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Dear Grandma and Grandpa,
I hope ya'll are doing well. We are good and hot down here in Texas as I write this. It's 100-plus degrees, but this is Dallas and we grew up with it and we're used to it.
I was traveling a lot this summer. The American Victory Rally was held in August in Spirit Lake, Iowa, where Victory Motorcycles are made. It's a cool deal because there are several thousand bikes in attendance and they are 99.99 percent Victory Motorcycles. (I passed a bar with 200 bikes in the parking lot – 198 Vics, one Fat Boy and one Gold Wing.) Victory was giving tours of the factory where riders could see where their Vic was born. It's a great rally, and Lena and I really enjoyed it.
The week before the AVR, I was in Sturgis. This was my 27th year in a row to attend. This year I took Lena (Bigun) with me. It was her first trip. The first year I went was 1987 and Bigun was 7 months old. That year I rode my 1982 Shovelhead. This year was Lena's first year and she rode that same 1982 Shovelhead, along with my other custom bikes. It made me very proud.
She had a blast. She was like a big Great Dane puppy, just running around trying to see everything and meet everybody. At one point she told me this was the best trip she'd ever been on. I told her, "Sure it is, I'm paying for your room, I'm paying all your expenses, buying your food, and you're riding around on all my high-dollar RF custom motorcycles. What could be better than that?"
Suddenly she was at a loss for words.
The main reason I took Bigun was because I was inducted into the Sturgis Motorcycle Hall of Fame. I wish you could have been there. It's a huge honor and I am very proud to be a member.
(Hey, Grandpa, recently, me and Ran were talking and he asked me how much money would I pay to spend one more day with you and Grandma. Without hesitation I said, "Every dime I got!" Ran agreed, and you know he's a lawyer and he has lots more money than me. Heck, the mailman has more money than me, but I have more fun!)
Anyway, the Sturgis Motorcycle Hall of Fame is something I will be proud of for the rest of my life, and I'm very happy that Bigun was there to share it with me.
It was a very classy ceremony and I just kept thinking somebody was gonna come up, tap me on the shoulder and tell me that they made a horrible mistake and that I should probably leave the premises, PDQ! But that tap on the shoulder never came and I was inducted, so I guess it's all legal. Without a doubt this was one of the highlights of my goofy life.
I work very hard to make the Fairless name something to be proud of. Actually, when I sign autographs, I sign Fairless first then I sign Rick. Bigun asked me one time why I did that. I told her that I could care less about my first name but my Fairless last name is very important to me. My Grandpa gave me that last name and I don't want to do anything to screw it up — and she had better not screw it up, either. (continued)


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Mr. LOTT. On September 12, the day the Senate was scheduled to begin debate on the convention, Secretary of State Christopher called me and asked that the vote be canceled. I quizzed him. I wanted to make sure that was what the administration was asking and that I would be able to come out to the floor of the Senate and explain that is why it was being done. It was canceled because it was clear, in my opinion, the convention was likely to be rejected at that time by the Senate.
I acceded to the Secretary's request. We canceled the vote, and it went back to the Foreign Relations Committee calendar at the end of the 104th Congress.
In January of this year, the President and his national security advisers made it clear that the Chemical Weapons Convention remained a top priority. On January 8, 1997, I wrote to the President explaining some of our arms control priorities, including the submission of three significant treaty modifications for advice and consent: The ABM Demarcation Agreement, the ABM Multilateralization Agreement and the flank agreement to the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty. The administration had previously refused to submit these treaties for Senate ratification.
I wrote at that time.
Bipartisanship is a two-way street. Your administration has now restarted a public campaign to gain Senate advice and consent for the Chemical Weapons Convention. As you seek bipartisan cooperation, you must understand our expectation for such cooperation on ABM multilateralization, ABM demarcation and CFE flank limits.
On March 18, I again wrote the President reminding him that I had not received a response to that January 8 letter. I also pointed out that `it is essential that you and your administration honor the publicly stated commitments to work closely and expeditiously with Chairman Helms on issues before the committee, including the presentation of a plan to reorganize the U.S. foreign affairs agencies.
From the beginning of the 105th Congress, I made clear as best I could to all who would listen in the administration that bipartisanship could not mean forcing the Senate into acting on administration-chosen priorities if we did not likewise have an opportunity to consider issues that are important to the Senate, in fact, issues we think have long since been sent to us for action with regard to arms control treaties.
We stated that we thought it was vital that we get State Department reorganization and real reform at the United Nations. This was not a quid pro quo but a simple statement of reality. Working in a cooperative fashion, as we must, means that both sides have to be forthcoming on issues in these foreign policy very important, critical areas.
Let me briefly review the status of each of these three related issues. On the arms control treaties, the administration did reconsider their positions very carefully and they came back and agreed to send the Conventional Forces in Europe Flank Agreement to the Senate for advice and consent.
Hearings have already been scheduled on this treaty, and I expect a resolution of ratification to be before the full Senate in the near future. President Clinton agreed to submit the agreed statement on demarcation to the Senate for advice and consent. This treaty, agreed to in principle between Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin at the Helsinki summit, will provide the Senate an opportunity to consider the administration's approach toward negotiating constraints on our defensive systems pursuant to the administration's interpretation of the ABM Treaty. I am sure we will have quite an interesting and lively debate on that, but certainly we should take advantage of our responsibilities to do just that. Along with many of my colleagues, I have expressed grave doubts about the wisdom of this administration's approach in that area. Now, however, we have a full opportunity to debate the policy and this treaty in the ratification process.
The President still does not agree that they should send forward the treaty dealing with multilateralization. We think the Constitution requires it; his lawyers disagree. We will continue to press the administration to accept our position in this area, and they understand we should keep talking about it.
If this provision is contained in the final agreement that is submitted to the Senate for advice and consent in connection with demarcation, it will give us an opportunity to debate it.
On U.N. reform, our now Secretary of State Madeleine Albright asked that we begin to actually meet and talk about U.N. reform; that we meet with a U.N. presiding officer; that he come and visit with us. He did. We have started a process between the House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats, our chairmen and ranking members, to take a look at what should be done with regard to the arrearages we may or may not owe, how can we deal with the U.S. assessment at the United Nations that could be fairer, and we are working from a comprehensive Republican document as a basis for the discussions. I think we see some action already occurring. The Secretary General has been working at it, and I think he understands we are very serious about U.N. reform.
On State Department reorganization, I am very pleased that the administration has proposed, I think, some major changes. Chairman Helms, and many others, have worked to streamline our foreign policy bureaucracy, and now it looks like we are going to have a chance to do that.
The Agency for International Development, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the U.S. Information Agency were started and organized during the cold war. Barely more than a year ago, President Clinton vetoed a bill which would have mandated the dismantling of only one foreign affairs agency. Last week, however, thanks to the efforts of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the involvement of the President, the President agreed to abolish both the USIA and ACDA and to fold many of AID's functions into the State Department. This will make our scarce resources go farther, increase coordination and help ensure American interests, not bureaucratic interests, are behind our foreign policy decisionmaking.
On each of these parallel issues--and I call them parallel, that is the way they have always been discussed--we have made progress. I think it is important that we realize that. Thanks to the persistence of the chairman and thanks to a Secretary of State that is working with us now, we have made progress with U.N. reform, with State Department reorganization, and the fact we will be able to consider these treaties. No serious observer can claim that we have not moved forward in these areas.
There have been important changes in the Chemical Weapons Convention over the past few months. Last September, I worked closely with Senators Helms, Kyl and others in opposition to the treaty. Had we not canceled the vote, I would have voted against it, and I believe that it would have failed.
In the aftermath of that debate, some in the White House blamed political motivations. The President said it was partisan politics involving America's security. But, fortunately, calmer heads have prevailed this year. The administration did come to the table and they have negotiated with us. They recognize the legitimate concerns that were ignored last year. So we have engaged in a process of member-and-staff-level discussions that have had a major impact on this convention.
There are 28 agreed items in this resolution of ratification that were not there last September. Senator Kyl, Senator Helms, and Senator Biden have been working together on this. They reached agreements. Some of them Senator Biden said, `Yes, we should do this,' and the administration didn't particularly agree. Others in the administration said, `Yes, we should do it,' and some of our colleagues did not agree with it. There has been a give and take, but real progress has been made.
Many of these items have addressed the concerns that have been cited by opponents as reasons to oppose the CWC last year. I have gone over some of the letters, some of the memos I have received--and I have received a lot of them--and point by point has been addressed, maybe not 100 percent, maybe not to their total satisfaction, but progress has been made. I will not go down the whole list of 28, but I want to list some of the more critical ones where real progress has been made.
First, on search and seizure, condition 28 requires search warrants for all involuntary searches of American facilities. We were worried about a constitutional problem here. Now it has been addressed.
Second, on our ability to use riot control agents, condition 26 ensures that the U.S. policy since 1975 remains in effect. Our military can use nonlethal agents, such as tear gas, to rescue downed pilots. Certainly, that should have been in there all along. I don't know why there was resistance to it, but it has been addressed.
Third, on intelligence sharing, condition 5 places strict limits on all U.S. intelligence shared with the international
organization established under the CWC.
Fourth, on maintaining robust chemical defenses, condition 11 mandates a series of steps including negotiations with our allies, planning for chemical weapons in war game scenarios and high-level leadership of the U.S. Army's Chemical School.
Fifth, on information sharing, an area that has worried me the most and right up until this very moment, progress has been made in two ways. First, with regard to these articles X and XI, condition 7 makes crystal clear that nothing in the CWC undermines U.S. export control laws, and that the informal Australia Group export controls will continue. Condition 15 helps to ensure that defensive assistance under the convention will be strictly limited. So I invite my colleagues who may still have some doubts to look at these conditions--conditions 7 and 15--dealing with information sharing and how we have restrictions on the defensive assistance.
Sixth, on financing Russian implementation, which I think is a ridiculous idea personally on its face, but condition 14 precludes the United States from making any commitment to finance Russia's chemical weapons destruction program in an effort to secure Russian ratification of CWC.
Seventh, conditions 1, 17, 6, and 20 preserve Senate prerogatives in this and in future treaties. They preserve our right to pass reservations to treaties, to ratify future amendments to the CWC and to make clear the executive branch cannot commit to appropriations in advance of congressional action.
Eighth, on noncompliance, condition 13 requires a series of steps to be taken by the United States in the event of noncompliance by a party to the convention. Condition 13 mandates unilateral actions and requires the United States to seek a series of multilateral actions to deal with CWC violations.
Ninth, conditions 3 and 22 address financial concerns about the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons set up under this convention. One sets a binding limit on the U.S. assessment to ensure we are not creating another international entitlement program, and the other requires an independent inspector general be created to increase accountability of the OPCW.
Finally, condition 10 requires an annual report of condition that, for the first time in arms control, shifts the burden of proof to making the administration certify compliance. As previous experience has demonstrated, the arms control bureaucracy has refused to find clear evidence of noncompliance. This condition will change and will ensure our vigilance on monitoring issues.
Each of these conditions makes the resolution before us today a better document, there is no doubt about it, certainly better than the document we were considering last fall. Each of these changes addresses concerns raised by treaty opponents last year and addresses my own concerns. In addition, the Senate is considering this convention in a manner agreed to by all 100 Senators. We first considered, and passed, as I said earlier, S. 495, the Chemical and Biological Weapons Threat Reduction Act of 1997 sponsored by Senator Kyl. We are considering the resolution of ratification drafted by Senator Helms. Think about that. We are considering that resolution that he drafted and that he had in the committee. That is what we brought to the floor, and the process requires that motions to strike be offered to take provisions out. Much progress has been made, and many Senators have been cooperative.
But there should be no mistake, serious problems remain with this convention. Unfortunately, key protections in the resolution of ratification may be stricken out in our debate today, and we will have some more votes in a few minutes.
Condition 33 on verification requires the President to certify the same standard of verification developed under the Reagan-Bush administrations--high confidence in detecting militarily significant violations in a timely manner. Detecting the production and stockpiling of chemical weapons may be more difficult than detecting the existence, obviously, of nuclear-armed warheads.
But I will vote to retain the verification standard that has served our country well in previous arms control agreements. I understand why my colleagues might not agree with that and they might vote in a way that would lower this verification standard, but it is a serious problem.
Condition 30, which we just voted on, I think should have been kept in the document.
Condition 29 conditions U.S. participation in the convention upon demonstrated actions by the country with the largest chemical weapons arsenal on Earth--Russia. Russia has not implemented the Bilateral Destruction Agreement signed in 1990. Russia has not submitted accurate data on chemical weapons. That is a real concern, and we have reason to believe they are devoting resources now to develop new chemical agents which are outside the scope of CWC. I support retaining this condition because I believe it makes sense to expect Russia to live up to past agreements before entering into new ones.
I strongly support condition 31 which would require the President to exercise the power given in the verification annex to the convention to bar inspectors from terrorist states and from states which have violated U.S. proliferation law, particularly, I hope and think that we can defeat the motion to strike here. It is not a killer amendment and we ought to retain the right to bar those inspectors.
Finally, there is the most serious question of articles X and XI, whether these provisions on information sharing will increase the likelihood of, in fact, chemical weapons proliferation. Over the past few weeks, I made it clear to the administration as best I could the legitimate concerns about the impact of articles X and XI had to be addressed more than what was in the condition. I support delaying our ratification until the CWC is renegotiated to deal with these articles. For obvious reasons, the administration does not want to do that, and probably the majority of the Senate would not want to do that.
But this very morning, I received a letter from President Clinton which I think is significant. The President made specific assurances that the United States would exercise its right to withdraw from the convention if any one of three things occurred: If countries used `article X to justify providing defensive chemical weapons equipment, material, or information to another state party that could result in U.S. chemical protective equipment being compromised. . .';
If countries use article XI to justify chemical transfers which undermine the Australia Group.
If countries carried `out transfers or exchanges under either article X and XI which jeopardize U.S. national security by promoting chemical weapons proliferation;
These are specific and probably unprecedented. Yes, it is a letter. It is not in the document, but it is signed by the President of the United States in very strong language that, frankly, I was pleased but somewhat surprised that he agreed to say, I will withdraw after consultation with the Senate. If any one of these things happen, he is the President and his assurances in foreign policy must make a difference. They address countries even justifying transfers where there is concern. They address transfers which promote chemical weapons proliferation.
Mr. President, I think this is a very important document. I have made that letter available to our colleagues. I have more copies.
Every Member has struggled with one fundamental question: Are we better off with or without this convention? In my mind, there is no easy answer. I want to know that my children and our country will be better off, and that we will be better able to deal with chemical weapons with it, but I have my doubts.
Experts, whose opinions I respect deeply, are divided on the question. Over the last 2 weeks, I have had many conversations to discuss this convention. I spoke with Presidents Bush and Ford. I talked with my good friend, former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Cap Weinberger, Steve Forbes, former Secretary of State James Baker, Jim Schlesinger, Colin Powell, uniformed military officers--a great variety of people. I met with leaders of groups that are deeply opposed and well informed about the treaty's flaws. I talked with President Clinton, Secretary Albright, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Shalikashvili.
Republican Senators, with long experience in national security matters, are divided. On this issue, reasonable people can and do disagree, and reasonable people will vote on opposite sides.
After our negotiations, hearings, and discussions, it is time to make decisions--decisions that will be important to the future of our men and women in uniform, and the future security of our country.
I have decided to vote in support of the Senate giving its advice and consent to the Chemical Weapons Convention. I will do so not because I believe it will end the threat posed by chemical weapons or rid the world of poison gas. I will do so not because I believe this treaty is verifiable enough or even enforceable enough. And I will not do so because I believe there are no additional proliferations concerns related to articles X and XI.
I will vote for the convention because I believe there will be real and lasting consequences to the United States if we do not ratify the convention. In a very real sense, the credibility of commitments made by two Presidents of our country--one Republican and one Democrat--is at stake.
I will vote for the convention because the judgment of the most senior former and current military commanders believe it will make our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines more safe in potential battlefields and less likely to face the horrible prospect of chemical weapons.
I will vote for the convention because I believe the United States is marginally better off with it than without it. It will provide new tools to press signatories for compliance. It will enable us to gain access to sites and information we are currently unable to examine.
Through the important and enlightening debate we have had over the past few months, I am convinced the convention will bring new focus and energy to this administration's nonproliferation efforts. We have certainly heightened the awareness and knowledge of the concerns we have. One year ago, few of us even knew about the Australia Group. Now we have committed ourselves and the administration to keeping the Australia Group as a viable tool to limit access to chemicals and technology.
Yes, the CWC may give legal cover to proliferators in Teheran or in Beijing. But they have undertaken such efforts in the past and no doubt will do it again in the future.
I believe our allies in Europe are more likely to join with us in isolating Iran if we are a party to this convention than if we reject it tonight. They have made it clear that they hope we will ratify it, whether it is Canada or whether it is Britain or our European allies or Japan.
I believe this convention will increase the cost of covert chemical weapons programs, and it will increase our chances of detecting such programs.
I think there is a long list of good reasons why we should do this today. I have struggled with it. I would like to take just a minute, if I can, to talk on a personal note.
Many people in the media have tended to say, well, you know, this is going to determine the fate of various and sundry Senators and tell a lot about leadership. It has been exaggerated.
I have talked to a lot of Senators one on one. Not one of them--not one of them--has said that they would vote on it on any basis other than what is best for our country.
The way the Senate works, we debate these issues--we read, we study, we argue, we go back and forth. We set up a fair process, and then we come to a conclusion. We make a decision. We vote on it. And I do not think it is fair to exaggerate any one Senator's role in this whole effort.
I think the Senate should be complimented today for the way it has handled this. I think that Madison, and others, placed their faith in this institution. And I think it has worked well.
The efforts of Senator Helms and Senator Kyl have been heroic. They have done a magnificent job. Others that have supported the convention have done their part, too.
I think that this process has helped the Senate as an institution to exercise the leadership assigned to it by the Constitution. And that, I submit, is the only real test of leadership that truly matters.
I urge the adoption and ratification of this treaty.
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Salon's Michael Scherer is leaving his position there as Washington correspondent to join Time magazine as political correspondent and teacher's pet. "Michael represents the new TIME correspondent: adept on-line, on-air and in print," said Rick Stengel, in an email to staff today. We are quite sure that none of the magazine's web-reluctant old guard will resent that thinly-veiled barb one little bit! Memo after the jump.
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I'm pleased to announce that Michael Scherer is joining TIME as a political correspondent. He'll be reporting and producing videos for TIME.com, as well as writing for the magazine. He's done terrific work in his current role at Salon.com and he's certain to take those talents to even greater heights here. Michael represents the new TIME correspondent: adept on-line, on-air and in print.
Prior to joining Salon in 2005, Michael wrote investigative pieces for Mother Jones magazine. He's a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, a California native and another great addition to the best political team in journalism. He'll be based in the DC bureau, starting in two weeks.
Please join me in welcoming Michael to TIME.Earlier: The New Model


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Oldham County police were seeking information on a missing woman Saturday.
Authorities said the woman was identified as Katherine Brush, of Crestwood. She was last seen outside the Java Brewing Co. on Norton Healthcare Boulevard in northwestern Jefferson County.
Brush was described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 115 pounds, with hazel eyes.
Investigators said she may be traveling in a gold-colored 1990s Buick LeSabre.
Officials said foul play was not suspected.
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I think I have just found my new favorite restaurant in Monterey! The former Stokes Adobe restaurant just went through a major renovation. An elegant, chic and modern makeover is the perfect setting for incredible California fresh cuisine. The multiple dining rooms and hip bars spread over two floors not only lend an elegance but are very inviting in shades of gray and white. Antique looking chandeliers and candles through out the restaurant. Not sure about the coed bathrooms. But I will get over that if the guys don't mind women powdering their noses!
We started with cocktails out by the fire pits. I think had we not had dinner reservation, I would have been content sitting outside all evening. However the dining experience was incredible. Our starters included mac and cheese, signature corn bread, bone marrow, roasted cauliflower, and baked goat cheese with hazelnuts. Main entrees included Fresh pea raviolis with mushrooms, Gnoochi in Leek sauce, Rib eye, and pasta. Out of this world! Not one of us could fault any taste. Incidentally all in my party are avid cooks be it being amateurs, we do have a discriminating pallet.
Prices were moderate. Coctails and wine definitely added to the final bill. Wait staff were professional but very personable. Definitely added to our dining experience. Next time I do want to try the Asinthe served classic style dripping ice water over a sugar cube!
I contemplated saving Restaurant 1833 for special occasion, but the fire pits, the chic decor and incredible food will certainly be haunting me to go back sooner with my girls!
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After five straight Final Four appearances by the Stanford women's basketball team, Cal took a turn for the first time last season. And either could get there again in March, as both are rated preseason top-10 teams.
With the college basketball season beginning Friday, there are no such lofty expectations for the Cal and Stanford men's teams. The two programs have combined for just one Final Four bid since 1960.
If the women can do it, why not the men?
Mike Montgomery, who has directed the Cal men to NCAA tournament berths in four of his five seasons and coached Stanford to the 1998 Final Four, declined to offer more than this concise explanation.
"They're really good," Montgomery said of the women's programs. "End of story."
In fact, the reasons are complex, involving differences in recruiting, national competitive balance, student-athlete priorities and, perhaps most important of all, the impact of greater financial incentives in the men's game.
"In many respects, we might as well be talking about women's swimming and men's basketball," Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour said. "The game is the same, but the environmental factors are very different."
Even so, Barbour believes the local men's programs can aspire to reach the Final Four. Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins, facing a mandate to land a spot in the NCAA field for the first time in his six seasons, agrees.
Dawkins played and coached at Duke, where academics and basketball are conducted at a high level. "Absolutely, it can be replicated here," he said. "I came here with that belief in mind and nothing has changed that."
But there are differences that favor the women.
Cal women's coach Lindsay Gottlieb, who guided the Golden Bears to a Pac-12 co-title with Stanford last year in her second season, said academics play a greater role in attracting women's prospects than it generally does in the men's game. And that's a recruiting trump card for the two Bay Area schools with powerhouse academic credentials.
"They know for the most part, they're not going to be making millions playing," Gottlieb said. "Most men aren't either, but a lot of them think they are."
ESPN basketball analyst Kara Lawson said the rule that permits men to leave for the NBA after one college season further changes the equation.
"The men have the one-and-done rule," Lawson said. "If you're a blue-blood program, a Duke or a Kentucky or a Kansas, you usually have an advantage in recruiting."
Former Stanford athletic director Ted Leland says young men see those programs as pipelines to the riches of the NBA.
"Those schools accommodated the one-and-dones a lot faster than everybody else did," said Leland, now the athletic director at Pacific. "They have a track record to be able to say to the top prospect, 'You can come to our school, we'll help you improve your game and we'll wish you well when you turn pro.'"
No one has sold that dream more effectively in recent years than Kentucky coach John Calipari, who won an NCAA title two seasons ago with a freshman-dominated roster. Among the 177 one-and-done players since the rule was implemented in 2007, 12 played for Calipari at Memphis or Kentucky.
Calipari's 2013-14 squad, picked No. 1 in the preseason AP Top-25, features seven highly rated freshmen, five of them McDonald's All-Americans.
Montgomery welcomes a strong freshman class at Cal, led by Jabari Bird of Salesian-Richmond. But 6-foot-9 Marcus Lee of Deer Valley-Antioch chose Kentucky over the Bears.
If early NBA departures from the super powers give other programs the chance to build with four-year players, that merely adds to the depth of the NCAA tournament field on the men's side.
The gap between the haves and have-nots in the women's game remains wider.
"I don't think we're anywhere near the parity of the men yet," Gottlieb said.
(Stanford women's coach Tara VanDerveer, who has reached the Final Four 11 times since 1990, declined an interview request for this story).
Results of recent NCAA tournaments help make Gottlieb's case.
In 2011, No. 11 seed Virginia Commonwealth and No. 8 Butler reached the men's Final Four, with Butler earning a spot in the title game for a second straight year. Florida Gulf Coast last season became the first No. 15 seed to advance to the Elite Eight.
Over the past nine seasons, no women's team seeded lower than No. 5 made it to the Final Four.
The parity is tied to risk-reward, Barbour said. Schools invest more in the men's programs because they reap greater revenues while also improving brand awareness, alumni donations and even admission applications.
That ratchets up the pressure to win -- sometimes at all costs.
"The injection of huge financial incentives into college athletics causes problems," Leland said. "It changes people's values, changes people's character."
Gottlieb said those behaviors haven't often infected the women's game. Not yet.
"I think as more money comes into it and more is at stake, you'll see some of the negative underbelly creep in," she said.
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as we say in the U. S. Navy.I served two term's during the Viet Nam era, while limbaugh and his now reformed "non-coward", now that he is "rich"! Limbaugh want's to double down on his cowardness with his "brother", never served "Snigley!!!! Hey, Snigley is black! "brown nose fr sure"! I, unlike Mr. Limbaugh, support my Commander in Chief!
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I am a caucasion, and I support Mr. Obama.
I live in center city Richmond, Virginia...Prejudice is evil! Jesus Christ suffered on the cross!!
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What do you think about the spy etc.. are you for it or against it
With Limbaugh's money, Snigley goes to the Philippine's to have sex. Hell, if i was a black person supported by that limbaugh rich guy! Satire my friend.
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Iodine is in every cell in the body and is essential in pregnancy. It is found in high levels in the thyroid gland, breast, ovaries, prostate, liver, lung, heart, stomach, and adrenal glands.
There is currently a great deal of research on iodine and cancer, including cancer of the breast, colon, lungs, ovaries, pancreas, prostate, stomach, and thyroid.
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An elderly woman was beaten during a home invasion in Thomasville on Saturday night.
Authorities with the Thomasville Police Department said they were called to 400 block of Unity Street just after 7 p.m.
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slang term referring to mushrooms that one ingests to "trip" or hallucinate
Yo let's get that fungus I'm tryin to trip balls tonight!
Mark Tanner가 작성 2008년 02월 04일 (월)
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Someone who is lazy and does nothing all day (someone who just sits around and rots).
Freakin FUNGUS is still living at home, shit!
Joshiro007가 작성 2003년 02월 20일 (목)
fungu is an alternate way to say fuck you..it is better than fuck you because it confuses the victum of the fuck youing.
fungu nigga.
JCruz973가 작성 2008년 08월 18일 (월)
1.A term meaning "Fuck you new guy you suck"
2.A nick name
2.A nick name
1.Wooooow Fungus
2.What's good Fungus!
2.What's good Fungus!
K-Black가 작성 2008년 04월 28일 (월)
Reaps all of the negative connotations that have been used with the word, "gay."
adjective, -al or without "-al," adverb, -ally
adjective, -al or without "-al," adverb, -ally
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Something that is really cool and in fashion.
Something or someone that a person really likes.
An expression of suprise.
Something or someone that a person really likes.
An expression of suprise.
That T-Shirt is really fungu!!
Oh! That is so fungu!
Oh! That is so fungu!
george424가 작성 2008년 08월 31일 (일)
someone that you are not initially attracted to, but after hanging out with that individual for awhile, they "grow on" you, so you begin to like them.
Lisa: I think I'm beginning to like Chad.
Lisa's Best Friend: Uh-oh. It look likes Chad has become a FUNGUS.
Lisa's Best Friend: Uh-oh. It look likes Chad has become a FUNGUS.
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text: According to a tweet from the official Nintendo of America twitter, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has stated that a pre-E3 Nintendo Direct will be host to the upcoming Super Smash Brothers sequel, a brand new 3D Mario title, a new Mario Kart and "other Wii U titles". This news comes just hours before Sony released a teaser trailer for their upcoming PlayStation 4 reveal and one day prior to Microsoft's much-anticipated "Xbox Reveal" press event. After a somewhat lackluster Nintendo Direct this past week, it is good to see that Nintendo still has a few surprises left.


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A summer-long drumbeat of revelations about government online spying has put some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies in an increasingly uncomfortable bind: While national security rules limit what they can say, Google (GOOG), Facebook and other tech giants are struggling to reassure consumers and business customers that their information is secure.
Last week's reports about U.S. and British efforts to crack Internet encryption only added more pressure on the industry to distance itself from those government programs -- whether by quietly beefing up internal security defenses or publicly suing the United States government, say analysts and industry officials.
"Consumers are concerned. No matter what the companies say, the question is going to be: 'Is there something you're not telling us?' And they can't answer that question," said Daniel Castro, a senior analyst at the nonprofit Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. He estimates the spying revelations could cost U.S. tech companies up to $35 billion in lost revenue because of eroding customer trust.
Leading Internet companies pushed back this week, as Facebook and Yahoo (YHOO) followed Google and Microsoft in filing lawsuits that seek court permission to reveal more information about the quantity and kinds of data they have been required to share with the National Security Agency or other authorities.
In part, the companies say they want to show they're providing only a limited amount of data -- involving a small number of the billions of people who use their services -- and only in response to legal orders.
News reports about the NSA programs are causing "substantial harm to Google's reputation and business," the Internet search giant said in its latest court filing, which complained that those reports have included "many false and misleading stories" about Google's role in government surveillance programs.
Internet companies have vehemently denied initial news reports that said the government's Prism surveillance program gave authorities the ability to tap "directly" into the companies' networks or servers. But subsequent reports, mostly based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, have implied that intelligence agencies somehow get access to a wide range of Internet communications -- although those reports generally haven't specified how the information is obtained.
Those reports are "absolutely a concern" because they may lead to an erosion of trust in the Internet and in "the global credibility" of U.S.-based Internet companies, said Ed Black, CEO of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, a leading trade group.
Some foreign tech companies are already touting privacy and security features as an alternative to U.S.-based services, said Joseph Lorenzo Hall, a senior staff technologist at the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology. He added: "If U.S. products or services are seen to be fundamentally tainted, competent businesses will seek those services elsewhere."
The issue was compounded further last week by reports that the U.S. and British governments have waged an intensive campaign to crack Internet encryption methods used around the world. Reports by The New York Times and Guardian newspapers said those efforts involved a combination of cooperation, legal coercion and even secret hacking into the systems of unnamed tech companies.
That prompted more expressions of outrage by tech firms. "We are unaware of and do not participate in such an effort, and if it exists, it offers substantial potential for abuse," a Yahoo representative said.
A day later, the Washington Post reported that Google has expanded its encryption efforts by accelerating a program to begin encrypting all data as it travels between Google's server farms. Sources familiar with Google's effort said it's a year-old program intended to guard against rogue hackers and criminals as well as unauthorized incursions by any nation's government. Google, however, decided to speed up the system's implementation in June, after the company was rocked by the initial NSA leaks.
Facebook and other companies are also expanding their encryption efforts. Those systems can be a barrier to surveillance, analysts agree. But as Hall noted, the technology may not stop government data demands that come with the force of law.
Last week's reports, meanwhile, also described government efforts to exploit vulnerabilities or even build "back doors" in encryption chips, computer hardware and networking software from unnamed tech companies. Castro said that expands the field of companies whose products are potentially tainted by implication.
"So now it's not just Internet companies that have a target on their backs," he added.
Mercury News staff writer Steve Johnson contributed to this report. Contact Brandon Bailey at 408-920-5022; follow him at Twitter.com/BrandonBailey.


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Blues is the musical backbone of Dallas culture and one of its greatest artistic exports of the 20th century. But in a city barreling full steam ahead toward the future, the blues is starting to seem like a forgotten relic of Dallas' past.
Two years after the closing of Tuckers' Blues in Deep Ellum and Pearl at Commerce downtown, many blues musicians are struggling to find a stage to perform on.
"It's a shame, but every last one of us has to leave Dallas to find work," says singer-guitarist Lucky Peterson as he prepares to fly to Europe for a two-month tour. "All music in Dallas stems from the blues, but there's no place in town where you can go and hear the blues every Friday and Saturday night."
For a city that prides itself on supporting local arts, much of Dallas is unaware that a blues scene even exists.
"Here we are in the midst of over a hundred world-class blues artists and nobody seems to know it," says Don Ottensman, the Dallas blues historian who you might know as Don O., a DJ at KNON (89.3 FM) since 1983.
"You just want to go out on the street and grab people by the collar and say 'Listen! You won't believe what's here!'"
Shrinking support for the blues isn't just a local issue. It's a nationwide trend, fueled by popular music's relentless march toward the new: For every blues-influenced chart-topper like Jack White or the Black Keys, there are dozens of young stars who couldn't name a single blues song if B.B. King rang their doorbell and played them his greatest hits.
Yet the problem is more glaring in Dallas than in other cities. While Chicago has the Chicago Blues Fest, Memphis has Beale Street and St. Louis is about to build The National Blues Museum, Dallas has done comparatively little to promote its legacy as a cradle of one of the first great American art forms.
"Dallas is so blinded by the glitz shining in our eyes that we can't even see the treasure sitting on our ground," says Dianne Tucker, the local playwright and blues songwriter who co-managed the acclaimed Tuckers' Blues nightclub from 2009 until it closed in 2012 due to poor attendance.
"The blues is Dallas' indigenous sound and it's a music that remains relevant today," she says. "It's a sad commentary that we don't celebrate that."
"Every last one of us has to leave Dallas to find work," says singer-guitarist Lucky Peterson. "There's no place in town where you can go and hear the blues every Friday and Saturday night."
The blues was born in the Mississippi Delta near the dawn of the 1900s and spread gradually to Texas by train, Model T and printed sheet music: "Dallas Blues," one of the genre's first published tunes, came out in 1912.
Blind Lemon Jefferson – one of the blues' first recorded stars – spent the 1910s and '20s playing in Deep Ellum, often alongside Leadbelly, another Dallasite who helped put blues on the map.
Oak Cliff's T-Bone Walker invented a slashing style of electric-guitar blues that set the stage for Chuck Berry and the birth of rock 'n' roll. Freddie King – a Dallasite from 1963 until his death in 1976 – played stinging guitar solos that inspired musicians on both sides of the Atlantic.
"Freddie King's influence on me was massive, and T-Bone Walker, he's been the spine of the electric guitar," Eric Clapton told me in 2004, when he staged his first Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas. "Dallas has a long history of great blues guitarists."
The city is also the site of some of the greatest recording sessions in blues history.
In 1927 and '28, at an unknown Dallas location, Blind Willie Johnson cut a string of blues classics including "Dark Was the Night" – a song so haunting NASA launched it into space alongside Bach and Beethoven on the Voyager 1 "Golden Record."
And in 1937, Robert Johnson came to 508 Park Ave. in downtown Dallas to record "Love in Vain," "Me and the Devil Blues" and other songs that influenced thousands of musicians from Bob Dylan to Led Zeppelin to the Rolling Stones.
But by the end of the '60s, Dallas' conservative climate scared away many budding young blues artists, including Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, who moved from Dallas to Houston to form ZZ Top. Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan learned their craft in Oak Cliff but high-tailed to Austin in '69 and '72, respectively, in search of a better scene.
Stevie Ray's massive success in the '80s sparked another wave of interest, and the blues thrived in Dallas during much of the 1990s. Dozens of veteran blues musicians still live here today: Anson Funderburgh, Mike Morgan, Jim Suhler, Texas Slim, Wanda King, Buddy Whittington, Hash Brown, Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones, Bobby Patterson, Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King, to name some.
You can still hear them perform from time to time at Poor David's Pub, the Kessler Theater, the Granada Theater or R.L. Griffin's Blues Palace #2 – the venerable South Dallas club that alternates between blues, soul and R&B. You might also catch a blues band at the tiny Lakewood dive-bar the Goat or at restaurants like Red Hot & Blue, the Alligator Cafe or Babb Bros. BBQ and Blues.
Yet local musicians say what the city really needs is at least one full-time blues nightclub – and preferably two or three – run by a blues lover with business savvy and deep pockets.
"We need someone to put their faith into a blues club, into marketing it and promoting it," says singer-guitarist Tutu Jones, a Dallas blues performer since the '80s. "You've got to get the younger generations coming."
Tapping the Gen Y and millennial market will be a tricky task for a genre that's often stereotyped as dreary music about hard times. Of course, there's more to the blues than that – just listen to Vaughan's raucous "Love Struck Baby" or King's "Hide Away."
But, like poetry, the blues is impossible to appreciate until you expand your narrow view of it.
"People say 'I don't want to hear no blues because that's old people's music and sad music,' and that assumption is totally wrong," says Peterson. "You can have as much fun listening to the blues as you can listening to anything."
He says Dallas should promote a deeper understanding of the genre by starting a program like Chicago's long-running "Blues in the Schools."
"If you teach kids about Mozart, you need to teach them about Muddy Waters, too," Peterson says.
Folklorist Alan Govenar – author of Texas Blues and co-creator of the musical Blind Lemon Blues – says what Dallas really needs is a free annual festival akin to the Chicago Blues Festival.
"It could be a catalyst for celebrating the tradition of what's here in Dallas and a focal point for the vitality of the city and its people," Govenar says.
He hopes people will be turned on to Dallas' blues heritage at Encore Park, an in-the-works development downtown that will house the Museum of Street Culture. It will also have a small amphitheater where blues musicians can perform, and it's being built on the same bock as the famous 508 Park Ave. recording site.
The recent launch of the non-profit Trinity River Blues Society may also help spread the word about Dallas' century-old blues scene.
"The blues is like an iceberg – most of it's hidden below sea," Don O says. "It's just a matter of finding something that will make people curious about it."
Jones agrees.
"I've got a hunch that one day, Dallas is going to be a great blues town again,'' he says. "The blues has its ups and downs. But the blues never dies. Not even in Dallas."
Thor Christensen is a Dallas writer and critic. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Lina Germi's Parma Kitchen
Lina Germi and her husband, an electrician, live in a house originally used as wine shop and trattoria in the early 1800s. Signora Germi, a tiny woman who wears a tie every single day, says that despite her retirement, she works more now than ever, feeding her children, nephews and grandchildren, and she has a freezer full of handmade tortellini to prove it.
Signora Germi's kitchen is spotless and what little she puts in it is totally organized, right down to the spacing of the bags of flour in the petite refrigerator. The fridge only has what she needs: flour, Parmegiano, Prosciutto di Parma (not kidding about the last two), butter, and eggs. She buys produce daily and that small loot sits in a basket quietly outside the kitchen door. The place is almost lab-like in its regimentation. Yet when you meet Lina, she charms you with her winking eye and deep laugh and there is nothing about being with her that feels clinical.
She made up for the loss of the red cabinets by buying herself a red couch and painting the china cabinet bright red, where she insisted we pose together for a photo.
As I left I finally asked about that tie. "I wear a tie all day, even to cook and clean." I asked if she wore a dress in her wedding and she replied "Yes, and that was the last day I ever did."
Thanks for the visit, Signora Germi!
We're always looking for real kitchens from real cooks.
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Related: A Peek Into Parma, Italy
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Three California public schools were recently recognized by State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson for their excellent educational practices, including Lincoln Street Independent School.
The school is an independent study program sponsored by the Tehama County Department of Education that serves about 70 students per year.
"Lincoln Street School has evolved as a model program for parents wishing to teach their children at home, while having the support of highly effective teachers and state adopted curriculum," said Larry Champion, superintendent of schools.
The schools were selected by a joint project of the California Consortium for Independent Study and the California Department of Education to receive the Exemplary Independent Study Recognition Award.
"I am proud that California's public school system provides a variety of options so that all students can succeed," Torlakson said. "The (schools chosen) challenge students with a rigorous academic program while providing flexibility and personalization through independent study. Congratulations to all the students, teachers and administrators, and the parents who are helping to make these schools models of educational excellence."
Lincoln Street uses a proven, standards-aligned curriculum which helps them maintain a strong core subject focus.
"It's our dedication to the core subjects that helps our students to be successful," said Chris Byrd, lead teacher.
"It's also what allows us to offer, with support from community partners, the other fabulous opportunities that our students enjoy like photo club, field trips and hands-on art activities.
We're very pleased that the state has recognized our model with this award."
Students were asked to share their experiences with the selection committee, which drives home the message on the benefits of a flexible learning environment and the success of the model that Lincoln Street School uses. One student said, "Lincoln Street School is very important to me. My life can get very busy and I have learned to organize my time to fit school work in first. I like being able to spend more time on the things that interest me and do my school work quietly at home."
This type of flexibility, combined with rigorous study is becoming an increasingly popular and highly successful model of instruction.
The award is designed to recognize excellent educational practices in schools where independent study is the primary mode of instruction. Eligible applicants must have 75 percent or more of the school's students enrolled in independent study, a statewide API rank of 6 or above, and may not be in Program Improvement. Schools must have successfully completed a rigorous, three-part review before they can be designated as recipients.
Also recognized with the award were The Classical Academy High School and El Camino High School at Ventura College.
"These three schools join a cadre of other EISRA recipients who demonstrate an impressive track record of helping students succeed academically in alternative settings designed to meet their unique needs and the full grade level academic expectations," Torlakson said. "I encourage other schools that offer independent study to learn from the successful strategies used in these schools."
For more information on Lincoln Street School, visit www.tehamaschools.org.


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When you look at Ralph Lauren ads or check out its lifestyle collections, nothing but wealth comes to mind. It's also the same when looking at its Madison Ave. Flagship location. In 1986 the brand forever changed the way people shopped, by opening up the 16,000 sq ft location inside Rhinelander Mansion. Offering services from made-to-measure and made-to-order, one look inside is enough to make any average guy feel totally and utterly poor. [selectism]
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Q&A: Emmanuel Lulin, L'Oréal's Chief Ethics Officer
Emmanuel Lulin, chief ethics officer for L'Oréal SA, thinks it's more important to instill ethical values than to try to force employees to obey certain rules. "If we get ethics right, compliance will follow," he said. The firm has a presence in 130 countries and more than 70,000 employees, according to its website.
Risk & Compliance Journal spoke to Mr. Lulin, who has held this role since 2007 when the position was established by chief executive Jean-Paul Agon, about his approach. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
Tell us a bit about your ethics program.
Mr. Lulin: Our ethics program is a values driven program as opposed to a program driven by law. We believe an ethics program based on compliance only is a failure of the mind. It should be driven by compliance and by values. We believe that it is more fruitful if we ask an employee to understand what they are doing as opposed to us asking them to obey.
Our approach has been to limit the size of my office. We are very, very small on purpose. It a culture of trust.
What are some of the key values emphasized in the program?
Mr. Lulin: We have four core principles: respect, integrity, courage and transparency.
Courage is an interesting one.
Mr. Lulin: Without courage very little would happen. You need courage to speak up, and within any given organization, that's often not the virtue you find the most. You need courage to challenge the status quo.
L'Oréal has a culture of discussion among management and employees to address real issues. The underlying message is: we trust you as a human being, we trust your opinion.
How do you get those values into the minds of employees?
Mr. Lulin: We rely on management to show its ethical leadership. Of course there's the "tone at the top" and management has to lead by example. But we also encourage dialogue through a number of avenues.
It starts with ethics day, an annual event where employees worldwide can raise questions with the chief executive.
Then there are very simple gestures. When there's a new employee, we don't want them to get the code of ethics in the package with the pension plan and the card for the restaurant. We want him or her to get it by hand through his or her management.
His or her boss should say, "This is our code of business ethics, it is important for me, it's important for L'Oréal and it should be important for you as well. Please read it and get back to me if you have any questions." It takes 30 seconds but it's a dual commitment. It's a commitment on the part of the person who receives it, but it's also a commitment on the part of management.
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On 05.11.08 12:09, Per Jessen wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a very unusual situation (I think):
> I am running the exact same system (it was cloned) on several
> single-core and dual-core systems. The only difference is in the
> hardware, i.e. some systems are dual-core.[/color]
cloned? Do you have the same OS kernel with support for more CPUs and CPUs
with more cores on both machines?
> I am running spamd with maxchild=25 (the actual number in use is
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> The single-core systems vary from two to five, sometimes six. Perfectly
> normal. On the dual-core systems, I never see more than two active
> children. Not normal.[/color]
Why not normal? Maybe the dualcore CPU can handle all mail fast enough so
there's no need for spawning more children
> Notice that the single-core system reports "handled cleanup of child pid
> nnnnn due to SIGCHLD" which is never seen on the dual-core system, and
> that the dual-core reports "child nnnnn killed successfully", which is
> never seen on the single-core system. What am I missing here?[/color]
While I am not sure what do those messages mean, I think that there should
be no difference between handling of processes independently on number of
CPUs/cores whatever. I guess that's problem of OS, not SA.
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Make a Matisse Collage
Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of color. After losing the ability to paint late in life, he explored and mastered the art of paper cut outs. I've found a rather simple formula that will help students create their own Matisse-style collage. • View and download Matisse Collage Tutorial


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Oldbury Library
Jack Judge House
10 Halesowen Street
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Opening hours
- Monday: 9am - 5.30pm
- Tuesday: 9am - 5.30pm
- Wednesday: 9am - 5.30pm
- Thursday: 9am - 5.30pm
- Friday: 9am - 5pm
- Saturday: 10am - 2pm
- Sunday: Closed
- Tel: 0121 552 5933
- Fax: 0121 552 5933
- 24 Hour renewals hotline: 0121 569 4949
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Local bus, train and tram information: Network West Midlands
- Show me the Library on Google maps
- Disabled parking at rear of the building
- Hearing loop available at the library counter
If you would like to know more information about the library or book the Community room, please contact by phone or email.
What will you find at Oldbury library?
- Books for all ages and tastes
- DVDs
- Latest bestsellers and much more
- Local History, including publications for you to buy
- Community Information
- Newspapers
- Books on CD, audio tape
- Large print books
- Free requests for items in stock in Sandwell
- Homework help every Tuesday during term time
- Photocopier
- Fax
- Local history group
- Free WiFi for library members
- Free internet and email
- A Community Room which is free for use by the local community for non- profit meetings, activities and events
- Accessibility computers with adaptive software
- Online information resources
- Advice and guidance about employment
- Police surgeries
- Activities for children
- Author events
Not a library member? Anyone can join Sandwell Libraries - find out How to join.
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Building Community
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Fellowship Dinners
Monthly potlucks for adults held in participants' homes, each with different mix of people. Click here for registration form for Fellowship Dinners. Contact Linda Pickle
Goods & Services Auction May 15, 2016
A spring fundraiser full of surprising, delicious, and beautiful things and experiences, with lunch and live and silent auctions. Lots of volunteers needed. The 2016 Auction is on Sunday, May 15.
Click here for Auction Catalog
2016 HOLIDAY ART FAIR AND BAZAAR FAQs
Click here for 2016 Bazaar Artisan letter & application
Women's Alliance
Companionship and fellowship for all women of the church. First Thursday, 11:30 a.m., brown bag lunch, program, business, all in Fellowship Hall. Contact Ann Kamman
Ramadan Iftaar Celebration
Each year during the holy month of Ramadan, we celebrate the breaking of the fast with our friends from the Bloomington Muslim community, here at our church. Contact Abby Downey. Click here for details.
Thanksgiving Dinner
Pitch-in dinner (with turkey provided) on Thanksgiving evening at 5:00 p.m., open to all. Contact Amy Crozier.
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National Jewish Health will hold its signature Denver gala, the annual Beaux Arts Ball, on Feb. 21, 2009. The Hyatt Regency Denver will be transformed into a sparkling Winter Wonderland with an entertainment troupe from New York proving live entertainment throughout the evening and the acclaimed live band from Los Angeles, Haute Chile, providing dance music to heat up the dance floor after a sumptuous dinner.
Denver's elite in white-tie attire will enjoy the delicious food, cocktails and entertainment from the East and West Coasts while raising funds to support the vital research, clinical and educational programs at National Jewish Health. Last year the gala raised more than $2 million.
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Newsletter: February 2010
Evaluation and Treatment of Eating Disorders
Nell Manning, MA
Have you been feeling as if your eating or dieting were beyond your control? Do you feel that your sense of self-worth is inseparable from your weight or shape? Has anyone close to you expressed concern that you might have an eating disorder? Eating disorders are marked by disturbances in a person's eating behavior that may not only cause physical harm, but are also related to severe emotional turmoil and distress. They involve profound misperceptions of one's body shape or weight. Often, people suffering from eating disorders believe they are doing something healthy for their body, while others are concerned they are hurting themselves. This can add tension to an already stressful situation. Approximately 90% of people who suffer from eating disorders are female, and many (but not all) begin to struggle with these difficulties between ages 14 and 18.
There are several types of eating disorders. One is focused on restricting one's eating in a way that makes it impossible to maintain a normal body weight. This is called Anorexia Nervosa. In addition to having a body weight significantly below normal for one's age and height, a person suffering from this kind of disorder has a strong fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, a fear that is not relieved as she loses weight. Furthermore, someone suffering from anorexia nervosa often denies the serious medical implications of their malnourishment, implications which include the absence of several cycles of menstruation.
Another type of eating disorder, called Bulimia Nervosa, is characterized by binge eating (during which one feels one cannot control one's eating) and then compensating (also called "purging") by inappropriate or unhealthy methods: fasting, making oneself vomit, misusing laxatives, or exercising excessively. An individual suffering from this disorder places a great deal of emphasis on her weight or shape when she evaluates herself, and she has a great fear of gaining weight, a strong desire to lose weight, and a sense of discontent with her body.
One of the most difficult aspects of having one of these eating disorders, or struggling with some of their symptoms, is the interpersonal strain that often accompanies them. Often people struggling with these issues find themselves entangled in conflict with others they are close to. Sometimes this conflict or tension is about the eating behaviors per se, but not necessarily. A parent, for instance, may express concern for the welfare of their child suffering from an eating disturbance, but may do so in a way that is difficult to receive, makes her feel guilty, embarrassed, angry, or hurt, even if it is kindly meant. Or perhaps a loved one has been distant, and an eating disorder may serve as a way to try to draw them nearer. Sometimes multiple tensions are present. Some people may focus on their eating because it is an area they feel they can attempt to control when relationships or other events in their lives are out of control. Others may feel the lack of control they exhibit when they eat is reflective or typical of how they feel about other areas of their lives, too. Addressing interpersonal relationships and patterns is often an important aspect of treatment for eating disorders.
What can you do to combat an eating disorder or troubling symptoms of one? First, seek help. It can be difficult or even anxiety-producing to change some of these patterns on your own, so if you have tried to change what you're doing but have had difficulty, do not give up. A therapist can help and support you as you learn to take care of yourself in new, healthier ways, and in a different way than people already known to you might offer.
Several kinds of psychotherapy have been found to be effective in treating these disorders. One type is cognitive-behavioral therapy, which focuses on cycles of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to eating and helps one learn to change one's thoughts to interrupt those unhealthy cycles. Another type of psychotherapy that research has indicated to be equally effective in treating eating disorders is interpersonal therapy. In this, thoughts and actions about food are not explicitly the focus of treatment, but by focusing and working on understanding and changing patterns in current interpersonal relationships, one is also able to change one's relationship with eating, purging, weight, and shape. Both types of treatment have repeatedly been found to be effective in research studies, particularly with people who suffer from bulimia nervosa. People who enter psychotherapy often make improvements on all aspects of their eating disorder: their eating and compensating (purging) behaviors; their anxiety and other feelings about their weight, body shape, and overall self-worth; and feelings of tension or withdrawal in their close relationships.
American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR). Washington, DC: Author.
Wilson, G.T. & Pike, K.M., (2001). Eating Disorders. In D. H. Barlow (Ed.), Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders, Third Edition (pp. 332-375). New York: Guilford.
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Origin of goombahphonetic spelling, spelled of dialect, dialectal pronunciation of Italian compare, godfather, friend
Origin of goombahProbably alteration of Italian compare, godfather, from Medieval Latin compater; see compadre.
(plural goombahs)
- (US, slang, pejorative) A person of Italian descent.
- (US, slang) A companion, pal, close friend, or associate, used especially among Italian-American men. It sometimes has the connotation of an older friend who acts as a patron, protector or adviser.
Probably originates from the Neapolitan cumpà, (Italian compare and the Sicilian cognate, cumpari, akin to Spanish compadre), and literally means "godfather," but used to denote "friend." Often used to refer to 'family friends' or friends close enough to be considered an 'aunt' or 'uncle', though not related by blood. To an English-speaking ear, the unaspirated stops of the Southern Italian dialect (especially Neapolitan) are interpreted as voiced stops, yielding "goombah."
(plural goombahs)
- Alternative form of gumbe, a Jamaican drum.
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FC Dallas v San Jose: Game Grades
Dallas is just one of a litter of Western Conference pups all fighting for a limited number of playoff teets, and right now the home team is looking to be the runt.
Fighting back in Saturday night's game against San Jose does show that continued spirit that has become FC Dallas' trademark. It also slightly overshadows the fact that the team gave up those two goals far too easily and at this juncture of the season a draw just "ain't gonna cut it".
Hyndman's squad had everything going against it Saturday night as it was the last of a three game stretch, returning home from a lengthy bit of travel and having to face an opponent who are on a quality run. Alas, those are only excuses when you're a team that needs wins.
Eight games remain. Four at home and four on the road. History isn't on Dallas' side and neither is the team's current form. During the game MLS agent Ron Waxman tweeted this perspective of FCD's season just after Dallas went down 2-0:
Hyndman has two months to prove he can coach this roster, of his creation, into a playoff contender. MLS parity should provide an assist, but make no mistake the opportunity is there. Dallas has as much individual talent as most other MLS sides but continues to look like a team without a clear leader or successful tactical plan.
Game Grades: (note – links to Opta charts are not viewable in all browsers because they are done in Flash)
Fernandez: 6 – Let down by his defense on the two goals and only forced to make one save otherwise.
Acosta: 6 – Admitted his rookie mistake on the opening goal, but had a very solid performance after that. He also jumped WAY up in the "favorite player" standings when he got in Morrow's face for the reckless tackle on Nunez. Remember, this is a homegrown teen we're watching blossom here. Much like Hedges rookie season, Kellyn's growth goes a long way in smoothing over the other issues with the team.
John: 7 – A game against the Earthquakes is always going to be a bruiser.
Hedges: 6 – Will see the replay of the 1st goal and regret how he played that Cato pass, but like John stood strong the rest of the match against a tough strike force.
Benitez: 4 – Go back and watch the highlight of the 2nd goal. Others played their part in letting this goal happen, but Jair completely misses Beitashour run in front of him to the ball. Other than that it was another typical Jair performance filled with, yeah, you know.
Watson: 5 – The Jamaican put in an improved performance and did essentially supply two assists. He still turns the ball over too much and when he does the biggest issue is they happen in very deep and dangerous spots for Dallas.
Michel: 5 – There is an interesting conversation about who turned the ball over more. Statistically Michel did, but half of those are counted from free and corner kicks. 11 of his 21 turnovers came from restarts and only twice he lost the ball in his own half of the field. He also had the most positive and successful number of passes of any midfielder. Remember, it was his wonderful cross to Watson that set up that header. He also took the PK very well.
Erick: 5 – Another 90 minutes and another quiet performance. There's little flash to his game, but he's taken to his assignment quickly (which is very specific) and doing with it about as well as can be expected given his circumstances.
Ferreira: 4 – A great example of DF10′s season. Did not complete a single forward pass in the attacking third, and only one in the entire attacking half of the field. Was David bad? No. But he's really a shell of the player that Dallas has come to depend on for all its creativity. Does he also hold any fault for allowing Beitashour to run into the box from midfield? I won't assume to know the assignments there, but looks like he could have done something to help.
Castillo: 4 – The kid has put in a lot of hard minutes in the last eight days. There have been some signs of improvement in his decision making but still has a long way to go before all that speed turns into something. No shots in his 60 minutes and that isn't going to cut it.
Perez: 6 – Watching Blas resort to the flop for the PK elicits ugly feelings, but San Jose is so brutal in their approach there's a karmic value to it that makes it feel a little better. You just wish Dallas could possess and build better so Blas could spend more time in the box and less just north of the center circle.
Diaz: 6 – A good 30 minutes and tried hard to give his team that play it needed to win the game.
Nunez: 5 – Fans are not pleased Ramon isn't getting more time. Coach seems convinced he would be a liability as a starter. Should he get a start? The question really is where? Out wide Nunez is not very effective and pinches in way too much, not to mention his defensive issues. Should he start in the middle over Ferreira or Diaz? When you consider all of that you begin to see Schellas' point.
Cooper: n/a – Seriously, is that not the fastest red card in MLS history? Who can blame Coop for his reaction? Who would have blamed him if he'd punched Benardez?


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Brooklyn Castle is a wonderful documentary look at an astonishingly successful public-school chess program that manages to be more moving and heartening than you expect. Which is saying a lot.
The program is at a Brooklyn junior high school where more than 65 percent of the students come from homes whose incomes are below the federal poverty line. Yet over a multiyear period, the school has won 26 national chess titles, more than any other junior high in the country.
As directed by Katie Dellamaggiore, Brooklyn Castle is the latest in a welcome genre of films that focus on compelling kids in competitive situations, whether it be spelling (Spellbound), ballroom dancing (Mad Hot Ballroom) or ballet (First Position).
What makes Brooklyn Castle stand out is the way it focuses just as much on the children as the chess, showing these young people negotiating the multiple up-and-down complexities of their lives, all the while engaging in the serious business of becoming their own people.
Much of the documentary focuses on the team's top-rated player, 13-year-old eighth-grader Rochelle Ballantyne, who has a chance at becoming the first female African-American chess master.
Rochelle's teammates include serious Alexis Paredes, whose emotional mother so wants the best for him, and effusive Pobo Efekoro, a confident enthusiast whose Nigerian family is dealing with the death of Pobo's breadwinner father.
The director's empathy for her subjects makes it clear how much everyone gets out of this kind of participation. There are so many possible chess moves in a given situation, chess teacher Elizabeth Vicary explains, that "the truth isn't quite so simple, the answers are not clear to anybody. They have to negotiate this on their own."
Brooklyn Castle makes it positively heady to be there as they do.
(B) Directed by Katie Dellamaggiore. PG (some language). 102 mins. At the Cinemark West Plano.


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GOP Slips Further in Congressional Outlook
John McCain is struggling with an ineffective (and frequently changing) campaign staff, an unenthusiastic party behind him, a public that seems to be fed up with the Bush years and all things Republican, and No. 2 status in the money race. Still, Americans usually pick a president on the basis of personal characteristics, McCain is staying close enough to Barack Obama to suggest this will be a tight election.
Not so with Republicans in Congress. For them, the news -- and our forecasts -- just get worse.
We've said before that this election is turning into a national referendum -- one that will be influenced more by the public mood than by local issues and candidates. That's terrible news for the Republicans.
Consider the Senate situation. There are 35 seats up this year, with 23 now in GOP hands. But only 15 are even remotely competitive and 13 of those are held by Republicans. Even if the competitive races broke evenly, Republicans would have a net loss of 6.5. But most of the trends are in the Democrats' favor, putting them within striking distance of the nine seats they need to get to 60, the magic number that allows them to end filibusters.
Our latest survey of Senate races shows the GOP certain to lose one seat (
The House is no better. Democrats, having picked off the low hanging fruit already, have a 236-199 edge in the House, but seem certain to add at least 10 to their margin, with a possibility of going as high as 20.
Republicans are trying everything they can think of to stem the tide, but so far, nothing is working. And as the atmosphere worsens, the in-fighting increases and it gets harder to raise the money needed to fend off challengers.
All of this has major implications for policy decisions next year, no matter who ends up in the White House.


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It's about time
The place held for Marvel Comics will no longer be empty. I recently got this from Marc Nathan, Baltimore Comic-Con organizer:
MARVEL COMICS CREATORS COME TO BALTIMORE 2009!I'd like to see MARVEL COMICS have a publisher presence at the Baltimore Comic-Con, just like DC COMICS manages to do every year.
2010 Dates Announced!
BALTIMORE, MD (May. 26, 2009) -- The Baltimore Comic-Con is proud to announce that top creators of today's Marvel Universe will find themselves in Baltimore this October 10th and 11th as guests of the Baltimore Comic-Con. Jason Aaron (Wolverine), Brian Michael Bendis (Avengers), Frank Cho (Ultimates 4), David Finch (Ultimatum), Matt Fraction (Uncanny X-Men), and Barry Kitson (Amazing Spider-Man) will all convene to help celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Baltimore Comic-Con.
"This modern day Marvel bullpen, the writers and artists of today's Marvel Comics, will really help to make this year a great show. This will be the first time that Jason Aaron and Matt Fraction have joined us, and a great second year for Brian Michael Bendis. Brian made a special effort to speak with all of his fans last year, and was a guest that many of our fans requested come back," said Marc Nathan, promoter of the Baltimore Comic-Con. "We missed David Finch in 2008 due to the birth of his lovely daughter, and it is great to have him back. And of course, we are thrilled to welcome perennial fan favorites Frank Cho and Barry Kitson back to the halls of the Baltimore Convention Center."
As we continue to get ready for the show on October 10-11, 2009, we would also like to announce the Baltimore Comic-Con's 2010 dates: August 27-28, 2010. "We have spent 10 years putting on great comic book-centric shows, and I am proud to start on a second great decade. The fans come to our shows to meet and greet with their favorite artists and writers, and we plan to continue that tradition well into the future," remarked Nathan. "While it may be early for some, we want our partners, guests, exhibitors, and fans to know our plans so that they join us in 2010."
In coming weeks, look for more announcements from the Baltimore Comic-Con. We are looking forward to highlighting our guests, the Harvey Awards, industry exclusives, and programming. The latest developments can always be found at our website, Facebook, MySpace, and ComicSpace pages.
(I'd also like to see Publisher's Weekly Online cover the Baltimore Comic-Con like they do every tiny anime convention, but that's just wishful thinking.)
If you've never been to the Baltimore Comic-Con, you really should consider going... it's the only convention we set up at all year for a reason... IT'S COMPLETELY AWESOME. We highly recommend using Light Rail to get there... trains every 18 minutes dump you right at the Convention center for like four dollars round trip! It's great! You hear more about the Baltimore Comic-Con as we get closer to the date.
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Twentyless-fifth AnniversaryPosted Wednesday, January 26, 2011, at 8:23 AM
My wife and I will soon celebrate our fifth year anniversary. Five years, wow. Big deal? Yes, it is and I'll explain why later.
Susan and I have known each other since the 60s. I remember her from the old skating rink, which was located on South Walnut Street in the Alphonso Rios Cigar Factory. Ben Beachoskosky owned and operated the tobacco business. I remember watching Susan watch me as I skate guarded and she strutted down the aisle to the snack bar, allegedly looking for her brothers, Larry Crosley and Tom Crosley or one of her many cousins. That purse, strapped over her shoulder, her hair blowing in the wind as she walked briskly; I saw her, side-glancing, while trying to look straight ahead as she was ogling at me. After all, I was quite the skater in those days. I came from a long line of skaters. I was the last of seven siblings to make their appearance at "the rink." Susan and I often laugh today about my going to the skating rink in white pants, fearing not that I may fall. I dare not fall, Susan was trying her best not to let me see her "not noticing" me.
Those days passed without any fanfare between Susan and me. I guess she went her way and I mine. She was a country-girl and I a city-boy. She doesn't believe it, but she entered my mind a lot through the years, as I was often wondering what happened to her. Come to find out later, she attended Brazil High School, staying one year ahead of me. I don't remember that, but she assures me she did. She mentions today that I was stuck-up in high school. I doubt I was; it's just that I was so busy in school. Classes, my then girlfriend, extra-curricular activities, working at Miller and Son's Funeral Home, running around ... oops, kept me moving.
It was years before I ran into Susan again, thirty-five years as a matter of fact. I was sitting in the staff lunch room at Putnamville Correctional Facility. I looked at the far end of the room and there she sat, looking as lovely as ever. I told my lunch mates, "There's definitely a lady I have to talk to". I walked confidently over to her table and sit down; "hell-o", I said. She glanced up from her food and looked at me. Her "hell-lo" was the type that said, "Do I know you?" After a moment, she acknowledged me, politely. We talked for a bit, as she obviously had something on her mind besides me. She then told me briefly about her recent past and what was going on in her life. Being uncomfortable, I expressed some sympathy and excused myself from the area. It was a couple years before I saw Susan again.
The next time was also during sad circumstances in her life; her mother had passed away. Reading the obituary in the TIMES, I logged onto the funeral home's website and sent my condolences the easy way, via the internet. The next day I received a voice mail from Susan thanking me for "signing" her mom's registry. I called back and talked a bit, then hung up. The next day I was home and the phone rang. It was Susan. Her voice sounded startled as I answered. She thought I would be at work, I wasn't. She mentioned that if I was interested, we could meet for coffee sometime. I jumped at the chance. That was on a Thursday and we went to dinner Friday. We went to dinner a couple more times, and then she said she had plans to go to Tennessee and visit her daughter and family. She loved visiting them but did not care for the long drive. I offered to drive her there. A day or two passed and we were talking about the upcoming trip and she said jokingly, "then on the way back we could stop in Nashville and get married." Those were my EXACT thoughts.
We never made it to Nashville. We were married in Brazil before we even left town. June 16, 2011, will be our "twenty-less fifth" anniversary. We invite you to join us in celebrating.
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What an absolutely wonderful story. I really enjoyed reading this. Thank you for sharing.
-- Posted by Claycountian on Wed, Jan 26, 2011, at 6:49 PM
Enjoyed the reminiscings in your two posts. It kind of reminds me of the style of "A Christmas Story" by Jean Shepherd. You should write a book.
Congratulations on your five year anniversary.
-- Posted by jpell70 on Fri, Feb 11, 2011, at 10:01 AM
That's really great!!!! Just goes to show that no matter how many years pass by, if you do ever see that special person from years gone by, you just might get a second chance at love. Truly a wonderful story! Many many more years of happiness together.
-- Posted by JaniLou on Wed, Jun 8, 2011, at 10:24 PM
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