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"We believe that a global event connected with tea and the cultural traditions of various nations will draw worldwide attention to the cultural, historical, health-improving, aesthetic and economic value of tea," said Vladimir Volkov, the Festival's director of international programs.
There will be a host of opportunities for tea boards, tea companies, confectionary and allied manufacturers to participate. The festival will begin with a number of ships forming a "Tea Regatta" on the Moscow River. A "Town of Tea Civilizations" - pavilions in the style of main tea producing and tea consuming countries will be built in Gorky Park. Each pavilion will present national teas, traditions, cultures, etc. There will be 10 pavilions (China, Japan, India, Sri-Lanka, Kenya, England, Russia etc.). A non-stop Gala-Show will be presented featuring the tea and traditions of "tea civilizations" through participation of dance and folklore groups during the two final days of the festival. Finally, a "Teacup of Peace" will take place under the leadership of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and will be an opportunity for diplomats and leaders to discuss any, even delicate matters with interested parties in free and easy atmosphere, and for tea producers supply their teas for this event.
A Tea Fair in Gorky Park with specially equipped tents for tea-tasting and tea selling for the public as well as industry members, an international tea conference and an international scientific conference dealing with tea and health, will also be held for the bulk of the show.
For information on attending the show, see our Calendar page.
In 2002, 77% of U.S. adults over 18 years of age drink coffee on a daily or occasional basis, representing 161 million people, reported Michelle Eichhorn, associate research director at Kraft Foods' Coffee Division, who presented topline data from the survey at the convention. This represents an increase of 1.8 million new daily drinkers over 2001, and a larger increase of 10.2 million weekly drinkers over 2001.
Consumption is up as well as the number of drinkers, commented Robert Nelson, president and c.e.o. of NCA. "Despite the downturn in the economy," said Nelson, "more than half the adult population is consuming coffee every day (52%), and now number 108.7 million daily drinkers".
Another 25% of the adult population, or 52 million people, chose to drink coffee on an occasional basis. "Overall consumption has increased as a result of these new daily and weekly drinkers," he added, "leading to a record level of 18.285 million bags (132 pounds per bag) of roasted coffee in 2001, a figure not seen in the U.S. for a decade."
Highlighted in this year's results was the extent to which the general public are embracing coffee as a social beverage. Nelson said, "This year's survey demonstrates the long-term success of the gourmet coffee sector, for it has secured the gains it has made during the past five years, when consumption of gourmet coffee beverages increased from 7 million daily drinkers in 2002."
The gourmet coffee sector, added Michelle Eichhorn of Kraft Foods, has helped maintain overall market penetration by bringing in younger consumers. Another special aspect of this age group is their tendency to drink coffee during the afternoon and evening hours, outside the beverage's traditional breakfast period.
The survey is based on telephone interviews with 2,950 people 18 years and older, the sample being a representative sample of the adult population of the continental U.S. Conducted by the NCA since 1950, the 50-page survey details consumption data about coffee and coffee beverages.
Those interested on purchasing copies of the survey can do so by contacting the NCA at:(1) (212) 766-4007.
"Exports in March '02 were 19 m kg compared with 13.8 kg in March '01," he said. Tea exports have been hit by fierce competition from Indonesia. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and lower demand from traditional buyers such as Russia and Britain. But production in the first two months of the year has declined. India produced 33.1 m kg tea in January and February, down 10.5 percent from 37 m kg in the corresponding period last year, the offical said.
The price of coffee is the lowest in 10 years. This year Brazil will harvest 40 million sacks. The financing will have 9.5% annual interest, with an 18 month storage period extendabe for a similar period. Representatives of the Brazilian National Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CAN) had asked the minister for $450 million to store 10 million sacks. Still, Joao Roberto Pulit, president of the FunCafé committee of the CAN, thought the announcement positive because the minister assumed the obligation to seek more funds, if necessary.
In addition, $792 millions worth of research funding was announced coordinated by the Campinas Agroeconomic Institution (IAC), to identify the genetic map of coffee. The objective is to improve quality and productivity. According to the agricultural engineer Carlos Augusto Colombo, coordinator of the Coffee Genome project, the program is unprecedented. "Coffee has complex characteristics and we don't know exactly what guarantees its good quality."
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Pitched one perfect inning out the bullpen in rout of Alcorn State (5/8) ... Allowed two runs on two hits in 0.1 innings pitched at UCLA (4/17) ... Made two appearances against California in a double-header (4/10). Surrendered a run on three hits with a strikeout in 10-8 victory in first game. Gave up two runs on one hit in losing effort of second game ... Tossed four strong innings with three strikeouts and just one unearned run allowed against Arizona State (4/5) ... Pitched two scoreless innings with two strikeouts in loss to Oregon State (4/3) ... Gave up two runs in three combined innings in two appearances against New Mexico (3/29-30) ... Combined to pitch 1.0 scoreless innings in two relief appearances at Arizona State (3/26-27) ... Pitched a scoreless inning in a 14-0 rout of San Francisco (3/19) ... Surrendered two runs on a hit and a walk in 0.2 innings of work at Wichita State (3/16) ... Gave up a run on three hits at UNLV (3/9) ... Earned first save of season with 1.2 scoreless innings and two strikeouts against Utah Valley (3/5).Arizona 2010Led Arizona with three saves while appearing in a school freshman record of 35 games ... Appeared in 14 of team's 27 conference games, also the top UA freshman mark ... Made one appearance in Fort Worth Regional against TCU (6/5) as he allowed two runs - one earned - in 2.2 innings pitched in relief. Struck out three and walked three ... Earned victory in relief in UA's regular season finale at Oregon State (5/30). Turned in 3.1 innings of scoreless ball as he struck out four and walked two ... Made two appearances in final home series against Stanford (5/22 and 5/23). Allowed one run in 2.1 combined innings of work ... Gave up two runs in 0.1 innings pitched against Arizona State (5/17) ... Appeared in two games of Cal State Bakersfield series (5/7 and 5/9), including a career-high five strikeout game in 2.2 innings in series finale ... 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Mary Emma (Falcon) Jackman, 100, of Glasgow, formerly of Trenton, N.D., died in her sleep Friday morning, Jan. 3, 2014, in the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow.
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Statement of Dave Low on New Ballot Measures Introduced By DeMaio/Reed
Top California Attorney Clark Kelso: AG Harris Correct in Noting DeMaio/Reed Pension Measure Eliminates Retirement Security for Public Servants
Statement of Dave Low, Chairman, Californians for Retirement Security, on Attorney General's Title & Summary of DeMaio/Reed Pension Measure
CalPERS to Bonta: DeMaio/Reed Pension Measure Would Eliminate Retirement Security for Both Existing and Future Public Servants
Bonta: CalSTRS Says Pension Ballot Measure Would Negatively Impact Teacher Retirement Security, Stability of Pension Fund, Increase State Costs
State Legislative Analyst Says "Significant Uncertainty" in Demaio/Reed Pension Measure
Statement on Reed/DeMaio Pension Measure from Dave Low, Chairman, Californians for Retirement Security
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Sacramento Bee Viewpoints: Pension 'reformers' distort facts on benefits
Published Tuesday, May. 31, 2011
By Martha Penry
Martha Penry is a special education teacher's assistant in the Twin Rivers school district.
Those who want to gut retirement security for public employees in California are issuing an ominous-sounding ultimatum: Slash pensions now or slash school budgets. Trouble is, as clear a choice as it may seem, it simply doesn't compute.
Public employee pensions amount to just 3 percent of California's budget. The growing number of politically motivated proposals to overhaul California's public pension system will not make a dent in the state's current budget shortfall. Not by any calculation. Not now and not anytime soon.
Some proposals may even make our fiscal matters worse. A recent nonpartisan analysis of a proposal floated – and then abandoned – by former Assemblyman Roger Niello found it would likely create additional demand on social services that state government provides. Why? Because more retirees would be forced into poverty.
Meanwhile, some proposals, such as those advanced by Schwarzenegger appointees who control the Little Hoover Commission, are simply unconstitutional and carry questionable cost savings.
Translation: Ballot box proposals to force pension changes will not prevent pink slips.
Those truly dedicated to educating children will protect the retirement security that attracts the brightest teachers. They will protect the retirement security for dedicated public servants who drive school buses, keep campuses clean and assist teachers in the classroom.
If those behind the assault on California's middle class truly were concerned with the state's education system, they would support protecting the retirement security of millions of state and local public employees who pay taxes, volunteer in their communities – including in classrooms – and pump their retirement earnings right back into local economies and schools.
A study commissioned by CalSTRS found that benefits paid to retired educators amount to an economic engine across California, especially in rural counties that have suffered dramatically from the collapsed economy. The Sacramento State study concluded that the California economy gained $6.71 for every dollar invested in pensions by employers and taxpayers.
Yet it is teachers, and regular people like me, who are being scapegoated for California's budget troubles.
For the past 22 years, I have been a special education teacher's assistant. When I retire in a few years, I can expect a pension of $800 a month.
Three-quarters of CalPERS retirees collect yearly pensions of $36,000 or less. California retired teachers, who do not collect Social Security, earn an average $3,300 a month after an average 27 years in the classroom.
The headline-grabbing pensions held up by those attacking public pensions are rare, less than 2 percent of retirees. And they often represent egregious cases of abuse and misdeed. I, along with my fellow front-line public employees, unequivocally endorse changes to prevent those inexcusable cases.
We also are participating willingly in solutions to state and local budget woes caused not by us, but by Wall Street greed. State workers are contributing a far larger share of pension costs now, up to 11 percent. Formulas for calculating pensions have been reduced and stringent new rules are being established to eliminate abuses like spiking.
In all, such changes – made through collective bargaining – have reduced state pension costs by $570 million over the past two years.
The concessions made by public employees at the local level are equally dramatic. Sacramento city employees are negotiating lower cost pension tiers and are considering a proposal to require employees to make their own pension contributions. According to data kept by CalPERS, in nearly 180 California cities, counties and local districts, firefighters, police, teachers and other public employees have agreed to increase employee pension contributions and lower public costs.
Pension busters, meanwhile, are clamoring for public and private pensions to be brought into line.
We agree that retirement security for all workers – public and private – is vital to reviving this state and nation's economy. The answer is not, however, allowing out-of-state billionaires to swoop in and change California's constitution to force public workers into risky 401(k) retirement plans like those that have left private sector workers fearing for their families' futures.
Contrary to some misleading claims, breaking promises to millions of public servants certainly will not generate a sudden infusion of money for California's cash-strapped schools. Nor will it keep parks open, prevent college tuition hikes or protect public safety.
Given the facts, Californians know better than to believe they must choose between protecting this state's youngest residents and supplying security to its retirees.
Pension busters should know better, too.
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House Lights & Prolonged Sunlight is not a family-friendly play, as it contains every offensive word in the English language, extreme violence, and graphic drug use. In short, it is the perfect date night entertainment.
The first act, House Lights, invites us into the home of the Roget's - an extremely dysfunctional, modern, nuclear family with incessantly bickering parents, daughter living in a fantasy world (or perhaps suffering from mental illness) and an intense, terrifying, gangbanging son. Mrs. Roget invites Saul Peacock, an actor turned perrenial film extra, over for dinner. Mr. Peacock charms the family with his self-important tales of working as an extra in movies and convinces the family he can help them all become stars, with riches beyond imagination.
He directs the family in various shocking ways, but they follow him, as he is a God-like figure (certainly a mocking social commentary on our modern obsession with celebrity). Jason Kanda's performance as Saul Peacock is nothing short of genius - extremely dark and incredibly engrossing.
The second act, Prolonged Sunlight, is a series of six short stories that forces characters to react to highly unusual circumstances. In the second scene, Joey and Crystal argue in a driveway after Joey buys a magical rock that contains all of his love. Crystal, who is skeptical at first but soon realizes he is telling the truth, tries desperately to find her own rock and an intriguing altercation ensues with an existentially fatal conclusion.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Young, white men have the highest suicide risk among depressed veterans, according to a new study. This is different from the general population, where the highest suicide rates are seen in men older than 75.
"This has implications for primary care and mental health clinicians working with younger veterans," Department of Veterans Affairs research scientist Kara Zivin, Ph.D., told Ivanhoe. She explained health care providers should consider these findings when treating veterans, and not depend only on suicide predictors based on the general population.
Dr. Zivin and senior author Marcia Valenstein, M.D., from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, analyzed data from more than 800,000 veterans diagnosed with depression and treated between 1999 and 2004. They report 0.21 percent, or 1,683, of the veterans committed suicide during the study period.
Along with the finding that men ages 18 to 44 had the highest risk of suicide, researchers also report veterans with depression who were also diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were less likely to kill themselves than depressed veterans not diagnosed with PTSD. Study authors suggested this might be because those diagnosed with PTSD were more likely to receive care through VA programs.
"We're trying, with this work, to increase awareness," said Dr. Zivin. Although she said researchers couldn't draw conclusions about why certain groups have a higher suicide risk than other groups, study authors hoped this research would encourage more veterans experiencing depression to seek help. "Maybe one factor that is helping people is having a greater connection with the health care system, and that's decreasing their risk, though we don't know this for sure."
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois statewide officials, particularly Democrats, are giving a cool response to Gov. Pat Quinn's call for them to share the pain of the state's financial troubles by cutting their budgets 9 percent.
None of the independent constitutional officials - attorney general, secretary of state, comptroller and treasurer - has flatly rejected the Democratic governor. But some of them come close.
Both Secretary of State Jesse White and Attorney General Lisa Madigan say their top priority is making sure the operations of their offices aren't harmed seriously. Aides to the two Democrats said they're still "crunching the numbers" to see how close they can get to Quinn's 9 percent target.
A third Democratic official, Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon, embraced Quinn's target and proposed cutting her tiny office's budget by nearly $200,000. But she is essentially a part of the Quinn administration. It would have been remarkable if she hadn't followed his lead.
As for the Republicans, neither Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka nor Treasurer Dan Rutherford committed to hitting the governor's 9 percent target, but aides said they would try.
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While Parademons unload a mechanized cocoon whose incubation is complete, Lara and Lois, great-grand daughters of Superman, fly the body of Wonder Woman's daughter to Paradise Island. They are greeted by Queen Diana when they land who asks to see the body of her daughter. Lois tries to explain that they tried to get Princess Stephanie into bio-suspension as soon as possible but Queen Diana informs them that she was already beyond the capabilities of their science. She orders the body taken to the House of Healing so that Dr. Von Gunther to put the Princess under the Purple Ray. When Lois asks what the Purple Ray is Diana explains that it is a secret Paradise Island has kept from the eyes of the outside world for many year, but invites the girls to witness to how they may save Princess Stephanie. Lara wonders aloud how they could save her since she is dead.
In the void where New Genesis is trapped Metron's investigations come to another dead end. He muses on how Darkseid's contingency plan worked better than even he might have hoped since despite having two hundred years to do so he could not find a passage back to fourth-dimensional space. It is in Metron's nature to never give up, but even this challenge is beyond the capabilities of the Mobius Chair.
Meanwhile, below on New Genesis Superman wakes up screaming, startling his lover Beautiful Dreamer. He moans about how this was the worst nightmare yet and Dreamer asks if he remembers any of the dream. Superman tells her that the details have already faded and that not even his super memory can pull them back. All he is left with is the same overwhelming sense of dread and despair. Dreamer pleads for him to let her help him, but Superman tells her no.
Back on Earth in Gotham City, the original clone of Buddy Blank tells his doctor that despite the fact that he shouldn't feel tired he still does. The doctor explains that it is psychosomatic symptoms only since the only thing he shares with the other Omacs is a genome. Buddy goes on to tell her that despite this fact they all are him in some strange way. Despite the doctor's assurances Buddy has reservations about the consequences of creating an army of Omacs.
On the dark side of the moon a Parademon tells Skarg that they have lost all contact with the troops on Earth. Skarg tells them that all communications systems cannot fail at the same time. Despite this the systems have failed and they are not even sure if the troops that were teleported to the surface made it since they have no contact with them. Skarg informs the group that the weapons systems are almost back online but before he can continue he is informed that the planet is surrounded by geo-stationary satellites that form a ring around the equator. Upon scanning them the Parademons discovered that they are directing great amounts of energy towards the planet's surface, which may be blocking the signals from the ground troops. Skarg orders his men to continue scanning and that as soon as the weapons are back online they shall test that hypothesis.
On Paradise Island Queen Diana explains that she had created the Purple Ray more than two hundred years ago to restore the life of Steve Trevor. Lara asks if he was dead and Diana replies that he was, but the ray was not able to restore him the second time. Diana orders them to proceed with activating the Ray, which bathes Princess Stephanie with purple light. During the process Lara asks her sister why the Amazons had never bothered to tell anyone the Purple Ray. Lois replies that Batman must have known about it, which is why he ordered them to bring Stephanie back to Paradise Island. Suddenly, Lara notices that Stephanie's hand is moving.
In Smallville, a tech-sergeant informs Batman that they are beating the Parademons back, even with the weapons they captured. He asks the Dark Knight how he knew the attack was coming. Batman replies that it was a hunch since the Parademons have been attacking Earth every hundred years since 1925. The only thing that troubles him is the fact that the Parademons beamed down knowing they would lose power on the surface.
On the battlefield one of the Omacs wonders if the ease with which they are beating the Parademons could mean they are setting a trap. Another Omac mentions that Parademons aren't smart enough for that kind of planning. Suddenly, Clark, grandson of the original Superman, flies by and informs them that these Parademons may be smarter than normal and that they should keep on top of them while he can scan the area from above. As Superman flies off he muses how he wishes Control would go ahead and get a lock on where the Parademon fleet was hiding considering that while no more have beamed down since the first wave they have found a solution to their power problem.
One of the Parademons who is a part of that First Wave tells his commander that they have captured enough weapons to put up a strong resistance. The commander yells that they lost more than half of their force doing it and that the Amazon she-devil cost them two hundred units before they brought her down.
On Paradise Island Diana is informed that while the Purple Ray has successfully restored all of Stephanie's life functions that she was dead for more than one hour longer than proscribed limits and that this might cause brain damage. Lois and Lara both apologize for not getting there faster. Diana tells them that they have no blame in this and that she knows what she must do.
Back at Control the tech-sergeant tells Batman that the Parademon fleet is in the moon's shadow. He goes on to say that he can't get a fix on how many there are but where they are is enough for Batman who orders B.J. to get every available man to launch station to finally take the offensive in the war,
The Parademon fleet's weapons come back online. Skarg orders his men to move at once to firing positions and begin to destroy the power satellites.
Meanwhile, back in Gotham City Buddy Blank collapses to the floor and begins to writhe in pain. His doctor asks what is wrong and Buddy tells her that he feels like he is being cut into pieces. She contacts Batman to tell him that she thinks Blank Prime is dying. Batman theorizes that it is his bio-psychic link. The tech-sergeant yells that it's getting bad on the battlefield after the Parademons destroyed forty percent of the Eye-Ring causing forty percent of the Omacs to revert to Buddy Blank. On the field the tech-sergeant's numbers are a reality as Omacs begin to change back to Buddy Blank. One Omac shouts to his "brothers" that they should keep pressing the offensive. Another Omac tells him that they cannot take any more losses because the Parademon forces are close to outnumbering them again.
In space, B.J.'s fleet engages the Parademons. Skarg orders his men to break into defensive positions and to keep firing on those satellites. On the ground an Omac orders another to contact central command and have them send in reinforcements. All eyes go skyward as the Invisible Jet and Supergirl Red and Blue appear on the scene. Queen Diana, in full Wonder Woman regalia, leaps from the jet and attacks the Parademons. Lois and Lara watch in amazement before joining the battle themselves.
As B.J. and his fleet begin to break up the Parademon's battlefronts a Parademon informs his comrade that if they are spread out any further too many ships will be outside of the range of the Helix. The second Parademon orders them to prepare for the time jump anyway. Several Parademons argue the point, but Skarg tells them that it doesn't matter that the time jump was meant to be a last ditch contingency. Skarg tells them it is not his place to question His wisdom. His final order before making the jump is to send an Omega Pulse to destroy the troops on the ground that are beyond retrieval.
On the ground Wonder Woman, Lois and Lara watch as the Parademons begin to explode. The blast waves multiply adding one onto the other. After the explosions cease a good deal of Smallville is decimated. Wonder Woman tells the group that it will take years to rebuild. Lois asks why they keep attacking Smallville. Lara tells her that they are probably being petty since Smallville is their Grandpa Kal's old home town. After Clark lands Wonder Woman asks what happened to the fleet. Clark replies that most of the fleet was destroyed, though four of them did a fast fade and vanished.
Wonder Woman thanks Batman for having Lois and Lara bring Stephanie home, adding that she did not know that Batman was aware of the Purple Ray. Batman tells her that he has never heard of the Purple Ray. He figured that if she had seen that her daughter had fallen in battle it might inspire her to become Wonder Woman again.
Back on New Genesis, Superman agrees to have Beautiful Dreamer probe is dreams despite the fact that she went to High Father and the other New God's with the problem without his consent. Superman lies down and Dreamer begins her probe and the two find themselves in a smoky battlefield. Superman tells the questioning Dreamer that they are inside his dream, though the images are much clearer. The two see Saturn Girl and Brainiac 5 leading Dreamer to think they are seeing Earth in the thirtieth century. Brainiac 5 is struck down by a blast of energy. Saturn Girl rushes to his side and tells him not to give up and that they need to get to the Time Spheres to warn Superboy. Brainiac 5 tells her that his injuries are fatal and that she needs to go on without him. He hands her a device to plug into the main control console of the time machine which will monitor her life signs and send the Time Bubble back to the thirtieth century if anything happens to her. Saturn Girl rushes to the Time Bubble and sets the controls to 1925. She knows that she must get a warning to Superboy no matter the cost.
Superman tells Dreamer that Saturn Girl succeeded, it just took three hundred years to understand what it was.
Story - 5: There was a lot of good in this issue. By far this is the best issue yet and has me looking forward to the next issue to see how the story is progresses.
It's not that I hated the previous three issues. Issue one was a really strong start, but issues two and three, while having a good bit of action and characterization, seemed to limp along. This probably has a lot to do with the fact that they were setting up the rest of the series, but when you read books from month to month set-up can seem to take forever. I know that when the series finishes and I sit down to read the story all at once that everything will make sense and that I will enjoy the individual issues a lot more.
But that's nine months from now. Today we are dealing with issue four and I have to say that I really liked what John Byrne did in this story.
The re-introduction of Wonder Woman into the Generations mythos was a welcome one. All of the little touches Byrne threw in were nice, including mentioning Dr. Von Gunther, a villain from Wonder Woman's Golden-Age whom she managed to rehabilitate if I am remembering correctly. I am somewhat curious to see how she became Queen Diana, but I can live without the info. One of the charms of the Generations saga is not learning everything that happened but seeing the characters progress to their natural destinies, or at least how John Byrne sees them.
I'm still enjoying Lara and Lois as characters and it was nice to see them return. I guess they are around for the long haul. I dug their reactions to the Purple Ray and how they questioned why the Amazons kept the secret hidden. It shows that despite the fact that they are several hundreds of years old that they are still young girls in many ways, especially when it comes to battle.
I was really happy to see Superman again and was kind of shocked to see him with Beautiful Dreamer. I guess it makes sense in a way. They had been trapped in the void for two hundred years without knowing if they were ever going to return and even a Man of Steel must get lonely. Beautiful Dreamer is an apt choice considering that she probably reminds Superman of Lois, at least physically. And if you are going to choose a New God to hook up with Dreamer is a good choice. It was also good to see Byrne pay off on Superman's "odd feeling" by turning it into a recurring dream.
Batman. Ah, Batman. It was nice to see Byrne infuse some of that cold blooded, Machiavellian vibe that he used back in MAN OF STEEL #3. For the most part Batman has been more of the Golden-Age characterization. In this issue, though, he took a slight turn to towards the dark side by manipulating Wonder Woman into returning to duty. I liked it. I liked it a lot as a matter of fact. I've always been fond of Batman being portrayed as a calculating, ends justify the means type of crime fighter. It was also good to see him prepared for the Parademons attack. Batman is the world's greatest detective and he is the one who should have seen the pattern.
The story is starting to come together. I am still a little fuzzy on the continuity of the Parademons, but hopefully that will become clear in time. Overall this was a really solid issue with a good mix of action and character.
Art - 5: The artwork was bordering on phenomenal this issue. From the first page with the detail on the "cocoon" to the swirling section of space that Metron was examining, I really think Byrne was on the top of his game this time out.
As always I liked to see Superman in costume. He seemed a little more filled out this issue, kind of like how Byrne drew him during his run. It was also interesting to note how much Beautiful Dreamer resembled Byrne's Lois Lane in some places. I don't know if this was intentional or not and it could just be my perceptions of the art, but I may be on to something. It's interesting to note how Byrne will draw the male Kirby figures in the Kirby style but the women are usually pure Byrne. Again, this could just be me.
I continue to dig the costume designs for Knightwing as Superman and Lois and Lara. Knightwing's costume is just neat; there is really no other way to describe it. The way the cape hangs off the shoulders looks great, especially when the character is flying.
Wonder Woman looked good as well. I was always going back and forth on Byrne's initial run of the character with WW sometimes looking fantastic and sometimes looking like she really had to use the restroom. Here we were treated to an Amazon queen and the old school (well, not that old school) uniform. My only problem came with the way Byrne drew the sword during the battle scenes. It seemed to change size from panel to panel.
The action scenes were handled well and the detail on some of the pages was really nice. There is not much to complain about as far as the art goes and I thought it blended well with the story.
Cover Art - 5: Now this is a cover.
On the "Grab Me" scale this was a nine out of ten. Wonder Woman was striking in the foreground. The breast plate and shield had a real metallic feel demonstrated with how they glint in the light. The expressions of the characters in the background were fitting. Superman and Lois have expressions of shock at Wonder Woman's handiwork. Batman and Lara, on the other hand, look almost pleased. It's a nice look of contrast into how the characters think. Batman's expression fits into the manipulating he did during the story. It seems he was pleased with how his plan came together.
Overall the best cover yet. The background color took away from it a bit, but the figure work is fantastic. This cover would have made me want to pick the comic up if I had not already had it on reserve.
January 2003
Check out the Comic Index Lists for the complete list of Superman-related comics published in 2003.


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Anthony Andrew Cook
Position: DE-DT
Height: 6-3 Weight: 295 lbs.
Born: May 30, 1972 in Bennettsville, SC
High School: Marlboro Co.
College: South Carolina St.
Drafted by the Houston Oilers in the 2nd round (35th overall) of the 1995 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 20 (4825th overall since 1950)


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Wrongful Death Suit
Updated: 07/10/2007 - A wrongful death lawsuit filed over a two year old girl moves to the Stateline.
Updated: 07/10/2007 - A wrongful death lawsuit filed over a two year old girl moves to the Stateline.
Updated: 07/10/2007 - How you can join in the planning process to install new elementary attendance zones in Rockford.
Updated: 07/10/2007 - A report out Tuesday says more and more teens aren't paying attention to the roads because of distractions like text messaging.
Posted: 07/10/2007 - Several hundred ComEd customers in Rockford are without power, this after thousands of residents were in the dark about an hour ago because of the storms.
Updated: 07/10/2007 - It looks like we're in store for another round of increases at the gas pump.
Posted: 07/10/2007 - In medical news, help for the nationwide nursing shortage is on the way.
Updated: 07/10/2007 - Driving down Perryville and State Street today, you may have seen some disturbing signs along the way, promoting life, and protesting abortion.
Updated: 07/10/2007 - One year and 7.5 million dollars later, thousands of books are heading back to their proper home.
Updated: 07/10/2007 - When the clock strikes midnight, there's going to be a mad dash across the country and here in the stateline. Where's everyone headed? To the movies.
Posted: 07/10/2007 - Chuck Prorok is recommended to be next Winnebago County State's Attorney
Posted: 07/10/2007 - ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) -- A veteran newspaper columnist for the Rockford Register Star has died at the age of 72.
Updated: 07/10/2007 - Presidential contender Barack Obama today dismissed his Democratic rivals' change of heart on the Iraq war as too little too late.
Updated: 08/17/2007 - CHICAGO (AP) -- House Speaker Michael Madigan continues to blame Governor Rod Blagojevich for the state of Illinois' budget crisis.
Posted: 07/10/2007 - Threatening fliers removed from UW-Milwaukee bus stops
Posted: 07/10/2007 - Body found near where student disappeared might be identified today
Posted: 07/10/2007 - Amtrak teams up with luxury company to offer new kind of service
Posted: 07/10/2007 - A state program designed to reduce the number of children riding in cars without wearing seat-belts is expanding into DuPage County.
Updated: 07/10/2007 - It used to be bed bugs were only part of a nursery rhyme. But according to Tom Zorka, the Midwest Tech Services Manager for Orkin Pest Control, reports of the bugs are on the rise.
Updated: 07/09/2007 - Winnebago County's State's Attorney Paul Logli gets some good news Monday, when he's appointed to the 17th circuit court bench.
Posted: 07/09/2007 - The bickering over the budget continues...but one citizen group claims it has the answer.
Updated: 07/09/2007 - A Capron family is blaming McHenry and Winnebago Counties for the death of their family member and is now filing a lawsuit against them.
Updated: 07/09/2007 - The North Boone School District's search for an interim superintendent may be drawing to a close.
Updated: 07/09/2007 - It's been about 40 years since a tornado ripped through Belvidere killing two dozen. Even still, the word of similar tragedies around the country hit close to home.
Updated: 07/09/2007 - If you drop something on the floor you can still eat it as long as it was picked up within five seconds but new research shows we just may have a little longer then five seconds and still be able to avoid the germs.
Updated: 07/09/2007 - We're being encouraged to walk around our blocks and quickly tidy everything up, America In Bloom judges are in town and the city's looking for another win.


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This rings very true to me, especially given that our lives are so short. Example #1: the global marginalization of women. Sure, we can pout and moan about equal pay for equal work and the burden of childbirth for working women in THIS rich, first-world country, but in many places in the non-Western world, all too often being a woman means being reduced to a mere vessel for raising children, a burdensome one at that, who can be beaten, raped and abused on a whim without ramifications for the abusers. I read the NY Times Magazine's special issue on worldwide women's issues, and I have to say I was quite moved by it. I've always spoken in the abstract about how ridiculous it is when Arab counties leave 50% of their population's skills on the shelf, but I'm considerably more emboldened to make the case for massive female freedom & liberty on a global basis than I was previously. Other examples of cultural libertarianism in my own thinking abound: strong support for gay marriage; willingness to experiment with some drug legalization; and (a big one for me) actively speaking out against centuries-long human oppression stemming from religious beliefs formed & codified millennia ago.
In these cases the oppressor of liberty isn't always the government. They are rock-solid cultural and religious norms. I've always abhorred cultural relativism, and those who argue that the norms of the world beyond our borders are just as well and good as those here have long bothered me. I personally take pride in the human liberty and material advances of western civilization, and I heartily applaud those countries of the East that have freed their peoples from years of cultural and religious tyranny as well. Howley's argument is a good one because she recognizes that measuring true progress in our lifetimes is difficult and hard to see, and it's better to frequently and routinely advance the cause of human dignity and freedom on an individual basis AND a culture-wide basis than to focus efforts solely on the bugaboos of taxation and property.
In the end, a woman being trafficked for sex or held as chattel by males in her society due to religious or cultural norms doesn't really care so much about her taxation levels or property rights, but we lovers of liberty should certainly elevate her right to freedom from oppression at least as high as we do our own. I'd like to do my part to help spread the concept of cultural libertarianism as broadly as possible to help her and all others who want and deserve dignity, freedom and a life free from the oppression of others.
Make sense? It does to me. I'll try and break it down a little better in future posts. In the meantime, here's some talk about the article that spurred the thinking here.
Make sense? It does to me. I'll try and break it down a little better in future posts. In the meantime, here's some talk about the article that spurred the thinking here.


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BALISTRIERI v. UNITED STATES
Annotate this Case
- Syllabus
- Case
U.S. Supreme Court
BALISTRIERI v. UNITED STATES, 395 U.S. 710 (1969)395 U.S. 710
BALISTRIERI v. UNITED STATES.
No. 1070.
Decided June 16, 1969.
Rehearing granted; 394 U.S. 985, vacated; certiorari granted; 403 F.2d 472, vacated and remanded.
Edward Bennett Williams and Harold Ungar for petitioner.
Solicitor General Griswold for the United States.
The petition for rehearing is granted and the order denying the petition for a writ of certiorari is vacated. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted and the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is vacated. The case is remanded to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois for further proceedings in light of Alderman v. United States, 394 U.S. 165, and Giordano v. United States, 394 U.S. 310.
MR. JUSTICE BLACK dissents.
MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
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Sawatch Range > Holy Cross, Mount of the > Climber's Log
Holy Cross, Mount of the Climber's Log
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|sat the top just after sunset
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2006
|and felt really stupid. We had great weather but climbed through the hotest part of the day and ran out of water before the summit. Did it in one day and long day does not cover this
|Posted Jan 12, 2011 9:51 pm
|North Ridge to summit
Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2009
|Great day and 5th fourteener for me. It was a little stormy and we had some snow flurries. The climb back out of halfmoon pass sucked! Of course!
|Posted Dec 18, 2010 10:13 pm
|Holy Cross and Halo Ridge
Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2010
|Climbed Mount of the Holy Cross via North Ridge Route. Returned back via Halo Ridge Route. Nice weather, great views.
|Posted Oct 4, 2010 2:09 pm
|Standard Route, a new favorite
Date Climbed: Oct 3, 2010
|Great route--a real blast. Amazing weather: mostly sunny with no wind, 40° at the summit. Happy to have survived the Bermuda Triangle of the Rockies: the mountain really does try to sucker you down the left side on the descent.
|Posted Oct 3, 2010 7:20 pm
|winter death march
Date Climbed: Jan 4, 2010
|Third time summiting, but this one was the most physically demanding thing I've ever done. Long day and it took all four of us taking turns to break trail, but we summited right at sunset! Hit the wall on the way down, due mostly to dehydration. A very memorable and rewarding winter hike I plan to never repeat. With Kiefer, Ben, and Ryan.
|Posted Sep 20, 2010 12:12 am
|Long day, but very enjoyable
Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2010
|I was not prepared for the outstanding beauty of the Holy Cross wilderness and the of the mountain. We got a really late start and climbed the mountain from the Halfmoon Pass route. It was a really long day and I would of been happier if we didn't have to go 1000 feet back up to Halfmoon Pass.
|Posted Sep 19, 2010 2:56 pm
|Cross couloir!
Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2010
|hiked in 6/26, camped at the Bowl of Tears. Awesome snow climb!
|Posted Jul 22, 2010 4:56 pm
|Halo Ridge solo
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2010
|Started at 3:30am and made it to Notch Mountain right after sunrise. The ridge was long as advertised but I didn't see a soul until the summit of Holy Cross. The north ridge seemed long but it may just be that I didn't go up that way so it was unfamiliar. Climbing back over Halfmoon Pass wasn't as tough as I had feared. Great route for a blue bird sky kind of day!
|Posted Jul 18, 2010 8:55 am
|Holy Cross CLimb
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2010
|Beautiful and dramatic peak in the Sawatch.. Pictures to follow.
|Posted Jul 6, 2010 5:43 pm
|Cross couloir
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2010
|Wasted an hour blowing right by the entrance to the cross, and was rewarded with nasty slush. Oh, well. Still a cool route. Trip report
|Posted Jun 30, 2010 3:59 pm
|Alex Wood
|Solitude and a Long Day
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2010
|Started out at 4:15 and were headed for Cross Couloir. The approach took forever so we decided to do Angelica Couloir. Fun snow climb! Then we did Halo Ridge to Notch Mountain. We got back to Half Moon Pass TH at 6pm...LONG DAY! We didn't see anybody all day until we got below Notch Mountain
|Posted Jun 24, 2010 1:09 am
|Always Fun
|Been on summit 4 times, always a great climb. Next time will be the cross!
|Posted Apr 26, 2010 12:07 am
|via Notch Mtn and Halo Ridge, awesome!
Date Climbed: Oct 30, 2009
|With Mccannster
Climbed the north ridge of Notch, went through the Notch over to Halo ridge, then to the summit. Descended North Ridge. Only 12 miles, but it felt more like 20. 6200 feet of gain. Just enough snow to make the talus scrambling very annoying. Long day, just short of 12 hours
|Posted Jan 23, 2010 2:17 am
|North Ridge
Date Climbed: Jan 4, 2010
|A painfully long day (summit day was 22 hrs). Left camp at 5:50am and summited at 6:10pm and ended at 4:00am.
Hardest mountain (per winter) I've ever done to date. Member of our party developed Pulmonary Edema on the ascent out of Cross Creek.
Couldn't ask for better weather. Calm winds, single digits temps and clear skies. Awful snow conditions.
|Posted Jan 6, 2010 2:58 pm
|Cross Couloir
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2009
|Up the cross couloir, down the North ridge. Watch for rockfall as the snow softens up.
|Posted Dec 31, 2009 9:58 am
|Beautiful mountain
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2009
|Very nice mountain, one of my favorites hikes.
|Posted Nov 24, 2009 12:50 am
|via Notch Mtn and Halo Ridge
Date Climbed: Oct 3, 2009
|Climbed the north ridge of Notch, went through the Notch over to Halo ridge, then to the summit. Descended North Ridge. Only 12 miles, but it felt more like 20. 6200 feet of gain. Just enough snow to make the talus scrambling very annoying. Long day, just short of 12 hours.
|Posted Oct 4, 2009 12:38 am
|Crying into the Bowl of Tears
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2003
|I hiked this mountain on the 6th anniversary of my husband's death... I found this mountain to be a very healing place.
|Posted Sep 21, 2009 11:37 pm
|Eric Holle
|Girls Day Out
Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2009
|I led a group of my fiancee, Amy, and 8 of her girlfriends up the Standard Route of Holy Cross. Eveyone made the summit and back down on a great day! My 4th ascent of the peak.
|Posted Sep 21, 2009 2:14 pm
|I like it on top
|Halo Ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2009
|What a long day via the Halo Ridge. Topped out on Point 13,831 and then got Holy Cross. Mother nature reminded us of how the weather can be in the fall. Snowed almost all day.
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Britney Spears' singing of her new single "Alien" without Auto-Tune has hit the Internet and fans are aghast at just how bad she sounds without technological assistance. Now, William Orbit, the sound engineer who worked on the project, is defending her, according to ABC News on Thursday. Orbit says that the leaked audio tape of Spears' singing was no more than the famed singer doing warm-ups. In no way was the recording intended for public consumption. Unfortunately, the recording did get out and is making Spears look - and sound - pretty bad.
Orbit said that he'd like to affirm that any singer, who first steps up to the microphone at the beginning of a long session, can make a multitude of vocalizations. These various vocalizations, he asserted on his Facebook account, are in an effort for the singer to get warmed up. He went on to express that warming up is essential if you are a professional. He compared warming up the vocal cords for a recording session to a runner doing stretches before a race, and he says it takes a while to do it properly. He asserts that he has heard all kinds of sounds coming from singers during warm-up exercises. So, the logical question here is: Why are warm-ups even recorded then?
The Huffington Post claims that the leak of "Alien" is possibly not the first time the public has heard Spears without auto-tune enhancement. Yet, it agrees that this time, the non-auto-tuned vocal is making people cringe. The recording displays a very bad singing voice which is horrendously out of tune for most of the recording. It was on July 2 that the unedited vocal version of the song from her most recent album project, "Britney Jean," was found here, there and everywhere on the Internet. By July 7, the defenses for the leaked tape started coming out. It goes without saying that the leaked tape is not the "final take" of Spears' project.


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Red Team Evens Series with 7-5 Win in Game 2
Oct. 29, 2012
Red & Black Series Game 2 Quotes
LUBBOCK, Texas - A five-run second inning sparked the Red Team in a 7-5 victory over the Black Team while evening the series in the annual Texas Tech baseball Red & Black Series on Monday, Oct. 29 at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.
Sophomore right-handed pitcher Dominic Moreno (1-0) set the tone for the Red Team while earning the win pitching four innings with three strikeouts. He allowed one run on three hits in the victory.
The Red Team sent 10 batters to the plate in the second inning with five base hits - including a two-run single from sophomore third baseman Bryant Burleson - to give the Red Team a 5-0 advantage.
Freshman right-handed pitcher Matt Withrow (0-1) suffered the loss going 1.1 innings with one strikeout while giving up five runs (all earned) on five hits with three walks.
The Black Team made it interesting late with three runs in the sixth and with a run in the eighth to cut the Red Team's lead to 7-5.
In the ninth, Red Team junior right-handed pitcher Heath Herrington battled out of a jam when two walks and a fielding error loaded the bases with nobody out. Herrington ended the game with two strikeouts and a fly out to right field to give the Red Team the victory and to record the save.
Designated hitter Wade Stramp (2-for-3, run, walk, stolen bases) and catcher Jarrard Poteete (2-for-4, run) had multi-hit games while center fielder Brett Bell scored a run and had two RBI to lead the way for the Red squad.
The Black Team was paced offensively by center fielder Devon Conley's 3-for-5 performance, which included two triples a stolen base and RBI. Catcher Mason Randolph went 2-for-4 with a double and a walk and freshman second baseman Alec Humphreys went 2-for-5 with a run, double and RBI. Senior right fielder Brennan Moore reached base safely in four of five plate appearances with two walks, a hit-by-pitch, RBI and a stolen base.
Freshman right-handed reliever Justin Bethard pitched four relief innings for the Black Team while allowing just one run on three hits with three strikeouts and didn't allow a walk.
The Red & Black Series finale - Game 3 - is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 30 with a 3 p.m. first pitch at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. Admission is free.


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Face Off--Chevrolet Astro/GMC Safari vs. "Dustbuster" Minivans
In our past face-offs, we've compared cars that were generally considered desirable, but that's not really the case this time around. As befitting our minivan theme this week, I'm pitting against each other two GM minivans--the Chevrolet Astro/GMC Safari rear-wheel-drive minvan vs. the radically styled front-wheel-drive Chevrolet Lumina APV/Pontiac Trans Sport/Oldsmobile Silhouette (colloquially known as the "Dustbuster" minivans due to their unique profile).
I will elaborate on the two options and reveal my choice after the poll and the jump.
[The poll widget is no longer available because Vizu.com has ceased operations.]
Chevrolet Astro/GMC Safari
The Astro and its Safari twin debuted in 1985 and represented GM's first response to the revolutionary and amazingly successful Chrysler minivans. The Astro was an odd fit in the segment--perhaps unsurprisingly, considering it was a 1980s GM product, the Astro represented an attempt to compete with the ground-breaking Chrysler minivans without really capturing what made them so special.
The defining characteristic of the Chrysler minivans was their remarkably efficient packaging. The combination of a compact four-cylinder engine, front-wheel drive, and a modified small-car unibody chassis meant that the minivans had a low, flat floor and plenty of space despite their trim, Plymouth Reliant-sized footprint. The result was a vehicle that was as easy to drive and park as a compact car but that could also swallow a large family and their gear--revolutionary in a world dominated by large, low station wagons and hulking, full-size, truck-based vans.
The Astro, on the other hand, was a minivan in the sense that it was smaller than a full-size van, but that's all it really was. Like the full-size vans, the Astro had a rear-wheel-drive powertrain, a large pushrod V engine (a V-6 in the Astro's case), and truck-like body-on-frame construction. It was bulkier and heavier than the Chryslers, the passenger compartment was less spacious and efficient, and the driving experience was far more truck-ish. If the Chryslers were revolutionary; the Astro was decidedly evolutionary.
All of this set up a choice for the public between two fundamentally different types of minivans, and over the last 25 years the market has definitively chosen the Chrysler model of front-wheel-drive, car-like minivans. You would think this would have made the Astro an embarrassing failure, and really the story almost writes itself--GM tried to jump into a wildly popular new segment with a half-hearted effort, missed the market, and suffered a colossal sales failure. Interestingly, though, that didn't happen with the Astro. Despite its competitive disadvantages, the Astro successfully carved out its own niche and sold well enough to warrant a 20-year production run with only minor changes. It even outlasted and outsold the broadly similar Ford Aerostar.
Ultimately, the Astro established itself as a successful and enduring design precisely because it was different from the established minivan paradigm. The Astro wasn't as pleasant or car-like as the Chrysler minivans, but it was sturdier and stronger. Its primitive but powerful V-6, body-on-frame chassis, and optional AWD meant that the Astro could tow more, carry more, and could go more places than its competitors. As a smaller, trimmer, more efficient version of the traditional full-size vans, the Astro was also a legitimate competitor in the commercial and fleet market in a way that other minivans never truly were. Apparently there was a niche between minivans and maxivans, and the Astro filled that niche nicely.
Dustbuster Minivans
GM quickly understood that a front-wheel-drive minivan would be necessary to be truly competitive with the Chryslers and the rapidly emerging group of minivan competitors. The Astro bought GM some time, but in late 1989, GM released its full broadside on this market--three mechanically identical and radically styled minivans that the company hoped would become the leaders the segment. The three Dustbusters were the Chevrolet Lumina APV, the Pontiac Trans Sport, and the Oldsmobile Silhouette.
That didn't exactly happen; the Dustbusters sold reasonably well, but they were never either the best-reviewed or best-selling minivans in the segment, and they were widely panned for their ... ah, unique styling. Like other minivans, the Dustbusters were essentially a box on wheels, but while a wildly raked front fascia and windshield. That front rake was highly controversial; not only was it visually jarring on a vehicle as large as a minivan, and not only did it clash with the minivan's slab sides, but it created a huge expanse between the base of the windshield and the driver. That expanse was disorienting for some drivers, and caused distracting dashboard reflections in the windshield.
As vans, the Dustbusters were competitive but certainly not class-leaders--they had decent power once GM brought in the tried-and-true 3800 V-6; adequate space, with removable, configurable seats; and they drove pretty well. They also had the dent-resistant plastic panels made famous on GM's Saturn line. GM produced these vans through the 1990s, and, to continue the theme, they were adequately successful through their run.
My Vote
I'm guessing many of you will snicker, I rather like the Dustbusters. I like the crazy windshield rake, and I even like the cladding. These vans had personality, and while that personality was perhaps a little gauche, I vastly prefer that to the wanna-be-SUV minivans that GM put out on the market in the 2000s. I'm nodding my head in appreciation as I look at this picture of the monochromatic white Trans Sport.
That brings me to the issue of naming; with the glaring exception of the Lumina APV, these vans had great names. "Oldsmobile Silhouette" is a classy and sophisticated name that was unfortunately wasted on an outre minivan; and of course "Pontiac Trans Sport" is a tour de force. The "Trans" is a nod to Pontiac Trans Ams of yore, and the "Sport" pays tribute to Pontiac's performance-forward role in the GM lineup. And, of course, put together together, "Trans Sport" describes the van's true purpose. It works on so many levels.
However, despite all this, my vote goes to the Astro. There's something refreshingly honest and straightforward about the Astro, and I love that its capability made it a viable commodity on the market for a full 20 years despite being fundamentally out of step with the minivan market. I can appreciate the Dustbuster vans, but I could see myself actually owning an Astro.
The van images here come from Wikipedia.
--Chris H.


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Toasted Almond Quinoa Bake
Toasted Almond Quinoa Bake
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I hope you all had the most lovely of Christmas celebrations! And that those of you who don't observe Christmas had a happy Tuesday. My holiday was low key, which was the right mood for this season. There was gift opening by the tree, followed by hot yoga, followed by some time with a good friend who's in town, and then dinner at the home of a another good friend…


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Our sports culture must change
By Paul Moomjean 02/07/2013
I've coached wrestling for many years. I coached at the elementary, junior high, high school and college levels, even being part of the last Moorpark College wrestling coaching staff before the program was cut. Growing up, I participated in football, soccer, basketball and baseball. Sports have been an influential and important part of my life for as long as I can remember. So with a heavy heart, I write to you, dear Ventura County readers, that maybe it's time we look at our sports culture around the world and ask the question, "What in the world is wrong with us?"
Over the past few weeks, the press has been writing about numerous athletes making blunders, saying atrocities, doping, cheating, etc. If it isn't Lance Armstrong admitting to Oprah that he used steroids, it's San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver's anti-gay remarks. Two things must happen. One, the higher-ups in each individual sport must gain control of their participants, and we as a culture must stop turning these men and women into modern-day gods.
When Lance Armstrong admitted to Oprah, "I view this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times," concerning his doping while winning the Tour de France numerous times, he was essentially speaking for every generation. "My generation was no different than any other. The 'help' has evolved over the years but the fact remains that our sport is damn hard, the Tour [de France] was invented as a 'stunt,' and very tough mother[expletives] have competed for a century and all looked for advantages. From hopping on trains a hundred years ago to EPO now, no generation was exempt or 'clean.' "
While I do not condone his actions, Armstrong admits what many do not understand, which is that the professional sports world is beyond competitive now, and our desire to showcase every event to its extreme has placed an even greater pressure upon athletes to compete at levels beyond physical limitations.
Baseball has had to deal with numerous steroid scandals, and my teenage heroes Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire have become punch lines for an ever fickle press.
The 24-hour sports news cycle has put these men front and center to perform, and then thrown microphones in their faces and watched the carnage rise. In football, recently, Manti Te'o's "catfish" tale has ruined the life of a young man who didn't deserve to have a hoax like that play out in front of the world. Yet when the media found out Te'o's "girlfriend" was just a fake Facebook page created by an irresponsible jerk who claimed to be "in love" with Te'o, instead of backing off, the media gobbled up all the messy details, not remembering this is just a 21-year-old amateur athlete who doesn't deserve to have his personal life front and center for the wolves to devour.
Meanwhile, the 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver has officially thrown his hat into the ring for most offensive comment of the year. While chatting with shock jock Artie Lange, Culliver said, "I don't do the gay guys man. … I don't do that. No, we don't got no gay people on the team. They gotta get up out of here if they do. … Can't be with that sweet stuff. Nah … can't be … in the locker room, man. Nah."
These offensive comments hurt football, the 49ers and the gay community. Young gay men playing football today in youth sports will hear these comments and become discouraged and potentially afraid. The NFL is a business. It must start acting like one and educate its players about what is good and what is not good for the image of football.
While much of the responsibility must be put on the different commissioners and owners to monitor themselves and their sport, the real way to fix this madness is for our media to back off the tabloid cycle. These are just sports figures, mind you, and not elected officials.
Another place is in the home. Have you seen a youth football game lately? Dads screaming. Moms swearing. And those are just for the little kids.
We can do better. And to save our sports, we must do better.
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By Dr. Cameron Chai
Under the agreement signed between Sibir Electrothermal equipment plant and Bratsk Ferroalloy plant, this is the first ferroalloy electric furnace installed. The company will provide four ferroalloy electric furnaces, each having a potential of 33 MVA, in order to replace the previous furnaces, whose capacity is 25 MVA, and to manage the works of installation and commissioning.
Reconstruction of Bratsk Ferroalloy plant commenced in late 2010 will be finished in 2013. The production capacity of the plant will be increased by 30%, after commissioning the new furnaces. The consumption of power will be decreased from 10 to 13%.
The company has invested 1.9 billion rubles in this project. The plant reconstruction does not disturb its existing infrastructure, which has enabled the plant to lower the costs and save project implementation time.
Technical refurbishment of ferrosilicon production includes raw materials dosage system's reconstruction and storage space expansion for finished products.
Gennady Ovchinnikov, CEO of Mechel stated that the new electric furnace installation has validated that the path selected for modernization of production is right and will enhance the efficiency of the Bratsk Ferroalloy plant. The plant will have the potential to reduce the electricity costs.
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This is a bit vague but something I have been wondering about.
Consider a Lebesgue integral $\int f \;\text{d}\mu$ - then we know that we can change $f$ on a $\mu$-null set without changing the integral.
Now consider a stochastic integral with respect to, say, a Brownian motion $W$ (or something else of unbounded variation). Then we also know that $W$ does not induce a measure. What is in this case the stochastic counterpart to the above described Lebesgue case? Is it just with respect to the probability measure? - why?


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The "Swiss Cheese Pervert" was arrested by Philadelphia and Norristown police Thursday after a year-long investigation. Cops arrested the 41-year-old man for allegedly offering women money to perform sexual acts on him, topped with Swiss cheese.
The "Swiss Cheese Pervert", now identified as Christopher Pagano of Norristown, posted bond early this morning and was released, according to NBC10 Philadelphia on Friday Jan. 17.
Pagano posted 10 percent of $30,000 bail early Friday after being arraigned on stalking, indecent exposure and harassment charges.
The 41-year-old has been said to drive up to women and ask them if they would like to get paid to watch him put Swiss cheese on his genitals.
"He was a weirdo", neighbor Rae Dean told NBC10, adding, "He used to come outside in his underwear with no shirt".
The local Mayfair Town Watch first broke the story last week, publishing photos showing a heavyset male driver approaching women while wearing no pants, and dangling a piece off cheese over his exposed genitals.
One woman commented on the group's Facebook page that the suspect has been "doing stuff like this for years", according to USA Today.
Another woman who claims she was approached by the suspect talked about her experience. She said he told her he liked to put Swiss cheese on his private area.
All cheesy puns aside, authorities point out the serious nature of the crimes. "Some people think this is a joke", said Milt Martelack of the Mayfair Town Watch. "But it's no laughing matter".
Martelack noted that this is not just a crime local to Mayfair, as this guy has been doing this all over the place. "I'd characterize his acts as very disturbing", he said.
Obviously authorities agree since they launched they're own investigation into the allegations and made an arrest in the case.
Victim Priscilla, who wished to withhold her last name, agrees. "What if he said that to a minor?", she asked.
Any act of perversion or deviant sexual behavior needs to be looked at very closely. What may appear somewhat benign on the surface may be hiding a much more sinister underbelly.
Both Martelack and Priscilla agree on one thing, they think Pagano needs to be taken off the streets, and this situation taken more seriously.
Pagano is due back in court on the charges next month.


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Navy's Katie Sylakowski was named the Molten Rookie of the Week Monday. She leads the League hitting .344.
Oct. 2, 2012
Patriot League Volleyball Release - 10.2.12
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. — The potential first-place battle came to fruition following Friday night's results, and it was Colgate that emerged from the weekend in sole possession of first place after Saturday's impressive 3-1 win at Army.
The Raiders are seeing the dividends pay off of their non-League schedule. They've won all four League matches on the road, and have another contest away from home Thursday when they visit Bucknell.
Joining the Bucknell-Colgate showdown Thursday evening is the first of two meetings between rivals Lafayette and Lehigh, with the former hosting in Easton, Pa. It's a crucial matchup with one match separating the two in the middle of the standings.
American steps out of League play briefly Wednesday when the Eagles visit Morgan State. They'll return home Friday to host surving Navy, which rallied from two sets down in both victories.
Army will look to rebound from Saturday's defeat to the Raiders when it hosts Holy Cross Saturday.
More non-League competition is on the schedule this weekend, with Bucknell heading west to take on Cal State Bakersfield and Pepperdine, while Holy Cross heads south to take on Florida Atlantic and Lehigh goes to Villanova.
Patriot League Notebook
• American's Sara Rishell had a dominating performance Friday against Lafayette with 18 kills on 33 swings and just three errors (.455) in a five-set win. Rishell was Patriot League Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year and Tournament MVP last season.
• Army's victory Friday over Bucknell was its 11th straight in the series against the Bison.
• Bucknell's Kebah Edoho hit .432 with 21 kills on 44 swings and only two errors in a pair of starts last weekend. She tied a career high with 12 kills against Holy Cross.
• Holy Cross senior Megan Lynch has 1,363 kills and 1,013 digs, the first player in Crusader history to join the 1,000-1,000 club.
• Lehigh's five-set win at American Saturday was its first in the nation's capital over the Eagles.
• Navy has rallied from a 0-2 deficit to win three times in 18 League matches under head coach Larry Bock. In addition, the Mids are now 4-1 in five-setters against League opponents the last two seasons.
• Head coach Ryan Baker is three wins shy of 100 at Colgate.
• Army senior Ariana Mankus is 58 kills and 46 digs shy of climbing into the League's all-time top 10 in each category.
Patriot League Weekly Awards
CAITLIN CREMIN, COLGATE Jr., L, Naperville, Ill.
Cremin was outstanding during a 2-0 weekend for the Raiders, helping lift them into sole possession of first place at 4-0. She posted a season-high 23 digs Friday's three-set victory at Holy Cross, while collecting three assists and two service aces. She matched the dig mark Saturday, helping lead the Raiders to a 3-1 victory at Army to move into first. Over the week in which Colgate went 2-1, Cremin averaged 4.58 digs per set across the three matches. She picks up her first weekly nod of the season.
KATIE SYLAKOWSKI, NAVY Fr., MH, Escondido, Calif.
Sylakowski broke out with a big weekend for Navy, which went 2-0 at home with a pair of five-set triumphs over Lehigh and Lafayette. The Mids trailed Lehigh by two sets in Friday's match, and with the score tied 23-all in the third, Sylakowski dropped in back-to-back aces to give them the third set that started the rally. She finished with three aces against the Mountain Hawks and added four more Saturday against Lafayette. Her attacking was on point too, as she hit .511 with 25 kills and only two errors on 45 swings. She averaged 2.5 kills per set, and logged four total blocks for the weekend. It's Sylakowski's first career weekly honor.
SARA RISHELL, AMERICAN So., OH/MB, Smithsburg, Md.
Rishell averaged 4.00 kills and 1.38 blocks per set while hitting .250 for the Eagles, who went 1-1 over the weekend. She hit .455 in the three-set win over Lafayette Friday.
ZOE KREITENBERG, ARMY Fr., MB, Los Alamitos, Calif.
Kreitenberg established career-highs in kills (13) and hitting (.650) in Friday's sweep of Bucknell. She averaged 3.29 kills per set and hit .400 for the weekend.
DIANE SEELY, COLGATE So., MB, Menlo Park, Calif.
Seely had another incredible week with 35 kills in three matches, including a career-high 16 in the win over Army to put the Raiders atop the standings at 4-0. She also was a force in front of the net with 17 total blocks, including seven against Cornell in a midweek matchup.
HANNAH GRACE STOKES, HOLY CROSS So., S, Atlanta, Ga.
Stokes posted a pair of double-doubles on the week, including a 40-assist, 10-dig effort with seven aces in Saturday's four-set victory over visiting Bucknell.
TAYLOR POOLE, LEHIGH Sr., MB, Keller, Texas
Poole hit .375 and averaged 2.6 kills per set, which included 12 strikes and seven total blocks in Saturday's five-set win at American.
CAROLYN EWERT, NAVY Sr., OH, Bakersfield, Calif.
Ewert averaged 3.6 kills and 1.2 digs per set and hit .253 during Navy's perfect 2-0 weekend. She tied a career high with 20 kills in Friday's come-from-behind win at home over Lehigh.


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It's not weight gain which causes diabetes. It's diabetes which causes weight gain. The majority of people with type 2 diabetes (there is no such thing as Type II diabetes) have an excess of insulin in their blood, which causes the body to lay down white adipose tissue. (There are two types of fat, white and brown, and it's the white fat that is associated with health problems.)
Study after study show that people generally eat in proportion to their lean non-skeletal body mass. When they did studies trying to produce weight gain through overeating, using prisoners as their test population, they found that weight gain quickly tapered off, even when the prisoners were gorging 10,000 calories per day.
Here in Lancaster, there are several group homes of individuals whose genetic defect results in (among other problems) obesity and lack of a gag reflex. The most common cause of death with this particular disability had been choking, so their food consumption was very closely watched. After a decade of 800-calorie diets, they still were grossly obese. They switched doctors, and the new doctor relaxed things, allowing them to have 1000 calories daily. They didn't gain a lot of weight, despite the 25% increase in food; in fact, they lost about 20 pounds each, on average.
There's no evidence to show that Seattle Sutton's gimmicks of wellness incentives and over processed prepackaged foods are any safer than the myriad other weight-loss scams. There's much more space spent on their web site to "franchise opportunities" than there is to any researching backing up their wild claims.
There appears to have been absolutely no scientific research done that people who eat the TV dinners achieve permanent weight loss. There is however, ample evidence showing that weight-loss dieting hurts your health, rather than helping it.
There is evidence that exercise can improve your health, but exercise generally results in increased weight, rather than reduced weight. An interesting study on the role of exercise in reducing the risk of diabetes and obesity was published by the Journal of Applied Physiology in 2005. If you follow the links, you can download the full text of that study for free.


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I'm running on OSX 10.7.3 using Microsoft Office 2008 (with the latest updates).
Recently, Excel started crashing on startup. It happens so fast it is hard for me to detect what's going on but several Excel windows are popping up then the whole thing disappears launching a "Microsoft Error Reporting" window.
I uninstalled and reinstalled Office. No improvement.
I called Microsoft and, after waiting several hours (that's right ... hours), a technician helped me walk through some troubleshooting. We set up a test id and Excel worked on that id, so it's something wrong with my id.
The Microsoft technician told me, after we launched FontBook, I had too many fonts in error. Since I've never played with fonts much, I took that as a solution and ended the call. Well, it turns out that the font that my test id has all the same font errors and all the errors are 'duplicates', which were created by Microsoft and the Microsoft ones are inactive.
I've followed other posts and trashed Excel's plists. No improvement. Trying some variations is starting Excel I was able to force it into a 'not responding' state where I could see it was trying to open a file I was using for income tax (which is done and submitted, thankfully). I've renamed that file, moved it around and opened it successfully on my test id. The only thing unusual about this file it was stored in Dropbox ... but I have used Excel on many many Dropbox spreadsheets.
Now I'm thinking this may be related to Lion trying to restart Excel with previously opened files or trying to reinstated Excel to a previous state. I uncheck the Lion preference "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps." Excel still crashes.
I could use some help with the following:
Is there a way to 'cold start' Excel or any app on Lion?
Is there some way to tell why Excel is crashing. Microsoft pops up a windows that says "Microsoft Excel has encountered a problem and needs to close. ..." There's 'more information' but I don't know what to look for.
I'm not sure if this is an Excel bug, a Lion bug or a combination. Luckily, I have a workaround for now but I'd like to get it fixed.
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Gina Torry, Executive Director
Ms. Torry is an international peacebuilding expert specializing in United Nations Security related policy and initiatives – particularly related to gender issues, mediation and ceasefires. She has worked for over a decade with the United Nations, governments and regional organizations, as well as with women's civil society groups and networks worldwide. Ms. Torry is the former Executive Director of the Peace Research Endowment (Peace Research Institute Oslo, North America). Prior to this, she worked for several years with the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Policy and Mediation Division. In collaboration with international mediators and mediation experts, she finalized the DPA/United Nations "Guidance for Mediators on addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Ceasefire and Peace Agreements". Provisions of this guidance have now appeared in the last 3 UN brokered ceasefire agreements. Ms. Torry is the former Coordinator of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security (2005-2008), and has authored several publications including "Financing Inclusive Peace and Security for Women in Nepal: From the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to the Nepal Peace Trust Fund" (2010, EC/UN). In 2007, Ms. Torry was invited in her capacity as Coordinator of the NGO Working Group to address the United Nations Security Council in an Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Comparative Literature and Political Science from the American University of Paris and an Masters of Science in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics.
Olav Njølstad, Director, Norwegian Nobel Institute, Secretary, Norwegian Nobel Committee
Olav Njølstad is a professor of western contemporary history at the University of Oslo. He has been a Norwegian Research Council fellow, a research fellow at Ohio University, a researcher and senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, and research director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. In 2011 and 2012, he served as senior advisor in the 22 July Commission.
Mr. Njølstad has published a number of academic books and articles on topics such as the Cold War, the role of nuclear weapons in international politics, arms races and disarmament, the history of military and civilian technology, as well as the Second World War and Norwegian postwar history. Mr. Njølstad has authored two biographies, about Jens Chr. Hauge and professor Leif Tronstad, and he is now working on a biography of Gro Harlem Brundtland. He has also edited a book on Norwegian Nobel Prize laureates, from Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson to Finn Kydland, and published two thrillers with a historic slant.
Mr. Njølstad has a PhD in history. His 1994 doctoral thesis covered U.S. politics vis-à-vis the Soviet Union during the Carter presidency, with particular emphasis on human rights, the relationship to China, the strategic military balance, and regional conflicts in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia. In 2010, Njølstad received the Sverre Steen award for excellence in the dissemination of history to the general public.


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» No Time To Waste: Hale's Breakthrough (GoHuskies.com; Apr. 16, 2014)
2015: Redshirted the season due to an injury issue.
2014: Capped a breakthrough season with a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships, earning First Team All-America honors and the top point-scorer distinction for all Huskies in 2014 ... at his first NCAA finals, he sat 18th with one throw left in the trials, but then uncorked a 232-foot, 4-inch throw to jump up to fifth-place, where he would remain to the end ... became the third Husky to score at NCAAs in the javelin in the last five years, along with Kyle Nielsen and Joe Zimmerman ... advanced to his first career NCAA final site after taking fourth in the West Prelims in Fayetteville, Ark. with a throw of 223-5 ... the runner-up at the Pac-12 Championships, throwing 231-6, his second time over 230-feet ... opened the season with a new career-best on his first attempt at the Trojan Invite, throwing 235-7 for the victory ... that PR ranks him eighth on the UW top-10 list ... won the UW-WSU Dual Meet with a best of 226-4 ... second at the Oregon Relays at Hayward Field with a best toss of 229-2 ... also threw 226-3 at the Stanford Invitational for second in the invitational section ... earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2013: Another strong season scoring at Pac-12s again in the javelin and advancing to the NCAA West Prelims … he placed sixth in the Pac-12 Championships at USC with a best toss of 213-2 … set a season-best in the first meet of the season, throwing 220-2 to take second at the Trojan Invitational … part of the UW top-four sweep of the UW-WSU Dual meet, as he was third with a mark of 218-7 … made his second straight West Prelims meet but had a tough day, with his shortest toss of the season at 209-11 to finish 24th out of the 48-athlete field … tossed 215-8 at the loaded Pepsi Team Invitational for sixth-place … a Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team selection … named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
2012: Excellent freshman season in the javelin as one of four Huskies to advance to the NCAA West Preliminary Championships ... fell just a couple spots short of advancing to the NCAA finals, as he placed 15th at the West Prelims with a throw of 215-feet, 1-inch ... the fourth-place finisher at the Pac-12 Championships as four Huskies scored, his best was 218-5 ... had a season's-best toss of 222-3 at the UW-WSU Dual meet, placing second, as the Huskies swept the top four spots ... that mark ranked 41st nationally and seventh among freshmen heading into Prelims ... opened his collegiate career with a big throw of 222-0 at the Pepsi Team Invitational, taking fifth ... earned All-Academic honors from the USTFCCCA.
High School and Personal: Born in Tacoma, Washington ... parents are Julie and Jonathan Hale ... has one older sister, Alivia, who attends Washington currently ... father played college basketball at Briar Cliff University in Iowa ... one of the top javelin throwers nationally over the past two years ... ranked seventh nationally as a senior in 2011 with his best throw of 212-8 coming in a win at the Oregon Relays ... placed third at the 2011 U.S. Junior Championships with a toss of 208-1 ... also was sixth at the 2010 U.S. Junior meet with a mark of 202-6 ... placed fourth at the 4A state meet as a senior in a deep field, after placing second as a junior in 2010 ... ranked 18th nationally in the javelin in 2010 ... won consecutive Narrows League titles in 2010 and 2011, throwing 205-2 as a senior and 204-10 as a junior ... made state for the first time as a sophomore, placing 15th ... holds the Bellarmine javelin school record ... threw over 200 feet at seven local high school meets over the last two years ... also lettered in football in 2009.
Major Meets
2012 Pac-12 - 4th, Javelin
2012 NCAA Prelims - 15th, Javelin
2013 Pac-12 - 6th, Javelin
2013 NCAA Prelims - 24th, Javelin
2014 Pac-12 - 2nd, Javelin
2014 NCAA Prelims - 4th, Javelin
2014 NCAA Outdoors - 5th, Javelin (All-America First Team)
Outdoor Bests
Academic Honors
2014 Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
2013 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2013 Pac-12 All-Academic 2nd Team
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The City of Wilmington launched its official presence on the private neighborhood social networking site "Nextdoor" this month.
On Nextdoor, neighbors create unique, private social media sites for their neighborhoods where they can ask questions, get to know one another and exchange local advice and recommendations. The city will use Nextdoor as another tool to share and communicate important news and updates, services, programs, meetings, public events and emergency notifications relevant to specific neighborhoods.
In Wilmington, more than 20 neighborhoods are already active and sharing information. To become active, Nextdoor requires that at least 10 residents in the neighborhood sign up. Those interested in joining their neighborhood's Nextdoor website can visit nextdoor.com and enter their address. If residents have questions about their Nextdoor website, they can visit help.nextdoor.com.
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Cardiac Alert
Banner Heart Hospital works with East Valley emergency services providers to offer a Cardiac Alert or STEMI service that allows patients experiencing a heart attack to get the quality care they need in the shortest time possible.
The American College of Cardiology has set a standard of 90 minutes from the time heart attack patients walk into an emergency room to the time their arteries are opened as the standard of care.
Through Cardiac Alert or STEMI, Banner Heart patients can go from "door to balloon" in less than an hour.
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