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"Just like Vegas" Monte CarloMarch 8, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Manoa Campus, Campus Center Ballroom, 3rd Floor
This semester, Monte Carlo Night is back, and bigger than ever with awesome prizes, new games, and much more!
Head up to Campus Center Ballroom this Friday, March 8th, from 7-10 PM, to experience the thrill of Vegas, without the financial risk! This semester, Monte Carlo Night features games such as craps, blackjack, roulette, let-it-ride, poker and more! Never played any of these games before? Don't worry, as each game is operated by trained professionals to teach you the rules of the game, and maybe even how to win! Also enjoy live music provided by members of UH Band.
In addition, raffle prizes will be given to participants throughout the night, including Beats Solo Headphones, iPods, and gift cards, so be sure to arrive early, and stay throughout the night to increase your chances of winning! Refreshments will also be provided throughout the night to keep you on your A-game!
Monte Carlo Night
- Friday, March 8, 2013
- Campus Center Ballroom (3rd Floor)
- 7:00 - 10:00 pm
- FREE Food
- Semi-formal attire is encouraged
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- A raffle will be included and tickets will be given every 30 minutes.
- Raffle prizes include one iPod Touch, one iPod Nano, two Beats Solo Headphones and more.
- Please note that only UH Manoa students w/ validated IDs are eligible for raffle prizes.
- Raffle winners must be present to win.
- This event is FREE!
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FREE, UH Manoa validated student ID (with U-pass), and any invited guests must have college IDs.
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|Friday, March 8
|The Wellness Center - Fitness Class Schedule
Maui Campus, Pilina Bldg., Wellness Center
|Call for nominations of Honors faculty
Manoa Campus, 2425 Campus Road
|Second Language Acquisition Final Oral
Manoa Campus, Moore Hall 155A
|Cooking With Greens
Harold L. Lyon Arboretum 3860 Manoa Road Honolulu, HI 96822
|Entomology Final Offer
Manoa Campus, Gilmore 306
|Study Strategies for College Success
Hawaii Campus, Manono Campus, Bldg. 379 Rm. 1
|Linguistics Final Oral
Manoa Campus, Moore Hall 575
|Modern Day Slavery? Race and Gender in the Trafficking Protocol
Manoa Campus, Saunders Hall 637
|Using Program Assessment Results to Improve Student Learning Workshop
Manoa Campus, KUY 106
|Historical Legacies of Violence
Manoa Campus, Sakamaki A201
|German Club - Stammtisch
Manoa Campus, Manoa Gardens
|Education Final Oral
Manoa Campus, Center for Hawaiian Studies: Halau Haumea
|"Just like Vegas" Monte Carlo
Manoa Campus, Campus Center Ballroom, 3rd Floor
|The Vagina Monologues at UH Manoa 2013
Manoa Campus, Art Auditorium 132, Art Building
|La Strada
Manoa Campus, Prime Time in the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre
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- L. Stephen Lau Water Research Endowed Scholarship 2013
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Her belly may be growing fast, but Kristin Cavallari is keeping the rest of her body trim!
The reality star, who is expecting her first child with fiancé Jay Cutler, got some cardio into her Wednesday workout in West Hollywood with a little help from her trusty canine companion, Bardot.
Bardot (so beloved that Cavallari named her first shoe design after the dog) took the lead on the walk. Cavallari, who sported a little pre-St. Patrick's Day spirit with the green in her workout gear, stayed behind and frequently checked her phone.
Kristin Cavallari Stays Fit During Pregnancy by Walking Her Dog
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RICHFIELD - A group of Juniata Mennonite School students are broadening the definition of worship both in their hometowns and across the U.S.
The members of the school's puppet team, which includes youth ages 8 to 17, expresses worship through more than just traditional drama.
With an odd assortment of sticks and blacklights, puppets and multimedia, the team has conveyed its message of God's love to audiences as near as McAlisterville and as far away as Alaska.
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The Juniata Mennonite School Puppet Team is made up of, from left, front, Noah Grundon, Olivia Esterline; kneeling, Brenda Esterline, Hannah Felker, Amy Esterline, Vicki Rathmell; standing, Mary Beth Barner, Caleb Metz, Logan Hicks and Ashlie Anderson. The ministry group is organizing the Pa. Creative Arts Ministry Day in Richfield.
"We express ourselves differently and do it for the glory of God," team member Hannah Felker said. "I really enjoy being on the team because everyone is an individual. When there is a lot of work involved, you realize how much you need each other individually."
Puppeteer Noah Grundon said each person on the team has a different talent to contribute to the group.
While the teammates take time to learn from each other, they also seek out training opportunities, said team leader Brenda Esterline, who also works at Juniata Mennonite.
"We do it for the Lord," Esterline said. "We need the right training, because of who we're representing."
In 2009, the team organized a day of creative arts workshops. The team is planning its second Pa. Creative Arts Ministry Day on March 19 at the Richfield Mennonite Church, located on U.S. 522 in Richfield.
Two years ago, about 125 people attended creative arts workshops, but most of them came from outside the area, Esterline said.
This year, the team hopes to attract more local participants, she said.
The Rev. Kevin Rathmell, pastor of Chatman Community Church in Port Trevorton and a JMS puppet team parent, said the workshops are applicable for every pastor, youth leader, Sunday school teacher and youth volunteer.
Workshop topics run the gamut from traditional puppetry techniques, miming, blacklight action, storytelling and engagement techniques for "non-movers."
"When you can involve people's minds in more than one sense ... they work together to reach more," Rathmell said.
In his own church services, Rathmell said he began to act out character monologues, a technique he learned from the 2009 workshop.
His church also introduced God Rods, or dowel rods that are used to tell a story or enhance a song.
Esterline said her church used the God Rods to emphasize the words of a Christmas song. She said the visual aspect along with the music helped the congregation to better soak in the message of the song.
The unique performing arts form provides a worship venue for those who are not good singers, speakers or actors, the pastor said. God Rods allows them to express worship in a unique and powerful way that they otherwise could not, he said.
Presenters for the March workshop will include nationally known Dave and June Privett of PlaySoup, who have designed puppets for Disney and Broadway.
Back by popular demand will be Jeff Smith of Salt and Light Ministries, whose creative storytelling performances struck the hearts of his listeners at the 2009 conference.
Rathmell described Smith as the iPad of creative arts ministry - "He is cutting edge."
Mary Jo Barner, a teacher at JMS and elementary Sunday school teacher, said she was struck by Smith's use of different voices to bring life to Scripture readings.
"... Scripture is not boring, but we can read it boring," she said.
Grundon said the day also will provide networking opportunities and the chance to swap ideas with other youth volunteers.
The day will include registration, worship, devotions, a performance and workshops. Participants may choose from 16 different workshops.
The cost for the day is $20 if registration is received before March 1, or $25 after the date. Meals will be available at a nominal price. Proceeds will offset the cost of the day's expenses.
Also during the conference, the National Christian Fellowship of Puppeteers will discuss starting a local chapter in the Richfield area, Esterline said.
An evening performance for the public will feature the dowel rod class, Evergreen Creative Ministries, Dave and June Privett of PlaySoup and Jeff Smith of Salt & Light Ministries. The free event will begin at 6:30 p.m. An offering will be taken.
For more information or to register, contact the Juniata Mennonite School at 463-2898 or Esterline at 694-3095.
"If they could take one thing with them and use it in their ministry, that one thing could create a firestorm of difference," Esterline said.


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on November 28, 2012 - 8:20 PM
Brian C. Lowry appeared in North Tonawanda City Court today on charges of second-degree murder . He waived his right to a felony hearing and the case will be moved to Niagara County Court.
Lowry, 32, of Ypsilanti, Mich., will continue to be held without bail in the County Jail while his court case continues. He is accused in the death of 34-year-old Heather M. Rylowicz, whose body was found near her Lincoln Avenue home Nov. 21. Police said Lowry was an acquaintance of Rylowicz and that the woman died from a combination of blunt- and sharp-force trauma to the head and neck.
Police had been looking for Rylowicz's car, but learned Tuesday that the green 2008 Ford Taurus station wagon was impounded prior to her death by another acquaintance of Lowry's, who was arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge in Buffalo.
"The two cases are not related," said Capt. William Hall, chief of detectives, who did not name the charged motorist. "He doesn't have any involvement," Hall said.
North Tonawanda police investigators plan to process the vehicle for possible evidence in the murder case.


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on November 23, 2012 - 12:01 AM
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A Christmas tree evokes memories, whether joyful, bittersweet, wistful or nostalgic for people and times gone by. Christians (and many other people) usually have a tree as the centerpiece that represents the season. The tradition as we know it has ancient roots, but first came to America from Germany, with many variations also imported from England, Sweden and other countries. But Americans have made the Christmas tree their own.
Can you picture the tree lot in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn?" The immigrant children Francie and her brother could take home a tree, heaved at them by the lot owner, if it didn't knock them down.
Do you remember the magnificent, lighted trees in "A Wonderful Life," "Miracle on 34th Street" and "White Christmas?" It's never the tree; it's the emotion it triggers.
Was it the tree at Rockefeller Center in New York, the one at the White House in Washington, or one in your town's park that formed your first image of a public tree lighting? Were you sitting on Dad's shoulders, holding Mom's hand or visiting Grandma for Christmas?
We have our traditions, built around the Christmas tree, both collective and individual.
One of those American traditions is the trip to a Christmas tree farm (or sometimes a city lot) to choose or perhaps cut your own tree. It's not an old tradition: In 1900 only one in five American families had a Christmas tree at home, but by 1930 most Christian households did so, acquiring their trees from forests. Christmas tree farms sprang up from World War II forward, with a surge during the 1960s and 1970s. A downward trend happened during the 1980s, with competition from the artificial (plastic) tree market. Currently about 98 percent of real Christmas trees come from tree farms, where about 73 million future Christmas trees are planted every year – a valuable sector of New York's and many states' agriculture.
A Nielsen Research study showed that nearly 13 million Americans choose an artificial Christmas tree, while more than 21 million put up a real one annually. People have their reasons for the artificial tree choice – neatness, reuse, allergies.
Kind-hearted tree lovers may even feel sad about cutting down a living tree, but I would remind them that Christmas tree farming often keeps country properties afloat, that the plantation is a wildlife-friendly environment, and that trees benefit the atmosphere. About 350 million potential Christmas trees are growing right now across the United States.
Choosing your tree
While information and recommendations abound regarding which species hold their needles longest, it is difficult to predict just by species. Annual growing conditions can affect needle drop for even fresh-cut trees, and many a local grower has had a bad year when the trees didn't last very well in customers' homes. However, the best odds of keeping a Christmas tree fresh for several weeks in your house is to do this:
1. Buy fresh cut and locally grown if you can. Support a farmer.
2. Recut the butt. At the garden center or tree farm, have an inch cut off (and enough lower branches to give a butt that fits the stand). Use the branches to decorate.
3. Get the fresh-cut butt into water. Leave it in water outside until you transfer it to your tree stand.
4. Use a tree stand with a big reservoir. Really, those half-gallon sizes from yesteryear have to go.
5. Keep the stand full so the butt never dries out. A dried Christmas tree is a fire hazard and gets messy quickly besides.
6. Keep the tree cool – or at least as cool as possible. Don't put it up near a heater, the fireplace, etc. Turn the heat down at night.
As for species to choose, we have witnessed an evolution over the last years, away from the Scots pines and white pines of the 1940s, and toward more spruces and firs. Many people love spruces, because they have sturdy branches and lots of room for ornaments. Douglas fir has been a longtime favorite, although it's had some disease problems in recent years in the Northeast. The Fraser fir is America's favorite, but it is difficult to grow in our area. Many local growers prefer firs, and you should be seeing many of them – grand fir, Nordmann, concolor and others in garden centers and tree farms.
Ken Brown, president of the Christmas Tree Growers Association of Western New York, recommends we look for the Canaan fir now and in the future. It tends to grow in wetter soils (typically clay), and has beautiful needles and an attractive shape. The CTGA website www.christmastreeswny.org lists farms in Erie and surrounding counties that carry the Canaan fir and many other fine trees.
The best tree is the one that makes you happiest.
Sally Cunningham is a garden writer, lecturer and consultant.


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Since the outbreak of Palestinian violence in September 2000, organized campaigns have promoted the "divestment" of university, municipal, church and other investment portfolios from Israeli companies and from companies that do business with Israel, as a punitive measure against Israel for its policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The divestment campaign aims to emulate the 1980s campaigns against South African apartheid. Its advocates claim that the political situation in Israel, Gaza Strip and the West Bank is comparable to that which existed in South Africa. They argue that just as the anti-apartheid campaign helped to bring down not only the South African regime but also the ideology and political morals that governed it, divestment from Israel will further the struggle against what they call an inherently racist system that needs to be abolished.
Yet, despite the best efforts of activists, and some gains among church groups, the divestment campaign in the U.S. has been largely unsuccessful. To date, it has failed to bring its primary targeted institutions to divest from Israel or from U.S. companies doing business with Israel.
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Hey guys, I am just posting to revoke my application. This is nothing personal at all I have just found a different clan more to my tastes. Goodluck in upcoming affairs. Thanks
Hey guys, I am just posting to revoke my application. This is nothing personal at all I have just found a different clan more to my tastes. Goodluck in upcoming affairs. Thanks
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I couldn't have said it better myself. Well said my friend.Originally Posted by magicat
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All right, all right. If anyone wants to battle me, lemme kno. WIFI ONLY, as PO and PS STILL don't work for me
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You said that twice, for the same thing. XDOriginally Posted by BrightStarVictory
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Alright, I have offered to test people for the war team on the xat in order for us to finally get on the map. I am not going to hunt everyone down. I have vacation this week, so there is a good chance you will find me on the xat. If you want to be on the team, come there and have a battle with me. The current team is me and HoboJak, and we need more people. If we can't get a war team together in almost 20 freaking pages, I'm not sure if the clan will last much longer then that, so for the love of sweet Celestia, even if you only think you have a small chance, JUST ****ING TRY. Please.
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Why do you want to join? At the moment I'm struggling to find a suitable clan and this one looks awesome. It will also help me get better at competitive battling.
Division you wish to join most? Psychotic.
Any special positions you wish to be in? Art/tradeshops/tutors: Tradeshops if possible?
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It is I master of the Absol.
Thx. I might not be on an awful lot but I will try.
It is I master of the Absol.
Had lots of fun while I was here, and I really hope you guys get more active members, because Willie and Vic (And maybe even Leaf <3) really deserve it. I've had this planned for a while and I had promised I'd lead in the new TBC, so I'm going to have to go. While I was here I wanted to try to give you guys an activity boost of sorts with the CCAT and stuff, but it didn't really stick, and I partly have to blame myself for not pursuing it enough :/ I'll still be hanging on the xat to chat though, since you guys are really nice and fun and we share common interests *cough*ponies:3*cough*. So I really hope things start coming around for you guys. Gl!
Aw, bye Sparkbeat
Have fun elsewhere
I'm back I guess.
So long Sparky. We'll miss ya, after all, you were one of the more active members too. But anyways, good luck with whatever you're doing next.
Who knows, maybe you'll even come back some day. Bye buddy.
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Hey guys, if you're still participating in the tourney shoot me a PM
*later dies by pm shooting*
Soo...when is the new tourney going to begin?
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Tim: "Oh you don't usually buy a Sunday paper, what made you today?"
Dave: "I didn't, mate. Disguardian, wasn't it."
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On August 19, the faculty, staff, and students of the Biomedical Sciences (BMS) Graduate Program gathered together for the Seventh Annual Biomedical Sciences Research Retreat. Held at the Ramada Limited in Huntington, the retreat served as an excellent opportunity to socialize in an informal setting over a tasty lunch, share research projects and advancements, welcome a guest alumni speaker, and present awards for outstanding service and research. Dr. Elsa Mangiarua organized the event, as she does every year. Thanks to her guidance the event, as always, went smoothly and was a great success.
The event began with a buffet lunch, followed by time to mingle and view research posters. After lunch, a lively discussion commenced as research students and faculty members discussed their research projects with each other. Although this is a small group that interacts frequently, events such as this still evoke quite a bit of exchange and interest.
The poster presentations were followed by a seminar delivered by Dr. George Kamphaus, a graduate of the Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program who completed a Post-Doc at Harvard. He delivered a seminar entitled "Fc-Fusion of Clotting Factor IX: Development of a Long-acting Clotting Factor." Dr. Kamphaus is currently a Senior Scientist working for Syntonix Pharmaceuticals. There is currently only one drug on the market targeted to treated Hemophilia B, and his company is working diligently to change this fact. Currently, Hemophilia B patients must receive injections of this drug twice weekly to treat their disease. The drug that Syntonix is developing is a clotting factor that has a longer duration of action, enabling patients to instead receive weekly injections. According to Dr. Kamphaus, there are patients in India suffering from this condition who must currently travel more than 12 hours to receive their injections; a drug that can be injected once weekly will make a significant difference in the lives of such patients.
During his seminar, Dr. Kamphaus spoke highly of the BMS Ph.D. Program, expressing that it prepared him well for a career in the pharmaceutical industry. Unlike more established academic programs that may employ a silo structure, pharmaceutical companies are often smaller start-ups that require researchers to frequently interact. According to Dr. Kamphaus, the interdisciplinary nature of the BMS Program prepared him well for this. He also spoke fondly of the level of concern from BMS Program instructors: "They care about their students, and this really comes across. The individual attention to students is extraordinary, and much different than what you would find in other programs. I think this sets up BMS graduates well for success."
After the seminar, a representative from each research cluster delivered a short presentation covering current cluster research. Ben Owen, a Ph.D. student in the Neuroscience and Developmental Biology Cluster, discussed his research on action potentials; Aileen Marcelo, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Cardiovascular Disease, Obesity, and Diabetes Cluster, spoke of her work focusing on VEGF; Johannes Fahrmann, a Ph.D. Student in the Cancer Biology Cluster, discussed the effects of omega-3 fatty acids on downregulating NFkB within early-stage chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Dr. Gary Rankin of the Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences Cluster updated the group on his work on genetic polymorphisms and unexpected methodone mortality; and Dr. Wei-ping Zeng of the Infectious and Immunological Diseases Cluster elaborated on his work with CD4 T cell differentiation.
The cluster updates were followed by the presentation of awards for the 2010-2011 school year. Miranda Carper, President of the BMS GSO, presented the faculty awards. Awards were given to Dr. Travis Salisbury for Faculty Appreciation and Paula Kouns for Staff Appreciation. Dr. Salisbury was lauded for his accessibility to students. A student who nominated Dr. Salisbury remarked, "I appreciate the fact that he talks to me like an equal or a colleague." In praise of Paula Kouns, another student stated: "Outside of being a genuinely nice and caring person, Paula goes above and beyond as our department secretary."
Dr. Richard Niles presented the graduate student awards. The following students received awards:
Best Research Performance (Plaque and a paid trip to a national meeting up to $2,000): Sunil Kakarla
Best Overall Performance as a Graduate Student (Plaque and a paid trip to an international meeting, up to $3,500): Anne Silvis
Highest GPA for a First Year Medical Sciences student (Plaque): Ross DeChant, Brittany Wall
Highest GPA for a First Year Research student (Plaque): Steven Rogers
Lotspeich Award ($1,000): Jesse Thornton
Best Creative Title for the Inaugural Issue of the BMS Magazine ($100): Miranda Carper
Thank you to our participants, speakers and award-winners. Also, a big thank you goes out to Dr. Mangiarua for doing such a great job in organizing the event! We look forward to seeing everyone at the gathering again next year.


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Lasterday was pretty awesome. Beautiful outside, we had a great breakfast together but had a late start so we didn't make it to church (we did visit a new place last week and plan to go back again.) I busied myself with lots of vacuuming and laundry and grocery shopping. Though you can't see evidence of it all today.
Then hubs grilled lunch/dinner (linner?) and I later took off for Chicago; two nights in a row its bright toothy grin greeted me. I attended my first Poetry Slam at the Green Mill. I can't imagine it will be my last. So awesome.
Today I have so much to do that I don't even know where to start so here I am, sitting at my computer. Of course. I keep pep-talking myself, if I can just get to May 8. Most things taking up all my energy right now will be over by May 8: Listen To Your Mother stuff, New Orleans trip, Easter, Listen To Your Mother rehearsal,VEGAS TRIP, Listen To Your Mother SHOW.
Oh yeah, and also in between all that? My writing gigs and life with four kids.
One thing at a time.
Right now? I think I'm going to just join Gray & Ivy under their dining room table tent for a while.
Stuff will get done. It always does.


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quote: Actually I do see him doing all manner of good - humbling and putting in their place, the Repubs, is one seriously sweet thing.
quote: I'm gonna love a woman being in charge next.
quote: So what has he done. The least you can do is pretend to back up your claims.
quote: ...basically saying that no matter who the other candidates are you will vote for Hillary simply because she is a woman.
quote: But Hilary Clinton will bring a boatload of qualifications and intelligence.
quote: LOl I feel the same, I am glad Obama won just so I can see the sulking looks on the republicans faces, especially when he decides to play there own game against them


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Drama was part of what was featured at the Mark Twain Cultural Center, which concluded its lifespan at the Village Center in Incline Village in most dramatic fashion.
Economical feasibility during wintertime was unsuccessful, and the venue's co-proprietor, Twain impersonator McAvoy Layne, said farewell onstage Dec. 30, before presenting a special guest.
James Rawie announced his nonprofit, Toccata, the Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, would assume the lease and continue to hold cultural events.
Later in the evening, a woman donated a Boston Baby Grande Piano to the venue, now called the Incline Performing Arts Theater.
Earlier, Layne came up with the idea Toccata would be an ideal host, and his notion was published in Lake Tahoe Action.
"I didn't even know he had suggested Toccata would take over," Rawie said. "It was just sort of a wish they had."
The center's property manager, Art Hoff, then made Toccata a lease offer that "was too good to be true," Rawie said.
"I saw it as a working theater which could be used for music events," Rawie said. "The layout is so darned cute. I imagined a decent piano."
The piano arrived Tuesday. It was donated by the owner of Hagen Heights Vineyards in Napa, Diane Smith, who happened to attend Dec. 30.
And in a second very welcome surprise, Toccata announced in a press release that a grant from the Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation would help reduce the costs of admission to Toccata concerts for young people.
Combining Parasol's donation with matching funds from the Kling Family Foundation, Toccata will allow all students 18 years of age or under to attend all regular season concerts at no charge. Full time students ages 19-25 will only pay $5 for all regular season concerts.
The venue has a beer and wine license and is available for people to rent for events.
The first event at the Incline Performing Arts Theater will be a free piano recital at 3 p.m. Sunday by Eric Kao, the young pianist who last summer performed Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2 with Toccata. Vocal soloist Joy Strotz will join Kao for Broadway tunes and opera arias.
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Drs. Sosuri et al claim using DNA for digital storage has numerous advantages. For example, DNA is easily copied, can remain stable for thousands of years without degrading and, unlike some platforms (think cassette tapes, here), won't become obsolete in years to come. "DNA's essential biological role provides access to natural reading and writing enzymes and ensures that DNA will remain a readable standard for the foreseeable future," the investigators point out.
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Hi everyone, I know there are some inuyasha fans out there and was wondering what everyone thought about the four movies. I rthink the third movie is the best. What does everyone else think?
i agree with you there,but the fourth and first movie's were good to...the second one i did't realy care about."people do not need violence to solve there problems."
I have the first 3, but haven't watched the 3rd one yet. I think they are pretty good.
The third one is good, if you have it you should watch it.
I would, but my tv just decided to not want to work anymore. It sucks too, because I just reorganized all the dvds in my player.
Sorry to hear that.
i loved all the movies and i have them all too but the third was alittle better that the rest.
Alot of my friends say they don't like inuyasha because its to generic but I say screw them all of the inuyasha movies are great and so is the show.
thats good but witch one is your fav. mines 2 and 3.
"people do not need violence to solve there problems."
yea da 3rd 1 is mi fav inuyasha is my fav anime of all time
I like all the movies, i only have the first two seasons on DVD though, its a little expensive. I even have the old ps1 game "All of human wisdom can be summed up in two words - wait and Hope."
I have that game. Inuyasha: A Fuedal Fairytail isn't it? I also have the 2 Inuyasha games for the PS2.
I only have the one Inuyasha game partly because i do not have a ps2. "All of human wisdom can be summed up in two words - wait and Hope."
i have three of the games the ps1 the tourniment and the one were you look for the way home. "people do not need violence to solve there problems."
I like them all thare all good. I whach the tv show Inyuasha
All this strange language that is used on here by people is very hard to understand...I mean really...geeze... Dewa Mata,Niji-Hana "If you listen to the world, you'll hear all kinds of false claims about morality. But the gospel offers an unchanging standard of truth."
Yea Ya know your right about that(oh and Hi!) oh and about the inuyasha movies i gotta go with Swords of an Honorable Ruler.
I only like the first inuyasha movie, I never got to see the seconed movie where kagome kisses him. It' the most memorable sceen ever!
the third movie is really good if you get a chance to see it you should. "You will See, in Time you shall walk the same path as I"
In fact i watched over the third just a couple days ago for no apparent reason The path to conquest leaves nothing else to be desired!!!!
ummm...speaking of inuyasha do you guys no were the inuyasha manga is?
hi can you add me?
loved them =)
"Me?... Evil?...Never"
I haven't seen them yet, I can't wait to see them!!
i like when they do stand alone movies (Isn't influenced by the plot of the tv series) you gotta know a litle about the series for it to make sence , but not all the details. 1 and 3 are my favorites, but 2 and 4 aren't bad.'Yes I know I'm weird, and yes it is great fun.'
Christopher Garland(aka)garland5000It's wierd but i think that kagome love inuyasha and wants to go out with him and get married.
she doesn't want to admit she's in love with him though because he loves the dead presiestess'Yes I know I'm weird, and yes it is great fun.'
Christopher Garland(aka)garland5000
That can give the wong image at times but to think that inuyasha never admitts the ghe loves kagoma but he will never under stand the minds of a women and nither do i.
"I shall return by Gen Mac Aruther"
so forgot about that episode. well you are right about inuyasha not underestanding women, but i think he does love Kagone. 'Yes I know I'm weird, and yes it is great fun.'
that's the key to every relationship.'Yes I know I'm weird, and yes it is great fun.'
Christopher Garland(aka)garland5000It is also important to be honest with one another the same thing can be said for kagoma and Inuyasha do you agree?"I shall return by Gen Mac Aruther"
i liked the first and second movies the best. people said i should watch the movies for some closure to the series but if you go in watching the second movie with that attitude it kind of makes it disappointing 'till the big reveal. the third movie was cool, i liked the opening with inuyasha's father. i wish they explained saya more because it made it to me wierd at first. "When the heavens do not bring forth justice, man must bring it upon himself to do so. That is the meaning of Jinchuu." -Enishi Yukishiro.
***ladiii_black*** Inuyasha is most deff wuts up!. i saw all the movie. n lemme tell u, on some next level of tight! oh the 2nd movie was the best though... in my opinion. but i love the 3rd movie just cuz it goes deeper into Inuyashas past. so its kind of a toss up for me in the end.
i liked those only
well i like them all and i think they are all sweet
there were cool but 2 was ok
My favorite would have to be the second Inuyasha movie i havent had a chance to see the fourth movie yet:/ You Are My Sweetest Downfall♥
I like the last one they madeZombaukto Clan is cool Join
I like the last one they madeZombaukto Clan is cool Join
i like the movie the best one i have seen so far is the 2nd one but i also want to see the 3rd one it look's realy realy good i think that if i see it i might like it as well as the 2nd one.


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March 14, 1927 – March 7, 2013
A memorial service for Laurel J. Cammarata, who was active in North Buffalo church and volunteer activities for decades, will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 96 Jewett Parkway.
Mrs. Cammarata died Thursday in her home in Clarence. She was 85.
Known for her kind nature and commitment to community, she spent most of her life in North Buffalo, where she grew up and was involved in a wide range of volunteer activities.
The former Laurel Harrison was a graduate of Bennett High School. After high school, she did clerical work for several years at Niagara Machine & Tool Works in Buffalo, followed by several more years in the mortgage department of Erie Savings Bank.
Later, she worked for 35 years as a lunch aide at Buffalo's School 54 on Main Street, and Mrs. Cammarata was thrilled that three of her grandchildren attended the school while she was employed there. She retired in 2002 at age 75.
Her husband of 54 years, Ralph, died in 2006.
She took part in many volunteer activities at her church, including a stint as a member of the vestry, the governing body of the church.
She was active for many years in parent associations at School 54 and Bennett High School.
She and her husband were volunteers at Rosary Hill College, now known as Daemen College, in Snyder.
An avid hockey fan, Mrs. Cammarata was a season ticket holder for many years with the Buffalo Bisons minor league hockey team, and she later became a loyal fan of the Buffalo Sabres.
She also had a lifelong passion for reading and – at age 85 – decided to take a crack at becoming a writer.
"Just in the last few months of her life, she took up a writing course and began writing short stories," said her son, Peter . "We are so happy that we have those stories."
In addition to her son, Mrs. Cammarata is survived by a daughter, Nancy Cich, and a sister, Norma Mann.


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In announcing devastating sanctions against Penn State early Monday morning, NCAA President Mark Emmert praised the cooperation of PSU President Rodney Erickson and Karen Peetz, the new chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Just imagine how much harder the sledgehammer would have shattered the Nittany Nation if Emmert actually didn't like Erickson and Peetz.
Or if Graham Spanier and the rest of Penn State's former leadership team, including Joe Paterno, were still in the saddle.
Oregon State President Ed Ray, chairman of the NCAA's executive committee, minced no words, saying if Penn State's previous administration "would have been as transparent, collaborative and cooperative" as Erickson, "we would not be having this conversation."
For the record, Monday's press briefing was not a conversation.
It was an indictment that included the words "civility, honesty, human decency, horrific, egregious, responsibility, perverse and unconscionable" and, siding with the damning Freeh report, condemned Penn State's culture and its handling of the Sandusky scandal.
Long criticized for being a passive organization that took too long to police its member schools, the NCAA moved swiftly and decisively in delivering unprecedented sanctions to Penn State and its football program, including a $60 million fine, a crushing four-year postseason ban, a reduction of 10 scholarships per year (from 25 to 15 beginning in 2013 with a team maximum of 65) and the stripping of the school's wins from 1998-2011.
The university at least took Joe Paterno's statue out of the ground intact: The NCAA, reaching further than it had to, cut him off at the knees and adjusted his victory total from a Division I record 409 to 298.
There is no question the sanctions aren't fair to this year's team and its new coaching staff.
But as this case sickeningly proved, life isn't fair. Just ask Sandusky's victims - one of whom was seen being abused by Sandusky in a shower by a Penn State assistant coach who tried to forward the matter only to have it die in the email of his superiors.
"Athletics overwhelmed core values," Emmert said.
In sending a "stark wake-up call" to its entire membership, the NCAA made an example of Penn State not because of Sandusky but because of Penn State's handling, or non-handling, of Sandusky.
Though harsh, the NCAA's verdict - even though it strayed from its traditional investigation and empowered its president and even though the Freeh report didn't interview some key players - is difficult to criticize.
To its credit, Penn State, eager to move on, is accepting of the consequences and signed a consent decree agreeing to the sanctions. Had it appealed, the case could drag out even longer, creating more uncertainty and finger pointing, and perhaps ending with the same result.
Penn State did get one piece of good news Monday with the affirmation that Bill O'Brien, who has impressed so many in the way he's handled the fallout from this crisis, pledged a longterm commitment.
Whether all the current players stay and recruits previously committed for 2013 are willing to play for a program that won't be eligible for the Big Ten championship or postseason bowl games is another question.
O'Brien's challenge appears insurmountable, but if he stays committed, he still has wonderful facilities to tout, a passionate fan base and a strong tradition, albeit one now tainted.
As a former NFL assistant, O'Brien is used to managing a smaller roster as opposed to the bloated squads of college football today - many players from which are redshirted, tried at multiple positions and don't even get a chance until they've been in the program for three or four years.
Penn State football won't be competing for a national championship or a Big Ten title anytime soon, and the focus will be limited to a regular season.
Victories may not bring euphoria, and losses, unlike the past decade plus, won't be the end of the world.
People may begin to view it for what it's supposed to be - a game - and after the last eight months, that may actually be refreshing.
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The Mavericks reached a verbal agreement with C Samuel Dalembert on Wednesday, reports ESPN's Marc Stein.
Dirk Nowitzki, Andrew Bogut, Deron Williams, Wesley Matthews and Devin Harris will not play in Saturday's preseason opener.
Joel Embiid is expected to start the preseason opener on Tuesday vs. the Celtics.
Ben Simmons has suffered a fractured fifth metatarsal in his right foot.
Coach Stan Van Gundy said Boban Marjanovic is "unstoppable down low."
Elfrid Payton (hip flexor) did not practice on Friday.
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5 Jokes That Make Customer Service People Hate You (Pt. 2)
Last month, I wrote a column about all the good men and women working service industry jobs and suffering under the tired "jokes" of customers who don't have the vaguest conception of either comedy or things employees enjoy hearing while working. The column did pretty well, and I slept soundly that night, knowing hundreds of thousands of earnest workers had found a new hero.
Did I mention I dreamed hundreds of thousands of earnest workers called me a hero?
But some were not so pleased. Some said it is a small, bad man who takes offense to customers cracking harmless jokes. How could I suggest murdering such customers, they asked, and then they explained how they lived their lives like Zen masters, undeterred by the passing indignities of manual labor. In response, I did the only thing I could:
I had a dream where those mean commenters were processed into hamburger and eaten by an angry giant
Then I woke up and wrote this sequel. Here are five more horrible, cliched jokes that workers have to hear every day, and how I think those workers should be allowed to react in a just world.
#5. Saying "It's Good. I Printed It This Morning" to a Cashier Checking Large-Denomination Bills
Even in today's world of automatic debits and swiping money chips lodged in your urethra (I'm beta-testing that right now), people still pay for things in cash. And sometimes that cash comes in large denominations: $20s, $50s, and even $100s. Now, I'm not sure if you know this, but if you're a cashier and your drawer doesn't add up at the end of your shift, some employers take the difference out of your pay. Other employers fire you. That's why accepting a counterfeit $100 in place of a real one would be a bit problematic for cashiers. And beyond that, some businesses have trained their employees to always check for the various official markings of higher-denomination bills, so cashiers do it because, y'know, it's their job.
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"Yes, a picture of Nicolas Cage giving Benjamin Franklin a reach-around ... this one's good!"
But don't let that stop you from making a great joke! If you're an exceptionally funny person, when this happens to you, you'll wait until the moment the cashier inspects your bill and say ...
"Don't worry. It's good. I printed it this morning!"
Get it? No, he's not saying he works for the United States Treasury Department; he means it's fake. It's a counterfeit bill. So actually when he's saying "don't worry," if it were true, the cashier should totally be worrying. So it's funny because it's true. Wait, I mean it's funny because it's not true. Wait a minute. It's not in any way funny, and if you do it, I hope that cashier drops the bill in alarm and instantly has security restrain you while she calls the police, advising that she caught the fake-$50 bandit and obtained a full confession.
#4. Telling Your Server, "Oh, That's Just What I Wanted!" After Being Informed What the Restaurant Is Out Of
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So have you ever gone to a restaurant and, instead of getting the specials, the server tells you what they actually don't have? Yeah, it's a bit of a drag, but I think that's a pretty stand-up policy. Better than letting you get your hopes up. But y'know, whether it's a good policy or not, your server sure as hell is not the one who made it. He or she just works for a place that says "Tell the customers up front when the kitchen has taken some things off the menu."
But again, a good consumer is always on the lookout for the perfect opportunity to deliver a top quality zinger out of a mundane situation. So once your server says, "Sorry, but we're not serving pork chops today," the perfect thing for you to say is ...
"Oh, great! That's just what I was gonna order!"
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"Get it? You're a huge disappointment to me!"
This punchline is a little more subtle than our first one. See, the joke here is: "Feel like a dick, you shitty server. You've let me down!" Yeah, when you write it out, it kind of doesn't seem that hilarious, and yet that's the joke. This is not to be mistaken for when you actually were going to order an item they're out of and you mumble something like "Oh, that's what I was going to order, I think I need another minute." That's just a normal thing to say. This is just, man, I don't know, but it happens. So if your server replies, "Really? But I think you'd better order a sense of humor or, I don't know, functional genitalia," then you kind of had it coming.
#3. Ordering a "Tall Blonde" at Starbucks and Then Adding ... Anything
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Have you been to Starbucks? Of course you have. No one's strong enough to resist their subliminal advertising messages encoded into the Norah Jones and Arcade Fire CDs. So as you well know, Starbucks does this thing where they call a "small" a "tall." This shouldn't be too surprising to you because they also call a cup of "charred, burned axle grease" a cup of "coffee."
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Starts your morning right and helps the gears in your industrial generator fire smoothly!
What you might not know about Starbucks, though, is that they make a coffee referred to as a "blonde." You can see where this is going. All over this great land of ours, there are men craving an overpriced and decidedly mellow small cup of coffee who can't wait to proclaim ...
"Give me a tall blonde!!!"
And then they wink or say "hubba hubba" or do absolutely anything to indicate they're talking about a sexy lady!
This isn't funny. It will never be funny. If you think this is funny, there's an excellent chance no woman will ever want to talk to you, tall, short, blonde, or otherwise. Say "tall blonde, please," and nothing else, or learn to drink a stronger coffee instead of one made from the tears of dewinged fairies.


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We reported earlier today that dark
clouds were looming over Research In Motion. This afternoon, RIM announced
its fiscal Q2 earnings [PDF]
and things aren't looking so pretty. The company reported net income of $695
million for the quarter compared to $934 million in fiscal Q1. Its fiscal Q2
earnings were also down compared to the $769 million in made in the same
quarter last year.
RIM stock is taking a beating in after hours trading,
currently down 15.11
percent to $29.93.
When it comes to hardware sales, RIM announced that it
shipped over 13 million BlackBerry smartphones and roughly 500,000 Playbook
tablets. RIM wouldn't specify how many Playbooks it has actually sold at
this point.
For his part, RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsille had this to say about
this company's performance during fiscal Q2:
2012 has gotten off to a challenging start. The slowdown we saw in the first
quarter is continuing into Q2, and delays in new product introductions into the
very late part of August is leading to a lower than expected outlook in the
second quarter. RIM's business is profitable and remains solid overall with
growing market share in numerous markets around the world and a strong balance
sheet with almost $3 billion in cash. We believe that with the new products
scheduled for launch in the next few months and realigning our cost structure,
RIM will see strong profit growth in the latter part of fiscal 2012.
As a result of its latest misfortunes, RIM also announced
that it will "streamline operations", which means that a
"headcount reduction" will take place. RIM didn't go into specifics
on how many workers will lose their jobs, but the company has a current
workforce of about 17,500 employees.
quote: No one bought the Playbook
quote: RIM shipped 500,000 of them already just in North America, and they are launching it in 16 more first world countries (Western Europe, etc) right now, so you can just stuff it like all the other engadget clowns who don't know sh1tand next time when you read the "OOOHHH AAAHHHH I'm ejaculating in your mouths guys 'cause I'm holding THE HOLY IPHONE 5 GRRRZOMG!!!!!!111!! IN MY HANDS!!!!" reviews from engadget - you will remember my words. unless you are a tony swash clone of course. I don't understand how people can believe these Steve Jobs deep throating cock suckers at engadget and other pro-Apple "review" sites. come on folks MAKE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT, DON'T LET yet another Jobs cock sucker on a secret Apple payroll to skew your decision making with their so called "reviews" - REVIEW THE STUFF YOURSELF! who are you guys, real men who can think for themselves or are you Apple sheep/Engadget sheep/Gizmodo sheep? come on, don't disappoint me.I'm talking about my real experience and you are showing me Apple propaganda from Gizmodo in response? really? nice try Chaser AKA Tony Swash 2.0, didn't expect THAT from ya buddy...


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The Kiwanis Club of Tahoe Sierra will host its ninth annual Easter Ham Bingo on Saturday, March 23.
The game is open to people of all ages. Cards cost 25 cents each per game. There will be at least one winner per game. Free popcorn, coffee and cookies will be available. Hot dogs, soft drinks and bottled water will be available for purchase.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Aktion Club of Lake Tahoe, which is a Service Leadership Program for adults with disabilities sponsored by the Tahoe Sierra Kiwanians.
The event will take place from 5-8 p.m. at the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Center, 1080 Rufus Allen Blvd. For more information, call Cheryl Millham at 577-2273.


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A grey January afternoon in Notting Hill, lately the setting for the
Hollywood blockbuster of the same name. In it boy meets girl and they
fall in love against the vivid backdrop of Notting Hill bohemia. When
boy and girl are Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, then Notting Hill is
bound to acquire the status of 'cool' in the collective psyche of
Notting Hill however proves to be even more than already meets the
eye, never mind its newly acquired fame, for apart from its colourful
markets, ye olde bookshops, streamlined minimalist restaurants and cafes, Notting Hill is also the locus
of the oldest Order of Women Freemasons in the land. And I was on my
way to meet the Grand Master, MW Bro Brenda I. Fleming-Taylor.
I entered Pembridge Gardens, a residential street flanked by
substantial Victorian terraced houses with projecting porches supported
by white marble columns. One house, however, had pitch black columns. I
approached them and rang the bell.
Soon I was shaking hands with the Grand Master and on a guided tour
of the Women's Grand Lodge. It felt so tranquil, so remote from the
hustle and bustle of Notting Hill; in fact it was as though I had
stepped into another world, and when I walked into the temple, I
realised that I really was in another world. The Grand Master
invited me to try her magnificent gilded chair for size, and although I
would define myself as a Cartesian in philosophy, there was no doubt
about the feeling of elation I experienced; or was it because the chair
stood on a podium?
Eventually we reached the Grand Master's office where three other
members were waiting. I was introduced to Dr Monika Boggia-Black (Past
Assistant Grand Master), Mrs Barbara Whittingham (Assistant Grand
Master) and Mrs Margaret Masters (Deputy Grand Master).
Founded on 6 March 1908 with the title of the Ancient Masonic Union, and subsequently the Honourable Fraternity of Antient Masonry, the order has been called the Order of Women Freemasons
since 1958. At present there are 349 lodges, with two consecrations in
the pipeline. The order is derived from the first English Co-Masonic
Lodge Which arrived on these shores from France in 1902.
first three lodges, established on 5 June 1908, called themselves Free
Masonic Associations of Men and Women and one of them had a lady at its
head whose initial title of Sister Florence Faulding was changed before the day was over to that of W Bro Florence Faulding.
Other orders proliferated from this nucleus. In 1913, a group of
members of Lodge Stability No 5 seceded to form an order called the
Honourable Fraternity of Antient Freemason's and one of the reasons for
this was, according to the Grand Master, that "they wanted to work Royal
Arch Masonry. So, I think, eleven of them left, taking with them the
warrant of Lodge Stability No 5."
Paradoxically, the first Grand Master of the order was a man: Dr
William Frederick Geickie Cobb (UGLE member and Co-Mason), Rector of St
Ethelburga-the-Virgin within Bishopsgate in the City of London between
1900 and 1941 and a supporter of women in business.
My interests, as usual, were of a more secular nature: who are the
members? What do they think about Co-Masons? How do they relate to the
members of the United Grand Lodge? What is it like to be 'one of us'?
What makes somebody want to join? Some questions were answered with
courtesy and humour, some others were not answered, some others were
tantalisingly eschewed, but since the discussion was conducted with
four, instead of the customary one person, I was four times as
privileged in terms of material...
After my visit to so magnificent a temple, I was prompted to ask
about regalia, and Dr Boggia-Black volunteered: "Well, with most of the
Christian degrees, when we start, normally we wear short black dresses
with whatever regalia is necessary, and when we get on further into
Knights Templar, then we wear the Templar regalia, consisting of a tunic
with red cross and cloaks - to keep the horses' bottoms nice and warm! -
and the swords, black gloves, helmets - the whole thing. The only
difference between men and women is that men wear black trousers and we
wear black stockings. The regalia through the higher degrees is more or
less the same, except that men would probably be wearing black morning
dress and we wear black short or long dresses, according to rank. The
ceremonies do not differ. In the Craft degrees, all lodges vary - there
are hundreds of different rituals - but all the higher degrees past
Royal Arch - Templars, Rose Croix for example - are the same as those of
men. We all work from the same book."
In most lodges, according to the order's own brief account of its
history, the ladies "wear a long black skirt, white blouse and a
surplice of white voile. Some Lodges have their own traditions, which
include wearing evening dress for Installations, and white for a First
Degree and black for a Third. Candidates wear a simple white cross-over
pilgrim's gown over their clothes, with just enough skin showing to
apply a poignard, Square or Compass: '
My questions were being addressed, albeit in a curiously roundabout
way, but two very important reasons which appear to attract women to
Freemasonry were emerging: the first was to do with the spirit of
friendship, support and camaraderie which binds everyone together in an
extended family; the second was that the majority of women come from
families with well established traditions of membership of masonic
societies. Furthermore, the Order of Women Freemasons emphasises the
spiritual basis of Freemasonry and it may be that women are more
sensitive to the spiritual aspects of Masonry than many men.
"When I go into the temple," the Grand Master said, "I feel
immediately at home. I feel peaceful, relaxed. You leave the outside
world behind and sit with like-minded people. You have come to do a
particular thing that you have in common. You probably have a social
board afterwards when you can talk about everyday happenings, family
events &c." Mrs Barbara Whittingham agreed: "The friendships you
make in Masonry are special ones; you can attend a function of one or
two thousand people; you sit down next to a complete stranger and say:
'Oh hello, I am so and so, what lodge are you'? She will tell you and
you immediately start talking about the lodge experience. Oh yes, we do
so and so; we support this charity, or not, we look after that one...
very special friendships." "You can go to a lodge for the first time,"
added Mrs Margaret Masters, Deputy Grand Master, "and you will never be
left on your own. People will come and make you feel welcome."
Whilst the Grand Master and Mrs Whittingham followed the family
tradition when they became Freemasons, Mrs Masters had nobody in the
family that belonged to the fraternity; in fact she was not only unaware
of women masons, but had never even heard of Freemasonry. Meanwhile, Dr
Boggia-Black joined before her mother, although her father had been a
mason. She describes her activities in the order as "a fascinating
hobby, and as with everything else, you get out of it in proportion to
what you put into it. If you are interested to go on and learn and meet
people, I think this is probably the only hobby that I know of where
women of all ages, all levels of education and so on can meet together
on the same level."
Finally, I asked the Grand Master about their relationship with the
rest of the masonic community, especially the United Grand Lodge of
England: "We have never enjoyed a close relationship with them because
they did not initially acknowledge our existence and we still have the
original petition, dated 1928, when we wrote to them. We just wanted
recognition and they refused point blank on the grounds, I suppose, that
we are women. It was quite an upsetting time for the powers at work in
"From then on, we decided that if we were to be recognised, it would
be on our terms and not theirs. Now we enjoy a far better relationship
with them from a publicity point of view, for they openly acknowledge
our existence. They even have women working on their premises, which at
one time they would not have allowed. They know we exist and I like to
think... perhaps it is a bit naughty, that the reason they did not
acknowledge us was - I said that to their former Grand Secretary,
Commander Higham: "You know deep in your hearts that we perform our
ceremonies much better than you:' Charming fellow!"
As to relations with Co-Masonry, the idea was dismissed rather
peremptorily: "...I think that the proof of the pudding is in the
eating" said Dr Boggia-Black. "The Co-Masons are a very small order and
we are the largest organisation of women Freemasons." I continued to
press the point and was surprised to learn that the competitive spirit
between men and women operated with impunity.
The Grand Master explained: "How can it work, let's say, if the woman
occupied a senior office, and the husband was a junior officer? If you
have the situation that in a lodge, you as, Master of the lodge would be
issuing orders, how would your husband feel if you ordered him to do so
and so? Can you see the problem?" I could not see that there was a
problem in the first place, but well understood the implications.
"...Our husbands join us in our social activities and we join them. At
the socialising level it works, but it would just not work at any other.
We are a single sex organisation and it will stay that way. And that
will not change, certainly for as long as I am Grand Master."
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CLEMSON — When Steve Spurrier became Florida's head coach in 1990, it was permissible for established players to force the freshmen to shave their heads and carry the older guys' helmets and pads.
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"We did away with all of that," said Spurrier, now in his ninth season at South Carolina. "I don't believe in any of that crap. None of it. Everybody's on the same team, especially with freshmen eligible now. We're all on the same team, and just treat everybody the same. That's what we try to do here."
At Clemson, the philosophy isn't much different.
Brandon Thomas, the Tigers' veteran left tackle, and Ryan Norton, the young center, were asked the same questions, separately, without knowing ahead of time the scorching-hot topic of hazing would be broached.
Their responses were nearly identical.
That's how in tune two of Clemson's offensive linemen are on the subject of bullying. In that it's really not a subject at all for college football's No. 8 team in the BCS Standings.
Mess in Miami
Thomas and Norton are busy guys, but during the Tigers' off week they did casually follow the explosive reports coming out of Miami. Dolphins Pro Bowl left guard Richie Incognito has been suspended indefinitely for excessive hazing of second-year left tackle Jonathan Martin, who left the team in late October amid emotional distress.
On Nov. 4, it was revealed Incognito left a graphic voice mail in April that included racial slurs and a death threat. The reports of continued mistreatment and harassment have dominated the headlines ever since.
Thomas, a fifth-year senior and 2012 All-ACC left tackle, and Norton, a sophomore center and the only new regular starter on the offensive line, each calmly stated nothing of the like happens at their school.
"It doesn't happen here. We're a family. We consider everybody as family," said Thomas, who has already graduated with a degree in secondary education. "If we were so-called bullies, it'd be playing around and stuff. We don't consider bullying that serious here, because we just don't see it."
Obviously, nobody outside the Clemson locker room truly knows everything that goes on in the Clemson locker room. Hearing from Thomas and Norton, however, it sounds like even wet willies and noogies would be of the rare variety — forget hate-filled slurs (contextual or not) and aggressive taunting.
Norton's answer to the same question was similar to what Thomas said.
"Here at Clemson, I don't see that at all. We're a family here," Norton said. "We look out for each other. We'll throw little playful jabs at each other, but nothing serious, nothing that, you know, would bring anybody to that point. And if they were bringing it to that point, we would correct it right there. So that's not something I see as a big deal here."
Norton replaced four-year starter Dalton Freeman this fall. So have the older guards and tackles done anything out of the ordinary to toughen him up?
"I haven't received any of it. If anything, I've received encouragement," Norton said. "I wouldn't say they really tested me. They had confidence in me when I came in. That's all I really needed. Like I said, we're a family here. We treat each other like brothers. That's the way it should be."
'A non-issue'
Neither South Carolina nor Clemson has a firm policy outlawing hazing, but that's mainly because neither program perceives it to be a problem.
"Of course, we don't have any players here that were ever hazed," Spurrier said. "So it's a non-issue with us here. If you allow it at the beginning, it can continue. But we really don't even have to talk about it much.
"Help out the younger guys. That's what we tell the older guys. If they get lost on campus, can't find the classroom, help them out a little bit. That's what we try to do here."
Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney demands proper treatment of every individual in his building.
"We've got a policy on how everybody treats everybody. Just treat people with respect and class, that's the bottom line," Swinney said. "Whether it's the janitors here, the secretaries, the freshmen, whatever. There's no tolerance at all for just poor behavior and treating people with a lack of respect."
At the same time, it doesn't boggle Swinney's mind that something like the Incognito-Martin incident could happen.
'Stupid things'
"Anytime there's people involved in anything, there's going to always be bad character, bad integrity, stupidity. Because we're people, and we do stupid things," Swinney said. "If you allow things like that to happen, it will come back and bite you."
The one inquiry giving Norton pause was trying to imagine how such disarray could not only happen within the bond of a football team, but why other players would condone it.
"It's a little hard to believe, but it's really not my place to say what it is," Norton said, referring to the Miami Dolphins. "That's their franchise, that's their program, they can deal with it the way they want to. I just know here at Clemson, we're not really anywhere close to that."
Tigers quarterback Tajh Boyd will be an NFL rookie next year, but he's not concerned for his safety or happiness among his elders.
"I've never been a part of hazing. I haven't really been on a team where it's been a part of that," Boyd said. "I mean, you have rituals. You might get thrown in the ice tub or something like that. But nothing to the extreme."
Even when Spurrier played 10 years and coached two years in the NFL, it wasn't an issue.
"No, I never experienced anything in the 10 years I was in the NFL. Nothing even close to hazing," he said. "We didn't have any of that."


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by Gary Sipiorski
The author is the dairy development manager for Vita Plus of Madison, Wis. He is a member of the board of directors with Citizens State Bank of Loyal, Wis.
There appears to be a "shift" coming that will put a strain on most dairy farm cash flows. In the past five years, lenders have been flush with money. With historically low interest rates, it has been easy to get money. High commodity prices have resulted in skyrocketing land prices. Now it is time to stop, think and pay attention to the changing landscape.
As I write this article in mid-August 2013, milk futures in 2014 are all sub $17. Inventories of butter are at 20-year highs and cheese stocks are quite strong. If these future prices end up being the actual milk price, every dairy cash flow in the country will feel the pinch.
While that's a bearish perspective, there are some market conditions that could improve the situation. Basis added to the milk check where applicable will help. The growing export of dairy products may also ease mounting product inventories. Given all these factors, take a look at your cost of production and think about the impact on your checkbook.
At this time the growing corn, soybean and Canadian canola crops could push the combine's monitor read outs to high levels. If this holds true (baring an early frost), the Western-style dairy producers who buy most of their feed needs will find a price relief. If this situation comes to pass, the lower feed cost may continue to soften the milk price.
The Federal Reserve sent up trial balloons on interest rate changes in May 2013, making statements about tapering back their purchases of U.S. Treasuries (UST) and Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS). Just the talk of an impending purchase cutback from $85 billion each month has already caused the 10-year USTs to jump a full percentage. If your farm loans are still on a variable interest rate, what will higher interest rates mean to your monthly loan payments?
The place where I am driving to is how will you pay your bills if the above scenarios play out? A number of financial people over the last few years have been trying to alert producers on the importance of "liquidity" or just having free cash available to pay bills. Statements have been made encouraging dairy producers to hold 10 percent of their gross income on the current asset side of their balance sheet. Alternately, one month's milk check should be held in cash. Those comments have been met with questionable looks as producers say, "Do you have any idea of what I could buy with that much cash?"
As we get a somewhat clearer picture of the "possible troubled liquidity train" coming at us, now is the time to make a plan for a cash crunch need. Here are some options:
1. Build cash reserves.
2. Get caught up on your bills.
3. Secure a margin between input costs and milk prices. Seek assistance from a broker or your milk plant. If you are new to this area, be careful.
4. Talk to your lender about fixing interest rates. Those producers with high debt levels will be the first ones to feel the squeeze.
5. Secure lines of credit with your lender.
6. There will be dairy producers who have to take out additional loans secured with assets such as cattle, machinery and land. Land values may not plummet, but a leveling off and drifting down in the price may occur with $4-ish corn in coming years.
7. Many lenders will have to apply for USDA Farm Service Agency guaranteed loans to meet customers' needs and satisfy board of directors, capital levels and the lender's regulator.
All of the above can change overnight in this era of uncertainty. But just taking a peek over the next hill may avoid an unwanted collision with the financial future. This may be a good time for a "liquidity shift."


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Both Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry returned home to joyous neighborhood welcomes on Wednesday. In Gina's case, that included a backyard family gathering attended by relatives and the closest of family friends.
One of those friends, Lydia Esparra, tells PEOPLE: "Despite being skinny, she looked very healthy. She obviously doesn't have a lot of skin color, 'cause she's been living in a house with no sun for nine years. But she looks amazing. Amazing."
By day's end, the family had erected blue plastic sheeting to shield the shaded backyard of the home on West 71st Street from view.
Police ProtectionSixty blocks away, at her sister's home on West 129th Street, Berry also privately celebrated her return. Neither woman showed her face when she arrived home by police motorcade – Gina wore a hooded sweatshirt as she was rushed inside, and Amanda entered her sister's house via a backdoor out of view – and on Thursday, police remained posted outside both houses to keep unwanted visitors at bay.
Michelle Knight, meanwhile, had returned to MetroHealth Medical Center, where a hospital spokesman says her condition Thursday was listed as "good" but provided no other information. Her mother, Barbara Knight, had arrived from her home in Florida and was still waiting on Wednesday night to see her daughter.
Yet outside the Berry and DeJesus homes, balloons and welcome-home signs fluttered – happy signs of the community's growing embrace for the long-missing girls.
A Time to Re-Connect"Gina's enjoying her family," says her cousin Sylvia Colon. "She's right now only spending time with our immediate family and her friends that she's known since she was a little girl. No one else will have the opportunity to see her any time soon." She added: "We just want some time to really connect with our loved one."
Esparra, the family friend – who is also an anchor for Cleveland's WOIO-TV and has been covering Gina's disappearance since it began nine years ago – had never met Gina and knew her only from missing posters and composite sketches suggesting her age progression.
"We embraced," she says. "I said, 'Oh, you don't look like your composites,' and she just kind of smiled and said, 'Yeah.' "
But even among the constant smiles inside the home on Wednesday afternoon, she says, "It was subdued. They're doing the right thing, they're giving Gina her space."
"They're not saying things can get back to normal," Esparra says of Gina's parents and family. "They know this is a long process."
As one relative spoke to her in Spanish, Gina turned to her mom, Nancy Ruiz, and quietly explained that after her years in confinement, "I don't understand Spanish anymore," says Esparra.
But Gina had not forgotten another detail involving her father, Feliz DeJesus, who told Esparra what happened when he embraced his daughter for the first time just hours after her rescue on Monday.
"As she was hugging him, she said, 'Dad, are you still smoking?' " says Esparra. "And he said that was the most beautiful word he's ever heard: Dad."


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Special-education teacher assistant Jennifer Amerson stopped working for the Charleston County School District in June 2010, but the district deposited checks into her bank account from August 2010 through March 2012.
The school district sent her $34,188 that she had not earned, and when officials realized their mistake, they sued Amerson to get the money back.
"There were miscommunications," said John Emerson, the district's attorney. "There were weaknesses in personnel and in the system that we're working on. ... Errors were made, and supervisors should have noticed that someone was on a payroll who wasn't present."
Amerson's situation appears to be the largest overpayment to a terminated employee in recent history, but it's not the only one. The district accidentally paid 35 employees a total of about $65,000 during the 2012-13 school year, and that's not counting Amerson.
The overpayments happened for different reasons, and they represent 0.4 percent of the roughly 8,000 tax forms the district issued for that year. Anything more than "zero" isn't good, but these numbers are good, said Mike Bobby, the district's chief of finance and operations.
"We are actively involved in recovering every penny," he said.
The management letter of the district's audit recommended process and procedural changes for its payroll department, and officials say those are happening.
The district gives schools and departments lists of the employees who are supposed to work there, and supervisors are supposed to review those for accuracy, Bobby said. That had been done in the past, but it's happening now on a monthly basis, he said.
The district also is working toward an automated system in which hourly employees would have to manually input their time. If employees aren't present to do that, then they wouldn't be paid, Bobby said. He hopes to have that in place by the 2014-15 school year.
Neither of those changes were in response to the Amerson case.
"We think we do a good job, but we're working on doing a better job when we know there are issues we can improve upon," Bobby said. "That's what we take away."
Officials described the Amerson case as unique, and the type of job she had and its funding source added to her situation's complexity.
No one answered the door at the North Charleston address where district officials stated in legal filings that Amerson lived. The Post and Courier left a note in the mailbox at that address telling Amerson about this story and asking her to speak with a reporter.
A woman left a voice message on a reporter's phone saying someone apparently knocked on her door and that she didn't want to speak with anyone.
"I just want to keep my life confidential," she said in the message. "Please don't come and knock on my door anymore."
Amerson held multiple positions while working for the school district. Most recently, she had been a special-education assistant for a specific student at Goodwin Elementary. She was paid out of federal Title 1 money, and that money is a different funding stream than that of most traditional classroom teachers.
Her assigned child transferred to C.C. Blaney Elementary for the 2010-11 school year, so her position moved, too. Emerson, the district's attorney, said Amerson never showed up at Blaney, but she also never submitted a formal resignation letter.
Those factors, as well as problems with personnel who process paperwork and no longer work for the district, created a "perfect storm" for the overpayment, Emerson said. No one person was at fault.
"The facts are that it happened, and this situation is very unusual," Bobby said. "It's now being corrected and we're moving on. Anytime there's a situation where something doesn't work the way we intended, we try to examine what happened and do what we can to change the system."
The district won its legal case against Amerson, who has repaid at least $3,535 of the $34,188. She still owes the district money, and officials are in the process of collecting those funds.
"She has not been cooperative," Emerson said.
The district asks anyone who has been overpaid to repay the money, but that typically doesn't involve litigation.
Todd Garrett, a county school board member who chairs its audit and finance committee, said he would like the committee to discuss this issue with the administration. He wasn't aware of the overpayments, and that's something that should be reported to the board, he said.
"It's a waste of taxpayers' dollars," he said.