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A Russian jet intercepted a U.S. Air Force jet and came dangerously close while doing so, just 100 feet within the nose. The Air Force jet was flying in international airspace, 60 miles off the Russian Far East coast when this Russian SU-27 Flanker intercepted over the Sea of Okhotsk, just north of Japan, according to NBC News on June 4.
The Russian jet pulled a maneuver that exposed its belly to the U.S. Air Force jet and it is believed this was done to show the Air Force flight crew that they were armed. The U.S was conducting a mission of routine surveillance when the Russian jet crossed the nose of the Air Force jet.
There was no communication between the two aircraft, said Pentagon spokesperson Col. Steven Warren. He said that "senior department levels have communicated our concerns directly to the Russian military."
CNN News reports this incident sounds like a scene coming "straight out of a movie." When the Russian jet exposed it's belly, you could see it was armed with missiles, reports a military official.
The incident, which took place back in April, was not made public at the time it happened because the U.S. opted to deal with the Russians privately. A few weeks before this incident, a Russian fighter jet made a couple of low-altitude passes over the USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea.
This interception came just two days after two Russian military aircraft anti-submarine patrols were intercepted by Japanese war planes near Hokkaido, a Japanese island. It sounds as if tensions are growing when it comes to the latest incident involving the U.S. Air Force.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu and U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel discussed both the incidents over a phone call on April 28, according to a Russian Defense Ministry statement. Shoygu has offered to instruct the "commanders in chief of both countries to discuss possible additional measures to address the interests of both countries to prevent future misperceptions of actions."
Senior leaders from the U.S. have communicated concerns about the incident directly to the Russian military, reports a Defense Depart official. A U.S. official reported that this has not happened again since that incident.


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A five-second music clip that everyone who has ever seen the Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night" has heard but that has never been officially attributed to the Beatles was played in its longer, full version for the first time June 22 on "Chris Carter's 'Breakfast With the Beatles'" on KLOS-FM in Los Angeles. And with the historic airing came possible proof that the song may indeed be an unreleased Beatles tune.
Known as "Train Music," it's the song that is heard when Ringo turns on the transistor radio while the group is on the train in the early scenes in "A Hard Day's Night." Dave Morrell, author of "Horse-Doggin': The Morrell Archives, Volume 1," who was a guest on the show, said that the full song, about 30 seconds long, was found in a box called "The Beatles."
That somewhat substantiated by an unconfirmed posting on "The Beatles Bible" describing what appears to have been a past auction on eBay. "The cardboard EMITAPE box is 5 inches in size, & has a piece of green colored Twickenham Film Studios paperwork partially attached to the back of the box, with several other torn off pieces of the old paperwork housed inside the box, this green paper is quite brittle from age, one can make out the words 'Hard Days Night' handwritten on the faded document."
But the big question, of course, is the song by the Beatles? In the book "Way Beyond Compare," author John C. Winn reports that film producer Walter Shenson verified in an interview that the song was done by the Beatles. According to Winn's book, the song is done in E major with John Lennon playing a Chuck Berry guitar pattern and George Harrison on lead guitar. It was reportedly recorded in soundtrack sessions before the first week of filming, Winn says.
However, Winn told Beatles Examiner this week he's not so sure after hearing the longer version since it doesn't sound completely Beatley. The film was reissued on DVD this week.
Host Chris Carter believes it's the Beatles. "I think it's 'them' for the following reasons: It sounds like them. The tape box said 'The Beatles.' If it was another group, that other group would have claimed it was them sometime in the last 50 years! It was found along with other music not used in the film by George Martin.
"And lastly I trust the sources Ron Furmanek and and Dave Morrell. The big question is why it's not noted in the Beatles recording history data. My guess is it might have been recorded during a George Martin Orchestra session. It was just recorded 'live' and did not have a track sheet."
Or as Ron Furmanek told Beatles Examiner, "Why not? Until someone comes up with the 100% positive proof of who it actually is, why not believe?"

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The Six Pillars incorporates the work of a diverse range of stakeholders and their strategic thinking, including Century Commission for a Sustainable Future, Florida Council of 100, Enterprise Florida, Florida State University System, Workforce Florida, and 1000 Friends of Florida, among others.
This framework serves as an organizing force for strategic planning at local, regional and state levels. Its real power is in the efficiency of harnessing fragmented viewpoints into a common and consistent conversation. The Florida Chamber Foundation, along with its Six Pillars Caucus System™, released the first iteration of the Six Pillars 20-year Strategic Plan to accomplish the vision set forth above.
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Even as you read this, community leaders from Jackson, Columbia, Palm Beach, Marion, Broward, Collier and Lee counties—as well as regional efforts, such as the Central Florida Partnership's myregion.org—are using the framework to guide their local dialogue. And the list of adopting partners is growing. The resulting local priorities will differ, but the parameters and focus of the discussion is identical. Imagine the power of an economic agenda communicated throughout the local and state political process empowered by the simplicity of a common language. Learn more here.
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Trust has been recognised for the second year running for its commitment to empowering staff to make improvements to patient care.
The nursing recruitment day held at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust last weekend has been a big hit, with 13 new nurses being interviewed and offered employment on the day!
A new group has been set up in Croydon to provide support and advice to the families of children with cancer.
A pioneering health visiting service which delivers vital support and care to frail, elderly people in Croydon is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
We are delighted so many residents joined us for our Big Conversation event and told us how they want to be involved in improving services at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.
Cutting-edge research into common conditions, including cancer, inherited heart conditions and lung disease has been highlighted at Croydon Health Services' Annual Research and Development Day.
The first black president of the Royal College of Nursing visited Croydon Health Services NHS Trust this week (May 11) as part of the organisation's International Nurses' Day celebrations.
Pupils from a local infant school and nursery have donated their favourite books to children having treatment at Croydon University Hospital to "cheer them up and help them get better".
An 86-year-old volunteer who has spent 13 years helping patients, an inspiring physiotherapist who delivers exceptional care and two nurses who have worked for more than 40 years at Croydon University Hospital were among those honoured tonight (Thurs) by former footballer and well-known BBC pundit Mark Bright.
The Nutrition Support Team at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has been shortlisted for a prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ) award for improving the understanding and use of intravenous feeding at the Trust.
On 19 April John Goulston, Chief Executive of Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, is opening the doors to talk to patients and the community about their care. Joined by our Medical Director, Dr Nnenna Osuji, and our Director of Nursing, Michael Fanning, members of the public are invited to come along and share their experiences.
We are reassuring patients and local residents that robust plans have once again been put in place to maintain safe care during the expected industrial action by junior doctors, beginning on 9 March 2016.
Resolved – Water interruption at Croydon University Hospital
Date of issue: 03 March 2016, 16:30
Earlier this morning, a contractor on site at Croydon University Hospital accidentally hit a water pipe.
On 8 January, the Mayor of Croydon visited CUH for the official opening of the new Neil Hawkins Lifeblood Suite.
Be part of the conversation - Listening into Action
Tuesday 2 February 2016, 17:00 – 19:00, Oasis Restaurant, Croydon University Hospital.
On Tuesday 12 January 2016, junior doctors across the country are expected to go on strike in an on-going dispute with the government over proposed changes their employment contracts.
Doctors at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust in south London have opened a pioneering new unit to offer patients rapid access to specialist hospital treatment – without having to wait in line at Accident & Emergency (A&E).
Stars from the Fairfield Halls Christmas pantomime visited our children's wards to spread smiles and deliver presents.
The Croydon Advertiser are once again doing their Toys for Joy appeal, for children needing to spend time in hospital over the Christmas period. Characters from the Cinderella pantomime at Fairfield Halls will be presenting the gifts to our patients this year.
Patients and families on our Rupert Bear children's ward and our Special Care Baby Unit had some special visitors this week as Crystal Palace captain Mile Jedinak and team mates visited to provide some Christmas cheer and hand out presents.
Croydon Council and Croydon Health Services NHS Trust are inviting residents, organisations and groups interested in community health services in Croydon to submit their views on new partnership agreements between the two organisations.
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust staff won two awards last week at the Health Innovation Network & Health Education South London annual awards for their innovative approaches to improving care in the NHS.
"We are very pleased that the junior doctors and the Health Secretary have agreed to come together to talk about improving seven day care in the NHS and avoid the scheduled industrial action."
On 1 December, junior doctors across the country are expected to go on strike in an on-going dispute with the government over proposed changes to working contracts.
The UK Sikh Healthcare Chaplaincy Group has organised a day of prayer at Croydon University Hospital on Saturday 21 November 2015 to promote links between the NHS and the Sikh community.
Four nursing teams from Croydon Health Services reached the final stages of the national Nursing Times awards, which were held in central London last night (Thursday 12 November) – the most number of finalists from any Trust in the UK.
On Sunday morning (8 November 2015), the Emergency Department and Urgent Care Centre (including out of hours GP care) at Croydon University Hospital moved homes temporarily for 18 months. Access to both services is now via the hospital's Woodcroft Road entrance.
From 8 November 2015, patients arriving on foot for the Emergency Department and Urgent Care Centre at Croydon University Hospital (CUH) will need to use the Woodcroft Road entrance. Blue-light ambulances will arrive via London Road.
My name is Carl Sedge and I came to Croydon four months ago as a new Emergency Department (ED) matron. The reason I came to Croydon was because of the new ED being built. I've been an ED nurse for nearly 20 years, and to be involved in such a dynamic change is very exciting.
The 'Children's Hospital at Home' (CHAH) Team operated by Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, which provides a range of high quality nursing care to children and young people across Croydon both at home and at school, is celebrating its 20 year anniversary this year. A number of teams within the service were cited as providing 'outstanding' care in the Trust's recent Care Quality Commission inspection report.
The 'Croydon Conversations' programme gives Trust patients and local Croydon residents the opportunity to meet individually with the most senior staff at the Trust and raise issues with them directly and have questions answered. There is no need to book an appointment – just drop in.
At 6am on Sunday 8 November, the Emergency Department (ED) and Urgent Care Centre (UCC) at Croydon University Hospital will move from its current location on Mayday Road to the other side of the hospital. The major move will allow work to begin to build Croydon's new £21.25m Emergency Department (Accident & Emergency).
Overall, the Trust has been rated as "requires improvement" and is determined to make continued progress.
The expert 'peer review' of the midwifery leadership of the maternity department at Croydon Health Services has found that our 'Supervisors of Midwives' (SoMs) provide 'excellent care' to the women who choose to deliver here at Croydon. This leadership, they found, demonstrated that SOMs worked to a 'high standard', encouraged 'good team working' and that they 'worked extremely hard' to improve women's experience of the service.
Listening into Action (LiA) is the approach that we use to empower staff and drive improvements in patient care and experience.
Organ donation can make a real difference to many lives, but without the agreement of a donor's family, these donations cannot take place. This year Croydon Health Services staff are backing the 'Seven Days to Say Yes I Donate' National Transplant Week (7-13 September 2015) campaign, which aims to break down organ donation barriers and taboos.
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has appointed a Director of Quality Assurance and Governance to maintain the improvements that the organisation has made to its services and lead further change.
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has bid a sad farewell to its medical director, Mr Steve Ebbs, after more than 25 years of caring for patients.
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust will host its Annual General Meeting on 9 September 2015.
During World Breastfeeding Week this month, Croydon Health Services celebrated 10 years of its Mum2Mum Breastfeeding Peer Support programme, which trains local mums to help other mums with breastfeeding. As well as providing professional breastfeeding support through our post-natal team, the Trust champions best practice, which shows that mothers also benefit from receiving peer support to maintain breastfeeding.
Patients on the Trust's elderly care wards were treated to a 'Memory Lane' tea party last week, the first in an ongoing programme to improve the hospital experiences of older patients.
The lifeblood suite which provides specialist care for haematology patients is being expanded. To enable refurbishment work to take place, on Saturday 8 August there will be disruption to the service area next to the London Wing, including the smoking shelter.
We hope that you will be able to join us on Wednesday 9 September for our Annual General Meeting.
Patient satisfaction with Croydon Health Service's outpatients departments has gone up to nearly 95% as the improvement programme for the service has continued to deliver positive change.
Following a £1.1m investment, the interventional radiology suite (also known as the interventional X-ray suite) at Croydon University Hospital has been fully refurbished. New high definition displays, separate men's and women's rooms and a bright and welcoming environment have transformed the unit, which uses detailed imaging to help perform delicate operations and medical procedures on patients.
The Trust is pleased to be able to confirm that Mr Mike Bailey has been appointed as a full Non-Executive Director at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, where he will be working closely with the Trust's medical staff to improve doctors' training at the Trust.
Patients at Croydon University Hospital were provided with ice lollies this week as part of a range of measures to ensure that patients, their families and staff kept as comfortable as possible on the hottest July day on record.
Croydon Health Services celebrates another year of empowering staff to deliver improvements for patients
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text: Is this to a Windows client, and if so, is it to 9X/ME or NT/2K? If yes, and to NT/2K I might have an answer; I've pushed the service out to individual workstations via the following method: 1. Install VNC service on local PC on either 2K or NT depending on target OS (Target OS has relevance for a regedit merge later). 2. Start service, and give password. 3. Export HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\winvnc and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL. You can merge these into a single reg file for simplicity's sake, mine is tridia.reg. 4. Copy winvnc.exe, omnithread_rt.dll, VNCHooks.dll and zlib.dll to a central location, such as a server 5. Create a batch file with the following (or similar, depending upon where you put the copied files, etc.)lines in the same place as the copied files: MD "C:\Program Files\TridiaVNC\win32" copy \\SERVER\APPS\Tridia\*.* "C:\Program Files\TridiaVNC\win32" /y %WINDIR%\regedit.exe /s \\SERVER\APPS\Tridia\Settings\tridia.reg 6. Use task scheduling service (on 2K, or NT4 if IE5 or later is installed, AT service if NT4, but no IE5) to run the batch file with the command line pointed to your central distribution point, and with admin privs. 7. Restart target workstation. I know it's a little longwinded (apologies), but it's worked for me. Haven't tried anything similar on 9X or ME, though. Nick Palmer IT Manager > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Kreis [mailto:ckreis "at" asp.md] > Sent: 08 June 2001 17:53 > To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com > Subject: RE: Push to Remote PC > > > Hi Scott, see my message 2 before yours (CODE wanted...); > looking for the > same functionality as are many; the "internal" version of VNC > has it but not > the external! I did find some code about how to do it in the > mailing list > archives; > > here it is; I unfortunately don't know how to use it don't > know if you do! > > ----------------------------------- > >I want to set up the Windows viewer to > >auto-listen for server startups. > > > I'm not exactly sure what you mean here. It is possible to > set the viewer > to wait for incoming connections from the server, by running it with > the -listen option (see the docs). > > > What we don't include in the public version is a method of > initiating these > connections from the server. We do it here using our CORBA > infrastructure, > but there are various other ways it could be accomplished > including, for > example, command line options on startup. > > > If anyone wants to add such a feature to the X server, look > for the function > rfbReverseConnection. On the Windows server you'd need code > something like > the following: > > > > VSocket *clientsock; > > > // Create the client socket > clientsock = new VSocket; > if (clientsock == NULL) > throw vnc::connectionFailed(); > if (!clientsock->Create()) > { > delete clientsock; > throw vnc::connectionFailed(); > } > if (!clientsock->Connect((char *)address, port)) > { > delete clientsock; > throw vnc::connectionFailed(); > } > > > // Ok, we've connected back to the desired client, now add > it to the server > vncClientId client = > m_server->AddClient(clientsock, > TRUE, > teleport, > capability, > enableinputs, > enableinputs); > if (client < 0) > throw vnc::connectionFailed(); > ----------------------------------------- > > If you manage to make it work I'd love to hear about it thanks Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com > [mailto:owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com]On Behalf Of Scott Ward > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 12:09 PM > To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com > Subject: Push to Remote PC > > > Is there a way we can do a push to a remote pc to take control of the > machine? 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Nov 29, 2012 11:00 AM
Oh my, are we loving this FWK Herringbone Hooded Padded Vest ($460). It's a perfectly stylish piece for a bit of winter layering, but we're not so crazy about the car-payment-plus price tag. Happily, we've found a nearly spot-on lookalike in this MyHaroo Zip Accent... [More]
Nov 26, 2012 8:10 AM
WAIT! It's not too late to buy a winter coat for the year! Even one this affordable. The Via Spiga Luxurious Wool Coat ($150) is, in fact, quite luxurious, even without the extravagant price tag that accompanies other items that get smacked with that word.... [More]
Nov 24, 2012 8:50 AM
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.... [More]
Nov 23, 2012 12:00 AM
We're lining up fantastic deals so we can shop all our favorite stores this Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and at the top of our list is DJPremium, where we'll save 25% off sitewide starting Friday, 11/23/2012. We've already found tons of fabulous items we... [More]
Nov 22, 2012 10:03 AM
Layering with blazers is so hot right now. Wearing a layered blazer that looks like a stuffed sock... not so much. That's why we're giving the thumbs-up to this Hacking Knit Blazer ($300). With its built-in cuffs and collar, it gives you all the fun... [More]
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Nov 21, 2012 10:20 AM
It's the ultimate in class-meets-country: this Camouflage Fitted Blazer ($40) takes a prep school staple and adds just the right touch of Big Buck Hunter. Dress it down with jeans and boots or spice it up with a sequin tank and a bottle of Korbel.... [More]
Nov 20, 2012 8:35 AM
We can't help but feel a certain warm nostalgia at the notion of picking up this classically styled Members Only Nylon Vintage Racer Jacket ($88). Not that we remember the originals. Course not. Cough.... [More]
Nov 13, 2012 10:44 AM
We definitely have a coat fetish, especially when it comes to winter coats. We love the bold Santa Fe print of the BB Dakota Koa Coat ($130). That fur-trimmed hood and those large patch pockets will definitely be put to good use now that those... [More]
Nov 8, 2012 8:05 AM
Sparkles and fringe? This Leona Jacket ($395) is like the fashion equivalent of an ice cream sundae with both hot fudge and sprinkles. In other words, it's delicious. We can already imagine how ideal the loose, kimono-style cut will look topping off (and classing up)... [More]
Nov 7, 2012 11:25 AM
Rebecca V. wrote: "Hello, Outblush! It's getting cold outside... and I stumbled upon the cutest coat in the whole wide world this weekend at my local Macy's. The blue is an amazing sapphire that the photo does not do justice. It is refreshing in the... [More]
Nov 6, 2012 8:20 AM
Skinny black pants, gold-studded black booties, and a skintight plunging V-neck top together are an outfit. But when the Rag & Bone Sliver Tuxedo Jacket ($595) is buttoned on top of all of that, then it's a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am, honest-to-goodness ensemble.... [More]
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The Ryu Meet in the Mezzanine Coat ($175) is truly fit for a princess. It may not be warm, but it is breathtaking. We love the vintage feel of it; to be honest, we love everything about it - tulle skirt, satin sash, beige rosettes... [More]
Oct 25, 2012 8:30 AM
Is it possible to wear this Swift & Cliff Hooded Knit Cape ($281) and maintain the hard lines shown here? Maybe with a shower curtain rod, some crinoline, and some spray starch. Those more home-ec inclined than us, please help.... [More]
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If purple is going to be the only option for tops and blouses this fall, then we are sticking with this Calvin Klein Green Collared Wool Coat ($150) for outerwear. It's warm and stylish, which are two requirements we won't waver on this time of... [More]
Oct 24, 2012 9:07 AM
We would have never thought to pattern the hoodie portion of a pullover. Or even the pocket, for that matter. And this is precisely why we're writing about the Splicing Ethnic Style Pattern Pocket Hoodie ($12) and not designing clothing. What's a Cheap Thrill? Just... [More]
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Have you seen this woman?
UPDATE: Mrs. Miranda was located in Boca Raton, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said around 8:30 Thursday night. She is well, the agency said, and was going to be returned to her family.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is seeking help from the public to locate Amelia Miranda, who left her Lake Worth home on Southwest M Street Thursday around lunchtime.
Mrs. Miranda, 75, is 5-feet tall, 160-pounds, has blondish/grey hair and brown eyes. She walks slowly and, PBSO says, she has dementia.
The agency is asking anyone who sees her to call 561-688-3400 or the nearest law enforcement agency.


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Jul 20, 2012 10:50 AM
We're on the hunt for things to truss, now that we've got this Wood Spool Stand with Twine & Scissors ($28). We did a turkey. There were a couple of next year's Christmas presents. We put bows on the houseplants, and now the cats seem to be hiding. We love the rustic style of this useful and lovely kitchen accessory so much, we simply can't help ourselves.
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Neither threats of rising inflation nor constricting
credit woes can dampen the holiday spirit, but they can tighten the
budgets of even the most enthusiastic gift-givers.
You don't have to take a "bah humbug" attitude
if you're feeling a financial pinch or even just want to simplify
your celebrations. Frugal holidays can still be filled with beautiful,
thoughtful sentiments that will warm the cold winter months.
Choosing the right gift
Gifts can be inexpensive without being cheap. Cheap is slapping
some wrapping paper around a container of travel-sized soaps and
lotions pilfered from hotels, and considering the obligation fulfilled;
inexpensive is considering the tastes and personality of the recipients
and finding something appropriate that happens to not cost very
"It doesn't have to cost a lot of money
for it to be a thoughtful present, in fact, some of the most thoughtful presents
don't cost anything at all," says Sherri Athay, gift consultant and author of
"Present Perfect."
Accessorizing your present can be an inexpensive and
interesting way to add some pizzazz. For instance, when giving to
a cook, you could get a nice mortar and pestle and include some
herbs or fancy peppercorns. Or for the bird-watcher in your life,
you could present them with a new birdhouse from a craft store,
hand-paint it yourself and include a disposable camera to snap photos
of their new avian friends.
Looks matter. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear but
you can dress up something modest such as a scented candle and bath
"Anytime you can embellish it or do some creative packaging,
it enhances the gift. A lot of it just has to do with the presentation
and passing along the sentiment that goes along with the gift,"
says Athay. This can require some ingenuity. Whether you choose
to do something as simple as buying a pretty bag and stuffing in
some tissue paper or going all out and covering a cardboard box
with paper and decorations; anything from beads to ribbons or pictures,
the effort can make a big difference.
It's the thought that counts -- as long as the thought being broadcast
is not, "I have nothing but contempt for you so here's a crappy
gift someone gave me two years ago." Since the term was coined in
the "Label Maker" episode of "Seinfeld" that originally aired Jan.19,
1995, according to The Internet Movie Database or IMDb.com, there's
been a lot written about the practice of regifting. Needless to
say, regifting has been widely accepted as the phrase has worked
its way into the lexicon.
"I think that if you're passing along a present
that somebody will enjoy and it meets all the criteria that you would use when
buying a new present for them; then, by all means, pass it along," says Athay.
"As long as it's perfect for the person you're giving it to, it's fine."
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Talking turkey, or how Momma Dodd answered a prayer
I don't know about y'all, but I'm ready for some turkey. Man oh man, turkey, dressin', giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, and chocolate pie, yummm, yum. I can't wait. It really brings back the memories, too.
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Cheryl Burke of "Dancing With the Stars" looks amazing after her 15 lb. weight loss, but her fans are a bit concerned for her. On Friday, TMZ shared about her weight loss and what she has to say about it. She wants her fans to know that even though she is smaller now she did it all in a healthy way and is taking care of herself.
She gave a statement to TMZ and said, "I didn't have plastic surgery and I don't have an eating disorder. I'm just actually happy." Several fans and haters have went to her social networks telling her that she doesn't look good or that she lost too much weight. Cheryl is just living healthy now. The "DWTS" pro used to party and drink and she has totally stopped that now. Check out Cheryl with Drew Carey this season on the show at this link.
A few people even said that she was dying of AIDS which started rumors. Cheryl Burke is not dying and is doing just fine fans there is nothing to worry about with this girl. You will see when she is back on the "Dancing With the Stars" floor showing off her amazing body.
ABC News shared a statement from Burke. She said, "I've been lucky enough to have a great group of fans who have always posted incredibly kind things on my pages. I was actually looking forward to posting vacation photos since I've been eating healthy and feeling so good. I totally let my guard down and wasn't expecting people to start hurling insults, especially things about me having fake lips and plastic surgery? That's literally crazy. There are other photos where my lips look like that. I started thinking about re-posting those photos and then I realized I had to take a step back."
Hopefully people will start to give Cheryl Burke a break. This girl looks amazing and there is nothing wrong with that at all.
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Sandra Jones, '87 MBA
Owner, Bring it Home Products; All Things Illini
Sandra Jones is a successful entrepreneur who started and currently runs two businesses: Bring it Home Products and All Things Illini. Jones has operated Bring it Home Products since 2007 and launched All Things Illini in May 2011. These small businesses operate in the Greek licensed market and collegiate retail market to sell uniquely branded merchandise and gifts. All Things Illini also sells items created by students and alumni, giving this enterprise a family-feel.
Previously, Jones served as Chief Operating Officer for Provena Covenant Medical Center from 1985-2003. She managed most of the hospital's day-to-day operations and was responsible for many notable accomplishments at Provena during her 18-year tenure. Jones created PRO Ambulance, the hospital's emergency transportation company for Champaign County and its surrounding communities. Jones also built physician office buildings and a regional cancer center, recruited many physicians, strategically planned the future of the hospital, and facilitated board retreats for hospital boards, mental health boards, and other organizations.
Jones's experience in business and the medical field make her a valued contributor to several boards and organizations. She is the Community Member for the Medical Investigational Review Board, where she aids in reviewing University of Illinois' medical research involving human subjects. She recently completed 15 years of service as the Treasurer of the Champaign Public Library and a multi-year term as Board Chair for the Urban League of Champaign County. Currently she is a member of the Executive Women's Club of Champaign County and a volunteer driver for the local woman's homeless shelter, Austin's Place.
Jones earned her MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


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Martin family asks DOJ for prosecutor probe
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a black teenager who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer are asking federal officials to investigate a prosecutor who recused himself in the case.
The attorney for Trayvon Martin's parents sent a letter today to the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division asking officials to expand their probe to include the decision-making in the State Attorney's Office run by Norm Wolfinger.
Wolfinger recused himself from the case and a special prosecutor is now investigating the shooting.
Martin's parents want to know why Wolfinger's office made the decision not to charge George Zimmerman after the Feb. 26 shooting. Zimmerman told police he was attacked and fired in self-defense.
The Justice Department is already looking into the Sanford Police Department's handling of the case.
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Sheeple Herder Great Post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, great post!! Unfortunately the victims were white so there will be no "quilts for Nancy" and the reverends won't be out asking for justice.
Wow Herd, what a touching video. And of course the Media ignores it because its a Black on White crime instead of White Hispanic on Black crime.


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Winning in the fast pitch softball lane has been rough for the Lady Drifters lately. After a tough 12-0 shutout District loss to Essex (7-4-1), a 5-0 loss to Northumberland, and 20-0 loss to cross-town rival King George, the latter stages of the season seems to have worn on the now 4-4 Drifters. With a home game against Northern Neck Division-leading Lancaster coming up on Thursday, May 6, the competition will not get any easier.
The deciding factor in the game was pitching. Trojan pitcher Britany Jordan prevented any threat of a Drifter rally throughout the game. She pitched seven shutout innings that yielded 14 strikeouts, two walks and three hits. Drifters pitching ace, Karley Inscoe accumulated six strikeouts, while giving up 12 hits and six walks.
Leading the way for the Trojans on offense was Molly Muse with a score and two doubles for three RBIs. Muse's teammate Ebony Tunstall accounted for a triple, two hits and an RBI.
Every member on the Trojan roster experienced some degree of action during the game.
In the top of the second inning, Tunstall began the inning with a triple. She later scored on a scoring error, giving the Trojans a 1-0 lead.
The Trojans picked up two more runs in the third inning from a double by Kendal Tignor and a single by Taylor Glass. Inscoe avoided an early blowout by pitching her way out of the inning with the bases loaded.
In the fifth inning, the Trojans offense picked up three more runs from doubles by Becky Jones and Mary Muse.
Behind 6-0, the Drifters attempted to get their offense on track after Madison Gorfida led off the bottom of the fifth with single. However, she was later thrown out trying to steal second.
In the sixth inning, Essex produced four more runs, courtesy of a triple by Kelsi Baughan, and aggressive Trojan base running. Ahead 10-0 in the top of the seventh inning, the Trojans added two more runs to complete the shutout.
On Monday afternoon, the Drifters defeated King & Queen, 16-5. Colonial Beach returned to form with 20 total hits.
Results of the Washington & Lee game were not available due to press deadlines.
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Normally you define a function to be a map on a set. But how about defining a function, in Category Theory, as a collection of arrows?
Take this cateogry
Objects: true, false.
true -> true
false -> false
true -> false
false -> true
Here I had to specify FOUR arrows, but I could summarize this collection of arrows as TWO functions:
id(x) = x // replaces the first 2
not(x) = !x //replaces the second 2
If you want to maintain "arrowhood", which is more categoric, you could write a meta-arrow
idArrow(x) = x -> x
notArrow(x) = x -> not(x)
Either way you compress information.
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Posted on Friday, November 24, 2006 by Brenda Tucker
CCA presents its annual Holiday Art Fair on Saturday, December 9, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will be held on the Oakland campus, located at 5212 Broadway (at College Avenue).
This year, shoppers can enjoy live jazz music while perusing one-of-a-kind gifts made by students, alumni, and staff. The sale will feature unique yet inexpensive handcrafted items, such as ceramics, blown glass, jewelry, clothing, photography, textiles, and paintings.
Proceeds go to the individual artists. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on nearby streets.
For more information, call 510.594.3666.
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Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts is the largest regionally accredited, independent school of art and design in the western United States.
Noted for the interdisciplinary nature and breadth of its programs, CCA offers 20 undergraduate and 6 graduate majors in the areas of fine arts, architecture, design, and writing. The college offers bachelor of architecture, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of architecture, master of arts, and master of fine arts degrees.
With campuses in Oakland and San Francisco, CCA currently enrolls 1,600 full-time students.


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One and the Same
We seldom notice it, but words such as "equal,"
"identical" and "the same" conceal a deep
ambiguity. Consider this pair of sentences:
On Friday Alex and Baxter wore the same necktie.
On Friday Alex and Baxter had the same teacher.
These two instances of "the same" are not at all the same.
Unless Alex and Baxter were yoked together at the neck on Friday,
they wore two ties; but they had only one teacher. In the first case
two things are alike enough to be considered indistinguishable, and
in the second case there is just one thing, which is necessarily the
same as itself. The two concepts are so thoroughly entangled that
it's hard to find words to speak about them. Where confusion is
likely I shall emphasize the distinction with the terms
"separate but equal" and "selfsame."
When there's some uncertainty about whether two things are alike or
are really just one thing, the usual strategy is to examine them
(it?) more closely. If you study the two neckties long enough,
you're sure to find some difference between them. Even identical
twins are never truly identical; when you get to know them better,
you learn that one has a tattoo, and the other can't swim. (If all
else fails, you can ask them; they know who they are.)
The strategy of looking harder until you spot a difference doesn't
work as well inside the computer, where everything is a pattern of
bits, and separate patterns really can be equal. Bits have no
blemishes or dents or distinguishing features.
Another way to decide between the two kinds of sameness is through
the rule of physics (or metaphysics) that a single object cannot be
in two places at the same time, and two objects cannot occupy the
same space at the same time. Thus all you have to do is bring Alex
and Baxter together in the same room and check their neckwear.
The computational equivalent of this idea states that two objects
are in fact the selfsame object only if they have the same address
in memory. Thus two copies of an object can be distinguished, even
though they correspond bit-for-bit, because they have different
addresses. This is a practical method in widespread use, and yet it
has certain unsatisfactory aspects. In the first place it assumes
that the computer's memory is organized into an array of unique
addresses, which is certainly the usual practice but is not the only
possibility. Second, letting identity hinge on location means that
an object cannot move without changing into something else. This
idea that where you live is who you are contradicts everyday
experience. It is also a fiction in modern computer systems, where
data are constantly shuffled about by mechanisms such as virtual
memory, caches and the storage-management technique called garbage
collection; to maintain the continuity of identity, all of these
schemes have to fool programs into thinking that objects don't
move—a source of subtle bugs.
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Preseason camp started with a team meeting on Sunday night and the first practice for the Buffs is scheduled for Monday night. Colorado will conduct two-a-days, team meetings, weight lifting sessions and other team building activities over the next few weeks leading up to the first match on August 27 against Furman at the Coors Events Center.
"Players and coaches alike are meeting this year's preseason camp with great enthusiasm," coach Liz Kritza said. "We have a lot of work to do and we have assembled a great group to continue the building of this volleyball program. It takes extraordinary effort, discipline, and intense belief to change a culture. We have an amazing opportunity this preseason to train unlike any other college team and are committed to making the most of our training camp."
This year's squad is very different from last year's team that finished 7-22 overall. The Buffs return just a pair of starters and letterwinners in junior Rosie Steinhaus and sophomore Kerra Schroeder. In the offseason, the Buffs added 14 new faces to the roster, five transfers and nine prep athletes.
"There were a lot of new faces in the room for the start of this season, but it is the sense of purpose that really resonated with me in our first meeting, and we need to make sure it transfers to the court," Kritza said. "This preseason will provide this young group with the opportunity to learn to overcome challenges as they acclimate to the college game."
Colorado opens the season at home with a pair of matches. The Buffs will face Furman on August 27 and Duke on August 28. Both matches are slated for 6:30 p.m. starts. Season tickets can be purchased online at CUBuffs.com for $25 or by calling 303-49-BUFFS.
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UK Surprise: Bank of England Mulling More QE
As the Federal Reserve prepares to exit its bond-buying program, QE2, central bankers across the pond are leaning the other way.
The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, the UK's version of the FOMC, released its June meeting minutes this morning, and it included a fresh discussion of re-launching QE. "For some of these members, it was possible that further asset purchases might become warranted if the downside risks to medium-term inflation materialised."
In other words, fears of economic calamity are on the rise within the hallowed halls along Threadneedle Street.
The nine-member MPC has been deadlocked over policy for many months. At the June meeting, two members voted in favor of raising rates to tamp down inflation (currently running north of 4%), seven voted to stand pat. In terms of more QE, only one member, American Adam Posen, voted in favor.
Those are similar to previous voting patterns, but the minutes indicate that more members are fretting about the economic situation and thinking about more QE. "It means that even if the recent weakness is just transitory then some members are worried enough to be considering quantitative easing anyway with the underlying state of the economy," said Andy Chaytor, an interest rate strategist at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Gilts surged and the pound slumped sharply after the minutes were released, reflecting a jolt of pessimism about the U.K. economy.


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Filipino Facebook users react to satire post: THE KILLERS MANILA CONCERT PROTESTED BY RELIGIOUS GROUPS
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A couple of friends shared this Facebook post that caught my attention today, about religious groups in Manila supposedly protesting an upcoming The Killers concert because of the band's name. I read it, and it didn't take much to realize it was satire. The tone clued me in, but it was really the use of the names "The Virgin Maries" and "Yema Kutsinta" (popular Filipino desserts) that gave it away, along with citing the author's own Twitter account and a nonexistent Instagram post (Edit: Also, look closely at the photo).
When I first checked, there were over 500 shares. Now, only a few hours later, there are over 1,200 shares. An alarming majority of them, I'd estimate about 90% at least, didn't seem to get the joke.
Rough translation: "Why are people in the Philippines so stupid? They haven't even listened to the songs and they're already saying this just because of the band's name. There are just too many religious groups these days crying for attention."
Upon realizing that people were missing the satire, my knee-jerk reaction was to post about my disbelief. It blew my mind how quickly this article with made-up quotes, comical names and make-believe events had swayed the opinion of hundreds of people overnight, without even really trying to hide its true intentions.
But had it really swayed anyone's opinion?
My boyfriend told me that most people probably didn't even read the post itself — they read the title, saw the photo, and shared. I thought about it and decided he was right, but that only made me see this in a different, possibly worse light: Maybe people didn't catch the satire precisely because their negative opinion was set long before the post was up. Maybe Mr. Arboleda (the poster) simply give them a reason to express said opinion.
Scrolling through several dozen comments of those who shared the post, I saw a lot of intelligent people with well-thought-out reactions. I refuse to believe that they just didn't get the satire, and argue instead that they probably just didn't get that far.
Maybe a lot of Filipinos these days immediately tend to think the worst of their country, of its people, of religion, of people in general. That bothered me, not just the prejudice itself, but that there's probably a number of reasons why that prejudice came about.
I haven't decided which one I think is worse.
I tweeted Mr. Arboleda and he seems to be having a good laugh about it. Gotta hand it to him, he wrote that article in such a way that it really could seem passable for published online news. Wouldn't be surprised if this makes it on the local news tonight!


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Denner / Shermann has released a new video for the track 'Son of Satan', taken from their upcoming album, 'Masters of Evil', out June 24th. To watch 'Son of Satan', please visit metalblade.com/dennershermannRead More
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If flaccid, identikit, breakdown-laden 'metal' is the disease, Necromancing the Stone is the cure. With their upcoming debut full-length, 'Jewel of the Vile', the group plans to vanquish 'Breakdownicus Gratuitous.'Read More
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A photographic journey among the Korowai and Kombai of West Papua, Indonesia. Certainly one of the most remote places left on earth.
Grenville is a freelance photographer based in the north of England. His work is varied including work for the BBC and film stills for feature films such as Hush, The Reeds and Splintered. He studied at Plymouth college of Art & Design in 1986 and later at Central St Martins College in London. Some of his fine art work utilizes his printmaking skills in combination with his photography. He has a passion for tribal cultures. This led him to travel to Asia where he photographed the Vietnam Hill Tribes of the central highlands. A year later he traveled to the remote jungles of West Papua to document the Korowai and Mek tribes and most recently the Kombai and Asmat. He was shortlisted in 2004 and was the runner up in 2008 for the Wanderlust Travel Photographer of the Year. In 2008 he was one of only 22 photographers selected from international applicants to participate in a 5 day Magnum Workshop. He has exhibited at The Photographers Gallery, London.and the Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool.
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The ABC's of Reject Animals
What about the rest of them?
Ashlee Talley
This book examines the ABCs of the forgotten animals. Don't expect cats and dogs here.
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your beaver is not a picture of a beaver at all, there is no big flat tail, i think you have a picture of a capybara or something
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{dress & cardigan: vintage shoes: gap (old but love these) bag: vintage chanel glasses: american apparel jewels: jennifer meyer & c/o: anjolee}
If you haven't noticed by now I'm clearly obsessed with this cardigan. To me it's the epitome of Fall, and I've been wearing it with almost every outfit. Let's be honest, a dress with a tuxedo-inspired bust can be a little iffy, but a cardi like this is able to give vintage a little modern boost and put all of that uncertainty aside. I hardly have to do anything else other than throw on a pair of booties and glasses. Sometimes it's just the little things that really bring a whole look together.


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I have had the privilege recently of addressing a number of groups about the events in the Middle East. During my presentation I identify our enemy. By "our" I mean the West, by our "enemy" I mean shariah Islam. It is as simple at that.
During my presentation I quote what Samuel P. Huntington described as a "clash of civilizations". Huntington defines Islam and the West as civilizations, with different core cultural beliefs, religions and values. What most Americans do understand is we are at war in the Middle East, they see the violence on television daily. What they do not know is who are we fighting.
My premise is we are fighting the ideology "Shariah Islam" and those who embrace it.
It is important to define our enemy because if we do not the U.S. and the West cannot have a coherent strategy for defeating it or at a minimum defending ourselves against it. The U.S. national command authority for decades has focused on terrorism and specific individuals (Osama bin Laden) and groups ( al Qa'eda) defined as terrorist by the Department of State. That focus does not help to define the ideology that creates those who eventually commit the act of terror.
The United West has developed a military grade activist team to define, combat and defeat the ideology of Shariah Islam.
The United West (TUW) grew out of a grassroots movement into a full fledged international organization over the past four years. Under the leadership of Tom Trento, TUW began with the Florida Security Council in 2007. Tom's team quickly established a national impact through speaking, writing, video presentations, grassroots activism and investigative reporting. With trips to Europe in 2009, relationships were developed which resulted in a united effort to fight the encroachment of shariah Islam in North America and Europe. In mid-2010 it became apparent that the national and international activity of "Team Trento," had expanded beyond the borders of Florida. Therefore, extensive effort went into developing an organization The United West (TUW) functioning as an "umbrella entity," overseeing and managing coordinated divisions, all based upon unifying principles.
The United West is dedicated to defending and advancing Western Civilization against both the kinetic and cultural onslaught of Shariah Islam.
There is a debate going on across the world about Shariah Islam. Most recently Irshad Manji in a Wall Street Journal column "Islam Needs Reformers, Not Moderates" asks, "Bin Laden and his followers represent a real interpretation of Islam that begs to be challenged relentlessly and visibly. Why does this happen so rarely?"
Irshad goes on to state:
"'Moderate' Muslims are part of the problem. As Martin Luther King Jr. taught many white Americans, in times of moral crisis, moderation cements the status quo. Today, what Islam needs is not more 'moderates' but more self-conscious 'reformists.' It is reformists who will bring to my faith the debate, dissent and reinterpretation that have carried Judaism and Christianity into the modern world." [My emphasis]
But there are "moderate Muslims" represented by groups like CAIR who do not want this debate, dissent and reinterpretation to occur at all. CAIR, ISNA, MSA and NAIT want to stop any debate, dissent or reinterpretation. That is the problem.
Those Muslims and non-Muslims who stand up and debate, dissent and reinterpret are demonized, called Islamophobic or racist. In some cases, as is pointed out in the video below, they are literally thrown out of the window. That does not further the cause to define the enemy and undermine his ideology - Shariah Islam.
On April 3, 2011 at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's West Coast Retreat in Palos Verdes, California, Robert Spencer debated Muslim reformer Dr. Zuhdi Jasser on the prospects for reform in Islam. Andrew McCarthy, author of Willful Blindness, was moderating. Please watch the video of this compelling debate below.
Robert Spenser is a non-Muslim critiquing Shariah Islam (or Islamism as describe by Andy McCarthy). A look from the outside in. Dr. Jasser is a practicing Muslim with a view from the inside out. Both call for the separation of the Muslim mosque from the Muslim state or imposition upon a non-Muslim state. Both have the same goal in mind - the reformation of Shariah Islam. Both want Muslims, like Christians and Jews, to question their spiritual leaders (Imams) in an open forum without fear of retribution or marginalization. Both want change and both are right.
I believe it will take both internal and external pressures to meaningfully reform Sharia Islam. Robert and Zuhdi are saying the same things but in different ways. Both are needed according to The United West.
Please watch this compelling debate about Sharia Islam. It is well worth your time.
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Nt scan.. why wouldn't doc suggest? Dr. K?
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are you seeing a perinatologist / maternal-fetal health doctor? Ask for a referral for one if not and ask for an NT scan when you make an appointment. But you are right - you need to do this asap as the time limit is usually 13 weeks and 6 days.
There are other tests for chromosomal problems - ask the perinatologists about the Verifi test if you haven't had it already. But there are some things, like a cystic hygroma, that can be picked up on an NT scan but aren't necessarily chromosomal (so aren't picked up by those tests). Most things, however, can be picked up by either a chromosomal test (like the Verifi or an amnio) or the anatomy scan (17-20 weeks) so you could have those two tests done if you're too late for the NT scan.
It depends on where you live.Some places the NT scan is not the standard of care
I am in WA and many of my friends were not offered the NT as standard during pregnancy. For example, Group Health does not do them at all really unless you have some early risk factor. At my OB practice, half the docs or so order them standard and the others will if you want one. Every office is different.
Mom to 2 boys. 2 and 5yo when brother #3 arrives! High risk, Lovenox shooter for the final time. The countdown begins!
I am 36 and was also not offered the NT scan. It doesn't appear to be a standard test here. I am now 28 weeks and 4 days, so far my quad screen was all within normal ranges and my 20 week anatomy scan was healthy with absolutely no markers to be concerned about.
baby # 1 - 3/28/12 lost at 5weeks
baby #2 EDD 4/23/13 - It's a boy!! Born on 5/3/13


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The Outer Hebrides
A view of Harris, May 2009
Catherine Walter
A compilation of photographs of the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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2008: Appeared in the Kent State game as a member of special teams.
2007: Started seven of 10 games in which he played. Started the Huskie Stadium opener vs. SIU (9-8). Caught one pass for nine yards vs. Ball State (11-24), his only catch of the year. Started consecutive games against Toledo (10-17), Kent State (11-10) and Navy (11-17). Moved up the depth chart as injuries hit the tight end position.
2006: Redshirted.
High School: First team Catholic League All-White Division, honorable mention Kankakee Daily Journal All-Area, and Illinois Football Coaches Association Academic All-State as a senior. Caught 22 passes for 340 yards (15.5 avg.) and six touchdowns while adding 30 tackles, 10 pass deflections, and seven sacks as defensive end on 9-3 conference champion and Class 5A playoff qualifier during his senior season. Entered senior campaign on preseason Chicago Sun-Times league Top Five Players and Area Top 100 Players lists. Had 20 receptions for 280 yards (14.0 avg.) and seven TDs on playoff qualifier as a junior. National Honor Society, Illinois State Scholar, and Honor Roll student.
Personal: Born Sept. 4, 1987. Accountancy major with a 3.349 GPA is a Huskie Scholar. Son of Dave and Cheryl Beckner.


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In addition to getting past a rival Columbine and dealing with a packed gymnasium, the Chatfield Chargers had to overcome themselves Jan. 13.
"We were nervous coming out. Big game," Chatfield guard Kyle Evans said. "But we got it under control in the second half."
The Chargers erased — OK, more like scrubbed and bleached — any thoughts of an upset bid as they rolled to a 71-46 victory by outscoring the visiting Rebels 39-23 in the second half.
Teacher Geol Weber is right at home in the trailer park.
"I absolutely love it," said Weber, as a loud whine emitted from the furnace in his temp classroom at Ken Caryl Middle School. "I call them the trailer park … If you look underneath, there's a spot to put wheels."
The structures are a separate physical entity from the main school building, which gives them an entirely different feel, he said.
"Given the choice, I would teach in a temp any day of the week. It seems like a home out here.
These are a few of Olivia Leyshock's favorite things: Beating both local rivals in the span of two days.
"That's the best feeling in the world," the Columbine junior forward said Jan. 15 after the Rebels dropped Dakota Ridge 48-45, two days after defeating Chatfield. "We let them up a little bit, but we got back, and I think just the chemistry really helped us out."
The most important part of Veronica Maes' job might just be taking a few minutes to converse with students. The assistant principal at Ken Caryl Middle School drops into the cafeteria every day with principal Pat Sandos to catch up with kids and see how life is treating them.
"It's the highlight of my day," said Maes, now well into her second year at the school. "The students are used to seeing Pat and I out at lunch every day. We interact with them. We try and make it fun."
The process of learning how to be an effective teacher is fresh in the minds of many of the predominantly young faculty at Ken Caryl Middle School.
With a modest five years of experience, science teacher Kiley Mack is no exception.
Medical marijuana has made its way to South Jeffco.
Despite a lack of zoning regulations that would allow their legal existence, pot dispensaries have recently sprouted intermittently in unincorporated Jefferson County.
A few such businesses have ceased their marijuana-distribution operations after being cited for zoning violations, but at least one dispensary has remained open for more than two months.
Question: What happened to the temporary classroom building on the west side of Colorow Elementary? Is the school planning new construction?
Ken Caryl Middle School apparently will remain open.
The Jeffco school board gathered for a special meeting Jan. 9 and ultimately decided that closing the school is not a viable option, despite a recommendation from a district committee to shutter the school and send its students to Deer Creek Middle School.
"That wasn't a solution anymore," board member Paula Noonan said of the informal vote to remove the option from consideration.
Teacher Connie Wilson knows there's more than one way to teach math.
"As a child, I was dyslexic. I'm still dyslexic," she said. "I struggled with it as a child."
Through her difficulty in learning to read, Wilson discovered the power of approaching a subject with different strategies. The Ken Caryl Middle School teacher didn't learn the same way most children did, and she doesn't expect her seventh-grade students to either.
WHEAT RIDGE — There's winning and then there's dominating.
To say that the Chatfield Chargers won their wrestling match against Wheat Ridge on Jan. 14 wouldn't do the team justice. They dominated.
The Chargers made it look easy as their wrestlers quickly pinned the Farmers in almost every match and coasted to a 72-12 victory as they hope to improve their No. 12 ranking in class 5A.
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What does an empiricist believe?
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
By Sam Harris
256 pages W.W. Norton, 2004
Reviewed by Benjamin Rutter
In the early months of the century, Sam Harris found himself apprenticed in the study of the brain. Combing over colored scans of minds at work, Harris, who is a graduate student, sought to correlate cognition and behavior. On September 12, 2001, his own behavior changed, and he began to write a book. Adjustments in his circuitry had corresponded in those days to the view that something in the world was going quickly, badly wrong. What was this? Elected leaders spoke of moral evil. For his colleagues at the MRI lab, the trouble hung in a mesh of inequalities. For Harris, however, the answer was more simple. The world had fallen ill not from want of goodness, or of goods, but from a diet poor in basic information.
What stokes Harris to a rage — you can see the blooms of scarlet in his brain scan — is not ignorance itself but its willful cultivation. It is said that we could feed the world with the grain we leave to rot. And for Harris, we could snuff out war with nothing but the common facts, the metric tons of them, already in our grasp. But for faith. The mystery of unevidenced belief is, for Harris, nothing but a danger awaiting its occasion. Several years ago, a fire broke out at a school in Mecca. Because the female students there were known not to properly scarf their heads, religious police kept firemen from the building. Fourteen young women died. So patent a horror, Harris argues, cannot be the work of evil, or of the much-discussed humiliation of Islam. It is, instead, the fruit of simple ignorance, a gross misestimation of the nature of our human needs. Harris, in rebuke, calls his book The End of Faith.
The reader is unsure at first if Harris wants to make a case or merely file for one. Save for its beguiling close, in which Buddhism and brain science are worked into secular equivalents of faith, the book is a wedge of invective marbled with disdain. Predictably, certain passages appear gratuitious. The contents of one chapter, a grisly waxwork of religious crimes, are largely available (with pictures) from a World Book encyclopedia. In the commentary on Islam that follows, Harris makes up for what appears to be inexpertise by drubbing us with pages of citations from the (evidently barbarous) Koran. Whatever license we extend him here, on what for some of us is foreign ground, we may wish to rescind upon a vetting of his Bible scholarship. You may have gotten wind of this, but the good book is in fact a pretty rough draft. Among its elementary mistakes — wet papyrus? tricky Greek? — it appears that Jesus Christ both is and is not the same as God. Whoops! Harris knows how to press the advantage: "There is, perhaps, no greater evidence for the imperfection of the Bible as an account of reality, divine or mundane, than such instances of self-refutation." It looks like a technical knockout, of course, and readers safely ignorant of Christian thought — of, say, "the Trinity" — are sure to score it that way.
Harris fares better in his analysis of politics, though his views here — centrally, that "men like bin Laden actually believe what they say they believe" — merit attention not for their novelty so much as for their membership in present trends. Christopher Hitchens and the writers at The New Republic have argued for some time that fundamentalism must be taken at its word. Scholars across the social sciences, in fact, seem more willing than ever to take the self-reports of human beings in earnest. New work on the crusades, The New Yorker has recently observed, relaxes the determinism of older economic models and gives greater rein to the role of ideology — that is, of faith — in the reconstruction of the past. Jared Diamond's latest book, in which the failure of a Viking colony turns upon the settlers' proud refusal to eat fish, displays a sympathetic attitude.
The stakes of such a shift are more than academic. Confronted with the findings of skeptical inquiry, many on the left have come to think of massive self-deception as perhaps the human norm. Freud can still persuade us of the ways we fail to know ourselves. For Marx, entire classes could be swindled by a myth. And who today denies the neural stealth of prejudice? Our doubts, of course, can reach to comical extremes. An old joke reports the pillow talk of two behaviorists: "It was great for you," says one. "How was it for me?" But with so much reason for suspicion, it is no surprise that theorists and historians may have underplayed the causal power of belief. (Harris, his attention buried in the neuroscience, finds this fact a mystery. Perhaps a chapter on the history of ideas — ideas sounded recently in this review — would have proved germane.) As may be evident, the consequences of this recognition reach beyond the Middle East. Finding out what's wrong with Kansas, or with Kerry, may call for something more than diagnosing hidden ills. It may begin, as at the recent exit polls, with asking Kansans what they actually believe.
Harris, however, has mostly done with questioning. One gets the sense that he has consulted few of those believers he terms "moderates." This is a shame, since his conception of the place of moderatism in the churches of the modern world forms the innovation and the crux of The End of Faith. Here is Harris: "Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism and religious violence can never be adequately opposed." This is strong talk, but caricature saps its grip. Moderates, for Harris, are distinguished in two ways: by their allegorical address of scripture and by their hallowing of tolerance. It is the latter view that he considers lethal, for tolerance entails "the equal validity of all faiths," the view that "every human being should be free to believe whatever he wants about God." Whatever he wants? Harris doesn't even stuff this sack with the straw it holds. The very distinction between moderates and extremists, after all, assumes the incompatibility of their views. This assumption is made perfectly actual, moreover, in the schisms our contemporary churches face.
Harris's exposé simply conflates the ecumenism of the living modern church with a relativism culled from books. For the moderate, religions are valid not as such, but insofar as they animate, like different settings of a song, a common sense of faith. (The fact that it is hard to say what such a sense involves ought not to make us think it is a phantom.) In the end, what worries Harris is that any sort of faith at all enables what is worst in faith — that any motel Bible can be read and taken at its word. But the critique of fundamentalism, like the wars on crime and drugs, must address the demand for bad ideas, not the simple fact of their supply. Stemming this demand requires broad and forceful conversation, and Harris is correct, of course, to wish for this. But this is no great social theorem. Debaters always close, appropriately, with calls for more debate.
Redundancy, however, is not this author's problem. Harris handles a sharp pen, and logomachs will like to watch him fence with it. (The lively text, meanwhile, is weighted by a slab of endnotes that fellow heavies — Harris has studied philosophy — will enjoy.) If in the end the book fails to find its audience, however, it may be that it does not have one. Harris jokes in an interview that the dedication is mordantly precise: the book may be for his mother. "She, at least, agrees with me." It is a telling quip. Too often in this most public of arguments we gain an awkward sense of intimacy, as if the author were entertaining friends, or maybe just himself. A labored spoof in which Harris fakes the gnostic exegesis of a recipe for grilled fish twists for pages in the endnotes. We catch him elsewhere musing on the "massive waste of time" it is to build a church or say a prayer. "How many hours of human labor will be devoured, today," he wonders, "by an imaginary God?" By this calculation, of course, a great many human pastimes will deserve to meet their "ends." Perhaps Harris has plans for a series of such books.
But the puzzle of The End of Faith is much deeper than its author's shifting moods. While it may be first mistaken for a book produced in anger, an anger that the reader can at least expect to share, it is in fact the yield of something closer to disgust. Though you may chuckle once on learning that an observant Hindu's beliefs are "fanciful as the names of Santa's reindeer," even thick-skinned unbelievers will begin to sour on the jokes. Most religion "shouldn't survive elementary school"; Allah's peers include "Batman," "Zeus," and "unicorns." The abuse is methodical. When a fellow writer warns of the "sneering tone" endemic in the liberal critique of faith, Harris spits straight back: any respect for unjustified belief amounts to "reason in ruins." It is difficult to trace all of this bile back to its source in one man's gut. But even fellow infidels will be led to try, and then to ask: What is there in the way Sam Harris views the world that occasions such disdain?
Consider an empiricist: free of all assumptions, slate wiped blank. What should he believe? People seem to reach agreement most at times when they can stand and point at things. The cup is on the table. The bowl is on the mantle. Is there a God in heaven? The question sounds sensible, and the answer seems clear. But the empiricist has perhaps misheard it. A loving and all-knowing being is something very different than a cup. To say that God exists is perhaps, at the deepest level, to say nothing of an entity, a Batman or a Zeus. It is to advocate, rather, a certain way of looking at the world. The empiricist sees a world described by science: a jumbled scene of particles and forces. The theist, after Darwin, is confronted by the same mess. She sees it, though, as if its parts were undergirded by a purpose — as "Creation," so to speak. Such a view, of course, is difficult to justify. It may seem wild to stand and point at something called God's plan, and yet the theist is unable to survey the prospect of her life from any other point of view.
How rational is this? Suppose the search for clues to faith has been called off. Suppose that for the theist belief is now a naked premise, the scrim against which other facts take shape. To be taken seriously, of course, beliefs tend to require evidence, and so Harris sees believers as the victims of a cheap mistake. But faith, as we have seen, is not a typical belief. And readers to whom this matters may notice in the endnotes the following intriguing line. "A belief must be knitted together with other beliefs for it to be a belief about anything at all. (I have left aside, for the moment, whether there exist beliefs that do not rely upon any others to derive their meaning. Whether or not such atomic beliefs exist, it is clear that most of our beliefs are not of this sort.)" Most of them, but not all. And so it appears that one can study the brain and continue to love the Lord.
What else is faith, after all, but an undigested atom of belief? The discussion here clarifies the source of all the endless Batman gags. As Harris notes, a belief that does not depend on any others, on any evidence, cannot be "about" anything. This will be a problem for believers who conceive of god on the model of a man, for their belief will then concern (or be "about") his height and weight and beard. If faith, instead, is something like a view of the world, the frame in which experience first appears as the meaningful thing it is, then the problem of its content does not arise. What, in any case, could a frame or viewpoint be "about"? The failure to consider this species of belief, a position known sometimes as "fideism," is the failure that unmakes The End of Faith. Though intelligent and candid moderates continue to aver belief in god, Harris can imagine nothing but a strongman in a cape.
Stridency of tone can bend a reader's ear the other way, and I was regularly surprised to find myself defending views not usually my own. Inevitably, perhaps, it will strike the reader that Harris has exchanged one form of dogmatism for another. And though this impression should be resisted — seminar machismo is a far cry from Sharia — it is worth asking whether he, or anyone, can remain completely free of untested beliefs. Suppose that having a point of view is like speaking a language: empiricists will have assumptions, then, like Nebraskans have accents. Whether this is always the case is a question for philosophers. (Charles Taylor andAlasdair MacIntyre, both Catholic, have long argued that it is.) But it is certainly true of Harris, whose faith in science is marvelously strong. At present, he notes, the most we can say of bad people is that they are bad, but "this will almost certainly change." "There will probably come a time when we achieve a detailed understanding of human happiness, and of ethical judgments themselves, at the level of the brain." If in reading this you feel you've hit your head on something hard, it may just be an atom of belief.
Ben Rutter lives in Brooklyn.


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Fresno State: (2008) One of Fresno State's best high jumpers ... cleared an outdoor personal-best of 5-0.75 (1.54m) at the Cal Poly ... jumped over 5-0 (1.52m) at the NAU Four-Way for an indoor best.
Los Angeles Valley College: Took fifth at the Junior College State Championships ... MVP of the track team ... placed second at the Southern California Championships in 2004 ... top mark in the high jump as a 5-4.25.
Reseda HS: Earned letters for track and field all four years, also played volleyball, soccer, swimming and ran cross country ... MVP for track and field four years ... all-city high jumper in 2003 and 2004 ... track captain in 2004 ... jumped for a top mark of 5-1.25 .
Personal: Born July 28, 1986 in Newhall, Calif. ... parents are Yvette and Ervin Burton ... has five brothers Westlee, Jace, Forest, Rhys and Cory ... hobbies include sports, hanging out with friends, and collecting coins ... favorite athlete is Michael Jordan ... person she most admires is her great grandma.
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Our Lady of the Adirondacks House of Prayer
The Lost Sheep Quilt and Fabric Shop is now open! Located at Our Lady of the Adirondacks House of Prayer, 7270 Star Road, Ellenburg Center. The hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Evenings and other times by appointment. Phone 594-3253 or email email@example.com to come at other times.
We are featuring the Moda line plus Jo Morton fabrics by Andover. We also have wool and patterns to make penny rugs, some notions including King Tut and YLI thread, batting, pins, etc. Some precuts - charm packs and jelly rolls and kits.
If you are interested in receiving updates about fabrics when they arrive, please email me and I'll put you on that emailing list. If anyone is would like to share their skills by teaching a class, let me know. We're gathering a list of people who would like to learn to quilt.
Our primary 'business' here remains doing the work of the Lord by hosting retreats, Masses, and providing a quiet respite for those seeking time in silent retreat. The fabric shop, we pray, gives us the means to stay open and a presence in the North Country.
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