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You would think that having an event for nearly 100 years would entitle you to reserve a date, but this year another group had already reserved the traditional date for Price Hill Day at Coney, the third Wednesday in July. The organizers of the event at the Price Hill Historical Society didn't panic, however; they just moved the event up to Wednesday, July 9, so the usual neighborhood trek to the amusement park can just be a continuation of Fourth of July festivities.
This year will mark the 99th time Price Hill residents and their friends and families have gathered for what can only be called a rite of summer at a regional amusement park. It hasn't been 99 straight years at Coney Island, according to the Price Hill Historical Society archives, but the neighborhood party has indeed taken place every year since 1915.
Coney Island closed after Kings Island opened in 1972, and for a few years Price Hill Day was held at Kings Island. But the Price Hill Civic Club, who sponsored the event at that time, decided Kings Island was just too big for a neighborhood picnic. They moved Price Hill Day to a smaller venue, Stricker's Grove in Ross, Ohio, and continued to have it there until the Price Hill Historical Society took over the arrangements in the mid-1990s.
By that time, Coney Island had reopened, and Price Hill Day moved back and has now been back where it began for 20 years. And even though it's not the traditional third Wednesday this year, it is indeed on a Wednesday in July, a day that once allowed as many people to come on a weekday as possible. Back the first half of the twentieth century, many businesses that were open on Saturday closed on Wednesday afternoons to give their owners and employees some time off during the week.
"The date change to the second Wednesday was unexpected, but we've always been able to roll with things in Price Hill," said Joyce Meyer of the Price Hill Historical Society's Board of Directors this week when the Society announced that tickets for the 99th Price Hill Coney Island Day were on sale. Advance tickets are $15 per person for those ages 4 and older, and $5 for children ages 2, 3, and 4. Price Hill Day advance tickets include parking, admission to Sunlite Pool and all the rides. Regular admission at the gate on July 18 is $23.95 per person, plus parking—that is, you have to get your tickets in advance to get the Price Hill Day price.
Tickets can be purchased for cash on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at the Price Hill Historical Society, 3640 Warsaw Avenue. They are also available during regular business hours at Cincinnati Federal Savings and Loan, 4310 Glenway Avenue, and at Radel Funeral Home, 650 Neeb Road in Delhi Township (call 451-8800 for hours).
For more information about the 99th annual Price Hill Day at Coney Island, visit the Price Hill Historical Society's website or call them at 513-251-2888.


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He'd be even NICER if he let his body hair grow back!
I suppose that any mention of "ass" in this context is a little like mentioning the Star of India at an opening of Parliament. But one is, alas, rather far from that context!
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Burnout is no laughing matter. But sometimes, all you can do is laugh. So here are some pastor burnout jokes to help you out.
Dead Pastors
This pastor burnout joke is an exaggeration ... but only a slight exaggeration!
Two ministers met in the after life.
One said, "Isn't heaven wonderful after the parish ministry?"
The other said, "This isn't heaven!"
Poor Pastor
After a church service a little boy told the pastor, "When I grow up, I'm going to give you some money."
"Well, thank you," the pastor replied, "but why?"
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Jesus Wept
Jesus made a quick return to earth for a visit. He came upon a lame man, had compassion on him, and healed his leg. Further down the road, Our Lord came upon a blind man, had compassion on him, and healed him.
A little further down the road, Jesus came upon a man sitting on the curb sobbing his heart out. Jesus asked him what was wrong. The man cried out in agony, "I'm a pastor!"
Jesus sat down beside him, put his arm around him....... and cried too.
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Badatz of the Eidah Chareidis of Jerusalem
Rabbi Meyer Weberman
Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro
Rabbi Ezra Douek
Rabbi Ozer Yonah Kushner
Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik
Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik
Rabbi Menashe Friedman
Rabbi Avrohom Leitner
Rabbi Yechezkel Roth
Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Ullman
Rabbi Getzel Berkowitz
Rabbi Moshe Menachem Tyrnauer
Rabbi Shmuel Moshe Kremer
Rabbi Yitzchok Lebovitch
We write this letter regarding the important work that you do, publicizing the position of authentic Jewry to the world: that as observant Jews we are commanded not to provoke the other nations, and not to take for ourselves sovereignty and a government before the redemption that will take place through moshiach. May your hands be strong and may you act wisely to increase the honor of Hashem and His Torah.
For many years I have been writing letters in support of the important organization "Natruna," which was founded by several Torah scholars and G-d-fearing Jews, with one single purpose: to publicize to the entire world the true Torah view regarding taking a redemption on our own before the coming of the messiah. And over the years this organization has succeeded in publicizing this in many different ways. And now, as part of their worldwide activities in spreading Torah, they have decided to print a beautiful collection of Torah thoughts on the weekly portion, in the English language which is spoken in the United States, on the subject of exile and redemption, explaining the views of our rabbis of past and present, as recorded in their writings and speeches. Therefore I bless them in their work and I call upon all Jews to take this book home and learn from it, and teach your children and their children the true path.
For a long time I have known about the holy institute Natruna, which does G-d's work, to spread the view of the holy Torah, the obligations of the body and heart that apply to our period of exile, the fulfillment of which is a matter of life and death for the Jewish people, for they form the foundation of how we are to save ourselves from those who rise up to destroy us. Therefore the staff of Natruna are doing us a great service by publishing in English a book of Torah words on the portion, words of Gedolei Yisroel from all generations, from all segments of the Jewish people - Chassidim and Misnagdim, Ashkenazim and Sephardim, on the subject of exile and redemption. And I have seen with my own eyes how the staff of Natruna has succeeded in teaching those misled by Zionism, saving precious souls through the spread of Torah. Therefore I pray that they succeed in this venture.
I have received your book of Torah thoughts on the weekly portion, called "In the Footsteps of the Flock." The name is befitting, as it derives from the scroll of Song of Songs (1:8): "If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, then go in the footsteps of the flock, and pasture your kids among the dwellings of the shepherds." Rashi explains, "If you, My people, who are the most beautiful of the nations, do not know where to go to pasture your flocks safely among the threatening nations of the world, follow the imprints of the footsteps of the flock: study the ways of your forefathers in previous times, who accepted My Torah and kept My charge and My commandments, and walk in their ways, for only by virtue of this will you be able to pasture your kids among the nations." How painful it is to see precious boys and young men who are lacking the knowledge about the battles fought by Gedolei Yisroel and their views on the trials of our time, modernism and Zionism and all the other isms. And they also lack training on how to approach these subjects with the gentiles among whom we live. There are many heads of yeshivas and rabbis of congregations who, in order to avoid arousing the anger of their members, keep quiet - but in the meantime a generation of Torah learners and keepers of the mitzvos is growing up without any knowledge of the truth, or of what their forefathers did in times like this. What will these rabbis answer on the day of judgment? Therefore, what you have done, to publish stories about Gedolei Yisroel of the past generation in simple language will do much to strengthen the people who are thirsty for words of encouragement, especially in places like Los Angeles that are far from the Torah centers; your reward is very great. And I know and have seen that your work bears fruit, but we still need much more. Certainly, your organization, called Natruna, will grow, and may all those who help it be blessed, for the righteousness of the masses depends on you.
The holy organization, Natruna, carries out the work of Heaven, to spread pure emunah and strengthen the Jewish people in the time-honored ways of waiting for the redemption and not doing any act towards it on our own. One of their activities has been to publish words of Torah on the weekly parsha. I bless them that they should succeed and teach the Jewish people the true daas Torah through this book.
Although I do not usually give letters of approbation, this time I will make an exception, to encourage G-d-fearing Jews who publicize the battle against Zionism waged by Gedolei Yisroel, and the terrible destruction that Zionism has brought upon the Jewish people spiritually and physically. Therefore, if under these conditions there are still people who speak out the word of G-d publicly, perhaps a little light will dispel much darkness.
A collection of words of Gedolei Yisroel can light up the darkness, and the main thing is that everything one does must be for the sake of Heaven.
You have published a great work, an assembly of all the works of rabbis of past generations on the subject of exile and redemption, called "Efes Biltecha Goaleinu". In these areas our great Rebbe, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, has already given us his holy work Vayoel Moshe, a guide to what we must do in these times. His views were the views of all rabbis before him. In order to ease this study, you have published this new book, which arranges the sources in a simple format. At the same time, we must praise the leaders and staff of the famous organization "Natruna" which for many years has been well known for its important activities in spreading the word of G-d at all times. Certainly these activities will take off G-d's anger from the Jewish people and bring us mercy and kindness.
The book "Efes Biltecha Goaleinu" was brought before me, containing words of Chazal and great rabbis of all generations, down to the present day, proving that we must take no physical action toward our redemption, and we must not rebel against the nations. I hope this book will be very useful to Jews to show them that this was not the innovation of the Satmar Rebbe, but it is based on Chazal and all the rabbis. And I hope the book will be instrumental in helping the younger generation not to stray after the words of heresy that are heard in the street. Also, I wish to write in praise of the activists of Natruna, who work hard to publicize this truth.
I saw the book "Efes Biltecha Goaleinu" which purifies Jewish hearts of the storm of heresy which rages in this generation, where the darkness is doubly spread by the evil government, the deniers of G-d and His Torah. How painful it is that sinners have succeeded in ruling the Land of Israel in the name of Israel. Woe to us that we live in such a generation. Therefore, we must really praise the compiler of this book, who put together all these sources, all of them the words of the living G-d, restoring the hearts of the Jewish people to their Father in heaven. It will be very successful in enlightening the Jewish people and opening the eyes of the blind.
The book "Efes Biltecha Goaleinu" was brought before me, an amazing collection of rabbinic quotes from past generations, on the subject of accepting the yoke of exile and the prohibition to force the end. May the compiler be blessed, and may blessings come upon the entire organization Natruna, who are spread the true Torah view of our rabbis on the subject of the Holy Land to all corners of the earth.
I have seen the dear book called "Efes Biltecha Goaleinu" full of enlightening words teaching the depth of the defilement and heresy that is inherent in the idea of Zionism, and in the evil government which they have set up in our Holy Land, which endangers the Jewish people physically and spiritually, and prevents our redemption.
Since there was founded an organization of G-d-fearing Jews, whose activity is to sanctify the name of G-d by publicizing to the entire world, and primarily to Jews who wish to know, the true Torah view on the plague of Zionism, which is a cancer on the Jewish people, and desecrates the name of G-d from one end of the world to the other; this organization teaches Jews about the danger in this. They conduct themselves based on the rulings of the Gedolei Torah, according to the accepted Daas Torah, and they spend much money on their activities, so it is a great mitzvah to contribute to them and take part in what they do.
I am writing to give support to the respected activists of Natruna, whose purpose is to spread in various ways the true Torah view on the simple faith a Jew must have on exile and redemption, as our holy rabbis have taught us. Praiseworthy are they and good is their portion, for they occupy themselves with this mitzvah. May G-d help them to increase their activities.
The book Efes Biltecha Goaleinu is an amazing collection, strengthening our belief in the salvation of G-d. Would that our Jewish brethren would pay attention to this subject. I would like to bring to your attention that my uncle, Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein, rabbi of Krasna, should have been mentioned in the book. He was one of the rabbis in America after the war who stood at the forefront on the battle against Zionism. He would always relate that his father-in-law, the Shimloyer Rav, when he was about to be killed by the Nazis, cried out, "Only the wickedness of the Zionists has caused this! It happened to us because we did not protest against them enough." My uncle was also one of those who pressed Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe, to publish a book on the subject of the elections in the evil state, as he called it. May G-d make you successful.


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"Harry Potter" filmmaker David Yates' re-imagining of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan" has been put on hold over at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Alexander Skarsgard ("True Blood") had been attached to play the vine-swinger, while Jessica Chastain had been circling the female lead. Jamie Foxx was being courted for the third lead role.
According to Deadline, the studio has shut down plans to make the film this year and are shuttering the production office. The cause is said to be due to a high budget the studio wasn't happy with.
The project will apparently try to go forward again next year with Yates remaining attached, however it could well go the way of other budgetary uncertain scrapped projects at Warners like "Arthur and Lancelot," "Paradise Lost" and the "Akira" remake.
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Morphological and distributional changes in the ...
|Morphological and distributional changes in the eosinophilic granule cell (EGC) population of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss walbaum) intestine following systemic administration of capsaicin and substance P
|M. D. Powell, Glenda M. Wright, John F. Burka
|Journal of Experimental Zoology
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|Intestinal eosinophilic granule cells (EGCs) of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) have been likened to mammalian mast cells and degranulate in response to stimulation by capsaicin and substance P. This investigation was conducted to examine the effects of capsaicin and substance P on the trout intestinal EGC population and to quantify the different morphologies following systemic administration. Rainbow trout were injected intraperitoneally with capsaicin, substance P, serotonin, or vehicle controls (0.5 mug/g body weight). Fish were killed at timed intervals and the mid intestine was processed for light and electron microscopy. The number of EGCs which could be observed in the stratum compactum was quantified for each treatment over the time course of the experiment. EGCs could be classified ultrastructurally into 1 of 5 categories based on their granule morphology. The cell frequencies and relative proportion of each cell class were analyzed statistically. The frequency of EGCs in the stratum compactum of fish injected with capsaicin or substance P significantly decreased post-injection (P < 0.05) compared to controls (saline- and BSA-injected fish). Serotonin had no effect on EGC frequency, morphology, or distribution as compared with saline. Stimulation with capsaicin and substance P resulted in time-dependent changes in both EGC granule morphology and distribution within the intestinal mucosa. Following an apparent migration of EGCs to the lamina propria and degranulation, small granuled EGC-like cells appeared first in the lamina propria and then later in the stratum compactum. The significance of the stratum compactum as a depot for intestinal EGCs and the site for EGC maturation is discussed.
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SEATTLE - Tuesday's non-conference baseball game between Washington and Seattle U scheduled for 6 p.m. at Bannerwood Park in Bellevue, Wash. has been cancelled due to rain.
The game will be made up Tuesday, May 13 at Bannerwood Park at a yet to be determined time.
The Pac-12 leading Huskies (22-6-1, 10-2) return to action Friday-Sunday at Husky Ballpark. They will host Stanford (10-14, 3-6) in a three-game series.
Friday's game is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. first pitch. Saturday's first pitch is 6:05 p.m. and Sunday is 4:05 p.m. Both Saturday and Sunday's games will be televised by the Pac-12 Network.


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Q: How long have you been teaching at Heidelberg? What do you enjoy about teaching or being here that's kept you here?
Since the fall of 1999. I enjoy teaching here because Heidelberg is a teaching institution. I love sharing my interests with students—who are always receptive—in small and intimate classrooms. The class sizes here promote discussion-based learning and the English department is very conducive and supportive of that.
Q: Describe your "approach" to teaching in one word.
Enthusiastic. I really love what I teach and I see [teaching] as an extension of the things I love.
Q: Mark Twain or William Faulkner?
Hemingway once said that all modern literature comes from Twain and I agree. He's the watershed of past and present literature. But Faulkner is a wonderful extension of what Twain started, a sort of lineal descendent of Twain.
Q: Some of your classes have a film component and you know a lot about movies, so what are some of your favorite films / directors / genres?
I love American films of the 30's and 40's and adaptations of popular American novels, as well as the noir genre. If I had to list specific films, Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, The Best Years of Our Lives, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre are all on it. But more importantly, I look at how literature is rediscovered through film depending on the era and the influence of jazz in film. Literature, movies, and jazz all go hand in hand.
Q: Any advice for students—current or future?
Beware of specialization. The more narrow you specialize, the more obsolete you become; a liberal arts degree serves tremendous value. Do what makes you tick and work hard…Passion and work ethic are a great combination.
- Interview by Matt Echelberry '12
- Member of the Paul Hoernemann biography research team
- Initiated and hosted campus celebrations of Gen. Eisenhower's 1950 campus visit (2010) and Pfleiderer Centennial (2012)
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This past Sunday I had the pleasure of attending "Truth Be Told" Boulder's bi-monthly story slam at Shine Restaurant. It was fully attended, and we were packed in like sardines on the opening of their second season. Hosted by Johanna Walker and Nina Rolle, the idea of the evening is to share stories. Everyone has at least one good tale in their life. Whether it is poignant, hilarious, wild or heartbreaking, we all have them.
As the evening opened up Walker and Rolle explained the rules. Here is how it works. You are given a theme. You tell a story on that theme. You get five minutes to tell a story on that theme. It must be true and performed by heart. No cheat sheets, no comedy routines. Just a heartfelt, honest story. To share your story you put your name in a hat. If it is selected then you mosey up to the microphone and charm the pants off the audience! They, in turn, will be given a voting ballot with various categories on it. They will vote on Most Humorous, Most Poignant, Outstanding Storytelling Skills, and Best Overall Story. The winner then will be invited to tell a story in the 2nd annual Grand Slam, which will take place in February 2015.
Now, I had been fully aware of these rules as I had written a preview piece a week prior, but there were a couple of added details that I didn't know about. If you go over your allotted 5 minutes, Rolle or Walker will gently ring a bell. If you pass 30 more seconds the ringing increases. If, by chance you reach 6 minutes they blow a horn. Also if your story is dragging on, gaining no traction, basically boring the pants off of the audience, then said audience can start to say "blah, blah, blah", to which there is a vote as to whether or not the storyteller can continue or be shamed off the stage. I totally get the timer aspect, but the "blah, blah, blah" struck me as a little harsh, because (a) It is brave and challenging to walk up to a room full of strangers to speak and (b) I had thrown my name in the hat and was a bit terrified I would suck and get "blahed" off the stage!
The theme of the evening was lost and found. As the event progressed and names were drawn I found myself admiring each of the storytellers and secretly breathing a sigh of relief when it wasn't my name. As previously mentioned, it is not an easy task to perform and even while this is telling a true story from your life, there has to be an element of performance for it to be entertaining to the audience. I found myself cheering the folks on as they told stories of lost sweaters, encounters with a wolf, and losing an iPod on a lonely Christmas season. Then, a name was drawn. Mine! Now, a little background on me. I am a professional performer and honestly, I rarely get nervous. It is what I have done for over 25 years. But as my name was uttered I found my heart racing and my breath increasing. Would I get "Blahed"? Would I remember my story? Would I lose my nerve? Only time would tell. So, I walked confidently up to the stage so no one would notice any fear in my eyes, waltzed up to the microphone, said hello and proceeded to tell my story. As luck would have it, none of my fears came to fruition and I actually felt pretty good about my time up on stage.
The night went on and although I found it to be a little long, I also found myself noticing how much I enjoyed hearing the stories of folks I don't know, but came to care about. There were a couple of entertaining musical interludes and invited guests to be featured storytellers. I felt the audience was warm, welcoming and even for those who weren't naturals at getting up in front of a crowd, the audience clapped, hollered and cheered. No one was "blahed". I liked that! The evening was cathartic, brave and entertaining. I'm certainly looking forward to attending another story slam and maybe even throwing my name in the hat again. Perhaps I won't have so many fears next time!


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Texas Tech Sweeps Doubleheader Over No. 3 Indiana
Proudfoot went 5-for-8 in the doubleheader with three RBI
Feb. 15, 2014
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech swept No. 3 Indiana 10-5 and 6-2 in a Saturday afternoon doubleheader at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park in front of 3,387 fans - the fifth largest attendance at Rip Griffin Park since the stadium was renovated in 2012.
The Red Raiders knocked off the Hoosiers with a combined 16 runs scored on 22 base hits while the Tech pitching staff received a pair of five-inning starts from its starters and had a bullpen effort allow just one run and one walk in eight innings of work from four pitchers.
Saturday marked the first time in over 13 years that Texas Tech has swept a doubleheader over a nationally-ranked opponent. Texas Tech moved to 2-1 on opening weekend while Indiana fell to 1-2.
Tech sophomore right-handed pitcher Matt Withrow (1-0) earned the win in the first game of the doubleheader going five innings with five strikeouts allowing just one earned run on three hits.
Tech sophomore outfielder Tyler Neslony led the charge in the opening frame with his first career home run, a grand slam that gave Tech a 5-0 lead.
Indiana scored four in the third - one earned - before the Red Raiders added to their lead on senior outfielder Adam Kirsch's first career home run - a two-run shot - over the left-field wall in the fifth inning.
Tech was led at the plate in the opener by junior second baseman Bryant Burleson (3-for-4, RBI), junior shortstop Tim Proudfoot (2-for-4, RBI) and freshman designated hitter Anthony Lyons, who went 3-for-4 with a run scored and RBI in his first career start.
Indiana starting pitcher Kyle Hart (0-1) suffered the loss going three innings allowing five runs on tow hits with five walks and a strikeout.
The Red Raiders were just getting started on the day while scoring six runs on nine hits with four extra-base hits in the second game of the doubleheader.
Junior left-handed pitcher Chris Sadberry (1-0) made his career debut going five innings with four strikeouts without allowing a walk and giving up two runs on five hits.
After sophomore catcher Tyler Floyd's RBI triple in the fourth inning tied the score at 2-2, the Red Raiders took the lead for good in the fifth on Neslony's two-out, two-run RBI double to left field. With two outs and two runners on base, Indiana shortstop Nick Ramos bobbled a ground ball that allowed Neslony to come to the plate.
Tech added a pair of insurance runs in the seventh inning with an RBI double from Kirsch and an RBI single from Proudfoot.
Proudfoot led all players in the second game Saturday going 3-for-4 with two RBI.
The Tech bullpen - junior right-handed pitcher Corey Taylor and junior left-handed pitcher Cameron Smith - combined pitched four shutout innings with three strikeouts and one walk.
Burleson, who extended his hit streak to 16 games after game one on Saturday saw his streak come to an end in the second game going 0-for-4.
Texas Tech will look to win the series over the No. 3 Hoosiers with a noon first pitch on Sunday at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.


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Wisconsin Senate Democrats are acting like children. They cannot deprive the people of Wisconsin their right to an up or down vote on legislation whether they like what they see or not. If this were Republican Senators protesting a piece of legislation championed by a Democrat Governor and Democrat-controlled Legislature and left the state for days, we can all bet our money that all hell would break lose. State Democrats would be calling for the immediate arrest of all the AWOL Republicans and complain that they are disallowing the people of the state an up or down vote. Democrats would be complaining left and right, calling for punishments, and scolding doctors who were giving teachers fraudulent sick notes and depriving our children from an education so they could protest in Madison for days at a time. They would want the teachers to lose their jobs and possibly their pensions, and call for the doctors to lose their medical licenses.
State Republicans have been remaining civil since this debacle began. They're standing by and are refusing to negotiate with the protesters and their Democrat criminals regarding what should have been done long ago: liberal unions should have never been on the receiving end of taxpayer money, and they should be responsible for donating to their own pensions. If they don't like it, tough beans. If they want to retire and expect to live off of a pension, they should be collecting their own money and not the money of hardworking taxpayers.
Recall elections should be called and held for all 14 Senate Democrats. They should also be punished for breaking the law regarding their action of depriving the citizens from their right to an up or down vote. The doctors involved in handing out fraudulent sick notes to non-sick teachers should also be disciplined by the possibility of losing their jobs and medical licenses. Those who break the law should be punished. This issue shouldn't even be open to debate.
Wisconsin Republicans will pass this anti-union legislation, whether the whining protesters like it or not. Governor Scott Walker will also sign the legislation into law after it is successfully passed. In the end, the Republicans and their voters/supporters in this great state will be the victors.
Democrats can continue their tantrum, but they will never win. Contribute to your own freaking pensions.


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ORRINGTON - Eugene Alan Patterson Sr., 65, died peacefully under hospice care at his home Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, after a long and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Eugene was surrounded by his loving family in the weeks preceding his death and passed very peacefully in his sleep. Eugene was born Jan. 3, 1948, in Bangor, the son of Herbert William Patterson and Cora Ruth Turner.
Eugene was baptized July 23, 1995, by Pastor Wilton Rose and was a true believer in God. When he moved to Orrington in 2005 he and his wife became active members of Orrington Center Church under the God guided direction of Pastor Dan Packer. Eugene graduated from Bucksport High School in 1966, was married in 1967 to his wife Wyona for 46 years, had three children, and worked his entire career at Bucksport Paper Mill - retiring in October 2011, after 45 years. Eugene was actively involved with four different fire departments. He started with Prospect Fire Department in 1969 and in the fall of that same year became a member of Stockton Springs Fire Department, eventually becoming fire chief. In the winter of 1981 he moved his family to Orland and very quickly became involved with Orland Volunteer Fire Department - working his way up the officer ranks to become first captain. Living as close as he did to the fire station he spent many hours maintaining trucks, cleaning the station and was first responder to many fire calls. One fire call in 1999 resulted in him rescuing a local woman from the window of her burning upstairs bedroom for which he was given a Real Heroes Award from the American Red Cross. He retired from Orland Volunteer Fire Department Sept. 3, 2003. He then became a member of Orrington Fire Department in December 2010 and was a valued member of their department - culminating in the receipt of their Firefighter of the Year award in 2012. Eugene was also a member of Fraternal Order of the Masons for 42 years. He was raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason at Pownal Lodge No. 119, Stockton Springs, Sept. 1, 1971; and affiliated with Rising Sun No. 71, Orland, Oct. 1, 1991. Eugene was a dedicated and loving husband and family man, a servant of his community, and a servant of the Lord.
He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Wyona (Leach) Patterson; daughters, Amber (Patterson) Harvey and her husband, Allen, of Orland and Nicole (Patterson) Watkins Libby and her husband, Alan Libby, of Hampden; and his son, Eugene Alan Patterson Jr. and his wife, Janice (Halvorson) Patterson, of Monument, Colo. Eugene is also survived by his seven grandchildren, Christopher Patterson of Madison, Wis., Allison Harvey, Leah and Lindsay Patterson of Colorado and Juliet, Gwen and Xander Watkins. He is also survived by his stepmother, Sandra Patterson of Veazie; his sisters, Joy Watkins of Salem, Fla., Ruthie Hills of Holden, Lisa Rice of Bangor and Karol Swanson of Texas; and brothers, Dwight Moody of Prospect, Dana Weste of Portland, Richard Patterson of Winterport, Don Weste of Florida, James Patterson of Kansas, Herbert Patterson Jr. of Fairfield and Donnie Hillman of Kansas. He was predeceased by his father, Herbert W. Patterson of Veazie; mother, Cora Ruth Turner of Arkansas; and brother, Dennis Moody of Prospect.
All family and friends are welcome to attend the celebration of life services 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, at Hermon Baptist Church, 2496 Route 2, Hermon, with a reception immediately after at the same location. Donations in lieu of flowers should be sent in Eugene's memory and by his request to Orrington Center Church, 468 Dow Road, Orrington, ME 04474.
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The next town meeting of Henrico County Board of Supervisors Chairman and Tuckahoe District Supervisor Patricia S. O'Bannon will provide information about Henrico's upcoming 400th anniversary celebration and also will feature discussion about the county's economy. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 6 at Deep Run Recreation Center, 9910 Ridgefield Parkway.
O'Bannon and Finance Director John Vithoulkas will discuss the variety of county-hosted activities planned to mark the county's quadricentennial anniversary next year. Events scheduled for the yearlong commemoration include a Civil War symposium; an evening with best-selling author and Henrico High School graduate David Baldacci; programs about African-American and Virginia Indian culture and history; a kite and food festival; and historical bus tours. A schedule of events and more information are available at http://www.henrico400th.com.
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The Carolina Hurricanes have decided on their replacement for Kirk Muller at head coach. They've broken the trend of retread head coaches this offseason, and they also didn't give the job to a guy who played for the Canes in the past. The new coach of Carolina? Bill Peters.
It's a pretty blase name, and the guy doesn't even have a Wikipedia page, but it could be a good hiring. Peters has been an assistant coach for the Detroit Red Wings for a couple seasons, working with the defensemen and the penalty kill. The days of Detroit assistants being highly sought after coaching candidates may be over, but Peters also has head coaching experience, including in the AHL. There, he spent a few years coaching the Rockford IceHogs, Chicago's affiliate, and he had success there, as the team won at least 40 games in two of his seasons.
We do not know how Peters will do as an NHL head coach, but that's OK. Ron Francis decided he wanted some fresh blood instead of a retread, and I appreciate that. They got themselves a guy who has worked with NHL players, and who has had success coaching at a lower level. Maybe Peters will be the guy to lead the Hurricanes to real success again. He'll likely need more talent to work with. Francis needs to get on that next. Peters isn't, say, Dan Bylsma, but perhaps he will be. Sometimes that is a risk that must be taken. This probably wasn't the most enticing job on the market, given the team's lack of recent success and what have you, but Francis said he wanted a guy who is a teacher and he wanted a guy before the NHL Draft. Hiring Peters now fulfills both of those obligations. Now, these two get to work together to try and return the Hurricanes to their glory days. You know, when Francis still played.


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College Hockey:Geneseo Wins Heartstopping Series in Mini-Game
GENESEO, N.Y. — It was a heart-stopping night at Ira S. Wilson Arena as Potsdam and Geneseo duked it out for the right to advance to the SUNYAC semifinal round. And after a long night of hockey, it was Geneseo which finally prevailed in overtime of the mini-game.
Tony Scorsone, a senior and hometown boy, scored the series-winning goal at 4:36 of overtime after a scoreless 20-minute mini-game. He rushed down the left side and shot low from the faceoff circle. It found its way through the five hole of Ryan Venturelli.
"I said during the intermission before overtime," Geneseo coach Brian Hills said, "'Wouldn't it be nice if a hometown boy from Geneseo who grew up here in his own rink in his last game here as a senior wins the game?'"
Thanks to the win, Geneseo travels to Plattsburgh this weekend for the next round of playoff action.
That goal came just 17 seconds after Geneseo's Brett Walker made a sensational glove save on a Jeff Milroy blast from the left faceoff circle.
"That's the way hockey is," Potsdam's coach Ed Seney said philosophically. "We made one mistake, and they capitalized on it."
The mini-game saw a number of opportunities for both teams, including one power play, but the goalies continued to come up big. And once it was obvious the referee was not going to call any penalties, clutching and grabbing took over.
Before the mini-game could even be played, Potsdam had to win game two to even the series. The Bears won that game, 3-1, after the first 51 minutes were scoreless.
Potsdam came out flying in the first period knowing it had to win. It had numerous chances, outshot Geneseo 11-6, and on one shorthanded situation, the puck was in Geneseo's end more than Potsdam's end.
"We were back on our heels in the first period," Hills said. "We rebounded in the second period."
Again, the game remained scoreless after two despite Potsdam having a two-man advantage for over a minute and Geneseo getting a three-on-none breakaway.
Though defense was still strong, unlike the night before, the offenses were more visible. However, it was a goaltending battle all night that kept the scoreboard inactive.
Potsdam finally broke the deadlock at 10:55 of the third. John Bernfell fired a shot from the left point that hit a skate on its way in and took an odd sailing hook into the the upper corner of the net, fooling Walker.
About seven minutes later Walker made his only mistake of the night, and Potsdam was up 2-0. Walker came out of his net to his left to poke check the puck away. However, he didn't do a good enough job of it, and Scott Craig picked up the puck and shot it in as Walker scrambled to get back.
The 2-0 lead seem to clinch it, but Geneseo wouldn't give up. With its goalie pulled, Brian Avery scored easily, knocking in a rebound while standing untouched next to the goal post.
"The turning point for us was when we got the goal," Hills said. "The fact that we scored got our emotions back up."
Twenty-three seconds later, Anthony Greer got an empty netter to put the game away.
"We played a real solid game two except for the second period when we got into penalty trouble," said Seney.
That of course set the stage for the mini-game and the winning goal by Scorsone.
Hills made a confession afterwards.
"When we broke out of our zone, I was yelling for him to get off the ice," Hills said. "After the celebration, Boudette asked me, 'Do you still want Tony to come off the ice?'"
After four-plus periods of hockey and nearly four and a half hours after the opening faceoff, everyone was finally able to come off the ice. And hearts could get back to beating normally.
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The Trip to Italy is a bit of a minor masterpiece, a film that is riotously funny, almost farcical, and yet dives into some pretty deep philosophical waters. It improves considerably on its predecessor, 2011's The Trip, and manages to be many things: a travelogue, a buddy comedy, a stand-up showcase for the talents of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, and an existential exploration of growing older. It may not appeal to everyone, but to me it was the most pleasant surprise of the festival thus far.
Coogan and Brydon star as satirical, slightly skewed versions of themselves; Steve is slightly more neurotic, Rob a bit more insecure. As in the first film, a magazine hires the duo to go on a gastronomic tour, this time in Italy. For a week Steve and Rob drive around in a hired Mini Cooper and sample Italian cuisine and take in the beautiful countryside. Each man brings his own baggage on the trip; Steve hopes to reconnect with his teenage son, while Rob, so faithful to his wife in the first film, casts a wandering eye on the women they come across.
Much of the movie involves Rob and Steve driving through the Italian landscape, eating delicious food in local restaurants and visiting the local haunts of the poet Lord Byron. Throughout the film, director Michael Winterbottom uses an observational style bordering on cinema vérité to capture their adventures, giving the film a documentary feel, which adds to the illusion that these are real people as opposed to fictionalizations of the actors. And they are fully drawn characters, and by the end the audience totally invests in both men.
I can't overemphasize how absolutely hysterical these two men are; I found myself laughing almost consistently throughout most of the running time. A lot of the laughs come from their spot on, unending impersonations, that range from Michael Caine to all the James Bond actors. They are scary good. There's much more to the humor though, which is so brilliantly British. Their relationship walks a tightrope between bromance and frenemies, and the subtle and not so subtle ways that they cut each other down are absolutely riotous and require constant attention because of the quick byplay.
The film would just be entertaining if it wasn't brave enough to delve into more serious territory. Under the humor of both men lies serious insecurity about getting old, being successful and leaving a significant contribution. Their lives are juxtaposed with the lives of Byron and Shelley, and the largely improvised script utilizes poetry to underline their mental conflicts. The film ends rather ambiguously, in a subtle nod to Italian cinema, but is eminently satisfying. The Trip to Italy is one of the best movies I've seen this year.
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by Dante Alighieri
Paradiso Rules and Order Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Canto.Line). We used Allen Mandelbaum's translation.
Quote #10
[Beatrice]: "Not to acquire new goodness for Himself –
which cannot be – but that his splendor might,
as it shines back to Him, declare 'Subsisto,'
in His eternity outside of time,
beyond all other borders, as pleased Him,
Eternal Love opened into new loves.
Nor did he lie, before this, as if languid;
there was no after, no before – they were
not there until God moved upon these waters.
Then form and matter, either separately
or in mixed state, emerged as flawless being,
as from a three-stringed bow, three arrows spring.
And as a ray shines into amber, crystal,
or glass, so that there is no interval
between its coming and its lighting all,
so did the three – form, matter, and their union –
flash into being from the Lord with no
distinction in beginning: all at once.
Created with the substances were order
and pattern; at the summit of the world
were those in whom pure act had been produced;
and pure potentiality possessed
the lowest part; and in the middle, act
so joined potentiality that they
never disjoin." (Par. XXIX, 13-37)
God's motive in creating the universe, Beatrice claims, was only to see Himself echoed. Thus, the universe sprang into existence according to his likeness. Again, notice the groups of three in which things come into being, a reminder of the Holy Trinity: "form, matter, and their union."
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[Beatrice]: "But since on earth, throughout your schools, they teach
that it is in the nature of the angels
to understand, to recollect, to will,
I shall say more, so that you may see clearly
the truth that, there below, has been confused
by teaching that is so ambiguous.
These beings, since they first were gladdened by
the face of God, from which no thing is hidden,
have never turned their vision from that face,
so that their sight is never intercepted
by a new object, and they have no need
to recollect an interrupted concept." (Par. XXIX, 70-81)
Another rule of God's universe is that angels always gaze upon Him. Their proximity to God depends on the perfection of their vision. Unlike humans, then, they have no need for memory. They never turn away from God so they never forget His image. Given Dante's theory of memory and language, this also means that angels can never write poetry.
Quote #12
[Beatrice]: "The number of these angels is so great
that there has never been a mortal speech
or mortal thought that named a sum so steep;
and if you look at that which is revealed
by Daniel, you will see that, while he mentions
thousands, he gives no number with precision.
The First Light reaches them in ways
as many as are the angels to which It conjoins
Itself, as It illumines all of them;
and this is why (because affection follows
the act of knowledge) the intensity
of love's sweetness appears unequally." (Par. XXIX, 130-141)
There is a big debate in Christianity about how many angels there are in the universe. Beatrice answers this in a rather unsatisfactory way by saying that there are an infinite number of angels – some huge number beyond the comprehension of the human mind. She justifies this by saying that God can express his love (of which angels are the most perfect representation) in an infinite number of ways; thus, there are that many angels.


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|The skymap for the meteors from Comet Wirtanen. Looking south after sunset in mid-December. Meteors from the new shower, if any, would emerge from a radiant in the constellation Pisces. A similar map is available for the Geminids. Courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
If you're outdoors after sunset this week, be alert for meteors.
Not only is the Geminid meteor shower active as Earth passes through a stream of debris from "rock comet" 3200 Phaethon, but also, say forecasters, a new meteor shower could make an appearance.
"The source of the new shower is Comet Wirtanen," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Dust from this comet hitting Earth's atmosphere could produce as many as 30 meteors per hour."
Comet Wirtanen was discovered in 1948, just after World War II, and takes 5.4 years to orbit the sun.
It reaches its closest point to the sun just outside Earth's orbit. Although this comet has skirted Earth's orbit many times, Earth has not run into its debris streams before. This year could be different.
Computer models run by Russian forecaster Mikhail Maslov predicted as many as four stream crossings between Dec. 10 and Dec. 14.
"This time period also includes the peak of the strong annual Geminid meteor shower," noted Cooke.
To sky watchers, he recommends having a "meteor night" after sunset on Dec. 13, when the criss-crossing debris streams could produce the greatest combined number of shooting stars.
"Meteors from the new shower (if any) will be visible in the early evening, with the Geminids making their appearance later on and lasting until dawn," he said.
The new shower doesn't have a name yet. Before naming it, astronomers will wait to see if it is real.
If any meteors do materialize, they might be called "Piscids." The shower's radiant is located in the constellation Pisces, according to Maslov's dynamical models of the debris stream.
Maslov also predicted that the meteors will be very slow moving, which should help novice sky watchers distinguish them from the faster Geminids.
Meteor hunting on Dec. 13-14 is a no-lose proposition because, as Cooke pointed out, even if the new shower is a dud, the Geminids should be great.
With no glaring Moon to spoil the show, observers in rural areas should be able to see as many as 120 Geminid meteors every hour.
The best time to look is during the dark hours before sunrise on Friday, Dec. 14.
Enjoy the show(s).
Dr. Tony Phillips works for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.


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Your house/apartment consumes an overhead of energy no matter how many people lives in it. Share your space and you divide up that load on the environment amongst you and your housemates!
It takes the same amount of energy to heat/cool your house no matter how many people are in it. A certain amount of electricity is used (refrigerator, furnace fan, internet connection, parasitic loads, etc.) no matter how many people are there.
By taking on one housemate you'll half your heating/cooling emissions footprint. Take on two and you'll cut it to one third!
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September 28, 1980
After an introduction by Ann Druyan, including the benefits of the end of the Cold War, Carl Sagan opens the program with a description of the cosmos and a "Spaceship of the Imagination" (shaped like a dandelion seed). The ship journeys through the universes' hundred billion galaxies, the Local Group, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way, the Orion Nebula, our Solar System, and finally the planet Earth. Eratosthenes' attempt to calculate the circumference of Earth leads to a description of the ancient Library of Alexandria. Finally, the "Ages of Science" are described, before pulling back to the full span of the Cosmic Calendar.
The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980 and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until The Civil War (1990). As of 2009, it was still the most widely watched PBS series in the world.[1] It won an Emmy and a Peabody Award and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people. A book was also published to accompany the series
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers, David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covered a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.
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Goldman Sachs: Looming Supply Crunch Means $85 Oil
OPEC has repeated in recent days that many long-term drilling projects are on the shelf because of uncertainty over future oil demand. That's basically a mistake, Goldman Sachs says in a new report today.
With a when-it-speaks-oil-markets-listen reputation (crude
rebounded 2% today zoomed 5% to almost $70 on the investment bank's revised oil forecast), Goldman provides more detail about a supply crunch it thinks is looming.
Simply put, Goldman thinks crude demand is going to recover at a very healthy clip, especially in Asia, and there just won't be enough oil coming out of the ground to meet it. That's a recipe for higher oil prices—$85 a barrel this year, up from Goldman's previous $65 a barrel estimate previously, and nearly $100 a barrel by the end of 2010, Goldman now figures. (More on the report here.)
The bank says global supply growth over the next five years will dwindle to just 650,000 barrels a day—due to lagging investment and output in non-OPEC countries, especially. Goldman expects non-OPEC supply, about 60% of the world market, to fall by 400,000 barrels a day this year and by 910,000 barrels a day in 2010.
That supply will sharply trail crude consumption in China and other developing countries, which Goldman expects to grow by an optimistic 1.2 million barrel-per-day in 2010 after a big contraction this year.
There are two ways to square that supply shortfall without oil prices going to the moon again. The U.S. and other big oil-consuming nations would need to see big reductions in oil demand in order to accommodate growth in places like China. Or OPEC can step up to the plate and seriously boost oil production.
The problem is, OPEC's been burned before: In the months after ramping up output last summer, the price of oil collapsed. OPEC secretary-general Abdalla Salem El Badri says there are no plans in member states to restart at least 35 longer-term projects with with a combined capacity of 5 million barrels per day. They were deferred, he says, because of an uncertain demand outlook.
OPEC's comfort zone calls for crude prices between $75 and $85 a barrel. The cartel has made it crystal clear it won't boost output until the world gets rid of big crude-oil inventories and there are clear signs that a demand recovery is in the cards.
But that's making oil-watchers nervous. Everybody from the International Energy Agency to the International Monetary Fund is worried about a supply crunch a few years down the road, leading to higher prices. And we all know what that means.


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By Erin Rowley
Growing up with two older brothers, Ryan Roques did not have to venture far to find significant role models in his life. Now the tables are turned, for Roques is taking what he learned from his family and using it to encourage and lead a young Bruin football team during a season of rebuilding.
Roques has always looked to his family for motivation, especially brothers Burnell and Aaron. Even when Ryan considered attening college out of state, he realized that joining Aaron at UCLA was the best thing to do.
"[At first] I didn't want to come to school here because my brother was already here," Roques said. "But I learned it's good to stay by your family and I'm glad I did. My brothers have always been really supportive. They're the ones that molded me into the football player I am today."
Aaron played football at UCLA from 1994-1997, and as a senior starting cornerback, he was the first to give Ryan some tips when the younger Roques made the switch from tailback to defensive back in '97.
"When I first moved to cornerback, I wasn't good, so my brother was there to tell me, 'well you're not supposed to be good right now,'" Roques said.
The tides quickly changed for Roques, who worked his way to a starting role last season as a junior, playing left cornerback. Starting six of the final 10 games in '98, Roques ended the season tied for sixth in the Pac-10 with four interceptions and made a career-high 13 tackles at Oregon State, the most by a Bruin that year.
But what has remained constant has been Roques' prowess when he's on the other side of the ball. Time stops for Roques on kickoff and punt returns, a part of the game that he enjoys and has excelled in.
"Even though I'm a defensive player I love to have the ball in my hands," he said. "It just comes natural for me and that's why I like it. I don't have to think too much. The ball gets in my hands, I feel a little faster, I feel a little quicker. I don't think, I just go."
Earning special teams All-Pac-10 honorable mention honors last year, he ranked 14th nationally with 12.5-yard return average, while averaging 27.9 yards on 12 kick returns. His 81-yard kickoff return at Washington was UCLA's longest since 1980 in a season that ended at the Rose Bowl Jan 1.
This year, things are different for the Bruins. Roques still excels in the backfield and on special teams duty, but UCLA is trying to make the most of a few setbacks this season. And that's where Roques feels he is most needed, encouraging, motivating and leading the younger players. Just like an older brother would do.
"I bring an optimistic view of things because I've been around and I've seen things that have happened in the past," Roques said. "When the younger guys can look up and see somebody else working hard, doing what they're asked without complaining and just accepting it, it's going to make them do it. Sort of like life's lessons. Like an older brother or father that you've seen work hard all his life. When it's your turn to work hard, you're not going to complain because you've seen someone else do it.
"The older guys that have been around bring experience and leadership to the team. I can tell the younger guys, 'this really isn't that bad, we've done worse than this.' They'll believe me."
As the season progresses, Roques hopes to instill in the younger Bruins a competitive drive and desire to work hard that they can in turn, pass on to other players down the road. Just as his brothers did for him.


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These simple tips can help you work on many areas of development that will help your child become a well-rounded person. They also help extend your child's learning at home. You can find additional suggestions in the other themes.
Have your child look for and name numerals in your home or neighborhood. Encourage her or him to practice writing these numerals as often as possible.
Read counting books with your child. Have her or him count the objects on each page that correspond to each number. Borrow a variety of counting books from your local library and talk about the sets of objects that correspond to a specific number in the different books.
Encourage a literacy-rich environment in your home. Dedicate a specific area of your home to books and other printed materials, such as magazines and newspapers. Add labels to objects around the household and talk about the labels with your child.
Go to your local library and borrow books to read with your child and the rest of the household. Encourage her or him to choose a book for you to read. Spend time reading to your child on a daily basis.
Recite the alphabet for your child several times during the day. Encourage her or him to repeat it after you. If possible, have an alphabet strip available so your child can see the upper- and lowercase letters frequently.
Take your child on nature walks. Point out plants, animals, and other natural objects. Name them for your child and encourage her or him to describe them. Talk about how these plants and animals change and move, or how they stay the same, as in the case of rocks.
Give your child many opportunities to interact with other children of her or his age outside of the school setting. Encourage them to play together and to share and take turns with toys and games.
Hold your child's hand when you're crossing the street or are walking in a parking lot. Teach her or him to look around and be aware of vehicles or other things that might be dangerous. Use sidewalks and crosswalks with your child. Point out and explain the use of the "Walk" and "Don't Walk" sign.


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For most seasoned travelers, health and travel insurance are a staple feature for any trip; especially with all this hullabaloo about the ACA and recent healthcare changes. Travel insurance is a bit different. With so many different types of travel insurance available it can be difficult to know exactly what we need to buy in order to cover ourselves as well as get the best possible deal to avoid spending vast amounts we don't need.
Then there are the hidden aspects that not many people know about – for example, you can claim on travel insurance for holidays in the UK the same as with holidays abroad. Because this is a little known fact some insurers miss this cover off, so make sure any you buy has this included.
One of the most well known types of travel insurance is annual travel insurance. Also known as multi trip insurance this will cover you for an unlimited number of trips in a year (though the length of time per trip is subject to a certain amount of days).
When considering annual travel insurance, remember this is often the cheapest option of travel insurance if you take two or more trips in a year, be these in the UK or abroad.
If you aren't planning on taking more than one trip in a year or if you are planning to only take weekend breaks for example, the often single trip travel insurance can be the best option for you. If you have one main holiday or fancy a few weekends in the sun buying travel insurance per trip can be cheaper than buying annual travel insurance.
If you are only planning to take trips as a family then it may be worth buying family travel insurance. Family travel insurance covers two adults plus children and can be a cheaper option than buying individual policies for each family member. With family travel insurance you only need to buy one insurance policy which will cover your whole family.
It can be difficult to know how best to choose travel insurance, it is worth shopping around for all the different types of travel insurance – just so you know you are getting the best deal. You may find that annual insurance is only slightly more expensive than single trip travel insurance or that single trip insurance is far cheaper for 4 trips than the annual travel insurance would be.
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Friday-21-December-2012: The significance of this date in Mayanism stems from the ending of the current baktun cycle of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar in 2012. Speculation about this date can be traced to The Maya by Michael D. Coe, originally published in 1966, in which he suggested the date of December 24, 2011 (later revised to December 23, 2012) would mark the end of civilization:
There is a suggestion . . . that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the thirteenth [baktun]. Thus our present universe [would] be annihilated on December 23, 2012, when the Great Cycle of the Long Count reaches completion.
Other academic scholars of Maya civilization have disputed the apocalyptic interpretation of the Long Count calendar end-date, insisting that it simply marks a resetting of the calendar to Baktun 188.8.131.52.0, rather as the units and tens columns of a car's odometer reset to zero each time a hundred miles are completed. They also argue that the Long Count calendar does not end on 188.8.131.52.0. Scholars such as Linda Schele and David Freidel cite the Mayan inscription Coba Stela 1, which features the date 220.127.116.11.220.127.116.11.184.108.40.206.188.8.131.52.184.108.40.206.0.0.0.0. In Mayan mythology, this date represents the age of the previous world at its ending and the beginning of the current one, which corresponds to the Western date 11 August 3114 BC. Because the Mayan calendar is cyclical, the above dating will also, of necessity, mark the end of the present Long Count cycle and the beginning of the next. With each column equal to twenty times its predecessor, this date lies some 41,341,049,999,999,999,999,999,994,879 years in the future, or 3 quintillion times the scientifically accepted age of the universe.
Only one Maya inscription, Tortuguero Monument 6, directly mentions the end of the 13th baktun, which corresponds to 2012. It has been defaced, though Mayan scholar David Stuart has attempted a partial translation:
Tzuhtz-(a)j-oom u(y)-uxlajuun pik
(ta) Chan Ajaw ux(-te') Uniiw.
Uht-oom ...
Y-em(al) ... Bolon Yookte' K'uh ta ...
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New Jersey first passed a medical marijuana law back in 2010, but only recently has legal cannabis distribution begun to take root in the Garden State after a series of long delays, mostly attributable to willful obstruction from Governor Chris Christie, who once responded to a question about children who need medical marijuana to treat serious illnesses by bellowing: "I am not going to allow New Jersey to become a California or a Colorado where someone can fake a headache and get a bag of pot on every corner. So I'm very concerned, if we go down this slope of allowing minors to use this, where it ends."
Christie later went so far as to decry the terrible fate of Colorado, as if the Rocky Mountain State descended into some kind of dystopian hellscape shortly after legalizing marijuana for all adults.
"See if you want to live in a major city in Colorado, where there's headshops popping up on every corner and people flying into your airport just to come and get high," He said on his monthly Ask the Governor radio show. "To me, it's just not the quality of life we want to have here in the state of New Jersey and there's no tax revenue that's worth that."
But if Christie's concern is that people might "fake a headache," and then use pot for fun, where does that leave all the people who live with debilitating pain every day? In New Jersey, at least a few of them are finally finding some relief. At least according to Suzanne Miller, director of behavioral medicine at Philadelphia's Fox Chase Cancer Center and a member of the board of trustees for the Compassionate Care Foundation (CCF), a state-licensed medical marijuana retailer in Egg Harbor Township, NJ.
Miller has been using a test known as the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale to measure improvement in pain management among patients who use legal medical cannabis in NJ. Which means each time patients visit CCF, they choose a picture of a face (smiling, crying, neutral, etc.) that best represents their current pain level. The cards are then collected, and analyzed over time to determine changes.
So far, Miller says there's been "absolutely dramatic" improvement for many patients, results she plans to publish later this year. Which just might end up giving Chris Christie a headache.


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AT&T Pantech Flex (Magnus P9090) with Android ICS and LTE gets official
Previously seen as the Pantech Magnus P9090, the Pantech Flex has been just announced by AT&T. And it turns out that it's quite a unique handset, being the first in the US that allows users to chose between the traditional Android (4.0 ICS) UI, and a simplified interface called "Easy Experience."
According to AT&T and Pantech, the Easy Experience mode "prioritizes customers' apps on the home screen in a clearly organized and easy-to-read format. Easy Experience users can enjoy an intuitive experience without sacrificing any of the latest in smartphone technology."
Other than that, the Flex features LTE connectivity, a 4.5 inch qHD Super AMOLED display, 8MP rear camera with 1080p video recording, 2.0MP front-facing camera, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and MicroSD card support. It will be available starting September 16, for just $49.99 on contract.
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Another new Android smartphone that should become available at AT&T soon is the Sony Xperia T (but this hasn't been announced by the largest US carrier yet).
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Atheist Centre 1940-1990 Golden Jubilee
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Vijayawada, February 3, 4, and 5, 1990
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Feminist View of the Atheist Centre
Alice Bondi
On my first visit to the Atheist Centre in December 1987, I was struck very forcibly by the emphasis put on women in the work of the Centre. In virtually all, if not all, countries of the world, women are disadvantaged in various ways in society, but because the mechanisms of oppression differ, often, radically, between one society and another, it is not always easy for a foreigner to perceive clearly just what constitutes the nature of women's oppression in another society. So I must be slightly hesitant in my statements, as I am a British woman, and cannot enter into the mind and perception of an Indian woman.
However, on my second visit in January 1990, my feeling that the Atheist Centre was doing work comparable to that undertaken by feminists in Britain was strengthened. Perhaps the greatest concrete successes of the Women's Liberation Movement in Britain have been the establishment of Rape Crisis Centres and Women's Aid, which offers refuge and assistance to women who have suffered physical and mental cruelty at the hands of the men in their lives, be they husband, boyfriend or father. These were set up entirely by women's groups, although there is now, in a few areas, some financial assistance from local and national government. At the Atheist Centre, men and women have joined together, in the name of atheism, to offer practical and emotional support to women who have suffered at the hands of men, often being deserted by their husbands. These women are treated with respect by all the workers of the Atheist Centre, a situation that I fear often does not arise in Britain where men engaged in similar work often show only too clearly their contempt for women's intellectual and practical capabilities.
Another aspect of the Atheist Centre's excellent work for and with women is performed through "Samskar" (Reformation). Jogins, women who are designated, as young girls, as the brides of deities and thereafter become village prostitutes, unable to marry or escape their lot, have been helped immeasurably by the work of Samskar and in particular Mrs. Hemalata Lavanam. The emphasis on helping women to gain confidence in themselves as human beings who deserve the very best in their lives has parallels in the consciousness-raising work done within feminist groups in Britain. Hemalata's deep emotional feelings for the Jogins is something that all British feminists would strongly identify with and respect.
During the brief time l have spent at the Centre, I have become increasingly aware of the respect shown by the men who work here to all the women who work here. All have their own tasks which are carried out to the best of their abilities, and for which they are valued. To British eyes, the women seem strong and forceful ... but I am conscious of how easily one can culturally misinterpret behaviour, so it would not do to be too presumptuous about this.
It is very heartening to me, an atheist feminist, to see that such work for the liberation of women can be performed here in India by atheists. In Britain, no mixed groups of men and women have successfully entered into this field, and all such groups have been founded and staffed by women for women. The attitudes of male chauvinism are deeply ingrained in the male psyche, and British feminists have found few men who are genuinely working to free themselves of the whole breadth and depth of such attitudes. Therefore we have chosen to work separately. But here, the example of Mrs Saraswati Gora who with her husband founded the Atheist Centre in 1940 has clearly made it possible for excellent work to be done. I salute the strength and power of the women of the Atheist Centre of Vijayawada, congratulate the community on its Golden Jubilee, and I wish everyone all the best for the next 50 years. May women's liberation be realised in your country, in mine, and in the world


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