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The Kentucky Derby Festival announced its keynote speaker for this year's They're Off Luncheon.
Legendary NFL quarterback Archie Manning will address more than 1,500 derby festival supporters on April 19, which is the day before Thunder over Louisville.
Manning is also the father of Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning.
This is the 57th annual luncheon, which kicks off the Kentucky Derby Festival each year.
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To be decapitated by an axe or sword by someone preferably riding a horse or motor cycle. Basically, it's a drive by beheading.
Did you see that movie "300" when that dude's son gets sleepy hollowed right in front of his dad?
Yeah that shit was epic!!
Yeah that shit was epic!!
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Can you define these popular missing words?
When you fuck a bitch until you cum and then you chop her head off with an ax
Yo i Sleepy Hollowed that bitch last night, she's dead.
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Fly Over a Virtual South Florida
Imagine you are flying above Florida, looking down at the winding (and in some places straight) Kissimmee River, the enormous Lake Okeechobee, the patchwork quilt of farmlands, the watery green Everglades, and the urban sprawl of houses and roads. For those of us who are not superheroes with the ability to fly, the students participating in our Digital WAVE program can give you that opportunity. They have been learning about climate change and the water pathways throughout south Florida, and have created a 3D virtual south Florida to illustrate these crucial environmental issues. Take a photo tour of south Florida with us, and you will be amazed at the progress amd creativity of these young people. (Click on each image to see a larger picture.)


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Board/2012 Nominations
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Nominate new board members here.
Anyone may put forward a name for the Noisebridge Board of Directors for 2011. Please list whom you'd like to nominate, along with your name, pseudonym, or wiki signature. If you accept the nomination, please mark your assent next to your name. See Board_Nominations_2011 for example.
Nominees must be in by january tenth, 2012. A bit more detail about the process [here]
We will hold elections at annual general members meeting on january 31st 2012.
MCHawking -- non-humans are not eligible to stand.
- Rayc -- nominated by Meeting, 2011-12-27
- accepted: -- challenge accepted
- Liz Henry -- nominated by Meeting, 2011-12-27
- accepted: -- Yes
- I don't believe in central authority but would act to do whatever financial/legal duties need doing. My contributions to Noisebridge tend to be in small organizational things like getting the donation money and depositing it in the bank, or cleaning and organizing, deleting spam from the wiki, and so on. If on the board I'd like to communicate back to the general population of Noisebridge whatever it is that the board is doing or discussing. Also, VOTES FOR ROBOTS!!!-- liz
- accepted: -- Yes
- Danny O'Brien -- nominated by Meeting, 2011-12-27
- accepted: ok then --Malaclyps 03:30, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Gavin -- nominated by Meeting, 2011-12-27
- accepted: - yes
- Mek -- nominated by Meeting, 2011-12-27
- accepted: - y
- Max Adler -- self-nominated
- accepted: self-nominated
- Tom Lowenthal -- nominated by rlh 2011-12-31
- accepted: --Flamsmark 19:55, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- My manifesto and pledge as a board member.
- Ben Kochie -- nominated by rlh 2011-12-31
- accepted: challenge accepted
- Snail -- nominated by Tom
- accepted: y
- nick -- nominated by nick
- accepted: self-nominated
- Andy -- sure, whatever. Adi 04:53, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
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Serves 5 |
Prep Time 25 minutes |
Cook Time 10 minutes
8 ounces any Eden Soba, 1 package
1 cup broccoli florets, blanched 2 minutes
1 cup cauliflower florets, blanched 2 minutes
1/4 cup carrots, julienned, blanched 1 minute
1/4 cup red radishes, sliced into thin rounds
1/4 cup snow peas, blanched 1 minute
1/4 cup red onion, sliced into thin halfmoons, blanched 1 minut
8 ounces organic extra firm tofu, cubed, marinated 30 min. in 1/4 c. shoyu, 1/4 c. water and a dap of grated ginger root
Shoyu Ginger Dressing
1 Tbsp Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce
1/3 tsp fresh ginger root, finely grated
1/2 cup water
1 Tbsp fresh parsley, minced
2 Tbsp scallions, minced
1 clove garlic, finely minced
1 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Cook soba as package directs. When done, rinse under cold water and drain. Place in a mixing bowl with the blanched vegetables and tofu. Prepare the dressing by mixing all ingredients together in a glass jar and shaking vigorously. Pour over the soba and vegetables several minutes before serving. Toss frequently to evenly mix.
Eastern, Good/High Fiber, Good/High Protein, Japanese Food, Macrobiotic, Main Course, No Sweetener Added, Oils, Pasta, Salad, Vegan


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EAST ST. LOUIS — A southwestern Illinois woman was sentenced to 60 years in prison for her role in the 2011 carjacking and slaying of a bingo-playing grandmother.
LaTosha Cunningham was sentenced Tuesday for first-degree murder in the death of 85-year-old Yoko Cullen.
The Belleville woman was convicted earlier this year.
Prosecutors say Cunningham and two men were waiting for Cullen outside a Collinsville bingo hall, stopping the woman from driving away.
Authorities say Cullen was forced into her trunk and driven to East St. Louis, where her car was set on fire while she was inside and still alive. Her charred remains were found two days later.
Prosecutors say the trio targeted Cullen to steal her bingo winnings and a credit card.
DaQuan Barnes was also sentenced to 60 years for the attack last month.
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When you have a massive deuce that must come out when your at a big party. You remove the top lid to the toilet, and release all the poo into it. When done, put the lid back on, and walk out like nothing happened.
I just put an upper decker in her toilet, HAHA!
There gonna be lookin for that upper decker for weeks,HAHA!
There gonna be lookin for that upper decker for weeks,HAHA!
boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie tərəfindən 16 Yanvar 2006
A modification on the "classic" upper decker. In a public toilet setting (where there are no tanks/commodes), you improvise and shit in the urinal.
When Hank got fired from his job, he pulled an upper decker in the company bathroom.
David C tərəfindən 12 Avqust 2005
Unleashing the biggest load of crap in the top portion of the toilet.
"I wasn't able to get a beer at this party, so I took it upon myself to give him an upper decker in the toilet".
mark abestin tərəfindən 18 Dekabr 2003
to leave a nice steaming terd on the toilet seat, enhancing the savory odor for the next user of the john; especially irritating to females, dudes not so much. Not to be confused with a Back Door Bandit which involves removing the lid of the reservoir tank and much better balance
eww, gross!!! some fuckwad left a upper decker in there!!!!! take me somewhere to tinkle, dammit!!
coldbowl tərəfindən 17 May 2007
To put toilet paper over someone elses poo when the toilet is clogged and then take a shit on top of the original poo.
I shit on eric's poo because he clogged the toilet and there was nowhere else to go.
grind tərəfindən 16 Yanvar 2004
(Film Critique). When a movie starts out engaging and has great potential, but then the ending falls apart and the whole thing turns to shit. It's like finding an Upper Decker when you flush your toilet at the end of a party. It's there, and it's shit, you just don't know it yet.
The movie Enemy (2013) was a real Upper Decker.
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Why does Oklahoma have so many birdbrains like THIS?
Just as extreme weather season kicks off, freshman Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) demanded that President Obama apologize to Oklahoma for allocating funding to climate change research. Bridenstine, a climate denier who serves on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, plans to introduce a bill that defunds climate change research.
�Even climate change alarmists admit the number of hurricanes hitting the U.S. and the number of tornado touchdowns have been on a slow decline for over 100 years,� Bridenstine said on the House floor Tuesday, according to Raw Story. �But ...
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Scott Currie - Demo of Quake on .NET
- Posted: Aug 31, 2004 at 6:51PM
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Wow.. Try *that* in a Java Virtual Machine..
This so great. I think the C++ team is leading the way into the future. It's all about extending your current code base, the one that you worked so hard to perfect, the one that your customers love, the one, if it is an application that runs on Windows, is
most likely written in C++, to work seamlessly with our managed platform, paving the way for the advent of great features that are quick to produce and are also safe by default thanks to the CLR and associated technologies. Fantastic work. I am amazed.
mc.schroeder wrote:BTW, Quake2.NET is available at http://www.vertigosoftware.com/Quake2.htm
Why would there be performance hit on Pentium 4, but no performance hit on Pentium 3 or Centrino for C++ in CLR?
One would think that it would be the other way around.
"What is the deal with performance? Is C++.NET the best?"
Frankie Fresh wrote:path.
What is the deal with performance? Is C++.NET the best?
Frankie Fresh wrote:
Seriously, was there any reason for using C++ over any other language? Aside from the fact that the original Quake code was likely C++ and porting it to C++.NET was the shortest path.
Frankie Fresh wrote:
What is the deal with performance? Is C++.NET the best?
I think the point of the video is exactly that: that it wasn't a big deal. It was easy.hoz wrote:"Porting" Quake to the .NET platform is no big deal. For the Java port we had to rewrite major parts of the code. We build a comletly new sound engine based on OpenAL which makes true 3D sound possible.
Varsity wrote:I think the point of the video is exactly that: that it wasn't a big deal. It was easy.
hoz wrote: "Porting" Quake to the .NET platform is no big deal. For the Java port we had to rewrite major parts of the code. We build a comletly new sound engine based on OpenAL which makes true 3D sound possible.
Question to those in the know,
Scott said in the video you could get a 10% increase in performance on a Centrino by compiling to MSIL. Is this true of all .NET languages or is it only true of VC++ .NET?
KSG wrote:
I think you're under the incorrect belief that this compile of Quake resulted in just normal native code. No the result of the recompile with the /clr option was MSIL (similar in some ways to Java bytecode). You can run ILDASM on the .exe to look at the MSIL code.
KSG wrote:
What if I could take Doom3... the original code, throw the /jvm switch and now it was running on the JVM at 90% of the native code speed. And then I added some Java control to the game -- all easily. Now wouldn't you agree that this would be big news? Well that's what you just saw with .NET.
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These images relate to productions from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, giving an overview of the developments in theatre styles from Shakespeare's own time to about 1914, with stress on the earlier centuries. Plays included are grouped alphabetically by play title, with production details listed under each title where known. The last page 5 illustrates the range of theatre stages on which these plays have been performed. Please note that the later, more narrowly focused period sections (Galleries 3-9) overlap with the end of this broadest one (Gallery 2), so some related pictures may appear in later contexts (including a few in the Bibliographies and About Us). As noted some of the pictures in this gallery were provided by the Shakespeare Centre Library, Stratford-on-Avon, by permission of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and the Furness Image Collection of the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania, except for those identified otherwise. The remainder are from the UCB Shakespeare Program collection. They are intended for educational and non-commercial purposes.
Title page of the 1611 quarto of William Shakespeare's play Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
Mr.Cooper as Pericles, 1796.
Richard II: Mrs Farren as the Queen, Bell British Library, 1786.
Richard III: Garrick as Richard III, London, Drury Lane Theatre, 1769.480 hits by 6/10/11.
Richard III: J. P. Kemble as Richard III, London, Drury Lane Theatre, 1783.
Richard III: Edmund Kean (1787-1833) as Richard III, 1814.
Richard III: Irving as Richard III, London, Lyceum Theatre, 1877.
Richard III Poster, 1884: Thomas Keene (1840-1898) as Richard.
Richard III: Julia Arthur as Lady Anne at the Lyceum Theatre, London, 1896.
Romeo and Juliet: Mr. David Garrick (1717-1779) and Miss George-Anne Bellamy (1727-1788) in the characters of Romeo and Juliet
Fanny Kemble (1809-93).
Romeo and Juliet: The attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble, as Juliet. Furness Collection
Romeo and Juliet, 1846: Charlotte Cushman as Romeo and Susan Cushman as Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet: James William Wallack (1818-1873) as Mercutio, 1859.
The Taming of the Shrew, 1780 : Mrs. Wrighten as Katharina in Burgoyne's comic-opera version: Katharina and Petruchio.
The Taming of the Shrew: Ada Rehan (1859-1916) as Katherina, 1893.
Taming of the Shrew:George Clarke as Petruchio. See previous image for his Kate.
Taming of the Shrew: The final Tableau at Daly's Theatre, 1893. See previous images of Ada Rehan and George Clarke.
The Tempest: Miss Brown as Miranda, Mr. Mattocks as Ferdinand. London, Covent Garden Theatre, 1776
Priscilla Horton as a winged Ariel in The Tempest. Published in 1838.
The Tempest: J. L. Cathcart as Caliban, Prince's Theatre, Manchester,1864.
Timon of Athens, IV.iii, 1999, Royal Shakespeare Company.
A Scene from Titus Andronicus Circa 1595.
Titus Andronicus:Ira Aldridge (1807-67) as Aaron the Moor (IV.ii).
Title page of the revised quarto edition of Troilus and Cressida (1609).
Troilus and Cressida, II.iv : Cassandra.
Troilus and Cressida (V.ii.40): Troilus, accompanied by Ulysses, overhears Cressida's seduction by Diomedes, with Thersites watc
Troilus and Cressida (IV.iv): Mrs. Cuyler (17581814) - actress and courtesan - as Cressida.
Twelfth Night (III.iv): 1774.
Twelfth Night: William Farren (1786-1861) as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Twelfth Night: William Davidge (1814-88)as Malvolio.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1785: Mr. Quick as Launce with his Dog.
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1895): James Lewis as Launce and his dog Crab.
The Two Noble Kinsmen by John Fletcher William Shakespeare 1634
Winter's Tale: Mrs. Pritchard as Hermione, London, Drury Lane Theatre, 1762.
The Winter's Tale: Perdita (1757-72)
The Winter's Tale: John Fawcett (1768-1837) as Autolycus.
Edward Kynaston (c.1640-1706)
William Betty (1791-1874) as Hamlet.
Taming of the Shrew: Laurence Olivier (aged almost 15) as Katharina in 1922.


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SALEM - While hammering out a road use management agreement earlier this summer, Fairfield Township trustees made detailed arrangements for Chesapeake Exploration to pay half the replacement cost for a $24,000 culvert.
It was a typically small RUMA, but at the township level anything can be a big deal and trustees were concerned.
While 24 "bills" is a lot of money, replacing a 40-foot section of 60-inch culvert is a lot of work too, but the oil and gas companies moving into these new neighborhoods have a highly-developed sense of corporate image.
Along with cash they carry a certain amount of magnanimity.
Chesapeake agreed to cover half the culvert cost, but it was after trustees registered gripes regarding a previous RUMA that left two township roads in less than satisfactory condition.
Chesapeake farmed the work out but dust and "slimy" conditions after rain led one trustee to say the "roadability" on one road was destroyed.
Trustees had additional concerns about their annual road program, so they got Chesapeake to agree to let them do their own road work, scheduling it around annual chip and sealing and Chesapeake would reimburse the township.
Problem solved.
That's what got them to the culvert situation in the next RUMA.
Trustees presented two quotes, one with a granular backfill at $20,910 and a higher-priced quote for a $24,064 culvert with a concrete encasement.
Reasoning that the persistent dry weather conditions and the brevity of the job would work against it settling in firmly, trustees opted for the more expensive concrete culvert.
Most everybody looks for bargains and tries to shave copper off of pennies, and that's why trustees were somewhat surprised when Chesapeake agreed to the more expensive fix and to split costs down the middle.
Trustee Barry Miner pointed out last month, "This is a direct situation. We called it to their attention and they agreed to split the costs.
"We called them and three days later they called back. The contractor is working on it right now."
Miner noted it was to Chesapeake's credit.
"Sixty inches is fairly large, that's where Chesapeake has been tremendous ..." Miner said.
Arrangeents were recently worked out and Chesapeake will pay $12,032.
Another example of a large energy company treating a neighbor right came last January when Consol Energy donated $22,318 for a fire-rescue boat on Wheeling Island for the Wheeling Fire Department.
The dock, just behind an Ohio River-front fire station, is up and running but would not be there without the generous donation since a number of attempts to secure grant money were unsuccessful.
The dock had been sought after for years.
Annually around seven million tons of coal from a Consol mine in Marshall County is pushed through the area, north toward Pittsburgh.
David Kelly, vice president of Consol's Ohio Valley operations said it was an opportunity to be a good neighbor and advance Consol's core value of safety.
So there's something happening between these energy giants and their new-found local beneficiaries. Corporate image seems to be forming up at center stage.
During the Youngstown Utica shale business expo earlier this month, Youngstown Mayor Charles Sammarone beckoned visitors and participants in his opening remarks by noting the shale boom is "the next big boom for the Mahoning Valley."
And there to was a corporate attitude emerging that some people might not recognize.
Harry Schurr, general manager of operations for Consol Energy which just opened what he called an "extremely strategic" field office in the World Trade Center in Leetonia ... yes Leetonia, has some interesting comments aside from talking shop.
He called the vast range of the Utica and Marcellus shale plays "gifts."
Gifts that will allow Consol to "go back onto people's properties repeatedly ..."
He even threw in some historical context. Oilfields? Texas oil? No, no, no.
How about Pennsylvania, the Drake well?
"The first oil well ..." Schurr said, "and now we're with the Utica and the Marcellus."
Primarily a coal producer, Consol, Schurr noted is in a "unique" position as it "operates on so many different horizons ... surface, coal seams, and from a regional perspective there are vast coal reserves in the area along with natural gas, water, and world-class universities and a national energy technical lab - the Department of Energy's (DOE) lab for fossil fuel energy research and a motivated and educated workforce ..."
Somewhere in all the talk of energy independence, facts, calculations, numbers of rigs and drill holes converted into millions of dollars, he managed to say something so downright humane and caring it gives pause: "Access to economical electricity is a basic human right."
Now that's putting a human face on a corporation. Sure there's a dollar sign in there but, man, that's pretty darn refreshing.
Corporate attitude? Almost didn't recognize that one ... but in the quest to unearth a natural gas supply that someday may provide 75 percent of that electricity, Schurr posed Consol's five core values: Safety, compliance, continuous improvement, production and cost.
"We don't want to do anything without talking about safety," Schurr said. "(Regarding) compliance ... we might not get it right the first time, but we will ..."
As far as production and cost, Schurr said they will come along if you do the first three while adding the company remains dedicated to research and development of coal.
But back to the safety thing. It really is played up big.
Safety - absolute zero accidents - from the executive level to the line employees, Schurr explained, "If you have a problem (safety) with something on our site we expect you to shut it down ... even the contractor ..."
That credo leads to one more point, "People ask, 'why not disclose chemicals?'" Schurr said.
"We do, it's on FracFocus.org."
The website has a chemical registry that says, "In a single year, FracFocus has made a national impact from the Beltway to the Bakken.
"During this time, more than 200 energy-producing companies have registered over 15,000 well sites through FracFocus."
Visitors can search for nearby well sites that have been hydraulically fractured to see what chemicals were used in the process.
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Systemwide Events Calendar
HYDRUS groundwater modeling workshopApril 9, 8:00am - 5:00pm
Manoa Campus, Watershed Hydrology Laboratory at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) is hosting a three-day training workshop (April 8, 9 & 10) on advanced modeling for water flow and contaminant transport in soils and groundwater using the HYDRUS software packages.
HYDRUS is currently used for wide variety of industrial, agricultural, and environmental applications worldwide.
The HYDRUS workshop includes a detailed discussion of water flow and solute transport processes in the vadose zone, followed by an overview of techniques for solving the governing flow and transport equations. During hands-on computer training sessions, participants will use the Windows-based HYDRUS-1D (open source) and HYDRUS (2D/3D) software packages, including additional modules such as ROSETTA, HP1, UNSATCHEM, and the Wetlands Module. The workshop will emphasize preparation of input data for a variety of one- and multi-dimensional applications.
Selected advanced HYDRUS topics covered in this workshop include:
- Coupled movement of water, vapor, and energy (including the surface energy balance)
- Preferential/nonequilibrium water flow and solute transport (using dual-porosity and dual-permeability models)
- Biogeochemical transport
- Modeling flow and transport in 3D
The workshop instructor is Dr. Jirka Šimůnek, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside.
Cost for the 3-day workshop:
Graduate students: $295
Faculty and post doctoral researchers: $395
Non-university (general public): $495
Event website (please note personal laptop computer requirements for participants):
Registration contact:
Barbara Guieb: firstname.lastname@example.com
Event Sponsor
Water Resources Research Center, Manoa Campus
More Information
Chittaranjan Ray, 956-9652, email@example.com , http://www.wrrc.hawaii.edu/HYDRUS2013.php
|Tuesday, April 9
|The Wellness Center - Fitness Class Schedule
Maui Campus, Pilina Bldg., Wellness Center
|HYDRUS groundwater modeling workshop
Manoa Campus, Watershed Hydrology Laboratory at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
|Biomedical Sciences & Health Disparities Symposium
Manoa Campus, 651 Ilalo St (JABSOM) Honolulu, HI 96813
|College and Career Fair
Windward Campus, Hale Akoakoa
|The Environmental Law Program Presents: Net@Work
Manoa Campus, Law School, Moot Court Room
|Linguistics Seminar
Manoa Campus, St. John Auditiorium (St. John, Room 011)
|Robert T. Wong Endowed Lectureship
JABSOM 651 Ilalo St MEB Auditorium, Honolulu, HI 96813
|History Final Oral
Manoa Campus, History Library, SAK A-201
|Give me Liberty…or At Least Give Me a Good Death
Manoa Campus, Law--Classroom 1
|Biomedical Sciences Final Oral
Manoa Campus, JABSOM, Access Grid #202
|ASUH Student Forum on Rail Transit
Manoa Campus, Art Auditorium, Room 132
|Growing Conscious 1.0
Manoa Campus, The Free Garden (behind the Art Building)
|Chelsea Fujitani, clarinet
Manoa Campus, Orvis Auditorium
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(my best impression of the sound of blowing out a birthday candle.)
July 11, 2010
(my best impression of the sound of blowing out a birthday candle.)
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Hehehe cute!ReplyDelete
Great pics :-)
I LOVE her crown.ReplyDelete
I'm pretty sure that when you're almost 2 the whole WORLD is your party.ReplyDelete
And those cupcakes look so good!
It was a great party!ReplyDelete
she and addie both.ReplyDelete
Oh Happy birthday big guy!!! I hope eight is especially great for you!!!ReplyDelete
ditto what Amber said! LOVE the crown. And, Happy Birthday Carter!ReplyDelete
Oh those cupcakes look delish! Hope you guys all had a great day :) (and the crown is just adorable...)ReplyDelete
Cute! :)ReplyDelete
Happy birthday! 8 is a great age to be.
Happy birthday!ReplyDelete
I love the crown too.
I need a crown like that! Parties are all for us, right? :)ReplyDelete
Love that crown! :)ReplyDelete
Whffooo ... I thought it would be the way Ivy says "love you." Heh.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Carter!!
Wow - a crown and fauxhawk - those are some cool kids!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Carter! :)ReplyDelete
Soooo cute!! It must be birthday week over there, huh? Party recovery mode for us too :) Adorable pics!ReplyDelete
Love Ivy's crown! Can you share where you got it? I'm thinking it looks etsy-ish. : )ReplyDelete
the crown is from My Cakies on etsy! :)
That pic of Ivy with the phone on the wall in the background and the chair she is sitting in... it's like you live in a different time Steph. A simpler time. And I LOVE that.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday to your cool dude. :)
What? You mean all parties aren't hers? ;)ReplyDelete


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Veterans Day events recognize two Kennesaw State alumni
Kennesaw State honored two of its own this Veterans Day with events on the Campus Green. President Daniel S. Papp reminded the crowd that "Kennesaw State is proud to be recognized as a military friendly school, and we want to be even more so in the future."
The family and friends of 1st Lt. Jonathan Walsh, who was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, dedicated a red maple (Autumn Flame) on the Campus Green beside Kennesaw Hall and unveiled a plaque in his memory. Later, KSU alumnus, Army Maj. Stefan Hutnik of Marietta, delivered the keynote address.
For more on the day's events, please read the story below that appeared in The Marietta Daily Journal.
KSU ceremony honors fallen alumnus
by Lindsay Field
email@example.com The Marietta Daily Journal
November 09, 2012 01:22 AM
KENNESAW — Kennesaw State University students honored one of their own Thursday with a tree dedication for the fallen soldier.
Members of Kennesaw State University's ROTC Club, Enactus Team and Veterans Club sponsored a short ceremony to dedicate a tree on campus to the late Army First Lt. Jonathan "J.P." Walsh, who graduated from KSU in 2008 and was killed in action at age on 28 on April 22 while serving with the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan.
The dedication was followed by the school's annual Veterans Day celebration. This year's keynote speaker was KSU graduate and east Cobb native Army Major Stefan Hutnik.
Around 50 people attended a tree dedication ceremony for Walsh, including his parents, Paul and Carolyn Walsh of Kennesaw and a family friend Jonathan Robinson, on the school's Campus Green at 11:45 a.m.
Chaplain Rabbi Albert Slomovitz, a retired U.S. Navy Reserve captain and history professor at KSU, gave the benediction.
"We ask you to remember all our veterans who have given the supreme sacrifice to our country," Slomovitz said. "Our hearts cry a little bit on this beautiful, sunny day as we remember Lt. Walsh, who also came through our halls at Kennesaw and loved this country so much that he gave his life for it."
The school's Student Government Association veterans representative Derek Ridings said the tree serves as a "living legacy" of Walsh.
"I am humbled to stand in the shadow of this tree," he said. "The thought of Jonathan having walked this ground inspires me to continue serving our student veterans with renewed energy. His story will live on throughout our campus."
Ridings, a 2002 graduate of McEachern High School in southwest Cobb who served three tours of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom as a military policeman in the Army, is studying American History at KSU with plans to graduate next fall.
"On behalf of the university, Associate Vice President for Operations Major Gen. Maria Britt, a retired Army National Guard member, said Walsh lived the "Warrior Ethos."
"I will always place the mission first. I will never quit. I will never accept defeat, and I will never leave behind a fallen comrade," she said. "This tree will memorialize his spirit and forever keep his courage locked in our hearts. We are honored to call him an alum and a fellow brother in arms."
Following the ceremony, Walsh's mother made a statement to university spokesman Robert Godlewski.
"He was a wonderful son, and I'm going to miss him. He was a first responder and he wanted to do something in life that made a difference."
She also told Godlewski that Walsh's son, Austin, turns 1 on Saturday.
Shortly after Walsh's dedication, KSU President Dan Papp welcomed the crowd of about 100 people to the school's annual Veterans Day celebration.
"Kennesaw State is extremely proud of our veterans and of our serving military. We are also extremely proud to be designated by the U.S. Department of Defense as one of only six military-friendly institutions in the state of Georgia," he said. "We are also extremely, extremely desirous of being even more military-friendly over the course of upcoming days, months and years."
This year's keynote speaker, 34-year-old Hutnik, graduated from Pope High School in 1996 and KSU's Coles College of Business in 2000. He currently is stationed at Fort Benning near Columbus and is the son of Richard and Lynne Hutnik of Marietta.
"It's an honor for me to be able to talk to you today. It's great to be back on campus here at Kennesaw State. It's been about 10 years since I've been back here on campus, and everything has changed quite a bit, so I appreciate the opportunity and the honor you've bestowed on me to speak a little bit about veterans … basically bragging about my soldiers during my last deployment in Afghanistan," he said.
Hutnik told a story about the courage his soldiers took when their vehicle was hit by a bomb while giving a tour to ranking officers in September 2010, calling it a "simple act of heroism."
No one was killed in the incident, but Hutnik said it illustrates what makes veterans "uniquely special people."
"They're willing to forego their own discomfort, they're willing to disregard the fact that they may be wounded in action with the enemy, they're always going to look out for their friends, but even when they're looking out for friends in a combat situation, their heart is so large that they're willing to help out other people and always willing to go that extra effort," he said. "May God always bless America's veterans."
After Hutnik's speech, about 25 veterans in attendance took the opportunity to introduce themselves and briefly explain their military service.
Among those were Rep. Ed Setzler (R-Acworth), who was a captain in the Army and served between 1992 and 2001; Kennesaw City Councilman Tim Killingsworth, who was a staff sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corp; and Lt. Walsh's father Paul Walsh, who said he served two tours of duty as a tank commander in the Vietnam War.
Lastly, there was a "Blessing of the Flags" ceremony, followed by a playing of taps for Walsh and the late Army First Lt. Tyler Hall Brown, a former member of the Yellow Jacket Battalion and Georgia Tech Army ROTC program who was killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom on Sept. 14, 2004.
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adj. One who is less than appealing. One who seems as though he may have homosexual tendancies. These people can be easily spotted by the sandles with jeans, skinny jeans, Bright colors etc. This is also a person who you could see giving another man a western grip. This word is not only exclusive to males, and derived from the movie Pooty Tang. example of a tytanie would be Clay Aiken.
Look at soljah boy with that yum yum hat on. Wow what at freakin tytanie.
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Interview with Peruvian finance minister Luis Miguel Castilla
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automatic pilot will not work any longer. We were helped out by
very favorable winds outside our country, with very favorable
terms of trade and commodity prices at historic peaks. Given
that the world is most likely going to go into a phase of
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Antitrust Review of the AT&T/T-Mobile Transaction
Allen P. Grunes
The Konkurrenz Group
Maurice E. Stucke
University of Tennessee College of Law; The Konkurrenz Group
May 18, 2011
Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 64, p. 47, 2011
University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 156
In this Essay, we review AT&T Inc.'s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, Inc., under federal merger law, under the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission's 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines, and with a focus on possible remedies. We find, under a rule of law approach, that the proposed acquisition is presumptively anticompetitive, and the merging parties in their public disclosures have failed to overcome this presumption. Next we find that under the Merger Guidelines, there is reason to believe that the transaction may result in higher prices to consumers under several different plausible theories. Finally, we turn to the question of possible remedies. We conclude that there is a high likelihood that divestitures will not solve the competitive problems, and make the case for enjoining the acquisition.
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Bayfield�s Haley Clarke started the second half of Tuesday night�s game at Durango like a comet � Haley�s Comet.
The Bayfield High School junior flashed through the Demons� pressure defense, drawing a foul in the lane early in the third quarter.
Clarke hit the first foul shot. The second bounced away, but Clarke chased down the rebound and hit a short bank shot.
Minutes later, Clarke drove again and dropped a textbook bounce pass to teammate Jaida Ross for a basket that helped the Wolverines cut into what had been a six-point DHS lead.
�I got pretty motivated when we were down at halftime,� Clarke said. �So, I went out strong in the second half.�
A Clarke steal, a Durango foul and two foul shots by Clarke set up the Wolverines to take a brief lead when Clarke swished two more free throws.
Another basket in the lane by Clarke with 4 seconds to play in the third quarter put the Wolverines up by two points heading into the final quarter.
Clarke scored nine points in the third quarter, and she finished with 14.
�We played very physical,� Clarke said of the nonconference game that featured an epidemic of fouls. The Wolverines shot 39 free throws in all, converting 21. Clarke was 8 of 10 from the line.
�Every single one of our players went as hard as they could go. We were back up for awhile (in the second half), but then they (Demons) got the best of us,� Clarke said after the Durango girls outscored the Wolverines 20-7 in the fourth quarter to beat Bayfield 54-43.
�Durango ... they really came out of nowhere (in the fourth quarter), and we were not ready for it,� said Clarke, daughter of Simon and Tica Clarke.
�They did an excellent job,� said Clarke, who credited the Demons for their impressive fourth-quarter surge.
�I play on a traveling team with those girls (from Durango), so I know them,� the BHS junior said.
�She (Clarke) is learning how to be an offensive threat,� Bayfield assistant coach Jacob Posey said.
Posey, who handled the bench coaching duties with a hand from his father, head coach Ronnie Posey, said Clarke did a lot of work on her game last summer.
�She�s doing a really good job,� Jacob Posey said.
The Wolverines battled though the Durango press and overcame 17 first-half turnovers to stay in the game.
�For the first three quarters ... we were patient for the most part,� Posey said.
But when the Demons made a run to open the fourth quarter, he said the Wolverines struggled to match their baskets.
�Anytime a team hits a couple of shots (in a close game), you have to match them,� Posey said.
�We didn�t necessarily show as much patience ... not necessarily patience but as much composure on offense (in the fourth quarter). You have to give them (Demons) credit.
�I didn�t feel like we got bad shots, but we were really tired. And that was probably my fault. I left the girls in the game too long,� Posey said after facing Durango�s pressure defense on the big 95-foot floor at Class 4A DHS.
The Wolverines (1-2) play the majority of their games on 85-foot floors around the Intermountain League.
�I think it does make a difference,� Posey said.
The Wolverines� pressure defense on the big floor added to the fatigue factor.
�I think we did get a little tired in the fourth quarter, and we didn�t close out on their shooters,� Posey said.


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to get hurt in any way and get on the ground crying doing the worm and throwing things while freaking out on your friends that are there
Damn he started pulling a sean when i shot him in the eye with a nerf gun.
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To use improper grammar in a sentence and to have the spelling skills of a 5 year old.
Im pulling a Sean. Can you help me spell this word?
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CHARLES TOWN - When the entrance into the Citizens Fire Company property was marked for emergency vehicles only, residents of the County Green subdivision became frustrated with the amount of traffic they were facing, by being forced to enter at the next exit off W.Va. 9 at W.Va. 115.
After voicing concerns at a Charles Town City Council meeting earlier in the year, Charles Town Chief of Police Chris Kutcher encouraged the West Virginia Division of Highways to conduct a traffic study.
"The results of the traffic study said it didn't warrant a traffic signal, but it did warrant a four-way stop," said Charles Town City manager Joe Cosentini.
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The intersection for South George Street and Citizens Way in Charles Town is now a four-way stop.
District 5 traffic engineer Kenneth Clohan said work on the four-way stop began and was completed Wednesday despite the rain. He said the WVDOH, along with the Charles Town Police Department, would be closely monitoring the intersection for further evaluation and to determine if additional improvements were needed.
"We don't take it lightly to put in an all-way stop," Clohan said, adding the traffic study began in December, as did working alongside the police department.
Clohan said the first few weeks of travel through the intersection are the most difficult when a new four-way stop is installed, because drivers who are used to that intersection may not realize the new stop signs are in place.
He said the changeable signs will remain along the roadside for the first few weeks before the signs to signal drivers to the traffic pattern change.
"There are hazardous blind spots at that intersection," said Shannon Thrasher, president of the County Green Home Owners' Association. "There have been some serious accidents down there."
Thrasher said she drove through the intersection after its completion on Wednesday and she said the four-way stop may lend itself to additional issues.
"It may cause backups coming off the exits," Thrasher said. "But it is supposed to be monitored and another traffic study done if needed."
- Staff writer Michelle Horst can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 138, or www.twitter.com/mhorstJN.


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Ice cold winds and a light snow tore through heavy-hearted firefighters as they stood at attention and gave a final salute as the casket bearing Jim Tingle passed in front of them in Leetonia Monday morning. Firefighters from Leetonia, Columbiana, East Palestine and Winona gathered for the "Last Call" service for Tingle. The funeral procession went from the Woods-Rettig Funeral Home and through the village of Leetonia to Oakdale Cemetery. He began his volunteer firefighting career in 1958 with the Washingtonville Fire Department and, moving to the Leetonia Fire Department in 196,9 he served there until his retirement in 2008.
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Slump or not, gambling revenue will never meet promised goal
March 28, 2013
Total monthly revenues from slot machines and table games declined in February for just the third time in Pennsylvania's short casino gambling history. This will hardly be the last such decline....
Wheres all this money gone then?
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The only thing certain is death and taxes & legalized bribing of government officials.
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From Day one of this promise the taxpayers knew that it would be broken. Pennsylvania is already a poor state, what is surprising about revenue leveling off at casinos?
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Citizens Bank of West Virginia has welcomed Rebecca Schoonover as financial advisor for PrimeVest and Citizens Investment Services.
Schoonover will be based at the bank's Elkins branch, and will serve clients in Randolph, Tucker, Pocahontas counties and surrounding communities.
"Rebecca has built a solid reputation as a financial advisor over the course of her 10-year career in the brokerage business, earning the trust of many individuals and families around our region," said Thomas K. Derbyshire, president and CEO of Citizens Bank. "She has managed over $40 million in client assets, deploying investment strategies based on the client's goals and objectives. We are thrilled that Rebecca has joined Citizens Bank to offer our customers the same individualized approach to investing for their financial future."
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She also has several industry licenses including her FINRA General Securities Representative (Series 7), NASAA-Investment Advisors State Law Exam (Series 66), Uniform Securities Agent State Law Exam (Series 63), as well as her life and health insurance licenses, and Medicare supplements and long term care insurance licenses.
She and her husband, Todd Schoonover, reside in Elkins with their two sons, Jacob and Mason. She is a running fanatic and enjoys biking, playing tennis, snowboarding and reading.
Citizens opened the bank's investment center in 1999, partnering with PrimeVest to make it easier for customers to have access to a comprehensive offering of products and services.
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Group expands mission to fight childhood poverty
W.Va. Health Kids and Families Coalition plans to lobby Legislature
February 3, 2013
MARTINSBURG — Stephen Smith, the director of West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition, has held 48 "Our Children, Our Future: The Campaign to End Child Poverty" community meetings across th......
I ask my parents to fight childhood poverty everyday -- but they rarely give me the cash I need.
Try getting a freakin job instead of relying on your parents and the taxpayers for a change.
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Noble goal but I have to ask: When has any declared "war on" something ever actually won.
You mean like the global war on terror?
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GO AWAY! Once the government quits wasting our tax dollars, come see us. These people are like Charles Town Councilman Poaenessa, Slover and Bringetot, they can't get good jobs anywhere else so they front for liberal causes using our tax dollars.
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This is a wonderful effort that should be supported by everyone in our state. This gentleman should be commended for his work to bring light to the needy and the problems in our society that have resulted in this expanding demographic.
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When hubby came home for lunch that day and I had sat down to eat with him, I found that I was "leaking" again. He suggested I call the doctor's office to see if maybe my water had broke, but I remembered what it was like when my water had broke with Noah. I felt in no way that I would being having a baby today. Definitely wasn't having contractions and my due date was still a few days away.
I continued about my day and was still leaking. So finally before 5 o'clock rolled around I decided (at hubby's constant urging) to call the nurse. She said to get to the hospital and have them check me to see if it was amniotic fluid. I seem to recall being a bit flighty about this and sure I wasn't in labor. But I was now hearing horror stories from people online and from hubby's office about waiting too long if it really was my water breaking. So, off we went.
We arrive at the hospital around 5 pm and sure enough, it was my water that had been leaking all day. So, they were keeping me. And said I'd probably be having a baby by that night. I thought that was pretty funny. But it was exciting all the same!
Since I wasn't feeling any contractions and they weren't sure how long my water had been broken, I was hooked up to pitocin to increase the contractions and then did go ahead and accept stadol as well. I did very well with my Lamaze breathing again this time and I think was a little out of it from the stadol because I realized I was pushing before I had Jeff go get a nurse. When she came in she knew she needed to page the doctor immediately. They tried to have me not push, but my body had other plans! My doctor was at the hospital in a meeting, so he made it into the room just in time for Carter's arrival. I did have to push a bit with Carter which was different than when I had Noah. I think there was about 10-15 minutes of good pushing and we soon found out that this little guy wasn't so little.
Carter Wilson was born just after 8 pm, 9 lbs 12 oz (yes you read that right) on July 10, 2002.
He was definitely my largest baby and possibly has the largest heart and largest zest for life of anyone I will ever know. How largely awesome it is that I get to be his Mom.


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Summer Camp 2013: Point, Shoot, Fun (K-2)
07.29.2013 9:00 am
July 29 - August 2
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Grades K - 2
This camp introduces children to digital photography, photo collage, and alternative techniques while visiting picturesque locations in Balboa Park, including the San Diego Zoo!
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Summer Camp 2013: Get Crafty With Your Camera! (3-5)
07.29.2013 1:00 pm
July 29 - August 2
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Grades 3 - 5
Discover the crafty side of photography! Create iron-on images, photo magnets, decoupage, and more while visiting picturesque locations throughout Balboa Park.
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Editorial Photography: From Pulitzer to Portraiture with Brian Smith
08.01.2013 7:00 pm
"Editorial Photography: From Pulitzer to Portraiture with Brian Smith"
Presented by APA | San Diego, MOPA and Sony
Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Tickets: $10 MOPA, APA members and 3rd Space members; $12 Students and Seniors; $15 General
Includes lecture and admission to the MOPA galleries
Pulitzer Prize winner and former POYi winner Brian Smith shares insights from his last 30 years in editorial photography as he moved from Pulitzer Prize-winning sports photographer to celebrity portrait photographer for Hollywood's A-List. Smith will speak about both the art and commerce of editorial photography and what every artist needs to know about the business of photography to remain in business. In this presentation, Smith will share ways to grab and keep the attention of photo editors and art directors, how shooting personal projects can promote your vision and land the jobs you'll love to shoot, and ways to keep your portfolio and vision fresher than next year's winner of The X Factor.
Brian Smith is a Sony Artisan of Imagery and a former winner of Pictures of the Year International, the oldest and most prestigious photojournalism program in the world (on view now at MOPA).
MOPA at VOSD Politifest
08.03.2013 10:00 am
MOPA will have a booth at the Voice of San Diego Politifest.
Come visit us and take part in a photo essay which will be shared via our Flickr account afterwards.
Express your thoughts on how you can impact change within your community and we'll share them through our channels.
After the event, check here for a link to all of the photo responses to our question.
Summer Camp 2013: Explorers Club (K-2)
08.05.2013 9:00 am
August 5 - 9
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Grades K - 2
Explorers, grab your cameras and get ready to trek through the hidden jungles and deserts of Balboa Park. You will also go on a photo safari through the San Diego Zoo and create special projects documenting your adventures.
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Summer Camp 2013: Digi vs. Film (9-12)
08.05.2013 1:00 pm
August 5 - 9
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Grades 9 - 12
Why do so many photographers insist upon film rather than digital? See for yourself in this exciting camp that explores digital and film photography through inspired activities and shooting assignments.
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Summer Camp 2013: Take it to the Street (6-8)
08.05.2013 1:00 pm
August 5 - 9
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Grades 6 - 8
Learn all about photojournalism techniques that have made street photographers famous for ages! Then, take it to the streets of Balboa Park with your camera and produce your own DIY inspired zine, blog post or photo album that shows your unique view of the world.
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POP Thursday: The Source Family
08.08.2013 6:00 pm
Change to pre-party: All ticket holders are invited to the pre-party on the lawns of the Botanical Building from 6-8 p.m. for complimentary cocktails, live music, and picnic-style lounging.
Peace Pies will have food available for purchase, including raw, vegan and gluten-free items. Guests may also bring their own food into the pre-party. We are no longer offering a dinner package.
Take a Strange and Beautiful Trip Inside a '70s Love Cult
The Source Family was a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. Their iconic style, health food restaurant, rock band, and beautiful women made them the darlings of Hollywood's Sunset Strip—but their unconventional behavior ultimately led to their dramatic demise. THE SOURCE FAMILY (2013, 98 minutes) provides an intimate view of the ultimate California commune through their own archival photos, home movies, and contemporary interviews.
Before the film, join your Aquarian tribe on the lawns of the San Diego Botanical Building for a mind-blowing outdoor pre-party, with libations from Alchemy and live music.
After the screening, stay for a Q & A with director Jodi Wille and Alicia Previn, an original member of the Source Family.
General Admission: $10 Non-Member / $8 MOPA Member
Includes access to outdoor pre-party, 2 complimentary drinks, film screening and Q&A.
NOTE: There is no dinner package option anymore.
*Suggested attire: 70's chic/bohemian/white
**Check in will take place on the lawns of the Botanical Building (next to Lily Pond)
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Summer Camp 2013: Photojournalism for Beginners (3-5)
08.12.2013 9:00 am
August 12 - 16
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Grades 3 - 5
Spend the week as a photojournalist taking photos and reporting on places and events in Balboa Park! Learn ways to take great photographs that tell a "story" and discover what it means to be a documentarian.
Summer Camp 2013: Music Video (6-8)
08.12.2013 1:00 pm
August 12 - 16
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Grades 6 - 8
Create your own music video! Visualize the look of the video, plan storyboards, shoot the film with the lyrics and beat, and add special effects.
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Dusty Brough Group @MOPA
08.15.2013 7:00 pm
Dusty Brough Group
Arabic Inspires Groove Music
Thursday, August 15:
7 PM to 9 PM
Dusty Brough: Tabla Player
Miles Shrewsbery: Cumbus
The Feature Hunt Workshop with James Gregg
08.17.2013 2:00 pm
Saturday, August 17th, 2pm-6pm at MOPA
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International Intrigue set for Illinois
Sale managers Ed Fellers and Jeff Butler announce the 4th edition of the highly successful International Intrigue Sale to be held August 4, 2012 in Chebanse, IL. Sale hosts will be Butlerview Farms and Elite Dairy Genomics.
"The Intrigue sales series has been extremely successful in its four-year run," said manager Ed Fellers. "Our first edition of the Intrigue was held at the beautiful Wisconsin facility of MilkSource Genetics in Kaukauna. And we've been fortunate enough to spend the last two years at two Master Breeder herds in Canada – Mapel Wood in 2010 and Ferme Blondin in 2011. Last year's event was topped by Rockymountain Talent Licorice who sold for $420,000."
Keeping up with tradition, the 2012 sale will feature lots of high genomic females, including a strong lineup of fresh cows. Visitors will also be treated to a pre-sale social and open house at Butlerview, where they can see such legendary cows as Regancrest S Chassity (2011 Global Cow of the Year), last year's sale topper Licorice, Ms Atlees Goldwyn Ariel, Regancrest Brasilia and Ms Dundee Belinda, to name a few.
"We are excited to welcome people back to Butlerview this summer for the International Intrigue," said farm owner and co-manager of Butler Fellers Auctions Inc., Jeff Butler. "What an exceptional opportunity for breeders all over the world to come together and participate in what looks to be another industry-leading sale."
More details will be available as sale time approaches. Be sure to check advertisements in HolsteinWorld and Cowsmopolitan magazines, as well as online at www.butlerview.com.


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I personally wanted to say Thank You. This has been an awesome release. Sometime people take VS as for granted. But my only request to those people is go and use other languages/frameworks like php/ruby etc and then come back. I can guarantee you will appreciate VS much more.
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4 Famous Pop Culture Moments Everyone Remembers Incorrectly
#2. Will Smith Never Says "Welcome to Earf" in Independence Day
The Thing You Remember
Handsome air-and-eventually-space-pilot Will Smith, after being chased by an alien spacecraft, manages to force the craft into a crash landing. When the spaceship opens up and a spooky alien emerges, Smith fearlessly punches it in the face and, like the unflappable badass he always plays, casually drops a classic movie one-liner that can only be described as Willsmithian: "Welcome to Earf." Audiences cheer, aliens tremble and Earf continues to spin.
But Actually ...
He says "Earth," you racist.
I've seen this movie a lot, so if you asked me, I'd tell you that Will Smith obviously never said "Welcome to Earf" in Independence Day. If you ask the Internet, however, he most certainly did:
That's over 40,000 results, and none of them are saying "You know he actually says 'Earth.'" Similarly, Google Image Search is full of images just like this one:
Which is insane, because not only does Smith clearly say "Earth" instead of "Earf," the image that they're using to accompany the caption is from a different part of the movie entirely. Will Smith punches an alien in the face and says "Welcome to Earth" while in the desert; the shot of him with the cigar doesn't happen until he pulls up to an army base carrying the carcass of the unconscious alien.* It's like two halves of the Internet's collective memory are in a race to see who can be wrong first, and they're both winning.
"There are literally hundreds of ways I can be wrong!"
"Welcome to Earf" has been so imbedded in our pop culture hivemind that Urban Dictionary has no problem citing it as Will Smith's actual quote in Independence Day. And Urban Dictionary isn't a meme aggregator or anything, and it's not like UD is saying that people wrongfully attribute the quote to Smith. It very clearly defines "Welcome to Earf" as "The proper way to welcome alien visitors to our planet as described by the great diplomat Will Smith in Independence Day. Usually accompanied by a punch."
I guess people remember him saying "Earf" because people are secretly racist and they assume, since Will Smith is technically black, that he must also be poor and uneducated. Which is ridiculous; Will Smith is, like, the fourth blackest person in Independence Day. Bill Pullman is blacker than Will Smith.
#1. No One Asks Scotty to Beam Them Up (and a Bunch of Other Stuff No One Ever Said)
The Thing You Remember
"Beam me up, Scotty" is so iconic that even non-Trek fans know that it refers to the original Star Trek series. It was one of the show's catchphrases, uttered by one of the cast members at least once an episode, whenever they needed Montgomery "Scotty" Scott to teleport them from some alien planet to the ship. "Beam me up, Scotty" was Star Trek's "Book 'em, Danno."
But Actually ...
In truth, it's the exact opposite of that, because they said "Book 'em, Danno" on Hawaii Five-O all the time.
Take a wild guess at how many times "Beam me up, Scotty" is used on Star Trek. If you guessed any number other than zero, congratulations, you're wrong! Members of the Enterprise would say "Scotty, beam us aboard" or "Beam me up" or "Hurry up and beam my shit, boy-eeeee," but never, not once, did anyone say "Beam me up, Scotty."
"Time to get our beam on, Big Scotty!"
Similarly, Darth Vader never once says the phrase "Luke, I am your father." The actual line is "No, I am your father," because Vader is reacting to Luke, who accuses Vader of murdering his father. If you don't believe me -- if, like me, you've lived your whole life hearing Vader say that line in your head so clearly that you know the pitch and cadence of the word "Luke" in the context of that phrase -- go ahead and watch the clip:
You can't get any clearer than that. Even though the line in my head is and always will be "Luke, I am your father," there's no denying that it's a line that has never once been said. Just like "Elementary, my dear Watson" (never used in any of the Sherlock Holmes books) or "Play it again, Sam" (never uttered in Casablanca). It's not just that a few people are forgetting the actual quotes; these are all cases where the misquotes are infinitely more famous than the truth.
Actual line.
There's a new Snow White movie coming out called Mirror, Mirror, despite the fact that the phrase "Mirror, mirror, on the wall" was never used in Disney's Snow White (it's actually "Magic mirror on the wall"). Granted, the original Snow White story as it appears in the Brothers Grimm collection contains the words "Mirror, mirror," but, hell, I've never read that collection and it doesn't change the fact that, until I Googled "Snow White" a few days ago for this article, I always believed that the evil queen said "Mirror, mirror" and not "Magic mirror." It's so ingrained in my memory that, even as I sit here, watching clips from Snow White where the queen is clearly saying "Magic mirror," I'm still inclined to say "No, bullshit, you're saying it wrong."
I would love to fast-forward a few years from now to see what future generations will misremember about our culture. Maybe everyone will remember Homer Simpson's catchphrase as "D'ah!" or "Darp!" Maybe when friends quote Lord of the Rings to each other, they'll say things like "One does not simply strut into Mordor," or "You. Shall. Not. Fuck. With. The. Wu-Tang. Clan!" If, 50 years from now, people think back on the columns I've written here at Cracked, I can only hope that this weird phenomenon of collective pop culture amnesia forces them to misremember my columns as being more eloquent and less typo-filled than they very clearly are.
Anything's possible.
*Edit: As it has been rightly pointed out to me in the comments, the shot of Will Smith smoking a cigar is not, as I suggested, from the scene where he visits the army base. It in fact directly comes after the moment where he punches the alien. I am leaving the mistake in instead of changing it to remind Future of Daniel of his own stupidity.
If you like reading Dan's writing about Star Wars, you'll love his adventures in a Jedi Academy.
Daniel O'Brien is Cracked.com's senior writer (ladies) and is shocked that no one ever used the word "zombie" in Night of the Living Dead (Romero).
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A Missouri woman who was convicted of three misdemeanors related to the MySpace harassment of a teenager who committed suicide will likely face probation and a $5,000 fine, according to a report.
The attorney for Lori Drew filed a pre-sentence report urging the court to go with probation and a fine. Furthermore, her lawyer, H. Dean Steward, also wants the convictions to be dismissed. Steward said MySpace wasn't to blame, and the girl's alleged history of mental illness and bouts of depression were more to blame than anything else.
Drew reportedly created a fake MySpace account posing as a teenage boy and sent flirtatious messages to Megan Meier, one of her neighbors. Shortly after, the fictitious teenage boy dumped Megan while also saying the world wouldn't miss her. The girl hanged herself after reading the messages sent through MySpace.
After originally being convicted last November, Drew faces three years in jail and a fine up to $300,000 related to the three misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization. She originally was charged with four felony counts, though she was cleared of three of them and the jury was deadlocked on the final felony count.
"This is about justice," Megan's mother said after the verdict. "It's justice not only for Megan but it's justice for everybody who has had to go through this with the computer and being harassed."
Drew reportedly can't pay the $5,000 fine since she lost her job when she stopped working in November 2007. In addition, several neighbors have harassed and threatened her, leading up to a brick being thrown through one of her windows. The family eventually had to move out of the neighborhood.
She is expected to be sentenced on May 18, and Steward has asked that Megan's friends and family not speak at the sentencing, as it's "still a computer fraud case."
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DioGenix formed an alliance with Fast Forward, a subsidiary of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, to develop a novel blood test for multiple sclerosis (MS). Fast Forward will provide up to $500,000 as part of a Sponsored Research Agreement that will enable DioGenix to expand an ongoing clinical trial of its MS diagnostic, MSPrecise™, a next-generation sequencing assay that measures changes to the adaptive immune system by analyzing B cells isolated from cerebral spinal fluid (CSF). This funding will allow DioGenix to determine if the same approach will work in blood samples. The new partnership follows just a few weeks after Fast Forward formed a collaboration with Ezose Sciences to identify multiple sclerosis biomarkers.
The ability to accurately identify early disease events affecting the adaptive immune system with next-generation sequencing provides an opportunity for an earlier diagnosis of MS and differentiation of disease subtypes. DioGenix says validation of a DNA blood signature for MS is an important next step in the firm's plan to develop a neuro-immune panel that would distinguish other immune-mediated neurological diseases that share certain biological features with MS.
"Our collaboration with Fast Forward will allow us to more rapidly develop new tests that can have a profound impact on the lives of people living with MS," says Larry Tiffany, CEO, DioGenix. "With this important funding, we can extend the utility of our already reliable CSF-based MSPrecise assay into blood, providing an additional option for the use of our test by clinicians as part of their routine work-up of patients who are struggling with nonspecific neurological symptoms."
"Even with improving imaging capabilities we are still challenged to more specifically correlate MRI findings and symptoms to actual disease biology," notes Lawrence Steinman, M.D., professor of neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine. "B cells are integral to early disease mechanisms in MS and other neurological diseases. Technologies to elucidate immunoglobulin DNA rearrangement in the B cell genome involved in specific immune-mediated neurological diseases will be critical for understanding and treating patients."
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Elton tickets on sale at Erie Insurance Arena box office (updated: 2:00 p.m.)
Tickets are now available for purchase for the Elton John Show at Erie Insurance Arena on Nov. 18.
Tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. and a line of around 200 people formed waiting for tickets.
Tickets cost $149, $79 and $39. They may be purchased at the box office, via phone at 814-452-4857 and online at www.erieevents.com.
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6 Things You Won't Believe Science Can Do With DNA
DNA gets a bad rap. It's the most sophisticated substance in existence, and thanks to CSI we think of it as murderer semen. Or we watch it proving that talk show guests who everybody (including them) hopes never reproduce have done exactly that. All this, despite deoxyribonucleic acid being so smart that most people consider even being able to say it a bit fancy.
Which is odd, as the fanciest DNA often isn't passed on.
Many people see DNA as something magical written down long ago that just tells you how things are going to be. Which is a pity, because that attitude is pretty much the opposite of science. This is because journalists make more claims about genes defining your success in life than a Levi's commercial. But while fearmongers whine about scientists playing God, those scientist have moved on to playing Lego. They're molecularly MacGyvering the code of life into machinery.
#6. Walking DNA Robots
Anyone can build things to fetch stuff out of DNA, but it takes years, it shits quite a lot and by the time they're old enough to know what you want, they're old enough to be playing Xbox instead.
The instant your chromosomes get out, they act like they've escaped a Nazi prison and you were the guard.
That's why science cut out the middleman. Scientists have reprogrammed chunks as "DNA walkers," biological DNAT-ATs capable of stomping forward, winning Star Wars and fetching things.
And they'll be unstoppable because nobody makes ropes that small.
Sorry; DNA walkers capable of stomping around places also made of DNA and fetching things. Fetching and assembling them into customized chemicals on a DNA assembly line. It's like Willy Wonka was a biotechnologist and thought Oompa Loompas should fit inside your cells. Another collaboration between New York University and Nanjing University decided that regular DNA strands were just too old school, building a triangular-double-helix DNA scaffold with three hands and four feet. Because those are the kinds of side effects you can expect when you twist DNA into polygons.
It's either an insane anarchy symbol or a symbol for a highly educated Satan.
This DNA walker rolls along an entire factory floor made of DNA, picking up gold nanoparticles and assembling them into preprogrammed structures, before escaping to the surface. We know Bond villains love to announce their plans, but this is the first time they've done it in an academic paper.
#5. Accelerating Evolution With Cyborg DNA
When you think of cyborgs, you either think of RoboCop or weren't raised properly.
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His entire body is either bulletproof or for one-liners.
Most science-fiction cyborgs are about giving super-powered limbs to people careless enough to lose the originals. This is not a good idea. That guy's first try with a regular arm ended with blood, screaming and emergency surgery, and instead of counseling, you're making him a Bionic Commando?
The first time he gets horny he's going to tear off something important. And the extending cyborg replacement for that will turn him into a Japanese cartoon.
Which may be why scientists started building single-celled cyborg DNA. You might think of yeast as reason to either cut down on tequila or spend more to buy it in classier bars, but Saccharomyces cerevisiae is responsible for bread and beer and therefore more important to humanity than your entire country. Researchers took a look at this miraculous result of billions of years of evolution and said, "Yeah, that's pretty good, we suppose. But we can do better."
They built S. cerevisiae 2.0 by reformatting a chunk of its DNA like a slow hard drive. They replaced 120,000 base pairs with artificially rewritten genetic instructions. The synthetic section overrides "stop codons," which normally end genetic transcription instructions, possibly because they want to give horror movie writers new plot ideas. They also included room for extra instructions: The new genes are easier to artificially edit, less likely to accidentally mutate and more likely to deliberately mutate.
The SCRaMbLE system (synthetic chromosome rearrangement and modification by loxP-mediated evolution), and we swear that name was made by real scientists not cartoon bad guys, accelerates evolution. The artificial double helix includes regular "bookmarks." A simple chemical causes these to jump around, swapping, inverting and outright deleting chunks of the genome. So scientists can design a new organism, then fast-forward evolution by exposing it to a chemical and seeing what survives. Yes, we've just invented real-life Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-style mutagens.
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Eh, still better than what we're expecting from Bay.
Their long-term goal is to completely rewrite the yeast genome, officially meaning that scientists aren't just playing God but taking over from where the last guy left off.
#4. Bacterial Computers
Evolution solves problems by thinking so far outside the box that it forgets what openable rectangular parallelepipeds are even called. Scientists want to harness this ability to solve problems in ways silicon simply can't. Because if you asked a computer to design a life-form to survive the anti-life equation of a continent that is Australia, it would never say, "Weld a duck to a beaver after filling both with poison."
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Another benefit of breeding computers is parallel processing. When a small population of bacterial computers reproduce, they generate new solutions and more individuals helping to find more solutions. It's the exact opposite of what happens when small human populations breed. One team rewrote Escheria coli with a puzzle coded in its DNA. Yes, just like that Star Trek episode -- but to make sure this was even smarter, they used the "burnt pancake problem," a class of sorting problem invented by a team including Bill Gates, and which is also used to define the evolutionary distance between organisms. So the upgraded E. coli are now taking on our hu-man computers and computer experts, and learning more about evolution while they're at it. And they've been coded so that solving the problem makes them antibiotic resistant. This makes them easier for the scientists to find, and makes it a tragedy Michael Crichton isn't around to write a book about it.
In another experiment, they rebuilt bacteria to solve a Hamiltonian path problem. They encoded the problem with genes for green and red fluorescent proteins -- only by solving the problem could the bacteria start glowing both to turn yellow. They've built an organism that moves through stages of glowing different colors as it solves its inner problems. That's not bacteria, that's what you start with to evolve in Dragon Ball Z.


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At funeral for woman killed while on phone with Dallas 911, pastor says she did not die in vain
A Dallas woman whose murder was recorded on an open 911 line did not die in vain, Deanna Cook's pastor said at her funeral today.
"Because of her, many people are going to be saved," Apostle Billy Grate said. "Police are going to try to prevent something like this from happening."
Grate was one of the last people to make contact with Cook on a prayer line hours before her death one week ago today. He was referencing Dallas Police Chief David Brown's implementation earlier this week of two new 911 call classifications that put the highest level of priority on calls like the one Cook made.
"We're going to get with the Police Department and they're going to remember her name associated with this," Grate said at Laurel Land cemetery, minutes before Cook's white coffin was lowered into the ground.
The crowd at the cemetery was slightly smaller than the roughly 200 who turned out for the funeral at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Oak Cliff. There, friends and family recalled the 32-year-old mother of two teenage girls who they said had turned a corner in her life and was devoted to God in recent years.
"I saw the transition in this woman," Grate said. "She probably didn't have a clue that her life touched so many people."
Her death should serve as a wake-up call, some said.
"If you love somebody, tell them," said Valecia Battle, one of Cook's three sisters. "My sister had a relationship with God."
Cook's mother, sisters and daughters were among family members who donned purple dresses at the closed-casket proceeding.
No one other than Grate spoke specifically about the circumstances surrounding Cook's death.
Cook's 911 call was not given the highest priority response even though she was heard choking, gurgling and pleading for her ex-husband, Delvecchio Patrick, to stop killing her, according to law enforcement officials. Two officers arrived at Cook's southeast Dallas house about 50 minutes after the 11-minute call was placed and left after no one answered the door.
Patrick, 35, is in the Dallas County Jail on a murder charge. He has a history of beating and threatening to kill Cook.


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Ferris State University alumnus Scott Hebert, also an accomplished former collegiate golfer for the Bulldogs, won his fifth Michigan PGA Championship, with a victory at Eagle Eye Golf Course, as he shot a five-under 67 in the final round on Wednesday, Aug. 31.
It was the fifth time in six years that Hebert has won the championship. The head golf professional at Grand Traverse Resort won the title for four straight years, beginning in 2006, before finishing in fifth place in 2010. This year, however, Hebert emerged as the first-place finisher to claim $6,500 of the $48,000 purse as he shot 68-68-67—203 in the three-round tournament based in the Lansing area.
Hebert, a native of Escanaba, was officially enshrined into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame as a 2011 inductee.
Hebert (B'92) earned a degree from Ferris in Professional Golf Management.
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Regulator accuses Plano investment company, AGAP Life Offerings, of fraud and other misdeeds
Texas securities regulators issued an emergency cease and desist order this week to a Plano firm that has been selling investments tied to life insurance policy payouts.
The accused include: AGAP Life Offerings and its president, Frisco resident Charles D. "Chuck" Madden. He runs AGAP with his son, Jeff Madden, who is described on the company's Web site as a former professional golfer and "instructor for Hank Haney and Byron Nelson."
The accusations include fraud — "intentionally failing to disclose" both the inherent risks of the investments and Chuck's business history.
He previously sold similar investments to Texans for A & 0 Life Fund, LLC, A & 0 Resource Management, Ltd. and related entities that filed for bankruptcy in September, the emergency order states. It adds: "Many investors who purchased bonded life settlements and capital appreciation bonds through these entities may lose the entirety of their investments."
The Maddens deny wrongdoing and say they will try to get the order overturned. Meanwhile, says a press release Jeff sent me, "we are not accepting new Life Offering investments."


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Assessment of Research Activities and Research Quality at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) by Means of Research Outputs
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Issue date: 2009-06-04
Citation: Huiku, L. 2009. Assessment of research activities and research quality at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) by means of research outputs. 30th IATUL Annual Conference with the theme Just for you, Quality through Innovation, 1 to 4 June 2009, Leuven, Belgium
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TUT Library has been active in analysing the research activities and research quality at university's departments and the staff since 1980's. This poster outlines the process of the information management of the research outputs at TUT. The library is responsible for producing reports on university's research outputs. The reporting on scientific expert tasks and publications for different purposes is produced via the university's internal reporting system called Varasto. The material is collected and stored in 24 departments and transferred to Varasto from university's current research information system called TUT Portfolio. TUT Portfolio is a portal to the academic expertise at TUT. It is maintained by the library and is freely available for all users on the web. Three different reports of departments' achievements are produced monthly: the departments' performance-based bonus system, university's official statistics and the Ministry of Education statistics called Kota. The reports based on similar criteria are produced also for every researcher at TUT. At the end of the year, the university shares the profit money to the departments based on their achievements. The publications and scientific expertise tasks generate the different bonus according to the quality. The articles published in the peer-reviewed international journals are the most important. There are altogether 12 bonus categories in the university's performance-based bonus system. The library is responsible for three of them. 30% of the bonus money is shared by these three categories. Finnish universities adopted the new salary system and the important part of the system is the individual salary component based on the employee's competence and performance. The reports on the publications of the whole staff for the assessment panels are produced by this system. The assessment of the research outputs is one method in order to assess research quality and has certain limitations, which had to be recognised. The university has always made an effort to assure the quality of the process of information management related to data collection and reporting. This was recognised in the project by Ministry of Education. TUT was one of the three universities in the large project by the ministry on disciplinary differences in publishing practices. TUT introduces in the project technical universities. The results of assessments have also been introduced in TUT magazines.
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Police have arrested the Fort Smith shooting suspect who allegedly shot a woman Thursday night at 3512 Pryor Avenue.
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The suspect, Dustin Trowbridge, was caught just after 6 a.m. Thursday morning, after stole a black Chevy pick up with Oklahoma license plates and took off after the shooting, according to police.
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Artfire has launched some really great seller functionality of late including:
Artfire ROCKS! If you haven't opened your Studio at the site yet, you should REALLY check it out – and tell them ShinyAdornments sent you
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