set up in 2000 to provide a home for Street Photographers.
Our aim is to promote Street Photography and to continue to explore its possibilities, we are a non commercial collective. All the photographers featured here have been invited to show their work because they have the ability to see the unusual in the everyday and to capture the moment. The pictures remind us that, if we let it, over-familiarity can make us blind to what's really going on in the world around us.Read more


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LEGO Cast Confirmed, More Story Info Revealed
Posted on Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 by Russ Fischer
We've heard some cast rumors for the LEGO film set to be directed by Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, including names such as Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Pratt and Morgan Freeman. Now all four are confirmed for the film, thanks to info from Village Roadshow Pictures and Warner Bros.
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Kilian Krause wrote: > the new sources have just been added to pkg-voip SVN. The building > should commence any minute now. Stay tuned to > http://status.buildserver.net/packages/status.php?packages=asterisk1.2%20zaptel1.2%20libpri1.2&subdist=pkg-voip Since Asterisk and Zaptel are not shared libraries, I think asterisk-1.2 and zaptel-1.2 is more appropriate. libpri OTOH is a library, but the package suffix should reflect the SONAME. The SONAME is 1, so either the package rename (from libpri1) was incorrent or the SONAME should have changed (e.g. to 1.2) because of ABI incompatibilities. [this has nothing to do with your packaging attempt] This is a serious bug. We released with it but it would be best to fix it even at this point. IOW, libpri 1.4 should have a different SONAME and hence a different package name if Asterisk 1.2 is not capable of working with it. > and watch for errors. As soon as it has been built there, i'll push it > to the public archive (in case it'll not auto-migrate by britney). That's what "experimental" is for. Regards, Faidon


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While two schools in the area have been named a "School of Distinction" based on the results of the 2011 and 2012 Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) scores and the Connecticut Academic Performance Test (CAPT), Weston High School was not one of them.
Weston sophomores were among the top performers on the 2011 CAPT tests, and Weston scores were across the board on the CMTs, but generally way above the state average.
But the high school does not qualify as a School of Distinction, an honor that is meted out by the Connecticut State Department of Education.
Under the state's new accountability system, schools singled out for this honor have a high performance on these tests with traditionally underperforming groups — such as students with disabilities.
This new accountability system was established after the Department of Education granted the state a waiver to No Child Left Behind in May 2012.
Instead of naming schools that have low performance scores or are in need of help, the new accountability system recognizes Schools of Distinction and turnaround schools.
Key components to the new system are valuing student achievement across a broader range of performance, integrating all tested subjects, including mathematics, reading, writing and science, and graduation rates.
Schools of Distinction are identified annually and are classified into three different categories — highest performing subgroup, highest progress and highest overall performance.
Schools identified as highest performing subgroup have the highest index scores in the state for each one of the five traditionally underperforming subgroups — students with disabilities, English language learners, black students, Hispanic students, and students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Schools identified as highest overall performance have a school performance index (SPI) greater than 88 and are performing within the top 10% of schools across the state. These schools have achievement gaps less than 10 SPI points for the majority of their subgroups, and if they are high schools, they have met their respective graduation rate targets.
"Overall, our numbers on the tests are stellar," said Weston Superintendent Colleen Palmer. In fact, Weston's SPI for 2011-12 is 94.4, well above the 88 benchmark.
However, the problem lies with the scores of one of the subgroups — students with disabilities — which is lower in Weston when compared to other schools.
Because the achievement gap between Weston's students with disabilities subgroup and its other test takers is more than 10 SPI points, Weston was not eligible to be named a School of Distinction.
Dr. Palmer said the district is researching to see if the state is correct in its evaluation of Weston.
In the meantime, she said, she takes the state's review seriously. "We have an area in our district we need to work on, and we intend to close that gap," she said.
Ridgefield High School and Wilton High School were named Schools of Distinction with highest performing subgroups. Ridgefield's subgroup is reduced priced meals and Wilton's is students with disabilities.


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The Hezbollah Threat in the U.S.
There's been quite a bit of news this week about the radical islamic group Hezbollah and the potential threat they pose here in the US. I think this first really caught everyone's attention last year when it was announced that Hezbollah had opened up for business at our southern border when they joined forces with some of the Mexican drug cartels. It's now estimated that they are much more powerful than Al Qaeda ever was.
This was backed up in February 2012 when the former head of the DEA stated that Hezbollah plans to exploit the infrastructure built by the drug traffickers that touches 250 or more US cities allowing Hezbollah access to assets such as forged documents and massive amounts of money. He warned that those relationships allow "these groups to operate freely in our neighborhood" and said the U.S. would regret it if the threats were not taken seriously. "I don't want to sound too crude, but I think there's going to be hell to pay in the not too distant future," he said.
By the way, these claims were refuted recently in a short editorial written by Mexico's consul general, obscurely posted in an Arizona newspaper. He denies that there is any evidence of terrorist activity at our border and says that these claims interfere with their efforts to keep the border secure. I suppose that some may agree with this but if you ask any Arizona border rancher if their efforts have been working so far, you might get a different point of view.
Most recently,Ynet news posted a very good article explaining this threat and speculates why Hezbollah would strike inside the United States. One alarming fact in the article: NY officials estimate 200-300 Hezbollah members and sympathizers are currently in New York City!
The video below is from Reuters, it also goes into some detail about this. The bridge surveillance made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. The possible scenarios in that city taking place AFTER those bridges are crippled would most likely be horrible.
With everything else going on around us these days, it's easy to get a little complacent about our general security. I hope you can take a few minutes and read the articles at the above links. Articles like these help to wake me up and I hope they do the same for you. We try to keep an eye on the news out of Israel. There's been some drum-beating about a strike on Iran and many analysts feel that could be the trigger to an attack here at home from Hezbollah. Please get and stay prepped for any possible disruptions and the inevitable aftermath.