text:
The 49ers remained third in The Associated Press Pro32 NFL power rankings released Tuesday but received two first-place votes after their record-setting, 45-3 victory over the visiting Buffalo Bills on Sunday.
With No. 1 Houston and No. 2 Atlanta remaining unbeaten, the 49ers had little chance to move up even after outscoring their past two opponents 79-3. The Texans received the other 10 first-place votes.
The 49ers were ranked first after the second week of the poll but fell to fourth after losing 24-13 to the Vikings in Minnesota on Sept. 23. They blasted the host New York Jets 34-0 a week later.
The Jets made much more of a game of it against visiting Houston on Monday night before losing 23-17.
San Francisco (4-1) piled up a franchise-record 621 yards of offense against the Bills (2-3). The 49ers also became the first NFL team with more than 300 yards both passing and rushing in one game.
Up next for the 49ers are the No. 7 New York Giants (3-2).
The rankings, which began this year, are determined by voting from a 12-member panel.
Here are the voters' comments on the 49ers after Week 5, as provided by the AP (voter affiliation and ranking in parentheses):
Chris Berman (ESPN, 3) -- Running game like Texas wishbone in old Southwest Conference.
Clifton Brown (Sporting News, 1) -- Love their intensity, even when holding a huge lead. Face rematch Sunday against Giants.
Cris Collinsworth (NBC Sports, 3) -- Comment unavailable.
Rich Gannon (CBS Sports/SiriusXM NFL Radio, 3) -- Beat down of Buffalo was impressive and so was the fact that they had over 600 yards of offense.
Bob Glauber (Newsday, 1) -- Niners have outscored last two opponents by a combined 79-3. Right here, right now, they're the most complete team out there.
Rick Gosselin (Dallas Morning News, 4) -- QB Alex Smith has been turnover-free in the 49ers' four victories. He committed two turnovers in the only loss to Minnesota.
Clark Judge (CBSSports.com, 3) -- I really want to rank these guys higher, and for one simple reason: They're the best team I've seen this year. Odd as it sounds, that loss to Minnesota will strengthen them.
Ira Kaufman (Tampa Tribune, 3) -- They know who they are and what they're good at and that's half the battle.
Pat Kirwan (SiriusXM NFL Radio/CBSSports.com, 3) -- The defense has given up 3 points in the last two weeks and Alex Smith is playing well on offense.
John Lynch (Fox Sports, 3) -- The AFC East is waving the white flag as the 49ers have pummeled the Jets and Bills in successive weeks.
Alex Marvez (Foxsports.com, 3) -- Call them the 79ers. San Francisco thrashed Buffalo and the New York Jets by a 79-3 margin the past two weeks.
Dan Pompei (Chicago Tribune, 3) -- This team has had more dominating victories than any other.


text:
On several occasions in recent� years, I have challenged� right-wing readers to give me even�one example of government spending that doesn�t amount to redistribution of wealth.
The response has been deafening silence.
OK! I�ll admit it. The challenge was a trick. There are no such examples to be found.
In truth,� every government expenditure at every level � federal, state or local � �is a case of spreading the wealth. The government takes money from some people by way of taxes and spends it � presumably or ostensibly, depending upon your point of view � for the common good. The ...
Read more

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Operating weight:3435 - 3565 kg
Digging depth:3,43 - 3,71 m
Take command of the Volvo EC35C Excavator and take control of your jobsite. Power and efficiency that save time and cost. Ideal visibility.
Controls and instrumentation right where you want them. All-day comfort for all-day production. That's command of the jobsite. That's the Volvo EC35C.
Optional air conditioning enhances operating performance in all climates.
To find out more:


text:
"We're calling to urge you to support Virg Bernero for governor," said a campaign volunteer working the phones Tuesday.
10 a.m. to 9 p.m. , volunteers at Bernero's campaign headquarters are targeting absentee and undecided voters. And when they get someone on the line who's on their side, they ask them to join the effort.
"Contacting that one person can have a ripple effect of 10, 20, 30 people," said volunteer Michael Berkowitz.
But even that many might not be enough. The latest Rasmussen poll has Snyder with 54 percent of the vote, Bernero with 34, and just eight percent on the fence.
"Unless something dramatic happens I can't see a path where Virg is going to be able to overtake Snyder," said pollster Bernie Poll.
But at the Virg Bernero for Governor headquarters, volunteers are far from giving up.
"I think that anything is possible," said Berkowitz.
Political analyst Bernie Porn says stranger things have happened. In 1990, Senator John Engler overtook the incumbent Governor Jim Blanchard in one of Michigan's closest races ever.
"There was a surge of 10 to 12 points in just the last few days," Porn said. "It was significant and the movement occurred very quickly."
We caught up with Bernero Monday about the race.
"I ask people, please, please go look at my opponent's so-called plan, and compare it with my real plan, and when they do they'll be coming over to our side," he said.
Whether he has a chance or not, Porn says it's important Bernero stay competitive to keep other democrats in the game.
"If he gets up to 60 percent or more that's when you see coattails," he said.


text:
Snowboard star Shaun White, 27, talked to a handful of reporters in the fall, answering a wide range of questions about his life and the 2014 Winter Olympics. Some of the highlights:
"As far as competing goes, I never realized I was getting older until I did my run and the announcer at the bottom said you're the oldest competitor today. I'm like 'Whoa, that's a shocker.' "
-- White, on aging
"With age, I've learned a lot more about myself and how I get things done and when to push forward or not. That's the only that I carry with me that the other guys don't."
-- White, on experience
"I always jokingly talk about snowboarding as a funny sport. You can take the chair lift. We're going downhill. You just need the strength to deal with that pressure."
-- White, on what it takes to compete
"It's always hard for me switching from snowboarding to skateboarding. I had no endurance."
-- White, comparing his two action sports.
"There has always been a funny difference between the X Games and the Olympics because in the X Games you're judged by your peers on your progression. If you do new tricks and push the boundaries of what you did the year before you're going to get a better score. The Olympics is a bit more structured in the judging format. Don't quote me on the judging format because I really don't know. I just do my run and put my best foot forward and hope they reward me for that."
-- White, comparing the X Games to the Olympics
"My training on the mountain changed dramatically where I used to go up and ride all day long. I just don't do it anymore. I show up and do a couple runs and that's the best I am going to be all day. I slowly get worse. I get warmed up and I ride my heart out for about two hours and then leave."
-- White, on making Northstar-at-Tahoe his home base.
"The weather is great. They know how to build the courses extremely well. It's hard to show up at a random mountain and just hope whoever is driving the cats making the jumps know what they are doing, what hours of the day the sunlight is on what wall of the halfpipe, or when the jumps are in the shades from the trees."
-- father Roger White, on predicting his son's action sports success
"We didn't know for sure. There was a spark there but you never know what is going to happen. He was only a little kid. You don't know if he could want to ride motorcycles or something and be over it in a year or two.
-- Roger White, on his son's competitive life
"Usually you don't have a run like this. These guys have been trying to beat him since he was 10 years old. That's why he went pro. It started getting ugly there because they couldn't get near him."
Contact Elliott Almond at 408-920-5865 and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/elliottalmond.


text:
MASON (WILX)-- A padlock wasn't enough to protect the valuables of dozens of people.
Nearly thirty units at Merindorf Mini Storage in Mason were broken into last weekend, and police are now trying to contact the victims.
"Stuff is just stuff. There are more important things in life," said Jennifer Rydel.
Rydel had a good attitude despite having more than $10,000 dollars worth of valuables stolen from two of her storage units. The thieves took her four-wheeler and tool boxes that she was storing as her family moved into a new house.
"To think about how much time they spent here and how much thought."
A total of 29 units were broken into. Police say bolt cutters were used to cut the locks on the main gate and each unit. There are no suspects in custody, but Trooper Craig Carberry believes several people were involved.
"With some of the items they took, it had to be more than one person with a pickup," said Carberry.
It's likely the break-in was pre-planned. There are more than 60 storage units, but the thieves only broke into the ones that couldn't be seen on surveillance.
"They were aware of the camera on the store next to the lockers and then they avoided that area."
Police weren't able to sweep for prints, but hope the thieves will slip up and try to sell some of the items that can be tracked. They advise those who had their stuff stolen to keep out an eye as well.
"The people have been advised to look into e-bay and craigslist to see if their items turn up there."
Now all Rydel can do is put a new lock on her units and hope for the best.
"I just want people put to justice," said Rydel.
Police say a few motorcycles were also stolen from one of the units. They're still trying to contact all of the victims. If you have a unit there, or know someone who does call, the State Police Lansing Post and ask for Trooper Carberry.


text:
Ирвинг против Липштадт
Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Transcripts, Day 28: Electronic Edition
Pages 196 - 200 of 204
|<< 1-5
|< 191-195
|201-204 >
|201-204 >>
1 MR IRVING: Professor Funke, you said that these kinds of
2remarks addressed to skinheads and youngsters are liable
3to lead to attacks on synagogues and so on, is that
4the ----
5 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Say it again. Excuse me.
6 Q. [Mr Irving] Referring to my remarks at Hagenau (which I will discuss
7with you in a moment) "addressed to skinheads and
8youngsters", that was your phrase, would be liable to
9cause the kind of circumstances you referred to there,
10like tombstones being overthrown, synagogues attacked, and
11so on?
12 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] This kind of rhetoric, yes.
13 Q. [Mr Irving] Can I ask you just to have a look at the photograph,
14please, on page 15 of the bundle of photographs which is
15the audience at Hagenau and tell me how many skinheads and
16youngsters you can see in it?
17 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Well...
18 MR IRVING: My Lord, he said, it is a hypothetical thing, "If
19these remarks had been addressed to skinheads and
20youngsters, that would have been the outcome".
21 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] No, it is researched. It is researched. It is the
22[German] research -- you may know it -- about the
23widespreading of anti-Semites within male youngsters who
24are often the same token very violent.
25 Q. [Mr Irving] Answering Mr Rampton's question, you said that these
26remarks addressed to skinheads and youngsters would have
1these undesirable effects and you are probably right. But
2if you look at the audience who were listening ----
3 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Yes, of course, the audience is different.
4 Q. [Mr Irving] Middle aged?
5 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Yes, with the exception of Christian Worch and his gang.
6 Q. [Mr Irving] Right. I am only going to refer briefly to the one man
7gas chamber. If I am lecturing an audience on the
8improbabilities of aspects of the Holocaust legend and, as
9this court well knows, I criticise the quality of a lot of
10the eyewitness evidence, and if one of the eyewitnesses,
11and we know there is a lot of lurid eyewitness evidence
12that we can discard, has described this rather improbable
13contraption, would that fit the description of what I have
14described in that speech?
15 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] What you are doing here is that you pretend that the
16eyewitnesses are excessing ----
17 Q. [Mr Irving] Exaggerating?
18 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] --- exaggerating and producing legends, but I have to be
19now very personal. I did a book of those, it is called
20"Other Memory" of those who left Germany because of the
21pressure and later on the torture by the Nazi
22authorities. Social scientists, like Eric Ericson,
23Zaufriedlende, and what I learned as the essence of this
24encounter in the late '80s and at the time we are talking
25about, is, and I quote Zaufriedlende of the historian, the
26famous, that all those, excuse me ----
1 Q. [Mr Irving] Can you just answer the question about this being a piece
2of lurid eyewitness evidence?
3 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] That all those -- I do -- that all those who went through
4this horror ----
5 Q. [Mr Irving] The trauma?
6 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] --- the trauma -- right, thank you -- cannot do this kind
7of research just as an objective historian. They have to
8do the objectivity and, on the other hand, they have to
9always rely to the experiences they themselves or their
10families went through. So, in other words, I would say no
11to all those who discard eyewitnesses. That does not say
12that the reconstruction of the Auschwitz horror, the
13cosmos of death -- if you go there you would see, you
14would sense it even today -- that the essence of this
15trauma and terror done by these Jews there, the mass
16gassing included, that this has been reconstructed by
17various means, and I think Peter Longerich did an awful
18good witness statement and paper to that, together with
19Mr Van Pelt. And so it is very clear that you cannot only
20count on the description of the eyewitnesses, although it
21is especially for the subjectivity what they went through
22very decisive.
23 So to quote your reference to Dresden, the
24Dresden thing are horror for a lot of people and you refer
25to the ashes of Dresden, but you cannot do it only -- you
26can do it only if you refer in the same token to the ashes
1of Auschwitz.
2 Q. [Mr Irving] Right, but now let me put it like this. If in a speech
3I make a number of references to the appalling horrors
4undoubtedly suffered by the victims of Auschwitz, and
5I have never made any attempt to minimize them and I
6have referred to the shootings in Russia, I have quoted
7the Bruns report, and, on the other hand, I then mock the
8eyewitnesses who have obviously lied for whatever reason
9and dreamed up these totally ludicrous stories about the
10one man portable gas chamber, is it not dishonest, in your
11view, for somebody to take just that passage out and put
12that as a representation of my entire speech?
13 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] It is, what you are doing is again and again. Look at the
1440 pages that was with the help of our assistant, Thomas
15Robins and Dunn, on the anti-Semitic or the rhetoric you
16did on this issue. So I recall just another quotation of
17you. So if it would be one time, we can cross over, but
18you did it again and again, and you just minutes ago
19referred that mass gassings did not happen. So if this,
20as long as this is the case, I cannot say yes to any of
21this kind of cynicism that you put to the public. Let me
22just recall this other quotation.
23 Q. [Mr Irving] If it is relevant, please?
24 MR JUSTICE GRAY: It is relevant to the question ----
25 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] It is.
26 MR JUSTICE GRAY: --- but we do not want a lot of speeches?
1 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] It is very short. It is like that you say, OK, this kind
2of survivors of the Holocaust, and you put it up in the
3way that you can quote it as "assholes". This cannot be.
4If you honestly, if you seriously, are saying that you
5realize the trauma of those who went through, if they
7 MR IRVING: Can I now take you to the letter dated 30th January
81991 which has been introduced by Mr Rampton?
9 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Yes.
10 Q. [Mr Irving] Firstly, the question of the date. I do not know whether
11Mr Rampton meant it seriously or not, but as he said it
12I have to comment on it, if the letter is dated 30th
13January 1991, and if you look at the very top line, it
14is ----
15 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Excuse me, I missed it. 9th November or?
16 Q. [Mr Irving] 30th January?
17 MR JUSTICE GRAY: 30th January 1991, Dr Frey?
18 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Yes.
19 MR IRVING: Yes. If you look at the very top line, the fax
20line, it was faxed at 1.13 p.m. on the following day.
21Then the letter was probably written on January 30th,
23 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Right.
24 Q. [Mr Irving] OK. If you turn the page, please, do you see I describe
25there that a number of great Germans I intend to talk
26about, the Nobel Prize winner, Otto Hahn and
|<< 1-5
|< 191-195
|201-204 >
|201-204 >>


text:
Every dog has his day. But Frankie, a pup rescued earlier this year in Palo Alto, might just have two.
He is one of several animals that will be available for adoption at no cost from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Sunday at the Palo Alto Animal Shelter. The shelter is teaming with Maddie's Fund to find homes for its dogs and cats.
Animal Control Officer Cody Macartney plucked Frankie from the bank of San Francisquito Creek on New Year's Day. The dog's fur was severely matted, making him appear much older than he was.
"He was in terrible shape," Macartney said during an interview at the shelter at 3281 East Bayshore Road.
Macartney immediately took Frankie to South Peninsula Emergency Veterinary Clinic to be groomed. It was there that he realized the dog couldn't see, because of cataracts in both eyes. A veterinarian also determined Frankie was 2 years old.
Because the dog was wearing a Christmas-themed collar, Macartney figured he had an owner who would come looking for him. No one showed. Frankie then joined the ranks of animals at the shelter in need of a new home.
"He was just depressed," Macartney said. "He didn't do anything. He wanted to cuddle with you."
Frankie still needed medical attention, Macartney said. The Friends of the Palo Alto Animal Shelter caught wind of his story and offered to split the $3,000 cost of cataract surgery.
Today, Frankie is a new dog.
"Now he's barking at things," Macartney said. "He sees things. He's becoming a different kind of dog."
Jeremy Lindston Robinson, a board member of the Friends group, credited the shelter for spending the money necessary to restore Frankie's eyesight. She said not many shelters would do the same.
"I think the public needs to know what kind of individuals we have at the shelter," she said. "They're quite extraordinary."
Macartney said he has little doubt Frankie will be adopted.
"I think we have several people interested," he said. "We'll just see who gets here first."
Email Jason Green at email@example.com; follow him at twitter.com/jgreendailynews.


text:
Innovation startups are an economic engine, driving job growth, global competition and wealth creation. To ensure the voices of these important companies are heard, we asked them how their businesses are performing, whether they are hiring, and importantly, which policies will continue to enable their growth. Based on our nationwide survey in 2012, we have identified startup trends that can inform local, state and national policymakers as they think about supporting economic growth.
Note: In addition to the full report, we've included an infographic and a presentation with charts and data that are available for your use below (source: Silicon Valley Bank Startup Outlook 2012).
Mary Dent discussed the survey and its findings live with Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC at an online event on May 16, 2012.
Help Desk
5:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time (Monday - Friday)
1.800.774.7390 1.408.654.4636 email@example.com
Contact Us
Commercial By Industry
Commercial by Revenue
Private Bank Clients
About Us


text:
I am pleased to announce the signing of several pieces of my legislation this week by the governor. The first two bills deal with protecting the rights of our active duty and veteran military service men and women. Making life a bit better for the members of our Armed Forces is always high on my priority list.
SB 106 modifies several provisions regarding members of the military and veterans. The bill will allow military training to count towards college credit if certain standards are met. In addition, the legislation will renew health-related licenses for Armed Forces members without cost if they expire while on active duty. Another provision of the bill will protect the rights of deployed military parents in child custody issues.
SB 186 authorizes funeral homes to release information to the Department of Veterans Affairs or other veterans' service organizations in order to properly care for the remains of these honored military men and women, providing the option of a proper resting place and relieving the obligation of the funeral homes to keep the remains until claimed.
SB 230 establishes "Chloe's Law," which requires newborns in Missouri to be tested for congenital heart defects using a method called pulse oximetry. The law is named for a newborn Kansas City area patient, Chloe Manz, whose doctor discovered her heart condition nine hours after her birth. Chloe will turn 5 in November.
I appreciate the bipartisan effort from the governor, as well as all my Senate and House colleagues who stood behind me in order to get these bills signed into law.
Always feel free to contact me throughout the year with any comments, questions, or issues by calling my office at (573) 751-5713 or by visiting my website at www.senate.mo.gov/brown.
Thank you for reading this and for your participation in state government.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
About the Book
Kids who love adventures with superheroes will be thrilled to find Batman and Superman teaming up in this 8 x 8 illustrated storybook.
The infamous supervillain The Joker has been up to his usual dirty tricks. He snuck in to the meteorite exhibit at the Museum of Art and Science and stole a priceless green pendant. Could it be made of kryptonite?
Batman is on the case and ready to defend Metropolis. With the help of the Man of Steel, he'll battle The Joker, get the pendant back—and save the city.
After the Joker sneaks his way into the Gotham Museum of Art and Science to steal a priceless pendant, BatmanTM follows him all the way to Metropolis. There, the World's Greatest Detective learns the thief is in cahoots with none other than Lex Luthor. Calling on his friend Superman, Batman is on a mission to take back Metropolis!
Educator and Librarian Resources
Product Details
- Imprint: HarperFestival
- On Sale: 07/30/2013
- Trimsize: 8 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.05 in (d)
- Pages: 24
- List Price: 3.99 USD
- Ages: 4 to 8
- BISAC1: JUVENILE FICTION / Media Tie-In
- BISAC2: JUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / General
- BISAC3: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General


text:
Sunday, 12/17/1995
Olympic Center, Lake Placid, NY
Set 1: My FriendMy Friend, My Friend > Poor Heart > ADITLA Day in the Life > AntelopeRun Like an Antelope, MangoThe Mango Song > Tube > Stash, LizardsThe Lizards, CDTChalk Dust Torture
Set 2: Bouncin'Bouncing Around the Room > Maze, Free > 2001Also Sprach Zarathustra > HoodHarry Hood > Sparkle > Tweezer[1] -> TweepriseTweezer Reprise
Encore: Hello My Baby, Runaway Jim
[1] Transition from Tweezer to Tweezer Reprise included a Page solo.
Noteworthy Jams: Stash, Maze (highly recommended), Harry Hood, Tweezer (highly recommended), Tweezer Reprise (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 3.84
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: The transition from Tweezer to Tweezer Reprise included a Page solo.
Song Distribution:
6 A Picture of Nectar
3 Stash
3 Rift
2 Lawn Boy
1 Billy Breathes
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 The White Tape
Songs by Debut Year:
This show was part of the "1995 Fall Tour."
The first set is fine and chock full of perfectly placed 1st set nuggets, but the flow of this entire show is what stands out to my ears. This was the last show before the break, wherein to think of how many shows they played in '95, you could very well say they might have been as practiced, crisp and sharp as they have ever been. Dare I say that that for the entire month of December, they may have been playing at a creative peak of sorts. The transitions that tie the seven songs between Maze & Reprise together are undoubtedly some of the most creative and thoughtful which I have ever heard. The 2nd set was highlighted by Hood, which was pure magic.


text:
Visual technique / style: Live-action cutscenes
Group DescriptionThe technological advancements of CD-ROM media and real-time decompression allowed games in the late 1980s and early 1990s to use full motion video, primarily for cutscenes. In an attempt to make games more film-like, these cutscenes soon went beyond traditional animation or CGI rendering techniques and used traditional live-action film making, with real actors, props and sets. Widespread throughout the 1990s, this style of cinematics has now been all but abandoned, with a few notable exceptions like entries in Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer series.
This group collects games with such live-action elements. Note that the live-action footage need not always be a gameplay element, i.e. not all games in this group are necessarily "Interactive Movies".
- The live-action footage must have been acquired through traditional film making techniques, using video or film cameras shooting at common frame rates like 24, 25 or 30 frames a second. The footage must also be shown within the game at similar film-like frame rates. Thus, games that feature digitized images of actors that are later animated are not to be included (example: Mortal Kombat);
- The games must feature original footage. Sometimes, movie-based games contain scenes from the movie they are licensed from. These games are not to be included unless the footage, while shot during a motion picture shoot, was specifically intended for game usage (example: Enter the Matrix).
Selected Covers
Front cover for Prize Fighter
Front cover for Enter the Matrix
Front cover for Synnergist
Front cover for Shockwave Assault
Front cover for MTV: Club Dead
Selected Screenshots
Screenshot from Prize Fighter
Screenshot from Enter the Matrix
Screenshot from Synnergist
Screenshot from Shockwave Assault
Game group created by Terok Nor (22584), additional games added to group by Cantillon (13802), Arejarn (1745), Rola (7762), Patrick Bregger (156341), POMAH (38419), piltdown_man (112232), Lain Crowley (5425), Tien Thuy Le Nguyen (2123), ChakalMaster (44), Timo Takalo (54), KatieCadet2012 (2166), Evolyzer (7860), Sciere (377400), Daedolon (3362), Kohler 86 (7290), Alaka (38351), Kabushi (161393), Scaryfun (13571), JudgeDeadd (15478), Parf (7308), Oleg Roschin (174057), vedder (20606), MAT (139020), PolloDiablo (16600), o0pyromancer0o (193), 雷堂嬢太朗 -raido.jotaro- (58372) and Jeanne (75401)
Screenshot from MTV: Club Dead
Screenshot from MTV: Club Dead


text: SIVA Addiction pounds out heavy metal in that uniquely blue-collar American way that is totally untouched by other countries, influences or genres. There is a sliver of the genre that remains impossibly true to the original form of heavy metal; a logical, blown-out extension of rock and roll from the middle seventies that revels in all the pomp and dirt that the legacy of that era entails. That sliver thrived in the U.S.


text:
Celebrate Earth Day — At Home!
With only a couple days to go until Earth Day, prepare to get inundated with a billion things we can do — should do — to save our planet. Although there will likely be plenty of events to attend and planet-themed parties to enjoy, one of the best places you can celebrate Earth Day is in your own home!
If our homes are a reflection and expression of our lifestyles and values, then it makes sense that we start making conscious (i.e. green) choices at home. The issues affecting the Earth — from the oil crisis to water shortages to disappearing species — are complex, and can seem distant and insurmountable, but it is essential to understand the correlation between our everyday environments and our larger ecosystem. Everything and everyone is interconnected, and even the simplest act, such as turning the water off when we brush our teeth, creates positive change.


text:
Audrey Laughter Koon
Published: Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 9:41 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 9:41 a.m.
SPARTANBURG SC-- Audrey Laughter Koon, 83, died Monday, February 11, 2013.
The J F Floyd Mortuary
Reader comments posted to this article may be published in our print edition. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.


text:
The McDonald County boys basketball team couldn't make a late lead stick and fell to the Grove Ridgerunners, 42-39, on Saturday at McDonald County High School.
Despite falling behind in the fourth quarter, the Ridgerunners continued to battle, answering the Mustangs with a pair of late jumpers to re-gain the lead.
But with eight seconds remaining, the Mustangs still had a chance. After a quick timeout, they got the three-point look they desired, but the shot didn't go in and the Ridgerunners secured the victory.
"The kids played extremely hard," Mustangs coach Trent Barratt said. "They competed hard. Defensively, I was proud of their effort. We've just got to start scoring and hitting shots."
Spencer Londagin led the Ridgerunners with 17 points while Jake Spychalski turned in 13.
Tyler Sherwood led the Mustangs with 11 points while Tyrell Lett tossed in eight, Jake Wood seven, Drey Fickle six, Josh Serr five and Pablo Alvarez two.
The Mustangs (1-4) travel to East Newton for a 6 p.m. showdown on Tuesday.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
MORAGA -- If you think sex trafficking is something that only happens in distant lands, think again.
The average age of girls prostituted in the United States by pimps is 12. The San Francisco Bay Area is one of three locations in California topping the FBI's high-intensity trafficking list. Of the 30 girls recently protected in a Northern California safe house, five of them were previously sold for sex by their peers or boyfriends. One of the largest sex trafficking cases in local history came out of Livermore. Domestic slavery has been reported in Walnut Creek.
Those are the messages two local women, Brenda Hepler, founder of End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT-USA)'s "TassaTag," aimed at sex tourism, and Kathy Wilson, spokeswoman for New Day for Children, brought the Orinda-Moraga-Lafayette Branch of the American Association of University Women's monthly meeting this past week. It shed light on the global and local realities of children sold and exploited in the burgeoning sex trade.
"Police departments, even a few years ago, had very little awareness about this issue in America," Wilson says. "When we opened New Day three years ago, people didn't even believe this was happening. Their reaction was, 'If this is real, why isn't it in the media?' "
The answer is complicated, as suggested by the conflict between Wilson's requests to protect the location and specific details of the rescue center and boarding school and her intense desire to spread the word and raise support.
"We rely completely on groups like the Junior League of Moraga, who have made us the beneficiary of this year's home tour, plus business sponsorships and individual donations," she says.
Wilson has seen the age of New Day clients plummet, as the "demand for fresh-faced, sweet, young girls increases.
"It's less risk and more profitable than drugs," she explains. "Crime groups and cartels are moving children along the same channels as drugs. With drugs, once they're gone, you have to procure more. With these girls, you can sell them over and over."
Calling the explosive numbers a "modern day resurgence of slavery," Wilson offers another shocking statistic: the average age of boys starting to watch pornography is 8 years old.
"The Internet is game-changing," she states. "(Boys) are inundated with sexual images -- it's so beyond sneaking a peek at a Playboy magazine."
Hepler, who was swept into one-woman activism after attending a United Nations Human Rights conference in 1993, took her expertise as a travel agent and designed the bright, hand-woven "TassaTag" luggage tags. Made by women at the Regina Center in Thailand, these luggage tags raise awareness, provide employment (and child care) for rural women in a country hard-hit by the sex trade industry and serve as an icon for ECPAT-USA's Code of Conduct.
"We focus on the United States and also, the places where American tourists tend to go," explains Hepler. "Sex tours -- where 25 percent of the people, mostly men, are Americans or Canadians -- go all around the world. Getting hotels to sign the Code of Conduct means they won't turn a blind eye to the situation."
During the first five years after introducing the code, Hepler says ECPAT-USA gained only five signatories. "This year, we're up to 12, so we've had a great increase in participation," she says.
Signing the code commits a hotel or travel establishment to developing a corporate policy against the commercial sexual exploitation of children and training staff to recognize and act against sex tourism.
Each TassaTag bears a number on the back, a direct link for reporting suspicious activity.
"Prevention is key," Hepler insists. "The code and the tag allow people to become a voice. No one person is going to be the silver bullet against child sex trafficking. It takes everyone."
Hepler and Wilson support California's Proposition 35, a recently passed measure approving tougher sentencing for human traffickers. With naysayers warning the increased fines and prison sentences may lull Californian's into thinking the matter is resolved, the two women suggest the skirmish will raise awareness.
Says Hepler, "As long as it's considered a first step toward getting children into safe harbor, I'm in favor of Prop 35."
Information: www.aauwoml.org


text:
VICTORIA, Texas – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Baseball team picked up a tough 8-6 win over Houston – Victoria on Thursday night, taking an early lead and never trailing against the Jaguars. The team will start a three-game Southland Conference series on Friday against Sam Houston State in Huntsville, Texas.
Eric Weiss and Jonathan Gonzales had back-to-back home runs as the Islanders (12-9) got three runs in the second and third, but a single run in the second and four in the fourth for UHV (9-17) kept it close throughout the game. A.J. Longoria (1-0) got the first win of his Islanders career, coming on in relief to pitch 2.0 perfect innings, giving up no runs, hits or walks against the six batters he faced. Jacob Dorris got his fourth save of the year to close out the game.
Cody Stephens went 3-for-4 in the game with one RBI, while Weiss, Gonzales and Brandon Tierney had two hits each. Brad Porras, Zach Taylor and Russell Vaughan finished the night with one hit apiece. Weiss and Tierney had two RBI on the night, while Stephens, Gonzales, Taylor and Vaughan drove in one run each.
The Islanders started the scoring with three runs in the top of the second, as Gonzales doubled down the left field line, Porras walked and both runners advanced a base on a passed ball. Taylor singled through the left side to score Gonzales and advance Porras, and Vaughan came through with an RBI groundout to make it 2-0, while Taylor advanced all the way to third on an error by the first baseman. Tierney came through with an RBI single to left that scored Taylor and made it 3-0.
UHV scored one in the bottom half of the inning to cut into the lead, but the Islanders came back with three more in the top of the third.
Stephens singled to the shortstop and Weiss followed with a blast to left center field over the 384 sign on the wall to make it a 5-1 game. Gonzales followed on the next pitch with a line drive homer down the left field line, clearing the wall by just a few feet on a ball that had plenty of distance once it got past the top of the barrier to make it 6-1.
The Jaguars came back with four runs in the bottom of the third, cutting the lead to just one as they staged a tremendous two-out rally, getting five hits and a walk after the first two batters went down in order, to make it a 6-5 contest.
Jacob Hubert would come on to pinch run and score a run in the top of the fourth, courtesy running after a Vaughan single, moving to second and third on groundouts, and scoring on a bunt single by Stephens to make it 7-5.
The team added another run scored in the sixth, with Hubert coming on to run for Vaughan and coming in to score on a Tierney RBI single through the left side for an 8-5 lead.
UHV added a single run in the bottom half of the inning, but they would get no more as the Islanders relievers shut them down.
After Longoria, Kaleb Keith came on and gave up the one run in 2.0 innings, allowing just two hits and one strikeout. Dalton D'Spain followed with an inning, giving up just one hit in the eighth, and Dorris came on in the ninth to close it out, striking out all three batters he faced to end it and earn the save.
The Islanders face Sam Houston in a three-game series starting at 6:30 p.m. on Friday night. The teams will play at 2 p.m. on Saturday and close out the series with a 1 p.m. first pitch on Sunday. Trevor Foss will start Friday for the Islanders, Trevor Belicek will go on Saturday and Adam Hoelscher will close it out with the start on Sunday.
Live stats and audio will be available for all games through www.GoIslanders.com.
For all the latest on Islanders Baseball, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Baseball) and follow them on Twitter (@CorpusBaseball).


text:
Anthony W. Berardi Jr.
Retired electrician
Not a subscriber? You can purchase a single-day subscription for only $0.75 to read this and access all of our content and our E-Edition. CLICK HERE purchase a single day subscription.
Become an electronic subscriber to the Republican-American for only $8 a month. CLICK HERE.


text:
Wrongly Incarcerated: Compensate James Richardson
Published: Friday, November 8, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 8:25 p.m.
Under our system of justice, a man is innocent until proved guilty. But the system hasn't worked for James Richardson.
Richardson's once-controversial case re-emerged Oct. 27 when he returned to his former hometown of Arcadia to attend a special church service in his honor.
As the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported, Richardson's return raised again the question of whether he deserves some measure of fairness and compensation for the wrongs he suffered at the hands of the state of Florida.
The answer is yes.
In 1968, Richardson was a fruit picker in DeSoto County when he was wrongly convicted of the poisoning deaths of his seven children. He spent 21 years in prison, five of them on death row, before he was freed through a special investigation called by former Gov. Bob Martinez.
The investigation, led by Janet Reno — then the Dade County state attorney and later U.S. attorney general — concluded that "not only couldn't the state prove James Richardson was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but James Richardson was probably wrongfully accused."
Reno found evidence of perjury and police brutality. Her report sharply criticized the prosecution and the DeSoto sheriff. "A totally inadequate and incomplete investigation was conducted," she wrote.
But that was in 1989 and, by then, important witnesses and potential culprits had died. Evidence (questionable from the beginning) was gone. As a result, the case could not be fairly retried to prove Richardson's innocence, or his guilt.
So Richardson was freed but had lost 21 years of his life, and by many accounts his health, and was left without much means of financial support.
Efforts by Richardson and his attorneys to obtain compensation from the state have been fruitless. Initially, Florida had no law that provided for compensation of prisoners later found to be wrongly incarcerated. In 2008, the Legislature passed a law that awards $50,000 for each year someone wrongly convicted spent in prison, but the law requires proof of innocence.
Richardson's case did not fit the criteria.
New hope for Richardson has arisen through proposed legislation. State Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, and state Rep. Dave Kerner, D-Palm Beach, are working to amend the wrongful-incarceration law to include Richardson's case.
But the legislation faces difficult obstacles. It would need to provide strict criteria for cases in which a former prisoner could not be exonerated by new evidence or testimony. Not every case in which prosecutors or law enforcement mishandle a conviction could be subject to restitution — there are simply too many such cases.
Yet the current law's standard — requiring that, in all cases, a person wrongly incarcerated must be proved innocent before restitution is made — goes against a fundamental principle of American justice: innocent until proved guilty.
The Legislature should thoroughly consider the new legislation and remain open to righting a 45-year-old miscarriage of justice.
Reader comments posted to this article may be published in our print edition. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.


text:
John Zenchak
John Zenchak joined North Central College in 1978 and received the College's Clarence F. Dissinger Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty in 1984. Described as "a gifted professor, who has an uncanny ability to explain the most complex things so that all the students can understand." While he specializes in teaching biology topics ranging from freshman level principles of biology to advanced microscopic anatomy, Zenchak's research has also focused on teacher education in the sciences, improving teacher preparation and elementary science curriculum. He has been a frequent presenter at conferences and workshops sponsored by the Association of Teacher Educators, Associated Colleges of Illinois and National Science Teachers Association. Zenchak holds a B.A. (1966) in pre-med from Youngstown State University and both an M.S. (1970) in zoology and Ph.D. (1976) in reproductive physiology from West Virginia University. Zenchak is a member of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science and the National Science Teachers Association.
2006 Ruge Fellow
John J. Zenchak, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology


text:
|Victoria, Texas
|High School:
|Cuero HS
2012 OUTDOOR TRACK (FRESHMAN): Recorded two top 10 records during the season … qualified for the Southland Conference Championships with a time of 3:54.64 at the Fred Duckett Rice Twilight (4/12) in the men's 1500m … clocked a time of 3:54.63 at the Southland Conference Championships (5/12) in the men's 1500m … part of the men's 4x800 relay team that broke the school record with a time of 7:38.56 at the Texas Relays (3/12) … anchored the Distance Medley Relay team that shattered the school record with a time of 9:52.89 at the Texas Relays (3/31).
2012 INDOOR TRACK (FRESHMAN): Ran in the one-mile finals at the Indoor Southland Conference Championships (2/24) and clocked a time of 4:21.52 to place in the top 10 … finished third at the Jeff Davis Bank McNeese Indoor Meet (2/3) in the 3k with a personal-best time of 8:40.25.
2011 CROSS COUNTRY (FRESHMAN): Teamed up at the UTPA Bronc Relays (9/2) with Jeremy Juarez to earn second place with a time of 37:53 … set a personal-best time of 26:59 in the men's 8k at the Islander Splash (9/23).


text:
About the Book
Tera Lynn Childs brings a delightful mix of wit, romance, and fantasy to her books. Fins, her YA mermaid series, is a great pick for fans of Meg Cabot's humorous love stories.
In Just for Fins, third in the series, half-human, half-mermaid Lily Sanderson has decided to remain Crown Princess Waterlily of the mermaid kingdom Thalassinia. She's made a promise to help to help Prince Tellin. Climate change and human pollution are causing suffering in his kingdom, and Lily and Tellin have to convince all the mermaid royals to work together to save the oceans.
Lily is distracted by the situation with Quince, the boy she loves. He must pass three tests to prove his love for her or they will be parted forever.
When Lily Sanderson decided to remain Crown Princess Waterlily of the mer kingdom of Thalassinia, she knew she couldn't just coast along in the current. But since she's spent the last couple of years on land, Lily's not sure she has the fins to lead a kingdom. Even her maddeningly pretentious cousin Dosinia seems to know more about ruling than she does.
But Lily has to dive in deep to keep her promise to Tellin, her mer bond in name only, who tells her his kingdom is suffering in the changing ocean climate. Lily knows this is a seven seas–sized problem. They'll need to create some serious waves to make the mer community aware and get it to join together to make things right. Lily has to lead the way, even if that means facing one of the iciest queens in the mer kingdoms.
Just when Lily thinks her double life on land and sea can't get any more complicated, an ancient mer law might separate Lily and her human boyfriend, Quince, after all. It feels as if the pair is up against a solid tsunami wave!
In this third installment in the series that began with Forgive My Fins and Fins Are Forever, Lily will have to find a way to balance safety and justice for the mer people and for the humans she loves.
Educator and Librarian Resources
Product Details
- Imprint: Katherine Tegen Books
- On Sale: 07/03/2012
- Trimsize: 5.5 in (w) x 8.25 in (h) x 0.89 in (d)
- Pages: 256
- List Price: 17.99 USD
- BISAC1: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / General
- BISAC2: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Animals / Mythical Creatures
- BISAC3: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / General


text:
News 12 at 11 o'clcock / Thursday, May 3, 2012
MILNER, Ga. -- She was a meth addict for 23 years. Around 15 months ago, she quit cold turkey, but she didn't do it alone. She had help from what could be the best kept secret when it comes to drug rehab.
Because it isn't drug rehab. It's the Potter's House.
The Potter's house is about a 2 and a half hour drive from Augusta.
It's in the quiet little town of Milner, Ga., in Lamar County, even though its P.O. Box address is Butts County.
If the walls of the Potter's House could talk, there would be a lot of pain in their voice. They'd echo things like: "I'm dead. Nobody cares. Not one person cares." "He beat me, and I allowed that to happen because I felt like I wasn't worth more than that." "I just kind of gave up. I was fixin' to kill myself. If I can't have my kids, I don't want to live."
This house knows hopelessness, but it also knows hope.
For the first time ever, they're opening the door so we can show you.
Linda will be your guide. We begin in her room, the house mom's room. Linda graduated from the Potter's House last August but stayed on to help other women like her.
"I have three grown girls, so I'm used to women," she said.
It's beautifully decorated and immaculate. It's also the most private room in the house. All the other rooms have multiple beds. This is the only bedroom with just one.
Linda's job as house mother is a busy one. More than a dozen women living under one roof takes some serious organization, and Linda handles all the logistics. For example, five women share one bathroom.
"You can only take 10-minute showers, so that's how we do it," Linda explained.
The house is usually full, and there always seems to be a waiting list. To come to the Potter's House, you first fill out an application and then have an interview. When invited to come live here, you make a seven-month commitment to change your life. The cost? Free.
Linda believes it's priceless.
"I'm 47 years old. I can't be playing around anymore with my life," she said.
Next stop on your tour is the Esther Room. This is where Linda and all the other women live when they first came to the Potter's House. This large room has 11 beds. It, too, is immaculate, and reminds you of a room in a sorority house. You can work your way up to more private rooms, but this is where everyone begins their journey.
Just a few steps down the hall, and you find yourself in the kitchen. When News 12 was there, it was a busy place as the women were getting ready for lunch. Meals are planned in advance. Two women are assigned to cook. Two others are responsible for cleaning up. The women eat in one of two shifts. It's an efficient system that's evolved slowly since the Potter's House was founded in 2000.
"There have been times when I'm sure these girls didn't have anything in their refrigerator," Linda said. "And I'm sure that was scary for them and their children."
On the other side of the house from the busy kitchen, there are two rooms with two more beds. They are also beautifully decorated and spotless. You earn living in these more private rooms by, for example, having a good attitude or helping with more chores.
There's another room downstairs known as the the pink room. The walls are pink as is the decor. Linda tells us it's one of the most popular rooms in the whole house. She also says the women form close bonds in these close quarters, and even though you might expect there to be friction from time to time, Linda says there isn't any.
"I've been here 15 months, and I've never seen a yelling match yet," she joked. "We don't have a lot of conflict. I'm serious."
The reason Linda and the rest of the women at the Potter's House end up here is also very serious. Linda used meth for 23 years.
"I just wouldn't give it up. I don't know what I was trying to hold on to out there."
Instead, Linda now knows meth was holding on to her.
"It controlled my life and destroyed my family. It destroyed me as a mother, as a daughter, as a friend," she said.
She believes coming to the Potter's House fixed that and says God fixed her.
"He just restored my soul. It's what he did. He changed my life."
Linda's life now has a lot of purpose and structure. She has to keep the Potter's House running by keeping everyone on a tight schedule. For example, they only have one washer and one dryer.
"A total of three can do laundry per day," she said.
The women also keep the house in great shape. It is always clean and neat. From the prayer room to the library to the pantry, that is stocked with all donated food, the women keep everything tidy. They learn to appreciate what they have, where they live and how nice the house is.
That's all part of the Potter's House experience. It's an experience that has been quietly saving women like Linda for 12 years, but now, the secret is out, and in a way, these walls are talking.
The woman who started the program is talking to 12 on Friday. We sit down with Cherrie Burdeshaw, a woman who admits she no clue she was slowly creating a program over the years that would work miracles. You can't deny her success rate. That's why some Augusta ministries and community leaders want to do the same.


text:
Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
|< Anti-semitism
13.106 I have concluded that the allegation that Irving is a racist is also established for broadly analogous reasons. This is unsurprising for anti-semitism is a form of racism. It appears to me that the sample quotations set out in paragraph 9.6 above provide ample evidence of racism. The ditty composed by Irving for his daughter is undeniably racist in putting into her mouth the words "I am a Baby Aryan ...I have no plans to marry an Ape or Rastifarian". Similarly, Irving's reference to "one of them" reading the television news strikes me as evidence of racism of a more insidious kind. The same applies to Irving's proclaimed queasiness on seeing black men playing cricket for England. The manner in which Irving speaks of the AIDS epidemic wiping out blacks, homosexuals, drug addicts and others has in my view a distinctly racist flavour. Irving's statements about coloured immigration are also racist in their overtones even if less overtly so.
13.107 I cannot accept that the various explanations put forward by Irving for what he said and wrote deprive his words of their racist quality. It is possible to employ members of ethnic minorities and yet hold racist views. I do not accept that the statements relied on by the Defendants can be defended as expressions of patriotic sentiments. I reject Irving's explanations, set out at paragraphs 9.19 and 9.21 above, of his comments about the spread of AIDS in Africa and about the feeling of humiliation he experienced when his passport was checked at Heathrow by a Pakistani.
13.108 I accept that Irving is not obsessed with race. He has certainly not condoned or excused racist violence or thuggery. But he has on many occasions spoken in terms which are plainly racist. Racism is to be condemned even if it is confined, as in Irving's case, to expressions of the kind which I have mentioned.
|< Anti-semitism


text:
For the purposes of this article, the words or terms defined in this section, and any variation of those words or terms required by the context, have the meanings ascribed to them in this section. These definitions are applicable unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context.
(1) "Child witness" means a person under the age of sixteen years of age who is or will be called to testify in a criminal matter concerning an alleged violation of the provisions of sections three, four, five and seven, article eight-b, chapter sixty-one of this code in which the child is the alleged victim.
(2) "Live, closed-circuit television" means a simultaneous transmission, by closed-circuit television or other electronic means, between the courtroom and the testimonial room.
(3) "Operator" means the individual authorized by the court to operate the closed-circuit television equipment used in accordance with the provisions of this article.
(4) "Testimonial room" means a room within the courthouse other than the courtroom from which the testimony of a child witness or the defendant is transmitted to the courtroom by means of live, closed-circuit television.
Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2015 Regular Session
The WV Code Online is an unofficial copy of the annotated WV Code, provided as a convenience. It has NOT been edited for publication, and is not in any way official or authoritative.


text:
Vickie Lynn Huffman, 58, of Sioux Falls, S.D. died Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, due to cancer, surrounded by her family and friends. She was born in Sioux Falls, S.D. She grew up and attended school in Soloman, Kan., where she was valedictorian of her graduating class. In 1973, she married Timothy Huffman. They made their home in McPherson. She was employed by CHS of Sioux Falls.
Survivors include her husband, Timothy Huffman, of Sioux Falls, S.D.; children, Jennifer, and her husband, Robert Scherrman of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Travis "TJ" Huffman and his wife, Catherine, of Virginia Beach, Va.; and three grandchildren, Gabe, AJ, and Katelynn of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Vickie was preceded in death by her parents, Floyd and Margaret "Peggy" Boulais. Vickie was a wonderful wife, mother, and friend. She is loved by all and will be missed dearly.
The family will be holding a private service in her memory.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
Plum Puddin' wrote: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/37-people-who-say-theyre-moving-to-australia-if-o
Haha come on over you bastards.
the mean wrote: Karl Rove's meltdown last night was the best thing I've seen on TV in quite awhile.
Quote: Also interesting to note they'd be moving to a former penal colony.
Plum Puddin' wrote:
jakethesnake wrote: http://whitepeoplemourningromney.tumblr.com/
firefly wrote: These guys are definitely bat shit crazy, ignorant and most likely racist. I can see how this can be amusing at a glance but if you really analize the situation it is quite sad and scary. I think it's best to ignore such people.
Laughter can be very empowering, it can bring people together but it can also be violent and separate us all even more.
My 2 cents. :)
Captiv8 wrote: Plum Puddin' wrote: Quote: Also interesting to note they'd be moving to a former penal colony.
You know that was like, 200 years ago right?


text:
|Channelview, Texas
|High School:
|Channelview HS
2011-12 (SOPHOMORE): Played in 26 of the Islanders 29 games … averaged 1.2 points in 8.7 minutes per game … shot 8-of-11 from the free throw line … logged four minutes against Colorado (11/16) and grabbed one offensive rebound ... played 12 minutes against Missouri (11/12) and grabbed two rebounds ... scored four points and dished out four assists while tallying two steals in 20 minutes at Houston Baptist (11/26) ... posted two points, three rebounds and two assists in a season-high 21 minutes against North Texas (12/3) ... scored four points and grabbed a season-high four rebounds vs. Jackson State (12/16) ... registered a season-high five points at SMU (12/18) on 2-of-3 shooting from the field.
2010-11 (FRESHMAN): Played 29 games with a total of 571 minutes … chipped in 161 points off the bench, including a season-high 17 against UTSA (2/23) … scored double figures on five different occasions … had a .818 percentage in free throws, making 45 out of 55 throughout the season … posted a season-high nine free throws against Sam Houston (2/12) .... recorded a season-high six rebounds against St. Edward's (12/16) ... second on the team in three-point field goals with 18 ... marked a season-high seven assists at Texas State (2/16) ... third on the team in assists with 32 ... second on the team in steals with 30 ... recorded a season-high 37 minutes at Southeastern La. (1/15).
HIGH SCHOOL: Played at Channelview High School for coach Kim Lockett … averaged 19.2 points, 6.0 assists and 4.0 steals per game as a senior … during her junior season, averaged 17.2 points, 4.5 assists and 2.0 steals per game … named team MVP as a sophomore, junior and senior … earned First Team All-District as a sophomore and junior while being named First Team and District MVP as a senior… led her team to the regional quarterfinals as a senior… lettered in cross country her senior year.
PERSONAL: Born Taryn Gregory on May 7, 1992, in Little Rock, Ark. … parents are Tracey Gregory and Angie Estell … has an older sibling … major is criminal justice.


text:
Tommy John Sturguess, 66, Rothville, died Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at Boone Hospital Center, Columbia.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 11, 2013, at Delaney Funeral Home, Marceline, with Rev. Wayne Welborn and Rev. Ken Markley officiating. Visitation will be held from 6 until 8 p.m. today, May 10, 201,3 at the funeral home. Burial will be in Rosehill Cemetery, Brookfield. Pallbearers will be John Gibson, Matt Gibson, Ken Hoeg, Ray Thompson, Steven Skidmore, Carl Jones, and honorary pallbearers will be Mikeal, Jaycee, and Dylan Thompson, Tisha and Abby Skidmore, and Kaitlyn and Colton Jones.
Memorials for Tom Sturguess's grandchildren may be left at or mailed to the funeral home at 1720 N. Missouri Ave., Marceline, Mo. 64658.
Tom was born September 22, 1946, in Baring, son of Clifford and Byrdie (Peek) Sturguess. He married Edith Emerine Jacobs on July 3, 1971.
Tom had worked as a waste water specialist at DNR, Macon. He was the pastor of his family's nondenominational church and had been a Rothville resident the past 26 years.
Survivors include his wife, Edith Sturguess, of the home in Rothville; mother-in-law Kay Jacobs, Brookfield; three daughters, Stacey and Ray Thompson, Isis and Steven Skidmore, and Esther and Carl Jones, all of Rothville; four brothers, Jerry Sturguess, St. Catharine, Joe Sturguess and Roy Sturguess, both of Marceline, and Jim Sturguess, Booneville; two sisters, Judy Murphy, Wright City, and Sheila Finley, Moberly; seven grandchildren, Mikeal, Jaycee, and Dylan Thompson, Tisha and Abby Skidmore, and Kaitlyn and Colton Jones, and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; daughter Tisha Kay; and father-in-law, Albert Jacobs.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
provides maps, walking directions, news, events, and information on the various sites on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The Park Lens feature uses augmented reality to show you exactly where you are on the Mall, detailing close-by monuments and other points of interests. (National Park Service)
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."


text:
Location: Grape Genetics Research
Project Number: 8060-21220-006-07
Start Date: Oct 01, 2010
End Date: Jun 30, 2014
The proposed work is breeding grapevine rootstocks resistant to aggressive virulent root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne species) populations. Grapevine rootstock germplasm will be screened for resistance to aggressive virulent root-knot nematodes, crosses made, and resistant seedling selections identified through screening. Resistant seedlings will be tested for propagation ability and nematode resistance confirmed through replicated plant testing.


text:
This 2012 World Champion Wisconsin Muenster from Master Cheese Maker Steve Stettler of Decatur Dairy has a mellow tang.
Where can this be sent?
Shipping Restrictions & Policies:
Sign in to your Address Book.
To check if any specific restrictions for this item apply to any United States shipping address, please enter the information below.Sorry, this service is not available to Canadian addresses.
This is being shipped to a P.O. Box
This product has the following shipping restrictions:
Cannot ship to:
*Alaska, Hawaii
*Puerto Rico or other US possession
*Military APO/FPO
*P.O. Box.
If you're not completely happy with your purchase, we'll refund your merchandise amount or send a replacement.
Get what you want now with Wisconsin Cheeseman Credit
© 2016 The Wisconsin Cheeseman


text:
Game of Thrones is a site for the HBO-series based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
New to the series? Read our spoiler-free review of A Game of Thrones.
Read our Privacy Policy.
This past weekend, George R.R. Martin posted at "Not a Blog" about two scripts that had been sent to him to be auctioned for charity at this year's Worldcon, Renovation, appear to have been stolen while in transit to his office. The scripts for episode 9 and 10 were signed by David Benioff, Dan Weiss, and director Alan Taylor. It's very unfortunate, and we suggest that if anyone spots scripts on Ebay or at other sites matching the above description, to please report it in.
The Westeros network consists of several different sites, including a forum and a wiki, for all your A Song of Ice and Fire needs.


text:
- Binding: Paperback & eBook
- Era: Current
- Number of Pages: 400
- Subject: Veterans Affairs
- Date Available: May 2013
Clear The Decks Price*
Featuring a Foreword by Salvatore A. Giunta, Medal of Honor Recipient
The Military Advantage, 2013 Edition, written by Terry Howell, Managing Editor for Benefits for Military.com is the essential annual reference guide to military and veteran's benefits. Published in partnership with Military.com, the nation's largest military membership organization with over 10 million members and its parent company, Monster.com, the nation's largest career and job website, this latest edition is the most reliable benefits guide for the over 30 million Americans who have answered the call to serve in the military. These valuable benefits include billions in scholarships, educational benefits, home loan guarantees, and military discounts.
Due to the drawdown of forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and required budget cuts, the Department of Defense plans on reducing military forces by as many as 100,000 troops over the next five years. In response, the 2013 edition of the Military Advantage will focus on the rights and benefits available to assist service members, veterans and their families as they transition to civilian life in record numbers.
The new 2013 Edition will include these key topics to help make the most of the military experience:
With this emphasis on making a successful transition to civilian life, this well-established guide will be even more relevant to active duty military, veterans, retirees, and their family members.
Terry Howell is the Managing Editor for Military.com. He is a retired Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer and disabled veteran. In his role as a Coast Guard Career Development Advisor, Terry provided career, finance, education, and benefits counseling to service members and their families. Terry earned both his Bachelor's and MBA at Corban University using tuition assistance and his GI Bill benefits to help cover the cost.
~ Praise for The Military Advantage 2013 ~
"Should be a part of every community library collection, every military assistance organization's reference collection, and essential reading for active military personnel and veterans."
– The Midwest Book Review


text:
"Revolution" Ends, "TMNT/Batman:TAS" Begins in IDW's November 2016 Solicitations
Comic Books
Showing results 107-146 of 197
Video from "The Amazing Spider-Man" NY re-shoots surfaces online! Ellen Page to appear in "The Dark Knight Rises" after all? Also, Tom Hiddleston talks bonding with "The Avengers" and more.
Possible "Dark Knight Rises" prologue details emerge! Kenneth Branagh on his "Thor 2" departure! Michael Shannon continues to talk "Man of Steel" costumes. Also, a DC Nation promo online and more.
Batwing spotted on the rooftops of New York City! "Supernatural's" Julian Richings on becoming a Kryptonian in "Man of Steel!" Also, new photo of Martin Freeman on the "Hobbit" set and more.
Simon Kinberg to write a "First Class" sequel! "Smurfs" scribes tapped for "Popeye!" "Boilerplate" finds writers for a feature film! Also, Garrett Hedlund offered money for "Akira," and more.
Screenwriters give an update on "Wanted 2!" New "Dark Knight Rises" set video emerges! "The Wolverine" director talks about Logan's personal journey. Also, set photos from Hobbiton and more.
Beardy Henry Cavil spotted on "Man of Steel" set! "Superior" officially optioned by Matthew Vaughn! No room for Gambit in "The Wolverine!" Also, "2 Guns" in talks with a director and more.
Juno Temple offers a "Dark Knight Rises" no comment about her part! Grant Morrison writing a "Rogue Trooper" film? "The Avengers" look up in new photo! Also, Evangeline Lily speaks Elvish and more.
"Man of Steel" set-pics reveal full suit and Faora! Loki arrives in Cleveland with horns on! Peter Jackson praises "Hobbit" star Martin Freeman! Also, a "First Class" deleted scene and more.
"Amazing Spider-Man" trailer debuts online! "Dark Knight Rises" to make it snow in Pittsburgh! "Captain America" screenwriters on Ed Brubaker! Also, "Rex Libris" to be a motion picture and more.
"300" prequel snares a director! First official shot of "Dredd!" New "Captain America" featurette and poster debut online. Also, "Rust" to be a movie, Gwyneth Paltrow on "Avengers" set and more.
"Dark Knight Rises" trailer described? "Captain America" director ready for sequel? Olivia Wilde on riding horses in "Cowboys & Aliens." Also, Guy Ritchie may return to "Sgt. Rock" and more.
"Man of Steel" plot synopsis revealed? New "Captain America" stills show off the Howling Commandos! Rose MacGowan talks "Conan" character! Also, Marvel at D23, "Batman: Year One" trailer, and more.
Adam West to appear in "The Dark Knight Rises?" Will "Captain America" come to Comic-Con? "Conan" unleashes a new UK trailer! Also, "Man of Steel" set photos, a look at "Batman Live," and more.
"The Wolverine" to shoot in October? New "Conan" photos surface online! Patrick Dempsey talks the virtues of "Doctor Strange!" Also, Hannah Marks on "Amazing Spider-Man" appearance and more.
Jon Favreau and Harrison Ford chat about "Cowboys & Aliens!" "Captain America" TV ad reveals what's buried in the ice! Also, screenwriter Darren Lemke tapped for "Beasts of Burden," and more.
Julia Ormond to play Lara in "Man of Steel?" A new "Captain America" trailer arrives! Trouble on the "Men in Black III" set? Also, Patrick Dempsey's "Doctor Strange" campaign continues and more.
Steven Spielberg on "Cowboys & Aliens!" "Captain America" director discusses shield-throwing! New "Conan" trailer spills plenty of blood! Also, "Men in Black III" set photos and more.
"Captain America" star flirts with reporters? "Green Lantern" Easter eggs uncovered! "The Avengers" assemble with Motley Crue! Also, Christian Bale's new informal costume and more.
"Captain America's" USO costume revealed? Details of a "Green Lantern" post-credit scene emerge! "Cowboys & Aliens" writers talk genre-blending! Also, "Man of Steel" needs extras and more.
"Hawkman" to be a motion picture? Cable for "First Class" sequel? Lana Lang for "Man of Steel?" Also, Clancy Brown joins "Green Lantern," "Hobbit" films get titles, and more.
New "First Class" featurette online! "Dark Knight Rises" in New Jersey? Director Joe Johnston on "Captain America's" transformation, a glimpse of "Alphas," and more.
Early "First Class" reviews are in! "Green Lantern" gets milk! New "Cowboys & Aliens" spot underestimates humans! Dominic Cooper calls "Captain America" a "touching" film! More!
First look at Bane as more actors join "The Dark Knight Rises!" Jennifer Lawrence on playing Mystique! Tom Cruise enters "Oblivion!" Also, new "Green Lantern" trailer and more.
Michael Clarke Duncan on voicing Kilowog! Alex Gonzales on playing Riptide! "Dark Knight Rises" set photo features mysterious shoes. Also, "Amazing Spider-Man" and more.
Caleb Landry Jones on becoming Banshee! Stars describe "Priest!" Israeli actor to play a mad scientist in "Dark Knight Rises?" Also, NBC passes on "Wonder Woman" and more.
"Thor" director on "crossing the bridge" from comics to film! The "First Class" credit struggle concludes! Idris Elba wants to be "Luke Cage?" Also, Loki, Helicarrier for "Avengers" and more.
"Captain America" and Sam Jackson film on the streets of New York! A new "Priest" clip reveals the power of rope! "The Avengers" begins filming today! Also, a "Hobbit" update and more.
Diane Lane spills "Man of Steel" origin detail! Kat Dennings talks about her "Thor" character. New "Conan" Jason Momoa admits to never seeing the original! Also, Blake Lively on Carol Ferris and more.
Jon Favreau talks "Cowboys & Aliens" duo! Natalie Portman talks Jane Foster! Michael Shannon talks Zod! Also, new "Green Lantern" images, "The Hobbit" at 48 frames per second, and more.
Jon Favreau discusses the look of the "Aliens." "The Wolverine" goes hunting for a new director. "Priest" director talks big worlds on small budgets. Also, a "Green Lantern" lawsuit, and more.
Henry Cavill talks changing "Superman!" Patrick Dempsey campaigns for "Doctor Strange!" "Cowboys & Aliens" Director Jon Favreau visits CBR! Also, a possible Wayne Manor found and more.
Geoffrey Rush to voice Tomar-Re! Hugh Jackman searches for a new "Wolverine" director! "Cowboys & Aliens" first act described! Also, Superman for separate films and more.
Director Zack Snyder talks "Superman!" Robert Pattinson on "Daredevil" rumors. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Dark Knight Rises" role revealed? Also "Captain America" reshoots and more.
Gary Oldman says "The Dark Knight Rises" returns to "Batman Begins!" A "First Class" visit with director Matthew Vaughn! Also, Ian McKellen spies "The Hobbit," and more.
Will Batman face The League of Shadows in "DKR?" Will "The Avengers" take on Skrulls? Will "MIB III" ever finish filming? Also, Diane Lane cast as Martha Kent, a "Conan" motion poster, and more.
"Superman" looking for General Zod? "The Avengers" on the red carpet! Australian FX house to set Nic Cage's head on fire! Also, Jon Chu to direct "G.I. Joe 2," "Powers" pilot a go, and more.
"Dark Knight Rises" scouting in Pittsburgh? "Dylan Dog" gets a release date! "Spider-Man" looking for a helicopter pilot! Also, "Robocop" on the path to a remake, "Hobbit" set pics, and more.
Writers signed up for a "Cap" sequel? The trailer for "First Class" arrives! "Red Sonja" to return with director Simon West. Also, "Nemesis" finds a writer, a "Hobbit" cast photo and more.
Super Bowl ads for "Cap," Thor," "Cowboys & Aliens," and "Priest!" Is the mystery "Superman" role a Kryptonian villainess? Also, an update on Nick Fury's "Avengers" sidekick, and more.
Four possible names for Nick Fury's sidekick! "The Flash" writer talks Barry Allen and speed! Tommy Lee Jones in new "Cap" photos! Also, casting "Superman's" other leading lady, and more.
Archives: All | Comic Books | TV/Film | Video Games | Web Comics


text:
Pay for performance.
It's typically what companies say about how they decide to pay their top executives. It sounds simple in theory, but it gets hard to understand when you look at the numbers.
Take, for example, San Francisco game-developer Zynga, with relatively modest sales of $873 million. Last year it awarded its new chief executive, Don Mattrick, nearly $58 million in compensation, making him the second-highest paid executive in the Bay Area.
But Santa Clara-based Intel -- which racked up sales of nearly $53 billion -- gave its new boss, Brian Krzanich, just $9.5 million. Meanwhile, John Watson of Chevron in San Ramon, which had sales of $220 billion, was awarded $20 million. Larry Page of moneymaking machine Google in Mountain View received only $1 and Robert Duggan, who runs Sunnyvale drug company Pharmacyclics -- which made a respectable $67 million profit on sales of $260 million last year -- got nothing.
Those are just a few of the puzzlers from What the Boss Makes, the annual Equilar Silicon Valley CEO Pay Study conducted for the Bay Area News Group. Some bewilderment is understandable. Executive paychecks are not only far bigger than the average wage-earner's, they're also a lot more complicated, usually including not only salary but also stock, bonuses, perks like home security and other types of compensation, all of which are included in the survey.
"It's not as easy as just looking at what the total pay number is," said Aaron Boyd of Equilar, which provided the survey's data on 177 local CEOs. He explained that executive paychecks have "a lot more nuance'' and are hard to compare because of their complexity.
Compounding the challenge, "There are many different definitions of pay, different ways to pay executives, and different time horizons that executives are being paid for," said John Roe of ISS Corporate Services, which studies how businesses are governed.
But he and other experts agreed that none of that provides a clear indication of which CEOs are the best or the worst.
Every company has its own peculiar needs, they said, whether it's halting hemorrhaging expenses, making the firm grow faster, radically reshuffling its product line, taking it public or other priorities. As a result, their CEOs often have unique skill sets.
Moreover, they noted, the severity of the challenges CEOs face vary greatly from year to year. So one boss may have warranted an especially big pay package for solving a huge crisis, while their peers dealt with far less critical issues.
Consequently, anyone hoping to understand why an executive got what he or she did often has to read the detailed rationale provided in the company's regulatory filings. Consider Zynga's Mattrick, who was hired from Microsoft on July 1 last year to replace Mark Pincus.
Although Zynga officials declined comment on Mattrick's pay, which was second only to the $78.4 million given Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, they clearly have high regard for their new chief executive. In a news release last year, board member Jeffrey Katzenberg, who heads DreamWorks Animation, said of Mattrick, "There is not another executive in the world who could bring as much experience, knowledge and success in the gaming space."
Zynga's filings noted that Mattrick -- former president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business -- was given "make-whole" stock grants valued at $25 million to reimburse him for the loss of compensation from Microsoft. He also got other stock as "a meaningful incentive to reward future success in increasing shareholder value," the company said, noting that his 2014 pay will be "substantially lower."
Intel took a decidedly different incentive approach with Krzanich, who in May 2013 was promoted from chief operating officer to became the storied chipmaker's sixth CEO. Besides getting far less than what Mattrick received, Krzanich's pay was half what his predecessor, Paul Otellini, earned in 2012.
"This action," the company said in a regulatory filing, "reflects the committee's view that Mr. Krzanich is new to his role and creates an incentive to drive value in the future."
Still, experts cautioned that none of this means Mattrick is more talented than Krzanich, who still got more than most CEOs in the survey, including some of the Bay Area's biggest luminaries.
Besides Page, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook in Menlo Park received just $653,165, while Elon Musk, CEO of Palo Alto carmaker Tesla, got a mere $69,989. And then there was Pharmacyclics' Duggan, who hasn't received a dime in pay since becoming CEO in 2008.
Like Zuckerberg, Page and Musk, Duggan owns a big chunk of his company's stock, which provides plenty of reward if the shares increase in price. In an interview, Duggan said that also assures his shareholders he's working to boost the value of their investment. Moreover, it minimizes ill feelings among his employees if he's not getting huge pay, he said, adding, "I just don't want any attention on that at all."
Many workers have a hard time comprehending what their CEOs make and why they make so much. With their complex assortment of stock, bonuses and other compensation, "the way executives are paid is dramatically different from the way the average employee is paid," said Charles Tharp, CEO of the Center on Executive Compensation in Washington, which promotes "principled pay and governance practices."
Moreover, pay for top executives has increased far faster than for the typical worker. In 1965, CEOs at the top 350 U.S. firms made 20 times as much as their typical employee, but that has increased to nearly 296 times as much in 2013, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Comparative data isn't available for the Bay Area. But from 2007 to 2013, the median pay of CEOs at the top 100 local companies increased from $3,395,611 in 2007 to $8,174,592, though a few higher-paying firms were added to the sample in 2011, according to Equilar.
Companies need to be careful about lavishing their leaders with pay that's far out of whack with what their other employees get, said Charles Elson of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. Otherwise, he said, it "causes huge dissension in the ranks."
Contact Steve Johnson at email@example.com or 408-920-5043. Follow him at Twitter.com/steveatmercnews


text:
Winemaker Linda Donovan's new tasting room at 1800 N. Valley View Road, Ashland, is dedicated to discussing the pleasures and process of wine. Here, with fetching views of fruit trees and far-reaching vineyards, patrons are invited to sample rare varietals and hear about the decisions that determined the flavors.
From 1 to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday, visitors taste from an ever-changing lineup culled from Donovan's dozen wines.
On one day, samples were given from bottles of Late Bloomer's 2011 gew�rztraminer ($10), Le Jeune Chien's 2011 sauvignon blanc ($15), Long Walk Vineyard's 2010 zinfandel ($25) and 2010 mourvedre ($25).
"I moved to Oregon to plant these vineyards, so it's a place that I'm passionate about," says Donovan, a U.C. Davis enology graduate who has worked at prestigious California and Oregon wineries. "It's a well cared-for vineyard."
Thirteen years ago, she planted the vineyard with her sister, Kathy O'Leary, who owns Valley View Orchard farm stand at 1800 N. Valley View Road.
They added 12 acres of syrah, grenache and zinfandel grapevines, and they introduced new varietals to the Rogue Valley: mourvedre, cinsault and carignane.
Fast forward: The first day Donovan opened her tasting room in July, she sold out of wine. The first week, she found more buyers for her $35 L. Donovan 2009 pinotage than the $8 Pick Me white blend or merlot.
"After tasting the pinotage, people understand it's unique," says Donovan of the 300 bottles of wine she made from grapes grown in Talent. "Here, with me, they can taste the value and hear the story."
She says her customers want to try a variety of wines, purchase them and then continue on to other tasting rooms.
Her vision is shared by many in the Napa, Willamette and Walla Walla valleys and other wine regions.
The wine-centered concept prevails because tourists with serious questions and limited time want to take in as many wineries as they can.
In the past, members of Donovan's wine club, called FOLD (Friends of Linda Donovan), bought her different wines at the dock of her custom crush winery, Pallet Wine Co., in Medford.
Now, the Ashland tasting room is the only direct-sales outlet for all five of her labels, including the premium L. Donovan brand.
Donovan, a longtime producer in the state's wine industry, says she feels comfortable in the charming setting she created from a fruit-packing area that once didn't have walls or a finished ceiling.
"I don't have the experience of serving food and other beverages," she says, smiling, "but I do know about my wines, and I can talk to people interested in what I do."
For more information or to be placed on the email newsletter list, call Donovan at 541-621-1589 or see www.ldonovanwines.com.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
Phil Lesh & Friends,
Friday, 04/16/1999
Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Set 1: Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Wish You Were Here > Tennessee Jed, Stella Blue[1], Alligator
Set 2: Bertha[2] > Prince Caspian, St. Stephen -> The Eleven > Unbroken Chain, Chalk Dust Torture > Mountains of the Moon > Scarlet Begonias[2] -> Fire on the Mountain[2]
Encore: Ripple[3]
[1] Instrumental.
[2] Donna Jean Godchaux on additional vocals.
[3] Acoustic; Donna Jean Godchaux on additional vocals.
Notes: "Stella Blue" was performed instrumental with Steve Kimock on pedal steel. This gig featured the first known performance of "Alligator" by a member of The Grateful Dead since April 29, 1971. "Alligator" contained a "San-Ho-Zay" tease from Trey. "Dark Star," "St. Stephen" and "Mike's Song" were teased prior to "Bertha." "Ripple" was performed acoustic. Donna Jean Godchaux provided additional vocals for "Bertha," "Scarlet Begonias," "Fire on the Mountain" and "Ripple."
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Phil Lesh, John Molo, Steve Kimock, Donna Jean Godchaux (Guest)


text:
Mexico's drug war shift
Americans often want the Cliff Notes version of news. We want to "cut to the chase." The result is that we often fall for the illusion that change is a result of sudden, momentous events. But, more often, the world changes incrementally. In small, staggered moves.
Last October, officials within the administration of newly-elected Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto hinted that votes in Colorado and Washington to legalize the recreational use of marijuana would prompt Mexico to re-examine its drug-fighting policy. That was in November.
In December, Peña Nieto went on record saying his administration would not cut back on combating marijuana cultivation and trafficking.
Two months later, we're seeing how Peña Nieto is reconciling the two seemingly disparate statements.
His government will redirect $9.2 billion toward prevention programs, particularly in areas with the greatest levels of violence: better parks with improved lighting, health and social services, jobs for single mothers, arts and culture in schools, road improvement, lowering school and domestic violence, and preventing and treating drug addiction. He will also increase, by almost six-fold, the schools that have a full, eight-hour academic day instead of just a half-day. But the government gave few other details.
The announcement is a clear shift in focus, which should be welcome news in a country where drug cartel-related violence has taken an estimated 60,000 lives. But, as one analyst said, the lack of specifics about the program is "disconcerting."
I like Peña Nieto's forward-thinking approach. But it seems like a lot of money for programs, many that seem to fall into the "feel-good" category. You have to wonder: Will better parks and arts programs really trump lucrative opportunities in the drug business — "opportunities" that may be offered at the point of an assault rifle?
Seems that money could be better invested. As writer Grace Wyler pointed out in Business Insider, "(He) would be better advised to focus on more attainable goals; like implementing judicial reforms, expanding access to credit, growing the middle class, and promoting government accountability and transparency."
Such an approach would not only have a stronger and broader impact than Peña Nieto's youth-and-neighborhoods approach, but it would also signal to Mexicans that his administration is serious about creating real, fundamental, long-lasting change.
Wyler's piece offers an excellent framework for Peña Nieto. But, written two years ago, it was actually aimed at then-president Felipe Calderon. Back when the death toll was merely 35,000.
Change – even painful, bloody change – happens incrementally.


text:
(WOMENSENEWS)--After looking for work for five months, Michelle Castillo landed a new job at the end of January and is counting her blessings.
Nine months after Hurricane Katrina swept away her old life, the New Orleans native is still struggling to make ends meet for her family.
She makes 30 percent less money than she did before the storm and hasn't been able to return to the middle-class comforts--like a swimming pool in the backyard and hand-carved furniture--she once had. Yet the 41-year-old mother of two refuses to complain knowing that more than 400,000 of her fellow Gulf Coast evacuees remain without basic needs, such as long-term housing or employment.
"Our situation is not good, but it could be so much worse," Castillo says of the family's efforts to resettle in Orlando, Fla., where she, her children and her 68-year-old father came to live after being displaced last Aug. 29, the day their house in New Orleans East succumbed to flood waters.
Castillo is now working in the qualifications department of an Orlando-based debt consolidation company where she reviews credit reports and payment histories to help consumers lower interest rates associated with credit cards.
Her weekly salary ranges between $400 and $600 before taxes depending on the amount of commissions she makes. For every person Castillo qualifies for the program she receives $50. Her sign-up rate is the sole determinant of her salary every week. Castillo works 35 hours per week; all late afternoon shifts that keep her from spending time with her two children. Her schedule keeps her below full-time status and prevents access to benefits.
"The money is nowhere near enough. None of us has proper health coverage and I hardly get to see the children," she says. "But I don't want to bellyache, because this is only temporary until I find something better and at least we've got something that resembles a life again."
Rented House, Leased Car
Castillo's family lives in a rented house. They have leased a car, have a weekly income and have relatives living nearby.
It's a solid recipe for getting back to a normal life.
But monthly rent is $1,200 and the family received only $676 per month in rental assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the first three months of this year; the remainder came from Castillo's salary. FEMA recently sent Castillo a letter saying she does not qualify for further rental assistance.
When Castillo pressed FEMA call center employees for an explanation of the cut-off she was told that because she signed a one-year lease FEMA considered her family's housing problems settled. Castillo is appealing the decision.
At the state level, Florida officials re-qualified Castillo and her children for receiving Medicaid and food stamps this month, reversing an earlier decision to cut off all aid in January. The family of four now receives $326 a month in food stamps and has shared health care coverage that mandates Castillo must pay $118 a month up front before Medicaid kicks in.
"Things are tight," Castillo admits. "I'm just going to keep trying, keep looking for better and better opportunities."
Half Still Out of Work
Almost half of Gulf Coast evacuees or former evacuees remain out of work and the numbers are rising, according to U.S. Department of Labor reports over the last few months based on interviews with 1 million affected people over 16 years old.
While the national unemployment rate hovers at about 4.7 percent, the jobless rate for evacuees hit 34.7 percent in March, up from 22.6 percent in February. Even for those who have returned home, unemployment rose from 4.8 to 5.3 percent over the same period.
Even more sobering, the Labor Department figures do not include people living in shelters, hotels and churches. An end of FEMA payments forced residents of 20,000 hotel rooms to vacate at the beginning of March--some moved in with relatives while the majority moved into trailers or went to shelters--making firm numbers for this group hard to establish.
In another blow, FEMA officials announced in late April that of the just over 55,000 families who received a year's worth of housing vouchers from FEMA in Katrina's wake, nearly a third will be receiving notices that they no longer qualify. For the rest, they will now be required to pay their own utility bills and re-qualify for rental assistance every three months.
"All in all, I just think we are not being treated fairly," says Castillo. "Officials keep saying they're helping Katrina victims but every time you turn around they've put another hurdle in front of you."
Unemployed Louisianans caught a break early on when the state activated the Unemployment Compensation Extended Benefits Program, partially funded by the federal government, which provides an extra 13 weeks of benefits beyond the 26 weeks normally allowed.
The emergency measure applied only for previously employed Louisianans whose initial 26-week benefit period was scheduled to expire between Oct. 30, 2005 and Feb. 25, 2006, which means even those who received the extension late in February will be cut off by the end of May. Castillo was receiving a $98 weekly payment before she found her new job in Florida.
Women Severely Affected
As a group, few sectors of the Gulf Coast population over the past nine months have been hit as hard as single mothers.
In pre-Katrina New Orleans, 56 percent of all families with children under 18 years old were headed by single women, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a think tank in Washington, D.C. The median earnings for single-parent families in the city were $20,798 before the storm; 40 percent of those families were living below the poverty level.
The disaster, however, exacerbated the situation for many, including Castillo.
Relocation to environs untouched by the devastation of Katrina has proved no guarantee of relief as the areas into which thousands of families resettled--other Louisiana cities, Texas and Mississippi--rank as the worst places for women in terms of poverty, lack of health care and education facilities in the United States.
"For many of these women their situation was dire before Katrina hit," says Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever, the institute's study director. "That situation has hardly changed, every single day continues to be a struggle."
Castillo agrees.
"In the beginning I used to get extremely upset, scream and yell, but the only result was my blood pressure going up," she says of the months following Katrina. "Eventually I came to realize that certain things are simply out of my control and we just have to keep fighting to get our lives back, because if we stop nobody is going to do it for us."
Juliette Terzieff is a freelance journalist currently based in Buffalo, N.Y., who has worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek, CNN International and the London Sunday Times during time spent in the Balkans, the Middle East and South Asia.


text:
- True Flight
- Currently Unavailable
The Nike Catalyst has a carbon-latex air chamber and 32-panel geometric design for explosive strikes and precise touches. Design makes it easier to spot on the field.
COVER: Premium PU for touch, durability and feel. Perfectly round for a faster, more accurate flight.
Geometric precision to distribute pressure evenly across panels for a consistent, accurate and powerful strike.
BLADDER: Six-wing carbon latex for explosive speed.
44/28/26/2 rubber/polyurethane/polyester/cotton.
Note: All of our balls are shipped deflated. This helps in keeping our shipping costs low, savings that we can pass on to you.
Standard Ball Sizing
Size 5: ages 12 and up
Size 4: ages 8-12
Size 3: ages 8 and under
Size 1: skills/practice
CUBIERTA: PU premium para un mejor toque. Perfectamente redondo para una trayectoria más rápida y certera. VEJIGA: Seis aletas de látex de carbono para una velocidad explosiva. Importado.


text:
"Originally wanted Adams pads but they stopped making them for the year. Went with recommendation on Spartain and they are AWESOME! Everyone on team now wants them. Quality,Quality pad. TONS of padding and protection. Size chart was right on and perfect fit. My son plays TE/MLB and contact is constant. He Loves them! The transaction with Epic Sports was easy, with no flaws. I have already recommended your site. THANKS! THANKS! THANKS!" (E9374)
"Shoes are a perfect fit. I like the all black look and the Mizuno name. I appreciae the wide selection of turf shoes to make my referee duites of staying on your feet relaxing." (E4967)
"Good DVDs for training. Easy to understand and use..." (E577)
Epic Sports
Holloway Collegiate South Carolina Rookie Jersey [E35395]


text:
The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program is one of the most effective evidence-based parenting programs in the world, backed up by more than 30 years of ongoing research. Triple P gives parents simple and practical strategies to help them confidently manage their children's behaviour, prevent problems developing and build strong, healthy relationships. Triple P is currently used in 25 countries and has been shown to work across cultures, socio-economic groups and in many different kinds of family structures.
This website is for practitioners, agencies and governments. If you are a parent, please go to Triple P's parent website.


text:
Skip to Content
Search All Programs & Services
Search by Name, Specialty, Program, or Research
Make a Donation
Make an Appointment
Ask a Question
Refer a Patient
Health Information > Condition Information > Allergy: Allergens > Pollen Allergy > Pollen Allergy: Prevent Eye Irritation
Reviewed on 6/12
By Dr. Tinkelman
David Tinkelman, MD
Medical Director, Health Initiatives
View full profile
For many seasonal allergy sufferers, pollen irritates their eyes the most. They suffer from allergic conjunctivitis, an inflammation of the conjunctiva, the membrane on the back of the eyelids and front of the eyeballs.
These people may be especially miserable in spring and early summer as grass pollen season kicks into high gear in much of the country. Grass pollens are especially irritating to the eye. So are ragweed pollens, which will begin spreading later in the summer.
Even though people blink an average of 15,000 times a day, pollen still gets in their eyes. Here are several steps that people can take to reduce pollen's irritating effect on their eyes:
Wash your hands: During high allergy season, pollen is everywhere. You get it on your hands opening a car door, running your hands through your hair or touching other outdoor surfaces. If you rub your eyes with those pollen-coated hands, they will only get more irritated. Washing your hands frequently can reduce the amount of pollen that gets in your eyes.
Use saline rinses or artificial tears: These can provide significant relief by removing or diluting the pollen grains in the eye.
Wear sunglasses: Sunglasses can reduce the amount of pollen that gets in the eyes by deflecting the wind carrying it toward you.
Close the windows and use the air conditioner: This can reduce pollen floating in the air both in the house and in the car. Trying to escape the summer heat by sleeping with open windows and a fan might provide temporary relief from heat, but it can cause allergy sufferers to have stuffy noses, itchy eyes and sneezing throughout the night.
Pollination may occur at all hours of the day or night, so people with hay fever and other allergies should close their homes and use an air conditioner to filter allergens. Using a fan to keep cool may actually add to the problem by keeping allergens suspended and circulating through the air. "If windows need to be open, an antihistamine or decongestant can be taken-but only under the advice of a physician.
Apply cold compresses: A bag of frozen peas or a moist washcloth that has been placed briefly in the freezer can reduce itching when put over the eyes.
Use medications: Several medications can also help people whose eyes bear the brunt of their seasonal allergies. For people with mild symptoms, oral antihistamines can prevent irritation of both the eye and the nose. For those with more severe allergic conjunctivitis, physicians can prescribe a number of medications that can be applied directly to the eye. These include topical antihistamines, vasoconstrictors, mast-cell stabilizers, topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications, or topical corticosteroids (which are usually prescribed by ophthalmologists). Patients should consult their own physicians to learn what would work best for them. Patients should also remember to take some of these medications continually throughout the pollen season rather than intermittently because most of them work best if taken before the allergen exposure, rather than after the eyes have already become irritated.
Reviewed on 6/12
David Tinkelman, MDMedical Director
View full profile
Enter your email address to receive health tips, recent research findings and news about National Jewish Health.
1400 Jackson St Denver, CO 80206 1.877.225.5654 Network of Locations Contact Us
© 2016 National Jewish Health Policies & Guidelines | My National Jewish Health