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Karen Castillo Farfán's very short film Escaping Cycles tackles the question of why young girls get caught up in gangs and the consequences that inevitably arise from their involvement. It's a tough eight minutes to endure.
A particularly harrowing segment is ex-gangster Javie's recounting of how he prostituted out a girl in need of money to dozens of men at a migrant labor camp. Though he made well over a thousand dollars doing so, Javie gave the girl only $40.
"All the females that come into the neighborhood, they think that they're going to be doing something right, but they're getting themselves in a trap," he said. "I say, if they have a way out, to stay out."
Sisy Mohorko, founder of the HopeGirlz youth outreach program, which works with high-risk youth in the city of Oxnard, explains that most of them never see the jaws snapping closed around them.
"The girls don't realize that they've fallen into a trap until it's too late, because they've been so deceived by that attention that they've gotten," she said. "Sometimes, it really is too late."
Mohorko introduced Farfán to the subjects featured in her film. Once she'd heard their stories and shared in their pain and suffering, making Escaping Cycles became a project of necessity.
"Their stories helped me learn the 'why' of a dangerous culture I didn't understand," she says. "I felt people needed to hear their stories and, hopefully, empathize and become outraged enough to want to do something about it."
The Ventura resident is expected to receive her bachelor of arts in visual journalism from Brooks Institute later this year, and Escaping Cycles has earned her a full scholarship to the Aurora Multimedia Workshop.
As a Mexican immigrant from Sacramento, life was not always so favorable for Farfán; she learned the harsh taste of prejudice early on. Rather than let these experiences leave her dejected or defeated, she grew from them, using the emotions they wrought to fuel a growing passion for provoking change.
"These experiences taught me the value of empathy and communication and is what helps me create stories of sensitive issues in an impacting way," she said.
For Farfán, her subjects are real-life heroes, and she is inspired by the injustices happening in the corners of society that are often casually disregarded.
"I admire those who selflessly help and put themselves in danger but never get recognized for their work," she said, adding, "and the men and women who've endured so much horror and hardship yet found the courage and wisdom to break away and find hope, even become positive role models."
Escaping Cycles might be a tough film to watch, but every second is substantial, and the brutal truths it reveals demand to be heard.
Escaping Cycles will be presented at the Oxnard College Performing Arts Building on Wednesday, Mar. 6, at 1 p.m., as part of the college's Literature, Arts & Lecture Series. Farfán will give a talk immediately following the screening. Events are free for the community and are interpreted for the hearing impaired. Parking is $2. Escaping Cycles can also be viewed by visiting www.karenfarfan.com.


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quote: What possible reason would anyone have to think you would further want to "opt in" for something you've been doing voluntarily already!?
quote: You use the biggest social networking site on the planet, and yet somehow, expect anonymity?
quote: Your argument is like telling me you should be able to walk down the street and have nobody see your face, and if they DO, they should have to inform you they saw it. Do you realize how asinine you sound?


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Rochester native Shayne Stockton scored twice as the Holy Cross men's hockey team defeated Canisius, 5-1, at the Buffalo State Sports Arena on Sunday afternoon. The Crusaders (14-10-2, 10-7-2) broke a tie with Canisius (10-13-5, 9-8-2) and took sole possession of fourth place in the Atlantic Hockey Association.
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MARTINSBURG — Raven Blye has the same hopes and dreams as many other young women her age — graduate college, get married and eventually start a famil....
Wow, just got caught up with all the comments. I am impressed by both sides, but we shall just see what happens in June. Until then, thank you for making this article so popular. My point for organizing the rally was to bring this case to light and it sure did bring a lot of people to comment. I will keep you updated of more events coming to the area. Love.
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I've read your posts for awhile, all I can say is that which you accuse the "religionists" of doing, you also do (but don't seem to see it). In the end, you try to force others to live by the faith of your worldview just as you seem to hate from the Christians.
I'm reminded of Jesus' words in Matthew 7:
"For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
"Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."
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What about two elderly sisters who have the same situation of livinng together to make the most of their retiement resources ? Why should they be discriminated against when one dies and the other has to pay an inheritance tax on her estate ? We can allow for "sisters" to marry, huh ? But if we do, then why no all such marriages currrently unlawful ? Same with polygamy. Why would we discriinate aginst that ? Then we have to ask also if a marriage is necessary at all. What about two singles in any kind of relationship where one wants to have all the inheritance and benefits exceptions now given to traditional marriage. We can say, well, they just have to apply and be married. Now we run into "individual" conscience objection. Why should two people who want the benefits ave to go against their religious beliefs and form a marriag if they believe in only theie religions definition of marriage ?
You can't answer ... so just say "more mud" !
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Bonus question for the day !
HillTop - "RE: Polygamy ... First, this topic has no relevance to same-sex marriage."
It most certainly does. Once it is accepted that marriage has no definite form, then every other possible form would have available to it all the arguments made by the gay marriage decision if it is allowed.
Further, the DOMA challenge is based on "equal treatment". The woman who is the plaintiff in the case before the court is claiming the law unconstitutional because it discriminates between two types of marraige arrangement in that she had to pay inheritance tax on an estate left to her by her partner (wife, husband, ?), when a traditional married couple would not have had to pay. If there is no real definition of what a marriage is and what the government's interest is, and if we want to achieve "equal treatment" under the law, then why stop with piecemeal inclusion of groups ?
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"You have now managed to narrow your definition of "republic" to only and exactly the American form, and still fail to grasp that democracy can have many forms and limitations."
How did my statement say that ? I pointed out that there IS more than one form of republic, and that you left out the distinction which is quite important for the issue at hand with gay marraige and striking down the will of the people of one member of the "federation" in our federal republic.
No where did I say that democracy means one form or is not limited in our system.
Four strikes . . . . you're out !!!
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And the quality of that argument is no better. It is just as easily dismissed as you would dismiss the argument that the whole global warming scare campaign was cooked up by the U.N. to achieve global redistribution of wealth via a carbon tax system, which dishonest and greedy scientists went along with because there is no better way to raise research grants than to create a doomsday scenario to fill the coffers that keep them employed.
"If you think that separate restrooms and showers based on sexual orientation is sensible, then you are not a very sensible person and haven't given it much thought beyond just throwing it out there like so much mud."
Another evasion ! Why not offer some rationale as to why they are really different ?
That's three "strikes" ... I'll give you one more . . . .
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HillTop - "If you think that ... then you are far too irrational and ignorant to have a discussion about such things."
This is what I would expect to hear on a grade school playground. "You are just too stupid" is a childish dodge when you really can't make a reasonable response.
"If you think that global warming is not real and is not continuing, then you have have ignored the science and have only been listening to people paid by the fossil fuel industry to spread lies and misinformation." . . . . >
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Although it is a waste of time to address you, you keep repeating Scalia's idiotic question, so I'll give an answer for the benefit of others.
It became unconstitutional to ban same-sex marriage:
1. When it became unconstitutional to criminalize same-sex behavior and orientation (Lawrence v. Texas).
2. When it became unconstitutional to legislate against gay rights based on animus toward gay people (Romer v. Evans), which Kegan proved was the motivation of DOMA.
3. When people increasingly recognized the simple fact gay people are fully human and should enjoy the same rights as heterosexual citizens.
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RE: Polygamy
First, this topic has no relevance to same-sex marriage.
Second, why limit polygamy to bisexual relationships, since your religion and the uniquely American religion of Mormonism have previously allowed men to have many wives? If "the church" were to define marriage (as you advocate), the Mormons can have another new revelation making polygamy righteous again, and Christians and Jews can embrace the teachings of the Old Testament concerning wives as property and heir-making machines.
Third, I have no particular reason to object to or care about polygamous marriage and haven't given it a lot of thought. My first thought is that adjustments would be needed concerning distribution of spousal benefits, and polygamous divorces and child custody cases would be even messier. Muslim legal tradition probably would not be an example for us, since it is blatantly sexist.
Same-sex marriage presents none of those problems.
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Unlike you, I do not have to try to pack observable reality into a box of my religion/worldview and make the former fit with the latter. I do it the other way around and discard the dogma which clearly doesn't fit.
Your religion is "arbitrary, selectively-enforced, and inconsistent," yet you close your eyes tight and project all of that onto me, rather than dealing honestly with the facts. My worldview, if I have one, recognizes that life is messy. Yours demands that everything fit into some neatly ordered system of good and evil and brooks no dissent or room for honest questions. You are, it seems, fearful of both the questions and the answers.
By our constitution, religious opinions are given no greater weight for their source than any other. I am happy to let religious opinions compete openly and freely for what they are in public policy debates, and I am confident that hateful, nasty and arbitrary religious opinions will ultimately fail to pass muster.
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You want to "leave Marriage to the church."
Why should the state, or anyone, give "the church" ownership of the term and meaning of "marriage?" What good would it do, other than give unwarranted public consent to this irrational and unjustified claim that marriage is somehow an exclusively religious institution? Are atheist marriages not really marriages? Are non-Christian marriages not really marriages (in the same way that it's unclear if non-Catholic marriages are really marriages in Catholic dogma)?
Your proposal makes no sense, creates legal, bureaucratic nightmares, and would simply give legal sanction your dog-in-the-manger attitude toward marriage equality.
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If you think that a religious experience, like a vision of the Virgin Mary, is in any way analogous to the development of a scientific theory, like the theory of evolution, and wish to make that the basis of your argument, then you are far too irrational and ignorant to have a discussion about such things.
If you think that global warming is not real and is not continuing, then you have have ignored the science and have only been listening to people paid by the fossil fuel industry to spread lies and misinformation.
If you think that separate restrooms and showers based on sexual orientation is sensible, then you are not a very sensible person and haven't given it much thought beyond just throwing it out there like so much mud.
You have now managed to narrow your definition of "republic" to only and exactly the American form, and still fail to grasp that democracy can have many forms and limitations.
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You state, "I am not saying that that is part of any agenda."
Can you clarify whether you or others in the "redefine Marriage community" are in favor of polygamy to accommodate the bisexually inclined?
I am simply trying to see if there are any lines and/or consistencies in our "evolving" new societal worldview?
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You say, "2. The bottom line is that Bullhead thinks that HIS religion should rule the American government, in spite of our constitution deliberately established a secular state which owes no fealty to any religion."
Perhaps, you missed the part right before where I said, " I think it would be best to reduce government to simply recognizing a civil union for all between any two adults and leave Marriage to the church."
So, BTW, what worldview/religion do you believe should rule public policy in America? Your's?
I have read your humanistic, arbitrary, selectively-enforced, and inconsistent religion/worldview and say "no thanks!"
Out of curiosity, would you argue for state-sanctioned polygamy via my earlier comments about those inclined toward bi-sexuality?
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Hilltop seems to be having a hard time, squaring his desire for "democracy"' with his desire to have things his way and the true meaning of a republic.
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Majoritatian, I am not saying that that is part of any agenda. That is the argument that has been ,ade against same sex marriage but a father and son is still same sex and if you cannot grasp the idea that you are just sounding irrational or senseless then you really need to start reading more carefully to see who is on which side.
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HillTop - "We have a constitutional democratic republic. Rejoice and be glad!"
You seem to have left out an important distinction here. One can have a "republic" without any separation of powers to lower entities. We are a "federal republic", with a constitutional base and democratic traditions. That Constitution established us that way and it is being eroded by an overbearing central power. The occasion for the above story would seem to be the two cases before the U. S. Supreme Court. One involves overriding the will of the people in a referendum in accordance with their state constitution. That doesn't seem to honor the concept of democracy.
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If we can't have separate facilities to accomodate every "exposure" of those who don't want to be viewed by someone who might be entertaining their carnal desire, then we should do away with all separation. Otherwise, we seem to be stuck with that awful sounding "separate but UNequal" treatment.
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HillTop - "...genuine emotional love and affection felt by both straight and gay people tends to prove that they are equally valid (i.e., gay sexual attraction is no more a base carnal desire than straight attraction)."
If that is true, then why is it that we separate the biological sexes for restroom and shower facilities and such ? That would seem to be granting of special "voyeur" privledges to homosexuals. Shouldn't we have separate facilities for every "orientation" ? If heterosexuals are "aroused" by being mixed with the opposite sex in accomodations where they might we unclothed in full or part, wouldn't the same be true for homosexuals with others who might be the object of their "base carnal desire". It would seem to me that saying that they are not would undermine the notion you claim that they are the same. . . . . >
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This is supposed to "answer" the flaw in evidence and the original theory while science accumulates more evidence, which may or may not ever come, but buys time for the existing and questionable theory.
It is the same with "global warming". When the warming stopped, after being predicted to increase steadily, its proponents just came up with a new name, "climate change", and additions to the theory to explain it all away. Worse yet, we know that these proponents "will tolerate no rivals", Uh deniers !
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HillTop - "If religious experiences are to be considered valid, then virtually all religions are valid, which is impossible, since a great many religions ... will tolerate no rivals."
Wouldn't it be similarly true of scientific theory ? If we have two "theories" that are not proven, then we have only "belief" to support them, and so neither would be valid, as you seem to hold for religion. You won't accept any religiously based explanation or theory for what appears to be conflict in Christian Scripture - so why should anyone accept a scientific "theory" to explain inconsistencies in scientific evidence ? When slow evolution could not account for the Cambrian explosion, science just offered an explanation with a nifty name of "punctuated equalibrium". . . . . >
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"As far as I know, the Bible has never been proven to be fiction..."
Just a few painfully obvious examples:
- Biblical creation is myth. The evolutionary development of life over millions of years is well established, as is our DNA kinship with other primates. The Christian religion of blood atonement unravels without the fall of Adam and Eve into sin. The Bible has Jesus and Paul referencing the creation myth as real, so we know they were not speaking the truth either.
- The Biblical flood is myth. It left no geologic evidence, is physically impossible, and the notion that all human and animal life descended from a limited group at the same time is contradicted by DNA evidence.
- The Exodus is myth. That many people leaving Egypt and wandering in the desert for 40 years would have left some historical and/or archeological evidence. It didn't.
- The city of Tyre, prophesied to be destroyed and never rebuilt a long time ago, is still there.
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You worship the concept of consistency, so allow for no change or growth, and you delude yourself, imagining your religion to be consistent simply because it should be so (in order to meet your demand that good equals consistent), and you say it is so. Yet you have failed to demonstrate the supposed moral consistency of your religion in all these months on the forums when specific cases of inconsistency were pointed out.
You fail to grasp that your personal religious beliefs are irrelevant to formulation of public policy in this secular democratic republic. Any political argument that begins with, "Thus saith the Lord," is dead on arrival. This protects not only atheists, but religious people from each other, and you should realize this.
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You continue to play games, defining democracy in such a limited way that it becomes a strawman for you to set fire to. You also continue to waffle between claiming that democracy is incompatible with a republic, and claiming that you have not said that they are mutually exclusive terms. We have a constitutional democratic republic. Rejoice and be glad!
I have no solution for the internal conflict you seem to be having other than therapy of some kind. There are probably people specializing in helping people recover from tea overdose by now, since the problem is fairly widespread.
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I do not deny that there is such a thing as "experience" of religious faith. People of every religion throughout the ages have had religious experiences. Religious experiences are highly individualistic, totally subjective, and have no bearing on the truth or reality of the religion being "experienced." Even people of the same religion claim experiences or revelations which contradict each other. If religious experiences are to be considered valid, then virtually all religions are valid, which is impossible, since a great many religions (particularly the big three monotheistic ones) will tolerate no rivals.
In the end, an honest survey of "genuine" religious experience tends to prove that all religions are equally valid (and BS). By the same token, genuine emotional love and affection felt by both straight and gay people tends to prove that they are equally valid (i.e., gay sexual attraction is no more a base carnal desire than straight attraction).
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LISBON - School boards in Columbiana County and around Ohio will soon be requiring the people who work their sporting events be classified as part-time district employees.
This means those people will begin paying taxes on the nominal fees they receive, and athletic programs must come up with extra money to cover the mandatory employer contributions into the employee benefits package.
The East Palestine school board is believed to be the first to classify its athletic event workers as district employees, after having voted to do so at last week's meeting, and the Lisbon school district is expected to act accordingly when it meets this week.
All thanks to the Internal Revenue Services and U.S. Department of Labor.
Lisbon School Treasurer Cindy Altomare said the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) recommended athletic event workers be considered public employees instead of independent contractors.
OHSAA advised school districts to comply starting in 2013.
"It is my understanding the IRS is looking at this as missed tax opportunities," she said.
OHSAA Chief Financial Officer Jim Jordan said this is part of an IRS review of how all independent contractors are classified to determine whether they should instead be designated as employees for the purposes of taxation.
Jordan said they have recommended school districts review the IRS test to reach their own conclusions, but OHSAA is of the opinion only referees/umpires/
officials and security are the only truly independent contractors at sporting events.
Until now, school districts were only required to issue IRS 1099 forms to those independent contractors whose annual compensation exceeded $600, which rarely occurred since most are only paid $20 to $25 per event.
"It's basically a change in interpretation as to whether these people should get a 1099 or run through payroll," Altomare said.
The new requirement affects those who sell and take tickets, announcers, scorers, football chain movers and other event staff. Security, referees and other officials will remain exempt.
There will be a cost to school districts since public employers must make matching contributions into a worker's benefits package, such as retirement, workers compensation, Medicare, etc. Altomare said this will total about 16 percent for Lisbon.
Like most schools, the money to pay event workers comes from the athletic programs itself and not directly from district funds. Altomare said Lisbon's athletic programs spends about $6,000 a year on event workers, so the new requirement will likely increase the cost by about $950.
"I don't know that it's going to be high ... It's just really a hassle," she said, adding the financial impact would be harder on those districts whose athletic programs lack a surplus.
Event workers will now have the normal federal and state taxes automatically withdrawn from their checks, and Altomare believes this may affect whether some people continue working these events.
"What we're all facing is because these people making so little, when we run it through payroll it will be even less," she said. "The biggest impact is the people may not really want to do this anymore."


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Monday, August 4, 2014
The summer season turned out to be quick but bountiful for the Moncks Corner Post 126 Junior American Legion baseball team.
The 16-Under legion team won the Region I championship with a 13-4 regular season record and advanced to the second round of the Junior American Legion state tournament sweeping its opening 2-of-3 series with Aynor before being eliminated from the tournament.
We had a very successful season and a good run through the region and the tournament, said Coach Wilson Baggett. We caught a couple of bad breaks there in the end, but we played really well.
Post 126 was comprised of baseball players from Berkeley and Timberland. Baggett said he received solid hitting and pitching throughout the season and tournament.
Josh Winningham and Ryan Legette threw some outstanding ball games in the tournament, Baggett said. And as a team we hit the ball well overall.
Winningham also helped his cause at the plate during the state tournament, hitting at an even .500 clip.
Berkeley Stags rising junior Zach Ganey hit .467. Kyle Morrison followed at .455.
D.J. Barberena who will be one of the catchers behind the plate for the Stags in 2015, hit a solid .357
Post 126 Athletics Coordinator Watson Mims was proud of the teams effort this year.
We won a region championship this year and thats a nice accomplishment for these young men.
Mims thanked Post 126 donors Roger Mitchum, Delta Pharmacy, Buddys Barbershop, Lane and Sally Wofford, Manuel Cohen, the Lions Club, the Santee Cooper Credit Union and Gene Oliver. He also thanked the parents and coaches for their support.
Coaches Wilson Baggett and Dean Ganey did an outstanding job with the team this year, Mims said. And we couldnt have enjoyed the success we had this season were it not for the parents and donors.
The Post 126 Junior American Legion roster includes Robbie Harrelson, Jacob Fiddie, Nathan McPherson, Taylor Bond, Zach Ganey, Austin Wilkins, Jordan Swiney, C.J. Mack, Chase Ganey, Josh Winningham, Ridge Baggett, Robbie Fleming, D.J. Barberena, Kyle Morrison, Tyler Crouse, Phillip Mims, Matthew Dress, and Ryan Legette.
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My generous aunt has graciously shared her recipe here, so here goes, white flour poori that will never fail you, and will always be the crowning jewel on your breakfast table.
White Flour Poori
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 tbsp ghee
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp milk powder
salted lukewarm water as required
Oil for deep frying
1. In a bowl, place the flour, milk powder, baking powder and ghee. Add the salted water gradually and knead until dough is formed. Rest the dough for 10 minutes.
2. Form small balls, the size of pingpong balls. Using a rolling pin, roll each ball into a disc of about 1 cm thickness.
3. Ensure that oil is very hot ( but not smokey) before frying each disc of poori. Fry until both sides turned golden brown. If the oil is at right temperature, the pooris should puffed up during frying.
4. Serve warm with curry of your choice.
Note: Sending this recipe to this month's Kerala Kitchen and Let's Cook: Scrumptious Breakfast, an event hosted by Radhika of Tickling Palates.


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The centuries geinus guitarist. Plays in "Muse" which is best live! Matt is best a throwing out riffs left right and center. Best riffs in Stockholm Syndrome. He plays manson guitars
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1.Possibly, the best musician of our time. He is the frontman of the british band Muse <333 Is also known to some as god or saviour to todays crappy music. I suggest people listen to the new album 'resistance' its brilliant!!
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2.Having amazing musical talent and style (:
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Frontman of Muse, tends to wear interesting glittery outfits.
Can be used in general conversation referring to his interesting fashion sense.
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HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Hagerstown Community College began the new year with the opening of its much-anticipated STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Building and the renovated Kepler Theater, which includes the addition of the Performing and Visual Arts Education Center. These new buildings allow HCC students and faculty to learn and teach both math and sciences and arts and humanities in state-of-the-art facilities unlike anything offered in the region.
As these new buildings opened, year-long renovations began on the Classroom Building and the former Science Building, which were initially built in 1966. The Classroom Building will become a modern teaching facility and continue to serve as a main instructional location on campus. The Science Building will be transformed into the Learning Center and be home to all developmental education and tutoring services, faculty offices, a faculty professional development center and three classrooms.
These much-needed construction projects come on the heels of nearly a decade of solid enrollment growth. From 2002 to 2011, HCC's credit enrollments grew by 76 percent. In fiscal 2011, HCC served 6,850 students in credit programs and 9,478 in continuing education programs for a total of 15,611 different students.
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This year, 700 high school students are part of HCC's early college program, the ESSENCE program, and about 65 transfer agreements exist between HCC and area universities. HCC provides the first two years for all the bachelor's degree programs currently being offered at USM Hagerstown.
Since 2002, the number of credit programs has expanded from 41 to 109, with 58 degree programs, 30 certificate programs, and 21 letters of recognition.
Within the STEM Building are sophisticated new spaces for HCC's biotechnology, alternative energy technology and cybersecurity programs. The building's design has incorporated many sustainable and green technologies for energy efficiency and instructional purposes. HCC is also working with Maryland Solar to set up instrumentation in the STEM Building that will allow students to monitor the energy produced from the solar farm being built near the prison.
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The Kepler Theater and Performing and Visual Arts Education Center contain a black box theater, practice rooms, dance studio, classrooms, expanded dressing rooms, costume shop, extended wardrobe storage, faculty offices and a completely refurbished theater. HCC is expanding its offerings in these areas and now provides a natural place of transition for students coming from the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts.
In the midst of tightening budgets, HCC has been successful in securing more than $8.5 million in grants to offset the cost of many of these programs. The most notable include a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor in support of the alternative energy program, $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Education Student Support Services TRiO Program, $700,000 from the National Science Foundation to support the cybersecurity program and $3 million from the Health Services Cost Review Commission in various nursing support grants.
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yeah vol. 29 of Naruto will be coming out soon yeah!!! hey if iny one loves Naruto as much as i do tell me so really and we can chat book two of yagayu ninja scrolls came out as well if iny one nows what that is it is owesome if you like Basilisk you will love this book
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Rebuilding Ecuador's economy with open source principles
Rebuilding Ecuador's economy with open source principles
Here's a development that could have enormous global implications for the search for a new commons-based economic paradigm. Working with an academic partner, the Government of Ecuador has launched a major strategic research project to "fundamentally re-imagine Ecuador" based on the principles of open networks, peer production, and commoning.
I am thrilled to learn that my dear friend Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation and my colleague in the Commons Strategies Group, will be leading the research team for the next ten months. The project seeks to "remake the roots of Ecuador's economy, setting off a transition into a society of free and open knowledge."
The announcement of the project and Bauwens' appointment was made on Wednesday by the Free/Libre Open Knowledge Society, or FLOK Society, a project at the IAEN national university that has the support of the Ministry of Human Resource and Knowledge in Ecuador. The FLOK Society bills its mission as "designing a world for the commons."
The research project will focus on many interrelated themes, including open education; open innovation and science; 'arts and meaning-making activities'; open design commons; distributed manufacturing; and sustainable agriculture; and open machining. The research will also explore enabling legal and institutional frameworks to support open productive capacities; new sorts of open technical infrastructures and systems for privacy, security, data ownership, and digital rights; and ways to mutualize the physical infrastructures of collective life and promote collaborative consumption.
The FLOK Society project builds on a larger, preexisting national development vision that Ecuador has been pursuing. You should check out the impressive government report, National Plan for Good Living, 2009-2013. (A new plan for 2014 and beyond has recently been released, but only in Spanish.) If you browse through this amazing document you will find a penetrating critique of the neoliberal trade vision and its skewed ideas about development—a refreshing alternative to the usual prescriptions peddled by the World Bank.
The Ecuador development report does not focus on juicing up economic growth, exploiting nature, and privatizing public resources, but on the idea of bien vivir, or "good living." The nation is self-consciously seeking to develop a paradigm change that focuses on a different "cosmovision" for "living life to the fullest." It's worth quoting a few paragraphs from the report to get a sense of how far advanced and innovative this small country really is. Below is a passage from the chapter, "Change of Paradigm: From Development to Good Living":
The prevalent concept of 'development' is undergoing a profound crisis. In part this is only due to the colonial perspective from which the concept is derived. But it is also a result of its failure throughout the world. The present global crisis has demonstrated that it is impossible to maintain the current patterns of accumulation. For the south, it has meant an extractivist and devastating path to development, with unequal relations of power and trade with the north. Moreover the unlimited consumption patterns derived from this model are leading the entire plant to collapse, given that the biosphere is unable to ensure its capacity for regeneration. It is essential, therefore, to promote new modes of production, consumption and organization of life and coexistence.
The report goes on to explain the concept of "good living" and how it differs from the worldview implicit in the standard development vision:
The Andean indigenous peoples have contributed to this debate [about development] by applying other epistemologies and cosmovisions. One of their greatest contributions is the notion of sumac kawsay, 'life to the fullest.' The notion of development is inexistent in these people's cosmovision since the future is behind us because the concept implies something we do not look at or know. In the Andean vosmovision, the past is in front of us; we see it, we know it, it is ours and we walk with it...
The concept of "good living" necessarily resorts to the idea of 'us'. The community shelters, protects, demands; it is the basis for the reproduction of that collective subject that each and every one of us is. That is why humans are conceived as one part of a whole that cannot be understood only as a sum of its parts. The whole is present in each being and each being in the whole. 'The universe is permanent; it has always existed and will always be here; it is born and dies in itself and only time can change it' (Kichwa saying). This is why harm to nature is to harm ourselves. Sumak kawsay, or life to the fullest, transmits this cosmosvision...
This is taking "development" back to basics. It does not simply assume—as the "developed world" does—that more iPhones and microwave ovens will bring about prosperity, modernity and happiness. The report goes on to critique the philosophical errors of neoliberal political philosophy and to set forth specific objects for fostering "social and territorial equality, cohesion, and integration with diversity."
I mention all this as a context to Michel Bauwens' research project. Here is the official announcement released by the FLOK Society earlier this week:
In the first semester of 2014, Bauwens will assist in setting up a global network of transition researchers. The P2P Foundation is a global network of researchers that is documenting the shift towards open, participatory and commons-oriented practices in every domain of human activity, but especially also the shift from collaboration on open knowledge and code, towards cooperation in open design, open hardware, open science, open government, and the shift towards open agricultural and open machining practices that have great potential for increasing the productivity and sustainability of farming and industrial processes.
Ecuador is the first country in the world which is committing itself to the creation of a open commons knowledge based society. In order to achieve the transition to a buen saber, or 'good knowledge' society, which is an extension of the official strategy towards a buen vivir-based society, the Advanced Studies Institute (IAEN by its Spanish initials) in Quito, Ecuador, led by the rector Carlos Prieto, has initiated a strategic process, called the FLOK Society Project, which aims to organize a major international conference in March 2013, and will produce ten strategic documents proposing transition policies towards the good knowledge society, which will be presented to the Ecuadorian citizens through intensive participatory processes, similar to those that took place for the establishment of the new Constitution and the ambitious National Plans, which set the guidelines for government policy.
While Buen Vivir aims to replace mindless accumulative economic growth to a form of growth that directly benefits the well-being of the Ecuadorian people, Buen Saber aims to create the open knowledge commons which will facilitate such a transition. FLOK stands for 'Free Libre and Open Knowledge'. In order to establish these transition policies and documents, IAEN has connected itself with the global hacker and free software movement, but also with its extension in the many peer to peer initiatives that directly aim to create a body of knowledge for physical production in agriculture and industry.
The P2P Foundation knowledge base has also focused on documenting new policy and legal frameworks being set up by sharing cities such as Seoul, San Francisco, and Naples; and regions such as Bordeaux, Open Commons Region Linz in Austria, South Sudan, the Cabineto Digital of Rio del Sur, and more. Its database of 22,000 global commons initiatives has been viewed nearly 25 million times and attracts 25,000 researchers, activists, users, and readers on a daily basis.
In March, the P2P Foundation organized a 'global hispanic wikisprint,' with the help of Spanish-Brazilian activist Bernardo Gutierrez, in which more than registered 500 individuals and collectives, in more than 60 cities and 23 countries, mapped the open, p2p, sharing and commons initiatives in their region and areas of activities, resulting in a Latin American network of connected activists and scholars.
IAEN believes that the connection between the hacktivism communities, the FLOK Society, and the global and Hispanic networks active in constructing open commons will be vital to create a synergy with the local actors of Ecuadorian society, and will help us accomplish the mayor goal we have set for ourselves as a country.
Update: Here is the blog post by Bethany Horne about joining the FLOK Society effort to provide communications support in Spanish and English.
Originally posted on David Bollier's blog. Reposted under Creative Commons.
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I'm looking forward to seeing how they make use of this project.
Just a small example of what confuses me..... it's almost impossible to get a decent job here without a degree, and once you have that degree your pretty much limited to working in the same subject as the degree you were trained in. It stops people from being able to make career changes, makes adult education difficult and it's going to be hard for Ecuadorians to see any benefit to 'open knowledge' if they can't use it.
It's hard to be honest without seeming offensive but Ecuadorians appear to suffer from extreme competitiveness. Maybe it' just in the IT industry, I don't know, but open knowledge and open development is not going to travel far unless the concept of sharing both knowledge and responsibility becomes more prominent. Like I say, not meaning to be offensive but the ideals of 'open' living are great... if they can be accepted.
Does that comment apply to people with degrees in Sustainability science, natural resource management or ethnography? Does it apply at the post grad level? I can see this can be a problem in some countries.
But that you can get a job is quite good, in many parts of the world that is not so - check out Waithood for the Arab world and in Spain, Greece and many other European countries there are large swathes of the populations who despair of any kind of full time job.
I never mentioned I can get a job here in Ecuador; this has been the exact problem. I have 18 years experience in IT and consider myself one of the 80's "bedroom" programmers but don't have a degree. I'm only finding work here through other expats who have had bad experiences trying to get reliable work done by Ecuadorian companies.
I have a regular contact that provides me with maybe one or two project parts every three months. Each time I visit their office the two post-graduate developers working there end up picking my brains for solutions to problems they've had sat on their desks for two weeks, sometimes longer. Being the kind of person I am and to maintain the odd bits of work they pass me I'm happy to help out but neither of these developers would ever pass me on to further contacts and are even reluctant to share knowledge between the two of them. I would love to say it is just the way this company is, but the last six medium sized companies I have done work for have all been the same. It does start to come across that many Ecuadorians would rather spend their time trying to put down the skills and work of others than actually developing together and improving things between themselves. They just don't see the benefits of working together.
I'm a British expat trying to keep a family going in Ecuador and struggling to say the least. My wife of 9 years is Ecuadorian and I have two Ecuadorian daughters. Unlike many other expats I didn't come here with swathes of money intending to live the high life because everything was cheaper. I have to work very hard for a basic standard of living and so far most Ecuadorians have been happy to try and keep my involvement out until it's needed. Again, no offense intended but it's an obstacle to be overcome if 'openness' and true results in development are to be achieved.
A familiar story for many expats in many countries around the world. Skills are not recognized and the foreignness is made a barrier when it need not be. Maybe you can be involved with Michel and what he is doing - are you in contact with him - say tru facebook?
"... economic growth to a form of growth that directly benefits the well-being of the people"
Exactly the economy is the focal point of every nation. Every individual will benefit a lot when ones' economy is progressive. Latin America so is South America is in great grief over economic downturn for the past years. One indication that the economy is growing is through Consumer Price Index report. CPI is an economic indicator.This is widely use to measure inflation. Business executives, labor leaders, and other private citizens also use the CPI as a guide in making economic decisions.
CPI DOES NOT mean the economy is growing as it can mean inflation is growing. An example of this is the value of shares - a higher share index may mean large devaluation in real terms.
What do you mean by a progressive economy? This? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_progressivism


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"I'd like to file a police report, my friends were abducted by some sailors, they're being forced to do ship repairs and other stuff or else the sailors will kill 'em!"
"Sir, your friends have been 'shanghaied', we'll notify the Coast Guard."
"Sir, your friends have been 'shanghaied', we'll notify the Coast Guard."
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Verb form of the word shanghai. The process of Shanghai-ing.
I just Shanghai-ed a lady's purse and took all her dough.
автор: Dr. P aka Chainsaw 17 августа 2006
When you discover that something you ordered off the internet turns out to be a cheap, made in China piece of crap. Also, when something you own, that was made in China breaks way too early.
Taylor: "Dude, I ordered this expensive set of chef's knives from this website. But when I got them, they were all flimsy and had cheap plastic handles."
Grant: "Oh man, you got Shanghaied."
Grant: "Oh man, you got Shanghaied."
автор: Roy D. Mercer 6 августа 2008
The process of your life changing when your in Shanghai.
"Dude, I went to China, and I got Shanghaied."
автор: sabfran 6 февраля 2006


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Even though he's no longer in Altoona, former Curve shortstop Brock Holt is still getting attention from the Eastern League.
Friday afternoon, the two-time mid-season Eastern League all-star received his first professional postseason all-star nod for his efforts in Double A.
"He deserves it," Altoona Curve manager P.J. Forbes said. "He had a phenomenal year. He's been our backbone all season."
Holt, who was promoted to Triple A Indianapolis on Aug. 7, hit .322 in 102 games with Altoona this season. He had 24 doubles, six triples, two home runs and 43 RBIs, and rattled off a 22-game hitting streak that lasted most of June.
"I was very excited when I got the chance to tell him he was going to Triple A," Forbes said. "He's off to a pretty good start up there, too.
"I know they clinched their division [Thursday night]. It's exciting for the organization and those guys that are there."
Since his move to Indianapolis, Holt is batting .400 (26-for-65) with five doubles, one homer and four RBIs. He put together a 10-game hitting streak which ended earlier this week.
"He was great. You could always count on him," former teammate Matt Curry said. "I'm happy for him. He's one of my good buddies.
"He's still killing it up in Triple A. I keep up with him every day. He's a great player and the sky is the limit for him."
Holt was a mid-season all-star selection in each of his first four professional seasons, including in 2009 with State College and in 2010 with Bradenton.
Holt's .322 average while with the Curve still leads the Eastern League and, because he has met the minimum requirements in Double A, will likely hold up to clinch this season's batting title.
Starling Marte won the batting title with the Curve last season.
"He's got enough at-bats, it's just a matter if somebody gets hot," Forbes said of Holt's chances. "I think it's great because Marte won it here last year. To win back-to-back batting titles would say a lot about the organization and some of the players we have here coming through."
"It would be huge," Curry said. "When he was here, I would always say, 'Hey, you've got to win the batting title,' and he was like, 'I know, I know. I'm trying.' He was tearing it up and then he got sent up. If it holds up, that would be great."


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A group of Antes Fort area residents have filed a lawsuit in Lycoming County Court against the individuals and businesses they say are causing health hazards and ruining their quality of life by......
@Zippie: Sure. Depending on how much volume and the contents of this stuff, though, it will be tremendously expensive. A cost:benefit analysis will easily show if it is a good idea, depending on who pays for it. I'd bet that Nicholas Meat LLC has already looked into that. If so, they'd know.
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Could they beef up the Antes Fort sewer plant to treat this stuff?
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@Fredzz: The neighbors were there long before 22 million gallons of slaughterhouse blood, from a farm with no animals was begun to be spread on the fields, next to the river, into which it runs off. But even if the people weren't there, PaDEP should be stopping this from occurring. And I will do what I can to see that that happens.
@billybob: They should sue the sewage plant if it becomes a public nuisance, in accordance with all applicable laws. If corporate factory farms and municipal authorities don't have to follow the laws, why should you and I?
@Zippie: Who exactly besides some remotely located CAFO does Nicholas Meat LLC feed? I can't see how it does one lick of good for the neighbors…or the Susquehanna River, which - in case you've missed the news for the past half decade - is in terrible shape.
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oops, sorry, that should be nobody...got too upsent writing my post
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To the ones that have commented here on this post, shame on you....you should smell and see what these people are putting up with...and there water has gone bad and now they need purifiers on their systems in order to drink what was once good water...I know, just as know buddy wants to blame the gas industry for ruining wells now you don't want to blame a farmer who does not need to use this stuff to fertilize his fields. And do you know what this stuff is made up of....SHAME SHAME ON YOU
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Sue the very hand that feeds you ... smart!
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The sewer plant is moving in right next door to these people. Will they sue them too?
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I have one question...
Who was there first...
The farm or the complaining neighbors..?
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if there getting a lawsuit does that mean the sewer authority is next when u go down 3rd st that smell is just as bad lol
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In 2008, the event once again broke IMF fundraising records by raising over $600,000 for the Peter Boyle Memorial Fund. The event was once again hosted by Ray Romano and featured hilarious comedy acts from Kevin James, Jeff Garlin and veteran comedian Robert Klein as well as a live performance by Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi as The Blues Brothers with the Sacred Hearts to a sold-out theatre packed full of fans.
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Life: The Jerry Sandusky Story, Part II.
The disgraced former Penn State defensive coordinator was deservedly slapped with the equivalent of a life sentence Tuesday after his conviction on 45 child sex abuse charges.
The 30- to 60-year sentence may give Sandusky the necessary time to reflect on all the damage he has caused to his victims, Joe Paterno, Penn State, his own family and himself.
Despite all of his proclamations of innocence and conspiracies, the truth is this: Sandusky is a sexually violent predator who deserves to be incarcerated for as long as possible.
Sandusky destroyed the childhood of numerous boys who were part of The Second Mile, the organization Sandusky founded to help at-risk youth. One of the victims said he will never forgive Sandusky for all the pain he caused him because of the illegal sexual encounters.
Sandusky destroyed his family because he will now be separated from them for life. He destroyed the legacy of Paterno, who was the winningest college coach of all time before the scandal broke. He nearly destroyed the Penn State football program because of the sanctions heaped upon it by the NCAA.
And why? Because of his selfish - and illegal - sexual proclivities toward young boys.
Amid the destruction, there is hope.
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The Fort Dorchester boys' soccer team clinched the Region 8-AAAA championship Tuesday with a 3-2 win over rival Summerville.
The game was competitive from start to finish, but the first half was largely a defensive battle.
"It was wide open the entire time," Fort Dorchester coach Chris Jones said. "I was not very happy about the way we couldn't get control of the game. It was tiring for both teams because we were back and forth and playing long ball too much. I give Summerville a lot of credit. They fought hard and are probably in better shape than us in some positions."
After the teams had the opportunity to feel each other out for 40-plus minutes, things picked up and the Patriots took a 3-0 lead.
"We had about 10 or 15 minutes of brilliance near the start of the second half but then didn't play as defensive as we should have," Jones said. "We played like we wanted to score 10 more goals, but the good thing is we got the W and we have some stuff from this game that we will be able to pull from film and use to learn."
Senior Batoua Wonlet kicked off the excitement by scoring off a free kick from near the sideline.
"We set it up like a corner kick because of where it was on the field," Jones said. "Batoua took the kick and sent it straight into the goal."
The Patriots then had a goal from senior Alihan Ozsoylu which was followed a short time later with a goal from sophomore Caleb Sandoval.
But the Green Wave was not ready to concede. Junior Walker Riley put Summerville on the board with the help of an assist by junior Madison Socha.
Later in the half, sophomore Chris Miller scored an unassisted goal to cut the Fort lead to 1. In his first game back from an injury, freshman keeper Ashton Tanner kept the Patriots from landing another goal, but Summerville was unable to get the goal they needed to tie things up.
"It was really back and forth and I felt we played well in spurts," Summerville coach Jason Rasner said. "We created opportunities and showed a lot of character to come back from a 3-0 deficit. It was a good, hard-fought battle. Fort played well and they deserve the region title."
The Patriots improved to 11-4 on the season with an 8-1 mark in Region 8-AAAA with the win and secured a No. 1 seed for this year's playoffs. It is the second consecutive year the Patriots have claimed the region championship.
"You know, Scott Campsie and Neil Veloso have been with these kids longer than I have," Jones said. "They brought these kids up through our program so they deserve a lot of the credit. I just kind of stepped in at a really good time."
Beaufort (10-7, 6-3) is now in second place for the region while Summerville (7-7-1, 4-4) and Bluffton (9-8, 4-4) are tied for third place.
The Patriots host Bishop England Friday and Academic Magnet April 29 before closing their regular season with a match at Bluffton May 1. Summerville travels to Bluffton Friday and to Stratford April 30 before closing its regular season with a home match May 2 against Ashley Ridge (8-8-1, 3-5).
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5 Celebrities Who Get Way More Hate Than They Deserve
#2. Barry Bonds
Why All the Hate?
Yes, that Barry Bonds. He of the cream and the clear. He of the shrunken testicles and expanding hat size. He of the tainted home run record. Barry Bonds took down a Major League Baseball record that, under normal circumstances, would put him in the conversation for greatest baseball player of all time. But he did it while he was using steroids, and that's not cool. To make matters worse, he denied it, like, forever. And because baseball has never been able to prove any wrongdoing, his hold on the home run record stands. That shit ain't right.
Why He Doesn't Deserve It
The argument that Barry Bonds' achievements have been diminished by his use of performance-enhancing drugs held a lot more weight for me back before I knew that EVERY SINGLE PERSON was taking steroids for like ten solid years in Major League Baseball. When cheating becomes that rampant, you're almost doing yourself a professional disservice to not join in. Is a raging case of back acne and a newly gained capacity to strangle your wife for asking you to take out the trash worth the $275 million contract Alex Rodriguez signed with the Yankees in 2007? For some players, obviously, it very much was.
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"Like those guys over there, probably."
So what does that home run record say about Barry Bonds when you factor in that damn near every player who was putting up big home run numbers in those days was just as dirty as he was? Simple: It means he was better than everyone else. Significantly better. At least when it came to hitting home runs he was, and that's not an easy thing to do. No matter how you slice it, Barry Bonds was the greatest home run hitter of his time. He had the same competitive advantage his peers did, but he put up far more impressive numbers. That's not a coincidence, that's skill.
And you're insane if you think that steroids are the only drug problem baseball has had. This article suggests that the real game changer in baseball was ridding the league of amphetamines, a move that some experts have pegged as the reason for the sudden and seemingly unexplained resurgence of the perfect game and no-hitter in baseball.
Barry Bonds isn't an island of wrong in a sea of right; he's just another player who did what everyone around him was doing to get an edge. I'm certainly not condoning it and would never recommend that anyone take steroids, but then again, I'm not fighting for a multimillion dollar baseball contract, am I?
Yes, Barry Bonds is an expert-level asshole who comes off like the office creep pretty much every time he opens his mouth. And yes, he almost certainly had more PEDs than blood coursing through his veins at any given time during a game. But so did everyone else at the time. The difference is, Barry Bonds was a far better hitter than all of them.
#1. Dane Cook
Why All the Hate?
Dane Cook's rise to fame was only slightly less swift than his Vanilla Ice-like tumble from popularity, which was precipitated mostly by claims of joke thievery. If you have Internet access, you should already know that story. If it's something that still gnaws at your conscience, you can watch the two involved parties work that shit out like adults (with television shows) in this video:
If for some reason you are still in the dark as to what I'm referring to, first off, damn you for making me do all this extra work. I expect you to come into this exchange familiar with some shit. Anyway, it's alleged that three jokes on Dane Cook's hugely popular Retaliation album were blatantly stolen from a 2003 Louis CK album. From there, the career of Dane Cook turned into a full-on hate festival wherein he went from the hottest name in comedy to literally being a punchline all his own.
Why He Doesn't Deserve It
For one thing, joke stealing is always a tricky accusation to make. Yes, the jokes in question are clearly similar (unfortunately any "comparison" videos have been scrubbed from Internet existence, because Dane Cook and Prince have the same people managing their online content, apparently), but that's not definitive proof of malicious thievery. And it definitely doesn't prove that Dane Cook isn't funny. That's a big leap to make from maybe or maybe not stealing three jokes on an album that included dozens more that nobody has claimed ownership of. Did Dane Cook write the joke in this video?
If so, he's pretty damn funny. If nothing else, hating Dane Cook for possibly stealing a few jokes from Louis CK means you at the very least need to hold Denis Leary in the same regard. Do you? No, you probably have every season of Rescue Me on DVD. But check out this video and familiarize yourself with Bill Hicks, the man Denis Leary got his entire persona (and most of his jokes) from ...
So why doesn't he get the same amount of hate that Dane Cook does? Simple: Because Denis Leary's transgressions happened back before the Internet allowed us to share examples of wrongdoing as freely and easily as we can now. Dane Cook wasn't so lucky. I'm not saying he's the world's greatest comic, and everyone is certainly allowed to not find his jokes funny, but pretending that Dane Cook is the least funny person working the comedy circuit today is a bit extreme.
Besides, everybody knows that title goes to this fucking guy ...
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As evidenced by the Rams' 39.7 points and more than 400 yards per game - along with a 9-0 record - opponents haven't had much success slowing down the Richland High School football team this season even when they've had a full week to prepare.
Now put yourself in Bellwood-Antis' coach John Hayes' shoes: He has to find a way to do it with two fewer days of practice because this week's storm caused his district to leave school early on Monday and cancel classes for Tuesday.
Maybe Hurricane Sandy is a Richland fan.
"They present a very balanced multitude of threats that makes it very difficult," Hayes said of preparing for a Ram offense that uses a variety of players and formations behind a very experienced offensive line. "Under normal circumstances, it would present quite a challenge, and even more so with less time to prepare for it, because it's quite a lot more than anything we've seen this year."
In spite of what Hayes is saying, if any team has the personnel to pull it off, it's his Blue Devils, who also come into Friday night's game at Memorial Stadium with a perfect record and having faced very few challenges.
Kickoff for the clash of 2011 District 6 runners-up - which, ironically, will have no impact whatsoever on this year's playoff seedings - is slated for 7 p.m.
"We gave them some information to familiarize themselves before they left school [on Monday]. Hopefully, we'll get a good work day in on Wednesday, and Thursday is usually a lighter day, but it will have to be a lot more involved than normal."
Now bolstered by the return of linebacker Ian O'Shea, who was injured the first half of the season, the Devils have held five straight opponents to 14 points or less and three of those to single digits.
Although they've handled Tyrone's and Northern Bedford's potent offenses and scrimmaged Central, this week's challenge might be as big as they've taken on this season. Richland, which lost to eventual state finalist Tyrone in last year's District 6 Class AA championship, has five receivers with at least nine catches, a 1,200-yard runner in Tanner Solarczyk and, in Matt Shaffer, a quarterback who has thrown for more than 1,100 yards and rushed for nearly 400 while splitting time at the position.
"You can't [simulate their athleticism]. You can show them formations. You can show them what they try to do out of certain formations. You try to emulate it as best you can, but there is no way - none of us are deep enough to have the kind of talent to put that kind of speed out there," Hayes said. "Most of our scout team is underclassmen."
Of course, Bellwood has some pretty good speed of its own. O'Shea was on a pair of PIAA Class AA medalist track relays with quarterback Seth Worthing, and Worthing's twin brother/top receiver, Cameron, also was on one of them.
Casey Gray, a 1,000-yard rusher, might be fast enough to join them, but he plays shortstop for the B-A baseball team in the spring.
"They're very well-coached, they are very disciplined and, on top of that, they are tremendously athletic. They are probably one of the speediest teams we've played this year," Richland coach Brandon Bailey said.
Like Richland, Bellwood is trying to get back to a district championship game this year - the Devils lost to Penns Manor in the District 6 Class A final at Mansion Park one day after Richland played there for the 6-AA crown last year.
Oddly, this game won't play any part in the seedings for this year's tournament. Both already have clinched the No. 1 seed in their respective classification. Since neither has been defeated, no other team in the running for a playoff spot will gain by either winning.
There is, though, plenty of momentum and status to be had for the winner.
"It isn't often that you have a perfect regular season. That's motivation right there," Hayes said. "They want to finish it off in the best fashion just like we do going into the playoffs. No matter what the result of the game is, we tell the kids we are now in another season. So you have to forget about what happened or take positives from it."
Bailey said he doesn't intend to hold anything back from trying to go 10-0 and didn't expect any quarter from Bellwood. In fact, the lack of district implications could make it more entertaining.
"Both teams have a lot of pride,"Bailey said. "For both of us, there's really nothing to lose."